Lover and Thinker
"They are seldom able to distinguish between pseudo-intimacy and the 'real thing'". In the single sub-culture one must identify the "game" aspect inherent in relationships; employ the intellect in the land of pure emotion. Anyone who enjoys Roxy Music knows this world, if only through the medium of Brian Ferry's velvety voice. Mr. Ferry, in fact, is a prime example of what I like to call the "Lover-Thinker", one who utilizes both sides of the brain in the "great game". We must all strive to be these "Lover-Thinkers", these Ubermenschen of Love.
Romance, a very important part of the delicate fibre from which...
Cafe Intellect... is spun.
Romance, a very important part of the delicate fibre from which...
Cafe Intellect... is spun.
posted by intellectual-lover | 11:47 AM
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More than this - there is nothing
More than this - tell me one thing
More than this - there is nothing
this quote from a song off Roxy Music's Manifesto aptly demonstrates what you're saying here, i-l.
the words alone on paper are not brilliant. but Ferry's velvet voice and the band's lush arrangements, along with the playful undercurrent one can't quite pin down, remind me of the best of flirtations and seductions, despite--and maybe especially because--the fact that the song's basically about a dead-end or break-up.
and the opening recalls why we keep going back for more (both in matters of love and intellect). Again, though, you cannot get why this is so lovely unless you can hear Ferry's exuberant tenor hit that high note on the word "feel":
I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Fallen leaves in the night
Who can say where they're blowing
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