-
Following is my link to my science fiction book at Amazon:
Nooz Spun Right
Nooz Spun Right This is the link to the more serious blog of Larry Russwurm. If there is not a post on “The Many Rants” in any given week, check here for a serious post.
December 2024 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Search
-
The Many Rants of Larry Russwurm
Archives
- November 2024
- October 2024
- September 2024
- August 2024
- July 2024
- June 2024
- May 2024
- April 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
Tags
- Alberta
- America
- baby boomers
- Bitstrips
- Britain
- Canada
- cats
- China
- Coldplay
- Conservative Party
- Conservatives
- Donald Trump
- Earth
- English
- Europe
- football
- gen X
- global warming
- hockey
- Imagine Dragons
- Jacques O' Christmas Tree
- Justin Trudeau
- Kitchener
- Led Zeppelin
- Liberals
- Mars
- modern ninja
- Montreal
- Mother Earth
- Mother Earth Force
- NDP
- Near Absolute Hero
- North America
- Ontario
- Quebec
- Stephen harper
- Superman
- Tail
- Toronto
- Trump
- United States
- USA
- vampires
- Waterloo
- Yes
Categories
Tag Archives: Yes
Guitar Slinging
There are two schools of thought in regards to how your rock guitar, bass or keytar is slung. The first school says that to be as cool as possible, the guitar should be slung as low as possible while the … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Music
Tagged agility, Bass, Eddie Van Halen, groin, guitar, guitar slung as low as possible, guitar slung higher for precision, guitar virtuosos, I play a giant dick, I'm not a giant dick, keytar, Mark Knoppfler, more complex music possible, prog rock, rock, speed, Steve Howe, stretch, umbilcal cord, Yes
Leave a comment
Simple Rock vs Prog Rock
Gene Simmons, a stalwart of simplicity, via his band Kiss, has pronounced his brand of simple rock as being harder to come up with than the more complex stylings of prog rock. He says it’s harder to come up with … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged accent, cavorting, complex music, Don't Kill the Whale, gimmicky makeup, gimmicky stage show, Going For the One, I Was Made for Loving You, jumping, Kiss, memorable music, only 12 notes, Owner of a Lonely Heart, pitch, prog rock, Reggae, Rock and Roll All Night, Roundabout, Shout it out Loud, simple music, simple rock, syncopation, time, time siganture, volume, Yes
Leave a comment
A Partial List of Rock Bands that are Better than the Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are overrated. Some people in my area might disagree. The nearby city, Toronto, in order to declare that the risk of getting SARS was over, had a festival to declare that illness gone. They got the Rolling … Continue reading
Posted in History, Music, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged arena rock, Bastille, Coldplay, Electric Light Orchestra, Faith No More, Foreigner, funk rock, Genesis, grunge, Imagine Dragons, INXS, Journey, Kitchener, Led Zeppelin, Men Without Hats, moss, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, pop rock, progressive rock, queen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rolling Stone, Rush, SARS, Styx, Supertramp, the Beatles, the Cars, The Cure, the greatest rock and roll band in the world, the Police, The Rolling Stones, the Who, Toronto, U2, Yes
Leave a comment
DJ Experiments with Yes
Dancing in the era of rock has been easy. The majority of rock songs are in 4/4 time and are fairly easy to dance to because of it. I guess that makes it easier to improvise dance moves. I think … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Music, Social Science
Tagged 1980, 1983, 4/4 time, averages out to 4/4 time, bass heavy part, dancing, DJ, DJs, does 70s Yes kill dancing?, Does it Really Happen, long songs, number one on the dance charts, Owner of a Lonely Heart, Paradise by the Dashboard Light, Reggae, rock music, songs with key changes, songs with time changes, Stairway to Heaven, Yes, Yes fans could dance to Yes because they know the songs
2 Comments
The Moon is Not an All Night Nightlight
Poets, songwriters and prose makers beware that if you don’t observe carefully enough, you might be taken to task for sloppy writing. In this case I’d like to call out songwriter Jason Mraz for his song “Shine”. There was a … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Music, Science, Wry
Tagged crescent shaped moon, daylight sky, farmers, first quarter, full moon, Harvest Moon, harvesting, Jason Mraz, Moon, new moon, nightlight, poets, prose writers, Shine, songwriters, stars are far away suns, Sun, the stars, the zodiac, third quarter, Yes
Leave a comment
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
Leave a comment
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
1 Comment
Replacing the Few With the Many
A couple albums ago, the band Yes was faced with the prospect of not having a keyboardist. Big things are expected of a Yes keyboardist because such people as Rick Wakeman, Tony Kaye, Geoff Downes, Patrick Moraz and Igor Khoroshev … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Music
Tagged Chris Squire, Jon Anderson sounds like Mickey Mouse on helium, prog rock, progressive rock, replacing a drummer with a marching band, replacing a guitarist with a big band, replacing a keyboardist with an orchestra, replacing a singer with a choir, two hundred musician band, Yes
1 Comment
F U Floyd
I apologize profusely for that title if your name actually is Floyd. I mean it for someone whose last name is Floyd and whose first name is Pink. That’s right, Pink Floyd, I mean you. I think you’ll need some … Continue reading