And like Chekhov’s theater, contemporary wrestling’s most compelling power comes not from hiding this collapse, but from showing it, stylizing it, even ritualizing it.
On Chekhov and the Silent Collapse and Rebirth of Drama
he beauty is not decorative; it is existential. The play does not instruct, resolve, or even explain. It witnesses. And in doing so, it offers a kind of truthfulness about transience and its very human reality that classical drama, bound to structure and consequence, could not contain.
AC/DC Is Medieval Chant with Guitars
The fact that they “hated” punk tells me that they are punk rockers. Punk rockers typically don’t traffic in half-hearted opinions. What could be more punk that to hate punk?
But if you are a music lover, it’s good to move above and beyond genres and just listen. If it sounds good to you, then it’s good music. And it’s also fun to try to figure out why you think all the things that sound good to you are similar.