Music

bfwebster on January 10th, 2012

…take some time to recenter yourself. ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on December 14th, 2011

Now, go wipe your eyes and have a better day.  ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on August 3rd, 2011

[Original song above -- I lack the talent and mad skillz to do a parody recording myself] Well I don’t know how I’ll keep my career I got the feeling that I’m out on my rear I’m so scared that my pension is gone And my furniture is out on the lawn Europe to the [...]

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bfwebster on March 23rd, 2011

Clearly, I’ve been looking at this music video all wrong: Rebecca Black wakes somewhat too perfectly in the early scenes of her viral video, “Friday.” Her eyes open exactly as the clock beside her bed flashes seven. She wears full make-up. Rare for a teen, she isn’t tired, longs not for any receding dreams. Her [...]

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bfwebster on November 23rd, 2010

…though it’s sort of funny to think of flash mobs singing in mall food courts as “more traditional”.

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bfwebster on November 18th, 2010

No, I don’t know what it means. But I keep watching it, over and over. “I feel strangely hypnotized.” Hat tip to Ace of Spades. ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on September 4th, 2010

Hat tip to Gerard Van der Leun at American Digest. ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on June 11th, 2010

SunDog was the Apple II computer game (later ported to the Atari ST) that Wayne Holder and I (with others) did at FTL Games some 25+ years ago.  This video looks as though it came right out of the game. ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on February 23rd, 2010

I had to write an expert report last week, and I’m in New York on business all this week.  In the meantime, watch the music video above (that’s the artist”s grandmother), courtesy of Gerard Van der Leun over at American Digest. And be sure to watch it all the way to the end.  ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on February 13th, 2010

One of my favorite Billy Joel songs for years has been “Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)” because of its science-fictiony flavor. I’ve wondered at times if it was part of John Carpenter’s inspiration for “Escape from New York“, particularly since he says he wrote the first draft of the screenplay in [...]

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