#secret machines

[foxingpeculiar]

It’s time again. Shuffle big playlist, 20 songs, favorite lyric from each.

1. “Don’t wanna let the dark night cover my soul.” - The War on Drugs, “Red Eyes”

2. “Can’t have the cream when the crop and the cream are the same.” -Andrew Bird, “Measuring Cups”

3. “Idle kids with idle hearts; some of them went too far and some are still waiting there.” -Secret Machines, “Alone, Jealous & Stoned”

4. “And I’ll stop writing songs, stop scratching out lines. I won’t have to think and it won’t have to rhyme.” -Low, “When I Go Deaf”

5. “Although she may be cute, she’s just a substitute, cos you’re the permanent one.” -Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, “The Tracks of My Tears”

6. “Monuments put from pen to paper turns me into a gutless wonder.” -Manic Street Preachers, “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next”

7. “I used to act like I was in a movie: so mysterious and misunderstood.” -Dr Dog, “Shame, Shame”

8. “So we carry every sadness with us, every hour our hearts were broken, every night the fear and darkness lay down with us.” -Hem, “Half Acre”

9. “We were winding up the road to the site with the windows down and the cigarettes alight, singing some rubbish about ‘my soul’s alright.’ I didn’t know what I could do.” -Augie March, “Just Passing Through”

10. “Where were you when I was in so much trouble with myself? And do you still believe in me like I believe?” -Descendents, “Good Good Things”

11. “Buy me a flute and a gun that shoots.” -The Byrds, “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”

12. “I was lying in a burned out basement with the full moon in my eyes.” -Neil Young, “After the Gold Rush”

13. “I keep the hurt I’d rather feel and watch the shadow from my knees.” -DYAN, “Absence”

14. “Soft as a pillow, touch her there where she won’t dare. Somewhere.” -My Bloody Valentine, “Only Shallow”

15. “Just hold my hand while I come to a decision on it.” -The English Beat, “Save It for Later”

16. “She says ‘America’s a spoiled child that’s ignorant of grief,’ but then she gives out full size candy bars on Halloween.” -Wednesday, “Quarry”

17. “She holds the hand that holds her down. She will rise above.” -Pearl Jam, “Daughter”

18. “Loving you is easy, watching you is nice, but everything I seem to do is wrong.” -Nick Garrie, “Can I Stay With You”

19. “I don’t know what it is that makes me run, that makes me want to shatter everything I’ve done.” -First Aid Kit, “Rebel Heart”

20. “Tuesday afternoons are the hardest, when time seems to stand still. They’ve piled up quite a few of them now, 20 years of not quite 3 o’clocks, but time moves fast as it ever did and you can’t just slow it down.” -Charlie Parr, “Over the Red Cedar”

[thischarmingamy]

Concert Highlights of 2022

Concert Highlights of 2022

Is it too late to still be looking back on 2022 on January 12? I rung in the new year with my second case of Shingles, so I’m going to just go ahead with this listing of my favorite concerts of 2022! Metric at Boston’s House of Blues/Photo by Amy Lordan 5. Metric and Secret Machines at the House of Blues in Boston on October 25. I know my ears and soul were deprived most egregiously during…

[slightlyartist]

Tate deserves to punch Ford so I drew it, felt really therapeutic <3

[rastronomicals]

Secret Machines

[auntbananas420]

Benjamin Curtis, of Secret Machines, Tripping Daisy, UFOFU and More, Has Died-- published on Dallas Observer

[lorenzonuti]

Whispering secret data.

[musicmags]

[bandcampsnoop]

3/29/23.

I certainly didn't set out today wanting to highlight a band that reminded me of yesterday's post of Secret Machines. But that's exactly what happened. I was at Phono Select (Sacramento) to drop off a couple of copies of Buick "Sweatertongue" and found a Birds of Avalon CD.

When I got home I noticed that I owned "Operator's Midnight". What a great release. It was recorded and mixed in part by Mitch Easter. And it really recalls the work of Secret Machines, The Flaming Lips, and more recent Parquet Courts. In spots it has the groove of Still Flyin'.

