Written by awneitsch on February 8, 2025
Stop Making Sense
Mutterings And Murmurs . Social Studies . Songs For The ApocalypseNo. I’m not talking about the Talking Heads live concert film. Some other time perhaps. There is no making sense of any of it – trying to figure how life can be brutal and beautiful at the same time. At birth I was given a body and brain. My five or six senses, among other
Written by awneitsch on January 25, 2025
NORTH WINDS BLOWING – I Wish I Was A Believer
Poly Tics . Social Studies . Songs For The ApocalypseI woke up this morning to the sound of a window rattling and the rush and bump of a Chinook wind battering against the house. As is usual, the neighbors aluminum railing whistled and howled with the sound of re-cycle bins playing bumper cars adding to the rumbling noise. Another airplane made a low pass
Written by awneitsch on October 13, 2024
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – But It Might Be Censored
Social Studies . Songs For The ApocalypseSure, the cultural references are dated but this work of not so subtle sarcasm by Gil Scott-Heron could very easily be adapted to current world affairs and be used as a soundtrack to the Great Reset and Apocalypse. It’s not just about whether black lives matter or not, or toxic white yellow man Nazi Jew
Written by awneitsch on May 2, 2024
This Will Destroy You
Social Studies . Songs For The ApocalypseI don’t remember how or where I first heard anything from the brilliant, Icelandic troubadours called Sigur Ros but I know that it was in 2008, when I was living in exile and looking for peace, power and meaning – in a place that some of both, but only under the right circumstances. I won’t
Written by awneitsch on April 7, 2024
You Have To Be Joking
Social Studies . Songs For The ApocalypseFrom Bella Union- ‘Three-time Grammy-Award winners, The Flaming Lips are one of the most enduring, influential, unpredictable, and universally respected bands of their generation or any other. Led by Wayne Coyne, they have been cited as the ultimate live attraction and life-affirming festival band who continue to dazzle audiences with their over-the-top, maximalist, high-energy onslaught
Written by awneitsch on April 1, 2024
Aretha Franklin and Her Peers Would Be Disappointed And Horrified
Mutterings And Murmurs . Songs For The ApocalypseBits from WikiWiki – Aretha Louise Franklin – March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. She was known as the ‘Queen of Soul’. The now pointless and disgraced Rolling Stone Magazine twice named her as the greatest singer of all time. With global sales of over 75 million records, Franklin is
Written by awneitsch on March 24, 2024
Life During Wartime
Social Studies . Songs For The ApocalypseThe Talking Heads were a ‘new wave/rock/punk’ band which formed in 1975 in New York City, New York, United States. The band originally consisted of David Byrne (vocals, guitar), Tina Weymouth (bass) and Chris Frantz (drums), who had met while attending the Rhode Island School of Design. The band added Jerry Harrison (keyboards & guitar) in April 1977. The band released eight studio albums before
Written by awneitsch on March 21, 2024
WHO NEEDS MAiD?
Poly Tics . Social Studies . Songs For The ApocalypseOld Yeller was a movie dog that needed to be put down because he caught rabies from fighting an infected wolf that had killed a cow. He started out as a normal, friendly, helpful dog but he caught a viral disease of the central nervous system that causes encephalitis in humans and other mammals. The
Written by awneitsch on January 6, 2024
CITY AND COLOR
Mutterings And Murmurs . Social Studies . Songs For The ApocalypseWhen the flames of Canadian post punk, soft screamo band, Alex Is On Fire died out, long after the lactating contortionist stripper on which their name was taken, faded into the gutter, the great talent of Dallas Green and his new band, CITY AND COLOR, emerged. He explains the lyric from the title track “The
Written by awneitsch on December 25, 2023
The End
Poly Tics . Social Studies . Songs For The ApocalypseThe end happens every minute of every hour of every day of every….well…you get the idea. You can liken it to doom scrolling on your mind control cancer gadget of choice, moving from one bad news conspiracy to another, never seeing the end of a story but wanting to see the start of the next