[ANALYZE] Brother's Recent VMs (310)933-5901

[ladron121]

There has been a lot of activity in the last 30 days or so on Brother's voicemail (310)933-5901. Just so we are prepared, IF it becomes a part of something bigger, I have gathered them here. I will post the artist name, song name, album name, and the lyrics to the song. The actual portions used in the VM are in bold. Any further Brother VMs should also be posted here, for the time being anyway

12/27/06: Coheed and Cambria - A Favor House Atlantic from In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

Your eyes tell the stories of a day you wish you could
Recall the moments that once have
Retract the footsteps that brought us to this favor
I wouldn't ask this of you

Good eye, sniper
Here I'll shoot, you run
The words you scribbled on the walls
With the loss of friends you didn't have
I'll call you when the time is right
Are you in or are you out?
For them all to know the end of us all

Run quick, they're behind us
Didn't think we'd ever make it
This close to safety in one piece
Now you wanna kill me in the act of what could maybe
Save us from sleep and what we are

Good eye, sniper
Now I shoot, you run
The words you scribbled on the walls
With the loss of friends you didn't have
I'll call you when the time is right
Are you in or are you out?
For them all to know the end of us all

Bye bye beautiful
Don't bother to write
Disturbed by your words and they're calling all cars
Face step, let down.
Face step, step down.

The words you scribbled on the walls
With the loss of friends you didn't have
I'll call you when the time is right
Are you in or are you out?
For them all to know

Bye bye beautiful
Don't bother to write
Disturbed by your words and they're calling all cars
Face step, let down.
Face step, step down.

Bye bye beautiful
Don't bother to write
Disturbed by your words and they're calling all cars
Face step, let down.
Face step, step down.

1/1/07: Belle and Sebastian - Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying from If You're Feeling Sinister

ooh! get me away from here i'm dying
Play me a song to set me free
Nobody writes them like they used to
So it may as well be me
Here on my own now after hours
Here on my own now on a bus
Think of it this way
You could either be successful or be us
With our winning smiles, and us
With our catchy tunes and words
Now we're photogenic
You know, we don't stand a chance

Oh, i'll settle down with some old story
About a boy who's just like me
Thought there was love in everything and everyone
You're so naive!
They always reach a sorry ending
They always get it in the end
Still it was worth it as i turned the pages solemnly, and then
With a winning smile, the poor boy
With naivety succeeds
At the final moment, i cried
I always cry at endings

Oh, that wasn't what i meant to say at all
From where i'm sitting, rain
Falling against the lonely tenement
Has set my mind to wander
Into the windows of my lovers
They never know unless i write
"this is no declaration, i just thought i'd let you know goodbye"
Said the hero in the story
"it is mightier than swords
I could kill you sure
But i could only make you cry with these words"

1/20/07: Alkaline Trio - I Was A Prayer from Crimson

I am waiting 'til there's nothing left
I'm a prayer, all you see is breath
I am empty, I am skin and bones, I'm a ribcage
Well, I'm out the door with apathy
But I'm coming home with sympathy
I am realized, I am shamed, I choose to stay here

You got a sign, so I paid the ransom
You felt sorry, so I felt the wrath come
Had a nice grip on my life 'til you twisted my arm
My arm

There's a song I love so much I stole
Every precious note I took, I sold
Now I spit out words, do you see my lungs on the dance floor?
To a hopeless cause, I sold my soul
A romantic plastic piece of shit you can mold
Until I break into chokable pieces

You got a sign, so I paid the ransom
You felt sorry, so I felt the wrath come
Had a nice grip on my life 'til you twisted my arm
My arm

And I open up like the back of a book
I ruin everything with just a quick look
And I settle down like a rocket explodes
Hit the ground, but how far out who knows

You got a sign, so I paid the ransom
You felt sorry, so I felt the wrath come
Had a nice grip on my life 'til you twisted my arm
My arm

1/29/07: Goo Goo Dolls - Long Way Down from A Boy Named Goo

Oh here you are, there's nothing left to say
You're not supposed to be that way
Did they push you out? did they throw you away?