Birds of Avalon (Raleigh, North Carolina) rose out of the ashes of The Cherry Valence. "Operator's Midnight" was released on Third Uncle Records.

[myrathefarmer]

‘And is born again with each sunrise’ ❤️💛💚

Happy new Life Series everyone! This is a continuation of my Life Series Cleo comic ⬇️

[foxingpeculiar]

Okay, I’m gonna do that thing again where I pick my favorite lyric from the first 10 shuffle of my big general playlist. I don’t do tag games, really, but if you wanna do it, consider yourself tagged.

1. “I made a pilgrimage to save this human race / never comprehending the race had long gone by.” -Modern English, “I Melt With You”

2. “Does anyone know where the love of God goes / when the waves turn the minutes to hours?” -Gordon Lightfoot, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”

3. “I’ve never been too good with names, but I remember faces.” -Lemonheads, “It’s a Shame About Ray”

4. “Especially people who care about strangers / who care about evil and social injustice / do you only care about the bleeding crowd?” -Three Dog Night, “Easy to be Hard”

5. “E skeud teñval an tourioù glav / C'hwi am gwelo 'c'hortoz atav” (“In the dark shadow of rain towers / you will see me waiting forever”) -Denez Prigent & Lisa Gerrard, “Gortoz a Ran”

6. “Idle kids with idle hearts / some of them went too far / some are still waiting there.” -Secret Machines, “Alone, Jealous and Stoned”

7. “Most of all, I just don’t… I just don’t wanna be free, no.” -Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa, “I’d Rather Go Blind”

8. (This was Tub Ring’s cover of “Prisencolinensinainciusol,” which does not have lyrics, exactly, but I still feel bears inclusion. So let’s just say all of it.)

9. “I feel an animal deep inside / heel to haunch on bended knees.” -Sisters of Mercy, “This Corrosion”

10. “Gettin’ baptized in holy water and ‘shine / with the dogs runnin’” -Blake Shelton, “God’s Country”

[sarcasticassian]

Steve pulled out all the stops for Eddie's birthday when he worked with Erica to create a oneshot D&D campaign and managed to get everyone to join in (some blackmail was involved) and Robin secretly worries about Steve being disappointed or upset if Eddie doesn't do something similar for his birthday, everyone knows Steve's and Eddie's hobbies don't really align

so colour her shocked when she's yanked out of bed by Eddie bright and early on Steve's birthday and is forced into the closest thing she owns to gym clothes and is marched down to a basketball court that Eddie has rented for the whole day

she watches in amazement as Eddie divides them all into teams, letting Steve pick whoever he wants (naturally he picks Robin first even if she'll be no help) and they split into two teams of six, with Eddie somehow wrangling the position of referee even though he only knows the basics of how basketball works, and the kids don't even fuss that much, there's barely a complainant about how they're about to have to play sports all day, they all seem to be begrudgingly going along with it, apart from Lucas and El who are practically bouncing with excitement

Steve is clearly having the best time, running up and down the court and yelling and cheering, a little red in the face because he hasn't done this for a while but constantly yanking his teammates and even those on the other team into excited hugs and handing out back slaps and high fives like a little puppy, he even tries to chest bump with Robin who gives it a go then immediately regrets it and Steve throws himself at Eddie once the game is over

Robin asks later and Eddie tells her that Lucas was kind enough to sit down and explain the game and the rules because Eddie had been trying to make it up to him over not cancelling Hellfire because of his basketball game and being a dick about it and he'd been going to games with Steve and seen how much Steve enjoyed it and yeah Eddie hates organised sports but a game between the Party and the Older Party is hardly organised so as soon as Steve pulled out a whole D&D campaign for him he knew he had to get on Steve's level for his birthday

Robin gives Eddie permission to marry Steve that day

[kaynineacademy]

every. page. that. i. wrote. you. were. on. it.

[signanothername]

🎵you made me in your image, so I lack a soul🎵

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

and when the machine herald stands over jayce like this in act 3, what then