Depression. The ole emotional ebb and flow. Sometimes it’s due to a string of bad luck, personal past trauma, a tricky assortment of chemical imbalances, a mix of all of the above, and something that may even feel hard to ...

Serendipity. It’s defined by Merriam-Webster as, “the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.” It’s also a force that takes you through an unexpected back road that leads to some of the best and most ...

“I’m caught in a dream. So what! You don’t know what I’m goin’ through” Alice Cooper “Chopper don’t hurt nobody unless he wants to.”    Dee Everyone has dreams. It’s our personal wishes, visions, and goals that make up so much ...

Standing underneath the unflinching fluorescent lights in your local grocery store, you start wondering what Lovecraftian entity came up with the idea for a food item called “Uncrustable,” and a song hits your ears. Hits is an understatement, since verbs ...

 The light wanes from the sky as another headline about corrupt leaders doing what they have always been doing hits the news yet again. It only gets worse as they die, as if the mere, uniform act of death is ...

By Heather Drain “Rules are made to be broken.  Can’t kill what you don’t understand.”  – Wendy O. Williams  “Love is the Law, Love Under Will.”  – Aleister Crowley Art can motivate us to change the world (and clean the ...

Need and desire are twin forces that often intertwine around each other, sometimes coiling so tight that it’s hard to see where one begins and the other ends. This is often how addictions can be nurtured, but it is also ...

The art of a primed and ready music compilation is a fine one. It’s akin to building the perfect party guest list. A tricky recipe that could collapse the whole shebang if you invite two or three bores who think ...

Beware of the tall dark stranger if he comes ridin’ into your town A tall dark stranger is danger so don’t let no stranger hang around For he can capture the heart of a woman Buck Owens “Tall Dark Stranger” ...

Angels in the musical arts have gotten a bad reputation. Not even bad in a colorful, smoking-in-the-boys-room kind of way, but bad in a cliched and whitewashed way. Simpy, bloodless, with nary an ounce of passion and power. Once portrayed ...