This contains one of my all-time greatest comedic lines in Australian cinema history…Dad says to son Steve: ‘Oh Steve could you move the Camira, I need to get the Torana out so I can get to the Commodore‘. Steve –…
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Democracy (1992) – Leonard Cohen
Back when Cohen released Democracy I was just out of high school and learning to fly from the nest. If someone had asked me what Democracy was I may have scolded them for eating into my time trying to serenade…
Delia (1993) – Bob Dylan
This is the first song to appear here from Dylan’s 1993 traditional-folk record World Gone Wrong (WGW) and kicks off side two of the record. This album was a follow-up to his other acoustic guitar and harmonica record – Good…
Halloween (1978) – John Carpenter (Friday’s Finest)
Halloween has nearly been rebooted more times than Britney Spear’s articles have appeared on the BBC home page. From that, you get a sense of the horror theme which coarse through both franchises. Despite the numerous attempts to replicate or…
When You Realise the Western Media is corrupt and is Anti-US for the first time in your life.
I realised this when I read this article on abc news Australian website: The ABC news Australia article didn’t mention the US military killed in this bombing in its title. When has that ever happened with an ally or previously…
Deep River (1923) – Marian Anderson
This is the second song to appear here from the exquisite and rarest of female voices – Marian Anderson. So here I am listening to this song through shoddy laptop speakers. Can one imagine what it must have been like…
Wedding at the Marsh – D.H. Lawrence (The Rainbow 1915)
Today’s Wednesday Literature piece presents a second excerpt from D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow. Our first encounter with this book told about how Polish refugee, Lydia is tortured by her inability to register with her new English surrounds and her coming…
Cigarettes Will Kill You (1998) – Ben Lee
Today we backtrack a little bit in the music library project since I had forgotten to download the following song to my collection. What entails the ‘Music Library Project’?Ben Lee’s Cigarettes Will Kill You is one of my favourite Australian…
Dead Man Walkin’ (1996) – Bruce Springsteen
Today’s featured song is Bruce Springsteen’s title track for the movie Dead Man Walkin’. Executive producers, brothers Tim and David Robbins, personally solicited a number of their favorite musicians for contributions to the project whom included other than Bruce; Johnny…
Dead and Lovely (2004) – Tom Waits
Dead and Lovely is the fifth song presented here by Tom Waits. It comes from his 16th studio album Real Gone. It tells the story steeped in the Noir genre of a middle class girl lured into the underworld by…
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