Friday, February 27, 2015
The Understated Genius at the Root of a Half-Century of Jazz
Creative Nonfiction, Music, Words
Rock Music in a Little Girl’s Eyes
My childhood was filled with tennis lessons, moon-bounce birthday parties, boating at the yacht club, and Christian Rock Music. Life was balanced by two loving parents, a blonde baby brother, church every Sunday, and one of the highest rated school districts in Massachusetts.
Ceci n’est pas un titre
You see it and get that nightmarish shiver you can only recall from your dreams. It is an image inviting you to get lost in the world in front of your eyes while the world behind them strives to decipher that strange familiarity. It is an unconventional word and a plot twist in the story. It is absurd and childish. It is real and abstract. A philosophy: surrealism.
A Visual Analysis of Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums
Although I had never seen a Wes Anderson film until very recently, I had always known him to be a quirky, indie, offbeat, and whimsical filmmaker. This assumption most likely grew from friends or family who have mentioned him in conversation, or critics whose reviews I have come across.
Musical Interpretation of The Song of the Old Mother (1894)
Music by Matias Ambrogi Torres Lyrics taken from “The Song of the Old Mother” a poem by William B. Yeats from The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) [Link to Score]…
The Life Saved By God
He was feeling smart and sly. It was 1996 on a cold day in the Orchard Park Projects in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and it wasn’t the first time he got away with selling drugs. He was feeling good to get that easy money, and to get that high. He thought he knew the game. If he got caught, he could find a public defender to get him off. The poison fire of alcohol and drugs was calling him, and the risks meant nothing.
The Pagan And The Priest: An Inquiry Into The Religious Colonization Of Ireland
ne of the rich traditions of Irish Culture lies in its unique mythology. The emblem of their history is defined by it, and its close ties to the mysticism and beliefs of paganism idiosyncratic to the island. Festivals of celebration, and the tradition of giving one’s self into excess is, at times, a producer of culture that can sparsely be seen in nations considered “civilized,” which is easily demonstrated by the concoction of tales surrounding Fairies, Banshees, and Gods that are fairly native to the populace of Ireland.
Student Creative Nonfiction Contest
Stories Based on Real Life: We’re looking for writing that is vital, ripe and engaging. Writing that pushes past or against literary or life’s boundaries, plays with style and form, and makes its own rules.
FUSION Meets the Fuze: An Interview with David Fiuczynski
David Fiuczynski is Director of the Planet MicroJam Institute at Berklee. He also moonlights as the leader of the Screaming Headless Torsos.
Moral Economy: An Original Economic Form for the Human Condition
Teodros Kiros, PhD MAAT was to ancient Egypt as Wisdom was to ancient Greece. Wisdom was to Plato’s aristocratic regime as Maat was to Egypt’s social and political life.
Wittgenstein, Ordinary Language, and Songwriting
Pat Pattison My world shifted forever one Tuesday afternoon, decades ago, in Bob Baker’s Philosophy 1 class at the University of Minnesota. Bob was making a case for Descartes’ distinction between Appearance and Reality, and my head was swimming a bit.
Four Poems from The Paul Simon Project
Karen Lillis The Paul Simon Project (NightBallet Press, 2014) is an "album" of ten poems, one for each song title on the 1975 Paul Simon album, Still Crazy After All These Years. The poems explore subjects from relationships to class contrasts to my own take on escaping a vicious "Little Town" childhood.
The Bridge
Tim Keppel A sultry midmorning in Cali, the sky a hazy blue. Stoplight venders hustling bubble blowers, pinwheels, lollipops.
Interview with Berklee President Roger Brown
Berklee President Roger Brown interviewed by FUSION Editorial Board Member, Dr Teodros Kiros
Humiliation — An Essay On Ingmar Bergman
Sean Brennan In the final moments of Summer With Monika, Harry Lund (Lars Ekborg) reflects upon the happiest days of his life. Defeated by both his wife’s betrayal and his own newfound cruelty, Harry reminisces on their summer together.
The Things That Crushed Him
Michael Nasaruk His right leg was shaking, out of control. The golden sustain pedal beneath his foot gained momentum and kept pressing back against the low and unstable pressure of his leg.
Alien’s Ellen Ripley and NASA’s Anna Fisher
Spanning the void between fiction and reality Taylor Page Regardless of the photographer’s intent, this Life magazine’s 1985 cover of the American Astronaut Anna Fisher says it all: The New York City bread graduate Anna Lee Fisher (top) of UCLA ignites a intriguing comparison to Ellen Ripley: one of world’s most famous female heroes projected in film.
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