The weight is so heavy, I can't stand it. I found catharsis and people scream at it and me. I just want the people I care about, the funny, creative, exciting people of various orientations, religions, nations and backgrounds, to be safe. I would put them all in a fortress of protection if I could, illustrated by the pause after Chapter 9 in the Black Eagles route in Fire Emblem; Three Houses and my dream based on it where I put the characters in a similar safe place, a Church where no one with bad intent would enter, my home Church up here in Bellingham, Garden Street Methodist, where we did a lesbian wedding in June 2020 between two funny women who are adorable together, now living somewhere in town with their cat, maybe more than one, I'm too stressed to remember. I want the LGBTQ+ community safe, they've been through too much, I want all people who've been through additional roughness beyond the normal difficulty of life safe, life is hard by default, racism, homophobia, transphobia, abuse, misogyny, religion-based bigotry and all other prejudices and assaults just make what is already hard worse. I wish the norm was to be as cozy as Tara Platt and Abby Trott's voices and Twitter pages are, to present that strong care, excitability and exuberance that meshes so well with the relaxation centers of my brain.
If I were on a desert island, those would be the six pictures I would want with me, my family was fractured by my parent's divorce; the stress of a shared bank account and wildly different purchase priorities made my Mom and Dad angrier than they would've been otherwise. I'm also still learning purchase priorities, it gets really hard when most food seems $2 more than you think it was, making you make mistakes more than you want because you think things are cheaper than they are. The spending adds up. This is not a call for handouts, I just want to feel like someone's listening. In the end, that's what we "woke" people want, to be heard when we speak, so people can consider our feelings. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be heard when you feel unheard, unseen, unconsidered.
If you're still reading, I have some good music to list from last week's releases. Idina Menzel released her album "Drama Queen," which, like Miley Cyrus and Bebe Rexha, is a disco-inspired pop explosion. My favorite track is "Royalty," which is a good "mission statement" song like the Glenn Hughes-Dead Daisies' "Born to Fly" or the Joel Hoekstra-Revolution Saints' "Set Yourself Free," but every track on this album is a good one. Dolly Parton has a cover of The Beatles' "Let it Be" with Paul McCartney on backing vocals and piano, Ringo Starr on drums, Peter Frampton on electric guitar and Mick Fleetwood on percussion. BabyMetal and Tom Morello (Audioslave, K.Flay) teamed up for an electric new song called "Metali," one of the best ever from BabyMetal yet. Guns N Roses have a good new song called "Perhaps," Demi Lovato released a rock version of "Confident" for her new album of re-imaginings, there's a new live version of "Rag Doll" by Aerosmith and Graham Bonnet and Rick Wakeman teamed up for a cover of The Beatles' "You Never Give Me Your Money."
I'm looking forward to the upcoming albums by Duff McKagan and Dolly Parton (I already paid for them on Amazon, in fact) and the deluxe edition of Carrie Underwood's "Denim and Rhinestones." (also already paid for) I also plan on getting "Used to be Young" by Miley Cyrus, out Friday, next week. I'm not sure what other music I'm going to get for the rest of the year, but getting music, whether in purchase or Spotify, is a good way to escape the tension of the world right now, regardless of genre. It can be rock, pop, country or an orchestral soundtrack, so long as it lets me forget the tension of politicians and the super-wealthy against women, racial minorities, working-class people and the LGBTQ+ community for a period of time.
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