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[–]AeoooAe 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Andrew Bird - Sisyphus

If it’s raining rocks, become Sisyphus.

They’ve taken down the 500 biggest mountains in Appalachia. We’ve already flattened an area larger than the State of Delaware. We buried 2200 miles of rivers and streams. If you fly over that, you’ll be sick to your stomach.

The most awe inspiring parts of the purple mountains majesty of the Appalachians have been destroyed and are no more, and neither is the 🎶purple rain, purple rain🎶 that these mountains used to attract. If there’s rain still, it’s been replaced by an acid rain that causes toxic levels of mercury to be in every fish nowadays in America.

Ladies and gentlemen, messenger Robert Kennedy in just a three minute video.

Same guy in a two minutes video on the Sisyphus myth directly

He also has great ideas on how to take on Blackrock, both in Ukraine and at home

Alex Gendler on The myth of Sisyphus

Well worth the watch. Honorary mention for Ares, who set Thanatos aka the Grim Reaper free from the chains that Sisyphus had bound him too, because “war wasn’t fun anymore without death.”

[–]Orochiwe don't need no water let the mother[honk] burn 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I want to ride the waves down in Galveston when the hurricanes blow in

'Cause that Gulf Coast water tastes sweet as wine when your heart's rolling home in the wind

And I wish it would rain

[–]stickdog 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

[–]AeoooAe 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

It is said that no word is more popular in poetry than snow, but rain has its share, and what a share it is.

Elizabeth Bishop - Song For The Rainy Season

Thomas Hardy - During Wind and Rain

Emily Dickinson - A drop fell on the apple tree

Don Patterson - Rain

And, saved for the end, the killer lines:

Edward Thomas - Rain

The poem and backstory that Vikki the Hutt & co have never read, and if, as a guilty pleasure of triumphant, sadistic glee, for off-hand, brain-impeded mockery and for equally brain-dead confirmation of pathetically claimed superiority, instead of receiving it as a knife cutting through the sinister layers and worthless rubble of the persona, opening the awareness within and what’s left in such malignant narcissists of a possible heart connection.

[–]stickdog 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Some of my very favorite poets of all time are cited here. Thanks.

[–]AeoooAe 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you for sending me there.

Btw. no objections against the Morphine and Sonny Boy Williamson entries either, to the contrary, but it looks like you made the wrong pick with Rain in Spain. Never misunderestimate your own casual power to help bring about stuff. Must have been the proverbial drop that made the bucket list of collective creation overflow…

Let’s find an alternative:

Yasmeen Olya - Rain Drops for Rosa

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The Seatbelts - Rain

[–]Xeenophile 1 insightful - 4 fun1 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

The obligatory Chocolate Rain

[–]SusanJ 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Traffic - Coloured Rain

Dada - Mary Sunshine Rain

The Judybats - Waiting for the Rain

Deep Purple - One More Rainy Day

The Guess Who - Rain Dance

[–]SusanJ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

David Cassidy - Rainmaker

[–]BerryBoy1969It's not red vs. blue - It's capital vs. you 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

ELO - Showdown

The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men

Supertramp - It's Raining Again

James Taylor - Fire and Rain

Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain

Nilsson - Rainmaker

Otis Taylor - Rain So Hard

Otis Taylor - Blue Rain In Africa

B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

SRV - Texas Flood

CCR - Have You Ever Seen The Rain

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Little April Shower from Bambi (1942). Some of the best animation I've ever seen. Watch Bambi's ears. Great triangle part, too!

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

The Battle in the Rain from Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece Seven Samurai (1954). I have never seen rain and mud better used as dramatic elements. Pure cinematic genius.

The leader with the plate of armor tied to his forehead is the great Takashi Shimura. The agile fellow with no pants is the even greater Toshiro Mifune. (It's a loincloth.) The men on horseback are a band of brigands who have been trying to pillage the village.

"Pillage the village?" That can't be right! (H/T Groucho Marx)

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So good!

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Purple Rain - Prince

[–]ageingrockstar 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thought you might have linked to this famous performance in the purple pouring rain

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Batdance - not quite a raindance, but I'll take it!

[–]Maniak🥃😾 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

A bit of Romanian rain: Capuccino - Ploaia

And it's timely. Finally some rain coming in over here this weekend to bring temperatures down to acceptable levels \o/

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Romanian

Semi-random.... Cossack gal dancing

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[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Haunting!

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SWV - Rain