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Monday, February 14, 2011

Happy Lupercalia

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Once, long ago, two days after the Ides, on February 15, there took place in Rome a mysterious ritual called the Lupercalia, one of the many...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Mellow Yellow

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In yet another development regarding the ongoing search for John Lennon's white 1965 Rolls Royce Phantom V (see the previous and related...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Ballad of EUC 100C

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Frequent guest blogger Eric Roberts has assembled a short informational clip featuring images of the 1965 Rolls Royce Phantom V once owned b...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Coq au Vin

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Yardbird is a slang word for the chicken, usually after having been prepared as a meal. Apparently jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker loved fr...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Hip And Corn

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There's hip , and then there's corn , what Louis Armstrong in his autobiography, Swing That Music (1936), calls "corney."...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The Standard

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There is no general agreement on what constitutes a "standard," although the existence of the standard requires, implicitly, a dis...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Confusing Grace With Outer Space

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It goes without saying that certain rock stars have the same mysterious allure as movie stars. One lesson these rock stars learned from movi...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The Ring Modulator

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For well over a century, music composers have allied themselves with engineers. For an example, consider German engineer Harald Bode, whose ...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Clues and Contradictions: Where's John Lennon's White Rolls Royce? Part Two

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In the second of two parts, guest blogger Eric Roberts continues his summary of the search for the whereabouts of John Lennon's White R...
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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Clues And Contradictions: Where's John Lennon's White Rolls Royce? Part One

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Guest blogger Eric Roberts provides a summary of the search for the whereabouts of John Lennon's White Rolls Royce (EUC 100C) that has t...
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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Larynx

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This past week I happened to see two movies from different decades and noticed that the electronic novelty, the SONOVOX , serendipitously ap...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

The Elfman-Burton Music Box Bonus Disc

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I suspect those like me who pre-ordered The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box Collector's Edition (for informati...
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