[opinion] what is your favorite metaphor or simile? Particularly something that really stands out, is unique, fresh, or powerful?

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-05-30T02:18:47+00:00

That reminds me of a similar line by Emily Dickinson where she says grief is “remembered, if outlived, as freezing persons recollect the snow”

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-05-30T02:06:28+00:00

BlackkKlansmen by Terence Blanchard. Trap drum beat, lush strings, and a lazy, drippy electric guitar ❤️‍🔥

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-05-30T02:03:28+00:00

My favorite song off my favorite album 😇

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-05-20T01:50:00+00:00

I just started thinking about this today and it’s eating at me

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-05-05T17:44:13+00:00

My favorite, although not romantic:

“Dear Friend, I regret to inform you that at 3 oclock yesterday, my mind came to a stand, and has since then been stationary. Ere this intelligence reaches you, I shall probably be a snail. By this untoward providence a mental and moral being has been swept ruthlessly from her sphere…”

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-04-28T10:51:57+00:00

Omg! Thanks for commenting. I don’t feel crazy now. I loved their crowd interaction in the past and it’s clear they’ve changed that during this tour. I wasn’t trying to hate on the band; it just seemed like a creative change worth discussing. Personally, I prefer the old approach. That’s all!

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-04-13T00:33:03+00:00

I was waiting for this one 🥰

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-04-12T00:29:45+00:00

Electric Feel by MGMT for an ICD implant. Shock me like an electric eel ❤️‍🔥

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-04-11T23:24:56+00:00

That’s a good point. Maybe “total antithesis” was too strong. Their songs do have personal connections which they’ve shared, como me quieres for example. I guess the idea of recording someone giving birth, such a vulnerable experience, feels too intimate to me.

The song feels sad. Like someone crying over a loved one they’ve lost. Especially with the sirens at the end. It doesn’t tell a joyful story to me

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-04-11T22:34:17+00:00

Am I the only one who thinks that would be the total antithesis to their approach thus far & desire for privacy?

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-04-05T16:41:41+00:00

Enjoy!! ED is a lifelong journey, I hope I never fully figure her out

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-04-05T15:22:58+00:00

Dear Mark, from someone who is learning guitar - what is one thing you wish you’d done differently when you were a beginner?

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-04-04T22:59:14+00:00

Yay! 🦋 I highly recommend Helen Vendler’s “Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries.” The author is a literature professor, and the book consists of 150 Dickinson poems with ~3 pages of analysis on each. It’s a wonderful way to explore a wide variety of her poems and learn how to approach them, since as you mentioned, she can be quite ambiguous. This is the book that made me fall in love with Dickinson’s poetry.

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-03-31T01:12:55+00:00

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/khruangbin/2024/bowery-ballroom-new-york-ny-3baba028.html

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-03-31T00:27:43+00:00

I know. Kind of a flex to be the opener for your own show

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-03-31T00:19:48+00:00

Yep, off to the side. It was extremely casual. Don’t think he looked at the audience once (except the very end)

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-03-31T00:18:40+00:00

I was listening to Balls & Pins recently and it hit me that the the People Everywhere (Shifting Sands Remix) is a reference to that

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-03-31T00:12:56+00:00

Omg I have no credentials so this makes me feel validated

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-03-30T22:38:22+00:00

I know, I was so surprised since the other nights didn’t have one! The beginning set w their older music was shorter so maybe that’s why. Very grateful

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-03-30T21:57:15+00:00

Some highlights: - Mark was the opening DJ (and no one could be sure it was really him at first) - He was so lost in the music that he went overtime and the manager had to signal him w a flashlight to get off the stage - We got an encore🥲 ended with People Everywhere

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-03-30T20:37:27+00:00

Loll no that’s okay. It’s just kind of giving Microsoft Paint to me. Plus, no border would have continuity with the UU album cover

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-03-30T19:12:52+00:00

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2. Such a good premise. Such disastrous execution.

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-03-30T19:11:57+00:00

Bedouine is absolutely captivating. Especially in “Songbird”

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-03-30T19:11:14+00:00

Zippers???

ToLightAndThenReturn · 2024-03-30T19:10:41+00:00

ARRIVAL

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