From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Who Owns Responsibility In An Ownership Society?

October 28, 2008

FYI: I wrote the following in a meager attempt to try get something published on The Huffington Post Off The Bus section.  They weren’t interested in publishing it, but I spent too much time to just let it sit around going nowhere.  So here it is… In the last several weeks, we as a nation [...]

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The 80′s music…brought back?

October 21, 2008

Image via Wikipedia Why anyone would want to spend all their time organizing 80′s music videos is really beyond me.  Over at NoiseAddicts, a new music blog gaining my attention lately, shared this site.  Now, I will be the first to admit, I am a product of the eighties.  A lot of the music I [...]

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Blog Action Day: The Fight Against Poverty

October 15, 2008

The recent economic breakdown has left many people frighted.  Why? There is a natural tendency to fear hunger or sleep in a cold alley, at least here in the US.  The inability to feed, shelter or cloth yourself and your family keeps us working.  It is fair to state that Americans are evaluating what is [...]

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What Happens When Musicians Oppose Songs For Political Use?

October 11, 2008

Today, the mixing of music and politics are taking on a different form.  In recent weeks a group of artists have criticized presidential candidates John McCain and Barrack Obama for using songs at pubic appearances.  Just this week, Foo Fighters released a statement asking John McCain to stop using the song “My Hero”.  In a [...]

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Metal Music Video Friday

October 11, 2008

I am really not in the mood to write anything special at the moment.  Instead, I thought it might be a little more fun to share some videos. So why not begin with the new video from AC/DC “Rock and Roll Train” from the upcomig album Black Ice due out October 20th. I am pumped [...]

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Is Progressive Rock Really Progressive: Part II

October 8, 2008

Several weeks ago I started to decipher progressive rock.  I concluded that music is naturally progressive and labels, such as progressive rock and alternative, assigned to artists are really a marketing ploy. Today, I thought I’d contemplate how we should define progressive rock. As a starting point, I looked up the definition of progressive rock [...]

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Philip Glass Asked To Compose Opera About Walt Disney

October 1, 2008

Philip Glass is one of those composers that I have had my ups and downs with over the years.  So when I recently discovered that Glass has been commissioned by New York City Opera to compose an opera that imagines the final months in the life of Walt Disney, I was both confused and intrigued [...]

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