If you have not bathed your imagination in the tales of the Polynesian People, you have let much pass over you like a wave. The watery world of these nut-brown people possessed a culture like that of no one on earth. Through the husks of coconut fiber up through the colors of the rainbow, …
Author: Mark Grago
The Cure Three Imaginary Boys The Dismantling and Reassembling of A Post Punk Apocolyptic Milky Way
1979 was a year full of change in music; just a year earlier, Van Halen made their mammoth preview with their self-titled album and Eddie Van Halen forever hurled the guitar into a cosmic chaos of tameless frets and gorgeously exaggerated tremolo blows; his venture was astonishingly poetic and placed the electric guitar into …
WHO WAS SAINT VALENTINE? β₯ππππ§‘
The origins of this holiday are extremely captivating; the day as we know and celebrate took centuries to possess the current form it now has. Ironically, though the celebration of the day itself is rooted in Roman tradition, it is quite a Christian holiday.Β The name βValentineβ (it means strong, respectful, powerful; this name …
STAND BY ME: THE BITTERSWEET ARRIVAL OF ADULTHOOD π€¦ββοΈπ¬
On a particular Sunday evening, when my event list was exhausted, I sat down and watched this film, again, from my own adult perspective; I found myself completely immersed in this film. What is there not to like? Friendship, loyalty, struggle, bonding, trust, uncertainty, all the issues that a twelve-year-old boy struggles with. Stand …