David Stagg

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The Burning Ones
By David Stagg

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

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Memphis May Fire

Memphis May Fire Has A New Outlook on Life

“I would lay in my bunk and I would shake and I would call my wife and I’d have all these thoughts about her getting in accidents and just the worst things you could possibly imagine.”

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iwrestledabearonce

Run Fast, Play Heavy

“The day I stopped believing in God was the day that God didn’t answer my prayers that the frickin’ Looney Tunes squad would come out of my TV with Michael Jordan and be my friends. I did meet Charles Barkley once. Wait. Twice.”

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Sleeping Giant

How We Are Free

“I remember just crying. I didn’t know why. I just started crying, thinking about being totally given up on. To still have maybe 30, 40, 50 years left, but according to society, you’re done. There’s no value for who you are.”

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Tombs

Anger, Alchemy, Gold

“When you’re 22 years old, everything’s intense. Nowadays, the writing just comes more from an attempt to understand than from anger.”

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My close personal friend David Kline, a member of Knoxville’s free-flowing, improvisational music scene, wrote and directed a piece about them called Out (The Out Series Documentary). The full work is available for free to watch on YouTube.

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