Loaded Like a Freight Train!

Mr. Fate takes pause to both acknowledge and celebrate all of the musical and literary references after nearly 8 months of blogging.

While the time has past swiftly (as it always does), since February 12, 2019 when I was first interviewed about the launch of Fates On Fire, I will always vividly remember this quote:

“I’m a huge reader and rock n’ roller, so I’m telling you in advance, and unapologetically, there’s a shit-ton of literary and music references embedded in the posts.“

And, so there has been. Lots. So many, I’ve forgotten. But I’ve tried my best to list & celebrate them here. If you don’t like this post you can place the blame squarely on Mrs. Fate who always claims that this is “a literary blog” because there’s ton of author references and/or my pal at SavvyHistory.com who has a near equal amount of musical references (is FIREart a real thing now?)

Like I’ve always stated, “Fates on Fire is the Sex Pistols of the ‘FIRE Movement’,” Some enjoy prancing in front of the media, some of us like throwing Molotovs and making folks actually think.

So, without further ado – here they are. I love them all! If you’ve not heard any of this music or read any of this literature, I encourage you to do so (except Ned’s Atomic Dustbin who just had a handy heading phrase). Yes, each and every FOF article, just like Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan, back in the day, is loaded like a freight train.

MUSIC ARTISTS:

  • U2
  • Crass
  • Devo
  • Echo & the Bunnymen
  • Wire
  • Virgin Prunes
  • Cocteau Twins
  • Joy Division
  • Nurse With Wound
  • Olivia Newton John
  • Cyndi Lauper
  • Skid Row
  • Guns N’ Roses
  • Death in June
  • The Velvet Underground
  • Daniel Ash
  • This Mortal Coil
  • The Cramps
  • Tom Petty
  • David Bowie
  • Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
  • Lydia Lunch
  • The Circle Jerks
  • The Stooges
  • Van Halen
  • Green
  • Her Voice Remains
  • Eurythmics
  • Duran Duran
  • Tones on Tail
  • Willie Nelson
  • Black Flag
  • Henry Rollins
  • The Ramones
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Pixies
  • Hedwig & the Angry Inch
  • Nick Cave
  • Einsturzende Neubaten
  • Public Enemy
  • Alien Sex Fiend

AUTHORS:

  • Charles Bukowski
  • Neil Gaiman
  • Terry Pratchett
  • Aleister Crowley
  • William S. Burroughs
  • H.P. Lovecraft
  • Douglas Coupland
  • Franz Kafka
  • Roddy Doyle
  • Voltaire
  • Stan Lee
  • Douglas Adams
  • Malcolm Gladwell
  • J.R.R Tollein
  • J.K Rowling
  • Penn & Teller
  • Jerry Stahl
  • Philip K. Dick
  • Shel Silverstein
  • Nikki Sixx
  • Hubert Selby, Jr.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Homer
  • Ray Bradbury
  • James Bowen
  • Kafi Annan
  • Edgar Allen Poe
  • Charles Dickens
  • Aldoux Huxley
  • John Cheever
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Dylan Thomas
  • Jack Kerouac
  • Charles Baudelaire
  • William Yeats
  • Earnest Hemmingway