Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. How Do We Measure Language Fluency? Article at BBC – Future: There are many ways of categorising someone’s linguistic skills, but the concept of…
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17/9 – 23/9/19 Language Fluency, Maeve Brennan, and International Baseball
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Tokyo Story (1953) – Yasujirô Ozu (Friday’s Finest)
There are few other movies whose legacy to the history of cinema are as substantial as Tokyo Story. It tells the simple story of an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children. All of their children…
Alone (1987) – Heart
I could get hauled over the coals for having this song in my music library. To even admit that I might have even once liked it could put me into the ‘Did he really like that? – Oh Lordy’ box.…
A Lady of Little Faith – The Brothers Karamazov
In today’s Wednesday book quote we revisit Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. In our previous encounter we delved into the subject of wickedness and how Dostoevsky makes his villains as strong, attractive and intelligent as he possibly can. The villain on…
All of Me (2013) – John Legend
“The overwhelming sensibility is one of optimism,” Legend told BBC News about Teigen’s influence on the album. “She’s definitely affected my songwriting.” – Songfacts.com I became familiar with John Legend from La La Land. He wrote and performed that show-stopper…
10/9 – 16/9/19 Simulation Trilemma, Stand By Me, PTA and Cain and Abel
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Joe Rogan Experience #1350 – Nick Bostrom Podcast at PowerfulJRE: For a few years I have been watching Nick Bostrom discuss his Simulation Argument.…
All I Really Want To Do – Bob Dylan
‘I ain’t lookin’ to compete with you Beat or cheat or mistreat you Simplify you, classify you Deny, defy or crucify you All I really want to do Is, baby, be friends with you’ Warning this post includes a potentially…
Once (2007) – John Carney (Friday’s Finest)
Once is an Irish romantic drama that had a very modest budget (and ‘approach’ if I might add) and found Oscars success at the 2008 awards season. I have great affection for this movie not only because I had just…
All I Have To Do is Dream – Everly Brothers
The next song in the music library project is The Everly Brothers’ All I Have To Do is Dream. I am reblogging Badfinger’s powerpop article about it (click on image below or go directly to the song at the end…
