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QUOTE (subdivision40 @ Jun 6 2006, 04:28 PM) Time for a new one!
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i114/rushimages/vaportrails-23.jpg
I love his smile!
That smile just makes me melt all over.... ::happy sigh::
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QUOTE (*Limelight* @ Jun 20 2006, 11:01 AM) Alex's guitar was way to loud. Nah, Alex's guitar can NEVER be too loud!
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Wow, Cask, I don't think we'd ever manage to have a listening party together!
QUOTE 8) Red Tide-OMG Neil, enough with the cheesy "red" metaphors. Its not 8th grade literature class. Ok, I agree that there are too many "red" songs - that's just kinda weird - but I don't dislike any of them for that reason (though I abhore "Red Lenses" just because it sucks).
Red Tide, though, is one of my favourites - it's so moody and has a great feel to it.
QUOTE 9) Hand Over Fist-Neil's getting even more lame with the lyrics and his own self-feeling of "cleverness" while reciting trite cliche'd expressions and thinking he's being profound by offering cheesy plays on words. This one I love because it's one of those songs that reminds me of things I sometimes tend to forget - like that it can be good to be more open to people. Online, I'm very friendly and open, but in person, I'm horrifyingly shy. Get me in a room full of people and I'll do whatever I can to "disappear". The lines "I feel my sprit resist, but I open up my fist and lay hand over hand..." is something that just rings so VERY true to me - and reminds me that when I DO let myself relax and make the effort to be able to connect with someone, it's actually a good thing.
QUOTE 10) Available Light-This lightbulb burned out in the first 10 seconds. Reverb anyone? Another one I love for it's moodiness. I don't know if I've ever really listened to the lyrics on this one - I usually just let myself sink into the feeling of the music and go with it
QUOTE 11) Bravado-Why they continue to bore us to death with this crap song is beyond me. The main part of the song is a bit ... i dunno ... conventional, but for me, on the live versions, the soaring guitar solo at the end is WELL worth sitting through the rest of it!
QUOTE 21) Double Agent-Amazingly, even worse than most of the above. I love this one just because it's so weirly quirky - and again, some of the lyrics just hit me in a certain way
QUOTE 24) Half the World-Yuk. Don't tell me you can listen to this all the way through. Lyrically, not the best, but another one where the overall musciality of the song wins me over. I just like the way it sounds
QUOTE 26) Time and Motion-A return of the "old" Rush? Um, I think not I'm not sure quite why I like this one so much, but I do. It's one of my faves off T4E
As to what I HATE? Dog Years, Carve Away the Stone and, most of all....
RIVENDELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dog Years, the lyrics are inane and the music just isn't enough to cover it up, Carve Away the Stone just sounds, i dunno, goofy, and Rivendell lost it for me the first time I heard it when I found myself listening to the words and expecting the verse to go "lying in the warm grass, feel the sunlight on my ass" because, lets face it, who's going to think "face" rhymes with "grass"? My brain expected a rhyming body part for the sunlight to be on, and ass was it.... I've never been able to listen to that song without cracking up there.
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The 2112 cover was the one that first got me, but, damn, I'll take him anyway I can get him!
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I do have to give him his props. The last few days, I've been having some EXCRUCIATING pain in my leg (I've only been able to sleep for about 7 hours in the last 2 days and that has to be sitting up since I can't put my leg on any kind of a surface), and he has been waiting on me hand and foot, doing EVERYTHING he can to try and help me be more comfortable. He may be a royal airhead, but his heart is certainly in the right place.
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Thank you, Sundog!!
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Tonight's "Really! He HAS a brain! I swear!" update:
He was going to make a hot fudge sundae by heating up the hot fudge in the microwave AFTER putting it on the ice cream....
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My husband...
* Thought you could make a 2-quart package of Kool-Aid using 1 quart of water and leaving the sugar out.
* Was admiring a friend's LA Gear shoes and thought they were cool because they were imported. (Another friend looked at him and said, very dryly "Yeah, we're thinking of making California a state any day now...")
* Got upset when I asked him to reseed the lawn because he didn't want to have to dig that many holes
* Spent about 3 hours one night trying to figure out what was wrong with his computer, then excitedly announced he'd narrowed it down to being either a software or a hardware problem.
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Just thought I'd add a bit of something to brighten our day!
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QUOTE (ES355 dot @ Jun 7 2005, 11:39 AM) This one was my inspiration for a matching perm 
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b213/easy9742/Rush/Alex_3.jpgWhat's scary is that's how most perms end up looking on me when I'm not even TRYING to copy his hair... and for some reason, the last few years, I don't even need to get a perm anymore to make it look like that - up near the crown its all straight, but the rest has a lot of loose curl to it (and it's not just left over perm since it's been about 10 years since I HAD a perm, and have had many cuts since then... )
Oh my... might it be that my hair knows about my obsession and is just trying to be helpful?
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Ok, my 3rd favourite guy in the world (behind hubby and Alex
) Jonathan Rhys-Meyers http://www.shadowedsouls.com/images/homme7.jpg
http://www.shadowedsouls.com/images/homme8.jpg
http://www.shadowedsouls.com/images/homme9.jpg
http://www.shadowedsouls.com/images/horse.jpg
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static on your frequency
electrical storm in your veins
raging at unreachable glory
straining at invisible chains
and now you're trembling on a rocky ledge
staring down into a heartless sea
can't face life on a razor's edge
nothing's what you thought it would be
All of us get lost in the darkness
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars
All of us do time in the gutter
Dreamers turn to look at the cars
turn around and turn around and turn around
Turn around and walk the razor's edge
Don't turn your back
And slam the door on me
it's not as if this barricade
blocks the only road
it's not as if you're all alone
in wanting to explode
someone set a bad example
made surrender seem all right
the act of a noble warrior
who lost the will to fight
and now you're trembling on a rocky ledge
staring down into a heartless sea
done with life on a razor's edge
nothing's what you thought it would be
no hero in your tragedy
no daring in your escape
no salutes for your surrender
nothing noble in your fate
Christ, what have you done?
