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Blogocentric Formulations
Logocentric (adj). Regarding words and language as a fundamental expression of an external reality (especially applied as a negative term to traditional Western thought by postmodernist critics).
Sometimes I just write whatever I feel like. Other times I respond to prompts, many taken from the following places:
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February 2, 2014 at 4:45pm February 2, 2014 at 4:45pm
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DAY 2
Song: "The Heart of Rock & Roll"
Artist: Huey Lewis & The News
Album: Sports (1983)
Okay, lizco252, you think mentioning cassette tapes was something? Check this out... today's entry is about my earliest musical memory, which involves a vinyl record and an eight-track player! 
Back before even cassette tapes, my parents had an old phonograph/eight-track combo player in their living room. While I never did find any of their old eight-tracks that would actually play, my parents did have a small collection of vinyl records that they would play for time to time. My parents were never really huge music-lovers, but they apparently collected records at the right time (well "right" time for an eighties music lover like me), because they had some greats like Chicago's IX (Greatest Hits) album and the one that I'll always, always remember, Huey Lewis' album "Sports."
When my brother and I were really young, we used to put on my dad's ties (don't ask me why we thought that was cool; something about boys wanting to be like their fathers, I guess) and dance around the living room every time he put on the record. We would dance in circles, around and around, until we got dizzy and fell down. That was usually sometime around "I Want a New Drug" (track 4), at which point we'd recover and insist he start the record over again. Compared to kids these days and their parents having to listen to the same One Direction or Disney sing-a-long song a million times it's probably tame, but I can't help wonder if my parents were annoyed at the fact they never got to listen to the second half of the album when my brother and I were around.
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February 2, 2014 at 3:51am February 2, 2014 at 3:51am
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DAY 1
Song: "Black or White"
Artist: Michael Jackson
Album: Dangerous (1991)
This song takes me back... to elementary school, to the Columbia House mail-order music club I used to subscribe to, and to the cassette tapes I used to order through said mail-order music club. "Dangerous" was one of the "Buy Eight Albums for 1 Cent" promotion that enticed people to sign-up for the service, and it was one of the first albums I actually bought for myself.
While "Remember the Time" and "Heal the World" were regulars features on my stereo's dual tape deck, the song that I listened to over and over and practically wore out the magnetic tape listening to was "Black and White." I loved the lyrics, loved the message of the song, and - thanks to finding it on YouTube in order to post a link - loved the music video complete with an intro featuring Macaulay Culkin and George Wendt.
I'm about 50/50 on Michael Jackson. There aren't a lot of songs I sort-of like; I either love them or... don't love them. "Black or White" is definitely in the "love" category. Even today when it comes up on my shuffled iTunes library, it still takes me back to those times when I'd blast the song in my brand new bedroom (I got this album soon after my parents had an addition to the house built so my brother and I didn't have to share a room anymore), reading a book or writing in a journal.
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