The Source Family, Ultraviolence & Lana Del Rey

[Lanakai 661]

From IMDB: The Source Family was a radical experiment in '70s utopian living. Their outlandish style, popular health food restaurant, rock band, and beautiful women made them the darlings of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip; but their outsider ideals and the unconventional behavior of their spiritual leader, Father Yod, caused controversy with local authorities.

Before we journey down the rabbit hole that is the Source Family, their leader Father Yod and the influence all of this may have had on Lana Del Rey and her album Ultraviolence, here is some background information of who they were and what they did:

 

Here's a brief description taken from the Amazon description of the book, The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and The Source Family.

 

“While the boho scene has never completely disappeared from L.A., Father Yod and the Source Family are enjoying a new era of notoriety, inspiring indie-folk musicians like Devendra Banhart and mega-producers like Rick Rubin. Aquarian’s book has become a style bible of sorts, with its dreamy images of the comely cult.”—T-Style, The New York Times

 

It was 1972, time of the cult-occult-commune explosion. By day, the Source Family dressed in colorful robes and served organic cuisine to John Lennon, Julie Chistie, Frank Zappa, and many other celebrities at the famed Source restaurant. By night, in their mansion in the Hollywood Hills, they explored the cosmos with their spiritual leader, Father Yod.

 

Yod was an outlandish figure who had 14 wives, drove a Rolls-Royce, and fronted his own psychedelic rock band, Ya Ho Wa 13, now considered one of the most singular psychedelic bands of all time. He surprised many by suddenly morphing from health food restaurateur into mystical leader of what many considered a cult: a group of young people who lived strictly devoted to his esoteric teachings, unusual sexual practices, and philosophies of natural living and dying.

 

Still, as controversial as he was to outsiders, Father Yod was, by inside accounts, a deeply loving and spiritually powerful magus who taught his Family to recognize their divinity within and their innate connectedness to all of creation.

 

The Source Family’s astonishing and moving true story—kept secret for over 30 years after Father’s hang-gliding accident and death in 1975—is revealed here for the first time by the Family members themselves, offering readers an insider’s perspective into this vital utopian social experiment.

 

Illustrated with over 200 color and black and white period photographs, this book contains a bonus CD of never-before-heard Source Family music, interviews and changes, including an extremely rare recording of Ya Ho Wa 13 performing live at Beverly Hills High School in 1973.

 

"...a mesmerizing look at a time that might as well have been a thousand years in the past...I can't help but marvel that a spiritual movement of such idealism could ever have existed in our uber-materialistic world." — Ann Magnuson, PAPER Magazine

"The Source Family contributed a powerful chapter to our communal history, and having Isis Aquarian's empathetic recording of it enriches us all." — Timothy Miller, Author of America's Alternative Religions

 

The Wikipedia page on Father Yod: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Yod

 

Wonderfully in depth 5-part article about the Family focusing on the Family historian, Isis Aquarian: http://www.monsterfresh.com/2013/08/26/introduction-isis-aquarian-source-family/

If you have some time to kill or want to investigate further, you can watch the documentaries. There is quite a bit of nudity and video footage of a birth, so fair warning!:

The 2012 Documentary that inpired this post, The Source Family http://www.thesourcedoc.com/

The trailer: 

 

http://youtu.be/F3f4aleOAxo

This movie is roughly an hour and a half and is on Netflix (USA only I think) or you can download from the internet, but please do try to watch it legally! It is a beautiful piece of film and you will definitely see a good glimpse of the evidence I will be posting here.

If you have a whole afternoon to kill, there is a very well done albeit "amateur" documentary on youtube from 2007: Revisiting Father Yod and the Source Family. Warning: it is 2.5 hours long!

