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...and the JWD beat goes on...
by hillary_step inburn the ships: osama bin laden has long blonde hair and a tattoo of jesus on the left orb of his arse.. hs : no he has not...got long blonde hair i mean.. burn the ships: you admire osama so why should we believe you?
in fact as you admire osama why should we believe that god does not exist or that the republican party is not a gigantic cuban string vest?.
hs: where have i said i admired osama burn?.
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Progressive Rock Music?
by hillary_step ini place a question mark on the thread title as i have never read a definition of this genre of rock music that seemed to fit the bill.
what is generally agreed is that it is a european musical phenomena that began in the late 60's and peaked in popularity in the early 70's though it has always had an audience and one which seems to be growing in popularity again.. my own definition is one that suggests: 'music in which the musicians can move from jazz to rock to pop to classical and back again with equal ease'.
i am sure that simplifies things.
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All You Need To Know About Life But Were Too Scared To Ask
by hillary_step inhere is a view of modern life, consumerism gone wild, cancer by the bucket, an avalanche of oil and goodbye, i am dead.
all you need to know about life on one screen.
http://www.chippynews.com/worldclock.htm.
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I Need A Good Tearburst - Have Not Wept For Many Months.
by hillary_step ini have always been a sucker for a good soppy love song, .
last night i was wading through my huge vinyl collection, pulled an album long-not heard and spun this track on the rack.
though penned almost forty years ago, i have to say, it is still a very handsome song indeed.. coming back to me.
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Coincidences....
by hillary_step ini love a good coincidence.
it is the closest i get to the supernatural these days.
how about this one.. a couple of days ago i was working from my home office and while doing so was listening to a bbc radio 7 re-run of the 1960's radio comedy, "i am sorry i will read that again", with john cleese etc.
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Why Religion?
by hillary_step ini have no issue with a person having a spiritual dimension, but i wonder why people have difficulty accepting that the religion that an individual makes up inside their head is no more or less worthy than the ones other people have made up in their heads.. why do people feel the need to have others tell them what to believe and how to think?
simplistic though this may sound, this is at the basis of all religion.
does religion scratch the itch of our insecurities?.
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With A Heart In My Song....
by hillary_step indon't you just love to see people give their all in performance!
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judie tzuke - 'sportscar'.. hs.
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Poor Losers?
by hillary_step inwell, the major record industry has shown its complete impotence in the face of rapidly changing musical technology and are now in court asserting that buying a cd and copying it to your own pc for personal use is an indictable offense and one which they will prosecute.. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/ar2007122800693.html?hpid=topnews.
it is no secret that the major record labels are crumbling before our eyes.
employees are being laid off in their thousands, shareholders are squealing like petulant piglets and their human commodities, the musicians are sitting on the sidelines wide-eyed.. i have never been an exponent of illegal downloading of music, though its inevitability should by now have produced some remodelling to the record companies business plan.
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TurnThat Music Down Boy.....
by hillary_step inany audiophiles on the board will have noticed how in recent years one has to turn music up past its comfortable level to get a decent balance of sound.. do not feel that this is your imagination, it is not.
it is by design and designed to suit the ears of young people who think that loud sound is better sound.. http://funl.blogspot.com/2007/06/loudness-war.html.
this link provides a simple explanation of what happens at the mixing and mastering stage of much modern music production.
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The Very Best "Protest" Songs?
by hillary_step inhard to believe that jackson browne wrote this piece twenty-two years ago.
hard to believe just how apt it is for the modern america.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpfdbklumqk&feature=related.
laura nyro - save the country.