Not Another Music Review!

I hate music reviews. There I said it! I hate the fact that they all read the same. I hate that the reviewer thinks their opinion matters. I hate that they actually think they can do it properly. I even hate that they think they are in a position to do it in the first place! As I said before, any person, with a functional set of ears (or one),...

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Ode to the Souls

This is a piece of writing I created when I was in a considerably worse psychological and surely less mature state. It's funny how post-teenagehood angst along with a combination of words can transform into a weird "poem". Enjoy but don't take it too seriously, it's not meant to be a piece of art! Quite the opposite. Endless tyranny that refuses...

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London Film & Comic Con Experience

I have never thought I would be writing such a post. I never considered myself to be geeky, nerdy, or whatever you want to call it. But as it turns out I might have been all my life as I realised at this year's London Comic Con. I'll start with a hilarious definition I found in the online thesaurus: "a geek is any smart person with an obsessive...

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100 Riffs (A Brief History of Rock N' Roll)

This is a video I came across recently. Alex Chadwick, of the Chicago Music Exchange, plays 100 riffs that defined Rock history, using a 1958 Fender Stratocaster. In just 12 minutes he covers the riffs in chronological order giving a pretty good (yet not perfect) summation of what it is Rock n' Roll. Here is the list with the songs he covered: 1...

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