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Naked in the rain
as the clouds roar above
I just want to explain
what I did for love
but all my words
seem hopelessly wrong
and I hear my own echo
and I hear your song.
Are my feet rooted to the ground?
Are you allowed to make a sound?
I want to help but don't know what to do
and I'm scared of me and I'm scared for you.
Look how these two seem perfectly related.
How infectious their expression is. They both radiate. They shine.
They're sunshine!
Hence the song it reminds me of:
This is the power
Since time began
Every single hour
That we have known
And from each moment
All that is left
Sleep of the innocent
Just one desire
Shine like it does
Into every heart
Shine like it does
And if you're looking
You will find it
You will find it
This is the story
Since time began
There will come a day
When we will know
INXS (1985)
In visual arts, lots and lots of artists, especially in the movements of romanticism and Realism, have tried to depict loneliness and it's effects on normal human beings:
Mostly you see desperate and tortured faces painted on canvases, as if this condition is hopeless and lackluster, but one painter is special for me and that's EDWARD HOPPER. Because he does not depict loneliness or sense of depression as this inevitable destructive force that cripples us all, like Goya did back in his days, or some realists did in their works. I think Hopper shows us, that loneliness and overall condition of unhappiness is a choice of ours. He has a lot of paintings, where there is a character placed in a building, surrounded by huge windows frames. His characters look completely drained, but in all of those paintings, the window frames are not covered, they don't even have glass put in them. As if there is an escape, but the character does not really want to save him/herself. He/she does not want to be happy in the long term.
Slavoj Zizek, modern philosopher has the same view about happiness. in one of his videos, he brings an analogy of a married man, with a nice circle of friends, great job and overall good life, has a mistress. This man really loves the woman he has affair with and wishes that his wife leaves him. And one day, dreams come true... He gets a divorce and goes on to live with his mistress, but eventually the man realizes that the love for his mistress faded away. This "love" only made sense when he had a wife.
So, should we always be in pursuit of happiness or dreams, if we'll still end up lonely?.. I think the answer is yes, however futile everything might seem... Loneliness is not something one should fear... It is something, that must be embraced.
There is a painting by Hopper called; Room in New York. A man reads the newspaper and a woman sits across the room, playing notes on the piano. For some, this might seem as a very pessimistic canvas, but for me it is full of hope. Yes, both the man and woman are lonely, alienated, isolated from each other. But they both have each other, so they can share their pain. Pain of loneliness... The most ancient curse of mankind.
Helluva hullabaloo
(Olla bolla domino)
So much chaos in the classroom
(Okay hockey)
Just having a fit
(Catch a tiger by the toe)
Detention galore
(If he hollers let him go)
A hundred lines on the board
(And a hundred tables underneath)
Weary teasy peasy
(The Ace of Spades and Hearts)
Summons the schoolmistress
(Foolish Miss Happ)
Rings a bell to the headmaster
(Now is the bitching hour)
High-flying pieces of writing
(This close but undisclosed)
All school reports zeroed out
(Quarters to none)
Outpointing her dance cap
(Right under his big dunce nose)
All flawed ways condoned
(How unapologetic)
Haywire goes the uncool master
(Eeny, meeny, miny, moe)
Off the school ground
(He'll go east, he'll go west)
Lost his mind
(He'll go to the crow's nest)
But where is mine?
© 2016 Ey@el - lapensinemutine.eklablog.com
NOTE: This is more a story telling variation than an accurate translation of the original in French, as you can imagine all these puns being literally untranslatable (and the other way round). But I certainly do enjoy a good challenge sometimes. For more fun, read it aloud!
Can't seem to get out of my head these days. Other people open their mouths and sounds come out and I nod my head and try to respond but can't keep my mind from wandering. I oscillate between thinking I'm on to something and thinking I've completely lost it... I know I was in the same place a few months ago and came out of it alright but I can't shake the feeling that I don't want to "snap out of it" and return to normal life because it feels hollow and empty now. I try to embrace uncertainty, to exist in the space between a 0 and a 1, a no and a yes, to fully explore that nebulous non-answer for all its mysteries, but it tears me up inside and consumes me.
I wish I could be more present for the people around me. I know my uncertainty affects others and creates a ripple and all I want is calm, but that doesn't seem to be possible at the moment. I suppose now is the time to let the storm rage, or at least to let the rain quietly fall on my rooftop while my mind loops and whirls. I wish I were able to lose myself in the noise so I could actually listen to it but I keep having to shut it off so I can take care of day-to-day human needs which seem so hopelessly banal. I see those around me struggle and it doesn't seem right that things come so easily to me just because I happened to get good genes and made myself open to things that others aren't... but that is a human need too, I suppose. I just wish it weren't so tainted.
