The Girl in the Scarf
Prog Rock Through One Woman's Lens
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Fantoons © I can’t think of many bands that have a coloring book, but my beloved Marillion are one of them! I first bought this off the band’s website. It was made by the wonderful artists at Fantoons Animation Studios. I first came to know about them through the artwork they produced for Rush, complete…
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Someone asked me last week what high school was like for me. I could only respond with one word: lonely. I mean, looking back, how could it not be? I was a teenage girl listening to prog rock while attending an all-girl’s Catholic high school in the 2010s. The photo above is of me at…
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Boring title, I know, but it was all I could come up with in the moment. I’ve been thinking about how quickly time has been getting away from me and now, all of a sudden, here I am, here we are, halfway through the decade. Time sure is like a bus that waits for no…
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I managed to lug a good chunk of records from my collection back with me to Omaha. They arrived safe and sound, though I can’t say the same for the suitcase I packed them in… The damage was actually a bit more extensive than what’s pictured here. Oh, well. Me and this suitcase had a…
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Gosh, where does time go? It feels like 2025 just got here, and now we’re in the home stretch. Either way, here I am this morning, fresh from Thanksgiving weekend, the first snow of the season sparkling outside my apartment window. I spent the holiday in the warmth and sunshine of SoCal. Stepping off the…
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I took a sick day last Thursday, so I missed my blog entry for then. But I’m back now, and wrapping up the last couple of days at work before I fly home to California for Thanksgiving. Having moved to Omaha in January, it’s been over ten months since I was last on California soil,…
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“‘Progressive rock wasn’t about being complicated for the sake of it. It was about creating worlds with music-big, beautiful, sometimes mad worlds where listeners could lose themselves completely for a while.” – Rick Wakeman I’ve had that quote favorited for some time and kept meaning to write something inspired by it, so here’s my chance.…
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I took the above photo way back in 2011, during an onstage tour of Joe Satriani’s stage gear. It was January 16, 2011, at the Orpheum Theatre in my hometown of Los Angeles. Even at the age of 14, I figured, “When else am I going to get to stand on the stage of my…
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The stats results I received in my email this morning regarding the visibility of this blog were abysmal to say the least. I know I’ve only been at this for a few months and that it takes time to build an audience but, still… ouch! Moving on from that introductory pity party, I picked up…
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Sometimes you go and see a band you haven’t listened to in a long time and, if you’re lucky, you come away being reminded of why you love said band in the first place. I experienced that Friday night, when I went to see the current incarnation of Yes, which consists of Jon Davison on…
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