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"The" Rock Music Canon
That said (see previous po... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 "The" Rock MusicCanon
That said (see previous post), here's some good lists to use as guideposts in building a comprehensive collection...Robert ChristgauI vehemently contend with self-appointed "Dean of Rock Critics" on, e.g. Shawn Colvin's Fat City and Patty Griffin's Flaming Red (the crudely wraught but charmingly spunky albums by his beloved New York Dolls -- which Christgau insists on touting way out of proportion to their worth or weight -- seem like endearing triflings in comparison to these deeply felt, soaringly melodic and exquisitely crafted masterpieces). However, he's still turned me on to lots of great music over the years and can do the same for you...Christgau's Consumer Guide A+ listA Basic Record Library: The Fifties and SixtiesThe Seventies and 1980Rock Library: Before 1980Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the 90s (see 'the A lists")Greil MarcusSee his list of essential recordings up through 1979 in the book Stranded: Rock and Roll For a Desert Island, and Read more:Rock Music
The Swamp Gas Report:
"Strange Lights in the Tucs... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The Swamp
Gas Report:"StrangeLights
in the Tucson Sky and Buffoonish Media Reports Across the USA: Which is more mysterious?"Photo taken 01/27/07 and (C) ,Martha McGrath, producer of the Puro Sabor community cable TV program on Access Tucson. Shot on the west side of Tucson, Arizona. For more of Martha's mysterious "encounters", click here.NEWS FLASH! NEWS FLASH!Earth to so-called journalists, earth to so-called journalists: get your tongues out of your cheeks and just report the news...otherworldly though it might be.Recent links posted on the Drudge Report (as close as we can come to a centralized source for the news in this decentralized age) offer a flurry of recent apparent UFO sightings. At the least this concentration of activity seems rather "anomalous."http://www.wyff4.com/news/10841468/detail.htmlhttp://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/breaking_news/16539378.htmhttp://www.worldnetdaily.com/staticarticles/article53936.html
"How to get thousands of hours of free (and legal)... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 "How to get thousands of hours of free (and legal
) music online, with free record guides to boot."Soundz: T.S. Minton's Guides to Music..."One likes to believe in the freedom of musicBut glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity.""The Spirit of Radio" - Rush"Listening for the secret, searching got the soundBut I could only hear the preacher, and the baying of his hounds.""Unbroken Chain" - The Grateful DeadHere's what I'm trying to accomplish with this music blog:Goal #1:First, just to have fun vigorously discussing the music I love and immerse myself in, with others who have similar (ahem) refined taste; to form a community of happy bloggers blissfully confirming our own biases; and occasionally, to encounter wise guys who will challenge my assumptions (fat chance changing my preferences, but sometimes it's fun to engage educated, opposing points of view), much like I will do on these blogs, from time to time, to self-appointed sacred cows of the
I must be doing something right...
