Catching up on credits...

Last post: Two videos of songs by Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode, from his solo album Hourglass. The top video is the official video for the single "Kingdom." The second video is a an excellent fan-made video for the album track "Saw Something." Both songs were written by Dave Gahan.

Prior Post: Lyrics to the Depeche Mode song "Home," from their album Exciter. Lyrics penned by Martin L. Gore.

Prior Post: Two videos of live performances by Martin L. Gore of Depeche Mode, who were touring in support of their album Playing The Angel. This is from their show in Milan. The performance at top is of the song "It Doesn't Matter Two" from the album Black Celebration. The second video is his performance from the same show of the "Sister of Night" from the album Ultra.

Prior Post: A portrait of and famous quote from the great Nez Perce leader Chief Joesph, who led a prolonged and intense resistance to American military forces, before, seeing the starvation and deprivation of his own people as a result of this continuous guerilla warfare which his nation ultimately had no hope of winning, sadly but proudly made his famous declaration after laying down arms in surrender. I find his action to be among the most dignified I've ever read about and, along with Lou Gehrig's famous last speech (a baseball player), Martin Luther King's most famous speech, Gandhi's fast in support of Indian independence, Kennedy's declaration that American would "land on the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard," Leonidas of Sparta's last stand at Thermopylae after ordering the bulk of his Greek allies to flee to safety, and a handful of other moments in human history, it sends shivers down my spine.

Prior post: A trio of Depeche Mode videos (notice the theme incongruously surrounding Chief Jospeh? - however not is all as it seems, as DM are ardently anti-Christian and often include motifs of organized monotheistic religion's destructive nature in their songs, something to which Native Americans would, at least in earlier years, I'm sure be keen to agree with). Top video is an ethereal fan-made video of the song "The Darkest Star" from the album Playing The Angel. The middle offering is a chilling USC school of film student video for the early 80s DM song "Blasphemous Rumours" from the album Speak And Spell. At bottom is the official video for the song "Barrel of a Gun" from the album Ultra.

Prior post is a poem of my own.

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