What Are You Listening To Right Now? II

**Frownland** · 09-08-2016, 03:50 PM

Raust · 09-08-2016, 06:08 PM

**Frownland** · 09-08-2016, 11:05 PM

This is amazing.

The poem is by Andrei Tarkovsky's father, Arseny Tarkovsky.

Quote:

I don't believe in omens or fear
Forebodings. I flee from neither slander
Nor from poison. Death does not exist.
Everyone's immortal. Everything is too.
No point in fearing death at seventeen,
Or seventy. There's only here and now, and light;
Neither death, nor darkness, exists.
We're all already on the seashore;
I'm one of those who'll be hauling in the nets
When a shoal of immortality swims by.

If you live in a house - the house will not fall.
I'll summon any of the centuries,
Then enter one and build a house in it.
That's why your children and your wives
Sit with me at one table, -
The same for ancestor and grandson:
The future is being accomplished now,
If I raise my hand a little,
All five beams of light will stay with you.
Each day I used my collar bones
For shoring up the past, as though with timber,
I measured time with geodetic chains
And marched across it, as though it were the Urals.

I tailored the age to fit me.
We walked to the south, raising dust above the steppe;
The tall weeds fumed; the grasshopper danced,
Touching its antenna to the horse-shoes - and it prophesied,
Threatening me with destruction, like a monk.
I strapped my fate to the saddle;
And even now, in these coming times,
I stand up in the stirrups like a child.

I'm satisfied with deathlessness,
For my blood to flow from age to age.
Yet for a corner whose warmth I could rely on
I'd willingly have given all my life,
Whenever her flying needle
Tugged me, like a thread, around the globe.

madanmpaton · 09-09-2016, 05:54 AM

K's choice last album the phantom cowboy. It's playing now, the song "private revolution" is pretty cool !

Terrapin_Station · 09-09-2016, 06:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pansy gayboy 69

omg i almost forgot how much i loved this song

haven't listened to yes in a long, long time.

Cool--glad to see more Yes love.

Listening to one of my top picks for the "severely underrated/now almost completely ignored artists with large discographies" category this morning:

JGuy Grungeman · 09-09-2016, 09:32 AM

That poem was awesome.

Listening to Power Corruption and Lies for the synth pop round. I finally have the motivation to get around to that album, and so far, I'm impressed.

Terrapin_Station · 09-09-2016, 03:46 PM

Blue Hawk · 09-10-2016, 06:03 AM

Blank. · 09-10-2016, 07:25 AM

Forgot how much I loved this bands first album.

Bufo Alvarius · 09-10-2016, 07:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JGuy Grungeman

That poem was awesome.

+1.
Tarkovski's father was definitely an excellent poet. Thank you for sharing that piece of beauty, Frownland.

Phil Krauth – Complex ways and Revolving Door (1998).

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