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welcome to piledriver!!! this is basically a webzine about

well anything

music

art

society

but in this month’s issue we’re going to be talking about

nostalgia

NOSTALGIA WRITINGS

★ Becoming The Woodstock Nation - Hayley

★ Nostalgia - Hannah

★ Aren’t you feeling a little...nostalgic? – Gabby

NOSTALGIA

ART/COLLAGES/MIXES

ETC

★ N O S T A L G I A - Shannon

★ nostalgic vibes - Piney

OTHER

★ The Jesus and Mary Chain - Viktor

★ Music Review: Crosby, Stills & Nash – Prosser

★ Astrology: Aquarius – Lindsey

nostalgia

(photo by Hayley; model: Kortniee)

Nostalgia? What even is that?

I'm seventeen and these are the best years of my life. Er, that's what they keep telling me, anyway. I'm

not so sure. But I'm on the brink of something big, at any rate. Right? It's a new dawn. There's mere

months to graduation, if I end up being allowed to graduate.

I don't trust anybody who says they legitimately enjoy(ed) high school. The last time I enjoyed school, I

was twelve years old and cursing all the time like a tiny, androgynous sailor. I had just discovered "real"

music, and going to school was fun because my peers were horrified by how crass and disgusting I was. I

wore Grateful Dead t-shirts and dropped a lot of F-bombs and wanted to take down the Man (granted, I

wasn't totally sure who the Man was yet, but Jefferson Airplane said not to trust Him and I was twelve

years old at a hippie school during the Bush administration).

This year I was voted Most Unique in the class of 2013 at my high school. "Unique" is a nice way of

saying "most approachable weirdo". I was voted Weird Girl Who Is Least Likely To Become A Serial

Killer. It happens.

I don't remember who I voted for any superlative. I can only name about five people in my graduating

class. I barely remember high school, period, and I'm not even done with it yet. What did I spend the last

four years doing? What a valid question. I think the answer is drugs, mostly. (That's a lie).

I have spent my entire life pretending to be somewhere, someone, sometime else. Old people say I'm an

"old soul". I don't know what that means.

I'm not going to have children, but if I planned to, I would dread the day they wanted to know what was

popular when I was a teenager. They would want to make fun of me (like my brother and I when we were

children flipping through our dad's old yearbooks - class of 1980, or something like that). I wouldn't know

what to tell them because, sure, it's 2013 now, but where I'm at it's more like 1968.

My friend Stephanie and I have started telling people we're time travelers. It's mostly because I've just

read Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, and if Billy Pilgrim's universe can have time travelers, I figure mine

can too.

With that said, I don't really want it to be the 1960's. As much as I like acid rock and crushed velvet and

ugly, paisley bell-bottoms, I like having rights, too. And the Internet. I'm here for a reason. I'm who I am for

a reason. We all are.

But that doesn't change the fact that I dress like a space cadet and barely know what year it is. I barely

know what my name is, some days. I try on about a dozen identities in a given week. I'm still trying to

figure out what works.

I have to laugh at myself, though, when I don the floral schoolgirl dresses, and I rat my hair, and I go into

the record shops humming it's my party and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to, cry if I want to. Who am I?

What am I doing?

What are any of us doing when we put on the old clothes we found at Goodwill? And what are we doing

when we sit in our rooms and our sobs rock the Earth because, goddamn, that Stones album, that Dead

album, that Quicksilver album just hit like a ton of bricks and it hurts?

What are we doing?

Old people say I'm an "old soul," and like I said, I'm not totally sure what that means. I've been hearing it

since I was a kid though, and I think it has something to do with how I feel things and how I perceive the

world as opposed to the way most others see it. I don't think one way is necessarily better than the other,

but that's just how things are.

I guess there are others out there. Isn't there a Timothy Leary quote that says something like that? "Find

the others"? I think I've found them. Some of them, anyway. You probably know who you are.

