{"id":250,"date":"2024-01-11T15:23:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T20:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopscotchchronicles.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2024-01-18T15:33:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T20:33:53","slug":"ep-8-solo-show-from-nihilism-to-nirvana-a-grunge-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hopscotchchronicles.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Ep.8: Solo Show &#8211; From Nihilism to Nirvana: A Grunge Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Available on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/hopscotch-chronicles-podcast-with-dominic-vall%C3%A9e\/id1693298668?i=1000641347020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/4thggEedAjOvcWD0bspGPZ?si=7529891bd7ef4da2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mwIQlYMelyI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"From Nihilism to Nirvana: A Grunge Odyssey :: Solo Show :: Ep.8\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mwIQlYMelyI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To start off the year and before going back to the interviews, Dominic shares his thoughts about his journey through depression, itself exacerbated by Grunge era music and aesthetics. He also reads a puzzle-like poem \u2015<em>A Transmutative Call to the Gen X Mystics<\/em> \u2015 which expresses his emancipation from the nihilistic grasp of those days, and the resulting sense of peace and maturity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">THE POEM<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Transmutative Call to GenX Mystics<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDo you still see yourself as a rat,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a>raging in a rusty cage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or did you break it and run?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you still down in a hole? Feeling small?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unable to fly, your wings denied?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you still reeking of teen spirit,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or did you ever check your head?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did I nearly lose you among the screaming trees,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>unloved in these sour times?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you reached nirvana yet,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or still just a monkey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>waiting to say hello to heaven?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you still gazing at your shoes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>bloodied and loveless?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or rather roaming the streets with fascination,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>cured of your disintegration?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is your head like a hole? Are you still hurt?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or are you still alive and in bloom?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you still waiting for the bastards to come,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>raging against their machines? Wake up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey! Been trying to reach you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t you know that we\u2019re unchained?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now me, I didn\u2019t really fall on black days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m no loser baby, and no one can kill me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not a worthless liar. I am not an imbecile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not a creep, and I\u2019m twice the man I used to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m striving in the Jesus Christ pose,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in a state of love and trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I leave them all behind, with a smile,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saying thanks for the ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here I come, as I am,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>no longer paranoid, no longer an android.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All I aim for is a sure shot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and an end to the sabotage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m awake now, in the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m ocean size, fading into myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s no rain and I am sane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m spiraling out and I keep going,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reaching for the higher grounds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Available on\u00a0Apple Podcasts,\u00a0Spotify\u00a0and\u00a0YouTube. 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