“There must be some mistake,
I didn’t mean to let them
Take away my soul,
Am I too old, is it too late?
Where has the feeling gone?
Will I remember the song?”
Pink Floyd, The Show Must Go On
In this video, we take a look at two albums that I love dearly: Daft Punk’s Discovery and Pink Floyd’s The Wall, along with the two movies that were created for the movie. Join me as I dive into the theme of leaving and returning by examining The Wall (1982) and Interstella 5555 (2003).
The cold reaching frost of December’s gruesome winds
Packed inside to escape such chilling and aching bites
In the heart of darkness with hardly a sight of day
A LIGHT LEAPS!
That’s Christmas, baby!
It’s the new beginning!
A comeback story!
Seeing my faults, I look into others and believe there is something to be seen,
As if by my eyes there is something I can see that is not immediately on the scene.
Alas, this is my folly once again, as other men know nothing about me or my way,
So why should I believe that I am any different even if I stand after winter in May?
Hypocrisy is a terrible crime, but I cannot really know when it has been committed,
It could be another paradise lost if my self-righteous judgement is not omitted.
It is up to the divine as a complete whole to place judgements and give final verdict,
I may be a piece of that divinity, but only through blank slated actions can we serve it.
The best thing I can do is forgive and forget, and hope my wants lead to just ends,
Even then! Even then, knowing many of my wrongs, I can with every enemy make amends.
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”
-Jim Morrison
In this video, I take a closer look at one of my favorite characters in the Star Wars universe: Darth Vader. But what could his character mean? What can we learn from how his character changes through his story? Is there something relatable in who this Sith lord is?