I shared my last post on Twitter and Agape liked it, so that was pretty cool! Unfortunately, my online presence is soon going to be muted for some time as my laptop's fan has been making an annoying buzzing sound since May and we've tried everything tech support has suggested, so it's now time to send it in and get the hardware fixed. What I don't like about this is that I have no idea how long this will take or even when exactly it will start, as the warranty people haven't called yet.
Tonight, there are a couple of exciting releases I'm looking forward to, The Metallica Blacklist and Inglorious' album Heroine. The Metallica Blacklist is a four-CD album featuring various artists covering songs from Metallica's 1991 "Black Album," which contained "Enter Sandman" and "Nothing Else Matters." This is the project responsible for Rina Sawayama's cover of "Enter Sandman" and Miley Cyrus' cover of "Nothing Else Matters," which will also be released on Elton John's "Lockdown Sessions" album in October. I've also bought two other tracks from The Metallica Blacklist, "Sad But True" by St. Vincent and "Nothing Else Matters" by Phoebe Bridgers. The one I'm really looking forward to tonight is "Through the Never" by Mongolian Throat-Singing Metal Band The Hu.
Inglorious' Heroine is a covers album of songs by women artists, they have released singles of covers by Miley Cyrus, Heart and Avril Lavigne. The album itself will also have covers from Joan Jett, Halestorm, Evanescence, Alanis Morrissette and Tina Turner, so it sounds like a great experience. I listened to some samples on iTunes and I am really looking forward to this.
Saturday is going to be a hard day for a lot of us, including myself, as it will be the 20th anniversary of the day Middle Eastern terrorists killed 3,000 American lives, which fueled two decades of hatred of Islam and war. Recently, the war came to an end, with us watching as the violent government that permitted this terrorist group to exist reclaimed government power in Afghanistan. However, it is clear that our attempt to remake Afghanistan was too costly in terms of money and lives, and I stand by Biden's decision that we shouldn't have countless rows in Arlington National Cemetery over a country that wasn't willing to take care of itself. Honestly, in these last two decades, especially in the last 11 years, a stronger threat to freedom has emerged at home, the people who do not tolerate the voices of racial or orientation-based minorities, the people who think God and Jesus should be exclusively Republican, the people who have brought fascist rhetoric to this country, and with it, hate crimes of violence. We should remember September 11th, but we shouldn't get so caught up in it we forget that Islamic people are our neighbors. We should have a military, but not get so obsessed with it that we want to kill in the name of 'murca. Let us take the first step forward on this day and take a step forward every day.
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