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The Album Project: June 2011
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An attempt to listen to more music and keep writing. Saturday, June 25, 2011. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple. And I haven't even written about the (perhaps) even better sequel yet." - Matthew Butler, The Album Project. At the risk of this blog turning into a all Ceelo all the time festival, I want to talk about this album. As you may have learned from my several essays about his music at thus point, I love Ceelo. So, let's get to this album, and stop trying to define his...
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The Album Project: January 2011
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An attempt to listen to more music and keep writing. Saturday, January 29, 2011. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not. Weird one today, and also iPod-riffic, so blame it for anything super strange. And the time and place album. Or a tribute to Dr William Hollingsworth. Oh right. There are albums that exist to be heard in a certain time and place. They must be heard there or they might not flourish into the...The I...
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Southern Dialectics | Doing Academia
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The Confederacy was for wicked things, as were the Nazis and other wicked people. Would you be willing to fly the Nazi flag? You say you honor the valor of the Confederates, but surely there were valorous and skilled Nazis. Patton respected Rommel, for instance. But flying the Nazi flag to honor Rommel would be unacceptable. Likewise, flying the Confederate flag is unacceptable. Moments, we thumb our noses at Northern morality. And then, in our bad moments, some of us become racists. That is, the North.
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Ethics 101 and The Right to Self Preservation | Doing Academia
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Ethics 101 and The Right to Self Preservation. It is my contention that the right to self preservation is an atheist right. I will show this through a classic conundrum: supposing there are two men on a raft in the middle of the ocean, but the raft can only hold one, what do you do? 8220;Clever” ethics professors pose the “two men alone on a raft” question. This pseudo-conundrum is not so difficult. The answer is as follows:. 8221;, “How willing you are to kill them? Off the raft they go! 8221; = “.
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The Album Project: Incubus - Morning View
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An attempt to listen to more music and keep writing. Saturday, September 10, 2011. Incubus - Morning View. Incubus - Morning View. I have a vivid memory associated with this album. This is not new. I have vivid memories associated with lots of albums, but this one is a memory of incredible power to me. I find that I have trouble even listening to this album anymore, because it inspires this memory to be called up. Incubus grew up with me. I was obsessed with their album, Make Yourself, which I associ...
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The Album Project: Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
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An attempt to listen to more music and keep writing. Saturday, September 17, 2011. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). There is an aesthetic to great art. The aesthetic is very important, because what it does is create an atmosphere, and create a world for you to live while appreciating to the art. That's why great art has an aesthetic, because instead of changing the world that the album lives in, they change the world in which you live. Seriou...
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The Album Project: Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
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An attempt to listen to more music and keep writing. Saturday, September 24, 2011. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense. This might be the album that I finally get into them on. I've sampled, here and there, but the ever present pressure of space has overwhelmed any large downloads of their work, and album by album, I haven't found something to get me to fandom. However, this might be the one. This might be why I haven't gotten into the Talking Heads before this point....
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The Album Project: September 2011
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An attempt to listen to more music and keep writing. Saturday, September 24, 2011. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense. This might be the album that I finally get into them on. I've sampled, here and there, but the ever present pressure of space has overwhelmed any large downloads of their work, and album by album, I haven't found something to get me to fandom. However, this might be the one. This might be why I haven't gotten into the Talking Heads before this point....
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The Album Project: Turn The Radio Off - Reel Big Fish
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An attempt to listen to more music and keep writing. Friday, August 2, 2013. Turn The Radio Off - Reel Big Fish. Are you kidding me? It's been nearly two years since I wrote an Album Project? This is a shame, a sham, a terrible travesty. I mean, it's not like music stopped being made, right? Turn The Radio Off - Reel Big Fish. This was a middle school miracle. I was in middle school when these guys got onto the radio in a big way, and they were super inspiring. You know what, I know why. The songs ar...
