EternalBasketCase Posted June 8, 2009 Posted June 8, 2009 I never commented on the forum before.....but just had to......that was fuckin amazing!!!!! The words flow just right and they sound just right in my heart too....dunno if it makes sense.......anyway awesome awesome job!
DeJennsitized Posted June 8, 2009 Posted June 8, 2009 Great editorial. Well done - you should be proud of yourself.
Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love Posted June 8, 2009 Posted June 8, 2009 Wow - that was an amazing editorial. I really enjoyed reading it, good job!
Pattie Posted June 8, 2009 Posted June 8, 2009 amazing. it really helps you understand the complex characters that Christian and Gloria are
0017dude Posted June 8, 2009 Posted June 8, 2009 Wow. I had to really think about the words. Those was sumz big words.
Rita Posted June 8, 2009 Posted June 8, 2009 Thanks so much for sharing Angeline. That was beautifully written.
forget_me_nots Posted June 8, 2009 Posted June 8, 2009 Fucking hell, Id kill to be able to write like that! Great stuff!Me, too! My God, you really have a way with words that just blows my mind! Thank you for sharing!
judgesdaughter Posted June 8, 2009 Posted June 8, 2009 Thank you so much for your editorial! Your way with words is incredible! My friends make fun of me because I look at lyrics and analyze them and connect with them but I can never quite but into words my feelings about them. You have done that beautifully! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts!
Supermodel*Robot Posted June 8, 2009 Posted June 8, 2009 That was pretty mind blowing. Well done.And I loved the last sentence.
frankiessister Posted June 8, 2009 Posted June 8, 2009 Excellent, brilliant, absolutely wonderful editorial! Thank you so much for this, Angeline. I'm really speechless right now.
justcause Posted June 8, 2009 Posted June 8, 2009 Again, I'd like to thank everyone for their kind comments - they really are very much appreciated. And a special shout-out to those of you making your first posts on the forum!!
Hermione Posted June 9, 2009 Posted June 9, 2009 That was so beautiful and thought-provoking. You're an amazing writer, I'm already in love with the album but reading that felt like falling in love with it all over again! Almost as soon as I started reading you had me itching to listen to it and I was compelled to sit and listen to it from start to finish as soon as I'd finished
GreenDayChannel08 Posted June 9, 2009 Posted June 9, 2009 This is a perfectly written, well thought out article!I absolutely loved it and hope there's more to come.
sailorgreenday Posted June 9, 2009 Posted June 9, 2009 Thank you so much for writing such a wonderful editorial, and pouring all of your heart and soul into it! Keep writing and I'll keep reading.
Nova-Caine Posted June 9, 2009 Posted June 9, 2009 Again, I'd like to thank everyone for their kind comments - they really are very much appreciated. And a special shout-out to those of you making your first posts on the forum!! Angeline would you object to me posting this on the IC if it hasn't already been done so?x
justcause Posted June 9, 2009 Posted June 9, 2009 Angeline would you object to me posting this on the IC if it hasn't already been done so?xI'd be delighted for more people to read it - just credit me and GDA.
Nova-Caine Posted June 9, 2009 Posted June 9, 2009 I'd be delighted for more people to read it - just credit me and GDA. Thank you I will do x
elanorelle72 Posted June 9, 2009 Posted June 9, 2009 do you all know what this means?That many of are on the same spiritual journey...Angeline...I have PMd you...its nice to know we are not alone...and its ok to feel this way....it means alot....both in what you wrote and that you spoke with your true souland let us all know that there are many of us who feel and notice the same things you do.xxoo love SuzanneThank you so much for your editorial! Your way with words is incredible! My friends make fun of me because I look at lyrics and analyze them and connect with them but I can never quite but into words my feelings about them. You have done that beautifully! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts!you too ? Sometimes it takes someone with ways with words to voice how more and more and more of us are feeling...I feel something huge is happening....
Spark of Insanity Posted June 9, 2009 Posted June 9, 2009 That was a fantastic read, Angeline. Amazing.
Bastard of 1967 Posted June 10, 2009 Posted June 10, 2009 [Replying to 'justcause' date='Jun 8 2009, 10:58 AM]Angeline,Ever since I read your editorial I'm inspired to wrestle a little more deeply with some of the "harder" tracks on the album, the ones where the emotional meaning and power behind the lyrics are less obvious on their face. One of these for me, surprisingly, is the main part of iViva La Gloria!, particularly the lyric: "you blast your name in graffiti on the walls". Then after a little searching, I found these:So where am I going with this? In your editorial, I completely agree with your interpretation:Gloria's light and Christian's inferno are the same flame, her idealism and his nihilism are expressions of a power that comes from the same place. Piss off an angel, and that angel becomes a winged fury.From this, I find another possible interpretation of the lyrics and the characters: Gloria is not just light, Gloria is freedom it/herself, and that freedom has been blasted "in graffiti on the walls" (literally, the Berlin Wall), from time to time throughout history. That freedom, that life-force energy, has also been co-opted and misused throughout history by heroes, cons, and charlatans. We find ourselves today having gone from the era of humility to the era of arrogance, and after so many wasted years of the deaf-mute misleading the choir, the lesson we can draw from this is: Gloria's freedom misused (or in your words, what happens when you "piss off an angel") is that this angel becomes Christian's inferno. The two characters are, as you observe, "inseparable" and "opposite points of a single compass" -- perhaps in yet another way that I don't think we've described in quite this way yet.Thanks again for the inspiration!
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