Last night marked the first of the Phish Summer Tour's last pair of shows.  The band came back from a stormy midwest romp and took over Jones Beach, in NY, to culminate what has been one of the band's best summers ever! 

The music is fierce, tight and totally mixed up into all different types of things that are kind to the ear.  Mike, Trey, Fish and Page absolutely blew the doors off of the amphitheater on the water with a HUGE "Fluffhead" opener that took many by surprise!!  What a way to start off the last two shows and put the crescendo on what has been an extremely successful new album's, "Joy," being adopted by the rest of the vast repertoire of songs that they play. 

The band really has the new tunes in line (this is their second year playing these tunes live), raging on "Backwards Down the Number Line">"Prince Caspian" that came right in the middle of a nasty "Mikes>Simple/Groove" set.  The 2nd set was heroic and pretty much threw immense energy at the crowd who were left tired and spent after having danced hard through an amazing show! 

There will be an Impulsive Review of both of the Jones Beach shows tomorrow in the IMPULSIVE REVIEW section.  Stay tuned!

The new RJH novel has been given representation in The Subliminal Game section; it is a pure thriller. 

A new W2P Post is up featuring the title:  "South Park Shot At."  It deals with freedom of speech and violence resulting from writing.

Pics from the 2010 Beach house have landed here, as well as many an interesting plot, poem and opinion.  Keep reading all! 

Well the site has a fresh new face and there are more additions taking root.  The W2P section has just gotten underway to bring the philosoph into the current event conversations and the Impulsive Review Section has begun to tackle literature.  More quotes from the highly touted "Homeland Security..." and "the Game" novels are in the works as is the search for the perfect agent...

Summer is a blast:  full of work, work and good old fashioned work.  Stay tuned for more fun to come!

On July 15 this site had 476 page views...I'm just saying!  Thanks all!

RJH

Today is a day to look at the independence of a people and of the individual.  This great land, the United States of America, has provided this to so many and greatly helped the world.  Happy 4th of July!

Today marks the climax and end of one of the greatest television shows, events and tales...LOST.  Whether much of the mysterious details that have arisen since the shows inception have been just improvised flurry, by the shows writers, or intricate cogs in the mechanized finale remain to be seen, but regardless LOST has been an amazement.  There has never been anything like the mystery novel turned television and there never will be another.  The last six plus years have been the LOST era.  The many deep characters, the many pasts, presents and futures, the many allusions to life and philosophy (if you did not know the name of the dead John Locke (Locke was a philosopher) that was hidden and revealed as Jeremy Bentham, was the same as the philosoph who invented the Panoptical eye) and the overwhelming struggles of Love (from father to son, mother to daughter, husband to wife, shipwrecked button pusher to unachievable Penny).  Life was depicted in all of its ugliness, beauty and gray areas (to compliment the black and white normally depicted unrealistically).  My vote is for Desmond:  may he retain Penny and his child, and may love win out over all.  Though I will admit that I secretly hope the good Locke will come back from the dead to kick the Evil-body Locke's ass.  Eleven hours to go.  I'm not pushing the button.

I have done news media.  I must write on something that is currently lost in news media:

"A writer does not work for news media, news media works for the writer."

 - R.J. Huneke 5/19/10

This week the world lost one of its greatest artists, visionaries and persons in Frank Frazetta.  His art, from his interpretations of Conan to his comics and Hollywood paintings, is unlike any other and is cited by many throughout the world as being a huge influence.  Frank was a prodigy.  He transformed art.  He will be sorely missed.

- RIP Frank Frazetta (1928-2010)

Thinking critically makes life a bit difficult at times.  The individual responsibility of continuing to challenge oneself by abiding to this as an act of freedom and empathy is rarely easy, while getting others to adopt this open minded approach to living life (in an arguably less-violent world) is incredibly hard to accomplish.  The goal of fiction is to entertain, but it is also to teach (at the least in some theme or another), and fighting to use this medium in an educational manner will be my objective from this day forward.

RJH 5/7/10