Yeah, so I admit to being a big nerd.
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It's true. I'm a mega-nerdosourus... I absolutely LOVE my English class/teacher. We're reading Macbeth now and we were taking about how the three witches know that Macbeth wants to be king, and how Shakespeare deilberately makes it known that were merely forseeing Macbeth's future, not dictating it. My teacher then went on a tangent about free will and morality, and how there can be no morality without the ability to make choices. She said that we cannot just be marionettes--that the human instinct to want to feel nobe will force us to choose for ourselves and consequently be morally responsible for our actions. Of course, I immediately began thinking about The Receiving End of Sirens. "We're all puppets, we're all marionettes" is one of the lines repeated in many of the songs on their album Between the Heart and the Synapse. The album actually has a lot of paralells with, references to, and inspiration from Shakespeare... although apparently no one else has noticed. I just tried to look it up online to confirm, and there was absolutely NOTHING that involved TREOS and Shakespeare. (Wtf?) Anyway, I've seen a lot of connections between the two, and I'm pretty sure it's intentional--with references like "Oh Juliet, Oh Juliet, deny your name, your father", "Do you like what you see, Romeo?" (both from "...Then I Defy You, Stars) and a picture of a man who looks strikingly like Shakespeare himself on the album's cover, it seems obvious. Personally I love when music and literature connect, and this is no exception. Shakespeare understood the human condition so well that not only are his plays and poems still recited today, but he has also inspired modern musicians who feel that, half a century later, they can still relate to him. And when you think about all the people who have been affected by listening to TREOS... it's like Shakespeare's brilliance is being dispursed into farther and farther into society, even if people don't notice the connection between the music and the man behind it. Kind of profound, if I do say so myself. So anyway, TREOS is a great band and they write excellent lyrics. I truly believe that, if they were not a band, they could easily produce stand-alone poetry. Does anyone agree? And what about the Shakespeare picture? ...My MOG doesn't let me upload pictures (this website is so dysfunctional for me!), so if you want to look at the album cover, go here:http://www.interpunk.com/itemimages2/109841.jpg
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