The (NOT SO) Skinny Girl

Per Graham Allen (AKA the 'Dear America'/Daily Rants guy) [Opens with Papa Roach's "Last Resort"] What if I told you this wasn't just a song? In fact, what if I told you that someone, somewhere, someplace- someone- actually feels this way. What if I told you that right NOW- someone, somewhere, by some means... just took their life by suicide. Did you know that it is estimated that every 16 minutes someone in the US take their own life?Did you know that Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US? An estimated 44,000 Americans take their own lives each and every year. In 2017 we are already over 23,000 American that have taken their own life. Suicide is nothing new. It is in our music, in our movies, in our graphic novels- it has been everywhere for years. Netflix has a hit show called 13 Reasons Why- a story about a girl who commits suicide and leaves 13 reasons why she did it. The original intent behind the series was to bring awareness to bullyin...

"One Step Closer" was my go-to song during hard times in high school.   My Meteora and Hybrid Theory CDs were practically smooth from being overplayed, the music just flowed from track to track.  I was allowed to listen to this music because it had no parental advisory, and I clung to it.  I knew every word of every song.  I would listen to it while I cried myself to sleep.   I would listen to it while I screamed myself into submission.  I would listen to it AFTER I'd cut myself and was embarrassed and angry at myself for stooping that low.  I should have known that someone who was writing songs that directly related to my fucked up life was writing from experience.  I used this music to decompress, to lift myself up, to blow off steam. What I've Done was the theme music to the first Transformers. Let me just say, my dog's name is Optimus Prime.  The song Iridescent is on Dark of the Moon, and  Linkin P...