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Crystal (1983) – Elton John

This is the 4th song by Elton John to appear in this Music Library Project and the second song to feature from his 1983 record Two Low For Zero which is my favourite John 80’s record. What entails the ‘Music…

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12/6/21 – 18/6/21 1st Mass Extinction, Vaccine Origins, Intelligence & Fitness Blender

Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. The First Mass Extinction – How Bad Was the great Oxidation Event?Video presentation by History of the Earth My early mornings after breakfast are…

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Cry Like a Baby (1999)- Kasey Chambers

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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´We wont expect you to do Calculus’ – Black Self Making – Glenn Loury

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