Fellow Australian – Kasey who I have written about here before released a great song on her The Captain album. How I fell in love with Kasey’s music you’ll find at the I’m Not Pretty Enough post, but her success…
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The Phantom Thread (2017) – Paul Thomas Anderson (Friday’s Finest)
Daniel Day Lewis (DDL) chose this movie to be the one he would end his acting career on. This farewell entourage to one of the all time greatest actors left me salivating to see something else from him again; so…
Brokeback Mountain Theme Music (2005) – Gustavo Santaolalla
2 days ago in the quietness of the morning, I saw for the umpteenth time the 2005 movie Brokeback Mountain. I have written here before about this movie and how Daniel Day Lewis described Heath Ledger’s acting in it. There…
Tagged with: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain, Daniel Day Lewis, Gustavo Santaolalla, Heath Ledger
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Posted in Music
Crazy Birds (1993) – Not Drowning, Waving
Australian singer-songwriter David Bridie (co-founder of his first group Not Drowning, Waving) (NDW) has featured prominently in this Music Library Project, but this is the first song to appear here from NDW. What entails the ‘Music Library Project’?Formed in Melbourne…
Tagged with: Crazy Birds, David Bridie, My Friend the Chocolate Cake, Not Drowning Waving
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Posted in Music
Crash and Burn (1999) – Savage Garden
Crash and Burn is the second song from Australian duo Savage Garden to be featured in this Music Library Project. What entails the ‘Music Library Project’?It comes from their very successful 1999 album Affirmation, from which the title track featured…
High Anxiety (1977) – Mel Brooks (Friday’s Finest)
Last week I introduced my children to a movie which had a great impact on my appreciation of cinema growing up – Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. I made the grave error of showing them the High Anxiety parody of Psycho‘s famous…
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 Adagio Un Poco Mosso – Ludwig van Beethoven
There are few more delightful, but relaxing pieces of music invented in the history of humankind than this gem ‘from the Ludwig Van’. We were discussing in a recent post about how Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb can induce a drug-inducing…
‘The Future of War video’ and Political Grace (The art of disagreeing well)
Originally posted on Observation Blogger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTYgcdNrXE I think anyone who uses social media needs to see this video especially right up until the end because in a sense the future of war most definitely will involve each one of us.…
Coyote (1977) – Joni Mitchell
Today’s featured song Coyote is the fourth song to appear here from Joni Mitchell in this Music Library Project. What entails the ‘Music Library Project’?It is the opening song from Joni Mitchell’s 1976 album Hejira and also the album’s first…
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