I don't know what we're going to accomplish with this magazine. There's a near infinite number of

possibilities, I guess. But I am sick and tired of being one of these poor, poor souls who sits around crying

- I mean real, hysterical crying - because the nostalgia for something I never even got to experience is

just too overwhelming today.

What I mean is - I want to take those feelings and I want to do something bigger with them. I can only

really speak for myself here, but I think that maybe everyone does. To some extent, anyway.

I read an article one time that talked about showing video of Nirvana's performance at Reading in 1992 (I

think it was Reading, anyway, but I could be wrong) during a slot at Reading a couple of years ago, and

all I could think to myself was why? Who thought this was a good idea? What on Earth were they

thinking?

I guess it's the same idea. I'm tired of crying over the same footage; the same Woodstock DVD box set

over, and over, and over, and over. Because, instead of crying, we could take some cues from that. Why

not, right? (I'm talking "We" as a generation, here).

The nostalgia gets overwhelming. Sure it does. But think about it. It's like Paul Kantner says in "We Can

Be Together": we must begin here and now/a new continent of Earth and fire/tear down the walls/won't you try?

I sound like a lunatic here, probably. I get that. But it's like that Timothy Leary quote again. "Find the

others".

If you've ever cried because the music and the vibes that you love are just too powerful some days (and I

know that you have), this one's for you.

We have got to stop crying over the Woodstock Nation.

We can learn what year it is, maybe. I can learn how to remember my name. And we can build from there.

We can be the Woodstock Nation, and, you know, I don't even think I'd have to time travel to get us there.

If we tried hard enough, anyway.

So I guess what I'm really trying to say here is this:

Won't you try?

Nostalgia. That grainy 8mm film running over and over in your mind. It feels so long ago but it tastes so

near. Nostalgia -- It's a melancholic song that can tear the strongest person apart. Sometimes it hits so

unexpectedly… You never thought it could hurt so bad. For some nostalgia is calming and for some it is

bitter and for me it is usually the most bitter of all. It's such an odyssey, and it is the longest journey you will ever take because it lasts your whole life. That

is all you have left in your last moment whether you lay on your deathbed surrounded by family or if you

are suddenly struck by a bullet or any other death. All you have left before then is the memories you have

made. Look hard at them. They are the lines in your hands and the creases by your eyes as you laugh.

Never forget to laugh; when you laugh, laugh like hell. It will be the laughs and love that will give you the

most nostalgia. Those will hurt the worst but will be the most worthwhile.

Some have nostalgia for things they've never lived or a sort of warped nostalgia for the future. The smell

of old books and vinyl intoxicates you with it. Warped reminiscence -- missing the times from dreams and

days when not necessarily the most sober. It can be terrifying because maybe you think maybe that good

thing will never happen again and that you only ever got that once chance to do that thing or spend with

that person.

The most depressing drug I've ever had is that of nostalgia. Every time I've sat down with a razor or a

bottle of pills or anything, I did those things because of nostalgia. I shook hands with the devil for

nostalgia. There were times when I thought I would never hear the peal of my best friend's laughter again.

It builds up in your stomach and sometimes on the radio that song will come on that was from the day you

felt pure freedom. The day you were really allowed to live. Sometimes you'll cry or smoke a cigarette or

maybe you'll just sit there and stare blankly at the wall. Living in the past is a horrible thing to do. The

memories are your most prized possessions but like a drug they will destroy you from the inside. Make

your memories worthwhile but don't live in them, live for them.

- Hannah

nos·tal·gia:

Noun

A sentimental longing for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.

The evocation of these feelings or tendencies, esp. in commercialized form.

It's as easy as a Google word search. Nostalgia means different things to different people. It has a

familiar synonym which we all have had encounters with, homesickness. Now, homesickness latches on

to every person who is far from home or even just a few miles away. Thus, we find comfort in things like

food, music, activities, clothing, and even people. Here at the piledriver we all have that in common.

Nostalgia for the past.

