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The Long Knives

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Myspace LayoutsMyspace LayoutsThis is the sound of the lost echo, the fading and fractured footstep, the mind that is blurry and mysterious and distant and erased, the heart that drips blood like the ink from a fountain pen. The Long Knives are all about the sound that rings aloud in the land where time forgot. Where the dreams are dreamt in fragments, and the moon is dark and brooding in the sky like a festering beacon of anti-hope and disenchantment. When you wake up from the dream, when the shockwaves no longer mutilate the brain, this is where you have arrived. To the sound of the ghost at the doorstep, and the crippled weathervane's fall. This is lost road to nowhere, the gateway to the land where time ran out and away. the space time collision and the bloated blood vessels. Where damage that is done leads to more than damage. When you hear the sound of The Long Knives, you can hear the wind in the valley, the blast of the train, and the waking nightmare folly. Step into the room, step out of the room, step onward. Always forward and never straight, and the mindwaves have brought you to here, to this chaos, to this tornado, to this debris, the land that is deadly yet silent, and you look out the window, smile, and fade into the darkness and the shadow. This is where the leaves have fallen, the weeds have grown, and twigs are snapping and cracking."Don't poke the bear! Don't poke the bear" they screamed, and then the bear was awakened and growled...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 24/06/2007
Band Members: WJ - Everything and then some...
Influences: The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy, Nikki Sudden/The Jacobites, The Louvin Brothers, 13th Floor Elevators/Roky Erickson, Silkworm, Tom Waits, Miles Davis, Spacemen 3, Buffalo Tom, Dinosaur Jr., Neutral Milk Hotel, Guided By Voices, Tobin Sprout, Todd Rundgren, Das Damen, XTC, The Sea and Cake, Graeme Jeffries, Brian Eno, The Mountain Goats, Refrigerator, Sebadoh, Jeffrey Lee Pierce/The Gun Club, Johnny Thunders, The Screaming Trees, Ryan Adams And Whiskeytown, Sonic Youth, Old 97's, Echo and The Bunnymen, Hank Williams Sr., Husker Du, Grant Hart, Big Black, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Television, The Stooges, The Make-Up, The Velvet Underground, Wilco, Frank Sinatra, Jesus And Mary Chain, Townes Van Zandt, Mission Of Burma, Mazzy Star, Galaxie 500, Sebadoh, The Dream Syndicate, The Mekons, MC5, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Syd Barrett, Sylvia Juncosa/To Damascus etc.
Sounds Like: Psychiatric Rock
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

The Clot Of Thought

Throwing fits on the stage of the world,watching as the days distort and the atoms collide,in fire, wind, and rain,I am aware of the beginning of the end,I am aware of the downfall.Up ahead there will...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:35:00 GMT

TLK News and Notes...the abridged version...

Well, "Exit Wounds" will be finished up this week, and then it is off to the next batch of tunage. The newbies will be a little different than recent ones, and will be going back from the 12 to the 6,...
Posted by on Sat, 30 May 2009 00:30:00 GMT

A Fistful Of Novocain

When the sun has spotted and the shade has fallen,the knives come in droves and defeat the interceptors,a concrete sheet of doubt and the absence of most reasonhas surfaced beneath the feet.In tall mo...
Posted by on Sun, 10 May 2009 10:22:00 GMT

Burning Angel

You left me to bleed to death on that bed of roses,the thorns tore right through me, cutting holes through my arteries and veins,nothing is clear even though it's right under our noses,and every decis...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:13:00 GMT

Captain Sabotage

What do you want from methat I haven't given from my heart.Call it an act of reason,or call it an act of God,you will win, I will lose, it always seems to go that way,you will pick, I will chooseto ne...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:05:00 GMT

In Passing

It's hard when you just don't know what to say,close your eyes and wait here for another day.Memories full of poison and decay,I close my eyes and try to see another way.It's hard when you don't think...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:36:00 GMT

The Reconstruction Of A Mercenary Soul

In the days that have tormented the wishesthat have been deleted,what falls from the sky it is not rain,it is the blood of the wren and the dove,everything that has been given has been taken back,love...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:57:00 GMT

Punching Holes Through The Walls Of Hell

I can't hear you for the moment,too many locusts in the trees,but I feel your angry torrents,and your calls for sympathy.In the distance, you are standingout along where I can't see,and the rivers run...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:33:00 GMT

An Update On TLK, and the upcoming "Exit Wounds" recordings...

Well, things have come and they have come to pass, but such is life and the way of the world I guess. Since there have been boatloads of craziness that have made their way to my shores as of late, I r...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:51:00 GMT

You On The Perimeter

There was a time whenhearts were so goldenand they were not brokenlike they are now.I keep thinkingnot fully believing we will be retrieving something morewhen all the clouds passand skies of gray end...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:22:00 GMT