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April 2009 Blog Posts (3)

Review: Prince - Lotusflow3r and MPLSound

I should start by saying I am a devoted Prince fan. There are those who are more obsessed than myself, but I've stuck with him through thick and (sometimes VERY) thin. His concert in Oklahoma City at The Ford Center was the best concert I've ever seen. I just want you to understand that I COULD be biased. ;-) Having said that, his last several (half-dozen?) albums have been, shall we say, "acquired tastes." Sure, it was Prince, and he really can't do total wrong, but most of the songs just d… Continue

Added by Gene Savage on April 17, 2009 at 1:59am — No Comments

Don Francisco's "He's Alive"

The gates and doors were barred And all the windows fastened down I spent the night in sleeplessness And rose at every sound Half in hopeless sorrow And half in fear the day Would find the soldiers breakin' through To drag us all away And just before the sunrise I heard something at the wall The gate began to rattle And a voice began to call I hurried to the window Looked down into the street Expecting swords and torches And the sound of soldiers' feet But there was no one there but Mary So… Continue

Added by Gene Savage on April 12, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments

Upside Down

My head is spinning right now. Two years after committing my life to a cause I believed in, it all came to a crashing halt today. How can someone who seemed so big last week seem so small & weak today? I believed it. I believed it all. I left behind family, friends, possessions to put everything I had into changing the system. I KNEW this one was the real deal. I could trust him. Everything we had been looking for could be found in this man's leadership. We were going to make a differe… Continue

Added by Gene Savage on April 11, 2009 at 12:13am — No Comments