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[Teknopathetic]

yes this is the campaign
slithered entrails
in the cargo bay
neutered is the vastness
hallow vacuum check the
oxygen tanks
they hibernate
but have they kissed the ground
pucker up and kiss the asphalt now
tease this amputation
splintered larynx
it has access now

send transmission from
the one armed scissor
cut away, cut away

banked on memory
mummified circuitry
skin graft machinery
sputnik sickles found in the seats

self-destruct sequence
this station is non-operational
species growing
bubbles in an IV loitering

unknown origin
is this the comfort of being afraid
solar eclipsed
black out the vultures
as they wait

dissect a trillion sighs away
will you get this letter
jagged pulp sliced in my veins
i write to remember
'cause i'm a million miles away
will you get this letter
jagged pulp sliced in my veins
i write to remember...



It sounds like it's deep! But I dunno! At least I can somewhat guess at the meaning for most of the songs on Deloused because of the concept of the album, ATDI *waves hand over head*.

 

[enjoy bell woods]

Don't bother.

 

[Substance]

Oh dear :lol

 

[Flynn]

In a story about Pavement back in 1997, Alex Ross (the music critic, not the comic book artist) had some interesting things to say about the "nonsense" of rock music.

Read it here.

 

[Litigation Manuel]

*Waves hand back* "Hi!"

 

[Eminem]

Don't bother.

...

LEAF BLOWN AUTOMATONS WAIL INCESSANT PRAISES TO THE BLOTCHY ARIEPA OF A NEWLY WROUGHT DEVICE SOUGHT BY THE ECLIPSED FOUNTAIN OF A NIGHTENGALE'S FISTULAR LOBOTOMY, SCISSOR CLIPPED, LECHEROUS ORGY IN TOW. A GLITTER TORN NIGHT MUTATED INTO ISCARIOT'S PUBIC HAIR, A GLISTENING RAINBOW SHRIEKS HIS NAME. A RACKA A RACKA CHUCHCUAHAH CHUAHAHAAUAH

hehe mendel levy's sutured baseball cap, a knocked up ventriloquist's matriculated an array of hodgepodge, levered contraptions on the cellar bay. rocket crypt in the amnesiac crystal, chrysanthemum, relic of the demagogue's bristling, myopic nebula

PALSIED NUANCE OF A DAUGHTER'S ILL CONCEIVED ABORTION, LIGHTNING STRIKES ONCE, BUT KILLS A THOUSAND. MAKAMUKRESTA!!!!!!! RAAAAAAAFAAAAASKA MOCHESKI!!!!!!!!!


</semi-inside joke>

 

[Teknopathetic]

Eminem: heh, I read the thread you posted that in and, despite the fucked up seemingly random lyrics, at least Cedric is a better vocalist than that guy from Coheed and Cambria. I mean his voice is unnecessarily high pitched.

 

[Eminem]

oh no no no. i did not write those brilliant lyrics. someone will come soon to take the credit =p

and don't get me wrong....i love ATDI and TMV. I've seen TMV live twice(ATDI is better all around though =p). Cedric's lyrics are just....funny, I guess. I mean...yeah, funny is the best word I can think of.
Hourglass by ATDI remains my favorite song of his. GREAT song.

 

[Boomer]

So if you can't understand the lyrics, how can you enjoy them?

 

[Teknopathetic]

Delivery?

 

[Boomer]

Yeah it sounds good, but how hard can it be to have lyrics to make sense? How some people can trash Britney Spears' lyrics and not this garble is beyond me.

 

[Eminem]

So if you can't understand the lyrics, how can you enjoy them?

you really would be surprised. they just sound good. the delivery helps a ton, as already mentioned. but you can still sense the energy/emotion, regardless if you know you understand them.

:lol the thing is, the lyrics don't really make that much sense.

sucks me in, taking a ride
and i'm wishing for the satellite
grabbing vein pulling down on the radio
laughing at the face that's bending down

i'm all alone so far up here
and my oxygen's all gone

bend the metal
my glory box has failed
we're rocking in our reclining chairs
drive away that car
that brought us all this harm
those are the pieces of my story line

i'm all alone so far up here
and my oxygen's all gone

truly stressing realization
i wish i was an astronaut
eight hour bitterness all for whose sake
stain glass sunday school charades


that's about as clear-cut as they come.

