Jan 282012
 

‘A man must know how to look before he can hope to see,’ said Lord Brynden. ‘Those were shadows of days past that you saw, Bran. You were looking through the eyes of the heart tree in your godswood. Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak. And the weirwood…a thousand human years are a moment to a weirwood, and through such gates you and I may gaze into the past.’

(A Dance With Dragons, Copyright © 2011 by George R. R. Martin)

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Mr. Maps – Your Heels In Sand, Soul In Pursuit (Lines Version)   -0:00-
Collapse Under The Empire – The Sky Is The Limit   -4:45-
We – With The Stars As An Audience   -11:41-
Canyons Of Static – Wake   -16:33-
And Stars Collide – When Our Eyes First Met   -24:16-
Blind Architect – KCW   -32:30-
To Be A High Powered Executive – The King Has Bled, We Have Slept, And Now We Must Wake   -42:30-
Giants – The Sleep Of A Laboring Man   -51:31-
Enemies – Fierce Pit Bosses   -55:06-
Kovlo – Qujing   -59:26-
Rest – To Learn   -63:07-
Kasper Rosa – Scaling Mount Improbable   -69:45-
Sky Architects – Burst   -77:53-

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 Posted by at 10:11 am
Jan 202012
 

At the corner of Lodovico Street, she looked back. The house had not capitulated to the forces unleashed within. It stood now as quiet as a grave. No, quieter.

As she turned away, somebody collided with her. She yelped with surprise, but the huddled pedestrian was already hurrying away into the anxious murk that preceded morning. As the figure hovered on the outskirts of solidity, it glanced back, and its head flared in the gloom, a cone of white fire. It was the Engineer. She had no time to look away; it was gone again in one instant, leaving its glamour in her eye.

Only then did she realize the purpose of the collision. Lemarchand’s box had been passed back to her, and sat in her hand. Its surfaces had been immaculately resealed and polished to a high gloss. Though she did not examine it, she was certain there would be no clue to its solution left. The next discoverer would voyage its faces without a chart. And until such time, was she elected its keeper? Apparently so.

(The Hellbound Heart, Copyright © 1986 by Clive Barker)

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Bleaklow – Margravine / The Vagrant   -00:00-
Rest – Operation: Impending Doom   -10:14-
Naisian – Take Me To The Mountain Dew Mountain   -16:50-
Cosmonauts Day – Rift   -24:20-
Annapurna – Lester   -28:11-
Russian Circles – Mladek   -35:54-
On Wings Of Wax – The Approach   -43:34-
UpCDownC – Wolves In The Walls   -46:22-
Khuda – Marchmen   -53:17-
Refraction – Until We Reach   -57:37-
Colaris – Reconsidering   -65:12-
Damascus – Khalida   -70:42-
Oak – Last Day Of…   -76:18-

640.052 playlist

 

 

 Posted by at 4:59 pm
Jan 012012
 

‘I have dreamed your Wall, Jon Snow. Great was the lore that raised it, and great the spells locked beneath its ice. We walk beneath one of the hinges of the world.’ Melisandrea gazed up at it, her breath a warm moist cloud in the air. ‘This is my place as it is yours, and soon enough you may have grave need of me. Do not refuse my friendship, Jon. I have seen you in the storm, hard-pressed, with enemies on every side. You have so many enemies. Shall I tell you their names?’

‘I know their names.’

‘Do not be so certain.’ The ruby at Melisandre’s throat gleamed red. ‘It is not the foes who curse you to your face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking and sharpen their knives when you turn your back. You would do well to keep your wolf close beside you. Ice, I see, and daggers in the dark. Blood frozen red and hard. and naked steel. It was very cold.’

‘It is always cold on the Wall.’

‘You think so?’

‘I know so, my lady.’

‘Then you know nothing, Jon Snow,’ she whispered.

(A Dance With Dragons, Copyright © 2011 by George R.R. Martin, Bantam)

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Labradford – Sliding Glass   -00:00-
This Is My Normal State – A Glimmer Of Hope   -06:13-
Arab Strap – Revolution   -13:38-
Junius – A Day Dark With Night   18:55-
The Burning Paris – The Sun Also Rises   -27:00-
In Violet – Half Full   -33:11-
All Shall Be Well – History Is Ever Ours For The Reliving   -39:35-
Atlantic Drop – Fields Of Life   -48:16-
The Eternal Twilight – Another Quiet Night   -52:00-
Mender – Note To Self   -56:15-
Rachael Boyd – Don’t Be Selfish Now   -61:19-
Anoice – Aspirin Music   -65:18-
Clear Horizons – A Child’s Eyes   -71:05-
Sigur Rós – Ný Batterí   -73:55-

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 Posted by at 9:27 am