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		<title>Five Star Parade: All Of That &#8211; Catherine Wheel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another great song by Catherine Wheel. This folksy, introspective song is markedly different than the other 5 star of their I loved. The lyrics, the lilt in Rob&#8217;s voice, the subtle humor just makes my day. Its a fantastic song. Catherine Wheel is a group often included in the shoegazing scene, characterized by bands that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Star Parade: Tounge Twisted &#8211; Catherine Wheel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our next song on the Parade takes a very different approach to music than Tangerine Dream by creating a brash, distorted, and desperate sound. Catherine Wheel is a group often included in the shoegazing scene, characterized by bands that made extensive use of guitar feedback and droning washes of noise, as well as their continuous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Star Song Parade: Tangerine Dream &#8211; Force Majeure Excerpt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next song on the Parade is by a pioneer of Electronic music called Tangerine Dream. They are from Berlin, Germany. Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member. Drummer and composer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The World in Six Songs by Daniel Levitin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ambitious title if there ever was, The World In Six Songs by Daniel Levitin, attempts to explain how music is so integral to human evolution that the entire human experience can be mostly summarized in six meta-songs. Daniel Levitin captured lots of imagination and excitement with his previous book &#8216;This Is Your Brain On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Star Song Parade: The Reels &#8211; World&#8217;s End</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My next song of the Parade is called World&#8217;s End written and performed by a relatively unknown band from Australia called The Reels. The Reels consisted of: Dave Mason (vocals), Craig Hooper (guitar, keyboard), Colin &#8220;Polly&#8221; Newham (keyboard, saxophone, guitar, 1977-81, 1985-92), John Bliss (drums, 1977-82, 1985-86), Paul Abrahams (bass guitar, 1977-92), Karen Ansel (keyboards, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Star Song Parade: The Reels &#8211; Bad Moon Rising</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 08:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My next song of the Parade is called Bad Moon Rising and is written by John Fogerty of C.C.R. and remade by a relatively unknown band from Australia called The Reels. The Reels consisted of: Dave Mason (vocals), Craig Hooper (guitar, keyboard), Colin &#8220;Polly&#8221; Newham (keyboard, saxophone, guitar, 1977-81, 1985-92), John Bliss (drums, 1977-82, 1985-86), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Star Song Parade: The Reels &#8211; No. 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first song of the Parade is called No. 3 and is written by a relatively unknown band from Australia called The Reels. The Reels consisted of: Dave Mason (vocals), Craig Hooper (guitar, keyboard), Colin &#8220;Polly&#8221; Newham (keyboard, saxophone, guitar, 1977-81, 1985-92), John Bliss (drums, 1977-82, 1985-86), Paul Abrahams (bass guitar, 1977-92), Karen Ansel (keyboards, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea is an apt title for this book. It is a short history, but a very interesting one. And its interesting because the subject matter is treated with enthusiasm which becomes a source of entertainment. This is a book written for the non-academic, acting almost like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel Huntington</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many ways The Clash of Civilizations is a rebuttal against Francis Fukuyama&#8217;s The End of History. Instead of arguing that the liberal democratic values endorsed in the West are the natural pinnacle of human civilization, Huntington says that The West&#8217;s values will attacked by competing civilizations. Huntington does not believe that nation states are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Origin of Brands (and the Games Industry) by Al &amp; Laurie Ries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Origin of Brands: Discover the Natural Laws of Product Innovation and Business Survival was written for all businesses, but I have tailored my review for game developers since this is where a bunch of my investment money is currently tied up. The Origin of Brands by Al &#38; Laurie Ries is a contrarian argument against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Way to Define Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must be getting soft in my older years as I never thought I would make a post about Love, but here you go&#8230; Somehow I stumbled on this very elegant and intuitive model that helps define the different kinds of love that can exist between two people. I thought it was so neat it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Art Criticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ecology of Art was inspired by some excellent articles that I believe summarize the Art of Art Criticism. J.P. Simmon (link lost) wrote: &#8220;Music &#8211; is not an ethical realm, but a realm of feeling. It not about ethics (right and wrong) but about how one experiences something. Even shock rock is offensive to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ecology of Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 18:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does Art have to be controversial to be real Art? When does Art slip into Performance and Entertainment? When does Criticism become irrelevant? The purpose of these questions is to tease out answers that hopefully will lead to a better understanding of Art. As long as there has been Artists there have been Critics. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being intrigued by the title, I picked up this book to learn finally once and for all which side was right &#8211; Are humans a product of biology of genes or social environment? Spoiler Alert: Its both. As a society we have witnessed a longstanding feud between two camps &#8211; one set of people believes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Small is Beautiful by E.F.Schumacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It remains painfully obvious that this book is written by a crank. Only a crank would tell us that we need to rethink our consumption patterns, how we manage our economy, and our relationship with our environment. Going against conventional thinking is pretty fashionable today, but to do so in 1973 and still be so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A controversial book that created a storm of derision and disbelief when it came out following the collapse of communism in 1992. Fukuyama argues how the West&#8217;s liberal capitalist democratic model of governance has become the epitome of human civilization. The West represents the final step in mankind&#8217;s political evolution. Fukuyama says that there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Thank IQ written by Daniel Goleman helped save western psychology. It broke away from the myopic view that intelligence is information based and added a needed layer of understanding about what it means to be human. His concept of Emotional Intelligence helps define people in a new way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BilLOGs Rating System</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some review systems use a 100 point system (like on Metacritic) or a grade point system, but nothing captures the simplicity and visual acuity as the five star system. The 100 point system is far too nit-picky. How does one justify why a book deserves a 74 instead of a 78. The grade point system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does the West have a more materialistic wealth than the rest of the world? Why did the West influence every continent and people on this planet instead of the other way around? In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist&#8217;s answer: Ecology, particularly geography, fauna, animal availability, and climate. Diamond almost seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: In Praise of Nepotism by Adam Bellow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Bellow states correctly that nepotism has been with human history since the beginning of our species. He states that biological nepotism is the basis of social cooperation and became the main tool that has allowed our species to thrive and colonize the planet. The biological drive to care for one&#8217;s relatives has evolved complex [...]]]></description>
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