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Be Careful Little Mars
Fragile is a classic album by the band Yes and illustrated by Roger Dean. The front of this cover has an idyllic looking miniature world with a “wooden” spaceship with jagged edges and curved wings flying above and is pictured … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Music, Politics, Science Fiction
Tagged bomb, China, classic albums, Earth, Fragile, Mars, MAVEN, moorglade mover, NASA, rover, Russia, space probe, spaceship with jagged edges and curved wings, Star Trek : TNG, third eye death stare, USA, Viking, Viking landed in 1976, what if NASA sent an unsterilized probe to Mars, Yes
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Tom Cochrane in Inappropriate Places
There is a country music festival (the CMT Music Fest) in my city this evening. Tom Cochrane with longtime band mates Red Rider appear as what could only be described as a Sesame Street bit along the lines of One … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Music
Tagged Blue Rodeo, Boy Inside the Man, Canadian acts, canadian content, CMT Music Fest, country music, Jim Cuddy, Justin Beiber, Life is a Highway, national anthem flubs, One of These Things is Not Like the Others, Q107, Red Rider, rock music, Serena Ryder, Sesame Street, Tom Cochrane, Tom Cochrane and Red Rider, Wavin' Flag, Young Artists for Haiti
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The Cultural Appropriation of the West
Much has been made about the developed world (otherwise known as the west) and its cultural appropriation of the developing world and other disenfranchised groups. But cultural appropriation swings both ways so I’d like to point out the cultural appropriation … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Music, Social Science
Tagged 1950s cars, 1950s cigars, 1950s medical care, Asia, Beijing's smog, Beyonce, Britain's smog, Coldplay, Cuba, cultural appropriation, Dubai, respiratory illnesses, Rihanna, small c conservatives, tallest building in the world, the developed world, the Eiffel tower, the industrial revolution, the pyramids, the west
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The Dark Side of Astronomy: Would Be Namers
We’ve all heard the story, pay a small price and you can name a star that will be filed by a company. The only problem with this is that professional astronomers do not accept these files. Paying a few bucks … Continue reading
Posted in Humourless, Music, Science
Tagged 88 official constellations, asterism, Big Dipper, Bonnie Malkin, Centaurus, constellation, David Bowie, haven't revealed the name of the constellation yet, Libra, lightning bolt, name a star scams, observatory knew exactly when Bowie died, Octans, reporter can't transcribe names of stars from a star map, Spica, stars are suns, Triangulum Australe, vicinity of Mars, Virgo
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Star Wars, Now in Black and White
I bet your kids or other youths lit up when they read Star Wars in the title. But as positive a phrase that Star Wars may be, there is a negative phrase that outranks it for youth. You guessed it. … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, History, Humour, Music, Stage and Screen
Tagged 1950s outfits, adult secrets, another language as code aroung english speakers, black and white, black and white movies, Bleachers, history is boring to youth, I Wanna Get Better, Like a River Runs, Roller Coaster, secret code, Star Wars, television
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Making ‘Black MIDI’ White
Black MIDI is music, impossible to be played by human hands, on say a piano, because it is so note dense. Indeed the fact that it is so note dense means if these songs were written with normal music notation … Continue reading
Young Disney Stars Go Rogue Way Too Often
We’ve seen it all before. A young, incredibly good youngster who is also very talented, grows up with Disney to become a megastar and then immediately goes rogue. Is it the onset of puberty that builds until the star is … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Music, Stage and Screen
Tagged alcohol, big music agents, crime riddled ghetto, Detroit, Detroit has Motown, Disney, drugs, Hollywood, problems with the law, rap artists from the ghetto, refugee camps, sweat shops, talented kids, the happiest place on earth, Waco, Waco could have child pageants, war slaves
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Rest In Peace Stephen Huss
My best friend, Stephen Huss, died last weekend. He was my age, only 47. The electronic music aware of you might recognize his name from the rock band Psyche. Now that he is gone I find it a bit comforting … Continue reading
The Case for Fat Chords
A chord is comprised of at least 3 notes. Octaves of these notes don’t count as separate notes. So the maximum number of notes a chord can have is twelve. This is all the spacings in the octave. Since we … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Wry
Tagged a chord is three notes or more, a power chord is not a chord, chord, fat chord, fat chords are sometimes called jazz chords, Led Zeppelin, major and minor chords have only three different notes, most bands in totality play fat chords all the time, octaves and chords, punk rock, scale, Yes
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