Touch me now and I don't care
When you take me I'm not there
Almost human, but I'll never be the same


Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own
Long way down, I don't want to live in here alone
Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own


I never put you down, I never pushed you away
You're not supposed to be that way
And anything you want, there's nothing I could say

Is there anything to feel?
Is it pain that makes you real?
Cut me off before it kills me


Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own
Long way down, I don't want to live in here alone
Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own


I never put you down, I never pushed you away
Take another piece of me
Give my mind a new disease
And the black and white world never fades to gray


Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own
Long way down, I don't want to live in here alone
Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own

2/3/07: Knapsack - Cold Enough to Break from This Conversation is Ending Starting Right Now

It's cold enough to break
Beneath the weight of this mistake
And no one can tell me it's alright
I hope it's not too late
For the man who's less than brave
And no one can tell me but no one can tell
Deny the charges, call collect
Fodding over the failed attempt
And I am failing you
There are answers, never tell
Sharing rooms with cancer cells
I am not immune
Call out and come down
I finally recognize
Tired angels barely able
Keep me safe tonight
It's cold enough to break
Beneath the weight of this mistake
And no one can tell me it's alright
I hope it's not too late
For the man who's less than brave
And no one can tell me but no one can tell
We're keeping quiet and we'll decide
What's desperation, sick inside
I am not allowed
There are reasons I will keep
Ever-hopeful fall asleep
I can show you how
Call out and come down
I finally recognize
Tired angels barely able
Keep me safe tonight
It's cold enough to break
Beneath the weight of this mistake
And no one can tell me it's alright

[tiltingwindward]

This is what I see, and it tells me that Gemma isn't dead...or, at least, that Brother didn't kill her:

Good eye, sniper
Now I shoot, you run
...
I'll call you when the time is right
Are you in or are you out?
...
At the final moment, i cried
I always cry at endings
...
You got a sign, so I paid the ransom
You felt sorry, so I felt the wrath come
...
And I open up like the back of a book
I ruin everything with just a quick look
And I settle down like a rocket explodes
...
I never put you down, I never pushed you away
You're not supposed to be that way
And anything you want, there's nothing I could say
...
I hope it's not too late
...
Fodding over the failed attempt
And I am failing you
There are answers, never tell

[cynicar]

Maybe his failure is in failing to keep up with Bree et al, rather than something to do with Gemma. Seems more likely to me.

I mean, their (Bree, DB, and Jonas's) situation has gone to crap since Brother started getting sassy. All "I can handle this" and whatnot.

Maybe he wasn't supposed to post the vids to Gemma's account? He did it while Tach was already out of the country.

I just think there's a lot of other possible failures other than not killing Gemma. If he hadn't killed her and didn't make it obvious he hadn't, that would kind of be the ultimate betrayal of all time. Tach could never ever work with him again. And it would certainly merit more apology than emo song messages.

[lookyz]

oooh cynicar, you just gave me an idea -
Maybe he was supposed to post something (maybe for us) and he forgot/messed up....

From Tach's YT profile

There's more, but her penmanship is atrocious...

I'm not too worried about it though. It's mostly suggestions for while she's away in Fiji, assisting our friends at 5 on a recovery mission.

that also gives the PMs a reason for the prolonged radio silence (I mean besides the quote from oppy)

[tiltingwindward]

I'm more inclined to believe that the whole "Fiji" thing is just Brother's cover for why he and Tachyon aren't talking anymore. After all, he doesn't want us to know that they're on the outs, but he has to give a reason for her sudden silence.

Cynicar, Tachyon hasn't spoken to Brother -- or to anyone -- since Gemma's alleged death. Brother's VMs are getting increasingly desperate. He's had to make up a fictional trip to Fiji ("our friends at 5?" Since when have Brother and Tachyon had friends?) to cover. It looks pretty serious to me.

[onsweetavenue]

If he didn't kill Gemma it reeks of some sort of reverse snow white. The happy hunter falls in love with the beautiful girl and can't bear to kill her. heh.

Except our snow white is evil.

[Logan]

Except our snow white is evil.

But still kind of hot, not going to lie.

[Beautiful Nightmare]

Well, exactly, our snow white is evil (although I think that's a relative term ) So, it fits PERFECTLY into a reverse Snow White.

[spiff5000]

Maybe his failure is in failing to keep up with Bree et al, rather than something to do with Gemma. Seems more likely to me.

I mean, their (Bree, DB, and Jonas's) situation has gone to crap since Brother started getting sassy. All "I can handle this" and whatnot.

Maybe he wasn't supposed to post the vids to Gemma's account? He did it while Tach was already out of the country.

I just think there's a lot of other possible failures other than not killing Gemma. If he hadn't killed her and didn't make it obvious he hadn't, that would kind of be the ultimate betrayal of all time. Tach could never ever work with him again. And it would certainly merit more apology than emo song messages.

