In the past year, I have talked about many of my interests here on Metea Media. The autism rights movement, politics, current events, Mold-A-Rama machines. I thought it would be a perfect way to end the...

There is this common idea that “disability” is a dirty word. I remember many episodes in middle school, particularly where counselors would take me into their quaint, stale offices and ask me about...

“Neglected Space” is not so much a song as it is an auditory poem. Most of it is sung in the spoken word, rising and falling in momentum in a very atmospheric way. It gives the impression of uncovering...

Plantasia, the album this song was released within, is something of a 70s curiosity. “Music for Plants and the People who Love Them”, the album was created with the intention that playing it near houseplants...

Woodsy Owl is one of the United States Forest Service’s lesser-known official mascots, often used to discourage littering and encourage keeping forests clean. However, Woodsy is a branded mascot, and...

Brookfield Zoo reopened to the public after two months of closure due to COVID-19 related lockdowns on March 1. In the weeks prior, similar places like museums and aquariums across Chicagoland were opening...

Jack Johnson’s music, I find, is very relaxing. Maybe it is because I associate it with its appearances in a movie I watched all the time as a kid, maybe it is because it is actually relaxing, I do not...

Lemon Demon is one of those artists where I like the music itself a lot, but the fans I have seen of his are a bit much if you want my opinion. Thankfully, however, this song seems to be relatively untouched...

If you know me, you know I absolutely love the Don Juan folktale. I have written countless essays and analyses of the story as it appears throughout the past few centuries, have seen Mozart’s operatic...

Georgia held a Senate Runoff Election to determine who its next two senators would be last Tuesday. Senate runoff elections are held when no singular candidate has over 50% of the state’s votes, which...

On the first week back from Thanksgiving Break, Metea unveiled a new school schedule that had previously been designed to accommodate a hybrid learning plan. The hybrid plan had been canceled a week prior,...

Bulldog Eyes has been one of my favorite artists for a while now, mainly owing to the overall aesthetic of their songs. If you have ever seen pictures of liminal spaces, those places that feel so nostalgically...

This has been one of those songs that I rediscover every few months, mainly for its simple yet pleasing beat that slowly increases in volume and power just as its lyrics do, and for the lyrics themselves,...

While I do not often listen to Modest Mouse, this song makes me think I should. With its circular beat, the story gradually becomes more and more clear as the song goes on: It is about a man coming to...

The Debussy Preludes are a masterclass in using instrumental music to piece together a set, and Bruyeres is no exception- especially in this gentle orchestral rearrangement by Percy Grainger. The scene...

“They Might Be Giants,” perhaps my favorite band, has something for everyone. While this song is one of their older ones, and therefore more abstract in nature compared to their newer, more obvious...

“Poor George”: Half mocking, half melancholy; this is the story of pride that goes before the fall. The titular George is both his own character and a symbol for the particular carelessness of men,...

For the past few weeks or so now, I have found myself watching the District 204 School Board’s meetings on YouTube. For the most part, the meetings are quite standard: the board discusses financial plans...

A couple years ago, I was in an animation class, working on projects that have ultimately been forgotten. While waiting for the computer to boot up, I pulled out a freshly-printed copy of River of Fire-...

Throughout the summer, the district expressed concerns on their website regarding the rising COVID-19 rates in DuPage County, causing a delay in the return to school on Sept. 3 and the continuance of online...