I particular long for the easy breezy seventies. The people were a little nicer and hey there's nothing

wrong with bellbottoms? Amirite? Well, the music of that decade is what I grew up listening to and has

heavily influenced me and so many others that I know. I appreciate all the genres that were developing at

that time, from singer-songwriter to heavy rock.

The rock was so fucking heavy it was awesome. Too bad I'm just a sicteen year old with a computer who

was not born before the era to actually experience it. But that's okay, we'll worry about that later. (dazed

and confused reference) Bands like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd are usually the first things out of some

kid working at the Subway down the street if you ask him what the seventies were about. Normally. Trust

me I've done it.

This here is Digital Dream Door's list of the top Rock

http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_artists70s.html

that list touches on basically all my favorite bands. Almost all of them...

Moving on, the singer-songwriter portion of my life is just that major door that other people can't enter

because it's such a sensitive spot for me. Carole King used to play on Warm 106.5 in Seattle, Washington

when I was growing up and songs like I Fell the Earth Move and Too Late were imprinted in my brain for

all of eternity. James Taylor, Cat Stevens, America, Elton John, Billy Joel, and Paul McCartney were

tunes that flowed endlessly from my little blue radio I had. I used to sit in my room and play with my doll

house because there weren't any kids that lived on my street so I spent most of my time listening to

music. I didn't get into the Beatles as a whole till I was about 13 or 14. Tumblr was actually around for that

period of my life and it's not pretty.

All in all, don't lose that nostalgia, darlings. It will fuel the emptiness in your heart and make your nights a

little longer. It's worth it though when you meet someone with a similar taste in homesickness.

This is Gabby logging off, stay well and drink tea.

nostalgia art/mixes

etc

N O S T A L G I A

Nostalgia

its that feeling

in your gut

that makes you

want to throw

yourself into a

big empty ditch

and cry because

you’re getting older

you’re becoming an

adult.

Nos-tal-gia

noun

it’s a good

feeling to have

sometimes when you're

feeling kinda sad

but its not

good to use

as an excuse

to not

grow up.

- shannon

tween sugary bubblegum campy psuedo-90s nostalgia vibes

http://8tracks.com/bikenesmith/n-o-s-t-a-l-g-i-a/

- piney

other

-

I remember the first time i heard about the Jesus And Mary Chain. This was during a time when i

was obsessed with the Velvet Underground (which i still am), especially White Light/White

Heat. Someone recommended me to listen to a band called the Jesus And Mary Chain. I thought

the name was ridiculous, so I didn’t. Not until a few months later, when I stumbled upon a song

called Just Like Honey by the band that I had been told about before. ”Why not”, I told myself. I

didn’t have anything better to do anyway. The song started out with the same drum intro as the

Ronettes’ Be My Baby, but then a G chord, filled with fuzz and echo, changed the song’s

direction. The group’s vocalist, Jim Reid, started singing with a laid-back style that i liked a lot,

and made me look up the group’s legendary Psychocandy album.

The group was formed in early ’84 by brothers Jim and William Reid, with Douglas Hart playing

bass and 16 year old Murray Dalglish bashing skins. In October the same year the group released

their debut single, Upside Down, backed with a cover of a Syd Barrett song called Vegetable

Man on the legendary Creation label. The first 1000 copies were printed in red with black words

in Glasgow by the band’s future drummer, Bobby Gillespie, and featured a message from the

group, saying ”Bless me

Iggy, for I have sinned” in

the run-out groove of the

record. The next copies were

printed in different colours,

including red with blue

words, pink with blue words,

yellow with black words,

blue with black words and

black with red words.

