I like Grunge! I appreciate Grunge! Soundgarden is one of my very favourite Grunge acts! The way he died has got me thinking about anxiety and antidepressents/antianxiety medication. I am very grateful that even though I have high anxiety I never went down that road of phramaceutical medication! I feel awful for kids who are forced onto these sorts of drugs. Chris Cornell took too much anti anxiety medication before his death.
The anti depressant meds go deep into Grunge history and mythology! Kurt Cobain from Nirvana stated that it was taking Ritalin when he was a kid that helped fuck him up later in life. It is creepy to not feel your own emotions. I think that it is better to feel the full range of sadness, rage and anxiety raw without meds. That can be a difficult path and you will need some community support. Society has to change and be more supportive instead of just relying on a one size fits all pill popper solution. That's Western Medicine for ya - treats the symptoms but never the cause!
One tune that addresses this issue by Nirvana is called Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle. "I miss the comfort in being sad". Frances Farmer is a famous actress from Seattle who got a lobotomy. There have been a few movies!
One of my favourite songs by Soundgarden is - Jesus Christ Pose. The song is commentary on the fashion industry during the 90's where is became trendy for ladies to pose like Jesus Christ for magazines. There arms spread out like on the cross. Symbolism for female cultural contortion and sacrificing yourself to the machine.
It's such an intense awesome video! I love it!
I really enjoy the distorted Seattle tower images.
" I think that it is better to feel the full range of sadness, rage and anxiety raw without meds. "
So true - I think my biggest haters are the ones that deny themselves the uglier feelings in this life. People try to put me and the art that I do in an emotional box. They would rather I use my talents to create generic happy feeling bullshit all the time. Like they never had a sad thought in their life. Like sadness can't also be beautiful and can move people just like any other emotion. I think people wanna tune that side of people down because they would have to face up to their own sad feelings in life. By confronting another person's life experience and internalizing we have to draw on perhaps our own bad experiences and that's uncomfortable. We should make room for all the expression emotions can bring for creative people....even if it can make us uncomfortable... it just might help us grow and react differently to bad situations the next time round. It won't always be poppy happy work.... and thank god for that.
I started to do this illustrated series last week where I introduced myself... but I wasn't really introducing myself. I was introducing my friend SADNESS. Since right away I wanted my account to be a place where I can share those darker uglier parts of myself. In my next comics I wanna address a lot of the same concepts in this article.
https://steemit.com/art/@artwatch/illustrated-story-comic-hello-steemit-let-me-introduce-you-to-my-friend-strong-language-and-adult-issues
(I am not trying to spam you) I am just relating the article to something that I am currently working on and trying to figure out emotionally.
Anyways -- Man losing some good people in the world of late.
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Thanks for the awesome comment! I love comics! Will check it out! Good stuff.
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