 

There are also many excellent articles on Jim Baker, Father Yod and the Family available online. While I will be linking some of them here as references, I will mostly be focusing on the Family and their own personal interpretations of what was going on during the time they were active as I believe this is where Lana gathered most of her inspiration from. There are a lot of negative articles written about what actually was going on behind closed doors at the Family homes and while I'm sure some may be accurate, and will lend support to some theories, the writers of the articles were not a part of the Family and did not experience first hand what went on. While most former Family members do have criticism toward Jim Baker, the man, they speak very highly of Father Yod as their Earthly Spiritual Father, enough so that I don't doubt they would embellish. I recommend reading all evidence and articles with a grain of salt as all of it is personal anecdotes and there is no solid facts to back up any claims made.

I encourage every member of Lana Boards to dig in and discover any other pieces of evidence you may find regarding this topic. I will add to this post as new evidence is found with credit to the finder!

Here is the original post that I made in the Ultraviolence lyrics thread so please have a look at that for an idea of what started all of this:

http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/4684-ultraviolence/?p=198053

So hopefully now you have an idea of the Family, we'll jump into the evidence we have. Some of it will be stuff that I and other users have already posted on the UV thread, some will be new. Please note, this section will be updated as more info is discovered.

The Source Family and their Influence on Ultraviolence

General Evidence

 

 

- Ultraviolence was originally considered a "Spiritual" album for Lana (You don't get much more spiritual than Father Yod) http://www.nme.com/news/lana-del-rey/68937

 

- The Documentary that was featured at many international film festivals and shone a spotlight back on the Source Family was released in 2012. This would have been around the same time that Lana had released Born To Die and would have started to write for Ultraviolence.

- This instagram photo posted by Lana's sister Chuck, with the caption "Sister Wives"
 

http://instagram.com/p/pF6jVgiZvj/

 

Sister Wives is a polygamy term used frequently in communes where having multiple wives is practiced. Father Yod is known for having 13 wives. It is safe to say that Lana and Chuck are dressed similarily to what Yod's wives were known for wearing: Long hair, white gauze-y flowing clothing.

- Father Yod recorded roughly 65 albums in a short 5 year time span. He was fond of spontaneously recording, and done in one take. From the Ya Ho Wha 13 Wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya_Ho_Wha_13: "All of the records with Father Yod’s participation were completely improvised, with no rehearsals or overdubs." Lana has stated that she prefers to record her songs in one take as well (see the Paradise edition of Yayo) and will record in studio with the band (you can faintly hear her vocals on the UV intrumentals)

- There is evidence that despite Father Yod's death in 1975 via a Hang Gliding accident (or suicide depending on how you look at it) many people are still drawn to the Source Family teachings and the release of the book, the documentaries as well as the discovery of old recordings and Isis Aquarian's photos and video there has been a resurgence of new followers. This includes some famous people including musician Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins and Music producer Rick Rubin (see the above Amazon description, Lana has worked with on Paradise) Lana has also gone on record saying: "I used to be a member of an underground sect which was reigned by a guru. He surrounded himself with young girls. He thought that he had to break people first to build them up again. At the end I quit the sect." (This could also be about The Atlantic Group, an Alcoholic's Anonymous sect which she was a member of that is known for setting the young women of the group up with the leaders of the group, however Lana could be pulling from her experience with AG and projecting onto the Source Family)

- As @@DeadAgainst posted in the original UV thread:

http://www.full-stop...ira/jodi-wiley/

(Quote from above article)

"Source Family was like an alchemical mystery school – they were occultists. ... really going to a mystical core of all the teachings they were exploring, and being so freeform. And of course the Source Family women were in many ways either young and beautiful or sophisticated women who were wearing gorgeous revealing clothing. ... Father Yod as Jim Baker had been interested in Eastern and Western mysticism since the ’50s, when he was briefly a Vedantic monk. He was immersed in the teachings of Manly P. Hall, who wrote The Secret Teachings of All Ages. I don’t know if you know that book, but it’s a really important work that breaks down esoteric traditions across a variety of cultures
— from Qabbalah to Tarot to Astrology."

"I'm the Queen of Alchemy ..."

