Daily Archives: March 14, 2012

Billy Idol & the Coral Castle- Testaments to Young Love

Many thirty- somethings will remember Billy Idol’s “Sweet Sixteen.”  A mild acoustic-tamed Billy Idol sings about the loss of a love with his typical sexy sneer. Few of us realize there is a real story behind the Video. The beginning … Continue reading

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Bluebeard: Fairy-tale or Horror?

The Parisian Charles Perrault helped to establish the modern day fairy tale. His novel “Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times with Morals,” was written in 1697. Rather than the clean aseptic fairy-tales we have today, his stories read like … Continue reading

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