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http://t.co/TZ8QXHUVXC The Plot to Save Socrates is "challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly
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What do 1 woman with different three names & a female android with no name have in common? See Unburning Alexandria http://t.co/0Rxaqudr91
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Honored to have Twice Upon a Rhyme upon this page, twice. http://t.co/7IrD0WgCdQ
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Companies
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Fordham University
- New York, New York US
- Professor
1998
Status and Mood
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Paul Levinson Featured on Kindle Boards http://t.co/7oI69F2sYn
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Paul Levinson http://t.co/TZ8QXHUVXC The Plot to Save Socrates is "challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly
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Paul Levinson http://t.co/79q5BFIG0x "As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers" - NY Times
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Paul Levinson What do 1 woman with different three names & a female android with no name have in common? See Unburning Alexandria http://t.co/0Rxaqudr91
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Paul Levinson Honored to have Twice Upon a Rhyme upon this page, twice. http://t.co/7IrD0WgCdQ
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Latest Blog Entries
- May 20, 2012 8:24 PM The Beach Boys in White Plains
- Dec 24, 2010 6:06 AM The Social Network - Some Thoughts about the Movie
- Feb 6, 2010 10:01 PM Lost Finale Season: Review and Analysis for Double Premiere
- Dec 28, 2009 6:02 AM Avatar in Science Fiction Perspective
- Nov 24, 2009 8:02 AM Twice Upon a Rhyme in Rockit Scientist Records NYC and Rockaway Records LA
Schools
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New York University
- New York, NEW YORK
- Graduated: 1979
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Ph.D.
- Major: Media Ecology
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New School University
- New York, NEW YORK
- Graduated: 1976
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Master's Degree
- Major: Media Studies
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New York University
- New York, NEW YORK
- Graduated: 1975
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree
- Major: Journalism
1974 to 1975 -
Cuny City College
- New York, NEW YORK
- Graduated: N/A
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: None
- Major: Psychology/Sociology
1963 to 1966
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- Barack Obama
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- Sierra Waters
- Robert Sawyer
- Lance Strate
- Sylvia Engdahl
- Obama Girl
- Truth On Earth
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- John Krondes
- Robert Blechman
- andrew
- ROCKIT SCIENTIST RECORDS
- I Monster
- James Harris II
- IDRIS
- Amber Dawn Loranger
- Debbie Ramsey
- Sarah Beth Durst
- Ebony Moore
- James Harris
- emonome
- Chronic Rift
- Scott Sandridge
- Scott C. Brown
- Sophia (The Gypsy Poet.…
- Mischa "The Eyes" Summer
- Sarah Marian
- Kara
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About me:
Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City. His eight nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), and New New Media (2009; 2nd edition, 2012) have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into ten languages. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (1999, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel), Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003), and The Plot To Save Socrates (2006). His short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards. Paul Levinson appears on "The O'Reilly Factor" (Fox News), "The CBS Evening News," "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" (PBS), "Nightline" (ABC), Dylan Ratigan (MSNBC) and numerous national and international TV and radio programs. His 1972 LP, Twice Upon a Rhyme, was re-issued on mini-CD by Big Pink Records in 2009, and was re-issued in a vinyl remastered re-pressing by Sound of Salvation/Whiplash Records in December 2010. He reviews the best of television in his InfiniteRegress.tv blog, writes political commentary for Mediaite, and was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Top 10 Academic Twitterers" in 2009.Who I'd like to meet:
anyone interested in science fiction, making movies from novels and short stories, 1960s music (actually, any kind of music), songwriting (I usually write lyrics, sometimes both lyrics and music), social media, record producing, selling music from the 1960s and 70s, philosophy, space travel, Cape CodInterests
General
science fiction (writing and reading, TV and movies), songwriting, singing harmony, publishing, gardening, long walks on shores and city streets and forest paths, nature, butterflies, good food (especially seafood, but cherry pie and concord grapes are way up there, too), Cape Cod, Pennsylvania Amish, traveling by trains (driving and flying have their advantages, but I love trains), the First Amendment, freedom of speech and press, prehistoric and ancient history, voyages to the New World before Columbus, space travel, time travel, travelling to London, philosophy, logical paradoxes, Impressionism (painting, music, poetry), art nouveau, art deco, evolution, family
I'm a Progressive Libertarian...
