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QUOTE (Animate @ Aug 8 2012, 08:37 AM) QUOTE (spock @ Aug 7 2012, 08:48 PM)Hmmm, your thesis seems logical, but I'm still letting Candide sink in. Finished it a few days ago, left me with a "meh" feeling. My feel for the whole CA thing lately is that it's a brilliant blend of a dozen sources (Candide, The Secret Agent, etc) that produced a dozen meanings (semi-autobiographical, metafictional, recasting of the Candide story in a steampunk era, career summation, career expansion, nod to the past while breaking from the past, bits and pieces of a whole new novel based on other novels, I could go on (wait! I just did go on!) Satire: the use of irony or sarcasm. Hmmm (hmmm part 2): Owen is discontent on the farm - leaves home for adventures - only to find contentment on a farm (or garden); just after singing "live it all again", Geddy sings "faith has failed me now, I choose to live" (implying that he was considering the alternative), the Pedlar's "What do you lack" is ironic because the thing Owen lacked, he actually started with - a simple life. My 2 pennies for today.. Great thread, great analysis CygnusGal! Spock- I agree with your analysis. CA lyrics are brilliant because in 12 songs, they express a lifetime of growth of an individual struggling with the discrepancies between faith and observed reality, and finally coming full circle back to simplistic truths via experience rather then blind acceptance. It is interesting to compare and contrast the idea of returning to a simple life in CA with the same story in Subdivisions. On the surface, Subdivisions has a similar overall theme- leaving home to go for adventure to the city, then returning at the end to the quiet streets. However, Subdivisions ends by implying that one would move back to the 'burbs as a result of failure- giving up the dream for small comforts or because instead of succeeding- they it are trapped in the rat race of an unfulfilling 9 - 5 (!The Watchmaker!) schedule. Some will sell their dreams for small desires Or lose the race to rats Get caught in ticking traps And start to dream of somewhere To relax their restless flight.... Big difference, of course, is that the suburbs are not the garden. The Garden is everywhere, and nowhere, depending on your choices. In the end, all we strive for, all we believe we create in terms of material wealth and career-centered accomplishment, is fleeting. Neil presents the measure of a fruitful life as this: Did you love? Having loved, were you loved in return?

A singular sensation...

Skipping 2012 and waiting for leg#2.

QUOTE (drbirdsong @ Aug 6 2012, 10:51 AM) Your chances of getting an excellent seat go up when you go alone. Oddly enough on the Counterparts tour when I went alone I was sitting between two women. What are those odds? Go man go. Get there stand in your seat and introduce yourself to those around you. They're all gonna be Rush fans or dragged there by a Rush fan. Almost all them are good folks. Good point on tix being better...and cheaper. If I were to go alone I'd buy the tickets at venue, from a desperate scalper trying to unload.

QUOTE (GeminiRising79 @ Aug 6 2012, 10:34 AM) QUOTE (OGr8imL84AD8inF8sBlackSedan @ Aug 5 2012, 04:06 PM)QUOTE (Snaked @ Aug 5 2012, 04:31 PM) Why do you need a "companion"? Damn right...I've seen a ton of concert by myself. (9) times from what I can figure.... Oh, you're one of those people...playing air drums by yourself in your own little world, others keeping at least 3 feet away from you. Yes, I've seen you before. I'll go to amovie by myself, but a concert?

Should be an awesome show! These kinds of showas are great, where everyone knows every song and sings along. Elton was like that. I expect a full report! "I am, I said...!"

QUOTE (burgeranacoke @ Aug 7 2012, 09:15 AM) I am not sure I like making this into a trilogy, isn't it a bit too much? After all the the other books just received approximately one movie at about 4 hours each. I think 4 hours would be plenty of time to entertain us with the simplest book of the series. 3D and 48 frames. I realize Peter Jackson likes the technologies but I really kind of wish he would have refrained from these in this movie. As a viewer I would more enjoy having a coherent look among all the films. Trilogy? Hmm... 3 sets sets of tickets, popcorn and drink at about $25 each = $75 for each viewer of a book I can read in less time than the Jackson's trilogy will consume. Dammit I know I am going to go see them. There is a sucker born.... Grumpy old man rant over.... All those poems and songs will drag things out, if Jackson includes them. I hope the three films are rigth around two hours. These three-hour jobs are a bit much, I think.

ATWAS is amazing, the first I got into. Diff Stages has a pretty impressive span of their entire career. Exit.. and SofH = The studio cuts of this material are way better.

QUOTE (LyndseyG @ Aug 6 2012, 04:23 PM) It's also my mum's birthday. No she's not 67 by the way! Pure joy for you and your mum! Hope you did something fabulous!

Mixed emotions for sure...

QUOTE (drbirdsong @ Aug 7 2012, 02:53 PM) The lyrics have always had it as "chords" on any of my copies. I think Geddy changed it to "sounds" because the character wouldn't have any idea what a chord was. But he would know about "notes"?

QUOTE (goose @ Aug 7 2012, 02:47 PM) Not sure. As always...Wiki answers: Printed on the album were the lyrics "Chords that build high like a mountain" and Geddy sang it this way for the 1996 live album, but the original lyrics were the same way as recorded, with the word "sounds" instead of "chords" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2112_(song)

Not sure.

QUOTE (Jeffrey @ Aug 7 2012, 12:20 PM) QUOTE (goose @ Aug 7 2012, 12:13 PM)The Garden is beginning to grow on me...the second half of the song is very strong. Nailed me from the first to last note on the FIRST listen. No song has ever done that to me. Anyway I digress from the poll discussion... Yeah, I'm one of the rare ones here that isn't captivated by it.

The Garden is beginning to grow on me...the second half of the song is very strong.

QUOTE (A rocket that ignites itself @ Aug 7 2012, 11:34 AM) For whatever reason...maybe within the context of the new album? Subtle remix? Added intro? I'm now much more into BU2B than when it was an early released track. X2

As far as improving...BU2B has climbed the most for me.

QUOTE (ShlappinDahBass @ Aug 7 2012, 10:14 AM) Clockwork Angels has slowly become my personal fave. Has remained mine. It's a great one!

Enemy Within would be better.

To ease the waiting... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfrhGXpLT4w&feature=related

QUOTE (GoldRush @ Aug 6 2012, 10:01 PM) Moving Pictures... And I like Counterparts too.. The inner contents of Counterparts is top notch!

"CA" is, of course, the abbreviation for the state of California, where everything is perfectly planned...and tanned. Ignorance is well...and "wellness" is what California is all about. Land of the beautiful people, who raise their hands in praise to the beautiful never-changing California sky...as if to fly.

Went with longer in a forced vote, but my CA song preferences really don't break down that way.

What do they expect to find?