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Tom Hendricks's Blog – February 2011 Archive (9)

Melnaie Pruit's Oscar Wrap Up

Musea is pleased to continue its annual tradition to repost the Oscar Wrap Up of Melanie Pruit. Enjoy.

Okay, so last year, I sat in the tutoring lab at school and tried to compose my Oscar wrap during the down time before my class. Unfortunately, there were three emergency drills that day (for lack of a better term), and it was cold and wet and nasty outside, so with all the starts and stops, I didn’t think I would ever get through it. This year, I played it smart and wrote while I…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on February 28, 2011 at 9:19am — No Comments

Letter Response from the zine Musea to Project Censored

Mickey Huff

Associate Professor of History

Director, Project Censored/Media Freedom Foundation

Diablo Valley College

Project Censored: http://www.projectcensored.org/

Mr. Huff,

You Wrote to me and said:

"I am open to having you submit a list of what you believe to be the most significant issues in the arts vis a vis censorship for our review and will look into creating…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on February 24, 2011 at 6:07pm — No Comments

Musea's National Hiring Day / One Job For America

Readers,

You have all heard of me talking about National Hiring Day a LOT.

For two months I've been telling Huffington Post about National Hiring Day #1 scheduled for Jan. 2011, and #2 for March 15 2011. See Huffington comments Tom Hendricks. There are over 250 comments by me, most about National Hiring Day.

Now I've read a blog by Carla Emil calling for the same thing under a different title

"One Job for America".…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on February 18, 2011 at 11:37am — No Comments

Poems Written Early February 2011

POEMS

Pound! Pound! Pound!

"Open the door -

The Moon's trying to get in!"

birds fly over

the bridge

3. (Kid's poem)

Climb up the ladder.

Climb up the tree.

Swing on a branch.

Cling like a leaf.

4. (Readymade - this is a word for word, 4 line poem, copied from a single prose line

in a Doc…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on February 14, 2011 at 12:05pm — No Comments

Musea Art Contest for Valentine's Day

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

June 15, 1965 - what a day in history for FOLK ROCK. Two of the most

classic of all time folk rock songs were finalized on that day in the

same studio by the same producer for first a single artist, then a

duo. Name the two songs and their performers, and for extra credit the

record producer

IS:

Tom Wilson, after the recording session for Bob Dylan's…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on February 14, 2011 at 10:38am — No Comments

Musea E-mail Club #522 NPR Music Conflict of Interest. Readers, Here are two examples on my blog, of NPR conflict of interest. I have 57 of these screen grabs saved - each shows an artist featured …

Musea E-mail Club #522 NPR Music Conflict of Interest.

Readers, Here are two examples on my blog, of NPR conflict of interest. I have 57 of these screen grabs saved - each shows an artist featured by NPR on the left, and a sponsored ad for the same artist on the right.

56th Example: Gregg Allman

57th Example: Iron and Wine

See both at

http://musea.wordpress.com/

Seems that when you pay…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on February 8, 2011 at 9:52am — No Comments

WMZ Art Contest 2/5/11

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

This modern classic novel, first published in 1988 has the world record for most translated book by a living author with 67 languages. It has sold 65 million copies in 150 countries. What's "novel" about it is the author's online selling strategy. He posts free copies of it. This seems to spur sales like crazy! Name the author and bestseller AND publishers take note!

IS:

"The Alchemist" by…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on February 5, 2011 at 10:07am — No Comments

the LOST TAPES - Happy Music , two versions

The LOST TAPES series. (Music from the 80's and 90's re-found.)

The Happy Flea - two versions, one keyboard, one jazz combo.

Can music MAKE you happy, this is as close as I can come to composing music that's so filled with joy. Sounds like a day off! Let me know what you think!

The Happy Flea (keyboard version)

http://musea.us/thelosttapes/the_happy_flea.mp3

The Happy Flea Part…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on February 4, 2011 at 11:34am — No Comments