Initiation from Father Yod as Initiation from God; broken down and built up again (pledge allegiance to your dead dad)

 

- @@DeadAgainst posted this snippet from a recent interview with Lana:

 

You say that you are documenting or dreaming something in your songs. Now you’re approaching more serious things like living in a cult…

You want to know if it’s true?

 

That would be a bit flat. Maybe I should ask it like that: How much did this period of your life influence your artistic evolution?

I prefer this question too. It was a period. I was looking for people who were like me but also people who seemed to be connected with bigger things like supernatural. I was influenced by visionary people. I wanted more than just writing and live from one day to another. But I found out that this didn’t work for me. I thought I could live together with others as an idealistic artist’s commune, so that you inspire each other.

 

from: http://lanaboards.co...erview-with-dpa

 

- Lana's connections to other spiritual teachings. in Yod's book Liberation he speaks of being in tune with your vibrations and aligning yourself with the power of the Law of Attraction and the Source which is also the basis of the book "Ask and it is Given" by Abraham Hicks. Lana has said was one of her favorite books that changed her life in this article: http://hk.asiatatler.com/culture-lifestyle/arts/interview-lana-del-rey

Lyrical Evidence
While I believe some songs on UV are inspired by the Source Family, I don't think that all songs were inspired by them. So you won't see Old Money on this list for example, as it is clearly written for the Great Gatsby, inspired by the character of Daisy and written as an epilogue to Lana's Young and Beautiful.

I also believe Lana is inspired from many different things and she weaves them into her own story, either by becoming who she is writing about or imagining herself in a similar situation. She has said before that is in the habit of writing about several things in a song and tying them all together. For example, Video Games being about two different men, etc. So while some lyrics fit the Source theory, others will not as they are probably influenced either by her life or something else.

Cruel World

Shared my body and my mind with you
That's all over now
Did what I had to do
Cause you're so far past me now
Shared my body and my life with you
That's way over now
There's not more a mind can do
You're so famous now

and

Got your bible and your gun
You like your women and you like fun

Father Yod had an original cult wife Ah-Om (or Robin) who he married when she was 19 and he was in his 50's. They spent the first years of the cult traveling around the world, visiting many different gurus and gathering the knowledge of many different sects from the East and West to make up their own version of a religion. Robin most definitely shared her body with Yod as well as her mind, stating that on the Source's first offical family meditation, she was finally seeing into Yod's mind. When Father Yod became well known in Hollywood and more and more people began joining them is when he decided that he would take 13 additional wives. "You're so famous" line could indicate that she knew she couldn't get through to him anymore, he would not listen to reason at this point.

The gun and bible verse may be a nod to the Bible that Yod wrote: Liberation and other Source Teachings which contains it's own 10 comandments and the violent nature of Jim Baker, which was always bubbling under the surface. The next line is quite obvious if it is about Yod since clearly he liked his 13 women and was all about having fun and just doing whatever he wanted. One day he would want to mimic the Knight's Templar and would make everyone dress up and follow the Knight's practice and the next day would want to mimic Native American tribes, etc. etc. Members of the Source Family have stated in the documentaries that life at the Source was all about leisure and never work or stress. Yod was always planning fun excursions for members and there was never a dull moment.

Ultraviolence

Basically everything in the lyrics of UV could apply to this theory. I will point out the stronger points here. I believe that Lana could be singing this from the perspective of Jim's first cult wife, Robin.

"He used to call me DN, that stood for Deadly Nightshade because I was filled with poison but blessed with beauty and rage Jim told me that"

- All the members of The Source changed their names to hippy names that described their personalities like Sunflower, Galaxy, Heaven, Isis, etc. Jim would obviously be Jim Baker, aka Father Yod, YaHoWa, etc. We all know Jim also happens to be a very significant name in Lana's life as well.

