Inflated Importance

The (Copy)right to Sound

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Inflated Importance
Where were you when Balloon Boy (Falcon Heene) was floating around in the sky? I got home from work by the time it was discovered he was hiding in the attic. But for a good day, the people of this country were captivated by an experimental aircraft that supposedly had a boy inside. Oh, many people ignored the fact that it looked like the aircraft probably could not fly with the child inside. Many of us were too busy being captivated by the sheer absurdity the story. As a headline for this article/editorial from the Boston Globe ex

The (Copy)right to Sound
What Gregg Gillis does is technically illegal. I don’t mean playing on the nostalgia of my generation by using musical touchstones of our parent’s records, 90’s alt. rock and rap. I used to think he was an evil genius on the level of Urban Outfitters. I stopped thinking he was evil once I heard Salt n’ Pepa’s “Push It” over Nirvana’s “Lithium.” It’s an art and a craft. No, what’s illegal about Girl Talk is that he is literally creating musi

Beware the Savage Jaw
“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.”         “Thoughtcrime is death.”                                         “Two minutes hate.” “We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.” Ironically, we’ve reduced George Orwell’s magnum opus, Nineteen Eighty-Four into a few simple Newspeak-ian phrases and a jumble of ideas about totalitarianism and privacy issues. Some political discussions can be r

Hollywood Hates English Majors, Pt. 2
So, as you know I work at Blockbuster as one of my jobs. So the above movies I’m about to talk about have already came out in theatres, but just come out on DVD now or will be out soon. Let’s look at the plot of these two movies. Adventureland (from Wikipedia): It is the summer of 1987 and James Brennan ( has just graduated with a comparative literature major from Oberlin College. He is lo

Celebauthor
Let’s travel back to a long time ago, say a year ago. It is very early fall, with school starting across campuses. Television shows are starting new seasons. Including one very popular show, Gossip Girl. OMG. I know. I wasn’t much of a fan of the show, but a friend of mine suckered me into watching it. “Summer Kind of Wonderful” kicks of Season 2, exploring what the characters did on their summer vacations. The thing about this show was that I knew s