Music to my ears

The News Review:

- Music to my ears
- Waiting Is The Hardest Part
- Sadness has a direct line to the soul

Music to my ears
The Heights – The Heights (subscription) – Feb 25, 2008
If Police Academy made seven movies I would like to think that a deaf and deceased composer could make 10 symphonies even without Michael Winslow making all those hysterical sound effects. “Jah Rock Bomba Cloud”: This is presumably a Reggae song ? but I’m still waiting for someone to translate these words for me. “Dead Puppies Auschwitz Pain”: This is an idea for a death metal song- they seem to be fixated on negative things. It should begin with an intense guitar solo followed by screeching lyrics about death and destruction. Suburban teens will relate and then realize that they drive BMWs and have never suffered. At this point they will renounce Satan and apply to college (BU). “Parrot House Vestibule”: This song idea is for a “jam band” or ? I don’t know Dave Matthews; someone who does drugs… “Parrot House Vestibule”: This song idea is for a “jam band” or ? I don’t know Dave Matthews; someone who does drugs. It doesn’t make sense because it doesn’t have to. The song should feature “trippy” electronic music under incomprehensible lyrics. The audience will then smoke pot and pretend to understand it.

Waiting Is The Hardest Part
Cleveland Free Times – Feb 27, 2008
Anyone who's followed the local metal scene for the past decade knows it's the former. I met Terry in his Allergic To Whores days. In the summer of 2003 Allergic To Whores had its last gasp. Burnt out on the road the songs and the other band members Terry noticed tiny cracks in the band's foundation… The demise of Nightbreed was painless. "In the back of my head I knew it was happening" Terry admits. "I knew that that style wasn't the music that I wanted to do for the rest of my life. "Nightbreed was retired and Kill the Fall rose from the ashes. Berea-based brothers Kevin and Brian Hopkins were in the early manifestations of the band. They completed a CD's worth of songs but just before tour the Hopkinses bailed and Terry was forced to rebuild again. "I was tired of the revolving door of musicians.

Sadness has a direct line to the soul
The Australian – Feb 27, 2008
The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays. Melancholia over time’s passing is the proper stance for beholding beauty. Keats understood that suffering and death are not aberrations to be cursed but necessary parts of a capacious existence a personal history attuned to the plentiful polarity of the cosmos. To deny death and calamity would be to live only a partial life one devoid of creativity and beauty. Keats welcomed his death so that he could live. In his 1819 de on Melancholy he urges us not to alleviate our blues with befuddling chemicals seek escape through suicide or "drown the wakeful anguish of the soul". Remaining conscious of our dark moods we may fall into a "melancholy fit" a deep experience of life’s transience but also of its beauty… There is a connection among melancholy beauty and death. Melancholia far from a mere disease or weakness of will is an almost miraculous invitation to transcend the banal status quo and imagine the untapped possibilities for existence. Without melancholia the earth would likely freeze over into a fixed state as predictable as metal. nly with the help of constant sorrow can this dying world be changed enlivened pushed to the new. These are not metaphysical claims not some new age claptrap. n the contrary these statements are attuned to the sloppy world as it simply appears to us in our everyday experience. When we with apparent happiness grab hard on to one ideology or another this world suddenly seems to take on a static coherence a rigid division between right and wrong.