I’ve always been a sucker for good titling. The Future Belongs to Ghosts is a ten-page book of drawings by Terrence Hannum. The images are drawn from stilled video images of performances by hardcore rock bands seen in past issues of HeartattaCk zine. The fuzzy drawings have the vague foggy feeling of head-banging days gone by-much like youth or rock’n’roll fueled rebellion. The Future Belongs to Ghosts should itself be the name of a rock album-it possesses the right amounts of pessimism and poetry and is fearlessly aware that the present doesn’t make any difference in matters ultimately governed by time. Hannum’s drawings have a dark heaviness about them, like an adolescent determined to be taken seriously about his interest in this music and how it makes him feel.
Rock, eventually, becomes a ghost itself-teenage in its sometimes misguided fervor, eventually mellowing with time until that rage becomes a manageable interior echo of its original raw sentiment. It evokes a core feeling so fundamental but none the less gone with the past-something you can’t quite remember being. Video too is like a ghost-lingering but useless, continuing to cling to the hearts and minds of the children of the past. Or the ghosts of the future. (Karen Darricades)
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