Tom Hendricks's Blog (425)

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

In every album I make, I try to have at least one "BIG" song. That's a song that builds from a quiet and simple start to a very dramatic ending. 'Peace Sign' is my 6-TH's album's big song. It ends with the longest held note on any of my recordings. When I was done, I had to repeat it 2 more times for the background vocals!!! The song is about peace songs that I loved in the late 60's. 4 are mentioned or quoted from or…

Zinesters, and readers of Musea,

Please go to:

http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/lwwsongspage.html

This week, my song is at #14. It's now in the top 20 of over 3,000 songs on the Neil Young Protest Song Chart. "AOL Can Go And Tank Tomorrow".

Click on it and help me get it to #1 in the country.

Then click a few more times for extra support. Thanks.

Tom Hendricks

(editor of the 19 year old zine…

Poems written in May 2012

Comments welcome.

[poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1. [Strange but true. Remember this when naming your children]

Too many consonants at the front of a name

makes the person cold and hard hearted.

Too many vowels at the front of a name

makes the person vulnerable to harm.

2.

When kites have a wind

of their own

and no longer need

wind or string ...

3.

A meteor is trying to keep up with…

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

In 1996 this person started an archive for the entire internet. This person is also trying to save one copy of every book made! Name that visionary librarian!

IS

Brewster Kahle. Some of these internet pioneers are doing groundbreaking work for all!

I had no correct eligible answers. Seems the answer was checked out of your library!

I don't dumb down/so please wise up.

Now on to a new Q.: Win a…

Dear Readers,

THE NEW ISSUE OF MUSEA, THE DICTIONARY OF SMALL IDEAS issue, is now out!

Some of you have already gotten the hard copies of it, carried at the stores of the usual suspects. If you have not, Webmaster Matthew has posted it on the Musea Website at

http://www.musea.us/newdex.html

Click on the #184 May/June/July Musea Issue*

The Issue may be a one of a kind one. I don't know of anyone who has suggested so…

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

This week we have an architectural question: It took a big big brain to invent this...

Who invented the cat door?

IS

Isaac Newton

I had no correct eligible answers. Seems the question was not taken with the needed gravity it deserved! 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 CD) or my NEWER cd CALLED ‘NEXT”(‘06) or my NEWEST…

Update 5/8/12 New Songs For The BIG LIST

http://wp.me/p5S9X-36

Most Bittersweet Duet, Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse, "Body and Soul" (yt).

Best Uptempo Update, A-Teens, "Can't Help Falling In Love" (yt).

Best Remake of The Composer's Own Hit, Joni Mitchell, "Both Sides Now" 2000 Live Performance (yt).

Best 50's Style Comedy Song, Lenny And The Squigtones, (from the 'Laverne and Shirley' TV series) "Star Crossed"…

Poems written in April 2012

Comments welcome.

[poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1 [For more on ideas for a revolution in art see http://tinyurl.com/38a5txu ]

Modern art

you've lost your way.

I'd rather see

a comic book,

fashion drawings,

or children's art,

an illustration,

or anything but

Modern art

you've lost your way!

2

The wave has edges but where do they…

This major known and celebrated American writer, said his favorite work was his biography of Joan of Arc. And that it took him 12 years of preparation and 2 years of writing to make. Name that author.

IS

Mark Twain! He said, "I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others needed no preparation…

Poems written in late March 2012

Comments welcome.

[poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1. [Biblio-attack!]

Books to the left of me!

Books to the right of me!

I'm being attacked

in the library!

2.. (Kid's Poems for Spring]

Wake up! Wake up!

you sleepy plants,

Doff the winter night shirts.

Don your summer green shifts.

Don your budding gloves

Wake up! Wake up!

Spring is ringing it's clock!

3.[…

This word means a total work of art - an artwork that merges many types of art in to a total single work.

IS

Gesamtkunstwerk . I had no correct answers. Seems your total answer was shy some part! 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 CD) or my NEWER cd CALLED ‘NEXT”(‘06) or my NEWEST cd CALLED ‘THIRDS” (May ‘07) or my MORE NEWEST cd Called “FOUR-TH” (‘08) or my MOST NEWEST cd CALLED ‘5-TH (Nov.'09) or…

Poems written in March 2012

Comments welcome.

[poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1 [Rainy day poem]

"Yes,

It's cloudy,

but the Moon

will return."

My hand

pulls the shades

and muffles

the rain.

2 [Idea from a Zen story]

the pail of water

held the…

Readers,  what is your experience/history with Myspace?

Most of us agree that the consolidation of the arts into so few corporate hands (Big 6 - see below) is not good for the arts. When that hand full of conglomerates not only make and distribute the art; but, review the art they make too - that is too much. That's reason enough to do some trust busting. BUT

Most of us think , somewhere in the back of our minds, that these business leaders, though hard on quality art, are…

Trumpets please ... Yes it's official the new CD, my 6th CD, titled '6-TH" is now out and left home for an online world tour.

Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar / 6-TH

Hear it here

http://www.hunkasaurus.com/music.html

OR directly

http://www.hunkasaurus.com/6-TH.html

Read about each song here…

Relaxed after reading

I closed my book.

My eyelids follow

and there appeared stairs.

I began to descend

step after step.

The light of my lantern

bounced off the quartz

embedded in the walls.

I blinked my eyes

and a draft of air,

a repeating echo,

swept me away...

across an ocean

and an ocean beyond

across outer space

across time itself ...

There appeared ahead

a high raised place.

I stood on a mountain…

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

The 1966 sci-fi film, 'Fahrenheit 451", is all about the Firemen, who instead of stopping fires, seek out all books ( that author Bradbury thought burned at 451 degrees) and burn them to help control information. The art question is this, there are only 2 words printed in the film (that aren't on the covers of the books that are shown). What are they?

IS

"The End" at the very end, adding a bit of hope to a…

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

This week's question is obscure, tough, and a lot of fun. Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine has been publishing since my birth year, 1949. It's the most widely read sci-fi magazine. In 1980 F&SF had a 30 year contest that went like this. Readers were asked to choose some science fiction concept that would be a reality by 2010, and win $2,010 for it. The magazine says that of the 2,700 entries, there were many…

Readers,

This has become an annual tradition here at Musea. We reprint or link to Melanie Pruit's movie blog, "Confessions of a Movie Queen", for her Oscar recap. Enjoy

http://listen2uraunt.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/the-201112-oscars-joyno-joy-in-merylville/

Tom Hendricks
(editor of the 19 year old zine Musea)

Poems written in Feb. 2012

Comments welcome.

[poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1 [Poem for WIS, Writings In Science, a sci-fi novel in progress]

The rocket looked

like an ocean liner

under the higher

full lit Moon.

"Ahoy! Ahoy!

all you travelers,

lost in space

and long from home."

2 [a personal favorite]

I

like a moth

move

toward the flame.

3 [Poem for WIS]

I hate it when I

turn…

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



My 6-TH CD release party was last week (Thursday night on the Hunkasaurus website), and this week's question was about my music. Lots of strings attached!



In 1967 a local group in Tyler, Texas, was going to record a song I'd written, then titled "Your Lovin' Trip" - it was the late 60's remember. Complication arose and they couldn't do it. The guitar player for the Tyler group, Doug Rhone, later went on…