Space Cadet

If it's not to late, I have a couple of thoughts. I don't know if it's the sort of stuff that will help you, but you're welcome to the ideas if they will. Sometimes context can really transform a song. Something very negative will have a completly different meaning the right hands. One really great example is that Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt". It's a dark, creepy song about drug abuse. It may be regretful, but it revels in the negatives. Just look up a live version on youtube, if you want- it's full of images of decaying things. Then Johnny Cash got his hands on it, and the result is totally different. It has the wisdom of a man at the end of his life looking back at all the mistakes that he made and the people he hurt in the process, warning others away and asking for forgiveness. In his version the lines almost begin to sparkle where he sings "If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way." The lyrics are pretty much identical, but in one version the darkness seems total, while in the other there's something sort of healing about it. The other thing I was thinking is how so often music glorifies self destruction and what could be taken as pleas for help. It's classic and has happened many times: musician writes miserable songs, people adore him for it, musician is still miserable- success couldn't change that, and now fame has cut him off from the very things that could help him, and given him fortune to fuel his self destruction. Musicain finally gives in, sometimes by obvious suicide, sometimes by drug overdoses, I suppose in the rap world sometimes by violence. And yet now, because that musician was a martyr for his music, he's not just a musician any more, he's a legend, a saint. He's more Rock and Roll than anyone. I suppose Kurt Cobain would be the most iconic example of this. Now I know that plenty of perfectly sane, stable songwriters use music as a sort of therapy, but when all these dark, angry, self-destructive lyrics show up in a song, at one point does someone finally start to go, "wait, maybe this is a cry for help. Maybe we're watching this person destroy themself a little bit at a time for entertainment. Maybe there is something wrong with that."

Why is it that every time I say 'hey i'm spending too much time on the computer, I should stay away for a day' dozens of reasons I HAVE to check something pop up, and I end up spending almost the entire day on it. :disappointed: You know you're an internet addict when you use a laptop in front of the TV. :embarassed:

Wow for sure! :stunned::confused: Edit: YAY!!!!!! :D

Oi... those kind of freaks are nasty. Wish I had some advice, but I dealt with a vaguely similar situation by switching schools, so I'm not much help.

Why does it have to be so expensive to import albums from the UK? :sad:

Go Sens! Eh. I don't really follow hockey... like playing floor hockey though. I just really really really want a Canadian team to win for once. *pleeeeease*

Awesome pics, guys! :D Ok, is that Mooch guy pretending to be a poster child for stupid Americans, or is he just one naturally. :dozey: I'm guessing both.

It's Jonny on guitar, believe it or not. I like it too. There's lots of fan videos up on youtube if you want to see for yourself. Check out 15 Step... that's my favorite of the new stuff.

A black hole?

Yeah.... Lord of the Rings messageboards tend to attract Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Harry Potter fans, because it's about fantasy... Coldplay is a band- they play music...

This is a MUSIC message board... what were you expecting? (Suddenly all the spam is starting to make sense... :idea2:)

Rick is going to like that answer... :P

^I hear you there...

Sometimes we have to wonder...

Welcome to life, dude. :P

Some things will always be inappropriatly funny in pig latin... :laugh3:

Yeah, I ate a hotdog today... they usually give me weird dreams. And now this... :uhoh:

^Same here. :D And the new Travis album, because I've been listening to it obsessively for a while now.

you've never wondered about the hotdog thing?

Do you just enjoy trying to confuse people?

So little difference in so many ways. :P

There were 50 guests in the lounge a few minutes ago. And yet no one is talking. *sigh*

Well, I don't drink, I'll tell people that when they offer me something, but I've been known to have a very tiny bit of something every once in a great while. I think it's the same with Chris... although I'd never have enough to get drunk off of. If (and that's a huge if) there is the tiniest shred of truth to this story and it's not just a tabloid fabrication (I doubt it isn't), I hope it doesn't mean something bad has happened. I think Chris has said before that he only really drinks when he feels like he needs to beat himself up for something going wrong. (Very bad idea btw) Of course, maybe he had something to celebrate too? (Album finished perhaps?)

But there are differences between plot holes and mysteries. I think there are some plot holes even though it will be hard to tell until the show ends, but the missing airplane thing is one of the mysteries for sure. And it was recently revealed that the authorities did find the crashed plane- at the bottom of the ocean, all passengers accounted for. Bringing back the "they're all in purgatory/hell/whatever" theory. But as anyone familiar with say medieval romances like the King Arthur stories can tell you, creating an artificial and improbable situation to explore human behavior is one of the oldest narrative tricks in the book. Expecting true to life reality in a story is a very modern idea, and not always a very constructive one.

I don't really drink pop anymore... I dropped about 5 pounds or so when I stopped, just from that. And I don't drink caffeine anyway, so I've never been a cola fan. I really like A&W Root Beer once in a blue moon as a treat, though.