Tag Archives: Neil Young

Brilliant Visions of Despair: Failing Empire

Posted on July 6, 2022 by randomyriad

The Dead Flag Blues Godspeed You! Black Emperor The car’s on fire and there’s no driver at the wheelAnd the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicidesAnd a dark wind blows The government is corruptAnd we’re on so … Continue reading →

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Tarot #73 : IX The Hermit, travelling the inward path in search of truth and enlightenment.

Posted on November 9, 2018 by randomyriad

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more” … Continue reading →

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Tarot #30 : Debauch, illusion, delusion, and denial.

Posted on September 18, 2018 by randomyriad

The temptation of fleeting, selfish pleasure may be corrupting or preventing loving relationships. There is pleasure that you gain from giving and receiving love and gifts with those who share your life,  and there are those pleasures that separate you from … Continue reading →

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Dead Man: Death, Poetry, and Music in the old west.

Posted on November 19, 2015 by randomyriad

Jim Jarmusch’s movie Dead Man is a blending of surreal scenes, beautifully understated acting, and the haunting music of Neil Young’s solo guitar, and it tells the story of William Blake, an accountant from Ohio, who comes to the edge … Continue reading →

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