I spent my evening driving down the M4 at 100mph listening to this. What did you do?
NFWA2012 Festival
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What a wonderful weekend in brighton.
Thank you to all the NWFA team for putting on a class event.
big love to MBMR, nice to see you again.
Amazing to see so many people who came to watch our little band.
watch again here if you missed it!
BIG NEWS
Posted by morestrawberrywineplease
NICE WEATHER FOR AIRSTRIKES FESTIVAL 2012.
NICE WEATHER FOR AIRSTRIKES FESTIVAL 2012.
FRIDAY 25 – SUNDAY 27 MAY.
EVERY NIGHT AT THE DRUIDS ARMS / DITCHLING ROAD.
SATURDAY DAY OUTDOOR STAGE ON THE LEVEL.
SUNDAY DAY AT THE DRUIDS ARMS.
FREE ENTRY ALL WEEKEND.
POST ROCK / MATH ROCK / SHOEGAZE / EXPERIMENTAL.
As part of Brighton Fringe 2012 and in association with Friends of The Level.
Sponsored by BEARDED MAGAZINE, BRIGHTON ELECTRIC, PIXIES DAYCARE and BARDSLEY’S OF BAKER ST.
Featuring:
THREE TRAPPED TIGERS
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&U&I | HER NAME IS CALLA
RUN, WALK! | MONSTERS BUILD MEAN ROBOTS | YOU SLUT!
Stuart Warwick | Theo | The Slow Revolt
Love Among the Mannequins | Phoria | Saint Coltrane | Ed Wood Jnr
Alright the Captain | BirdEngine | Waking Aida | Mountaineering Club
oh kate.
Apolitical, unopinionated
Posted by morestrawberrywineplease
I like that 50%
I’ll do that to the 50% of my ability
Ill go 50%
Pics of life size Eva Unit-2
battle damged head in beserker/beast mode
AGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! meand my girl friend are jizzing nerdness in our pants ughhh ahhgfkahfkjhklga <3
Posted by morestrawberrywineplease
Pang-ing (pining), memory synapses working overtime.
Corner twisted mouth,
Glinted eye (tear glisten).
Tremble finger,
Goosebumped arm,
Attentive hair on neck.
Heart in mouth,
Care to wind,
Motionless head.
Hand shake,
Toe tap,
Eye-Lids lower,
Bliss undescribed.
I…
Posted by morestrawberrywineplease
I have an incessant need….
to learn.
I have an incessant need….
to create.
I have an incessant need….
to master
I have an incessant need….
to develope
I have an incessant need….
to climb
I have an incessant need….
to yearn
I have an incessant need….
to breakdown
I have an incessant need….
to rest.
Kingkiller love
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Observation: Kote is rapidly degenerating. At the beginning of the Name of the Wind, he kills five Scrael, which should be impossible and when he’s first talking to the Chronicler he blows up a bottle behind the bar using sympathy.
In the second book (ie. two days later), he’s severely beaten by two bandits and can’t do sympathy.
Hmm.
In the second book (ie. two days later), he’s severely beaten by two bandits and can’t do sympathy.
Hmm.
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Alex Schmidt Blease Not quite: Kote is a protective guy. The Scrael NEEDED to be killed, the Waystone was filling up with patrons that evening, and if he didn’t act for the saftey of others. People would have been hurt, maimed or even killed. He had no choice but to kill the scrael… its easy for him anyway no doubt…Thursday at 10:45am · -
Alex Schmidt Blease With the Bandits: Bast recruited those no-good thugs to “have a go at Kvothe”. Remember that awkward night where bast creeps into Chroniclers bedroom and things get… close. Bast is on a mission to try and get Kvothe back to his normal “Taborlin the great-esque” self. Bast’s idea was to get those thugs to taunt Kvothe, in the hope that Kvothe would defend himself and call down fire and lightning upon them.
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Alex Schmidt Blease However, Kvothe knew he could take a beating (lets be honest he’s had a lot worse than a couple of thugs kick him to the ground) and so he let himself get beat.
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Alex Schmidt Blease This is the problem with Kvothe that is unxplained. He bends over backwards to help others… Yet can’t seem to do anything to help himself.
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Alex Watts I’m sure there’s a bit, possibly at the end of the first book, maybe in the second where’s he trying to do sympathy and can’t. Not when he tries to open the thrice locked chest, but in the Inn. I think. -
Alex Schmidt Blease Ah yes I do remember. He set’s bast a challenge to open that chest. Bast’s methodical and mechanical methods prove futile. And then tries to open it himself but can’t….
Also thinking about it i seem to remember Kote saying that he HAS opened it before?
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Alex Schmidt Blease I applaud that fact that this discussion is public and for all to see.
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Alex Watts Actually it’s the music that’s most striking - the closest he comes to playing music (I think) in the sections with Bast and Chronicler are singing and clapping his hands in the Inn.
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Alex Watts Public on your wall, old boy. As far as the world knows, I am totally cool and probably can’t even read.
