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The 1990s was a decade where the mood of popular music shifted toward darker, more introspective themes, largely influenced by the emergence of the grunge scene in the early part of the decade. Bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains used their music to express feelings of alienation, despair, and inner turmoil. This sense of melancholy transcended beyond the alternative rock scene, finding its way into the broader spectrum of pop and rock music. Ballads and emotional songs that dealt with themes of sadness, heartbreak, and existential reflection became widespread across different musical genres. This list of the 1990s’ The post 1990s’ Saddest Rock And Pop Songs appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

News Daddy’s Head Daddy’s Head Trailer Gives Us a Child’s Grief in the Form of a Malevolent Monster If a monster took the form of someone you’d lost, what would you do? By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on September 20, 2024 Credit: Shudder Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Shudder Daddy’s Head, if the trailer is any indication, is a story about grief and faltering connection. Since it’s a horror movie, it conveys those themes via a supernatural entity that takes the twisted form of a dead boy’s father. The result looks like a solid entry in this genre, and one that might be worth adding to your schedule this spooky season. Here’s the movie’s official synopsis: In the wake of his father’s untimely death, a young boy is left in the eerie solitude of a sprawling country estate with his newly widowed stepmother. Struggling to navigate the overwhelming task of parenthood, his stepmother grows distant, leaving their fragile bond at risk of collapse. Amidst the growing tension, the boy begins to hear unsettling sounds echoing through the corridors, and is soon haunted by the presence of a grotesque creature bearing a disturbingly familiar resemblance to his late father. As the boy’s warnings are dismissed as the imagination of a grieving child, the sinister entity tightens its grip on their crumbling lives. The film is written and directed by Benjamin Barfoot and stars Julia Brown, Kaisa Hammarlund, and Charles Aitken. Daddy’s Head starts streaming on Shudder on October 11, 2024. It’s also screening at Fantastic Fest on September 22 and September 23, if you happen to be attending that. Check out the trailer below. [end-mark] The post <i>Daddy’s Head</i> Trailer Gives Us a Child’s Grief in the Form of a Malevolent Monster appeared first on Reactor.

News Avatar: The Last Airbender Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender Casts Miya Cech as Toph A highly-anticipated casting choice has been made… By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on September 20, 2024 Photo: Dark Horse Comics Comment 0 Share New Share Photo: Dark Horse Comics The live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender is now in production on its second season. And as part of Netflix’s Geeked Week, the streamer shared that they have cast the part of Toph, the young master earthbender who helps train Aang in the element with a humorously acerbic hand.   “We make a point of reviewing submissions separately and after countless tapes, we both had the same reaction… Miya is our Toph!” executive producers Jabbar Raisani and Christine Boylan told Tudum. “Miya is a brilliant performer who knows how to precisely balance the sarcastic sense of humor, stubbornness, and vulnerability that is Toph Beifong. Her physicality and emotional dexterity really put her in a class of one.”  Cech’s previous credits include Beef, Young Rock and The Santa Clauses. “I grew up watching the animated series. I’ve always been such a big fan and probably watched it ten times all the way through,” she told Tudum. “Toph was always my favorite character, so as soon as the casting notice came out, I begged my team to please get me an audition.” In the animated series, Toph is twelve years old and born blind. Netflix’s casting call for the role encouraged blind and low vision actors to audition, but with Cech’s casting, it appears that they’ve both aged up the character and cast someone sighted to portray the part. No news yet on when the second season of Avatar: The Last Airbender will premiere on Netflix. Season One is currently available there for your viewing pleasure. [end-mark] The post Netflix’s <i>Avatar: The Last Airbender</i> Casts Miya Cech as Toph appeared first on Reactor.

