Artists, Musicians, freaks, beasts and
degenerates; all enamored by the beauty of the dark, the taboo, and the slums
of love. Artists like Salvador Dali, and
R. Crumb; Musicians like Kurdt Cobain, Jim Morrison, and Elvis Presley; freaks
and beasts like writer and author Charles Bukowski, Ernest Hemmingway and Dr.
Hunter S. Thompson; all have changed the
world in some supernatural way, starting fires, creating wheels, pulling us
from the monotony.
So what is out there now? What’s on your playlist, does it break the
mold? Lately it seems as if music has went
from “Gangnam Style” to “The Harlem Shake”, and the days of sampling vinyl and
playing an instrument have become lost arts.
However, there are still bands out there, still playing great music;
Bands like the Deftones, Everlast, Bullet for my Valentine, and newer bands
like Imagine Dragons, Mumford and Sons, and Hot Water Music. Unfortunatly finding newer up coming artist or even artists writing new music has become the new challenge, surfing through Youtube or Vevo is about the only option out there, and since many of these artist have been shoved to the side, it has been increasingly more difficult to gain a new perspective of new music.
I have found myself many times, spread too thin, washed out, and facedown in doubt. Music; the only thing there to pick me up and take me far away with wiped tears smeared by memories. While images pass through my mind; many still hard to swallow, most just fragments, a misty fog occasionally clearing this shadowed soul. What a mad world, that we should take what we don’t need, want what we cannot have, dragging ourselves oblivious to the soundtrack that surrounds us.
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