DocDerision aka "Eli"

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That's the thing about jurors is that it's difficult to find a single person that doesn't have a bias. - Sexual abuse is common and expecting no one to have experienced that trauma can be like asking for a miracle. - Also this lady, who probably is a victim in her own right, still acted complacent during the crime. - It's impossible for me to know the exact experience Ghislaine went through, however she was the only one who could choose to do what she did. - That's something she'll need to reflect on for the rest of her life. - What's left of it because I'm confident there's someone that was sitting in that court that's more a threat to her life than a biased jury. - The same someone who probably paid Jeff his last visitation right before death. - How high profile cases like this potentially compromising world leaders and powerful families tend to go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI6oQ8Lgf2U So, this song tells the story of an old Russian Czar, "Peter the Great", or Pyotr Alekséyevich. His reign lasted from 1682 to 1725. There's a tale about how Pytor found his wife Catherine sleeping with her secretary, Willem Mons, and how Pytor sentenced Mons to death. Not only was Mons sentenced to death, but he was publicly decapitated at the gallows. Story goes that Pyotr had Mons's severed head preserved in a jar and put on display in a musuem (The Kunstkamera) and forced his wife to gaze at the exhibit for hours on end. Now, this story may or may not be true, or exaggerated in some ways, but that doesn't change the intrigue of the song. Bad Books, as a band, are very hit and miss to me. I like most of their music on some level, and they're one of the more interesting bands in this type of indie-rock scene, but they have a few songs that hit different; Pyotr is one of them. They know how to set the tone of sadness better than most. This song, along with a few others I will mention later, particularly tug at my emotional heart strings. It's not just the lyrics that depict this sick and twisted story in such a captivating, multi-perspective, deeply emotionally and connected way, but it's the mournful, lonely acoustic that fits this tale perfectly. Maybe it's the way I can relate to the anger of feeling betrayed by a loved one, and especially in the depiction of this song where Pyotr feels almost like he's nothing in comparison to Katherine's true lover. I know I've felt that same way, although I don't think I'd ever be sick enough to display the lover's severed head in a glass contained for my love to gaze upon, but I digress. Some of the lines here strike the heart in such a rough way. Pyotr: "I know you would gaze in his eyes forever, I figured out just how to give that to you", it's such a twisted and depressing line. This line from Pyotr expresses both the thought of feeling worthless to your loved one, and the tick of psychotic anger to me. Hearing this line after knowing the story changes its tone even more. Mons: "And I tell you in the heat of the scuffle, 'nobody ever takes my eyes off of you'", knowing that he's preserved in a jar, there to constantly glare at Catherine, and any passerby's, for the rest of time (I mean until the head is gone of course) just makes this line kind of terrifying. Pytor: "Just you and your lover as a dark souvenir." The entire ending lyrics, from the perspective of Mons's head, are incredibly haunting and depressing. "Strokes her blistered hand across my glass container, saying 'it's so good to see you back here again'." This wreaks of a mournful, heartbroken, woman in denial of her lover's death, desperately trying to recreate his presence in the room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euL_owT305g I won't go in depth here, but this is another one that tugs at my heart strings. The line "When a man loves a drink more than blood" (from a perspective of family) hurts on so many levels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3YZfx144Jk Then there's this track. This whole thing is just sorrowful, yet incredible. Kevin Devine's vocals on this song are some of his best. The short duet/harmony towards the end of this song is the perfect way to wrap up this particular album that finishes on an emotional note. Hope you guys enjoy these tracks. I'm thinking about making a video for the next band I'd like to admire on here, but I kind of hate the sound of my own voice, so we'll see how that goes. If I do, and sum up some courage, I hope it's ok to post the video in here.