Music Wrap - Lorn "Acid Rain"

Okay, even though this song is from 2015 I only heard this song a week ago along with the film clip and I found it mesmerising and haunting.

Artist : LORN

Title: Acid Rain

Label: Wednesday Sound

2015 UK MVA 'Best Dance Music Video' Winner Milano Film Festival Showcase 2015

SXSW Official Selection 2016

Cast and their respective hairstyles:

Kayla Frails, (braids)

Jacqueline Ann LeWarne, (side ponytail)

Morgan Ceely, (bob)

Emily James, (buns)

Val Rockey (shoulder length)

Lyrics:

Daylight

In bad dreams

In a cool world

Full of cruel things

Hang tight

All you

Nothing like a big bad bridge

To go burning through

The video starts with a cheerleader slumped over in her wrecked car. She gets out and stumbles around in a smoky, deserted parking lot clutching her stomach... I know, thrilling stuff right? Well after that she launches into a powerful dance but not before eventually stumbling into a 1950's classic American style diner looking like she's barely conscious.

She meets another cheerleader in there, they launch into a coordinated dance down the aisle before side ponytail disappears through a side door and braids goes back to stumbling.. this time behind the counter before lurching out the kitchen exit.

The camera pans back into the back kitchen area braids just walked out of and we see a third cheerleader - one with a bob - this one actually beckons us to follow her as she dances gracefully out through the kitchen and eventually jumping out the window. She runs across the parking lot to meet up with all of the cheerleaders - braids and side ponytail are also there but there's two we hadn't seen before - one with two side buns and one with shoulder length hair.

All the cheerleaders begin to dance - the same dance but they're a little out of step with each other or at least at different levels. As the dance progresses, braids looks down and realises she's bleeding from her stomach - then she looks into the camera extremely forlorn as the other cheerleaders vanish into bright, white lights and she's left alone by a pool.

Cut to all five cheerleaders in the car where braids started off - all of them dead.

Columbine Fanwankers

The Columbine School shootings back in 1999 was my first taste of unimaginable, school based violence. Maybe it was for the world as well, a bit of an eye opener. For myself, a young student in Australia - it was purely unthinkable. Like something out of a movie. I vividly remember watching the Michael Moore documentary "Bowling for Columbine" with my classmates, while the world around me seemed to be trying to rationalise this event by blaming everything they could and yet not reaching the root cause.

So, there we all were in this class.
Sitting in a small room on uncomfortable chairs, gazing raptly at the clunky TV set.
All the while thinking... How did this happen?


And as we all know.. things in America regarding educational facilities and weaponry did not improve and still continue to decline as despite extra measures, these kinds of incidents become more and more frequent. I don't know if Columbine was the first major school shooting but it definitely captured everyone's attention and perhaps even became a trendsetter or pioneer for people to enact their violent dreams on fellow students and teachers, or even just to 'copycat' the heinous thing.

I'm talking about this today because I read this article and it royally ticked me off. Not anything the authors Julie Turkewitz or Jack Healy wrote, but the subject matter itself.

An 18 year old woman named Sol Pais purchased a plane ticket in Florida, and flew across the country to Colorado where she then purchased a gun almost immediately. This is concerning by itself but gets worse when we find out she was obsessed with the Colombine shootings and had spent the time leading up to her trip making strange social media posts and threatening statements to people she knew. Online discussions with gun enthusiasts about wanting to buy a gun on an upcoming trip.
Some news sources have said that she made vague threats as well, but it's unclear if these were actually made or just an elaboration of things found in her diary.