Dostoyevsky, Banquo, the ellipsis, & the "But"

Protest the Hero, Fortress.

January 2008: I'm hanging round on a Saturday flipping channels, & I check out Headbanger's Ball, the only metal that ever got played on the music channels.

Several (many) Cookie-monster-vocal-down-tuned chugga-chugga-riffed boring soundalike metal songs pass, & this band comes on.  I see the title "Bloodmeat" & assume it's more of the same.

Uh, no.

I mean, NO!!.

A tad screeamish, w/ some guttural growling, & some serious shred later, I had a new band to check out.

This album came out a few weeks later, so I grabbed Kezia, the debut, & picked up Fortress the day it came out.

Great stuff.

More great stuff: dudes were in high school when they started (as "Happy Go Lucky"--great band name there), began a tour the day they finished their senior finals, were still teenagers when they started releasing albums.

Best yet: in 2004 the bass player, Arif Mirabdolbaghi attended a symposium of the International Dostoyevsky Society in Geneva.

All this, & brains, too.

I like my music loud, obnoxious, angry, & all kinda of punk-metal-progressive-ish (all of these terms have been used to describe Protest), but if it's smart, too? Oh yeah, I am so there.

New album early 2011, also.

Juniors:
We re-did Act III, & i tried to answer questions & point out some very important lines & stuff.

Banquo begins the act, & then [Dies}.

Macbeth's growing paranoia & realization that he is in too deep to get out.

Lady Macbeth's line "Nought's had, all's spent" sums up the situ--- I mean, scenario

Lennox & the Lord scene implies that Malcolm & Macduff seem to be up to something

Act IV complete by MONDAY!!!

Sophomores:
We reviewed the notes & concepts from yesterday, & we went pretty deep into the poem "Moons."

Celestial & poetical.

How many of you had put that much emphasis on the ellipsis?

Do you see now how the "But" is majorly important?

As for vocab: you submitted your synonyms . . . CTS due Monday, quiz next Wednesday.

be cool