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Essays:
My Five Favorite Songs
My Five Favorite Songs About Suicide NEW
My Five Favorite Songs About Donald Trump
My Five Favorite Songs About My Least Favorite Thing
My Five Favorite Songs About Killers
My Five Favorite "Radio" Songs
My Five Favorite Songs About Fatherhood
My Five Favorite Songs About the Apocalypse
My Five Favorite Rock-and-roll Screams
My Five Favorite Song Choruses
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There’s a lesson here, one I didn’t expect to find in this song: No two people experience depression the same way. It comes when it comes, from all manner of triggers within and without. |
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Sometimes it's easier to believe Donald Trump is the actual biblical devil than it is to believe that so many people hear all his mean, ugly, bigoted, hateful, insensitive, divisive ramblings and think, "Yeah, that's me, too." |
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Rollins is right, it's not an adventure, it's a job. But you have to have a job. You gotta pay the bills and feed your family more than just free salt packets from Burger King. Staying is easy; quitting is scary. |
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Are we attracted to killers because they represent our own dark passengers? Do we vent our black desires vicariously through these fictional boogeymen? |
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Oh, the insipid, toothless thing radio has become. In its effort to please everyone, it has nothing exciting to say. |
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The most positive fatherly example I've grown up with may very well be Darth Vader. |
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As more and more musicians began to reject the pervasive greed and excess not only in rock-and-roll but in American culture, the glamour boys who needed nothing but a good time began to find themselves ignored and unemployed. The reactionary themes of the Sixties reappeared, only this time angrier and darker. |
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The releasing of anger can better any medicine under the sun. |
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Songs are usually built around choruses that stick to your brain like peanut butter, but the entire rest of the song exists only to kill time until the chorus can come round again |
