{"id":95124,"date":"2020-10-24T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=95124"},"modified":"2020-10-24T13:45:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T18:45:58","slug":"hunter-music-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=95124","title":{"rendered":"Hunter & Music & Me…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>By Bethany \u201cBST2\u201d Armstrong<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMusic has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.\u201d \u2015 Hunter S. Thompson<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Thompson was a self-proclaimed \u201cmusic freak\u201d who waxed poetic on the parallels between Bob Dylan and Ernest Hemingway. Hunter believed music was the New Literature, the voice of the people on record rather than print. I think he would have been Quite Smug if he had lived to see Dylan win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.<\/p>\n

As election day closes in, the bile of uncertainty rises as swiftly as my faith in humanity falls, music is the only thing keeping my spirits up. Some music provides peace, some nostalgia, some a deep bass rhythm that allows me to continue the monotony of the routine of living.<\/p>\n

But some music\u2026 some\u2026 provides a level of solace unheard of in the twerk yo ass generation. Epic heroism, bravery, battles for a slice of hope, fighting against your own cowardice as well as the most difficult of enemies\u2026 the expectations of loved ones who just want to keep you safe, keep you down in the batshit bunkers with them.<\/p>\n

TWRP (featuring Dan Avidan) has a song called Starlight Brigade that is all these things and more. It is my anthem, my story, my song. I play it before I have to do something difficult, like speak with my mother or move to a new state to provide a better life for my family. I listen to it when I lose faith in myself, my humanity, my ability to resist Trumpelstilskin and his Trumpeteer minions. In my darkest hours, like the night RBG passed, this story consistently pulls me into the light.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s more than the lyrics that make this song literature\u2026 it\u2019s the way the music carries you through each arc of the story. It\u2019s Dan\u2019s beautiful voice, blessing you with dulcet tones. It\u2019s the animation of the music video, an entire anime series in a single 4-minute vid. Everything works together to convey that you are the hero of this epic tale.<\/p>\n

But the lyrics man\u2026 \u201cI\u2019d gladly give my life\u2026. for one night as a justice acolyte\u201d \u201cHalfway between the black and gray\u2026 is no place for a life to waste away\u2026 I\u2019ll take the road with all the stakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the lines that make me think of my resister family: \u201cArrays of enemies await\u2026 but fears allay\u2026 we stand as one\u2026 a bond beyond the vast wave\u2026 until the last grave.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll leave you with the outro: \u201cBlack knights and dark side battle cries\u2026. All die, once they\u2019re in my line of sight\u2026. This fight, is all I know that\u2019s right\u2026. No fate, but that of which we make\u2026. Noble as the oath we undertake\u2026. We are the great Starlight Brigade!\u201d New Literature indeed.<\/p>\n

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