{"id":7670,"date":"2015-07-14T17:19:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T00:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?page_id=7670"},"modified":"2015-07-14T17:19:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T00:19:44","slug":"about-solarbird-the-lightbringer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/about-solarbird-the-lightbringer\/","title":{"rendered":"About Solarbird, the Lightbringer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=250 width=178 style=\"float: right; padding: 0 0 0 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/images\/solarbird-in-concert.jpg\" alt=\"Live at CBCC, 2015\" title=\"Live at CBCC, 2015\">Solarbird the Lightbringer wasn&#8217;t yet a musician when the world changed underneath her. In civilian life, as Dara Korra&#8217;ti, she had been a published genetics researcher, a software developer for a certain&#8230; Monopolistic company&#8230; of yore, had a little art career going on the side&#8230; and, of course, she was a super<em>-hero<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>She likes to say that she didn&#8217;t change, the world did. But when the world changes around you, when the supervillains you&#8217;ve fought triumph, seize power, and get to set the rules about what&#8217;s <em>right<\/em> and what&#8217;s <em>wrong<\/em>, most people go along with that. Humans follow power. It&#8217;s what they <em>do<\/em>. And if <em>you<\/em> don&#8217;t go along, well &#8211; that makes <em>you<\/em> the villain now, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>So go ahead, dive in, run with it, why not? And try to have a sense of humour occasionally despite it all. So Solarbird founded Crime and the Forces of Evil, an ever-shifting band of officially-declared villainy, constantly adding and dropping members as supervillain groups always seem to do, performing rage-driven acoustic elfmetal to anyone who will listen, to anyone not <em>quite<\/em> willing to go along with whatever they&#8217;re sold. A determined little glimmer of ragey light, determined not to go out peacefully.<\/p>\n<p>Or, depending upon how you look at it, one final <em>problem<\/eM> that has yet to be <em>eradicated<\/em>. Really, it&#8217;s all in your point of view.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how you slice it, you end up with two studio albums (<a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/album\/dick-tracy-must-die\"><i>Dick Tracy Must Die<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/album\/bone-walker\"><i>Bone Walker<\/i><\/a>), a live-in-studio release (<a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/album\/cracksman-betty\"><i>Cracksman Betty<\/i><\/a>), and an assortment of singles. People call us all sorts of things, like &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paultristanfergus.com\/2011\/01\/26\/crime-and-the-forces-of-evil-dick-tracy-must-die\/\">lustrous, hard, and pure<\/a>,&#8221; or &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/reviews\">enchanting and uplifting<\/a>,&#8221; or &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/reviews\">brilliant and awesome<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Plus we get things like this, too:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Solarbird: &#8220;I am <em>so angry<\/em>. I am going to <em>disembowel<\/em> him. I <em>really<\/em> am.&#8221;<br \/>\nMolly Lewis: &#8220;It&#8217;s really creepy, how you smile when you say things like that.&#8221;<br \/>\nSolarbird: Hi. <em>Supervillain.<\/eM><br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/images\/ambush-selfie-molly.jpg\"><\/center><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who says we can&#8217;t have some fun and laugh a bit? Not us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solarbird the Lightbringer wasn&#8217;t yet a musician when the world changed underneath her. In civilian life, as Dara Korra&#8217;ti, she had been a published genetics researcher, a software developer for a certain&#8230; Monopolistic company&#8230; of yore, had a little art career going on the side&#8230; and, of course, she was a super-hero. She likes to [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7670","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}