BillHeise | February 27, 2010
I watched Sunset Boulevard yesterday with Gloria Swanson in the role of Norma Desmond. She’s as creepy as it gets in Hollywood, and never more so than when her imaginative mind has taken full control of her reason in the final moments of the film when she addresses “those wonderful people out there in the [...]
BillHeise | February 22, 2010
A band whose name is derived from my favorite postmodern novel, White Noise by Don DeLillo? And their music is awesome, too? Are you kidding me? Bring it on:
BillHeise | February 22, 2010
The Music I Grew Up With The music of the 60s and 70s was new and exciting, both to me and to the world. The blues had broken of the backwaters and made it to the center of the world stage. I would listen to the rhythm of the music at punishing volumes, but as [...]
BillHeise | February 20, 2010
This is a journey into music and sound. Watch out, and get ready to move your feet. Wherever you are, you will be a part of it. Get ready, so get ready. (What?)
BillHeise | February 11, 2010
This is a response to something I saw on Dean Dad’s Confessions of a Community College Dean. It is in response to the following quote: One of the Chronicle pieces quotes Cary Nelson, the President of the AAUP, as liken[ing] the for-profit sector to “the blob,” an alien life form that consumed everything in its [...]
BillHeise | February 11, 2010
Found an article on the Web today entitled 6 Personality Traits to Admire. If you ask me, I have them all in abundance (especially #6), and if you ask them so does every human being on the planet. Maybe that’s why the author makes herself the judge, because people are not particularly good judges of [...]
BillHeise | February 10, 2010
Apart from important people like the 1890′s film director who filmed Professor Welton and his Boxing Cats, I have a park in the San Diego County Park System named after me. Thought you’d want to know.
BillHeise | February 8, 2010
I have to admit that I would never thought about these two songs as having the same theme, much less the same rhythm track, but apparently they share both.
BillHeise | February 5, 2010
My website got infected with a virus about a month ago, and in the course of fixing it I made things so bad that I couldn’t even log on to it anymore. But after a month of work, I was able to restore it and finally put on the virus and spam software that ought [...]
