THE SUPER BOWL SHUFFLES YOU DOWN MEMORY LANE
January, 1986, Chicago What’s happening with the Super Bowl when you watch it? I’m first writing this post for Super Bowl 52. Pats v Eagles was then, what’s now? I wonder if I do meta editing in the...
View ArticleHallelujah as Covered by Jeff Buckley
Heaven Above Mike’s Twitter A song that was sung and ignored, covered and ignored except for one man who covered it again, only for it to be ignored. Until there was a death. Who knows when anyone...
View ArticleThe Cello: Wherein Man Kills Death Through Music
Music has been with us since the world’s first percussionist debuted in a dark cave, someone unrecognizably human by our standards, rhythmically slapping their hands on a rock. We have fought wars to...
View ArticleBack in the USSR; aka: Guess What’s Stuck in Mike’s Head?!
Moscow, USSR 1983 @HalfGuarded History is written by the victors but sometimes they don’t seem to fully appreciate what they’ve won. When Ronald Reagan single handedly defeated the Soviet Union, he...
View ArticleWhy Star Wars Ruined Filmmaking
Taking a glance at the highest grossing films of 1970 shows you just how much the motion picture industry has changed over the last 45 years. Of the top ten highest grossing U.S. movies, three were...
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