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On Throwback Thursday, I’m going to take the easy way out and post some content I covered before: why not? What I find fascinating about looking back at these posts is my growth as a writer and person. It’s…rough in this post. But I was listening to 24-straight hours of live Throbbing Gristle days before
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In spite of the fact that I’m an inveterate (some might even say compulsive) music listener, I’ve never been super into live shows. Only in my recent years have I seen such luminaries as Paul McCartney, King Crimson, Boris, The Residents, Belle and Sebastian, and The Melvins and felt myself more compelled to attend shows.
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Recently, I went to the beautiful “The Dawn Treader Book Shop” in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with my girlfriend Vanessa. The shop itself is an institution: opened in 1976 by Bill Gillmore (though recently sold to Africa Schaumann in 2022), the shop focuses on used books, in particular first-edition and rare titles. It might not be
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It’s Never Too Late to Try Again Well, a lot sure has changed since my last post. I’ve moved twice and am planning a third. We’ve had two presidents of various quality. I’ve discovered a love of jazz and classical music. Three dogs died. The site changed appearance. I published two books on music. I
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Do you have a pretty good sense of humor? I mean, the kind of humor that sees the hilarity in somebody completely failing and making a total ass of themselves in a thoroughly predictable and planned way? Then “Well I Should Have,” a jazz album by comedian and voice over artist H. Jon Benjamin is
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It’s amazing to me that it’s been two years since I’ve updated this site. Two years! Oh, how much things have changed in that time. And how much they’ve stayed the same. For a long time, I considered the site essentially abandoned, like a boat out in the rain. I figured rust would set in
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Originally posted on Biblioklept: [Ed. note: The following citations come from one-star Amazon reviews of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. While I think that Gatsby is probably the most overrated book in the American canon, I do think it’s an important book (overrated ≠ bad). I’ve read it many, many times and used it in the…
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Today at Culture Fusion we are featuring a guest reviewer, Metal-Alholic and all around musical omnivore Sean M. Hebner. Sean presents a unique and highly enthusiastic approach to writing that exactly mirrors talking to him (he talks just like this in person, at a mile a minute and with endless hand gestures and peals of
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After reviewing an album or two (I lost count) by both Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne, I feel like it’s time I did a review of their rather…historically important first album as Electric Light Orchestra (self titled everywhere in the world except America, where it’s “No Answer”). I mean, why the hell not? What else
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Noise is noise and music is music but sometimes noise is music and music is noise. Nothing but grinding sounds crashing against each other in discordance. Scrapes. Moans. Bashing out a stupid rhythm on a snare drum. Plucking out a few notes on a sitar (which you’ve never played). Feedback. Rumbles. Looping everything or playing
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