to have elicit... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I must be doingsomething
right...to have elicited comments like this, from my cross-posting of excerpts of my music blog on www.rockandrollreport.com:"you have no idea what you are talking about. but i really thought it was great how you tried to act like youre a music critic extrordinaire. Sadly you come off like a know-it-all prick. you are a dumb ass, who knows as much about music as a stupid drugged out hippy. if i were you i'd stick to blogging about iraq, or what foods you like to eat, or quantum physics, because frankly after reading that mindless dribble you wrote, it seems that you know ABSOLUTELY nothing about music. let alone GOOD music."...by one "dont know".And my old correspondent Mark Zepezauer, laff-riot political cartoonist and publisher of the former Tucson Comic News and a host of rabble-rousing books including Boomerang!: How Our Covert Wars Have Created Enemies Across the Middle East and Brought Terror to America, writes:"Good to see you have better taste in musi Read more:doing something
Culture Wars, round one (on this blog at least...)... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Culture Wars, round
one (on this blog at least
...) Chomsky, Horowitz & other wing nuts...I think that Zepezauer guy (see below) is trying to find chinks in my right wing armor. The other day he sent me some interesting links, in response to my statement that although it's a tough job being a "right wing fascist" when you've got hyperbolic ignoramuses and blowhards like Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity professing to be your spokespeople, it's hard not to swing a little to the right when (to quote my several day old email) "I read little ditties like David Horowitz's unrebutted (as far as I'm aware) 'The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky' and watch with nauseau as the left embraces dubious cause celebres, from Mumia to Fidel to Tookie."Zepezauer shot me back the following Horowitz-bashing links (Horowitz was one of the founders of the New Left in the 60s, who swung to the conservatism in response to what he saw as the bloodshed and hypocrisy committed by his idealistic former colleagues)...ht
50 Million John Henry Fans Can't Be Wrong.Well, ok... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 50 Million John Henry
Fans Can't Be Wrong
.Well, ok, not that many...But I have been getting lots of emails about Henry's mesmerizing series of crystal photographs. Also, many people at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show (ending today) who have seen these photos have been clamoring for more. So here they are... "UFO in Hyperdrive Approaching the Aries Galaxy Cluster"All photographs (C) John I. Henry, gloves24@hotmail.com [p.s. Holy crap, I just discovered how to insert photos within the blog! - ed.]
The Swamp Gas Report, #2:
Courtesy of recent Drud... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The Swamp
Gas Report, #2:Courtesy
of recent Drudge Report postings, here's two more links to recent sightings of cockamamie poppycock. If only people would listen to CSICOP -- (The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal), recently rechristened CSI (Committee for Skeptical Inquiry), publishers of The Skeptical Inquirer -- they'd realize that they're not really seeing what they think they're seeing. After all, CSI has all the answers. It's Official Reality.Strange Sightings In Triad Skieshttp://www.wxii12.com/news/10955774/detail.htmlMysterious Lights Spotted Over Phoenix, Againhttp://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_038103140.htmlI'm sure there's a prosaic explanation, since it behooves us to be "rational" and explain away whatever doesn't fit inside our tiny little paradigm. Especially if there's tenure at stake and scientific peer pressure at play.Or, if you're tired of my sarcasm and want to cut through the officially fabricated b.s., spend so
The Mind-Flipping Phantasmagoria...
of John I. Hen... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The Mind-Flipping
Phantasmagoria...of John I. Henry's Worlds of Crystal Fantasy.In keeping with our long-standing tradition here at Interfusion Publishing of featuring material which is not merely adequate or even just excellent but aims to "boggle the mind", we are pleased to offer a sneak peak at some of the most remarkable work yet of international photographer John I. Henry. These images (see the right column of this blog. Hint: they're colorful) were taken over recent years from crystals and gems purchased at Tucson's Gem and Mineral Show, utilizing fiberoptics and back lighting techniques which produce results not often seen by us mere mortals. For more information contact Mr. Henry directly at gloves24@hotmail.com. These photos...along with other work too delectable to mention...will be featured more extensively in Interfusion Magazine, T.S. Minton's new print publication available summer 2007 - offered exclusively through Lulu.com.
"The Shaman, the Genius, and T.S. Minton"
(Going r... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 "The Shaman
, the Genius, and T.S. Minton
"(Going
right to left, that is...) Photograph by John I. Henry.Yours truly approximately one week ago (February 2007) at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show with Ea Orgo, a well-known Mexican healer and shaman, owner of a health spa, and frequent vendor at the annual gem and mineral show. In the middle (in book form at least) is Nikola Tesla...you know, the greatest inventor of all time. (Anybody who says "Edison" needs to be jolted with alternating current energy...just kidding).Contact Ea Orgo at eaorgo@hotmail.com or www.mayanmajix.com.
