Today’s Wednesday literature excerpt continues with Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules For Life book. For more information about the book and references to Jordan in my blog, you can read the first extract from his book here. In today’s piece Jordan…
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Rescuing the Damned (Notes from Underground) – Jordan Peterson
Tagged with: 12 rules for life, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jordan Peterson, notes from underground
Posted in Reading
Posted in Reading
Fugitive (2009) – David Gray
Fugitive released in 2009, is the third song to appear here from British singer-songwriter David Gray. I was introduced to his music by a friend on a road trip to Hanging Rock in Victoria, Australia – not long before I…
7/03/22 – 13/03/22 Maajid Nawaz (Chinese-Rule), 14 Peaks (Nimsdai Purja) & Jimmy Carr.
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. #1780 – Maajid Nawaz (The Joe Rogan Experience) 19 FebVideo podcast at The Joe Rogan Experience Maajid Nawaz is a former Islamist turned counter-extremism…
Tagged with: comedy, Jimmy Carr, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Maajid Nawaz, Mountaineering, Nims Purja
Posted in Movies and TV, News, politics, Sport and Adventure
Posted in Movies and TV, News, politics, Sport and Adventure
Free Fallin’ (1989) – Tom Petty
Who can forget when Jerry Maguire thought he’d secured the NFL’s biggest signing and he’s searching a channel with music matching his elation and he stumbles on today’s track by Tom Petty Free Fallin‘. See the scene here. I had…
Piano Concerto In E Flat, K. 482; 3rd Movement (1785) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart completed the Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major on December 16, 1785 as he was approaching the height of his popularity in Vienna. Almost simultaneously, he had been working on the score to The Marriage of Figaro. This…
For You (1988) – John Denver
I grew up on John Denver music since my parents owned some of his records and this was one of his later songs I was enamoured with. Denver wrote this for his Australian wife Cassandra Delaney who he met in…
Special Edition – News on the March (Ukraine – Stephen Kotkin)
I wanted to relay this unforgettable, but hugely educative interview on the Ukraine conflict and Russian history. This interview with Stephen Kotkin is one of the most impressive interviews about relations between the ‘Western World and Russia’ in this fragile…
For All You’ve Done (2004) – Hillsong
This is the second song to appear here and title track from Hillsong’s record For All You’ve Done. You can find more information about the record in the article Evermore which came out Jan 6 this year. This evangelical Christian…
Foot of Pride (1992) – Lou Reed
This is one of the very few cover versions of a Bob Dylan song which I think superseded the original and I don’t say that lightly. Lou Reed sung this at Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary concert in 1993 and I…
Tagged with: 30th Anniversary celebration, Bob Dylan, Foot of Pride, Lou Reed, Shot of Love
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Foolish Games (1995) – Jewel
I would have liked a dollar every time I heard this song when it came out and I’m still a big fan of it. I hardly know any of the rest of Jewel’s discography, but this one always tugs at…
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