Antonio Llanos

Imagine being a god. With the long omnipresent reliance of humans making sacrifices in your name. All while spiritually shouldering the burdens, your heroic elements being immortalized in the oral retellings depicted by humans as larger than life. Though you may be granted with the ability to do almost anything based off of the celestial...

Success is subjective. Truly! It takes time to understand what we want out of life and how we are able to attain it. Some strive to attain a luxurious car, money, influence. Others strive to have the ability to do what they love; a substitution for the pay off. When doing what we love sustains...

The obscurity of the internal human is vast. What remains in the shadows within us is where the root of all fears is. The belief there is an equilibrium, a balance, something to provide an equal footing for the things that make us and the things that hurt us. The things that are truly scary...

The awful truth remains; we are all still in high school. For the contemporary young adult today, the experience that is the stereotypical American High School either leaves a bad taste in the mouth or a wonderful social experience for exploring friendships and solidifying your path in life. Whether the latter was your experience, or...

Transcendentalist philosopher Henry Thoreau sought to find the ideal sense of self. In doing so, Thoreau lost himself in nature. From society to self-sufficiency to the natural world, Thoreau sought to thread together a way to live consistent with the natural realm long forgotten. In his book “Walden,” he wrote, “I went to the woods...

I have fond memories of being on campus from my first semester, but I never thought I’d be writing about one of those instances for my column. I don’t find it difficult, or odd in any form, but I just remember it so vividly. I was walking down the hallway blasting music in my headphones...

It’s really hard to define what particularly popularized the notion that screaming paired with melodic singing would become the scene defining trend and industry staple it stands as today. While I see the combination of both vocalizations as symbolic of the human condition’s personal unrest, there is a converse. Screamo, the combination of hardcore music...

Good art transcends mediums, but not all artists can transcend good art. Take the cover; a well-established musical staple in which one artist writes and performs a song and another artist will “cover” it. Pretty straightforward. But what about when artists switch genres? As one of Machine Gun Kelly’s most outspoken critics of his “pop-punk”...

For every reason someone has to remain in a relationship, there are a thousand reasons they will tell themselves to forgo it. The skin in the game is necessary, not just to learn whether our partner is meant to be ours, but whether we are ready to commit to what is in front of us....

Ambition is the fuel for creation. Creation itself cannot be self-sustained, but must be catered to and given ample foundational support from conception, catering to the well-being and preservation. Much like bringing a child into the world, or nurturing a new dream, a music project, a novel, a skill, all requires constant care, attention and...