Michael Jackson

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Being in the throes of NaNoWriMo this month, I haven't had a lot of time or attention to spare for blogging, but today I had to take a quick break from thoughts of plots, characters, and sentence structure to write a bit about a slightly longer break (like two hours or so) I took earlier today.

This afternoon I went to see This Is It, the documentary film about Michael Jackson's preparations for the concerts that never happened. I thought that I'd missed my opportunity, but it turns out that the film was in theaters longer than I'd thought it would be.

And, boy, am I glad about that.

My eyes were glued to the screen for the duration of the film. It was absolutely riveting. I've never seen anything like this on the big screen, and it was probably the best eight dollars and change I've spent in a long time. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tuneful Tuesday is back!

After an obscure but heartfelt beginning in my early post Chess: The Musical Memory, the tunes sort of disappeared there for a couple weeks, what with my foray into my local art gallery the following week and the Week of the Guest Posts changing the order of things the week after that. I sorta, kinda, almost got back to it last week, with my discussion of United Breaks Guitars, but that turned into more of a rant about business on the internet. (Gah! Makes my head spin!)

Today, though, we're back with a vengeance. Music is in the air, and we're going to take a little trip down memory lane.

I'd been planning to do some posts about music I've enjoyed in the past anyway, but this evening a little cosmic event occurred that cemented my plans and gave me a musical kick-in-the-arse. Read the rest of this entry »

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