final days – THOUGHTS ON HEROES
So now we are in the final stretch before getting down into the actual recording. Haruko and I were just talking about the lyrics. How we are trying to stay true to our original theme. “Every day Heroism”. But like all real artistic threads, they lead you in ways that you weren’t necessarily planning. The theme comes first. Then the elusive sounds and images flood in and sometimes disobey us. Refuse to walk in a straight line. Stories of hungry girls that have the apatite of scores of men. Giants keep appearing…
Ok I look at it all and start to see some patterns. All of the stories are about tiny beings who have or strive to have huge power. The struggle against “Giants” to find their power. Well that relates in a way to this idea of everyday heroism. Tiny ordinary beings that do enormous things. But somehow the manifestation has been twisted to not entirely “heroic” acts. Some of the stories just present a tiny being that performs incredibly monstrous feats. Is it “heroic” to achieve something a million times huger than yourself? Even if there is no benevolent action? Must sleep. LYRIC: “I have an apatite, of a giant man. I’ve seen little women, devour, three bento lunch specials… but my, apatite, is beyond. I gorge when I need to. Like a giant man. I belch with the best of the men, smashing my 8th bottle… but my, apatite, is beyond.”
A hero (from Greek ἥρως hērōs[1]), in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, the offspring of a mortal and a deity,[2] their cult being one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion. Later, hero (male) and heroine (female) came to refer to characters that, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self-sacrifice, that is, heroism, for some greater good, originally of martial courage or excellence but extended to more general moral excellence. Stories of heroism may serve as moral examples. In classical antiquity, hero cults, veneration of deified heroes such as Heracles, Perseus, or Achilles, played an important role in Ancient Greek religion. Later emperors employed hero worship for their own apotheosis, that is, cult of personality. DOES ANYONE KNOW ANY INTERESTING WRITINGS ON HEROISM ESPECIALLY FROM UNUSUAL PERSPECTIVES? HISTORY OF THE WORD HERO… STRANGE TAKES…?
