The lyrics of the 1995 song titled Black Star by Radiohead from their album The Bends are most often interpreted as an individual in a…
In this startling oil painting entitled Anguish by August Friedrich Schenck, we see an ewe standing protectively over the corpse of her child, defending it…
Lizzy McAlpine, a singer, songwriter, and producer, contributes to the large body of alternative and indie wistful music. Her third studio album, “Other,” is a…
The María’s an American Indie band that combines illustrations of both Spanish and English in many of their songs lead by vocalist Maria Zardoya sings…
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) features poems in its subway cars for an initiative decorating people’s commutes with pieces of poetry, “Poems in Passage.” A…
Set in mid 1800s Saint Petersburg, the nameless narrator of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s White Nights falls in love with a woman he barely knows. The short…
Like a lullaby sung in the dead of night, James Blunt’s “Monster” is a haunting meditation on the bonds of family and the weight of…
A single welling tear, partially veiled, offers a glimpse into the complex tapestry of human emotion. In a world that frequently extols the virtues of…
The 2019 Movie, Waves, spotlights the turmoil of a Florida family. It is broken into two halves. The first dissects the downfall of Tyler Williams,…
Taylor Swift began pursuing her passion for music as a career at the age of 14 and has truly built a name for herself…
The Good Place, a four-season series that aired from 2016 to 2020. It explores existential comedy themes revolving around morality, the afterlife, generational trauma, hope,…
Born in 1904, Salvador Dali is a revolutionary Spanish painter known for his distinct surrealist style. A great admirer of Freud, he was interested in…
“Celebrate” by Mikaela Brewer is a poem honouring the power of words and voices, but specifically about the joy of diverse cultures, traditions, and stories….
The film “I Am Sam” was released in 2001, and follows a mentally challenged father who has the intellectual capacity of a seven year-old due…
Gustav Klimt’s famous 1905 mural “The Tree of Life, Stoclet Frieze” depicts a twisting tree that seemingly branches out into the world, connecting with all other…
Poet Emily Dickinson, born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, influenced poetry for centuries to come with her distinctly American voice and prose. Her daring poetry…
While initially criticized for being ‘too depressing’, the 1990’s song “Creep” by Radiohead remains to be the band’s top hit single. This song is famously…
The poems of author Charles Bukowski drudge through the mundane aspects of everyday life; but there is a bittersweet candidness to his observations that pull…
“Hoax” is the final track on Taylor Swift’s grammy award winning 2020 album “Folklore”. In this song, Taylor describes what turned out to be a…
Guy Winch is a psychologist, writer and TedTalk speaker from London, England. In his Ted Talk “How to fix a broken heart”, Winch explains how…
