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  This is another story I wanna share with you folks. This is my ode to my music teacher Sebastian Alfie. When I first met him at Cordley Elementary School, I first played the Casio musical keyboard when I was in the 1st or 2nd Grade. It was the first time I’ve ever  used the musical keyboard like the Casio. I really like it when I hear the drum set sounds, the funny sound effects, the electronic synthesizer sounds, and the chords along with the beats playing. That sounded totally audiophile-like! I’ll never forget the time Sebastian and I recorded music for a homemade movie I made about a missing clipboard with Matthew Rogers. I feel like the music I make is a lot more experimental in my spare time, followed by at least in a professional way if you’d ask me. But at least it sounded really good. The way I make movie scores of my own on cassette tape makes me think about how avant-garde the sounds and notes feel like when I'm recording all this stuff on audio. During the summer...

"May" There Be Plenty of Stories And Ideas [May Issue]   In the month of May, it's almost summertime. But first off, Memorial Day comes. Right now, I wanna talk about the next ideas for the month of May right here in Lawrence Kansas. Every May on the 27th-30th, there's a Busker Festival downtown. According to Downtown Lawrence's website, it says here that it's four-day street performer festival in the fun, funky and historic downtown of Lawrence, KS. Over 25 different acts are scheduled and lots of surprises on the streets. Best of all, its free to attend. Only you decide how much to tip the performers. At the Lawrence Busker Festival, things can get really weird every year. My future idea for attending the Busker Festival is to bring my Axtell puppet with me to the event and do a little segment.  If I had to pick one puppet to take with me, it would be either Buzzy the Bee or Rocky Fox. For example, if Buzzy wants to talk about music at the festival, he would...