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Friday, April 22, 2011

Armageddon Days Are Here Again

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On this Earth Day, what more appropriate topic than the Whole Earth Catalog ? The Whole Earth Catalog was a thick, oversized paperback larg...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Ordinary People

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The Rolling Stones' album Black and Blue (1976), a minor record in the Stones' vast oeuvre and the first made after the departure ...
Friday, April 15, 2011

History And Myth

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According to This Day In Rock , on 15 April 1955 CBS talent scout Arthur Godfrey turned down the chance to sign Elvis Presley. However, acco...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

The Music Box

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I haven't yet had the time to explore thoroughly all of the contents included in The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Musi...
Saturday, April 9, 2011

Anamorphosis

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I'd never noticed the similarity before, but last night while watching the new Blu-ray release of Soylent Green (1973), I realized how ...
Friday, April 8, 2011

Optic Nerve

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Both music and perception are psychophysiological processes (psychophysiology studies the relationship between physiological processes and t...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Pill Box

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Below I present the full text of a statement given to a student reporter who is working on an article on the "sexual revolution" o...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

My Bird Sings Sweetly

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In his Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1985), Italo Calvino suggests that “melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness,” just as “...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Elfman-Burton Box Set Delayed Until April

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I received an email last night informing me that the Danny Elfman and Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box Set has been delayed (again), wi...
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...
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