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Video* Killed the Video Star: On the Shoulders of Giants
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Video* Killed the Video Star. How I Learned to Love the Bomb. Be Sure to Click on the Link to See the VIDEO! Wednesday, May 1, 2013. On the Shoulders of Giants. As such, I have been trying to convince my Irish friend that REM is not merely a commercially successful band as they have become, but they were seriously cutting edge for many, many years. Success may have blindsided them, but arguably they are one of the most influential American bands of all time. No, they are. Period. And the B-side was Murmur.
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Video* Killed the Video Star: April 2013
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Video* Killed the Video Star. How I Learned to Love the Bomb. Be Sure to Click on the Link to See the VIDEO! Thursday, April 4, 2013. Video Killed the Radio Star. Well, here it goes. I believe that when an artist has to explain his or her work, the work has failed.and worse, listening to the said artist explain is often painful to say the least, so I will keep this brief. Recently in Bologna, at a cafe, this song came on, and the person I was talking to did not know the reference of this song.
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Video* Killed the Video Star: Roadsinger Came to Town...
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Video* Killed the Video Star. How I Learned to Love the Bomb. Be Sure to Click on the Link to See the VIDEO! Sunday, October 13, 2013. Roadsinger Came to Town. Several years ago, I was in a difficult employment situation, one that left a lot of my colleagues without jobs, without explanation, and a general feeling of malaise. My personal life was going through a major transition, at its most negative point. Things just seemed bleak. I went to music. Thank you Yusuf and Kaz. DJ Cheb i Sabbah.
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Video* Killed the Video Star: July 2012
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Video* Killed the Video Star. How I Learned to Love the Bomb. Be Sure to Click on the Link to See the VIDEO! Saturday, July 28, 2012. Sleepwalking Through it All. To be present seems to be the hardest condition for humans, to really, truly be present in a situation actually takes effort, which seems quite absurd when you think about it. But, there's the rub, when you think about, you are no longer. In the Present, but somewhere else, thinking about it. We are prone to sleepwalk through life, always looki...
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In a Sense, Abroad: July 2012
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In a Sense, Abroad. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am an American. Saturday, July 28, 2012. I Was Born in the U.S.A. I was indeed born in the USA, as was my daughter, though she has the added dimension of also being half-Belgian, and by extension, for the time being (meaning the fate of the EU that is), European. Both are something that some may forever see as a boon and/or a bane, a blessing and/or a curse. Such was the case, and such, such were the days. Who is Colombian by birth and the trials and tribulatio...
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In a Sense, Abroad: September 2012
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In a Sense, Abroad. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am an American. Saturday, September 22, 2012. Hey Man, Can you Spare some Change? Well, another election, another election that I am not living in America. Coincidence, or not? Not sure myself on that one. During the 2004 elections I was living in Castiglione Fiorentino, a quaint hill-top hamlet in Tuscany, teaching for a Study Abroad consortium of Italart under the auspices of The University of Texas at Austin. During the course of the evening following the wa...
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Ciao, Professore!: September 2012
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Reflections upon living in Bologna and Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy as a young(ish) professor of literature and philosophy. Saturday, September 22, 2012. The Things We Carry. I will be packing up my books again, which is the bulk of my material possessions, so I mention them as a part for the whole, the synecdoche of my worldly existence. So, I will be packing up the books for a move across town. Could pull it off. I did, and did not displace a single flowerpot of the flowerpot-lined lane. My life is cha...
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Instant Karma Koffie: March 2012
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The physical and mental journey of a recently graduated college who is struggling against the pressures of the "real world" and the all-too-impractical "ideal world" of becoming a writer. It's a trip. Friday, March 16, 2012. Seek Life, Not Death. Yes, I had never realized that before. You are dead, but you shall learn to dance back to the living. I could not help but to laugh a little, though nervously,. I am going to be a writer, not a dancer. It does not matter, a writer must learn to dance as well.
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Instant Karma Koffie: Part One: A Tale of Dancing Goats
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The physical and mental journey of a recently graduated college who is struggling against the pressures of the "real world" and the all-too-impractical "ideal world" of becoming a writer. It's a trip. Tuesday, July 12, 2011. Part One: A Tale of Dancing Goats. Jetzt bin ich leicht, jetzt fliege ich, jetzt sehe ich mich unter mich, jetzt tanzt ein Gott durch mich. Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra. A Tale of Dancing Goats. A monk on his matitunal preambulance of the rectory grounds saw perchance...