While it's hardly a surprise to modern understandings that ramming someone with a large replica of a spear on horseback may not be the safest activity, people in centuries past learned jousting was a questionable sport the hard way. In fact, one joust changed the shape of an entire country's future. Because when King Henry II suffered a terrible accident, the consequences extended far beyond the... Source

Neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor former President Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday’s front page, has any proposals to cut the rapidly increasing national debt. Instead, both are proposing to hand out goodies to strategically positioned voters. Harris, with an eye on polls showing young voters not as pro-Democratic as in the past, has been talking about providing $25,000 for down payments to first-time homebuyers. With an eye on young families and single parents, she has also called for restoring part of the refundable child tax credit that was part of what President Joe Biden has now conceded was the misnamed 2021 Inflation Reduction Act. Trump, hoping to win the electoral votes of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as he did in 2016 and did not in 2020, has called for cutting taxes on domestic manufacturing firms and reducing taxes on overtime pay. Nevada, 70% of whose voters live in Clark County, with its hordes of gambling and hospitality workers in Las Vegas, has come in for attention as well. Trump was the first to propose eliminating income tax on tips. Harris, hoping to carry the state as Biden did, endorsed the same policy. You will search long and hard for statements from major economists and policy experts associated with either party for serious arguments supporting these policies, just as you can find few serious advocates of Trump’s proposed 10% tariff on imports from all foreign countries or from Harris’ hints that she’d institute something such as national rent control. On the contrary, serious analysts will point to likely unintended consequences—home sellers will just increase their asking prices by $25,000—and, of course, to burgeoning federal budget deficits and increasing national debt. They are proposals of undisciplined candidates with little interest in serious public policy arguments who are locked in a close race for president. There’s an obvious note of political desperation here but also, I think, a less obvious reliance on outdated political theory. That theory is that large masses of voters are in serious need of additional cash, whether from tax cuts for Nevada casino employees and waitresses, or factory workers on overtime shifts. Yes, almost everyone would like a few extra bucks on their credit or debit cards. But just as the United States already has the most progressive redistributionist federal tax system of advanced countries, over the years it has incrementally built generous income supplements for those with the lowest 60% of incomes. That conclusion finds solid support in “The Myth of American Inequality,” by former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm and two nonpartisan co-authors. Their conclusion, as I reported in a 2023 Washington Examiner column, is that “government takes and redistributes enough resources to elevate the average bottom-quintile household,” the lowest 20% of earners, “into the American middle class.” Democrats imagine that advancing redistributionist policies will win them votes of whites without college degrees, and Hispanics who have been trending Republican on cultural issues. But American policy has long since moved past the New Deal and European welfare states. Democrats, and Trump in imitation, are supplying policies for which there is little demand in the political marketplace. The proof comes in the dog that didn’t bark. The Biden-Harris 2021 legislation expanded the child tax credit from $2,000 to as much as $3,600 and made it refundable, which means that low-income earners who don’t pay federal income taxes got $15 billion in monthly checks from the government. The argument for refundability is that it helps those with the lowest incomes. The argument against it is that, in discouraging work, it threatens to reverse the 1996 bipartisan welfare reform that resulted in higher work participation, lower teenage birthrates, and better conditions for children. That expansion of the child tax credit expired in Dec. 2021. Do you remember the mass demonstrations by modest-income parents angry when the checks stopped coming in? You don’t? Neither do I. We’ve had mass movements to defund police, to reinstate Roe v. Wade, to stop Israel from defending itself from Hamas terrorists. But not much more than a peep to restore the 2021 child tax credit. Voters are hugely miffed about the inflation they believe was triggered by the 2021 legislation. But the folks who were receiving those refundable tax credit checks seem to have been able to cope without them. Which leads me to a broader but tentative conclusion that voters, for all their vocal discontent with parties and politicians, actually are not demanding major changes in economic policy. In six of the last eight presidential elections, from 1992 to 2020, both political parties have won trifectas, control of the White House and both houses of Congress—Democrats in 1992, 2008, and 2020, Republicans in 2000, 2004, and 2016. Both parties have seized these opportunities to make serious economic policy changes, with some success. But none of those trifectas lasted more than two years, and the Democratic presidents who were reelected in 1996 and 2012 faced Republican majorities. So what we have now is Harris and Trump advancing crass campaign promises that lack the seriousness of the policies of former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Maybe that’s what voters want—for now. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Voters Don’t Want Harris’ or Trump’s Campaign Policies appeared first on The Daily Signal.

