The town that gave birth to such genius

[Maria Jose]

Grangemouth or Las Vegas ?
This must be the place where Robin used to work . . .
Aerial view of BP's complex looking over plant toward the town of Grangemouth.
http://www.falkirk.net/grangemouth/bparial.jpg

[Phil Lawton]

B

It'd have made a great backdrop to a different video to the song, though.

[Phil Lawton]

Hmmm...

You see, I LIKE big, industrial areas, especially at night. I always think that HOH sounds better if I'm driving at night through an urban area, particularly if there's some sort of heavy industry going on.

Ditto for some of Craig Armstrong's material (especially "Rise").

[E-Lo]

Originally posted by by the sea
[B]blair atholl gardens...don't you just love that overcast in the sky and that swamp below.
maybe that peppermint pig record cover was shot here.[B]

Bee-you-tee-full! These pics are all so cool

[fredofla]

Originally posted by by the sea
it's funny to think that this place gave birth to...pearly dewdrops drops

http://www.gesund.co.at/gesund/Infothek/Umweltmedizin/grangemouth.jpg


possible truism:

it makes perfect sense that even the harshest of environmental climates should produce an overcompensating desire for all kinds of imaginary endeavors that might provide some pleasant escape into places of otherworldly beauty or physical relief.

and, yes.......i oughta know:

my hometown is Pittsburgh.




FRED of LA

the late industrial etherealista

[©nevery]

You see, I LIKE big, industrial areas, especially at night. I always think that HOH sounds better if I'm driving at night through an urban area, particularly if there's some sort of heavy industry going on.

.....yes, industrial areas at night can have a charm that has something of both runway with its lights and a deserted place. at night they actually they do become holes in the 'social fabric', they do become deserted places. i feel that poetry often leaks through holes in the social fabric. you undo a crucial ellement of the social fabric as language (as E. Fraser) and it can be very poetic with free feeling undefinable by syntax....like you see, industrial places where they have night shifts wouldn't be exactly the same thing....

[Maria Jose]

FRED of LA,late industrial etherealista

I like it !
Yes , so much has to be said about the special "beauty" of those places at certain times of the day . . .
They can be awfully poetic ballerina

[©nevery]

remember this movie called "Stalker"-it had these deserted factories and these lost people i was touched, such a breathtaking beauty-also with the other movies by the same Russian film maker (my 0percent namedropping and reference skills)

[iceblink555]

Originally posted by Phil Lawton
Hmmm...

You see, I LIKE big, industrial areas, especially at night. I always think that HOH sounds better if I'm driving at night through an urban area, particularly if there's some sort of heavy industry going on.

Ditto for some of Craig Armstrong's material (especially "Rise").

Same here. I love criss-crossing mazes of pipes and the immense variety of lights in industrial complexes. I grew up in Corpus Christi, TX, which, like Grangemouth, is also a big refinery and petrochemical town. I assume I'm not the only one here who likes the movie Brazil.... And how 'bout that "Pipes" screen saver--I can stare at that for hours! --Alan

[iceblink555]

Originally posted by FREDofLA

it makes perfect sense that even the harshest of environmental climates should produce an overcompensating desire for all kinds of imaginary endeavors that might provide some pleasant escape into places of otherworldly beauty or physical relief.


I have a sort of geo-cultural theory along these lines. It seems like places with colder, rainy climates tend to produce more artists, esp. of the very introspective, other-worldly variety like CT. In places where the climate is depressing, people seem to turn inward and become more contemplative. If the CT had come from Florida, they probably woulda been out at the beach or something, not holed up in a studio creating ethereal masterpieces. Just a theory.... --Alan

[Phil Lawton]

Al

With you on that one:

CT
Bjork
Sigur Ros
Sex Pistols (it does get a bit parky 'round Chiswick way in January).

[Maria Jose]

The ultimate soundtrack .
Today I was litening to Aphex Twin ' s " Blue Calx" and pictured the B&W
photo sent by BTS , slow motion ,moving thru the industrial maze,at night and at dawn.
It must be beautiful.