http://silenciobarnes.com Poet, Musician and Writer for Hire Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:39:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Poet, Musician and Writer for Hire SilencioBarnes.com no Rasheen Armstrong - All Rights Reserved Poet, Musician and Writer for Hire http://silenciobarnes.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://silenciobarnes.com/category/writing/blogging/ http://silenciobarnes.com/silenciobarnes-com/my-plan-for-the-new-year-2012-cleaning-out-my-closet-not-a-resolution-but-a-promise-all-the-same/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-plan-for-the-new-year-2012-cleaning-out-my-closet-not-a-resolution-but-a-promise-all-the-same http://silenciobarnes.com/silenciobarnes-com/my-plan-for-the-new-year-2012-cleaning-out-my-closet-not-a-resolution-but-a-promise-all-the-same/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:14:13 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=2407 Well…it’s a new year…again. And as usual, I must begin with apologizing for not posting anything for a while. Just had my first kid on December 16th and all the time leading up to it and all the time since, I’ve been trying to make money and do right, for the most part. Well, you [...]

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]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/writing/nanowrimo-2011-info-calendars-word-count-trackers/feed/ 0 http://silenciobarnes.com/writing/blogging/where-does-the-name-silenciobarnes-come-from/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-does-the-name-silenciobarnes-come-from http://silenciobarnes.com/writing/blogging/where-does-the-name-silenciobarnes-come-from/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:50:44 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=2311 I’m often asked where does the name SilencioBarnes come from and I always wanted to write a post that I could direct people who want a full explanation to (is that pretentious?) - Anywho, it’s no big mystery. However, to understand the name you must understand a coupla things first: What’s In a Name? Really? [...]

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/writing/blogging/where-does-the-name-silenciobarnes-come-from/feed/ 0 http://silenciobarnes.com/writing/writing-about-the-ocean/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=writing-about-the-ocean http://silenciobarnes.com/writing/writing-about-the-ocean/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:22:46 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=2302 Recently, I've been trying to write poetry about the ocean for possible submission to Ocean Magazine. It's turning out to be something of a journey for me. Read my thoughts on the matter after the jump :) (meaning click the damn link to read more!)

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/writing/writing-about-the-ocean/feed/ 2 http://silenciobarnes.com/random-thoughts/abortion-why-is-it-such-a-big-deal-pro-choice-pro-life-but-what-about-pro-freedom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=abortion-why-is-it-such-a-big-deal-pro-choice-pro-life-but-what-about-pro-freedom http://silenciobarnes.com/random-thoughts/abortion-why-is-it-such-a-big-deal-pro-choice-pro-life-but-what-about-pro-freedom/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:48:21 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=1432 Update 05/29/2010 – Here is a blog post on mincing the term “pro-life” – it’s written by Joshua Holland and touches on one of the subjects that I write about here. I link to it here because he puts it much better than I can :P Abortion, Why is it Such a Big Deal? Abortion. [...]

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/random-thoughts/abortion-why-is-it-such-a-big-deal-pro-choice-pro-life-but-what-about-pro-freedom/feed/ 28 http://silenciobarnes.com/random-thoughts/on-thought-and-nothingness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-thought-and-nothingness http://silenciobarnes.com/random-thoughts/on-thought-and-nothingness/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:40:51 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=1340 On Thoughts and Nothingness or, It is What it is It is What it Is Life is full of contradiction and inconsistency. But life is just life; it’s the human mind and the collective conscious that adds so much complexity to something that is so simple. Consider this: We live and we die. That’s it. [...]

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/random-thoughts/on-thought-and-nothingness/feed/ 2 http://silenciobarnes.com/random-thoughts/what-is-freedom-and-why-dont-we-have-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-is-freedom-and-why-dont-we-have-it http://silenciobarnes.com/random-thoughts/what-is-freedom-and-why-dont-we-have-it/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:32:50 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=1298 The Problem With the Idea of Freedom in the U.S. The problem with freedom – the idea of freedom – is that no one wants it. That is to say, no one wants to put in the work necessary to achieve it. The sort of concerted effort needed may be currently beyond our reach. We [...]

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/random-thoughts/what-is-freedom-and-why-dont-we-have-it/feed/ 6 http://silenciobarnes.com/music/mixing-and-mastering-my-sound/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mixing-and-mastering-my-sound http://silenciobarnes.com/music/mixing-and-mastering-my-sound/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:03:08 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=1259 The sound of my recordings have been a major problem for me for a while. I record my audio in my room, not a studio. I try to mix it to the best of my abilities, which are, admittedly, non-existent in this area. I suffer from a deaf ear to musical nuance as well as [...]

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/music/mixing-and-mastering-my-sound/feed/ 4 http://silenciobarnes.com/writing/blog-post-ideas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blog-post-ideas http://silenciobarnes.com/writing/blog-post-ideas/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:05:46 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=1221 I’m always looking for ideas and inspiration A couple of days ago I tweeted a seemingly asinine request for ideas for blog posts. Well, I got quite a few of them and I think I’m gonna actually use them…all of them. Not immediately, but more as challenges to myself to see what I can come [...]

]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/writing/blog-post-ideas/feed/ 2 http://silenciobarnes.com/silenciobarnes-com/december-2009-plans/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=december-2009-plans http://silenciobarnes.com/silenciobarnes-com/december-2009-plans/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:46:52 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/?p=1165 Now that NaNoWriMo 2009 is over and done with, I can return to some of the things I left hanging. Most importantly, my Eternal Figments of Reality poetry project. Also, there are a few other things I’d like to get through between now and over the course of December. So, here’s the itinerary for December. [...]

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]]> http://silenciobarnes.com/random-thoughts/asking-for-help/feed/ 3 http://silenciobarnes.com/music/rap-music-is-it-music/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rap-music-is-it-music http://silenciobarnes.com/music/rap-music-is-it-music/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:57:00 +0000 SilencioBarnes http://silenciobarnes.com/12/31/2007/rap-music-is-it-music/ Rap Music The question constantly comes up: Can you consider rap music as “real music”? The silliness of this question borders almost on straight absurdity. Of course it’s real music. Not only by straight definition (which, according to Dictionary.com’s unabridged dictionary is “an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant [...]

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