Category: culture
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Song: Can’t Walk Away (Sway With Me)
This is the Charles Bukowski poem “Sway With Me” set to music, with a refrain tacked on.
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Song: My Name Is John
(Track 2/11 Gullet Stories) A song written by my brother about a beleaguered police officer with marriage issues. Microsoft had this application called “Songsmith” that was interesting. I used it to hum the melody of the solo in this song, then slide a few sliders, to arrive at the chord progression for the solo. I…
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Survivor: Why I Started Watching It, Why I Love It, and What I Learned From Creating a Survivor Fantasy League On Facebook
In the year 2000, I existed in an odd office environment. They had “gamified” the culture in the mold of the new CBS reality TV show, Survivor. I was almost 100% non-TV oriented, and was unaware that the essence of what they were aping would eventually morph into such an pleasurable part of my leisure time. Co-workers would receive…
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Ben Shapiro’s Mother Of All Virtue Signals: Deconstructing John Lennon’s “Imagine”
Which is more pretentious: The piano chords of a song, or the mortal judgment of John Lennon’s soul for singing about world peace?
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