The ability to go through your own personal hell, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and carry on.
Fortunately for Mellencamp, his songs are steeped in much the same Southern stew of guilt and belief, despair and faith, rural dust and hell-raising devilry that coursed through Robert Johnson and Jerry Lee Lewis and the early Baptist congregations when they raised their voices in these same locations, so the effect is never spurious.
Roaring into Australian cinemas five years before a certain leather-clad road warrior raised hell in a dystopian dust-riddled future, Stone is for bikes what Mad Max was for cars: an anti-conventional head trip seemingly powered by lunatics and splattered with striking aesthetic flourishes.
Which really makes a person wonder where the hell the housekeeper was dusting when she came across it.
It must have been hell, broken glass and plaster dust, but we thought it was wonderful.
As the summer wound down into mid-September, about a week after I'd been Dust-dosed by Hell's Angels at a Waylon Jennings gig, I got an outta-the-blue call from an acquaintance in the music business with some wild news.
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No need to dust down your Sartre: hell is still other people.
These are just hot, smoky spices rather than meat dust, and it has one hell of a kick.
On the strength of songs like "Dust" and "Down Here in Hell (With You)," Hunt's début can stand proudly alongside the best work of Raphael Saadiq or D'Angelo.
On the left side of the canvas, rowdy miners use the Sabbath to raise hell — boozing, fighting and literally throwing their new gold dust to the winds.
Young and Zazeela looked like a Hell's Angels version of Santa and Mrs. Claus emerging from the dust of Haight-Ashbury circa 1967 for this discussion.
