Am I the only one inspired by Pearl Jam game

Ms. Haiku

Here's a brain teaser - I wrote about this in the "Words Communication" thread. I posted a photograph by Tina Modotti within a thread about "Immortality" because I think they fit so well together. What other artwork (photograph, painting etc) do you think goes with a particular Pearl Jam song?

Here's my example:

Listen to "Immortality", read the lyrics, look at this picture, and tell me what you think.

http://dametzdesign.com/trabajadores.jpg

It's "Workers Parade" 1926(?) by Tina Modotti


Here's the Lyrics:

immortality

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i can't think of a better song right now.

vacate is the word...vengeance has no place on me or her
cannot find the comfort in this world
artificial tear...vessel stabbed...next up, volunteers
vulnerable, wisdom can't adhere...
a truant finds home...and a wish to hold on...
but there's a trapdoor in the sun...immortality...
as privileged as a whore...victims in demand for public show
swept out through the cracks beneath the door
holier than thou, how?
surrendered...executed anyhow
scrawl dissolved, cigar box on the floor...
a truant finds home...and a wish to hold on too...
he saw the trapdoor in the sun...
immortality...
i cannot stop the thought...i'm running in the dark...
coming up a which way sign...all good truants must decide...
oh, stripped and sold, mom...auctioned forearm...
and whiskers in the sink...
truants move on...cannot stay long
some die just to live...
ohh.

burtschips

how about this biblio, related to Parting Ways, both the subject but more so the noise for me..... picture is by anon, found it randomly. but think it is a little bit good, ya know.

Ms. Haiku

burtschips wrote:

how about this biblio, related to Parting Ways, both the subject but more so the noise for me..... picture is by anon, found it randomly. but think it is a little bit good, ya know.

Excellent! I was just re-reading the lyrics, and from knowing the song, I can totally see how this fits.

Ms. Haiku

Here's one I posted previously, but I think it fits in this thread, too. What do you think of this pairing:

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/images/screen/lange/lange_bread_line.jpg

Dorothea Lange's "White Angel Bread Line" 1932 and Pearl Jam's "Dead Man Walking." Here are the lyrics:

Sailing on my every step. Inching off of the earth.
Is magnified by the things I've done.
The thing that I've become.

Every lift of my hand. Coffee cup up, and back.
Is magnified by the things I've done. The things I've seen. the things I've caused.

I'm a dead man walking.

The hammer that I once brung down now hovers over me.
Cast a shadow across, onto me.

The hallways are all mocking me.
What I've become they're all mocking me.

I'm a dead man walking. A dead man walking. A dead man walking.
I'm a dead man walking. Dead man walking. Dead man walking.

pacifier

I know a Pearl Jam song that reminds me of a real life event. Does that count? If it does I will tell you the story of what happened, if not I won't stuff up your thread.

Ms. Haiku

pacifier wrote:

I know a Pearl Jam song that reminds me of a real life event. Does that count? If it does I will tell you the story of what happened, if not I won't stuff up your thread.

That may be more under "Words Communication." However, if you can turn this real life event into a poem or a picture by all means. Of course, no matter what, I won't discourage posting about how Pearl Jam songs inspire . . . So, if you are inspired, go to . . .

pacifier

Bibliobella wrote:

That may be more under "Words Communication." However, if you can turn this real life event into a poem or a picture by all means. Of course, no matter what, I won't discourage posting about how Pearl Jam songs inspire . . . So, if you are inspired, go to . . .

nope, don't think I could make art out of this, but I will give you the very compact version so you can see the connection......


Song: Lowlight


Event: Car crash down a large bank, mother, son and step-father. Step-father died on impact, son got thrown from the car half way down (not wearing seat belt) and survived, mother apparently got out of car searching for her son in the dark, calling his name, but drowned in rising flood waters.

The mother had apparently told a friend she wanted to be reincarnated as an eagle. At her and her husband's funeral two eagles flew over head. I always think of this whenever I hear "Two birds is what they'll see, getting lost upon their way"

Ms. Haiku

pacifier wrote:

nope, don't think I could make art out of this, but I will give you the very compact version so you can see the connection......


Song: Lowlight


Event: Car crash down a large bank, mother, son and step-father. Step-father died on impact, son got thrown from the car half way down (not wearing seat belt) and survived, mother apparently got out of car searching for her son in the dark, calling his name, but drowned in rising flood waters.

The mother had apparently told a friend she wanted to be reincarnated as an eagle. At her and her husband's funeral two eagles flew over head. I always think of this whenever I hear "Two birds is what they'll see, getting lost upon their way"

I think that fits. What a tragic, and then amazing story.

burtschips

Bibliobella wrote:

Here's one I posted previously, but I think it fits in this thread, too. What do you think of this pairing:

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/images/screen/lange/lange_bread_line.jpg

Dorothea Lange's "White Angel Bread Line" 1932 and Pearl Jam's "Dead Man Walking."

I think it works well...... and I got another for the same song, a sketch of a giocometti sculpture, it just floats along.....................



Pacifier the event fits and maybe stops it from being unbearably tragic.

Ms. Haiku

burtschips wrote:

I think it works well...... and I got another for the same song, a sketch of a giocometti sculpture, it just floats along.....................



Pacifier the event fits and maybe stops it from being unbearably tragic.

I can't listen to it at work, but I can see that the sketch would almost move on the page when the song is on. Very cool. By the way, I apologize that the title of this thread may be a little fierce. I think it is - oops.