#empty country

[cynthiaruth95]

10 albums I've discovered over the last year (and love)

1. The Best of Chet Baker Sings, Chet Baker. (1989/1950s). I didn't know what a "smooth voice" truly sounded like until I heard this.

2. Last of the Better Days Ahead, Charlie Parr (2021). Could listen to this man sing all day. He makes great little insta clips of him playing guitar too. Kind've wanna be him.

3. The Great Dismal, Nothing (2020). Just an excellent album. If you wanna go out for a walk to be a bit pensive and a bit angsty it really does the job.

4. Derdang Derdang, Archie Bronson Outfit (2006). This is fun and I love it. It’ll either be very much your vibe…or very much not your vibe.

5. Chrome, Catherine Wheel (1993). I am late to this party but so happy to be here.

6. George Thorogood & The Destroyers, George Thorogood (1977). An easy blues rock listen. Just gives me everything I want and let’s me go head empty.

7. Empty Country II, Empty Country (2023). Joseph's songwriting is simply stunning. A rich short story in every song.

8. Getting Ready, Freddie King (1971). Been getting into Blues more this year. Freddie is one of the greats.

9. Springtime and Blind, Fiddlehead (2018). Fell in love with this album as a whole. Fiddlehead has my heart.

10. Rocks the House (Live), Etta James (1963). Don't think there needs to be an explanation here, just out of this world.

MVP: Boulez conducts Webern II, Piere Boulez (etc) (1995). I set a goal for myself to find some classical music that made me feel a little extra something. I’ve always found it beautiful but it all sounded the same amount of beautiful to me. I wanted to delve in some more. Anyway I found Webern. It sounds like its soundtracking a movie… but there's no movie. So it brings a nostalgia, a beauty, a drama, a…creepiness often. Maybe all classical sounds like that to some people but not to me.

[emmanuelscastle]

Early 80s New York City Biblically filthy I was a child but still no door was closed to me Those men were my protectors and my family And the most beautiful creatures I have ever seen "Honey, let us color it so you don't look like a little old lady" Instead I rocked Herman Survivors and shaved my head clean I think It was Charlie who started calling me Bootsie Brown liquor, downers, and powders clouded out the bad dreams But not before I saw some shit I wish I didn't see

[tuuneoftheday]

Empty Country - David

[wintertrash]

I say awful things

‘Cause it makes you smile

With the empty glint

Of a diamond mine

“Life is mostly shit

You make it seem alright sometimes”

[rcmndedlisten]

Empty Country - “Pearl”

With his project Empty Country, former Cymbals Eat Guitars frontman and guitarist Joe D’Agostino has been stretching the borders of Americana into indie rock fields of dreams and streams psychedelic. The stories bleed out from the heartland in a much stranger form of non-fiction as well, and on “Pearl” -- the band’s new single and the creative sibling to “Marian”, the opener of their 2020 self-titled debut -- we encounter such a character in D’Agostino’s own lore in the form of his mother in specter. As with most of the Connecticut-based musician’s intimate epics, it unfolds through a captivating, dark lyrical montage toiled up in prophecy, hallucinations, and the sounds of classic alternative rock transmitting their way through Empty Country’s borealis, arriving at a place of new level of consciousness. “Any day / We’ll escape from our heads / From the chain of consequences / And recall everything forgotten,” D’Agostino sings, with time’s passage being a gateway to a version of the self we've not yet met, but know already lives within.

Empty Country’s “Pearl” single is available now on Get Better Records.

[chaoticdesertdweller]

📸 Kevin Byrne

[thesoftestcowboy]

ok we did quizzes for US states and european countries, i think its time we go for some other continents! Tell me your score for Asia (also the poll for Africa is here)

[ifindus]

norway what was the bloodiest and most brutal battle you've ever been part of?

The battle of Lund in 1676.

The bloodiest battle Norway has been a part of is the Battle of Lund in 1676, fought between Denmark-Norway and the Netherlands against Sweden, where Sweden won. The Danish King had 12 300 soldiers to command and the Swedish King had only had 8 000. Both sides ended up loosing about 50% of their army. It is said to be the bloodiest battle ever fought in Scandinavia, and it was a coincidence that the Swedes won just due to the chaotic nature of the battle.

The battle was a result of Danish forces invading the southern part of today’s Sweden, an area that had previously belonged to Denmark. The Swedes were led by a reckless and young king who had already put them through harsh conditions and bad camp locations that had cause a great percentage of the soldiers to die from illness already before the battle had begun. The Danes had followed the Swedish army and were in much better position, both location-wise and with a steady supply line.

The Danes became impatient and gave up good placement to attack the Swedes as they neared the city of Lund just outside Malmö. As mentioned, the battle was disorienting and chaotic, with a lot of breaks in formation, a missing Swedish King who came back after several hours to break through Danish lines who had his forces surrounded. Not to mention over-eager Swedes absolutely slaughtering sailors who wanted to surrender, with the words “Sailors have paid to fight at sea, but not at land. You therefore deserve no mercy!”. The massacre was stopped by a Swedish officer.

[fungoideale]

[unadulteratedcoffeetimemachine]

I showed my heart to the doctor and he said I'd just have to quit. Then he wrote himself a prescription and your name was mentioned in it

One of us cannot be wrong - Gregory Alan Isakov

[emmanuelscastle]

A flat affect But I really care I see some far-out shit that isn’t there

[yellowraincoat]

One of the most insidious things in Lockwood and co is that the Orpheus society discovered that

1) covering yourself in a fine mesh of silver basically makes you impervious to ghost-touch, which, while it would’ve been extremely costly per agent, could’ve saved inumerable agent’s lives if incorporated into uniforms

2) there are ways for adults to see ghosts, meaning that adults wouldn’t have had to rely on child labor to fight the problem on the front lines anymore if their products were introduced to the public— again saving the lives of inumerable child agents.

The mass loss of life and trauma being experienced by those between the ages of 8-22 was wholly unnecessary and the rich and powerful knew that but sat back and profited off of it for years anyway.

The lockwood and co gang will be part of a lost generation/period of economic and social upheaval when they grow up.

Even after they’ve fixed the Problem, the problem is not fixed

[nightfal1n]

"I miss you"

"I miss both of you"

+ Timelapse

[cookkoo]

Drawtober 2023 day 31: Fire

He somehow always knows the spot to show her the wonder of nature, broadening her horizon

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