In November the same year,

Murray was kicked out of the

band after his dad demanded

that he should be given more

money, despite the fact that

the band didn’t earn much

money, if any at all. The

previously mentioned Bobby

Gillespie was recruited as the

band’s drummer. In February

of 1985, the Upside Down

single made it onto the top of

the UK Indie chart and

stayed on the chart for 76

weeks. The single sold a

total of about 35 000 copies,

making it one of the best

selling UK indie singles of

the 80’s. The success of Upside Down led to interest from Blanco y Negro label, which signed

the group in early 1985. In February 1985, the band’s first major single was released. Never

Understand, backed with Suck, was a delight. Released in a orange sleeve with only the words

”The Jesus And Mary Chain” printed on it, the song was an even bigger success than Upside

Down, reaching number 47 on the UK Singles chart.

The follow-up, You Trip Me Up, was delayed as staff at the pressing plant refused to press it due

to the risque title of the B-side, Jesus Suck. The band replaced Jesus Suck with a song called Just

Out Of Reach, and the single was finally released in June 1985. The single reached 55 in the UK

Singles chart, which led to the band recording a radio session for the legendary discjockey John

Peel and also led to the Mary Chain shakin’ their booties on TV shows The Old Grey Whistle

Test and The Tube. In October ’85 the band released Just Like Honey backed with Head, which

would be their biggest success thus far, reaching number 45 on the UK Singles chart.

Hot on the heels of Just Like Honey came the band’s debut LP, Psychocandy. The album,

influenced by the likes of the Stooges and the Velvet Underground and groups such as the

Shangri-Las, the Beach Boys and the Ronettes, the Crystals and other Phil Spector-produced

groups (as said before the opening track, Just Like Honey, borrows its drum intro from the

Ronettes Be My Baby), was well recieved by both critics and fans; NME critic Andy Gill

described it as ”a great citadel of beauty whose wall of noise, once scaled, offers access to

endless vistas of melody and emotion”. Even the teen magazine Smash Hits gave the album

9.5/10 in their review, and in later years the album has appeared in many ”Greatest albums of all

time” lists.

After the success of Psychocandy, the group toured the US, Japan and the UK in late ’85 and

’86. In July ’86, the band released an EP called Some Candy Talking, which included the title

track Some Candy Talking, a song the band had been playing live for over a year but they had

left off Psychocandy, a song titled Psychocandy which didn’t appear on the album and a song

called Hit. An extended version was also released, featuring acoustic versions of Cut Dead and

You Trip Me Up from the Psychocandy album, as well as acoustic versions of Some Candy

Talking and Psychocandy, which were taken from a John Peel session the band had recorded in

November 1985. The EP reached number 13 in the UK chart, but Radio 1 DJ Mike Smith

decided that it was about heroin and convinced the station to put a ban on it. At the time of the

ban the group denied that this was the subject of the song, but a year later, William admitted it.

In September ’86, the band came close to breaking up, with Jim Reid suffering from

”exhaustion”. John Moore moved from drums to rhythm guitar, and a bloke called Martin Hewes

briefly was the band’s drummer before being replaced by James Pinker. In early 1987 the band

went into the studio again to start recording their second album, Darklands. In April, the first

products from these sessions, April Skies backed with Kill Surf City, a re-working of Brian

Wilson’s Surf City. April Skies featured a previously unheard of and more melodic sound from

the group, and paved the way for the forthcoming album. It also resulted in the band’s first top

ten hit, reaching number 8 in the UK Singles chart. In August the same year, the next pre-album

single, Happy When It Rains, with a song called Everything’s Alright When You’re Down as the

flip, was released. It failed to reach the success of April Skies, peaking at number 25 in the

charts. After this, the band went onto another UK tour, with mixed reactions from the music

press; they performed without a drummer, using a drum machine.

In September ’87, during the band’s tour, Darklands was released. The album was more melodic

than Psychocandy and recorded almost only by the Reid brothers, and no real drummer was used

on the album either. The album recieved positive reviews, and the title track was released as a

single with the B-side Rider in October and charted at number 33.

The band was active up until 1999, but since i think 1984-’87 was the best years for the Jesus

And Mary Chain, and since this article would be way too long if i wrote about their entire career,

this seems like a good place to stop writing.

