Pumped Up Kicks because bad always starts somewhere

When I read a good story my heart is cheering like the bottom of the 9th with a tied game bases loaded. The opposing team is the enemy/bad guy, and yet if I didn't have that opposing team, that villain that bad ass bad guy/chick I would put the book we all would.

We need that evil monster whether it is us vs them, a vampire, Magneto, Venom, Lex Luthor, we don't want bad. We all want BAD because bad makes the story, bad is what makes us flip the page, bad is lead up to the orgasmic release called "the end."

Bad is what keeps us coming back for more, yes our hero and heroines are virtuous and wonderful but damn they are boring without BAD.

Bad also serves a purpose, it reminds me that somewhere in the story (we are all a story) communication has broken down. Bad is leads to miss-communication and that is when all hell breaks loose. Bad reminds me that each of us is a story and if we don't pause, ask reflect we may never know how we got to bad. Knowing how we got to "bad" is why "prequels" are hot right now.

Knowing the back story to bad doesn't make it less bad but it does allow us to begin their story, our story and your story.