University Bookman V32 N4 1992 (Full Issue)
Another good issue with pieces by/about Russell Kirk, Wilhelm Roepke, Ralph Ancil, Albert Jay Nock, Edmund Opitz, and Ben Lockerd.
University Bookman V33 N3 1993 (Full Issue)
Good issues with pieces on or by Russell Kirk, Clyde Wilson, M.E. Bradford, Peter Stanlis, and Scott Richert.
V at XV: Neal Morse’s Prophetic Art
Retrospective on Spock’s Beard, V (Metal Blade/Radiant, 2000). Produced by Neal Morse and Spock’s Beard. Tracks: At the End of the Day; Revelation; Thoughts (Part II); All on a Sunday; Goodbye to Yesterday; and The Great Nothing.
All tracks written by Neal Morse except Thoughts (Part II), written by the Morse brothers; and Revelation, written by the Morse brothers, NDV, and Okumoto.
Even the cover is brilliant, foreshadowing Neal Morse’s forthcoming moment at Damascus.
I was haunted continually by the cruel irony of it all; I had a gift to give to the world, but no recipient to pass it on to.
–Neal Morse, TESTIMONY (the book)
Two days ago, I posted my reflections on hearing Transatlantic’s SMPTe for the first time. I treasure those memories. At the time, I’d only been married about a year and half, I already had a one-year old son, and my wife was VERY pregnant…
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Clyde Kilby on J.R.R. Tolkien
“From my point of view his most important letter to me was that of December 18, 1965 in which he invited me, at my own suggestion, to come to Oxford in the summer of 1966. In this letter Tolkien spoke of himself as [a] writer, saying, “I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other people, I feel diffident, reluctant as it were to expose my world of imagination to possibly contemptuous eyes. But for the encouragement of C.S.L., I do not think I should ever have completed and offered for publication THE LORD OF THE RINGS. THE SILMARILLION is quite different, and if good at all, good in quite another way. I don’t really know what to make of it.” [Kilby, “Woodland Prisoner,” VII, pg. 49.]
Transatlantic: SMPTe. 15 Years Later.
From my other website, Progarchy. And, yes, I love all things Morse.
Maybe it’s the professional historian in me, but I love dates, and I love anniversaries.
This year is the fifteenth anniversary of Transatlantic’s first album, the rather stunning and never aging SMPTe.
I’d not heard of the project until one of my students handed me a copy of the CD in the fall of 2000, about six months or so after its release. I knew Morse (I’d been one of the first–if not the first–persons in Bloomington, Indiana, to purchase THE LIGHT from Spock’s Beard), I knew Trewavas (having been a Marillion fan since BRAVE), and I knew Mike Portnoy, having purchased every Dream Theater release since 1992’s IMAGES AND WORDS. Roine Stolt? Didn’t have a clue at that point, though I’d heard of The Flower Kings.
My first reaction upon seeing the CD cover was one of elation. This looked like a very modernized Yes cover. And, of course…
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Jason Snell and Six Colors
Six Colors, named after the colors used in an earlier incarnation of the Apple logo.
If you’re looking for a really well-written, well-designed, and well-conceived website, check out Jason Snell’s http://sixcolors.com. I’ve been reading Snell since 2006, and I’ve found him rather endlessly fascinating as a thinker and a writer.
He’s the former and long-time editor of Macworld. When he left the magazine, he began Six Colors.
Frankly, his reviews of Apple products and related software remain the best in existence–whether back when we was with Macworld or now with Six Colors. If Snell has written about something, it’s well worth reading. In general, I’ve found his reviews spot on. He’s basically the Good House Keeping Seal of Approval guy for all things Apple.
He also writes (analyzes) well on science fiction, comics, and movies. While these articles and podcasts don’t appear at Six Colors, he does link to them all from the site.
University Bookman Vol 28 No 2 1988 (Full Issue)
Full issue of University Bookman. The best: Father Schall’s article, “The Great Culture.” Enjoy.
Big Big Train Concert Programme Cover Revealed
So proud to have two progarchists as a part of this. Lady Alison and yours truly–BB
Program by Professor Geoff Parks.
From Professor Geoff Parks: At last I can reveal a closely kept secret. A while back I volunteered to put together a programme for the band’s upcoming Kings Place concerts. To my delight that offer was accepted and early in June I sent my efforts on to Greg et al. for approval.
The programme is 24 A4 pages in full colour. It includes profiles of the members of BBT and their support staff, equipment lists and a number of articles that should be of interest to passengers, including a couple of specially commissioned pieces by Alison Henderson and Bradley Joseph Francis Birzer of this parish.
The programme will cost a very reasonable £5.
The section containing the band profiles has been cunningly designed to include convenient spaces for…
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