If you don’t have anything by Jesus And Mary Chain, then two essential albums are

Psychocandy and Darklands. Anyone with an interest in pop history should have a Jesus And

Mary Chain album or six in their collection. Go out and get some.

- viktor

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969)

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ (5/5 stars)

Track Listing:

1. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Stills)

2. Marrakesh Express (Nash)

3. Guinevere (Crosby)

4. You Don't Have To Cry (Stills)

5. Pre-Road Downs (Nash)

6. Wooden Ships (Crosby, Stills, Kantner)

7. Lady of the Island (Nash)

8. Helplessly Hoping (Stills)

9. Long Time Gone (Crosby)

10. 49 Bye-Byes (Stills)

Crosby, Stills & Nash (as most people know) is the 1969 folk rock supergroup formed by former Byrd David

Crosby, Stephen Stills of the Buffalo Springfield, and Graham Nash of The Hollies. Out of the ash and

dismemberment of their former bands came this arrangement, and one of the most groundbreaking, most successful

musical partnerships was born. Their first self-titled album was released in May of 1969, and along with albums like

the Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo and The Band's Music From Big Pink, Crosby, Stills & Nash sparked change in

the music scene for years to come.

This album opens with the almost 8 minute long medley "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", Stills' song to his lover at the time,

Judy Collins. Through the intimate lyrics and strong vocals from Stills, along with Crosby and Nash (backed by a

unique array of sounds and instruments, evoking different emotions with each strum, each hit), each portion of the

track takes you further away from where you are sitting and submerges you into a colorful midsummer forest of

sound. "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" is one of the crowning achievements of the band, and it's clear to see why it remains

a favorite of many throughout the years.

Following that is the upbeat, funky, and exotic "Marrakesh Express", written by Graham Nash, and "Guinevere", an

enchanting song Crosby penned about three (rumored to be four) of his favorite ladies at the time. "You Don't Have

To Cry" is a bittersweet tune which apparently also concerns Judy Collins, much like "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes". "Pre-

Road Downs", another written by Nash, almost serves as a sort of intermission, a change of pace and emotion just

for a moment, making way for the of the rest of the album.

The sixth track is "Wooden Ships", which tells a tale of three survivors who are fleeing the land after widespread

nuclear fallout. This song was written by Stills, Crosby, and Paul Kantner (of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson

Starship fame), but Kantner was not credited for the song on the album. The song, though mostly melancholy in tone

and cold ("Horror grips us as we watch you die/All we can do is echo your anguished cries/Stare as all human

feelings die/We are leaving/You don't need us"), the song ends on a more positive note, as if there is some hope for

the future in a desolate and burnt-out world.

"And it's a fair wind, blowin' warm,

Out of the south over my shoulder,

Guess I'll set a course and go..."

Following that is "Lady of the Island", a song assumed to be about Joni Mitchell. Much like "Guinevere", it has a

magical and airy quality to it that is different from the majority of the album, along with the track that follows it, the

dismal lament "Helplessly Hoping".

"Long Time Gone" is David Crosby's politically inspired piece that aids Stills' lighthearted "49 Bye-Byes" in pulling

the album to a close. "49 Bye-Byes" almost seems to serve as a goodbye from the band to the audience with it being

placed at the end of the listing. Yet another number that one can assume is for and about Judy Collins, it feels as if

it's the icing and the cherry on top of the cake. Ending the album on "Long Time Gone" would leave too many open-

ended strings to be tied, especially with the way the song just drops out into nothing at the end.

Personally, I believe that Crosby, Stills & Nash is the perfect album for summer. Each time I listen to "Suite: Judy

Blue Eyes", it gives me the feeling you get when you dip your feet into the water for the first time in June, and I'll

admit that I've watched quite a few summer sunrises with a cup of tea, jamming to "Long Time Gone". "Wooden

Ships" evokes nightmares that draw in your curiosity and imagination, despite the conditions of the world they

painted. There's a song for every state of mind and feeling on the album, intimate pieces and feel good pieces and all

sorts of works to fit any mood someone might have in their day to day life.