I know I'm not making much sense but hopefully someone can interpret this mess of thought and emotion.
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21 songs [YouTube playlist]
8 August 2016 / Shrine Auditorium / Los Angeles, USA
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqrWoLiN_ofXozBeTQKeijwfMK5uhPDNi
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Find more photos like this on w.a.s.t.e. central
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01. Burn the Witch
02. Daydreaming
03. Decks Dark
04. Desert Island Disk
05. Ful Stop
06. My Iron Lung
07. Morning Mr. Magpie
08. Lucky
09. Pyramid Song
10. Like Spinning Plates
11. Bloom
12. Identikit
13. The Numbers
14. Everything In Its Right Place
15. Feral
16. Idioteque
17. Bodysnatchers
encore
18. True Love Waits
19. Present Tense
20. 2+2=5
21. Lotus Flower
22. Paranoid Android
encore 2
23. Airbag
24. Reckoner
so much thanks for streaming
https://www.periscope.tv/drfindley/
https://www.periscope.tv/titomb345/
https://www.periscope.tv/lopcheung/
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good energies with you ~
<3
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Find more photos like this on w.a.s.t.e. central
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01. Burn the Witch
02. Daydreaming
03. Ful Stop
04. 2+2=5
05. Bodysnatchers
06. Climbing Up The Walls
07. Exit Music (For A Film)
08. Bloom
09. Lotus Flower
10. Pyramid Song
11. Identikit
12. The Numbers
13. The Gloaming
14. Weird Fishes / Arpeggi
15. Everything In Its Right Place
16. Idioteque
17. There There
encore
18. Let Down
19. Present Tense
20. Nude
21. Paranoid Android
22. Karma Police
so much thanks for streaming
https://www.periscope.tv/licknik/
https://www.periscope.tv/Antolopia/
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Have a lovely night ~
good wishes are with you
thinking of you
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Find more photos like this on w.a.s.t.e. central
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01. Burn the Witch
02. Daydreaming
03. Decks Dark
04. Desert Island Disk
05. Ful Stop
06. The National Anthem / Hunting Bears
07. Lotus Flower
08. Separator
09. No Surprises
10. True Love Waits
11. Bloom
12. Identikit
13. The Numbers
14. The Gloaming
15. Weird Fishes / Arpeggi
16. Idioteque
17. Climbing Up The Walls
encore
18. Let Down
19. Present Tense
20. Nude
21. Myxomatosis
22. There There
encore 2
23. Everything In Its Right Place
24. Street Spirit [Fade Out]
so much thanks for streaming
https://www.periscope.tv/Barahona96/
https://www.periscope.tv/arpeggimedicine/
https://www.periscope.tv/darrendman/
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This is for the folks at W.A.S.T.E. and Radiohead -
The first time I had tickets to see a Radiohead show was in 2000. I'd been a fan for a few years, and was able, through W.A.S.T.E. to get tickets to a show in France in a little village called Vaison La Romaine. I had to swing by the W.A.S.T.E. offices in Redding to pick up the tickets in person. I was backpacking in Europe with a friend and we met my brother in Avignon and headed to the show. It was a gorgeous day and we picnicked in a park near the venue, a small Roman amphitheater that sat around 2000 people. And then, about 30 minutes before the show... It rained. The show was canceled and we were gutted.
I didn't get a chance to see Radiohead again until they played at Coachella in 2004. I was able to see them a few more times, in Upper Darby in 2006, at The Hollywood Bowl in 2008 (and the Santa Barbara Bowl, same tour) but I'd really all but given up on seeing them live again. It had become so difficult to get tickets, I didn't know if I'd even bother trying when they came to L.A. for The Moon Shaped Pool Tour. But, thanks to a W.A.S.T.E. presale, not only was I able to get tickets to the show August 4th at The Shrine, I was able to get front row seats!!! The best seats I've ever had for any concert ever, and it was for Radiohead! And what a show it was.
So, thank you W.A.S.T.E. for giving true fans the chance to actually get tickets (and amazing ones at that.) This made up for that disappointment 16 years ago with interest. And thank you Radiohead for one of the best shows I have ever seen!
Thanks,
Sara
