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Location: wakefield, ma USA
In My Own Words:
I am a librarian in the Boston area, with a keen interest in popular music and the studies of history, religion, and children's literature.
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This wonderful book tackles a huge topic concisely and sharply. Linn exposes the many ways children of all ages are marketed to by advertisers (even in our schools) for the sake of naked greed. She also does a fine job of articulating why all of this is bad for children and for society in general, and she backs it all up with evidence from psychological studies. Her tone is not shrill, but there is an urgency to this book that demands our attention; the rampant commercialism that is swallowing our children must be stopped. There is hope, if we start taking some action. Reading this book is a start.
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I'd actually like to give this album four and a half stars; it's fun and enjoyable. Brian Wilson, in an amazing act of self-reclamation, has emerged again in recent years as a man who enjoys performing, recording, and songwriting again after spending many years overweight, depressed, in bed and on drugs. His legacy needs no padding, so anything he gives us now is pure gravy. Now that he finally has some emotional security and can do whatever he likes, he has given us an album that is spookily full of light rock songs that could have been Beach Boys hits in the early sixties. This may seem a tad ironic, since these are the kinds of catchy pop songs that his old bandmates had been trying to… Read more
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Having begun his solo career with a bang ("All Things Must Pass") and putting out a pretty good followup album ("Living In the Material World"), George eventually ran out of gas and spent most of the seventies putting out a series of inconsitent and fairly boring releases. To be sure, there are bright moments on "Dark Horse" - the title track remains a good song, and in many ways a defining one for the artist. "Ding Dong" is a catchy song for New Year's eve - everyone and their uncle puts out a Christmas song, but very few have given us anything so durable for New Year's. "Far East Man," written with Ron Wood, is a cool, somewhat bluesy song… Read more
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