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Post by Richie on Dec 3, 2009 0:12:46 GMT -5
I'm almost positive Lewis Takes Action will be available for all and its just the autographed- golden ticket-25 which are limited, but I could be very wrong.. For those who have pre-ordered Heartland, did the label happen to send a confirmation email? I'm still not sure if my purchase did or didn't go through...  -also I'm enjoying the lyrical theories! good job, whether or not they were intended by Owen.. |
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Post by eeaabb on Dec 3, 2009 0:39:31 GMT -5
Yes, I did get a confirmation email from Domino. If I were you I would find someone to email at Domino asking about it. This seems like the right page to do so: www.dominorecordco.us/contact/ |
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Post by Richie on Dec 3, 2009 0:53:36 GMT -5
Thank You!
thats so nice of you to send the contact link too!
I'm guessing the purchase didn't go through being I haven't received an email, but I just sent a letter to be safe.
Thanks!
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Post by jbeckers on Dec 3, 2009 2:47:47 GMT -5
the last toutpartout newsletter mentioned european shows in march! :-o
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Post by Alyssa! on Dec 3, 2009 7:50:58 GMT -5
Ah, damn. European shows. All the better that I'm catching the Montreal show.
scarychips: you have a wonderful city and I may be going to college next year there.
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Post by gammonize on Dec 3, 2009 11:43:57 GMT -5
I just realised he loses faith in Owen because he is 'betrayed' at the end of The Great Elsewhere and realises his creator is indifferent to his fate. I dunno if that's the intended idea ...
Alyssa! your analysis earlier was really interesting. What do you think of the other songs? I don't understand midnight directives very well, and from flare gun to the end I don't know what's going on.
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Post by rgsc on Dec 3, 2009 13:43:08 GMT -5
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Post by Alyssa! on Dec 3, 2009 18:43:24 GMT -5
I'm glad you're interested! Um, lessee. Lines like "cross her off the shortlist" and "left my daughter and wife" show his distance from femininity in a systematic way; referencing blood, tornadoes, burning bridges, cutlasses all give images of violence. Owen has talked about Lewis as a "hyperviolent farmer who questions his creator," and I think of Midnight Directives as the starting point for a lot of the action in the album. Lewis is leaving. He has responsibilities in his fields and in his family. He had been content before, in his brilliant youth, and now he's settled down. But he still quietly lusted, all this time for a Saturday night like the old ones: a party, a violent game, a destruction to sweep everything sensible out of the way. In his current state, he labeled his old self a "sad-boy," but now he strives back to it. At the offering of Owen ("to lead a clerical life," suggests he's getting his guidance from that God he is questioning so often; hence, Owen; think of the lyrics to "Adventure.exe" taken to this huge and bloody scale), Lewis leaves everything (distance from femininity implied, helps out). He wants to burn bridges and separate himself from the past, using destruction to light a future. There's a cutlass strike, an impetus, but it feels like he's being seduced by it all: the Saturday night away from his responsibilities, the feeling of youth that had been dying from "the outside in," the comforting feeling of having his hair ruffled, of being borne away from death. He can soar flee, with his violence as a bloody bird. Prick of a pin is a bit confusing. If he's being a literary anachronist, he might be referencing his penis (see every Shakespeare play ever), or he might just reference poking a hole in something and deflating it. Anyway. In the last few lines we're given Lewis' mindset on humanity, which helps us doubt the sincerity of his journey away from it all. All human desire and dignity is worth only a bit of sustinance and a bit of energy (a spark!). I'd imagine "unwatered souls" means unwatered like plants: dry husks of men (I say men because he is only focusing on the masculine aspect. make all sorts of crazy conjectures about Owen's relationship to his sexuality). For an empty person, it just takes a bit to get them moving and they'll follow you like dogs. He himself is subject to this: violence is the carrot, and he is being led by Owen back to a life of fake youth. The entire album is about Owen's vision, and Lewis' vision, falling apart. But this is the start, the first order cast in the conspiratorial brilliance of a late night: hence, "Midnight Directives" He's a child of video game and early internet culture JUST ENOUGH that I could see him doing this. He throws in a lot of Zelda references too. |
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Post by yesanastasia on Dec 3, 2009 20:07:01 GMT -5
While we're on the topic of interpretation - is it any one else's understanding that No Face is a cockatrice? Or is this old news?
My partner asked me about it a couple of weeks ago, because it's fatal to look at a cockatrice's face (hence No Face).
I had always thought Cockatrice was a character...but it's never capitalized in lyrics, and also really makes sense in the context of Lewis Takes Action ("the stoney hiss of cockatrice has cast us into serfdom")
Am I just slow on the uptake over here?
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Post by Ren on Dec 3, 2009 23:29:58 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it is Owen. He references that very quote in the lyrics to "The Butcher" too.
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Post by Scarychips on Dec 4, 2009 0:05:52 GMT -5
guys, GUYS! I HAVE MY TICKETS!!! I AM SO EXCITED!!
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Post by nocturn on Dec 4, 2009 2:30:37 GMT -5
While we're on the topic of interpretation - is it any one else's understanding that No Face is a cockatrice? Or is this old news? My partner asked me about it a couple of weeks ago, because it's fatal to look at a cockatrice's face (hence No Face). I had always thought Cockatrice was a character...but it's never capitalized in lyrics, and also really makes sense in the context of Lewis Takes Action ("the stoney hiss of cockatrice has cast us into serfdom") Am I just slow on the uptake over here? I always pictured No Face as this little cutie... but as I know he doesn't have a beak, and cockatrices do, I guess this was always just wishful thinking on my part  In a live version of LTA I have from August 2008, the second "I took No-Face..." is a different lyric, and it's always really bugged me. I've never been able to tell what he says, and then he went and changed the lyrics. |
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Post by Richie on Dec 4, 2009 2:41:17 GMT -5
haha Spirited Away is such a great movie, but that little cutie gets so scary!! guys, GUYS! I HAVE MY TICKETS!!! I AM SO EXCITED!! hoh, wow. at first read I thought you meant you got your "golden ticket".. oh boy, I got so happy for you and so pissed at the same time... |
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Post by Thomas on Dec 4, 2009 2:58:41 GMT -5
I took no-face by his beak, and broke his jaw. he'll never sing again. Maybe No-face is the name of the cockatrice?
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Post by yesanastasia on Dec 5, 2009 11:53:05 GMT -5
That's what I'm thinking, too. I wonder if any other characters are non-human?
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