Posts Tagged ‘Biography’

In addition to some valuable learning about my songwriting and how to participate more effectively in songwriting contests, my SpinTunes experience led me to some general thoughts on how songwriting contests are — and could be — run.
SpinTown and the others most directly involved in running SpinTunes explicitly made an effort to design the contest [...]

My participation in the SpinTunes songwriting contest has come to an end. It was a valuable experience. I learned a lot and had many thoughts and insights along the way, and I met a bunch of great people, my fellow competitors in particular, a group with a lot of songwriting talent and an earnestly friendly [...]

Mutant Message Down UnderBy Marlo Morgan
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KinseyBy Written and Dirrected by Bill Condon
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The King of Kong: A Fistful of QuartersBy Directed by Seth Gordon
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As I’ve begun to have a go at making a living as a musician and artist, I’ve thought at times about how difficult it seems for people who try this. So many struggling artists, starving artists, nobodies trying to become somebody, so little opportunity to make it into much more than a hobby, such [...]

Hello all. I have finally settled into the role of Stay at home Mom. It’s been challenging but I’m getting used to it. I have also found a craft that’s relatively kid-friendly. I’m calling it “Plan Bead” (as woodworking, my first love, is not Sophie friendly) and I hope to sell [...]

Grizzly Man
Written and Directed by Werner Herzog

If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways.
Daniel Quinn

Murderball
Directed by Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro