“Its funny you said ‘pink dust’ before actually because when we were recording Crying Lightning, I think that was right around the point where Jamie disappeared for, what? Like a day and a half we didn’t see him, when we were out there on the motor bikes. And then he returned in like a poncho with a sort of strange pink dust on his shoulders and seemingly under strict instruction to set the Echoplex to a certain… he was like ‘I know the increments, I know where it should be.’ And then that’s where his sound came from for Crying Lightning.”
— Alex Turner on Crying Lightning (via jamiephillipcook)
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she was walking on the tables in the glass house / endearingly bedraggled in the wind / subtle in her method of seduction / twenty little tragedies begin
The Age of the Understatement (TLSP)
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sharing secrets I was taking to the grave /
nosebleeds from epiphanies I took full in the face
Anyways
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I wanna be in that damsel patterned alley
/ where you go for a smoke / and sorrow slow dances
All my own stunts
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I'm pinned down by the dark
Dangerous Animals
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not shy of a spark / the knife twists at the thought that I should fall short of the mark / frightened by the bite though it's no harsher than the bark / the middle of adventure, such a perfect place to start.
505
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see you later, innovator
Brainstorm
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AT: I think New York is a good place to write in general because it’s a grid. It’s organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam.
Vanity Fair:I think that’s one of the unsung reasons why so many people can create here, the math.
AT: Obviously there’s chaos if you want it, too.
Q&A: Alex Turner | Vanity Fair
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glass bottomed ego / still afloat but can’t you see the cracks appearing in the base?
The Bourne Identity
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don't you know an apparition is a cheap date?
Star Treatment
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happy birthday Alex Turner, you legend.
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lipstick on my pillow via my cheek
Dracula Teeth
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do you still think love is a laserquest / or do you take it all more seriously / I've tried to ask you this in some daydreams that I've had /
but you're always busy being make-believe
Love Is A Laserquest
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frightened by the bite though it's no harsher than the bark
505
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and as your shrinking figure blows a kiss / I catch and smash it on my lips
Sweet Dreams, TN
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I’m not used to raising the roof then telling the truth
Vertigo (Mini Mansions)
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yeah, but his bird said it's amazing, though / so all that's left / is the proof that love's not only blind but deaf.
Fake Tales of San Francisco
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