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

The Lost Tapes: Sparrow

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

SPARROW - celebrating the little things in nature.

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

Here's a short original keyboard piece.

The band is me on Cat Keys (my synthesizer)

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Added by Tom Hendricks on July 30, 2011 at 6:36pm — No Comments

Musea E-mail Club #531 Border's is Closing

Borders is Closing

Borders, the bookstore chain, is closing. There is one store left in Dallas. Last Christmas I was given a gift card. Better use it.

So I go today, Friday, and the place is packed. Everything there is 10-40% off. I usually don't much like new bookstores or new books, I'm so used to used books that I prefer them, broken in and read. But surely I can find something here.

I work through the crowd and begin to look. There are rows of…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on July 27, 2011 at 10:36am — No Comments

Musea art contest for the week - test your art smarts

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

The saying, "Less is more" came from what poem?

IS: Robert Browning's poems 'Andrea del Sarto': "Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged./ There burns a truer light of God in them,..."

We may have had a winner - winner pending. Otherwise less was LESS!

I don’t dumb down, so please wise up!

Now on to a new Q.: Win a copy of my NEW cd CALLED ‘30′! – (first anti-band…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on July 26, 2011 at 11:14am — No Comments

Poems written in late July 2011

Poems written in late July, 2011

[poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1 [two poems on the Moon - see my Moon collection of poems!]

Hello Moon!

I know you answer back

but the language that you use

I have yet to grasp.

The Moon is high

and its rays form a path.

Is everyone ready?

Climb up! Climb up!

3. [ At a certain point even introspection…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on July 24, 2011 at 9:05pm — No Comments

Writer can use our help

From www.americanpoplit.blogspot.com

Do you want new American writing in the Kerouac tradition which depicts and is part of carny-Barnum-ballyhoo Americana?

At my personal blog-- which I've been intending to shut down but never get around to--

http://www.kingwenclas.blogspot.com/

--I've been covering the tough circumstances of…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on July 19, 2011 at 9:51am — No Comments

Musea Zine weekly art contest to test your art smarts

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

This science fiction book series is the most successful ever written with sales of over one billion copies. Name the sci-fi series.

IS: Perry Rhodan

We had no winners - where's a psionic mousebeaver when you need one? (like my favorite character Pucky)

I don’t dumb down, so please wise up!

Now on to a new Q.: Win a copy of my NEW cd CALLED ‘30′! – (first anti-band…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on July 13, 2011 at 11:44am — No Comments

Poems written in early July 2011

Poems written in early July, 2011

[poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1 [too many libraries are selling away all their books that aren't bestsellers or videos]

These libraries

are empty spaces

how can so many books

say so little

better to enter

a well lit room

empty of clutter.

2. [This and the next are poems that will be a part of a large sci-fi work called…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on July 11, 2011 at 4:12pm — No Comments

Musea art contest for the week - test your art smarts

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

John Lennon said, “I have no idea what _______ are … they sound like exotic birds! What was he talking about?

IS: Aeolian Cadences. One of the first critics to take the Beatles music seriously was William Mann who said "... so natural is the Aeolian cadence at the end of "Not a second time" (the chord progression which ends Mahler's Song of the Earth)." Sounds a bit high brow, which I think…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on July 6, 2011 at 10:17am — No Comments