(I leave out the first verse because I've been out of school for too long, but the rest applies). I first really listened to this song while I was in the hospital after a suicide attempt. I think it hit me harder than all the therapy they gave me while I was there - and while it's no "magic pill" by any stretch of the imagination, when I'm getting down that low, I can listen to it and it helps me remember that there ARE other options, if I'm willing to turn around and work my way back to them, sort of like a tap on the shoulder bringing you out of a daze. Once when I was feeling really low, I actually wrote a poem in "response" to the song. Thankfully I don't feel that way very often:
Some days the pass is far too wide, the razor's edge too keen
To turn around and face the fear of future fates unseen
No more running, no more flight, the battle will begin
Against a monster deep inside, the enemy within
A weapon made of fear and rage to batter at the soul
The fear of hope, a rage at fate begin to take control
Then darker, darker spiral down, the way out is so far
Even for the dreamer who has learned to steer by stars
Other favourite Rush quotes:
"Ignorance and prejudice and fear go hand in hand" - Witch Hunt
"There is no love without pain" - Secret Touch
"See how it sings like a sad heart, then joyously screams out its pain... sounds that build high like a mountain or notes that fall, gently, like rain" - 2112 "Discovery"
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QUOTE (still have made a choice @ Jun 24 2005, 01:27 PM) Do u think "and the meek shall inherit the earth" is directly fromt he bible, or do u think neil just made it up? I don't think most translations of the Bible use the "...and" before "the meek shall inherit the earth" - it's usually "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth". However, Neil was FAR from the first to use the "and the meek shall inherit the earth" phrasing. We were discussing this on another board and I did a bit of searching and found it in books, speeches and other such sources going back as far as the early 1900's before I finally gave up looking
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Oh, happy way to end the day!
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I was trying to learn to like Rush because the guy I was all hung up on at 15 spoke only in Rush lyrics and Tolkein quotes... couldn't get past Geddy's voice, so he played YYZ for me - and that just changed everything - the guitar work just totally blew me away. THEN he played La Villa. I haven't looked back since. I was so impressed I started learning to play guitar, and the first time I saw a picture of the man behind that music, it was complete love at first sight! Even changed my taste in men - before that point, most guys I found attractive were very clean-cut, neat, "manly"-looking men - and anything, even a hint of nail polish on a pinkie finger, was enough to turn me off (seriously - one guy I'd had a crush on for a while showed up in a pick with his pinkie painted and it just turned me off entirely) - - but the first time I saw Alex, which was on the cover of 2112, it was just a complete YOWZA! moment, and since then, most guys I like have had long hair, delicate features and - frighteningly - look good in makeup. But even though Alex doesn't look much like that anymore, he's one of those that will always own a piece of my heart!
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QUOTE (sullysue @ Jun 19 2005, 10:11 PM) WHY ARE YOU YELLING?
And get a dictionary
And for your information, I appreciate Alex for his musicanship. I just happen to think he is very attractive.Hell, his musicianship is part of what makes him so attractive! His music is so full of passion and fire, and that has to come from within him, and it's oh SO very sexy! Throw in those beautiful eyes and that amazing smile, and what's not to love, eh?
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(Looking up a couple posts at the beautiful BIG pic with Alex wonderous grin... oh, and those other two mooks, too)
I swear, I think I love that guitar almost as much as I love that man
Why can't I just buy them both and bring them home? I'd take GREAT care of them!! Hey, Soddy - if you're hanging out here, when are you gonna get the AlexClones in production!
(BTW: Hi all! Haven't been around in a while, but thought I'd drop back in... had to start in the best thread of all, eh?)
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I love that shot!!!
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QUOTE (Alsgalpal @ Oct 1 2004, 01:20 PM) Did you all catch Alex on the movie that Launchpad made????
Ok we need a droolie icon....But I think this will doo....
Now, I need this...
Um, NO! Is there a link, any other information? I wanna see this!!!!!!
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:applause:
Well done, madra!
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Thanks guys!
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Here are a couple I've written that aren't so much ABOUT the boys as inspired by them or thier music in some way:
UNTITLED
Some days the pass is far to wide, the razor's edge too keen
To turn around and face the fear of future fates unseen
No more running, no more flight, the battle will begin
Against a monster deep inside, the enemy within
A weapon made of fear and rage to batter at the soul
The fear of hope, a rage at fate begin to take control
Then darker, darker spiral down, the way out is so far
Even for the dreamer who has learned to steer by stars
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UNDONE
Fingers ache to touch the fire
A heart is pierced by frozen spire
echoes sound - a haunted choir
A soul cut off from it's desire
Muted, trapped, and beaten down
No way out has yet been found
Only distance all around
To this rock my soul is bound
Mimicking what is observed
In twisting patterns most absurd
As understanding is disturbed
What is said is not what's heard
Like treasure under glass enshrined
Passions dim and passions shine
Yet I cannot touch what there I find
I hear it only in my mind
I need to share your simple grace
the smile that plays upon your face
But the barricades remain in place...
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QUOTE (Sweetmiracle @ Sep 22 2004, 12:02 PM) Nice pic, LL! Where did you come across it?
Here's one from the new Classic Rock issue...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/sweetmiracle/Classic/Rush.jpg
If anyone wants the article, pm me....Somebody's selling it on eBay so I just snagged the copy of it they have as an example. They say that it's an authentic autograph and not a pre-printed one....
WORST Rush song EVER
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It's as if The Rush Forum collided with the Counterparts message board.
shit
carry on...