My Favorite Alan Parsons Project Songs

Two of my long-time photographer friends and fellow Alan Parsons Project fans attended an AP² concert recently, so it got me thinking about what songs I loved and hated from this long-lived band. Most of the instrumentals are robotic and pointless: Hawkeye, Cloudbreak, Breakaway, Urbania, Pipeline, Nucleus, etc. On the other hand, instrumentals like Voyager…

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The Perfect Drug

I just finished watching both parts of the newest motion picture iteration of Dune, and I had fun. I got to thinking about the spice melange, what it was and how it worked. Sidebar: if you read the Frank Herberts Dune books in high school, please go somewhere else. I’m not up for a “but…

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Movie Prop Mistakes

Updated December 2022 to include a note about the movie Die Hard. Often when watching movies, I will simultaneously look up the background of them on Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB), or, if the film has guns, the Internet Movie Firearms Data Base (IMFDB). I did so recently when I was rewatching the 1995’s excellent…

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The Utopian

40 years ago, I was a freshman college student at the University of Oklahoma. I had yet to buy my first Nikon camera. I lived in Adams Center, the older of the “tower” dorms at OU. My roommate was Jeff, who had switched rooms, without being invited or even asking, with the kid I was…

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