Tom Hendricks's Blog – September 2011 Archive (11)

Readers, don't forget for every book you buy at Paperbacks Plus you not only get half off from them, you get another half off from the Musea Reading fund.  

Announcing as of today it's past $1500. That's free money folks.

Here's the infoMUSEA READING FUND. Set up in Jan. '97 and still going strong, this fund at Paperbacks Plus Bookstore in Lakewood, allows free credit for ANYONE to help buy ANY CLASSIC of art, music, or literature. 'Classic' can mean anything from an Ibsen play to a…

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

CIRCUS  (original, keyboard, bagatelle - music that would fit a  great circus)

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

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Tom Hendricks for ALL the LOST TAPES go to musea.us or to my blog http://musea.wordpress.com/for the other 5 cd's of Hunkasaurus and…

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Poems written in September,  2011 [poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1  [Verse for a Film intro]

This is a film that explores

the wonder that surrounds us

from the universe high above

to the very smallest.

2

Drop!   

Drop down from the window.

Land!   

Land softly, quietly

Now!   

Now go quickly.

3 [first of two poems on ruins]

Everywhere on the planet   

that…

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

Here's another fictional character's question. This TV character from recent times, said this memorable line, "I smell pluck!".  Who said that, and who was it said about?

IS:  Marc saying it about Betty, from the extremely well written TV series "Ugly Betty" - a personal favorite!

There were no correct eligible answers. Betty does not put two thumbs up!I don’t dumb down, so please wise up!

Now on to a…

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

That's Alright Mama or 'GIVE ME AN 'A' (off key notes and all)

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

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Tom Hendricks 

for ALL the LOST TAPES go to musea.us or to my blog http://musea.wordpress.com/

for the other 5…

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The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:Explain these 3 numbers: 671-176, 176-671, 716-617. IS:  

Those are the 3 prison numbers of the Beagle Boys, the crooks always after Uncle Scrooges loot!

http://tinyurl.com/5r8l5qf

There were no correct eligible answers. Seems y'all were too busy swimming in your money bin to get this one.I don’t dumb down, so please wise up!

Now on to a new Q.: Win a…

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The new issue of Musea is now out at the regular places, and in your mail if you requested it or are on the mailing list.

This issue is a collection of smart alecky sayings, mixed with a goodly amount of pithy points, and barbed banter; from Musea's Editor, Art S Revolutionary (me).

 I look...and look again 

SAYINGS OF EDITOR ART - part two. Click to here, then click on the latest Musea issue #181http://www.musea.us/newdex.html

Tom…

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

This time we go as far underground as you can go - SUB ATOMIC PARTICLES.

This is a minute long, keyboard bagatelle. Look with me into the most wee of things.

Was that an electron whizzing by?…

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The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:There are many versions of this story about method acting. When the older actor heard that the young method actor had stayed up for 2 days to get that tired haggard look for the scene, he turned to him and said something like this, 'My dear boy, why don't you simply try acting?'Name the two actors involved.IS:  Laurence Olivier advising Dustin Hoffman. Fo/mo/info/… Continue

Poems written in late August,  2011 [poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1Sooner or lateryou will learnto leave the bankfor the current.

2. [kid's poem]There's a treein the forestthat hasn't changed in years.

He seems to likehis little forestjust the way it is.

3. [A favorite because you are in the moment of the poem]See that gliding Hawk?See that gliding Hawk?See that gliding Hawk?I'm waiting for himto flap his wings.

4.If a book were a treeeach page would be a… Continue

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

HEARTBREAK HOTEL (two versions - one from the 90's and another recent version.

 

1. Newer (the official) version from

http://music.hunkasaurus.com/heartbreak.mp3

2.  Older (rougher unofficial lost tape version)…

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