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Diary of a 3rd Person: Zack de la Rocha: Too Angry for Rage

I have come back around to listening to some of the music I had almost forgotten existed. I was heading out for a ride on my bike, so I grabbed my MP3 player and my headphones. I opened up the internet radio program on my phone and searched “Rage Against the Machine.” I was greeted with the angry music that I had grown to love years prior. As “ in the year 2000 was as sudden as it was impactful for me. I was severely distraught when I learned that I would no longer hear the powerful lyrics of the militant poet, Zack de la Rocha, backed up by the creative guitar sounds of Tom Morello and his arsenal of different homemade distortion pedals. Yes, I would still get to hear Tom playing guitar for I took it as a funny twist of words at the time, and it helped put a tag line to my grief over the loss of a great band, but now it left me wondering what that actually meant. I remembered song titles like “Bullet in the Head”, “Killing in the Name of”, and “Calm Like a Bomb.” There were lines like “Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me” and “There's a right to obey, and there's a right to kill.” Those were some of the famous interludes to Zack's screams for “Freedom.” I wondered how anyone could get any angrier than that. What would Zack would turn into during his seven year stint as a rogue artist without I needed to know what became of Zack during those lost years away from the spotlight. Just like Jesus and Robert Downey Jr. before him, there was very little information to be found. So I did what I always do, I made it up in my head. Here is my version of a day in the life of Zack de la Rocha, in the years 2001-2006, a man that was labeled “too angry for Zack would arise each morning at 9:30 am. His clock radio would erupt with the garbled voices of an NPR news anchor, and Zack would club the snooze bar with a forceful fist, and shout “Fuck you Steve Inskeep, turn that shit off!

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