Ahhhhh....therapy....
Found some nice videos of Coheed and Cambria's Album Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV Volume I: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness combined with the Good Apollo Graphic Novel.
Short explanation is that Coheed and Cambria are a prog rock band doing sci-fi concept albums which have an ongoing comic book series depicting the story in a more conventional way than the somewhat surreal albums do. The Good Apollo novel is going to be replaced by the current comic series, but it's a decent example of what the music album is about (and also more surreal/trippy than the normal comics, while still having the same plotline.) At this point in the story (the fourth album), we are switched from the sci-fi universe to our world, where we see that the whole story has been an actual fictional story created by this insane guy, who's psycho-obsessed with an ex-girlfriend who cheated on him, and is writing this story to purge his demons and to woo her back. Unfortunately, he's gone completely insane and his bicycle starts manifesting itself as a demon, trying to help him get over his issues by killing the woman in his story that represents his ex. Too bad for the story world people, as he really is God there and really decides to kill this "imaginary" woman in the story.
These videos start with his internal rage at finding his ex with another man (Welcome Home), his first encounter with the demon bike (Ten Speed of God's Blood & Burial), a realization of the similarities between his story characters and his real world (Crossing the Frame), the bicycle's solution to his pain (Apollo I: The Writing Writer), and the writer's decision to kill off the character (Once Upon Your Dead Body). The story really is about letting go of your inner demons, and letting art free you (though it's a pretty dark story).
ANYWAYS, pretty pictures and music follow. This story has been suitable in a way for me recently. Enjoy!
Welcome Home
Ten Speed of God's Blood and Burial
Crossing the Frame
Apollo I: The Writing Writer
Once Upon Your Dead Body
Apollo is the guy's dog, btw. :)
Short explanation is that Coheed and Cambria are a prog rock band doing sci-fi concept albums which have an ongoing comic book series depicting the story in a more conventional way than the somewhat surreal albums do. The Good Apollo novel is going to be replaced by the current comic series, but it's a decent example of what the music album is about (and also more surreal/trippy than the normal comics, while still having the same plotline.) At this point in the story (the fourth album), we are switched from the sci-fi universe to our world, where we see that the whole story has been an actual fictional story created by this insane guy, who's psycho-obsessed with an ex-girlfriend who cheated on him, and is writing this story to purge his demons and to woo her back. Unfortunately, he's gone completely insane and his bicycle starts manifesting itself as a demon, trying to help him get over his issues by killing the woman in his story that represents his ex. Too bad for the story world people, as he really is God there and really decides to kill this "imaginary" woman in the story.
These videos start with his internal rage at finding his ex with another man (Welcome Home), his first encounter with the demon bike (Ten Speed of God's Blood & Burial), a realization of the similarities between his story characters and his real world (Crossing the Frame), the bicycle's solution to his pain (Apollo I: The Writing Writer), and the writer's decision to kill off the character (Once Upon Your Dead Body). The story really is about letting go of your inner demons, and letting art free you (though it's a pretty dark story).
ANYWAYS, pretty pictures and music follow. This story has been suitable in a way for me recently. Enjoy!
Welcome Home
Click to viewTen Speed of God's Blood and Burial
Crossing the Frame
Apollo I: The Writing Writer
Once Upon Your Dead Body
Apollo is the guy's dog, btw. :)