We just realized its the 20th anniversary of Smash Mouths Walkin on the Sun, a song about not being a normie or giving into ephemeral fads like soul. Watch Suspicious Partner Episode 30 with English Subtitles or eng subbed online streaming free, read Suspicious Partner Episode 30 Summary or Dramawiki. Watch32 Watch Movies on Watch32. com Watch32 is the Biggest Library of free Full Movies. Watch 32 Movies Online. The Two Towers, or the Sirens Ultimate Prophecy UPDATESo for the past few weeks weve been looking at how a constellation of connections, syncs and symbols surrounding the doomed romance of Elizabeth Fraser and Jeff Buckley all ultimately point back to the great myth of the love goddess and her shepherd boy consort. For what possible reason I can only speculate. Somehow this story seems to revolve around Song to the Siren, the totemic ballad about love and death Fraser made her signature, as well as the tragic young singer whose fate seems to have been foretold for a very, very long time. And that ballad seems to have a growing death toll, incidentally. I thought Id wrapped this all up for good a few years ago but Chris Cornells death seemed to dredge something up. He was Jeff Buckleys close friend and surrogate and died on the banks of the Detroit River near Belle Isle, itself infused with ancient traditions remarkably similar to the Siren. SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOMAnd sure enough, a reader informed me that a few hundred feet east of the MGM Grand Hotel where Chris Cornell died, a very interesting landmark is about to open Siren Hotel to open in Wurlitzer Building in November. The Siren Hotel in downtown Detroits historic Wurlitzer Building will be ready for guests in November, following a 2. The hotel, at 1. 50. Broadway St., will feature 9. ASH NYC, which owns and operates the hotel. The name is inspired by Sirens of ancient Greek mythology, a metaphoric beckoning of people back to a revitalizing Detroit. This really shouldnt surprise me anymore. After all, weve seen how nearly every significant detail in this story seems to correspond to another significant detail in the stories and history surrounding the goddess consort myth. Weve seen how the foreshadowings of how the story would ultimately end were written and delivered in the exact same manner that the ancient priestesses of Apollo would deliver their prophecies. This only makes sense, because priestesses of Apollo used to prophesy in the temples of Atargatis, the Syrian love goddess who turned herself into the first mermaid after the death of her own shepherd boy lover. Mermaids would come to be identified with Sirens in late antiquity. But who cares, right I mean, this is probably all either typical OCD driven fan blog projection or just some glitch in the Matrix, some random anomaly in the code. I mean, everythings ultimately connected to everything, right Cant we all be brothersAnd plus, if any of this were real then someone else would have already noticed it, right Well, maybe someone did. Maybe some very powerful and influential people, in fact. Maybe those people wanted to rub off some of that magic on their own spells. Maybe they in fact did exactly that. In the immortal words of Max Fenig, Somebodys always paying attention. Come feel the deep. VENUS FALLINGSomething happened to Elizabeth Fraser when her lost love died. After their breakup Fraser was nearly despondent with what she herself called grief and mourning. Like I said, she really loved this guy. Almost like hide the bunny, Jeff loved this guy. He seemed to have that effect on people. She wrote and recorded a number of songs at least seven, by my reckoning for and about Buckley, produced a nakedly confessional long form music video as a love letter and dedicated an album to him. One of the songs she wrote which became her best known was recorded the day Buckley died by drowning in Memphis Wolf River Harbor. But just as Aphrodite lost her beauty when her Adonis died and descended into the Underworld, Fraser thereafter seemed to shun the astonishing range that made her famous. She floated into the wispy, breathy reaches of her upper register, eschewing that lusty, meaty mezzo that made the best of her Cocteau Twins material so compelling. It was almost as if she had intentionally wanted to become a ghost of herself. She since confessed to succumbing to a long and crippling bout of depression. She seemed to signal this when she sang, Oh, what woman can sing without loving the primitive heart She did so on a 1. EP that also contained perhaps her most startling take on the Siren mythos, Flock of Soul. The chorus on that song written as an entreaty to a former lover who also happens to be a singer goes like this Come feel the deep. Its my little friend. Come feel the deep Its love in a flood The song, recorded in 1. Jeff Buckley and girlfriend Joan Wasser nearly drowned during a midnight swim in Gold Coast, Australia. HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOODAfter leaving the Cocteau Twins, Fraser found her services were called upon by some very famous directors. Alan Rickman best known as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films hired her to sing the theme song to his directorial debut, The Winter Guest, starring another future Harry Potter alum, Emma Thompson who, incidentally, brings on the apocalypse in I Am Legend. Irish director Neil Jordan then hired Fraser to sing the theme song for his film In Dreams. This surreal psychological thriller, starring Annette Bening and Robert Downey Jr, is entirely centered on drowning and rivers. No, seriously. From stem to stern. It also centers on the crossover between the world of dreams and symbols with consensus reality and features what can reasonably be called a kind of Siren character. Heres the first verse to the song Fraser recorded for the soundtrack Waters cover me, wrap me where I sleep, Wash between us, Where youre dreaming, Where you wake tomorrow. Given then recent events one cant help but wonder what exactly is going on here, and why a woman so clearly devastated by a drowning death would agree to such a project. Oh before I forget, In Dreams also centers on the destruction of a town and Benings characters husband is an airline pilot. THE LAMENTATIONS OF THEIR WOMENThen Sir Peter Jackson hired Fraser to sing on the soundtracks to the first two Lord of the Rings films. She sang Lament for Gandalf on the Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack and Isengard Unleashed and Lament for Haldir for the Two Towers soundtrack. Both latter songs focus on the Battle of Helms Deep, the climactic scene in The Two Towers where the sanctuary of the peoples of Rohan is attacked by an army of Uruk Hai. Helms Deeps walls are ultimately breached by a Uruk Hai wielding a giant bomb. Isengard Unleashed is also the title of a scene in The Two Towers that features Brad Dourif, who also appears in Blue Velvet, the film for which David Lynch tried to license Elizabeth Frasers Song to the Siren. The first Rings movie opened two months after 91. There was some concern at the time about the Two Towers title and some discussion that it might be changed. There were also parallels drawn by some between 91. Helms Deep in The Two Towers. The fact that Fraser was chosen for two of the three laments in the film series ties quite snugly into our overarching mythic narrative. Laments are traditionally sung by women as Conan would remind you and are commonly associated with the love goddesses weve been looking at, which they sang for the shepherd lovers upon their deaths. Remember that Gandalf the Grey also descended to the Underworld before being reborn in The Two Towers as Gandalf the White. And appropriately, the ancient laments are filled with the same kinds of lyrical repetitions that Elizabeth Frasers songs are, particularly the ones that weve looked at in the context of foreshadowing. For example that of Inana Let me utter the lament for you, the lament for you, the lament Let me utter the lament for you, the lament for you, the lament In the birthplace let me utter the lament for you, the lament In the desert, O Dumuzid, let me utter the lament for you, the lament And of course, Isis Come to your house, come to your houseYou of On, come to your house,Your foes are not O good musician, come to your house Laments are also a particularly prominent form in Scottish music. And by any reasonable standard the songs Fraser wrote to Jeff Buckley for Rilkean Dreams are laments. Particularly when you read the almost unbearably heartbreaking lines like these from Half Gifts which I mentioned before I still have a life, and its a rich one even with mourning. Even with grief and sadness. I still care about this planet. I am still connected to nature and to my dreams for myself. I have my friends, my family. I have myself. I still have me.
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