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When You Lose Control and You Got No Soul
I’ve done a terrible thing. We’re not talking “extremist congressmen hold country hostage, ass rape citizenry” bad, just “Olive Garden ass rapes Italian food” terrible. I intentionally mutilated one of my own short stories.
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GMP Writing Prompts, Week of 10/7/13
There is so much going on in arts and entertainment right now that I’m not even sure where to begin, other than to tell you this: If you want to publish, stop screwing around and send me stuff. Seriously, I’m looking for music and film critics, television writers, people to write about live theater, concerts,…
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From the Stacks: The Cure – The Love Cats (12″ single)
Come on, who doesn’t love “The Love Cats”? Nothing’s more fun than when the king of the shoegazers cuts loose.
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Deep Cuts: Songs For Perpetual Fuck Ups
Sometimes we find ourselves in those situations where we can do no right, or at least that’s how it feels. I say the world is round, you say it’s flat. I agree that it’s flat, and suddenly it’s round. The worst is when we try so hard to make another person happy, and they keep…
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146. The Barbarossa Express
That Christmas was my first with money in my pocket, and I wanted to spend it. My sisters were married and gone now, and my mother was in the middle of some heavy empty nest depression. Over the last couple of months she’d called me several times, begging me to move home. “You can enroll…
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From the Stacks: Alice Cooper – School’s Out
Another classic Alice Cooper package, this one from 1972. You all know the title tune, but the one that really weirded me out as a kid was “Gutter Cat vs. the Jets,” which was a mash-up of Alice madness and West Side Story:
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GMP Writing Prompts, Week of 9/30
Here are some ideas for GMP Arts and Entertainment articles. Don’t see anything you like? Check out last week’s list. Still not finding anything? My door is wide open. Send me (jostaffordjr@gmail.com) what you have, what you want to pitch, or even your random thoughts. We’ll talk about them. Remember: First-person narratives in the 800-1,500…
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Bad Company, Thunder Valley Casino 9/27/2013
This was the second to the last night of Bad Company’s 40th anniversary tour, and it was a good one. Paul Rodgers voice is as strong as ever, and decades of working the crowd have rendered him one of the most comfortable front men you’ll ever see. The set list was a sing-a-long rock and…
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From the Stacks: The Godfathers – Birth, School, Work, Death
This is quite simply a great post-punk album: a little poppy but hooky as hell.
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