#pyres

[reconstructwriter]

Okay Weird Thought:

Jedi burn their dead. Qui Gon was given a pyre not a grave.

In (some?) cultures that do the grave thing, undead are basically those who crawl out of their graves, half-rotted.

Obi Wan defeated Anakin and left him, essentially, in a pyre.

Anakin clawed his way out, half-burnt.

Darth Vader as some kind of undead to Jedi PoVs (especially Obi Wan) or maybe Undead!Darth Vader AU

[mumblelard]

ruth acting out or fresh everything bagels sitting on the counter top waiting to be toasted

on friday, i went to a baseball game with finn and fall, and i drank a beer, and we ate hot dogs, and we watched the fireworks after the game like it was two thousand and twelve or something. it was a really nice night

we ran into one of their oldest friends at the game, someone they have known so long, i don't know if they can even remember meeting. i accidentally talked to her boyfriend as though he spoke my own language and it i guess it scrambled his brain for a bit, but i think he'll be alright

my dad usually takes me to a baseball game around my birthday, but a few days before the date of this year's game, i mentioned that i was looking forward to it, and he seemed confused. then he said, 'oh, that fell through,' and that was the end of that

this week has been full of unexpected, dark developments in the lives of people on the edges of my life. my usual experience of the world lives somewhere on the scale of tired sadness to hopeful joy, but this whole last week was stained by the lurking potential for tragedy

last night i dreamed about swimming through the crystal clear waters of a drowned city and massive waves would lift me up twenty stories in a moment and then drag me down into the depths. i dreamt about eating a package of ramen that tasted like a fried chicken sandwich with dill pickle chips, and i dreamt about finding a nest full of baby squirrels waiting to be fed

[marialeto]

The Universe is Magical. If you let it in it will not only tell you it's secrets but is will share this with you. It may be in a powerful and profound way.

The Universe stole my heart a very long time ago. It is precious. It speaks in music, love and silence. And what comes from that creates life.

The Universe inspired me to not only write this book, but to publish it. FriesenPress also available on Amazon.com and in other Bookstores. ~Maria

[dustedmagazine]

Pyres — Yun (Hypaethral)

Photo by Sam Carcasole

Should sludge metal be hummable? Want some melody mixed in with the magma? Bands have asked similar questions about tempering sludge’s usually relentless ugliness — see especially YOB’s incendiary Our Raw Heart (2018). But Mike Scheidt, YOB’s frontman and creative force, is a past master of metal textures, and the singular source for that record’s surfeit of sentiment is intrinsic to Scheidt’s very body. Pyres, on the other hand, is a Toronto band offering here its second LP in 13 or so years of infrequent activity. As no less an authority than Japhy Ryder (and Dogberry, too) has told us, “Comparisons are odious.” But Pyres is swinging for the fences on Yun, urging listeners to open up to big riffs and even bigger feels. And the opening strains of the LP’s longest cut “A Depth Charge in a Dead Sea” closely evoke YOB’s “Beauty in Falling Leaves.” It’s provoking, at the very least. But is there substance beyond the provocation?

To be fair, there’s just about as much grunge in Pyres’ sound as there is sludge, and grunge’s relations to melody are much less fraught. Still, Pyres’ playing is at its most exciting when the band is channeling Alice in Chains at their most scabrous, as opposed to the later Soundgarden’s tuneful turns. See “Granular Flow,” which commences with a cosmic groove orbiting “Superunknown” (and meh…) before it bottoms out into tougher, nastier riffage that gestures toward the blues. More significant is the feeling tone pervading those sorta bluesy passages. Pyres just sounds like they’re having a better time when the music slows down a beat and struts.

Still, there’s more than a sniff of the progressive to the proceedings on Yun, edging several songs toward qualities referred to with words like “technique” and “composed.” The desire to prettify sludge is prevalent (see records by big bands in the subgenre, like Torche and Helms Alee, if you must) but strange. This reviewer prefers sludge that focuses its intent on the ugly in the music: Noothgrush, Iron Monkey, more recently the mighty Primitive Man. On occasion, Pyres achieves an effectively unpleasant intensity; check out the closing minute of “Nova Cruciatus” or the mournful second half of “Old Dogs.” Sometimes new tricks just aren’t necessary.

 Jonathan Shaw

[shibe-myths]

Do drakes/nagas have 2 PEENS?

Yes.

[madcat-world]

Grief (1 of 2) - nephelomancer

[emotrait-arc]

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