How can you make a celebration of the human spirit via sound waves When your soul is being crushed?

Thrash, my friend, there was fucked up shit going on in the world when you were making music before, there was fucked up shit going on when bach and mozart were composing, and (unless we manage to find some way to make every person on the planet feel the physical pain of every other person, talk about a decent system of negative feedback! :P) there will always be bad stuff going on in the world while brillian musicians are making music. Look at marley! He looked at the ills of the world and channeled his frustration into music. I would say that the best way to avoid the soul-crushing is to channel that energy INTO your compositions. :) _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus