#peter reich

[helloeverything123]

Cloudbusting White Witch

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Cloudbusting - Kate Bush (1985)

[spuncle]

i know these songs werent exactly written for this but i cant get it out of my head so heres some extra songs from Kate Bush's Hounds of Love, but examined through the lens of A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich (a book i have.. become kind of obsessed with)

So obviously Cloudbusting was the song that was based on that book, and if you love that song as much as I do, I highly recommend reading the book. It makes the song hit even harder. It has also made me cry a few times lol. But heres a few more songs that I now kinda associate with the book.

Running Up That Hill- The scene where Peter is in the lab, and the FDA comes up and insist to talk to his father. He says they have to make an appointment, and he tries his best to reason with them, but it doesn't work. They drive up to the observatory.

He runs as fast as he can. As fast as those little legs can take him. He is, quite literally, running up that hill. He's desperate. He's terrified.

Aside from the obvious imagery, the "it's you and me" line is one shared by both songs, which I think is fun and interesting and helps tie them together.

Hounds of Love- Towards the end of the book, Peter is an adult and sits in a room with a girl. She tells him he hardly even knows him. He says he's the son of Wilhelm Reich. Something that's been so important to his identity, and he only just realized it. Something that's more important to him than anyone else in the world.

He felt lost. He ran away from meaningful connections because they scared him. Shallow relationships and one night stands were easier.

If you don't know the song, the whole theme is surrounding the feeling of being hunted down by love. It stalks you like prey, catching you off guard. It can be terrifying. To the point of running away from it completely.

The Big Sky- This one is more of a stretch, even to me lol, but I feel like there's something there. Between the cloud imagery, and the near obsession with them, it just reminds me of the book.

The line "you never understood me, you never really tried" really just.. makes me think of that one scene where Peter is in the theater watching The Fly. He feels as if no one understands. No one will understand. People could walk away from that theater, never thinking twice about it. To them it was just a movie. But to him? It was real. It felt so real. And he was surrounded by people who just didn't seem to 'get it'.

I don't have any associations with Mother Stands for Comfort (with this book at least) or the Ninth Wave section, so I will be stopping here :3

Let me know what you think! If it makes sense, if it doesn't, etc. I just love these two things so much that I think my brain kind of connected them together hsjdjfk

Anyways thanks for reading so far <3

[hopscotchfriday]

I for one am loving the twists and turns of the Kate Bush renaissance - https://www.thisweekinthe90s.com/p/utah-saints-kate-bush-nazis-ufos

[retropopcult]

"Cloudbusting" is a song written and performed by British singer Kate Bush. It was the second single released from her 1985 album Hounds of Love. "Cloudbusting" peaked at No. 20 on the UK Singles Chart.

Taking inspiration from the 1973 memoir A Book of Dreams, which Bush said she found ‘deeply moving’, the song is about the very close relationship between psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and his young son, Peter, told from the point of view of the mature Peter. It describes the boy's memories of his life on their family farm, called Orgonon, where the two spent time "cloudbusting", a rain-making process which involved using a machine designed and built by Reich to point at the sky. The lyrics further describes the elder Reich's abrupt arrest and imprisonment, the pain of loss the young Peter felt, and his helplessness at being unable to protect his father.

The music video was directed by Julian Doyle and conceived by Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam as a short film. It features actor Donald Sutherland in the role of Wilhelm Reich, and Bush in the role of his young son, Peter. The video shows the two on the top of a hill trying to make the cloudbuster work. Reich leaves Peter on the machine and returns to his lab. In flashback, he remembers several times he and Peter enjoyed together as Reich worked on various scientific projects, until he is interrupted by government officials who arrest him and ransack the lab. Peter senses his father's danger and tries to reach him, but is forced to watch helplessly as his father is driven away. Peter finally runs back to the cloudbuster and activates it successfully, to the delight of his father who sees it starting to rain.

In a review of the single, journalist Amy Hanson praised the song for its "magnificence" and "hypnotic mantric effects". Hanson wrote: "Safety and danger are threaded through the song, via both a thoughtful lyric and a compulsive cello-driven melody. Even more startling, but hardly surprising, is the ease with which Bush was able to capture the moment when a child first realizes that adults are fallible."

[letras-esculpidas]

Eu apenas sei que algo bom vai acontecer

Eu não sei quando

Mas só de dizer, já poderia fazer acontecer

— Kate Bush in Cloudbusting, 1985

[vole-mon-amour]

A Book Of Dreams turned out to be a book of horrible trauma, semi decent parenting (the other parts were so bad), a lot of fantasy, and horrible time jumps with no distinction from one another—everything to confuse the reader, especially as an audiobook. An attempt at self therapy, but Peter Reich needed some real long term therapy.

I enjoyed the part about his childhood, I related to his grief of losing his dad, but when he started jumping across time and events, it got really confusing. The last 2 hours were just tedious.

I got really lucky by managing to find the book online, even though with a broken editing (and it took me a LOT of googling). The book is extremely hard to find, let alone for free, and is not available anywhere when you're not from the United States.

2.5/5 stars for the first half of the book. The last hour and a half I was pushing through it and couldn't wait for the book to finally end. 3 stars would be the absolute best rating I could give this book, but I'm not going to do that. I'm glad I don't have to push through this book anymore. I probably won't ever pick it up again, either.

P.S.: At least the book has some nice moments that I could post as quotes. And I didn't have to pay for it, because I know I would've hated myself if I paid for the book (especially the amount it sells for) and ended up hating half of it. I don't think I'd be able to finish it reading with my eyes, I used a TTS thingy so I could finish it .

[vole-mon-amour]

‘You see, most people have always thought that it is wrong to feel good and to feel happy. They are afraid of the good feelings, like the streamings. They try to stop these feelings in their children. They take their children and make them miserable. Well, if you take any natural drive and block it, it twists and turns but it still comes out. But instead of coming out in a straightforward, direct way, it comes out twisted and ugly. That is why some of your friends make dirty jokes about girls. They have learned to block their feelings, so they enjoy more the perverted, secondary feelings. When the blocking starts, their bellies get hard and their breathing becomes shallow. And they begin to hate.’ ‘But my friends don’t hate me.’ ‘No, of course they don’t. It isn’t that kind of hate. It is a different, more subtle hatred. They put on a front of being nice and then the front becomes a real mask for the fear and hatred inside. They struggle to keep the good feelings down, inside the masks, so their mouths become tight and rigid. They are miserable and they take it out on their children because they cannot stand to see their children happy.’

— A Book Of Dreams by Peter Reich