Influences Category

“The Waking Dream” by The Boy

I am stuck between two worlds and I cannot possibly exist in one of them. I am a creature made of fiction, created by the mind of an artist and influenced by his life’s path. I am formless. I can be poetry; I can be prose. I can be analog or digital. I can be […]

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The “Alanis Morissette” Influence

    We now come to the Feminist part of The Destiny Saga. I’ve already expressed my appreciation for the music of Public Enemy, The Go! Team, M.I.A. and Megadeth, but alongside Mr Chuck D himself, we come to my other favorite lyricist of all time: Alanis Morissette.    If Chuck D represents my masculine side, […]

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The “Megadeth” Influence

   And now we come to the heavy metal part of The Destiny Saga’s influences. And I guess this is the part where some of you will go, “Really, Rochard? Heavy metal, Brother? Umm….o…kay.” I guess all I have to say for myself is that I never met a musical genre I didn’t like (even […]

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The “M.I.A.” Influence

   There is a sense of punk injected into my artistry and into The Destiny Saga as well. It’s not punk in the Sex Pistols-I wear ripped jeans-I get myself effed up-kinda way. It’s more like a “I know who I am and will stay true to me” type of punk.    For those of you who […]

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