in my view. His lyrics get misinterpreted by people who simply don't understand satire IN GENERAL. Zappa was a misanthrope in the same vein as Jonathan Swift; he couldn't help seeing the ridiculous side of everyone and everything. Zappa's lyrics may annoy you, but at least they're never...
“Good people, I am come hither to die.” After reciting Psalm 143, he took off his outer garments and was bound to the stake. As the torch was applied to the wood, Bilney did not flinch. The flames burned high around his face, but a strong wind blew them away...
meaning “great cremation ground.“Tillman chose the word after reading it in Bruce Wagner’s 2006 novelMemorialand feeling inspired by it:“Just visually, it has all these sha-na-nas and ha-ha-has in it. With the record, there’s a lot in there about...
It closed, apparently, with a rally on the White House grounds, which besides being a breach of ethics at best (and actually a breach of the Hatch Act, meaning that it’s illegal) also seems profoundly risky during a pandemic. These conventions are always circuses. I didn’t watch the ...
“Runestaff spells in Golden Place/Light your alabaster face/where photographs of Una’s smile/Made all my lonely nights worthwhile.” The lyrics are references to the works of Michael Moorcock: {“Runestaff” is a reference to Moorcock’s four-volume “Runestaff” series of novels, The Je...
“People buy albums with eight songs for 10 bucks now, but with9it’s like you’re getting two whole albums at once,” Aldean states. “I want fans to feel like they’re getting more than they bargained for and I want it to be something they listen to from top to bottom, and neve...
Everything has a double meaning if you look for it long enough…Still, I don’t care if they ban it, because there are plenty of other tracks they’ll play.” Other tracks did get attention given to them by the BBC as well, “With A Little Help From My Friends” and “Lucy In ...
It's no longer a buddy cop show. These characters not friends. As close as anyone comes is Frank and Ray, but that's not equality. These are solitary people loving lonely lives. That's what they have in common. "I found it liberating because of its const...
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