So, with all of my obvious bias, I give Crosby, Stills & Nash five stars out of five. From beginning to end it tells

many stories and even chronicles the lives of the three men behind the musical madness of this band. There are a lot

of things that would be different in my life and there are a lot of things I wouldn't have done if I hadn't started

listening to them last summer, and I'm anxious to see if they have the same effect on others as they do on me.

- prosser

( Pictured above: Yoko Ono, China Kantner, Sharon Tate, and Peter Tork )

FACTS:

Born:

January 20-February 18

Lucky days:

Saturday and Sunday

Lucky numbers:

4, 8, 13, 17, 22, 26

Positive qualities:

Veracity, Legitimacy, Investigative spirit, friendly, humanitarian, honest, loyal, original, inventive, independent, and

intellectual

Negative qualities:

Intractable, contrary, perverse, unpredictable, unemotional, and detached

General features:

A typical Aquarius has the attribute of intense desire to communicate. You are a bit tactless and rude if you don't

learn to moderate your constant broadcasting around those whose opinions may be a bit more on the conservative

side. You are interesting and attractive. You can be shy, sensitive, gentle and patient or enthusiastic and lively with a

tendency to be exhibitionists. Both types are strong willed and forceful in its own way. You are very opinionated

with strong convictions and fight for what you believe. You are farsighted and innovative. You are generally without

prejudice and quite tolerant of others' point of view. They are good listeners, and care deeply for their friends. To

people they are not close to however, they can be somewhat detached. The Aquarius sun sign is true blue and loyal.

They are one of the first to sign up to server their country, and will give their lives defending her.

You are truly humane and known to be frank and outspoken. You are refined and idealistic, romantic and practical,

personable and likable person. Being quick in mind and responding, you love activity and are quite reasonable in

that. They can be counted on to come up with original ideas. They make good designers and inventors as well as

musicians. These intellectuals excel in the arts as well as the technical trades. You cherish and guard your

independence and are a strange mixture of caring concern and cool detachment. You will go out of your way to help

when needed but will never get emotionally involved.

Aquarians basically possess strong and attractive personalities. They fall into two principle types: one shy, sensitive,

gentle and patient; the other exuberant, lively and exhibitionist, sometimes hiding the considerable depths of their

character under a cloak of frivolity. Both types are strong willed and forceful in their different ways and have strong

convictions, though as they seek truth above all things, they are usually honest enough to change their opinions,

however firmly held, if evidence comes to light which persuades them that they have been mistaken. They have a

breadth of vision that brings diverse factors into a whole, and can see both sides of an argument without shilly-

shallying as to which side to take. Consequently they are unprejudiced and tolerant of other points of view. This is

because they can see the validity of the argument, even if they do not accept it themselves. They obey the Quaker

exhortation to "Be open to truth, from whatever source it comes," and are prepared to learn from everyone.

Both types are humane, frank, serious minded, genial, refined, sometimes ethereal, and idealistic, though this last

quality is tempered with a sensible practicality. They are quick, active and persevering without being self-assertive,

and express themselves with reason, moderation and sometimes, a dry humor.

They are nearly always intelligent, concise, clear and logical. Many are strongly imaginative and psychically

intuitive, so that the Age of Aquarius, which is about to begin, is much anticipated by psychic circles as an age in

which mankind will experience a great spiritual awakening. The Aquarian philosophical and spiritual bent may be

dangerous in that it can drive the subjects into an ivory-tower existence where they meditate on abstractions that

bear little relevance to life. On the other hand it can help the many who have scientific leanings to combine these

with the Aquarian yearning for the universal recognition of the brotherhood of man, and to embark on scientific

research to fulfill their philanthropic ideals of benefiting mankind. When some cause or work of this nature inspires

them, they are capable of such devotion to it that they may drive themselves to the point of exhaustion and even risk

injuring their health.

