Category: Jules Schlicher
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FortaRock 2015 – A Festival of Metal Fun
Read more: FortaRock 2015 – A Festival of Metal FunSince 2013 I attend the metal festival FortaRock in Nijmegen. Like I do with most of the shows I attend, I go on my own and make new friends while we’re all rockin’ out. The weather has been glorious every time and no band has ever disappointed in their performance (save for a ridiculously horrible…
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From Sound to Screen – How Good Music Videos Can Be
Read more: From Sound to Screen – How Good Music Videos Can BeMusic videos can be works of art in and of themselves. They are a director’s interpretation of a piece of music, and depending on the kind of song he or she is working with and their own creative capability, that visual rendering can lead to some fascinating results. A good music video can give…
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Highlander – There Is Only One
Read more: Highlander – There Is Only OneEveryone has fond memories of a lot of films from their childhood that raise those films above and beyond everything they see afterwards. For many, those films are products from the masterminds at Disney, or the work of directors like Spielberg. Then there are the more obscure titles that just happened to be in the…
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Seasonal Songs
Read more: Seasonal SongsWe can all rejoice once more, as youngster Spring is slowly taking over from old man Winter. A change in temperature, hours of sunlight, scenery, smells and spirit lies in our immediate future. Each season is distinct in a number of things, including the list I just mentioned. What in particular I want to draw…
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Hitchens and Titus – Gravitas and Levity
Read more: Hitchens and Titus – Gravitas and LevityI once read that stand-up comedians nowadays fulfil a similar job as journalists, as a result of journalism becoming more concerned with commentary and opinion than with reporting. Both crafts, in any case, serve a public goal. Two of my favourite public servants in those crafts are Christopher Hitchens and Christopher Titus. I can read…
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