and the Pursuit of Happiness(2014). In it, Freedman expertly analyzes the words and lyrics of Canadian rock drummer, inveterate traveler, and man of letters Neil Peart. Unlike Virgil, last of the pagans, Peart might very well be the last great, post-Christian Western man, clinging to tradi...
He wrote Agrippina when he was young and cynical, his instinct for political intrigue is hilarious and right on the mark. The music and lyrics have not aged one whit since 1709, except that our era’s countertenors are not castrated any more, they still have to sing falsetto but they get...
Smiley would later tell his daughter that Siegel was “the best friend I ever had.” In her soon-to-published memoir, excerpts of which she agreed to let this newspaper print, Luellen Smiley reveals the conflicted feelings she had growing up, and into later life too, about her father: “...
Archbishop Truth over Fear:https://www.patrickcoffin.media/truth-over-fear-covid-19-the-vaccine-and-the-great-reset Teen’s life shattered:https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/sen-ron-johnson-hearing-mother-disabled-daughter-breaks-crying-sharing-covid-vaccine-destroyed-daughters-life-video/...
Leaf Blowers:My grandsons were given each a leaf and a straw. The object of the game was to blow the leaf across the width of the table. After they raced several times and were getting really good at this, I challenged them to race along the length of the outdoor table. ...
lose any meaning you know below, you leave the ship, tethered to your machine, protected from what's natural. You drift in an airtight bubbleheaded suit, a flag on your sleeve. Back home, loved ones stop looking skyward, a distance ...
During the discussion, West described his relationship with God, his regrets about his past lyrics, his own journey with bipolar disorder treatment, Black history, COVID-19, and his reasoning behind running for President of the United States and past support of Donald Trump, and he (in)famousl...
Even if they could figure out the original meaning of the words in these laws, thatdoesn’t guarantee it would make sense in today’s world. How, for example, do the founding fathers views on medicine have anything to do with today’s healthcare system that didn’t exist in the 1700s...
and also seemingly an anxious depressive. His music is a manifestation of his inner life, and thus his lyrics, delivery, and the beats he raps over are self-consciously disorienting and bizarre. Imagine being a rapper and hearing the beat that would become “Downward Spiral.” Where do you ...
like party-blowers into bassist Colin Moulding’s funky geometric scheme, distilling the chaos that any well-meaning parent would have felt in 1979 as their kids’ futures became ever less certain. That year’s Winter of Discontent offered economic collapse and unprecedented striking. Entering power...