Cover art for the "Lights Out" single. Image via Atlantic Records. "Don't let the force of the impression when first it hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, 'Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.'" -Epictetus "Lights … Continue reading Lights Out
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On Limp Bizkit and Fred Durst
Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland. Image from Nielson Barnard, Getty Images. I'm not sure where to start on this, so I'm just going to make it up as I go along. The image of Limp Bizkit and Fred Durst in their heyday didn't really do the band or the man justice, that Durst was just … Continue reading On Limp Bizkit and Fred Durst
The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1)
"When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility." -Neil … Continue reading The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1)
Lawrence Deveney 