If Brother didn't kill Gemma then he will have to die at Tachyon's hands. She would have to do this before any further action can be taken against OpAphid.

[tiltingwindward]

Here's something else I've been thinking about...

I'll call you when the time is right
Are you in or are you out?
...
Deny the charges, call collect

So...is Brother asking someone to call him? And if so, who? I'm inclined to think Tachyon, of course, because all the VMs have been for her so far, and because Tachyon is known for her "calling card." But if Tachyon is the desired caller, it doesn't explain the second line--"are you in or are you out?" I know it's from a song not written by Brother (obviously), but that is too deliberate a line to mean nothing. Does Brother have a plan that Tachyon wasn't sure about? Or is Brother trying to contact someone else...someone who might not be fully recruited to his cause yet?

Either way, if these two line segments go together, Brother's given the signal that the time is right...and we DID just get a new VM #...

Note: All of this may mean nothing, but there are so many coincidences here I cannot be sure.

[cynicar]

I think line by line analysis is a little dangerous in the case of the VM's. There's a lot of double messages that one can pull out of any and all of the songs he's chosen that probably result from the fact that most are love songs not "assasination and covert behavior" songs.

Here's how I'm breaking down the chain:
A Favor from the House Atlantic: Way to set up Gemma. I'll call you when the job is done.
Get Me Away From Here: Gemma = Dead. I'm somewhat nostalgic and thoughtful over this.
I Was a Prayer: I am dissenting over something. Your plan = Crap, Tach.
Long Way Down: I messed up. Can you help me out though?
Cold Enough to Break: Ok, seriously. Everything has gone to hell in a handbasket and it's all my fault for not listening to you. PLEASE HELP.

aaaaaaaaaaaaand End Scene.

[madsweeney]

I think line by line analysis is a little dangerous in the case of the VM's. There's a lot of double messages that one can pull out of any and all of the songs he's chosen that probably result from the fact that most are love songs not "assasination and covert behavior" songs.

Here's how I'm breaking down the chain:
A Favor from the House Atlantic: Way to set up Gemma. I'll call you when the job is done.
Get Me Away From Here: Gemma = Dead. I'm somewhat nostalgic and thoughtful over this.
I Was a Prayer: I am dissenting over something. Your plan = Crap, Tach.
Long Way Down: I messed up. Can you help me out though?
Cold Enough to Break: Ok, seriously. Everything has gone to hell in a handbasket and it's all my fault for not listening to you. PLEASE HELP.

aaaaaaaaaaaaand End Scene.

This sounds like the most likely sequence of events so far. We haven't been given any absolutes either way on Gemma's status, so it would be safer to assume that things went according to plan there. OR...maybe something regarding the assassination went wrong. Someone found out, someone was there (possibly warpylol?), and now has Brother's ID confirmed? OR, maybe it *is* referring to Brother deciding not to kill Gemma, and THAT is what he messed up with. He could be admitting that she was right all along, and leaving Gemma alive has cost him dearly.

So, let's say that there are three possibilities (for the sake of argument):

1. Gemma = hot, buttery toast, but Brother and Tach have had a difference of opinion regarding something else Brother realizes Tach is right, and needs her help.

2. Gemma may or may not be offed, but either way someone witnessed the attempt or found out some other way, and Brother is in it deep. Cover is compromised, critical danger, etc.

3. Brother spared Gemma, and now he's REALLY paying for it.

[kellylen]

soooo pretty much whatever the outcome brother screwed up big time.

[nobackspacebutton]

is it just me, or does that number no longer work?

[lookyz]

Yeah - def. sequence of events cynicar

also if you think about how his YouTube song lyric postings work in that fashion as well. They mark major milestones (i believe this is the order they were "supposedly" insinuating (looks like a reupload, all at once - I thought they were uploaded earlier than november initially):

321 Contact (Rocket/Smashing Pumpkins): I'm here (not thrilled about being on another one of these soul-sucking missions, but here)

Sparks are Flying (Pressure/Bowie & Queen): Things are starting, she's interested, I'm in (this is intense)

Misdirected: Lost Visual in the Burnout (Without a Trace/Soul Asylum): Cover is Blown I'm leaving (and no one can know - need help covering tracks)


It's almost like the titles are the message, but the songs are the "feelings" he's trying to get across to his partner (Tach in this case).