 In Aug. 2012, a left-wing MSNBC afficionado named Floyd Lee Corkins armed himself with a handgun and extra magazines. He drove to the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the socially conservative Family Research Council, planning to shoot it up. Corkins, who later cited the Southern Poverty Law Center for the proposition that the FRC is an “anti-gay” organization, was also carrying 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches, which he hoped to stuff in his dead victims’ mouths. Corkins, who served as a volunteer at a local LGBT community center, was stopped by an unarmed security guard. In June 2017, a left-wing MSNBC afficionado named James Hodgkinson armed himself with a rifle and handgun. He drove to Alexandria, Virginia, in hopes of assassinating the Republican team practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game. He severely wounded then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who thankfully survived after receiving multiple blood transfusions and surgeries. Five others were also injured. Hodgkinson was a 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign volunteer who, in a Facebook post three weeks before the shooting, wrote: “Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.” In June 2022, a young Californian named Nicholas Roske flew to the nation’s capital. Roske attained a handgun, zip ties, a tactical knife, a hammer, a screwdriver, a crowbar, duct tape and other burglary tools. At 1:38 a.m. local time, about a half hour after a taxi dropped him off in front of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Chevy Chase, Maryland, home, Roske had second thoughts and called 911. After his arrest, Roske told police he was angered by the leaked draft opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization abortion case. Roske had written in a private chat: “Im gonna stop roe v wade from being overturned.” In March 2023, Audrey “Aiden” Hale, a transgender individual, slaughtered three children and three adults at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. A former pupil at the Christian school, Hale took precious time during the rampage to divert and unload seven rounds into a stained-glass depiction of the biblical character Adam in a church next door. As this column asked last year: Why, exactly, would a transgender former student of a Christian school return to that school to murder innocent Christian children and shoot up a stained-glass representation of no less symbolic a biblical figure than Adam? We don’t necessarily need Sherlock Holmes to figure this one out. Leaked excerpts of the murderer’s manifesto corroborate Hale’s sinister, anti-Christian motive. This Sunday, former President Donald Trump survived an attempted assassination for the second time in a span of roughly two months. The first would-be assassin, the mysterious Thomas Crooks, donated $15 to ActBlue, the well-known Democratic fundraising platform. The second would-be assassin, the considerably less mysterious Ryan Routh, has a prolific public record. Routh, a convicted felon and supporter of Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, had an over-the-top, creepy obsession with Ukraine — one of the defining causes of the contemporary Left. Routh’s social media accounts were rife with de rigueur left-wing platitudes about the alleged unprecedented threat posed by Trump to America’s democracy and constitutional order. Murderous political violence in the United States today is not an all-of-the-above phenomenon. Yes, such violence must be condemned by all responsible political and civic actors, as we inch ever closer to an irrecoverable national abyss. But MSNBC’s daily on-air histrionics to the contrary notwithstanding, all sides are not equally culpable for the terrible situation America finds itself in today. Trump may not always be the most circumspect rhetorician, but he has never actively called for his supporters to physically assault their political opponents — including on Jan. 6, when he called for his throng of supporters gathered at the Ellipse to “peacefully and patriotically” demonstrate at the Capitol. The same cannot be said for Trump’s opposition, such as when Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) said earlier this year on MSNBC that Trump is “unfit,” “destructive to our democracy,” and “has to be eliminated.” According to a poll released on Wednesday, a whopping 28% of Democrats said America would be better off if Trump were assassinated — and another 24% of Democrats confessed uncertainty. This is unconscionable. The Left has had a violent streak going back at least as far as Karl Marx’s calls for a global revolution of the proletariat — and the French Revolution even before that. And in today’s post-truth world, an expedient narrative often trumps cold facts. But Trump is not a “fascist” or “dictator.” On the contrary, Trump’s first term was, if anything, marred by excessive deference and an unwillingness to fire insubordinate bureaucrats. If MSNBC talking heads and their left-wing confreres fail to tone down the rhetoric, reasonable observers will conclude they agree with the 28% of Democrats who want Trump dead. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Why Are the Nutjobs Trying to Kill Political Opponents All Left-Wingers? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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