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The poetry meme got me thinking about my tendency (as a visual learner) to lock on to poems or song lyrics with a strong visual component. One line or couplet can lock an image in my mind, and off I go constructing a complete narrative around that image.
One of my faves is from a Liz Phair song called "It's Sweet." The song itself is a wistful ode to a naive man who's making more out of their affair than she is. She allows herself to enjoy the infatuation and he, recognizing her cynicism, tries to minimize it. The bridge is what makes the song for me; just one line, in a halting syncopated rhythm to set it apart from the rest of the lyric:
In the early light I catch you staring, and you make a joke about it
I see that scene, and because I see it my imagination is captured by the song.
Another one, from Wilco's Hidden Track on the Summerteeth album:
The ashtray says you've been up all night
Jeff Tweedy rocks my socks.
So, curious: do any of you have a line or couplet (not a verse, that's not what I'm referring to) that captures your imagination in this way? If so, share please.
One of my faves is from a Liz Phair song called "It's Sweet." The song itself is a wistful ode to a naive man who's making more out of their affair than she is. She allows herself to enjoy the infatuation and he, recognizing her cynicism, tries to minimize it. The bridge is what makes the song for me; just one line, in a halting syncopated rhythm to set it apart from the rest of the lyric:
In the early light I catch you staring, and you make a joke about it
I see that scene, and because I see it my imagination is captured by the song.
Another one, from Wilco's Hidden Track on the Summerteeth album:
The ashtray says you've been up all night
Jeff Tweedy rocks my socks.
So, curious: do any of you have a line or couplet (not a verse, that's not what I'm referring to) that captures your imagination in this way? If so, share please.
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I love Wilco.I love SunVolt. I love Uncle Tupelo. I love Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown, and got engaged to an Old 97's song.
Alt-country rocks.
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Like all the covers of Marley's "Redemption Song;" at first, it may seem odd that Joe Strummer and Johnny Cash both covered it, but both of them were artists who weren't afraid to live and create in that crossroads of music. They felt the power and the soul in different genres, and so could connect with the power and soul in "Redemption Song."
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I love the way you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near from "Elsewhere" by Sarah McLachlan
and from Grace Griffith's version of "Demeter's Daughter"
There he stood with his face like coal , his eyes as dark as night in hell, and there he stood with face like fire, saying "fair lady, I wish you well."
In that version of the myth, Persephone is in love with Hades and runs to the underworld with him. It gives me the chills when I hear it!
And from my favorite song ever, Brother my Cup is Empty by Nick Cave:
And please sir make it whiskey, I have no head for wine
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I'm surprised you're a visual learner since you have such a good memory for music and lyrics. I'm pretty much a split between visual and audio learning even though I have a hard time memorizing lyrics.
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Or I could be talking out of my ass.
As for the visual connection to lyrics... hmmmmm.... I would have to take some time to think about that. For me, everything comes with a visual. I've never stopped to pull it apart.
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I do that all the time. lol
For me, everything comes with a visual.
Yeah, true. But sometimes one part crystallizes the rest of the song. Other times, one line or image can set my imagination going off in a completely new direction.
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Car parts, bottles and cutlery, or whatever I find lying around
I'm surprised you're a visual learner
I'm a biologist and we're all about the pretty pictures. We used to joke that a biologist can't talk without a pencil in their hand, to sketch cartoons or diagrams as they speak.
I'm sure I have some component of auditory learning, as well. My best method of getting info from lectures was to sit and just listen, and scribble down notes later.
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The user is
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I still want to make a Graham Norton userpic with the caption "Hiiiii Gay Daddy!"
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from "open wider" by bird york. actually, the whole song just captures my imagination... it's so good. if you want, i could send it to you.
also the writing of amy lowell...
to wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night
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biogeekgrrl
clever, no?
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also, i posted the amy lowell poem to
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*skips off to read the poem*
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(also, either you are not on aim or i am doing something wrong?)
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(way to make a girl paranoid! ;))
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All my world on one grain of sand, and you own it
Black Cherry- Goldfrapp
but i'm so tired of days that feel like the night
Me and the Moon- Something corporate
I am a constant sattellite of your blazing sun, my love
Gravity-Vienna Teng
so we wrapped our arms around each other, trying to shove ourselves back together. we were making love.
hedwig and the angry inch- the origin of love
I will stop now, but i could go on forever. music rocks my world, yo!
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work yes!
In a few hours I will be asleep.
I will try to remember to make up a few e-mails for you. :)
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I will try to remember to make up a few e-mails for you. :)
Aw, thanks! I'll send some things to you, too. :)
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One example would be in the musical break in "Fascination" I think thats it, by Human League. I don't even really like the song but I see these colors criss cross into patterns.
weird?
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I can get that. The way the music moves, it seems kind of geometric.
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"Smoke a cigarette and lie some more; these conversations kill"
"You are the bearer of unconditional things"
"She dances while his father plays guitar - she's suddenly beautiful"
"A hundred stairs to her new room, over glass and blackened spoons
Children grow old so soon"
Those are the ones that spring to mind.
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"A hundred stairs to her new room, over glass and blackened spoons Children grow old so soon"
Oh, ow. *shudder* That's an image, all right.
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The first one's Stone Temple Pilots, "Big Empty", the third (on the very slim that you didn't twig it) is Counting Crows, "Mr Jones" and the nasty grim one is the Levellers, "Julie". Which somehow manages to be a great song on two chords and kill-yourself subject matter; not quite sure how that works.
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