Salon.com...kicking ass once again. (Somewhat). In... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Salon.com...kicking ass once again. (Somewhat). In a pre-Sept 11th world...seemingly life-times ago...when I worked at a certain non-Microsoft software giant here in Tucson, I used to sit at my computer and devour Salon.com, in between (and sometimes during!) phone calls. I loved how they would showcase divergent political opinions, from lefty Joe Conason to righty David Horowitz (they are less balanced in these even more polarized times, where each side wants to play a zero-sum game of ideologies...it's not even "yes, but" anymore but "no, no, no"...on BOTH and EVERY side). It was the the first online publication I read with the level of literacy of, say, Vanity Fair or The National Review. Most of all, though, I loved the freewheeling, acerbic, trenchant wit of Camille Paglia...Camille's back!"After a six-year absence, our cultural high priestess and pioneering Web proto-blogger has returned! And nobody -- not Hillary, Obama, McCain nor Anna Nicole -- can escape her level gaze."New Read more:Salon
Ever heard that line by poet Ezra Pound that "lit... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Ever heard that line by poet Ezra Pound
that "literature is news that stays news"?Well, here some old news...from last month. It snowed in Tucson. "Big deal?" you say? Then you don't know the town where our local saying in the summer is, "Yeah, but it's a dry heat," where most winters are like Indian summer. My point is that these lovely photos by Charla Genet (charlak@comcast.net) should be news that stays news...because they are photographic poetry, preserving an ephemeral, beautiful moment in time...a cold one, too.All photographs (C) Charla Genet, charlak@comcast.net
Artist's Showcase: Mary Alice Bennett...
Hanging ... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Artist's Showcase: Mary Alice Bennett
...Hanging
out recently at the computers lab at the Access Tucson community television studios (one of my major haunts for nearly a decade) I have made the acquaintance of a most interesting and talented individual...Mary Alice Bennett. She'll take it from here (from her MySpace page here):About me:Mary Jill Alice (MJA) Bennett was born in Stony Brook and grew up on Long Island, where she learned to sail and was introduced to the world of art as a child model for the portraitist John Koch. When the family moved to Arizona in the late 1950s, MJA fell under the spell of the landscape and peoples of the Southwest which has continued to shape her art and life. She studied painting at Pomona College in the late 1960s, graduating in 1969 with an exceptional class that included Chris Burden and Hap Tivey. MJA spent the next few years in living in a cave north of Taos, New Mexico, where she became interested in Native American culture and danced in numero Read more:Artist
A little spring cleaning...
here at T.S. Minton Bl... 2007-03-10 01:19:00 A little
spring cleaning...here at T.S. Minton
Blogs.Since things are getting a bit out of hand over on the right hand column of this blog...with all the images posted there...and I am concerned that readers might get confused and overlook the blog posts of previous months, it's time for some spring cleaning. I have made the executive decision to erase the images of that column and post them as blog entries, as follows:Worlds of Crystal FantasyPhotographs (C) John I. Henry, gloves24@hotmail.com.
The Swamp Gas Report #3
More images from Martha Mc... 2007-03-10 23:38:00 The Swamp
Gas Report #3More images from Martha
McGrath... Images recently seen......in the mid-western Tucson sky (near "A" Mountain)... ...taken 02/08/07...Photographs (C) 2007 Martha McGrath, martha_mcgrath@yahoo.com.FastWalkers - Brand New UFO and Alien Disclosure DVD with the World's Leading Experts and Stunning New Footage !
From the vaults of T.S. Minton:
Artwork of the wee... 2007-03-10 20:26:00 From the vaults
of T.S. Minton
:Artwork
of the weekIn the months to come, I will be breaking loose with some choice selections of material from my various phases as an artist...from the 70s to the present. Some periods have been more prolific than others, some more figurative, and many pieces are beyond easy classification (blurring the boundaries between abstraction, surrealism, cartooning, and more academic rendering). Below are two pieces from the mid-90s, when I was immersed in a self-study of the classic drawing system The Natural Way to Draw by Kimon Nicolaides. After hours of rigorous practice following Nicolaides' lessons on gestures, contours, form, etc. I often would unwind and let my own muse flow in pieces like these. His influence was still keenly felt in these more expressive sessions, and I was also impressed by the statement of Tucson artist George Welch (who was my instructor in an oil painting class at Pima Community College circa spring 1993) , who told me that effec
A touch of levity...
