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Music and Politics

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Politics in music can be:

a political front, where political ideology writes the music before artistic expression is considered. An example would be a singer who writes songs specifically for a party (to gain acceptance by a political party or to affect swing states or something stupid). A sub-category might be songwriters writing Christian songs to [...]

Recommendation: gHacks

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Software and technology is where it’s at these days. Where what’s at, you say? I’m not sure, but if you’re like me you might be interested in a site that I like to visit pretty regularly. It’s called gHacks and don’t ask what the “g” stands for. Maybe goodHacks, goldenHacks, germanHacks… Anyway, I subscribed to [...]

Eating Healthy will Kill You

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Health foods are sometimes more expensive than your basic genetically-modified, science-tampered, chemically treated food. So if you want to consume food that’s good for you, you’ll need to work harder than those eat junk. Small farmers can barely make a living to produce food. Maybe then it’s cheaper to have a garden for yourself, or [...]

Half Stars Rating in iTunes

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

I get a little obsessed with software because I want things to be customized and perfect. I recently came across the iTunes Companion to be used on Konfabulator or Yahoo Widgets. The program is like the dashboard objects on a Mac, except this will also work on Windows. I noticed a slight lag in computer [...]

Mistakes Make Music (free album)

Monday, May 14th, 2007

The following is a review by the author of the album- Mistakes Make Music. Bolie Folke (his real name is undisclosed) was kind enough to let me post his biographical account of the recording below:
Today I made an album ready for the public to download using the one-man-band name of Bolie Folke. It’s a quick [...]

Still Breathing; Dali Documentary.

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Time is hard to find. Worthwhile knowledge is tangled in time. So what are my plans for you loyal readers? I’m working on the most valuable list that will end all lists. It will be ready in a while. I want to make sure it’s easy and accurate. The topic: music. And don’t worry– it [...]

Gender Standards

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Underarm hair is disgusting for females, yet ladies are to tolerate it on men? Don’t get me wrong: I don’t shave my pits, I’m a straight guy, and I’m not really a feminist (in the sense of increasing rights of women only; I’m more of a nongenderist [a made up word] where gender has the [...]

Partial Death Abortion

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Fetally speaking, I’m well past my 100th trimester (three-month term) since I’m over 20 years of age. Today in one of my classes, we were discussing the legalese of Roe v. Wade and recent law pertaining to abortion. From a legal standpoint (and in order to have relevance for the government to be involved), there [...]