Deric Hollings
A Spring of Hope
[DISCLAIMER] Considering political turmoil over the past couple weeks, and having written a number of blogposts related to issues which...
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Deric Hollings
Jun 154 min read
Innocente (Falling in Love)
[DISCLAIMER] In 2001, electronic dance music (EDM) duo Delerium released a track entitled “Innocente (Falling in Love)” that featured the...
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Deric Hollings
Jun 156 min read
Turn It Around
[DISCLAIMER] I can’t recall exactly when I first heard it or the precise version to which I was initially introduced, though at some...
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Deric Hollings
Jun 116 min read
Back to Life
[DISCLAIMER] When musical collective Soul II Soul released their album Club Classics Vol. One in 1989, I maintained some pretty wacky...
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Deric Hollings
May 276 min read
Confusion
[DISCLAIMER] Working as military police (MP) for my first year in Okinawa, Japan in 1997, I wrote many traffic citations, participated in...
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Deric Hollings
May 205 min read
Enjoy the Silence
[DISCLAIMER] When residing in a children’s home in 1991, I recall frequently hearing electronic dance music (EDM) group Depeche Mode’s...
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Deric Hollings
May 166 min read
King of My Castle
[DISCLAIMER] I find interesting the number of people who fantasize about belonging to a monarchal system of governance, referring to...
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Deric Hollings
May 86 min read
At What Point is it Just Getting High?
[DISCLAIMER] Years ago when collecting hours for clinical licensure, my supervisor wrote a blogpost on his site in reference to...
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Deric Hollings
May 49 min read
Turtles All the Way Down
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use In the film The Master of Disguise (2002), secret agent Pistachio absurdly believes that the Turtle...
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Deric Hollings
May 24 min read
Inside Out
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use When living in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, I used to enjoy watching people practice capoeira on...
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Deric Hollings
Apr 307 min read
Bulletproof
[DISCLAIMER] The year 2009 was a transitional period in my life, one in which I now consider the personal separating distinction between...
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Deric Hollings
Apr 215 min read
Sensation
[DISCLAIMER] How does one adequately describe the sensation of being at a live electronic dance music (EDM) event to a degree whereby the...
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Deric Hollings
Apr 184 min read
We Don't See Things the Same Way
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use In graduate school for counseling, students in my cohort were offered extra credit for attending a...
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Deric Hollings
Apr 186 min read
Homework
[DISCLAIMER] Fellow military police (MP) buddies “D” and “Tooth” introduced me to the music of Daft Punk when I was stationed in Okinawa,...
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Deric Hollings
Mar 245 min read
O Fortuna
[DISCLAIMER] I was on military leave, visiting friends and family members in Bomb City during the late ‘90s, when I first heard...
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Deric Hollings
Mar 234 min read
FLAT
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit, fair use In 1999, Mr. Oizo released the song “Flat Beat.” At the time, I appreciated the way its varied tones...
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Deric Hollings
Feb 254 min read
Doing the Work
[DISCLAIMER] Earlier, when listening to “Work” by ATFC and The Cube Guys, I was reminded of a meme attributed to therapy culture—the...
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Deric Hollings
Feb 185 min read
Dancing Through the Bullshit
[DISCLAIMER] To say that my time as a Marine Security Guard in Lima, Peru from August 2000 to March 2001 was challenging would be an...
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Deric Hollings
Jan 284 min read
What a Treet!
[DISCLAIMER] Although I was familiar with the genre of music broadly called “techno” when in high school, I didn’t fully appreciate what...
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Deric Hollings
Jan 57 min read
U Don't Know Me
[DISCLAIMER] Photo credit (edited), fair use Of all electronic dance music (EDM), I’m most fond of the house genre. Unlike many trance or...
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