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The word genius should not be thrown around lightly.  But in the world of contemporary music, few artists qualify more than she does.  Early Joni was folk, or folk tinged rock. Middle Joni was jazz rock, moving on into jazz itself.  Later Joni was even show tunes and experimentation of various kinds.  And she was…

While some would say religion and politics do not mix, it is clear that they have not been paying attention to what goes on in the Evangelical and broader Protestant world when it comes to a new English translation of the Bible.  But it has always been thus.  Willliam Tyndale, when he published his translation…

The never ending trial of Oden Golan, with all its twists and turns, seems finally to be winding down, and there are now some 9,000 pages of testimony and evidence. Amazing.  There is now a new article in Time Magazine which suggests that the prosecution’s scientific witnesses who wanted to argue for forgery of the…

It began a very long time ago, over 40 years ago, with a group called Buffalo Springfield and also to some degree with the Byrds.   There rose up a particular sub-category of rock music called country rock, long before any of the country boys down in Texas or Nashville realized that they could hitch their…

I have a true confession.  I would watch Meryl Streep play Babe Ruth in the Babe Ruth story if she chose to do the role.   She might be able to pull it off.  Without question, and without a doubt she is the greatest American actress of her generation, and this 2 hour long movie just…

After hearing thousands of rock and jazz musicians in my lifetime, I can honestly say that the absolute best I ever heard live and in person was, and is, Gino Vannelli, who still at 56 has a magnificent voice. It thus comes down to whether you like his music, which ranges from jazz to jazz…

I grew up watching war movies.  The Longest Day (should have been called the Longest Movie),  PT 109,  All Quiet on the Western Front, and then there were the Vietnam war classics, Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, and so many more, not to mention Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List, The Reader and so on.  It…

And now the inside story about my trip to New Zealand (aka Middle Earth) can be told.  I actually went down there to hire a couple of under cover Hobbits.  Of course Hobbits are so small they can easily go under cover.  Their mission on which I sent them?  To gather any and all information…

The course of young love is ever treacherous.  There are break ups and make ups, and all too often when young people say they are in love, in actuality what they really are is ‘in heat’, and its not the same thing.  But this award winning movie is the rarity in the genre of ‘young…

I was hanging out in the airport in Sydney Down Under, waiting for the flight to Auckland, and browsing through the airport bookstore,  when I found the novels of C.J. Sansom, a man after my own heart.  He has a PhD in history from Birmingham,  worked as a lawyer for a while, but gave it…
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