Justin Cox

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The Greatest Songs Ever Recorded

I’m about to let you in on a little secret, so brace yourselves: I have over 8,500 songs in my iTunes library. Ok, it’s not really a secret. Is that a lot of songs though? To me 8,500 songs seems like a lot but you never know. Anyway, on with the point. I’ve got over [...]

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The Music Died 50 Years Ago Today

From Wikipedia:
On February 3, 1959, a small-plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, United States killed three American rock and roll musicians: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson. The day was later called The Day the Music Died by Don McLean in his 1971 [...]

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Literal Music Videos, How I Love You

Like any warm blooded human being, I have a special place in my heart for great music from the 80’s. Big hair, power ballads, one hit wonders, it’s all great. Lately that wonderful music has been making a comeback online thanks to an influx of literal music videos. The first one I saw was a [...]

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My Celebrity Playlist

I’m not an actual celebrity; I don’t even have a Wikipedia page. But after reading Alton Brown’s Celebrity Playlist I got to thinking that if I were some kind of celebrity and Apple did happen to come calling, what would I put on my list? I spent the last month (yes it’s been exactly one [...]

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Modern Musicals

Because I haven’t been feeling 100% lately I’ve been watching a lot of movies. Since Friday I’ve actually watched three: Once, Juno and Across the Universe. While I was watching Across the Universe this afternoon, I was thinking that both Once and Across the Universe are modern musicals. They’re both entertaining movies with a majority [...]

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