 

[enjoy bell woods]

There's one song on, uh, El Gran Orgo? that has really emo-ish lyrics. I can't remember the name of the song, though.

EDIT: "Give it a Name"

never thought this day would end
walked the tired steps of latter day friends
and all because
your stubborness was
smiling through your braces
never thought
this day would come
you threw the bricks
that built this wall
amantillado! at the top of your lungs
i can't hear you anymore

so take your diamond bland shaped tears
and maybe i'll see you in twenty years
and i will always wear your ring
you know the one
that turned my finger green

it's not you, it's me
you don't know what
you've got 'til it's gone
silver platter opportunity
never taught what you thought you know

meal tickets have been refused
you gave me a reason
to sing our last song

I don't know about the "amantillado!" part, though. And I figured you'd be here, Eminem!

 

[Flynn]

There's one song on, uh, El Gran Orgo? that has really emo-ish lyrics. I can't remember the name of the song, though.

EDIT: "Give it a Name"



I don't know about the "amantillado!" part, though. And I figured you'd be here, Eminem!

The Casque of Amantillado is a Poe story. Amantillado is a kind of wine. Along that line of thought, the wall building probably refers to The Black Cat.

 

[Jonnyram]

:lol the thing is, the lyrics don't really make that much sense.

They make some sense if you have an idea or concept of the context they are in. A lot of it is left up to the listener's imagination, but TMV probably had a good concept of their own to start with. I can't wait to see the booklet that comes with Frances the Mute. There are some really interesting lyrics on that.

 

[Dead]

ITS ABSTRACT

 

[White Man]

The Casque of Amantillado is a Poe story. Amantillado is a kind of wine. Along that line of thought, the wall building probably refers to The Black Cat.

The Amantillado story is the one where a dude seals up his rival in a wall in his wine basement, luring him by saying he has the rare Amantillado wine. Probably one of Poe's 5 or so good stories.

 

[Flynn]

The Amantillado story is the one where a dude seals up his rival in a wall in his wine basement, luring him by saying he has the rare Amantillado wine. Probably one of Poe's 5 or so good stories.

He doesn't seal him up -- that's The Black Cat. In Amantialldo he lures his drunk "friend" into the labyrinth of his family's catacombs and leaves him there to die.

 

[Iceman]

"As I said these words I busied myself among the pile of bones of which I have before spoken. Throwing them aside, I soon uncovered a quantity of building stone and mortar. With these materials and with the aid of my trowel, I began vigorously to wall up the entrance of the niche. "

from cask of amontillado


Note: OMG, this story was written with less than 2500 words!?!?

I'm attempting to enter two short stories for a local contest here in Madison by the end of next week and I am having a heck of a time keeping them to less than 2500. I'm in awe.

 

[Joe]

i could care less about the lyrics when the song as a whole is THAT FUCKING GOOD and KICKS THAT MUCH ASS.

atdi was sick.

 

[White Man]

Wow. The Black Cat is like a poorly told mish-mash of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, and one of my more ill-lucked personal anecdotes. Copious poor constructions, as well. Points for animal abuse, though.

 

[Flynn]

"As I said these words I busied myself among the pile of bones of which I have before spoken. Throwing them aside, I soon uncovered a quantity of building stone and mortar. With these materials and with the aid of my trowel, I began vigorously to wall up the entrance of the niche. "

from cask of amontillado


Note: OMG, this story was written with less than 2500 words!?!?

I'm attempting to enter two short stories for a local contest here in Madison by the end of next week and I am having a heck of a time keeping them to less than 2500. I'm in awe.

Dang. I'd forgotten about that last bit. My error.

I recall many years ago that there's a bit of framing from the narrator of the story that makes it The Cask of Amontillado notable. If I remember right, Poe made specific choice to have the story told from a later vantage point, and from the murderer's point of view as if he were recalling the past -- I can't remember the significance if this choice at the moment, though.