"He hit me and it felt like a kiss" and "He hurt me but it felt like true love"
- Could be reference to Jim Baker's previous violent nature (he was twice aquitted for murder, robbed banks, and had a very short temper before he hit rock bottom, had his spiritual awakening and became Yod) which he shared with Robin when they were married. Despite knowing all the bad things he did in his life and how violent he could be, how he basically cheated on her with 13 other women RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER and told her she couldn't do anything about it.... her love for him never faltered. Or could be a reference to his philandering ways, he's hurting her but not in a physical way. When Yod took 13 wives Robin said it felt like "he had skinned me alive", yet 40+ years later she says she has never loved another quite like Jim.

"I could have died right there
Cause Jim was right beside me
Jim raised me up
He hurt me but it felt like true love
Jim taught me that
Loving him was never enough"
- Many of the Aquarians from the Source Family say that they are prepared for death and what it will brings as it is just another journey we all must take. They learnt this from the meditations conducted by Father Yod and they know that this existence we live in is just the bridge between the before and after. Hence why she could have died right then (Also I think Lana just likes that phrase lol) 

"You're my Cult Leader"
- Obvious in that Jim Baker was indeed a cult leader/guru. @@evilentity pointed out that: "in interviews Lana often used the word "guru" to describe this cult leader. "Guru" often has an Eastern religion connotation and Father Yod/Jim Baker's Wikipedia page says he "studied philosophy, religion, and esoteric spiritual teachings, even becoming a Vedantic monk for a time. He later became a follower of Yogi Bhajan, a Sikh spiritual leader and teacher of Kundalini Yoga."

Jim Baker was well documented to have violent characteristics in his past and the stipulations he put on the Family as Father Yod could be seen as cruel and unusual to outsiders with the authorities becoming involved on more than one occasion, yet Source Family members were never forced to stay and partake and after all these years, they still love him for what he taught them.

 

The way Lana sings about her Jim is nearly identical to the way former Source members speak about their Jim in the 2012 Doc. He wasn't a good man, he left his two flesh families and five children behind to start his cult. He was a strict about his teachings and the living conditions they lived in were abhorrent at times toward the end, despite the fact he owned a Rolls Royce and wore expensive suits, but they still speak of their unconditional love for him and the fact they would never change their experience even if they could.

Shades of Cool

Again most of the lyrics fit so I won't repost all of them here, just the ones that are quite evident.

"And when he calls, he calls for me, and not for you
He lives for love, he loves his drugs, he loves his baby too
But I can't fix him, can't make him better
And I can't do nothing about his strange weather"

and

"He lives for love, for women too
I'm one of many Bonnie's blue
And when he calls, he calls for me, and not for you
He prays for love, he prays for peace, and maybe someone new"

This could be in reference to the many wives Father Yod had. Despite 13 of them, I assume Robin was still his favourite and the one he called for when he needed emotional support. It's safe to say Yod lived for love, drugs and women as that is basically what he built his religion on. Robin states in the doc that after she became pregnant with his child, she hoped he would regain his senses and separate from the other wives to be with her, when she says "And that's when they started calling him God..." and from that point on he was lost to her and lost what little sanity he had left.

The strange weather line could be in reference to Family member Galaxy stating that many of them on occasion witness Father Yod shoot lightning out of his head during meditation. If you listen closely as Lana sings those lines, you can hear electrical pulses in the background.

"Neglectful Lover" and "You're crumbling sadly" could be about Yod being neglectful of Robin and their child as he delved deeper into his God-complex.

Brooklyn Baby

@@evilentity posted this in response to the original post in the UV thread:

"They say I'm too young to love you
I don't know what I need
They think I don't understand
The freedom land of the 70's

As in, she's too young to sing about and identify with a cult prevalent in the '60s and '70s that was about peace, love, sex, drugs, and rock & roll. As I was reading this, the thing I was most curious about was when this documentary came out, which you said at the end was 2012, which you correctly noted would fit perfectly. Whether or not this was part of her inspiration, we have found a lot of cases where she seems to have been inspired by movies and things like that. At the same time we've so far been unable to match certain details in her songs with real life, like the elusive K. I've been thinking more and more lately that when she says all her songs are autobiographical, they're autobiographical of herself watching TV. Or perhaps Netflix in this instance. It reminds me of this quote from her KulturSPIEGEL interview:
 

KulturSPIEGEL: Is it true that you grew up without a TV?

