The Little FirecrackerAlways full of pep and energyAlways wanted to playAlways wanted to sparEven when the others wanted to restShe was not always the cuddliestBut she was full of love, like the restShe always saw herself as big asHer brother, the one who toweredAbove the others.Shorter in stature, her soul and shadowRose above the othersBut as with everyone, Such things are not permanentKidney trouble came so fastThere was little time to futilely reactWithin a couple of weeksShe was goneA devastation, out of nowhereThe little firecrackerHad burned outBut her glow was so brightAnd beautifulNo one could forget.
Losing Is Never Easy.Losing is never easy.No matter the age,No matter the cause,Losing is never easy.But when you're young,Forever seems so long,When your first friend,Falls victim to age,It's hard to accept it.Sage eyes, gray beard,Big heart, warm presence,Losing is never easy.No matter the age,No matter the cause,Losing is never easy.Denial pushes beyond reason,Thinking "he'll always be there"Shutting the door to haveTime to oneselfAlas, life isn't the typeTo forgive.Those hours separatedNever return.Guilt sinks in.Losing is never easy.No matter the age,No matter the cause,Losing is never easy.When you're
The Case for Music VThe Case For Powerpop, Alternative Rock, Post Grunge, Pop Punk, Indie Rock, Post-Hardcore, Electropop... What I will call "Warped Tour/Alternative Press" MusicThis is a place that is very hazy. Most bands in this little multigenre web overlap thematically, stylistically, and tour-ly. This may be a pretty long segment.What's difficult is, many of these terms (though rarely all of them) can be used to describe a lot of these bands, without any clarity as to what makes something a subset of any of these genres. It's an enormous umbrella hanging under a mostly rock themed series of bands. The list of bands I like that fit into this polyphyly
The Case For Music -- Entry IVThe Case for Justin BieberI will probably talk, eventually, about Disney stars, because I have thoughts on them, and listen to a few. However, I knew when I started this that there were a few specific targets about whom I needed to talk.I don't know much about Justin Bieber. My dad is the one who watches TMZ, not me. I do know a bit about his fans. Here's what I know. Justin Bieber's fans are like Twilight fans, Twilight fans are like any other fans, only there's more of them than a lot of things. Justin Bieber has some crazy fans and enemies (Warning, The Examiner has 5000 ads per page). He also has some regular fans. He has people who l
The Case For Music -- Entry IIIThe Case For Dubstep, and by extension, electronic musicDubstep isn't really that bad. I have heard the jokes. Yes, it's not for everyone. However, I've heard people say it's "not music," to which I disagree. I've heard of more than one person insisting that electronic music in general takes no talent. Talent is necessary, but is more akin to production than typical instruments. However, there is talent, necessary.With stage performance, talent is also necessary in a more instrumental form. There are keyboards, turntables, and other machines that make music, but they don't just do it (unless you just play prerecorded tracks.) Someone has
The Case For Music -- Entry IIThe Case for Linkin ParkLinkin Park has a very special place in my heart. They were the first band I was a genuine fan of. I actually came to like them a year after I heard a remix of a song of theirs. As convoluted as that sounds, a local radio station played the remix, Enth E Nd, in 2002 when Reanimation was released. I liked it then, but didn't really think about it after the fact until, randomly, a year later, I thought of it, and decided to find it. After that, I bought Reanimation, and to this day I am a huge Linkin Park fan.I never got to meet the band, even though I had earned the chance to. I was in the Linkin Park Underground in
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