Category: Creativity
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Text and Meaning in Michael Jackson’s Xscape (part 5 of 5)
“In more ways than one, his status as a ‘superstar’ served largely as a vehicle that allowed him to render as much service to humanity on as many levels as he could.”––Article Excerpt (Aberjhani) The lucky number seventh track on Xscape, “Blue Gangsta,” is the perfect musical metaphor for the…
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Text and Meaning in Michael Jackson’s Xscape (part 1)
“He talked always about giving love. It was never about how much love he got back.”––Antonio “L.A.” Reid discussing Michael Jackson, Xscape Documentary DVD Any announcements of “new music” from Michael Jackson must necessarily and rightly be met with a healthy amount of skepticism. Important questions have to be…
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Maya Angelou, Elliot Rodger, and Getting the Work Done (part 2) – Bright Skylark Literary Productions
“Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.” –from Journey through the Power of the Rainbow, Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry (Aberjhani) Continued from PART 1 Rodger told himself in particular that “women rejected” him and therefore deserved punishment while knowing nothing…
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Gifts of the Poets: Eugene B. Redmond and Coleman Barks (part 1)
Cover of Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas by Jeffrey B. Leak Among the greatest gifts that poets bestow upon each other’s lives are those of identity and validation. It is often through the mirror of words, meaning, and soul created by one poet that another begins to…