[paralleoneirdwell]

When I discovered how true these lyrics from Taste really are, i wanted to share with as many collected animals as possible!

I'm not sure why this isn't the world's #1 amazing fact/tidbit, it is quite mystifying and really life-affirming.
It is a very deep, as well as free and always available psychedelic/mind-expanding-type experience too. (this may be why it is not taught in schools? )
Everything that we experience as our surroundings is something that has already moved through our senses and then has been put back together by our minds! Anything we experience has its origins in "all the things that are outside" of us but to really be perceiving and experiencing it, our minds have recreated everything... even light, sound, anything and everything in nature... they are all out there in existence, yet, our minds are powerful enough to recreate them as much as possible.

I remember before i understood this it would feel like the edges of my body were still me but then the "real outside world" starts there. Now it feels quite more expansive, as long as I am paying attention to it! Our actual bodies continue all around us!!

When you reach out and grab something, you are reaching inside your head/mind and grabbing something that is in there too!
This phenomenon is of course why the Merriweather album artwork has the effect of being an optical illusion, because our mind is attempting to rebuild the picture! but... there was never anything directly expressed about the actual magnitude of this; just that it is there described playfully in Taste and maybe some other songs too.
Whenever we listen to music, live or recorded, it is that music, but our mind is also reforming every moment of it... in other words, it is being created again by our minds in order for us to hear it. Our minds are much more vast and dynamic than they are described to us, until we are able to figure it out.

[Frumpkin]

an interesting take! the lyrics always read to me like you can't be defined by what you wear or own, and everything is subjective to personal taste

[Curved Hair]

da material things

[colin]

umm descart or w.e and coffee thats real too

[colin]

EVERYTHING HAS TO DO WITH EVERYTHING, BRIAN!
-Wilfred


i think of it more like we're like moles crawling around the universe and we can get an idea of what reality is like but if our faculties were more powerful we would have an experience of the world as exponentially more vivid and involved as our experience is to a moles. i hope that doesnt make sense cuz if it does u might be on drugs.

[colin]

thoughts are like pictures of reality

[jay]

this whole site is on drugs

[Untitled]

jay wrote:

this whole site is on drugs

http://collectedanimals.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=133

[GeckoSushi]

from rapgenius.com
"Taste is about…well, taste, especially in the context of the identities we create and how they relate to others' identities. We judge people based on the identities they show to the world, but don’t feel too bad if you get judged negatively because the identities you’ve created aren’t really a reflection of who you are, underneath your ego."

[Untitled]

deep tho

[vilent_sibrate]

Ok so totally an aside but most lyric sites say the lyric is "..with no fashion clothes, cause you can't eat those", but I am basically 100% it is "... with no fashion groves, cause you can't eat those", referring to the grove street shopping district in NY, contrasted with fruit tree groves.

Thoughts?

[dio]

o! i rlly like that, sounds very likely.

[colin]

i hear "flashy clothes cuz u cant eat those"

[coollodges]

colin wrote:

i hear "flashy clothes cuz u cant eat those"

yeah same

[sky crawler]

jay wrote:

this whole site is on drugs

[jfw7]

coollodges wrote:

colin wrote:

i hear "flashy clothes cuz u cant eat those"

yeah same

how could it be "flashy clothes" when "fashion groves" is such an overwhelmingly common turn of phrase?

[coollodges]

I've never heard of fashion groves before this thread, but you all may still be right. I just don't hear fashion groves really. There's a lot of effects though so who knows.

[dio]

it's both!

[Dearest]

jfw7 wrote:

coollodges wrote:

colin wrote:

i hear "flashy clothes cuz u cant eat those"

yeah same

how could it be "flashy clothes" when "fashion groves" is such an overwhelmingly common turn of phrase?

lol

[clayton]

it "splashy crows" you fucking idiots

[bansheebeaten]

clayton wrote:

it "splashy crows" you fucking idiots

where are sigs when you need them

[Boneyardfriend]

it's "slasher hos" you tools. he was obviously foreshadowing slasher flicks in that song dont u get it