Both types need to retire from the world at times and to become temporary loners. They appreciate opportunities for

meditation or, if they are religious, of retreats. Even in company they are fiercely independent, refusing to follow the

crowd. They dislike interference by others, however helpfully intended, and will accept it only on their own terms.

Normally they have good taste in drama, music and art, and are also gifted in the arts, especially drama.

In spite of the often intensely magnetic, forthcoming and open personality of the more extrovert kind of Aquarian,

and of their desire to help humanity, neither type makes friends easily. They sometimes appear to condescend to

others and take too little trouble to cultivate the acquaintance of people who do not particularly appeal to them.

They do not give themselves easily - perhaps their judgment of human nature is too good for that - and are

sometimes accounted cold. But once they decide that someone is worthy of their friendship or love, they can exert

an almost hypnotic and irresistible mental attraction on them and will themselves become tenacious friends or

lovers, ready to sacrifice everything for their partners and be faithful to them for life. However, they are sometimes

disappointed emotionally because their own high personal ideals cause them to demand more of others than is

reasonable. And if they are deceived their anger is terrible. If disillusioned, they do not forgive.

Aquarians work best in group projects, provided that they are recognized as having a leading part in them. They

have a feeling of unity with nature and a desire for knowledge and truth that makes them admirable scientists,

especially astronomers and natural historians. They may excel in photography, radiography, electronics - anything

connected with the electrical and radio industries - aviation and everything technical. On the arts and humanities

side their progressive tendencies can be expressed in writing, especially poetry, and broadcasting, or as welfare

workers and teachers. Some have gifts as entertainers and make good character actors (having an ability to mimic)

and musicians. The more psychic among them possess healing gifts, especially in curing the mentally sick.

Among the faults to which they are liable are fanatical eccentricity, wayward egotism, excessive detachment and an

inclination to retreat from life and society, and a tendency to be extremely dogmatic in their opinions. Aquarians can

be a threat to all they survey or a great boon for humanity in general. Circumstances - for example, continuous

opposition to a cause they hold dear - may cause the atrophy of the openness of mind that is one of the Aquarian's

most attractive traits. They may express a lack of integrity in broken promises, secretiveness or cunning. Simmering

anger and resentment, rudeness or, worse, a tense, threatening silence which may suddenly burst out in eruptions of

extreme temper, these are all part of the negative side of the Aquarian. This can also reveal itself in a sustained

hatred for enemies that is capable of enlarging itself into a misanthropy toward the whole of mankind.

Aquarius with feelings and emotions:

Not all aquarians find it easy to express their feelings. Often times they are uncomfortable about the romantic nature

of a love relationship. They are entertaining, extrovert and very intelligent, sometimes idealistic. They are popular

and tend to have several friends that play an important role in their life. Also it must be noted that Aquarius many

times will have same-sex friends, close friends, and it makes it easy for a partner to become jealous. However, not to

worry, if the relationship's foundation has been laid solid enough, they will never go astray.

Aquarians often have some difficulty in handling their emotions, and also have trouble handling other's emotions.

This may cause them to ignore a partner's insecurities, jealousies and intimate feelings, it does not mean they are

"cold" but rather self protective and guarded.

Signs Aquarius is most compatible with:

Libra, Gemini, Sagittarius, and Aries. (The best match is with Libra)

Signs Aquarius is least compatible with:

Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Virgo

Other famous Aquarians:

Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Franklin D. Roosevelt,

Michael Jordan, Paris Hilton, Lewis Carroll, Graham Nash, Alice Cooper, Charles Dickens

Header graphic: Me

Credit graphic: Me

All the pictures were found either via google image search or through tumblr and do not belong to me.

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- lindsey

special thx to:

google. without u i would have no idea how to use microsoft word.

peace n love n waterbeds

- piney