Lana Del Rey: Even though there was a TV in the living room of my parents' house, it wasn't connected to the cable network, it was just a display for video films. There were normally connected TVs in my father's and mother's rooms on which I was allowed to watch cartoons as a child. But only rarely. My parents thought that TV was too overtaxing for me, that it impressed me too much. They were probably right. When I saw something interesting on TV as a child, I would parrot them for days after that which scared my parents so much that they took the family TV from the network when I was 7. I wasn't allowed to watch TV normally until I was 14. Back then, I used to sit in front of MTV 24/7 and inhale everything I saw on there.

I think it's also notable there are references to TV watching in several of her songs, a pleasure she took much enjoyment from, but was denied her for a long time."

Aesthetic Evidence
This section is about the pictures used for Ultraviolence vs pictures from The Source Family Archives as well as the soundscape Dan Auerbach and Lana came up with. Lana had stated that her new take on the UV album was "Unlistenable" with many different sounds, tempo changes, etc. Some of the Ya Ho Wha recordings sound very similar to how Lana re-did UV with the layered sounds, experimental vocals and tempo changes.

Sound

There are many videos on youtube (for some reason they won't post here) that are good example of what I am talking about. If you look up Savage Sons of Yahowha or I'm Going To Take You Home (both very different but still in the genre of psychedelic rock) you can hear the influence between the music created by Ya Ho Wha 13 and the soundwall that Lana and Dan have created with Ultraviolence. It's almost as if she took that sound and decided to lay jazz vocals over top. In fact, Jim was known to scat in his songs too...

From a recent review of a Source album on Pitchfork http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16820-the-thought-adjusters/: "Still, the center of the The Thought Adjusters is Father Yod, and his oddly malleable singing is the star of each song. His voice stretches and cracks and distorts, hitting on a gut level rather than a pitch-perfect one. His lopsided cries inject energy into the longer songs, but I'm partial to one of the shortest and sparsest tracks, "Seed of Yahowha". Here, Yod has an almost rap-like sense of timing, mimicking and counterpointing some wiry, Beefheart-esque guitar. He might never actually hit a note-- it's all charm and charisma, and when you hear it, you can understand why it led many a Source family member down Yod's winding path."

I'd say Lana definitely went this route with UV, maybe not to the unlistenable extent that Father Yod did with screaming and chanting, but especially with the subtle offkey background vocals in Shades of Cool, and the way she sings Pretty When You Cry. Not to mention the psychedelic "narco-swing" and West Coast California in the 70s vibes that the album gives off.

Visuals

Here is a gallery of pictures from the Source Family archives:

http://banditblog.com/thesourcefamil/

You can also google "The Source Family Pictures" to see the google gallery for more examples. You'll notice, they have nearly the same aesthetic as the pictures that were used for UV promos.

@ noted the connection between several pictures from the Source family archives looking similar to the UV booklet picture for FMWttT.

@ noted that this picture of Isis and Yod: http://lanaboards.com/uploads/monthly_07_2014/post-2501-0-14130000-1404546889.jpg and another: 

 

 

 

looked very similar to the picture of Lana sitting on Dan's lap in the studio.

 

 

As I stated above I will continue updating this post with more evidence as I find it. Please feel free to post any similarities you might find and I will happily add it with credit to you!

[labelledejour 22]

HALLELUJAH! I was waiting for this :')

[labelledejour 22]

So happy to read it! These theories are awesome and I will try to do some researching about it. The FMWUTTT picture in the booklet it's from the same place of many scenes of the Summertime Sadness music video. That made me curious. That place mean something to Lana...

