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OPINION: Beyonce Knowles; Underachiever Of The Millenium

Monday, February 4, 2013

OK, Beyonce LipSync’d the National Anthem and she sang her medley of perishable non-memorable hits “LIVE.” Anyone hardly even know what LIVE means anymore??? Yes, she cranked up the mains and left her full-on backing track pumping loudly in her monitors so you mostly heard her, and faintly heard everything she prepared. She really could [...]

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DOGFOODING DJANGO: I Compare & Contrast The Movie & The Script

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Here’s a humble little C&C (compare & contrast) of Tarantino’s movie and script for “Django Unchained.” http://twcguilds.com/assets/screenplay/django/screenplay.pdf These are raw notes and I’m not going to bother editing. You get me thinking out loud on many levels from the straight up, straight forward, straight and true, to the anthropological, mythophilosophical and metaforical too. Enjoy! Carrucan [...]

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Django Unchained Is Navajo Joe; Just Like Inglourious…

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Earlier I did a compare and contrast between Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” and one of his favorite Spaghetti Westerns ever,  ”Navajo Joe.” Title: ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Was ‘Navajo Joe??’ Well here I’ll do the same, essentially some raw notes after seeing ‘Django’ (the d is silent) twice and then sitting myself down and watching Navajo Joe again. Navajo Joe [...]

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When Does A Usenet Reply Become An Essay:

Friday, November 30, 2012

When Does A Usenet Reply Become An Essay: (Another Accidental Guitar Lesson) by marco frucht You caught me. It was me all along. I invented tapping in the middle 1700′s when I was in Paris picking up chicks. There was something majikal about playing the guitar back then. You ended up with scores of wives. [...]

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FREE GUITAR LESSON: Supplemental Notes About The A-String Pages Of The Mel Bay Book

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Notes about pages 18-21 from the Mel Bay Grade 1 book. A free lesson from Marco Frucht: Not to be too much the complainer; but all four songs in the Mel Bay book work you out on the A string’s ‘C’ note but not the ‘B’ and ‘A’ notes even once. I’m afraid this might [...]

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New Movie Short About Police Corruption

Thursday, October 11, 2012

THE BADGE: Chasing The Beast Produced by Marco Frucht Directed By Andrew W Proctor DP Alan Smithee Edited by Andrew W. Proctor Audio Boom/Mixer Marco Frucht Additional Boom and Audio / Wife Alexandria Hellwig Police Chief White  – Elle Hitman — Arnet Capt. Richard Douglass — Andrew W. Proctor Music by Marco Frucht – “Revelation [...]

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Blogging A Trip To Milwaukee And Back

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Here’s a copy/paste blog of my trip to Milwaukee and back for the ISMAs and the Indian Summer Music Festival. I played on the Potawatomi stage and the Miller Lite stage and had a blast!  So glad I went. Definitely one of the high points of my music career. Marco Frucht shared a link. September [...]

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Blogging About The World Getting Smaller Twice In One Story

Sunday, August 5, 2012

I really need to tell the marvelous two-level “world-is-getting-smaller” story of how I brought my Navatone guitar home. I bought one of Bruce Zinky’s Smokey Amps to go along with it and had it in the case. So I bring it into my favorite luthier’s shop, Frets in Westerly, owned by Zachary Dustin and when [...]

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Woah, I Guess “Frybread’s” Gonna Get Out There and Impact So Many People!

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The other day I saw a friend in a coffee shop and related a moment when I went out in the hallway as a substitute teacher and a schoolkid yelled “mr marco,” smiled and waved and then began singing slightly altered lyrics to my song “frybread,” something like “nana… nana… make me some frybread, make [...]

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Sacred Cows make the tastiest hamburger…

Sunday, January 1, 2012

For those of you who think John Lennon would roll over in his grave because of Cee Lo Green‘s rendition of “Imagine,” I’ve got one Abbie Hoffman quote for you: Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger. I’ll bet Lennon is laughing at/with all of us. The lyric change is at about 5:01 mins. Hear for yourself, [...]

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