Angeles is the second song of Enya presented in this music library. It is the 5th song on Enya’s 3rd album Shepherd Moons released in 1991. The following is paraphrased from Wikipedia: Although her music could be described as celtic…
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Alby Mangels – Beyond World Safari (Lynn Santer)
Today we take a walk off the beaten track in Wednesday’s book quotes to look at an authorised biography of the pioneer Australian adventurer Alby Mangels. The author Lynn Santer who I was in contact with in the early 2000s…
And It Stoned Me (1970) – Van Morrison
Van Morrison is an artist who’s music catalogue I wish I had delved more deeply into. I can’t remember how I first came across him, it may have been when I bopped to Brown Eyed Girl in some dirty dive…
Richmond Tigers win the AFL Premiership 2019 (Special Edition)
This post is to celebrate this weekend’s win of my beloved Richmond Tigers in the AFL premiership final. Australian Rules or Australian Football League (AFL) to be exact has a religious-like following in Melbourne. If I had a dollar for…
Tagged with: 2019 AFL grand final, melbourne, Richmond tigers
Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections, Sport and Adventure
Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections, Sport and Adventure
24/9 – 30/9/19 Astronomy, IT (Chapter 2) and Mercury 7 Pre-Launch Facilities
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Common Ground Poem by River Dixon at The Stories in Between: If you could see What I see In those moments when You’re most…
An Mhaighdean Mhara (The Mermaid) – Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
I cannot recollect how I found this song, nor had I even heard of the singer or could understand the lyrics. I imagine I stumbled across it on a wordpress blog and I hastily added it to my collection. It’s…
Running on Empty – Sidney Lumet (Friday’s Finest)
Running on Empty (1988) is another under the radar movie which I picked up for pittance here in Bogota. I hadn’t seen it since my youth, but I was very fond of it. So you can imagine my surprise when…
Amores como el Nuestro (‘Loves’ like Our One) – Jerry Rivera
Amores como el Nuestro is one of Latin America’s most emblematic love songs in Salsa. It is the second latino song to make an appearance in my music library project. The first was Marcela Gandara & Zaira Johnson’s Adorandote. In 2017,…
Humanity and Seriousness – Oscar Wilde
The following dialogue adds another fascinating insight to Lord Henry’s character in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The last time, we explored Henry’s pleasure of influencing and misleading people. This week we broaden our image of Henry by…
Tagged with: Humanity and Seriousnes, Lord henry, oscar wilde, the picture of Dorian Gray
Posted in Reading, Science
Posted in Reading, Science
Amanda (1973) – Don Williams
My old man was a grand admirer of the American country singer Don Williams. We listened to his records a lot when I was growing up. I could understand years later why he liked him so. He perfected a smooth…
