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Musea's weekly art quiz for 12/7/11

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

Since Buck Rogers and the Rocketeer, we've seen the future and it's jet packs. Surely by 1980 everyone would have one right? There are real jet packs in our age, but they don't work all that well ... yet. Strangely enough they all run on the same fuel, some beauty product you'd find in any hair saloon. Name the jet pack fuel.

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IS: Hydrogen Peroxide! Yes, the same stuff we bleach our hair with. Guess it gives…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on December 7, 2011 at 1:21pm — No Comments

WMZ art quiz - test your art smarts and good luck

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

Remember the 60's. Well if you don't do you remember who said this quote,

"If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there."

Paul Kanter from the Jefferson Airplane. For more quotes from Kantner see…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on July 13, 2010 at 10:45am — No Comments

Best of This Week's New Poems and Sayings

Some of my better Poems and sayings, new this past week or so:

POEMS

the candle…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on July 10, 2010 at 8:26pm — No Comments

WMZ art quiz - test your art smarts

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

Time for summer reading. But not all books are the same. Some are awful. When you get one, remember this quote,"The covers of this book are too far apart." Who said that?

Ambrose Bierce. Be sure to check out his "The Devil's Dictionary".

I had no correct eligible answers. Seems the covers of your brain are NOT too far…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on July 7, 2010 at 10:32pm — 2 Comments

Poems for this week 6/27/10

New Poems (and sayings) for this week.

Poems…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on June 27, 2010 at 8:53pm — No Comments

Latest ONline Single Two of the very best original love songs from Zinester

Here is the latest online single from Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar.

They are two love songs that I think are as good as any out there by anyone in recent times. See what you think.

How Beautiful Girls Are…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on June 23, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

WMZ art quiz - test your art smarts with this week's tough question

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

I am reading about Picasso's life. The first of two versions of this incident is by our mystery person. That person wrote "On the Rue de Rennes, I often passed the shop of Pere Sauvage. There were Negro statuettes in his window. I was struck by their character, their… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on June 22, 2010 at 9:40am — 3 Comments

Musea Report: NPR leader in Music Promotion. But is it Fair?

Musea Reader and WMZ - this week we look at how NPR is becoming THE leader of new music in this country.

You're surprised aren't you? This story is about how they have become a major player in many aspects of contemporary music, AND the possible conflicts of interest connected with how they choose the music they review and promote.

"The… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on June 18, 2010 at 8:47pm — No Comments

This Week's New Poems and Sayings 6/17

This Week's New Poems (and sayings).

Halfway up the stairs

a woodpecker's tap tap tap!

__________________________

Weave me a life

wheel spinner fate.

Make it stout

and long lasting!

__________________________

I line outside the… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on June 18, 2010 at 10:31am — No Comments

WMZ art quiz - test your art smarts with this week's tough question

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

This according to The Disheveled Dictionary by K.E. Gordon. What was the last words that Noah Webster of Dictionary fame, said, - specifically the last word. His… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on June 14, 2010 at 10:22am — No Comments

WMZ art quiz - test your art smarts with this week's tough question

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

Igor Stravinksy said, "I look forward to a work of major length from this composer." Yet he hated this composer's work. Explain the comment and who it was… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on June 7, 2010 at 9:23pm — No Comments

WMZ art quiz - test your art smarts with this week's tough question

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

Name both, blue notes.

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Blue notes are the 3rd and 7th steps in the scale. Take the key of C:

C,D,then E flat instead of E, F,G,A, then B flat… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on June 1, 2010 at 9:49am — No Comments

New Poems for this Week

Here's some new poems written within a week or so

POEMS

In the moonlight

we are all moths

Why is that waterfall

always so angry,

always roaring

never ending?

A nature of madness

with… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on May 29, 2010 at 8:41pm — No Comments

New Entries to the Best New Music Big List: First, Only, Best.

Yes anyone can do a list of best NEW music from the net. But without these songs, it won't be the best. I don't think you can make a better new music list period.

Here are the TEN + ONE EXTRA, latest additions to the big list. Some are… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on May 28, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Single Online Release" Kernels of the Popcorn Patrol / 2x I've Crossed the Muddy River

Single Online Release. Two originals from Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar, the only musician on the planet that has moved beyond rock to a new music. From Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar the OUTSIDE THE BOX SET

1. Kernels of the Popcorn Patrol

(extra serious song on the advantages of buying popcorn at the theater.)…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on May 24, 2010 at 9:48pm — No Comments

WMZ art quiz - test your art smarts with this week's tough question

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

This art theory suggests that there was a major science development in the late 1420's and early 1430's that allowed painters to cheat. From then on this trade secret… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on May 24, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Send a song dedication to anyone anywhere

Have the need for Song Dedications? From anyone anywhere to anyone anywhere, and I'll perform it lively in box office concert and send it out in the wind. Maybe country music fan "Play that Country Music", or Beatle fan "Help", or spy "Secrete… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on May 24, 2010 at 9:14am — No Comments

Rock and Roll Doesn't Rock No More (verses)

ROCK AND ROLL DOESN'T ROCK NO MORE

Rock and roll doesn't rock no more.

It's turned middle age and become a bore.

It's everything it used to oppose.

Rock and roll doesn't rock no more.

Rock and roll is corporate and… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on May 19, 2010 at 11:21am — No Comments

This Week's Single Online Release Under My Thumb / Can't Help Fallin' In Love

A SIDE

Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones Classic…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on May 17, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

WMZ weekly art quiz - test your art smarts on some tough questions - good luck

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

What's the exactly right word or expression for the exactly right word or expression?

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Mot juste (sometimes confused with bon mot which means witty… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on May 12, 2010 at 10:41am — No Comments