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Tom Hendricks's Blog – February 2013 Archive (9)

Musea Art Quiz for the Week

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

Valentines Day is almost here. Maybe you and your sweetie are going to the theater to see a film. What world city has the most movie theaters? Clue: It also has the most live music venues, and 2nd in number of theaters - for plays.

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Paris. According to the Guardian: Study finds that Paris has most cinemas, London most museums, Tokyo most bookshops and New York most theatres.

I had no correct…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on February 25, 2013 at 9:54am — No Comments

The Oscars Roundup

Each year Musea gladly features the review of the Oscar's Awards, written by Melanie Pruit on her blog, "Confessions of a Movie Queen". I think it's one of the most complete roundups there are. Enjoy.

http://listen2uraunt.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/oscar-20122013-what-a-way-to-argo/

Added by Tom Hendricks on February 25, 2013 at 8:42am — No Comments

Poems and Sayings for Feb '13

Poems written in February 2013

Comments welcome. [poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS -

1.

All the windows

and all the doors ...

2.

boat on the sea

fountain on the land

3.

trains go away

trains come back

4. [ A vision poem]

I dreamt that there were doors

that led to other doors

that led to doors that led to doors

and on and on and on and on

and only one had a window

but it was… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on February 22, 2013 at 11:10am — No Comments

Hunkasaurus Music Website (Musea) Revamped

Readers,

Matthew Creed, the Musea webmaster, has updated the Hunkasaurus music site. It's cleaner, easier to get around, and looks great. And it still has 6 CD's worth of music! See the changes at http://www.hunkasaurus.com/index.html

Let me know what you think.

Tom Hendricks

(editor of the 20 year old zine Musea)

ZINE, Named one of the best ZINES by UTNE magazine. Featured on ROCKETBOOM)…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on February 19, 2013 at 10:29am — No Comments

Five Music World's Firsts

FIVE Music World’s Firsts

FIVE MUSICAL FIRSTS from Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar (the voice and guitar with the funny name).

DO YOU KNOW OF ANYONE ELSE THAT:

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IS LEADING A MUSIC REVOLUTION – against what rock rap country pop have become with an alternative music?

Leading the way is important. Time for music to have a real alternative.(Click on my blog music category for more).

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PLAYS MUSIC CONCERTS… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on February 18, 2013 at 8:41am — No Comments

Ticky Economic Talk - Decoded

Decoded – Tricky Talk about what’s saving/ruining the country

Giving money to rich people will save the country.

Giving money to poor people will ruin it.

Sounds silly doesn’t it? But let’s put it in different language.

Giving money to rich people TAX BREAKS will save the country MAKE JOBS

Giving money to poor people ENTITLEMENTS will ruin the county DEFICITS.

Don’t let people fool you. Welfare for the rich is the same as welfare for the poor. Right now most… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on February 15, 2013 at 8:51am — No Comments

Valentine's Week Art Quiz

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

The new issue of Musea is out and about - more later, and it's all sci-fi. Speaking of that: Who, in their 1961 sci-fi classic, invented screen savers?

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Robert Heinlein, in his '61 novel Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 years before the first personal computer: "Opposite his chair was a stereovision tank disguised as an aquarium; he switched it on, guppies and tetras gave way to the face of the… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on February 13, 2013 at 10:40am — No Comments

The small World of Zine Musea

There's a lot going on in the small world of Musea, my 20 year old print zine. Have you missed these?

1. Musea Reading fund - free money for buying classic books, recordings and more - set up at Lucky Dog Bookstores in Dallas.

2. Box Office Concerts - first and only in the world, on Tuesday and Wednesday at the classic Inwood Theater in Dallas Texas.

3. Musea Zine Hall of Fame - on Zinewiki. Recommendations welcome.

4. National Hiring Day - This is a… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on February 6, 2013 at 9:13am — No Comments

History repeats and repeats and repeats....

Sometimes history not only repeats itself, but it gets into a rut doing it!

Let's look at how the established art form, looked down on the upstart. It may be repeating itself yet again:

The established New York stage community looked down on the upstart film community toward the first of last century.

The established Hollywood film community looked down on the upstart television community toward the middle of last century.

The established television… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on February 1, 2013 at 10:26am — No Comments