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The shining a horror movie yet the horror is alcoholism...

King notes, “The man who wrote Doctor Sleep is very different from the well-meaning alcoholic who wrote The Shining.” King has talked openly and extensively about the autobiographical nature of The Shining’s Jack Torrance, which is a bit of an odd, damning connection to underline, given that Torrance is a character famed for attempting to chop up his family with an ax in a homicidal delirium.

The wild-eyed Jack Torrance played by Jack Nicholson is much different than the character King wrote to reflect his own compulsions, rage, and addictions, in a book he dedicated to his own young son Joe.

King was using the tools of his trade as a horror novelist to try to understand the nature of his disease and the corrosive effect it had on the people in his life, particularly his family. Underneath the ghosts and blood and supernatural fright in The Shining lies a human core: a father’s terror that he will lose control and hurt his family. King wrote a book about alcoholism from the inside out, as an addict. Kubrick made a film about alcoholism from the outside in, a film that doesn’t extend King’s deep empathy to Torrance and his condition. King felt deeply for Jack Torrance. He identified with him more than is probably healthy, whereas Kubrick views him from the same cold, clinical distance from which he sees most of his characters.

Jack’s most important relationship is with alcohol. His addiction tells him that this is the only relationship he needs and will ever need, and that he must destroy anything that gets between him and his passionately re-committed love affair with booze. For instance, the “outsiders” Lloyd ominously warns him Danny is trying to summon to the Overlook. For an alcoholic lost in sickness, the idea of accepting help from “outsiders”—like AA or a rehab center—is tantamount to failure, if not outright spiritual death. And like Jack, The Overlook is a dry drunk, a booze-saturated place that has managed to eschew alcohol for whole seasons at a time while retaining the toxic air and creepy vibes of a whiskey-addled pleasure palace of über-perversity.

The Shining’s climax, Jack Torrance’s worst fears are realized on a nightmarishly literal level. A man afraid of falling off the wagon and accidentally hurting his family returns to drinking (albeit at the behest of an apparition, and with what seems to be ghost bourbon) and races through the hotel in a frenzy as he attempts to track down and murder his wife and son. Alcoholism has a terrifying power to destroy families, and in the climax to The Shining, there’s nothing symbolic or metaphorical about that force. Instead, the film depicts a man who has completely given himself over to his demons, rather than facing the consequences of being sober.

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“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.”

— Kurt Cobain

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Hello darkness my old friend, here to fuck my ass again

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Learn to be Alone because not all will stay..

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What if I’m not either?

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Grunge Vocalists ♥

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Go back to sleep.

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The most Manchester road sign going….

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TJ Davidson’s rehearsal room, Little Peter Street, Manchester (08/19/1979)  

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Goethe is reputed to have said, “Geometry is frozen music.” When time is included in the picture, as in Cycles, then we have music which becomes a geometrical collection of frequencies or Vibrations - all of which can be shown to be a series of trigonometric “sine” waves. Harmonies become mathematical ratios which can occur in everything from the Harmony of the Spheres to separate instruments or voices combining the soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and base notes; all meshing coherently and feeling groovy.

Every musical pulse consists of numerous sine-wave tones. Even a “square wave” is made up of a large number of odd harmonics, and thus by extrapolation, a truly infinite pulse (e.g. the Big Bang or first Ommmmm… of creation) would consist of all possible pure tones. The manner in which musicians examine a spectrum of musical harmonies is, in fact, exactly the same procedure mathematicians call a Fourier Transform. The sum of all musical frequencies thus constitutes the whole of the universe.

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“It’s the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don’t think our government is listening to the people. It’s our role as patriots to question them, because we elected them. And if they’re not fairly and accurately representing us, it’s the job of the people, the patriots, to take their country back.”

— Maynard James Keenan

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“You can kill the revolutionary but you can’t kill the revolution!”

— Tool featuring zach de la rocha - revolution