There’s nothing quite like a good Pantera song when you’re feeling down or depressed. It either makes you want to open a vein, or it helps you get over it. Today’s track is “Strength Beyond Strength” from their album Far Beyond Driven. It’s honestly one of the best southern metal albums ever made…considering we’ve used two tracks from that album this week.
Pantera was infamous for opening up their sets with this number in the band’s latter years. They’d have a curtain draped on the stage while they were setting up, and when they were ready, they’d kill the lights, drop the curtain and come in with the double-bass blaring. These guys were such a prolific band for me when I was growing up, it’s just too bad Dimebag had to go and get killed. I didn’t get sad when Cobain killed himself, but I got a bit misty when I realized I’d never hear Dimebag shred on the guitar again.
I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for.
It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are.
I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own.
It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.
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