[Angel Forever 145]

So happy to read it! These theories are awesome and I will try to do some researching about it. The FMWUTTT picture in the booklet it's from the same place of many scenes of the Summertime Sadness music video. That made me curious. That place mean something to Lana...

 

I thought the same.

 

All those theories about Lana singing about old sects and occultism are so creepy, but they make sense. I had never heard of the Source Family before. It was interesting to read about it, tho.

[lflflflflflflflflflf 3,722]

       

 

WOW

[longtimeman 8,908]

This is great stuff - I'd heard about Father Yod, etc, but had not thought of him being an influence on Lana. Very nice research @@Lanakai

[Lanakai 661]

This is great stuff - I'd heard about Father Yod, etc, but had not thought of him being an influence on Lana. Very nice research @@Lanakai

 

Thank you my dear! 

[veniceglitch 379]

Just so you guys know, The Source Family doc is on Netflix now. Weirdly, I queued it last night. #synchronicity #LanaMoments

 

http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70234699?trkid=13630398

[DeadAgainst 1,515]

You say that you are documenting or dreaming something in your songs. Now you’re approaching more serious things like living in a cult…

You want to know if it’s true?

 

That would be a bit flat. Maybe I should ask it like that: How much did this period of your life influence your artistic evolution?

I prefer this question too. It was a period. I was looking for people who were like me but also people who seemed to be connected with bigger things like supernatural. I was influenced by visionary people. I wanted more than just writing and live from one day to another. But I found out that this didn’t work for me. I thought I could live together with others as an idealistic artist’s commune, so that you inspire each other.

 

http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/5010-ldr-i-always-want-to-experiment-interview-with-dpa

[Rafael 3,512]

Original:

 

 

 

UV Booklet:

 

 

 

Might be farfetched, but there's something going on with those damn long trees and that filter. On other hand, I do recall seeing them in the music video for "Summeritme Sadness" as well... But that's a thing I've been picking up a lot lately. Another visual aesthetic move? Or just my paranoia? 

[PennCentralFan 269]

This is really cool. I hope someone in an interview asks Lana about this. I think I want to start a cult now.

[labelledejour 22]

If we could discover the name of the place with the long trees (Summertime Sadness music video/FMWUTTT booklet picture/Some The Source Family pictures)... It would help a little bit, I think. We all know Lana is obsessed with places (Chateau Marmont, Coney Island, New York, LA...). Idk

[Guest Dot]

OMG this is so interesting! Makes so much sense in the context of the songs you mentioned above.  @@Lanakai

[Lanakai 661]

OMG this is so interesting! Makes so much sense in the context of the songs you mentioned above.  @@Lanakai

 

Thanks babe! You da bestest 

 

If we could discover the name of the place with the long trees (Summertime Sadness music video/FMWUTTT booklet picture/Some The Source Family pictures)... It would help a little bit, I think. We all know Lana is obsessed with places (Chateau Marmont, Coney Island, New York, LA...). Idk

 

100% this! Do we have a resident Los Angelian that could do some super sneaky reconnaissance for us? I would but Canada is pretty fuckin' far and I don't know when I'll be in Cali again (probably a long while boo!)

 

I also realised that the lyrics "Lay me down tonight in my linen and curls, I'm your favorite girl" is in Ultraviolence too so those trees could be significant to either FMWttT or UV. Funny that most of the ladies in the Source family wore either linen or velvet and left their hair au natural in curls (when they had them, Robin especially).

 

I wish we could get a hold of one of the former members and ask their opinion on all of this... 

