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May.19.2013 - 10:14 pm
Madre
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Except for the peerless blue of the sky the world is black and white. The sun blasts all color from the streets ricocheting it up off the blinding white of the walls to be...
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May.03.2013 - 2:10 pm
Musical Archeology
Diego Del Gastor practicing
Evan Harrar studied with reclusive Flamenco guitar master Diego Del Gastor in the early 1970s in Morón de la Frontera, a Spanish town in Seville province, Andalusia. I studied...
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Apr.15.2013 - 2:12 pm
Forward
Birmingham City Coat of Arms
I've started a new exercise regime. My phone app tracks calorie intake and exercise but I still have to pedal. For my 60th birthday my wife gave me a bicycle, custom built to fit...
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Jan.31.2013 - 10:49 pm
Speed Merchants, Thrash Masters, Typists and Other Guitarists
Diego Del Gastor
When I started playing guitar I seemed to be surrounded by other guitar players who thought the faster you played, the better guitar player you were. Alvin Lee from the 60’s band...
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Feb.12.2012 - 5:20 pm
In response to: If We Still Had Prehensile Tails – 10 Things that Would Be Different
Quantum reading
Yup, I get the same thing, mainly from my wife (who's a scientist) - I keep trying to tell her I'm quantum reading! In...
Feb.12.2012 - 5:16 pm
In response to: If We Still Had Prehensile Tails – 10 Things that Would Be Different
Radix malorem est cauda?
Thanks for reminding me of Chaucer - we studied The Pardonner's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale in A level...
Feb.11.2012 - 9:38 pm
In response to: If We Still Had Prehensile Tails – 10 Things that Would Be Different
Berlin Ramada
Benobo ... for swingers ... by Berlin Ramada!
Feb.10.2012 - 5:54 pm
In response to: If We Still Had Prehensile Tails – 10 Things that Would Be Different
Top hat and ... sorry!
Thanks for the comment Joshua - means a lot to get some feedback! Have you read "Great Apes" by Will Self? Blew me away...
Nov.12.2011 - 3:46 pm
In response to: ANGER
You're Welcome - Thank you!
Hello Susan, Thank you so much for your kind words, but most of all thank you for your book, it is helping me transform...

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Luke James has been telling stories since he broke his first window. A first generation punk rock survivor, he was born and raised in the projects of Birmingham, England. He has wanted to live in the USA since he saw The Lone Ranger when he was five-years-old...
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