One of the greatest biographies ever written was the two-volume work on Elvis Presley’s life, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love, written by Peter Guralnick. Together with this week’s movie recommendation, we are suggesting this Blast from the Past offering a conversation between Catherine and Vanderbilt University professor of creative writing Peter Guralnick.
Music, Writing and the Creative Process with Peter Guralnick
“If the artilect [artificial intellect] can be made intelligent, using neuroscience principles, it could be made to be truly godlike, massively intelligent and immortal.”
The Art…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcfqNqKayS0
Spring is in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere, and we can all feel it! What better music to take us into the groove than this offering by the…
“I perform for an audience of one, and that’s God.” ~ Kanye West
Ye is our hero this week for voicing controversial topics that would hardly hit the mainstream media were it not for his cele…
https://youtu.be/MmZzK86el6w
This is the story of how the “most beautiful woman” of her time was also one of the most ingenious inventors of the twentieth century.
Hedy Lamarr—born in 1…
40 Years and Counting. . .
The ability to sell fireworks in the same location for such a long period of time is one of our greatest pleasures. We have not only watched the town grow up with us…
“A step‐op is one in which the bad guys keep going, one intrusion after another. It isn’t just West Nile, it’s West Nile, then SARS, then Bird Flu, then Swine Flu. It”s all one package, with the ide…