Kindle Editions of most of my short stories, novels, and nonficton
Music
Reviews of Twice Upon a Rhyme on Rate My Music, with reviews like this, "a cool LP, and definitely addictive, 'relics of summer psychedelics, an ever dwindling splinter, browse around, while the world dies down, ' think lush green osmosis into a hazy glen campfire as the night flashes on the glimmering trees and warm air. butterflies and summer loves and long walks on dirt roads". Listen to some of the music here, on my MySpace music page
my favorites and influences:
Beatles, Stones, Motown, Beachboys, Lovin' Spoonful, Moody Blues, Eagles, BeeGees, The Who, The Guess Who, The Wonder Who, Kinks, Seekers, Manfred Mann, 1950s doo-wap, Kingston Trio, Highwaymen, Debussy, Dvorak, Benny Goodman, Grieg, Dylan, Phil Ochs, Simon and Garfunkel, Donovan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, The Left Banke (Pretty Ballerina), Tom Lehrer, Rogers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Louis Prima, Sinatra, Springsteen, Dave Brubeck, Mr. Scruff, Crispian St. Peter, Roger Miller, Henry Gross, Todd Rundgren, ABBA, Desmond Dekker, Shaggy, Bob Seger, Dire Straits, U2, ZZ Top, Blondie, Doors (mainly LA Woman), Roy Orbison, Elvis (Don't, Return to Sender, Viva Las Vegas), Electric Light Orchestra, Starland Vocal Band, K. C. and the Sunshine Band, REM, Super Tramp, Foreigner, Soft Cell, Impressions, Lou Rawls, Sam Cooke, Phil Collins, Sheryl Crow, Hootie and the Blowfish, Eddie and the Cruisers, Katrina and the Waves, Chrissy Hind and the Pretenders, Bruce Hornsby and the Range, Driveshaft, Weird Al Yankovic, The Travelin' Wilburys, The New Outlook (aka The Other Voices), Haddaway, Thom Yorke, Coldplay, James Blunt, Dido, Gnarls Barkley, Sixpence None the Richer, Natalie Merchant, Natalie Imbruglia, Amy Winehousebest new artists I've played on Light On Light Through - here are their pages on MySpace: Ebony Moore and James Harris and Truth on Earth
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James Harris covers
my "Looking for Sunsets (in the Early Morning)"best hip-hop soul by a world-class actor that I've come across on MySpace: Idris - as in, Idris Elba, aka Stringer Bell from The Wire - check it
current favorite worst commercial jingle: "Fitness Made Simple" (for John Basedow, the new Chuck Norris), runner-up: "Campbell's Tomato Soup Possibilities" (from a few years ago - may be the most grating voice in human history)
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special, eternal mention: Joan Baez singing Bob Dylan's With God On Our Side...Movies
all-time favorites: The Usual Suspects, 12 Monkeys, Godfather trilogy, Reservoir Dogs, Star Wars (all 6), Gone with the Wind, The Big Easy, Tombstone, Witness, Blade Runner, Total Recall, The Philadelphia Experiment, The Bodyguard, True Romance, Blue Velvet, Being John Malkovich, Moulin Rouge, Memento, Back to the Future trilogy, Gattaca, Frequency, Lord of the Rings trilogy, first 3 James Bonds, most Hitchcock, Trancers series!
recent favorites seen in the past few years: Girl in the Cafe, Fall, In Bruges, The Aristocrats, Deja Vu
favorite movies about music: The Benny Goodman Story, Eddie and the Cruisers, Delovely, OnceTelevision
current - Dexter, Criminal Minds, Friday Night Lights, Bones, House, Heroes, Mad Men, NCIS, Californication, In Treatment, Big Love, Curb Your Enthusiasm [see my reviews of those shows at Infinite Regress TV]..
recent: The Sopranos, The Wire, 24, Lost, Alias, Da Ali G Show
upcoming: The Genesis Virus ... time travel, as you've never seen it before...
classic: Howdy Doody Show, Captain Video and His Video Rangers, Dragnet, Rawhide, Have Gun Will Travel, What's My Line?, Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Star Trek, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Coronet Blue, The Starlost, All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Invaders, The Fugitive, The Prisoner, Roots, Dallas, V, I Claudius, Poldark, Miami Vice, Quantum Leap, Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, MacGyver, Unsolved Mysteries, Star Trek: The Next Generation, LA Law, Seinfeld, Six Feet Under, NYPD Blue, Ken Burns' Civil War, Jazz, and Baseball PBS documentaries, just about any rock 'n' roll or folk concert on PBS
subscribe to my free 4-minute podcast review of great current television shows on your cell phone... 415 223 4124
Books
The Foundation and robot (especially The Naked Sun) series (both of them, Asimov), The End of Eternity (Asimov), The Door Into Summer (Heinlein), Dune & Dune Messiah (Herbert), The Fermata (Baker), Time and Again (Finney), The Illustrated Man (Bradbury), The Trial of Socrates (Stone), Understanding Media and The Gutenberg Galaxy (McLuhan), Freedom of Speech in the United States (Tedford), Escape from Freedom (Fromm), The Open Society and its Enemies and Objective Knowledge (Popper), Plagues and Peoples and The Pursuit of Power (McNeill), Viking America (Enterline), The Gnostic Gospels (Pagels), Hitchcock (Truffaut), Red Moon (Michaels), Encyclopaedia Britannica (1954 edition), Phaedrus (Plato), Medical Detectives (Roueche), Harry Potter (all of 'em, Rowling)favorite short story: "Flowers for Algernon" (Daniel Keyes)
favorite "golden age" science fiction authors: Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Bester, Blish, Dick, Bradbury
favorite poems: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (Thomas Gray, 1751), "To an Athlete Dying Young" (A. E. Housman, 1922)
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Heroes
Thomas Jefferson, Learned Hand, Louis Brandeis, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Hero of Alexandria, Hypatia, Coleridge, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Orson Welles, R. Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan, Julian Jaynes, Karl Popper, Bertrand Russell, Andy Kaufman, Stephen Wright, George Carlin, Chris Rock, Jim Bouton, Ellie Greenwich, Carl Sagan, Sylvia Engdahl, I. F. Stone, James Wechsler, Eugene McCarthy, John Lindsay, John F. Kennedy...
