The Martian 2015 Director: Ridley Scott I’m terrible about seeing movies in any sort of timely fashion, but I finally caught Ridley Scott’s The Martian a couple of months ago. And then I saw it again last week after my wife and I bought a 55″ flatscreen TV. I’m not saying my old TV was […]
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“Good times gone, but you feed it Hate’s grown strong, you feel you need it Just one thing, do you know you? What you think, that the world owes you? What’s gonna set you free? Look inside and you’ll see When you’ve got so much to say it’s called gratitude And that’s right” –Beastie Boys, […]
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It’s been just over a week since the United States of America finally, mercifully held its presidential election and with Donald Trump’s unexpected victory, Liberal America lost its fucking mind. I mean, IT HAS LOST. ITS. FUCKING. MIND. I didn’t want to write anything in the immediate wake of the election because emotions were too […]
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While researching my previous post, “A Requiem for Multitudes: Revisiting Chuck Berry’s America,” I ran across this interview with Chuck that didn’t fit tonally in the piece. I found it on BuzzFeed, who got it from a now-defunct blog called Music Ruined My Life, who in turn got it from an actual printed zine from […]
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With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums I play not marches for accepted victors only I play marches for conquer’d and slain persons –Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself” Who could’ve predicted that it was Chuck Berry’s 90th birthday on October 18th that brought me out of retirebernation? Fact is, I’ve been […]
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