[labelledejour 22]

I was searching about the SS music video and found out it was set on Santa Clarita, CA. I've searched about the place and found nothing interesting. It might be weird to stuck on this place with the trees, but i was watching the Tropico teasers and one of them show Lana like in the SS video, of course some cuts from the video... About these line of FMWUTTT, you done very well by noticing this! It really fits! Sorry if i don't quote you guys or anything else, I'm always on the mobile mode of the forum

[Angel Forever 145]

If we could discover the name of the place with the long trees (Summertime Sadness music video/FMWUTTT booklet picture/Some The Source Family pictures)... It would help a little bit, I think. We all know Lana is obsessed with places (Chateau Marmont, Coney Island, New York, LA...). Idk

 

100% this! Do we have a resident Los Angelian that could do some super sneaky reconnaissance for us? I would but Canada is pretty fuckin' far and I don't know when I'll be in Cali again (probably a long while boo!)

 

I also realised that the lyrics "Lay me down tonight in my linen and curls, I'm your favorite girl" is in Ultraviolence too so those trees could be significant to either FMWttT or UV. Funny that most of the ladies in the Source family wore either linen or velvet and left their hair au natural in curls (when they had them, Robin especially).

 

I wish we could get a hold of one of the former members and ask their opinion on all of this... 

 

So, I was doing a LOT of research (lmao) and all I could discover is that the video was recorded in Santa Clarita, CA, nothing else 

There's a waterfall in the beggining, maybe some canyon. Eternal Valley Memorial Park and the William S. Hart Museum in Santa Clarita have those hedges trees, but it's not the right place. In the video she stands in front of a ornamented gate, maybe some mansion/museum?

 

And yes, she sings those verses from FMWUTTT in UV.

[labelledejour 22]

I was searching just now the important places of The Source Family and all I could find it was places in Hollywood Hills like Laurel Canyon. They had a house there i think.

[Lanakai 661]

I was searching about the SS music video and found out it was set on Santa Clarita, CA. I've searched about the place and found nothing interesting. It might be weird to stuck on this place with the trees, but i was watching the Tropico teasers and one of them show Lana like in the SS video, of course some cuts from the video... About these line of FMWUTTT, you done very well by noticing this! It really fits! Sorry if i don't quote you guys or anything else, I'm always on the mobile mode of the forum

 

 

So, I was doing a LOT of research (lmao) and all I could discover is that the video was recorded in Santa Clarita, CA, nothing else 

There's a waterfall in the beggining, maybe some canyon. Eternal Valley Memorial Park and the William S. Hart Museum in Santa Clarita have those hedges trees, but it's not the right place. In the video she stands in front of a ornamented gate, maybe some mansion/museum?

 

And yes, she sings those verses from FMWUTTT in UV.

 

I google mapped it and Santa Clarita is about 40 minutes from Nichols Canyon (where the family's second house was located) and Loz Feliz (the first one). 

 

It's also definitely at Nichols Cayon as you can see the trees in the upper left corner of this picture here:

 

 

I'm betting those trees and that look is something popular for landscaping in the LA area lol Oh well...

[Trinity 1,224]

Just watched the Netflix documentary and I can definitely see Lana being influenced and inspired by the Source Family. Very, very interesting find.

[JBabes 23]

Thanks babe! You da bestest 

 

 

100% this! Do we have a resident Los Angelian that could do some super sneaky reconnaissance for us? I would but Canada is pretty fuckin' far and I don't know when I'll be in Cali again (probably a long while boo!)

 

I also realised that the lyrics "Lay me down tonight in my linen and curls, I'm your favorite girl" is in Ultraviolence too so those trees could be significant to either FMWttT or UV. Funny that most of the ladies in the Source family wore either linen or velvet and left their hair au natural in curls (when they had them, Robin especially).

 

I wish we could get a hold of one of the former members and ask their opinion on all of this... 

If you search Isis Aquarian in the facebook search toolbar you can find the first wife of father Yod, on facebook she comes up... And it looks like she replies to random people... *polite* people... Someone should get in touch with her and post it for all of us to see... She looks very welcoming... And she looks like she now resides in Hawaii.. Doesn't look like their are any other Isis Aquarian's.  Just the one on facebook... Anyoneeee?