We laid down the track this afternoon after much tedium in trying to get the wires working. It's something I tapped my foot to, and I was proud to say it's my own.
I hope you enjoy the first rough cut. It definitely needs to be cleaned up, but I think the point is made in the rough cut.
Coming soon (in order):
- Existence
- December
- Entice
- Rise of Fall
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Religion Philosophy or Faith
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Man in the Mirror
He's gone. Everyone goes some day, and in very inglorious ways. Not everyone gets a hero's ending. But there are times, like this, when one truly gets a victim's ending.
The baddest and most dangerous thriller, truly off the wall and historically invincible, is now not a statistic, but sadly a testament to humanity's capacity to achieve, both in action and in existence. That's not a nebulous statement, for it wasn't he who drove himself into the grave; society did that a long time ago.
Of course, the pedantic and pitiful self-forgiving and back-pedalling shall ensue, with the paparazzi being the first to make tributes to him, the man they helped put under. Poor education and a culture of sensationalism created a market that the paparazzi gladly fed, and Jackson's naive nature provided ample fuel for their raging furnaces.
There are no lessons of humility or shame to be learned from this. If death is an eventuality, then the pedestrian paparazzi and the base and trite who eat their wasteful fecality should have known to quit while they were ahead and let a man face his end, regardless of how "strange" he was, quietly. Witch trials haven't ended and they won't.
He was, and is a man ahead of his time in the arts, with a soul from a time long ago; one that never grew up and still lives in Neverland. He may have been strange, and may other things, but he should have been left alone, not watched and tormented into despair. I wonder what his children will think of the world around them, when they had a father who wrote songs like "Man in the Mirror", and "Keep the Faith".
Shame on us all.