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Details
- Status: Married
- Hometown: New York City
- Orientation: Straight
- Body type: 5' 8" / Average
- Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
- Religion: Jewish
- Zodiac Sign: Aries
- Children: Proud parent
- Education: Post grad
- Occupation: Professor, Author, Media Commentator
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- WAKE UP - STOP CHILD AB…2 months ago
Happy Birthday!
May everything you wish for come true!
Ralph and the Wake Up team - David Burnham4 months ago
Episode 19 of the radio theatre style sci fi podcast Ad Astral is out now. Called Starglow it follows the fortunes of a band seemingly coming to the end of their career, but something happens to their lead singer which revitilises their music and sets them on a planet-hopping adventure. Check it out at http://www.AdAstralPodcast.com
- Anthony B. Fellows5 months ago
Paul, hello. It's been a while. I hope this finds you well.
- Christian Lamitschka9 months ago
Are you on Twitter? Yes! Than please add me ( https://twitter.com/Lamitschka ) to your Twitter buddy list, so I can keep you up to date when I publish News at Country Music News International ( www.CountryMusicNewsInternational.blogspot.com ). By the way, everybody who add me to his buddy list have the chance to win. So please inform your friends about it. For more information and what you can win follow link: http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/02/ein-jahr-country-music-news.html Warm regards Christian Lamitschka
- WAKE UP - STOP CHILD AB…1 year ago
Dear Paul,
Happy birthday!
Hope your day is filled with lots of fun 'n' joy!
Ralph and the Wake Up team
- James O'Toole1 year ago
Like the new Deathlance Trilogy page on facebook to stay updated on news:
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And follow @Deathlance_x3 on twitter! - Christian Lamitschka1 year ago
Here's your country music news of the day:
Interview with George Foxman from Free Bears http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/interview-with-george-foxman-from-free.html
Interview with The Skunnered http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/interview-with-skunnered.html
Interview with Reg Keyworth http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/interview-with-reg-keyworth.html
Interview with Darin Warner http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/interview-with-darin-warner.html
Interview with Jesse Bryant http://www.countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/interview-with-jesse-bryant.html
Interview with Jeremy Steding http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/interview-with-jeremy-steding.html
Interview with Curtis Lyn Cook http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/interview-with-curtis-lyn-cook.html
Oak Ridge Boys to receive 2012 SGMA James D. Vaughan Impact Award http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/oak-ridge-boys-to-receive-2012-sgma.html
WYNONNA KICKS UP THE VOLUME ON THE “NEW” IN THE NEW YEAR… http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/wynonna-kicks-up-volume-on-new-in-new.html
CRAIG CAMPBELL TAPPED “IN HOUSE” SERIES http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/craig-campbell-tapped-in-house-series.html
COLES WHALEN ANNOUNCES NEW RECORD AND TOUR http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/coles-whalen-announces-new-record-and.html
GARTH BROOKS THE WINNER http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/garth-brooks-winner.html
BELLAMY BROTHERS VIDEO IN FLORIDA EVERGLADES http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/bellamy-brothers-video-in-florida.html
CRAIG MORGAN ON CMT’S SOUTHERN FRIED FLICKS http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/craig-morgan-on-cmts-southern-fried.html
LEE BRICE GARNERS ACM NOMINATION FOR SONG OF THE YEAR http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/lee-brice-garners-acm-nomination-for.html
Michael Martin Murphey Hits #1 http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/michael-martin-murphey-hits-1.html
Montgomery Gentry ACM Nomination http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/montgomery-gentry-acm-nomination.html
ERIC CHURCH GARNERS ACM NOMINATIONS FOR ALBUM OF THE YEAR AND VIDEO OF THE YEAR http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/eric-church-garners-acm-nominations-for.html
Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out Hit #1 on Bluegrass http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/russell-moore-iiird-tyme-out-hit-1-on.html
THE BAND PERRY AND BLAKE SHELTON FOR A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE ON THE 54TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/band-perry-and-blake-shelton-for.html
Steel Guitar News January 25th 2012 http://countrymusicnewsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/steel-guitar-news-january-25th-2012.html
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COORS LIGHT in a Fantasy TV Show????
Hi Paul, the Season Premiere of Spellfury Season 2 is done!!!
Check out medieval characters drinking Coors Light with our new product placement in the free episode:
http://blip.tv/spellfury/spellfury-season-2-episode-1-5219120
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/SPELLFURY/43562464005 - Michael Book2 years ago
Happy Birthday