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...quit bellyaching, and save the complaining for your actual deadline. But when you’re sitting in your cushy office, be sure to give me a ring—I will have just finished my magnum opus on the HMS Iron Duke. It will be mainly empirical...
...band members still seem shocked that they have succeeded in shifting their context from lucky punks to relevant, opus-making adults. Just contemplating the upcoming Grammys stuns them into silence. Eventually Armstrong admits, "I never thought I'd say this, but I'd really like to win Album of the Year. It would be meaningful to me, and without tooting my own horn, I kind of think we might even deserve it." He kind of might even be right...
...best stories already told, the urban poets of the 1990s became fake black mafiosi with legendary gangster surnames, telling fantasy crime tales that were ridiculous to anyone familiar with real ghetto street crime. The socially conscious lament began to disappear with Dr. Dre’s 1992 magnum opus, The Chronic. The music that Chuck D had called the “CNN of the hood” was replaced by a downwardly spiraling culture defined largely by fraudulent performance and outright glorification of ghetto nihilism in exchange for financial success...
...with [To The Stars] and starting to portray [its] characters and places was a synergy I’ve never experienced before.” He also mentioned that he enjoys much of Hubbard’s other fiction, including Mission Earth (Hubbard’s ten volume magnum opus), Battleship Earth and many of his adventure, mystery and western works...
...writing arrangements for his new album on the piano, he’s tuning his banjo or tapping a beat on the computer, an instrument he learned could be “really musical.” Evidence can be found on his electro-acoustic opus, “Enjoy Your Rabbit,” which he recorded while getting his masters in writing at the New School of Social Research in New York. And like most artists who live in Brooklyn, he practices freelance graphic design on the side...