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maps_or_guitars

The Mighty Oracle Thpeakth

Dec 30, 2009 15:02

The Oracle in question being my mp3 player, on shuffle. Calling for a keynote prediction for the coming year, I hit shuffle and get:

Burial, self titled album, "U Hurt Me"

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Oooookay. Forbidding band name & title; ominous instrumental music. Apart from taking the title literally and exercising caution in my personal relationships, I don't quite ( Read more... )

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Re: Can I Play With Fate maps_or_guitars December 30 2009, 21:09:46 UTC

Don't say I didn't warn you! *puts on paper hat, cracks knuckles, hits "shuffle+-"*

Radiohead, Kid A, "In Limbo."

The oracle starts out with disclaimers, (which is always a bad sign in my book) "Another message I can't read"

The oracle both claims to "be on your side," but that can't be worth much since he's also "lost at sea" - but from that position of uncertainty, the oracle also has the infernal gall to declare that you're living in a fantasy world.

It might be that the I in the song is you - which isn't that helpful, either.

So depending on your position in the song's conversation - first or second person - you're either living in a fantasy world yourself, Or you're not, but you know your position to be an ambiguous one.

Maybe you just wanna sleep through this one, wake up in '11?

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Re: Can I Play With Fate maps_or_guitars December 30 2009, 21:35:16 UTC

Well, that's pretty cool. I would be happy to see you spank this misbehaving world with words.

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Re: Waving arm desperately... maps_or_guitars January 6 2010, 21:56:02 UTC

Awright, OM MANI PADME HUMMMMMM and I hit shuffle.

And you, Stimps, for this coming year your fate is ruled by this song:

The Byrds, "She Don't Care About Time."

Nobody said life was easy - man's days are full of labor; as the song says, "Hallways and staircases everyday to climb." But there is an ever-present reward awaiting at the end of the travail: as long as it takes, it's always there. It may be a literal being, or it may be something abstract... but it sounds pretty nice to me.

I note that it's followed immediately by Robert Pollard's "Count Us In" and the 13th Floor Elevator's "Fire Engine" which could mean that the rewards are of a particularly creative nature, or it could just mean that my music collection is AWESOME.

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Re: Waving arm desperately... maps_or_guitars January 6 2010, 22:23:43 UTC

You're welcome! Hm. iPodrology? Gotta think about whether I want to invest THAT much time in it.