BillHeise | May 31, 2009
I went to Ripon College because the drinking age in Wisconsin was 18. Not an auspicious start for college career. However, I was interested in learning. The problem was that I had been launched on my learning experience only a year before. And when I got to college, it was not at all what I [...]
BillHeise | May 26, 2009
Found this today: Germany is considering a nationwide ban on the high-energy drink Red Bull Cola after traces of cocaine were found in it. Read the full story here.
BillHeise | May 26, 2009
Okay, here is my long awaited post on Nina Hagen original music. In the Beginning I never liked lyrics, and this is probably one of the reasons that I bought Nina Hagen’s debut album in 1980. It didn’t hurt that she had a song called Heiss; but my favorite song on the album for a [...]
BillHeise | May 26, 2009
[This article is a continuation of a previous article, which you can find here.] What Has Nina Done? My question, as a hyper-rational thinker who requires a sense of place before I leap from the palpable world that I know to mental construct that may be an illusion, is “What is she talking about? Where [...]
BillHeise | May 22, 2009
Larry, my only regular commenter on this blog, wrote the following comment on yesterday’s post: I remember the Secret Sharer in Mrs. Kelly’s class also, though I was not as enamored of her Jungian psycho-philosophy. I would say that I distinctly remember her calling it a “night journey” rather than a “sea journey.” Could be [...]
BillHeise | May 20, 2009
Want to hear a funny story? My Life at 17 I got interested in my education at 17 years old. Before that, I had managed to drift through school without really studying very much. It wasn’t that I wasn’t interested in my education. I wasn’t interested in my formal education. It was that there are [...]
BillHeise | May 19, 2009
Okay, so I keep thinking that I’m going to manage one day to get around to writing my post on the Nina Hagen’s original music; but once again this week I’ve gotten too busy. It’s a long post on the limitations of self as the focus of philosophical inquiry. (Yeah, I know. How cool am [...]
BillHeise | May 16, 2009
I got in an argument with a couple of my friends on Facebook, who said that they didn’t like jazz! So I told them what I thought of their musical tastes, but now I’m sorry. I thought I would apologize by posting this song for their enjoyment: I still think they’re wrong to dismiss jazz [...]
BillHeise | May 13, 2009
I’ll never understand beer commercials. “The police often question him, just because they find him interesting.” And, I’m sure, because he’s bench pressing Japanese hookers. “His beard alone has experienced more than a lesser man’s entire body.” Is that a good thing? “His blood smells like cologne.” He’s going to die soon from blood-cologne poisoning. [...]
BillHeise | May 12, 2009
Okay, two weeks ago was talking about how tragic I thought it was that Googoosh had her career destroyed on account of being a woman and on account of having performed at the Shah’s birthday party. I believe that the systematic destruction of half of the nation’s workforce cuts the possibility of finding new ideas [...]