"Energizer Bunny encounters ... 2007-03-11 00:52:00 A touch
of levity
..."EnergizerBunny
encounters his father at the Louvre" French tradition states that the day before a man gets married, he is allowed to do something foolish. Hence, the above photo."Puppets riding in style" Can you name the two puppets? Email the editor now at interfusionbiz@yahoo.com.Photos (C) John I. Henry.
Travel section...
"Province of Alberta, Canadian... 2007-03-11 00:17:00 Travel section... "Province
of Alberta
, Canadian
Rockies" "Monte Carlo, Monaco""Cote d'Azur, Nice" "Saint Jean Cap Ferrat" "Cote d'Azur, Cannes""Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris""Arc de Triomphe, Champs Elysees, Paris""Inner vestibule painting, Queen Hatshepsut's Temple at Deir el Bahiri""Mysterious guest visits Temple of Horus at Edfu"All photos (C) John I. Henry Read more:Travel
Name that person, name that place...
Email blogma... 2007-03-10 20:44:00 Name that person
, name that place...Email
blogmaster and editor T.S. Minton at interfusionbiz@yahoo.com if you "think" you have the right answers...or please add a comment in the blog. All correct answers will be posted.All above photos (C) John I. HenryNote: Above photo is by unknown photographer. If you know of the photographer, please notify us at once at interfusionbiz@yahoo.com and we will acknowledge copyright if requested.
Pictures from "The Bunny Show":
My daughter Jasm... 2007-03-17 02:06:00 Pictures from "The Bunny
Show": My daughter Jasmine with local celebrity Bunny Uriarte of "The Bunny Show" fame. See her community cable TV show on Access Tucson. Yours truly (the guy in the middle) with the aforementioned notables. "Contemplating the universe (at Steve Eye's Solar Culture Gallery)" February, 2007The center of attention...naturally.Photographs (C) 2007 John I. Henry. All rights reserved Read more:Pictures
Creatures of the deep...
Narrated by TV researche... 2007-03-30 05:13:00 Creatures of the deep...Narrated
by TV researcher John I. Henry...showing now at T.S. Minton Blogs, courtesy of youtube.com/tsminton...(C) Ted Loman/UFOAZ, used with permission.
To boldly blog where no one has blogged before...
... 2007-03-30 04:10:00 To boldly
blog where no one has blogged
before...Below you will find the first of many postings to come...video clips from the new youtube.com/tsminton...legendary UFO and paranormal researcher and investigative interviewer Ted Loman's appearance on Larry King Live (March 27, 1997) discussing the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.(C) Ted Loman/UFOAZ, used with permission.
Note to blog visitors:
The webmaster (T.S. Minton... 2007-03-30 04:08:00 Note to blog visitors:The webmaster (T.S. Minton
) is aware that the pictures below are down, and they will be fixed this weekend (probably by Saturday March 31, 2007).
"Deer Creek Crossing" by Carlos Hadaway.
New vi... 2007-04-01 00:43:00 "Deer Creek Crossing
" by Carlos
Hadaway. New visions from "The Arizona Kid"...We're delighted to showcase a new series by Carlos Hadaway: celebrated southwestern oil painter, western folkorist, and old friend of T.S. Minton and Interfusion Publishing. His pristinely rendered works are known both for their gritty realism and their visual grandeur. These new (and newer) works featured below capture a more subdued, introspective side of our favorite colorful cowboy.First, though, here's an excerpt from his website The Arizona Kid.com:Carlos Hadaway was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, and raised in San Diego, California. He is the oldest of six in a family known as "The Wild Bunch". While still a child, he suffered blindness twice and underwent six eye operations to eventually regain his sight. As a youngster, his keen interest in art was encouraged and nurtured by his third-grade teacher, Sister Helen Theresa. During service in the Navy, Carlos was a cartoonist and created the original l
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