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Helen Macafferty Reid He plays and sings when there’s travellers at the inn. That’s why one of the men recognises him as Kvothe, because he does it so beautifully. Therefore, I think he still has the capability, but only when he forgets the inn keeper he’s become. When he fought the scrael, he was by himself and was therefore Kvothe. When he was attacked by the bandits he was Kote, the innkeeper -
Alex Watts Just read that bit - he sings, but doesn’t play. He keeps time by clapping his hands. And unless it comes up later you never see his lute, and I don’t think he mentions it.
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Alex Watts OH. His lute’s in the thrice locked chest. If he can unlock he’s Kvothe again. This must be.
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Alex Schmidt Blease Why the balls would he lock his lute away!!! It is worth more to him than his heart and soul! I bet that bitch Denna stole it from him.
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Alex Watts Perhaps it’s a symbolic/magical gesture. He does it so he’s not Kvothe anymore. I would put money on a heartbreaking scene in Doors of Stone where he gets the box open and plays his lute. Actually money. Not much, obviously.
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Helen Macafferty Reid And also, Denna would steal from Kvothe. you just hate her because you know she’s out of your league
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Alex Schmidt Blease God that would be a magical scene. What would drive him to lock himself away though? His look of all things! Merciful Tehlu…. I can see Denna stealing from him sure. If he locked way his lute or something else fittingly magical or powerful.. That what is he waiting for? if he wanted to be Kvothe no more.. why not destroy said lute/mysterious artifaact?
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Alex Watts I really don’t think Denna would steal his lute. She’s difficult, yes, because she’s living a difficult life - and kind of like Irene Adler now I think of it - but she wouldn’t take Kvothe’s lute.
He says there’s a price on his head early in the Name of the Wind (I am currently an expert on chapter 1-6). But I think he’s done something terrible - whether that’s killing the titular king, or something more personal - that’s made him ashamed of himself. He doesn’t want to be Kvothe anymore. My theory anyway.
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Alex Schmidt Blease *sneaks in for a quick update* The impression I have at the moment is. Yes Kote has done something that has driven him away from Kvothe. The great Kvothe the arcane, has committed or as had done to him an unthinkable act. If my memory serves me correctly, there is also a war on at the moment. I assume he may be part responsible for the war? Or he undiscovered a truth (maybe behind the doors of stone?) that lead to political unrest and consequently.. War. Ashamedly its a rather vague assumption, but we aren’t given any specifics as to who is fighting who, how it started, and how long its been going on.
The Price on his head, could be due to all of the above.
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Alex Watts As Professor Chapters 1-6, I can reveal that there’s an early reference to ‘The Penitent King’ who’s having trouble with rebels.
It could be a family truth, as well. If he is related to the Lackless family, he’s the key to the mysterious door - the rhyme mentions ‘a son who brings the blood’.
I’m ditching my ‘Kvothe’s mother was Fae’ theory. Despite his eyes occasionally changing colour and the fact that Edema Ruh traditionally camp at Graystones which it’s said lead into the Fae. -
Alex Schmidt Blease The penitent king… There is a “King of Vintas” I think. Maybe it’s him? It would make sense, only if Kvothe is destined to open the stone door in Vintas. Perhaps the Lackless (remember that is a derivation from Lockless) family, of which Kvothe may be a descendant is responsible for keeping what ever is behind the stone door hidden from the world. If Kvothe finds a way to open it and reveal whatever is inside, maybe that action alone is enough to cause an uprising. Or what is behind that stone door…
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Alex Watts How many Lockless stone doors do we know about? There’s the one in Vintas, and something very similar in the library.
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Alex Watts Just read something brilliant on that exhaustive thread you pointed me to - in a comment to main article. They reckon that when Kvothe ran away after his troupe was killed and lived in the woods playing his lute, he learned to play Names. Not a melody about a leaf, but the sound of what a leaf Is.
My own thinking is - maybe the reason the troupe were killed is that Kvothe’s father got close to capturing the true Names of the Chandrian in song.
Pleasingly, that would make Kvothe’s music as relevant, or more relevant than his magic. He eventually defeats the Chandrian not by learning the name of the wind but by completing his father’s song. -
Alex Schmidt Blease My mind is currently swimming in all of the speculation in this thread. And also the infinite number of subtle facts that i MISSED while reading the books! I knew Rothfuss writes a lot in rhyme and meter, even in the middle of a long wall of prose. But we hear the elderberry choosing game Bast sings at the end of wise mand’s fear, right at the start of the first book! bravo!
There does seem to be a strong connection between Kvothes magic and his music. He didn’t play for years whilst in Tarbean, and yet, when he stayes at the University for a few weeks, he picks up a lute, strolls over to the Eolian and hammers out the hardest song by Illien known to man with ease. Magic and music seem to be at the heart of discovering the Chandrian, i agree.
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This….. /passes out
Pointless rambles by AJB