There's only a few words in this song but somehow it caught in my throat on the way to work today. There's nothing explicit here, perhaps nothing even intended but for some reason I couldn't get the above two images out of my head. I've been on a bit of a Max Ernst kick for awhile now - using his artwork to decorate study booklets for the students etc and the other picture I saw on a blog I can't remember recently and saved it for no particular reason (or rather, for this reason). As the synth squiggles and sheets rolled over and over and that uniquely Kraftwerk voice insisted, the images rolled with them so as soon as I shook one from my head the other came in. It was a very unsettling moment, uncanny in the psychotherapeutic sense - unheimlich, familiar yet oddly attenuated or repressed so that the meaning can only be glimpsed out of the corner of your minds eye...
I know how this sounds, even I had to check if I'd started self-medicating again (or maybe just turned into a pretentious arse - yeah, alright) and you can listen to this yourself and probably see that I've entirely missed the mark here but this song sent me into an frame of mind that appeared simultaneously as a randomised brain glitch and an oddly precise insight.
I think there's a terrible war coming right for us.
A Yousendit Unheimlichathon
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"I think there's a terrible war coming right for us"
You know there is.... Rose is gonna die and everything.....
Is little Loki ready?
No.
love, love, love the dark is rising books...although they got a little bit merlin-biased in the last one...
X...i didn't notice as a kid but you may be right... the books gave me the creeps in a way few others did back then... it was like evil was everywhere, hidden in plain sight, available to see if only you stopped looking...
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