Posts Tagged ‘mother’

Uncompromising and Unforgettable: John Lennon’s Best Album

Friday, September 12th, 2008

For his first proper solo album, John Lennon easily could have rested on his Beatles laurels and put out a safe, nostalgic collection of songs that borrowed heavily from the sound of his old band. But that wouldnt have been John Lennon, now, would it?

God: **** Listen First of all, how about the clever use of gospel piano (provided by Billy Preston) to back up a song denouncing religion? And imagine the shock waves this must have sent through Beatles fans when they first heard it, as…

Sir Alfred Hitchcock: Giant with a taste for bondage

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

He always knew that the best way to keep an audience interested was to show characters in distress, and that female characters tended to attract more sympathy than men: hence his mantra, torture the heroine?. Hitchcock started working…in the silent era, and its the grammar and vocabulary of silent cinema that really underpins his work

We need only fast-forward about 20 years to see how fully Hitchcock’s art matured. For instance, Vertigo, considered by most critics to be his masterpiece, contains a sequence almost three times as long as the Sabotage bomb episode,…

RIAA, MPAA Converging on Political Conventions

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

When the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America aren’t suing individuals and web sites for copyright infringement, they’re lobbying.

Take someone like Ron Paul. Whether you are familiar with him and support all of his positions or not, he is the one candidate who could return this government to constitutionality, which is why I support him - but the mainstream media has…

Ol Blue Eyes, yes, Frank Sinatra [mp3 download]

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

There are all types of things happening right now in the music and entertainment world which are a tribute to Frank Sinatra. Two new albums of classic music and even a postage stamp in the works.

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