I normally reserve my movie reviews for Friday’s-Finest, but I hastily brought this one forward since I just saw Monos at the cinema and it has been selected as the Colombian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the…
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Dogville (2003) – Lars Von Trier (Friday’s Finest)
This nearly 3 hour film which is set entirely on a sound stage and filmed like an intimate theatrical production would test just about anyone’s patience. I’m not going to lie. I bought the DVD brand new for about the…
Ain’t No Cure For Love (1988) – Leonard Cohen
I would class Ain’t No Cure for Love as a top tier Leonard Cohen song. Unlike the first song of his presented from the library, the restrained and melancholic A Thousand Kisses Deep, I would highly recommend anyone unfamiliar with Leonard’s…
Take a Walk with James Joyce Along the Beach
Today in Wednesday’s book quote, we revisit A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. If you remember in our previous encounter A morning inspiration we examined Joyce’s exceptional discourse about the spirit and unfettered freedom…
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Agnus Dei – Michael W Smith
Agnus Dei is a Christian theological concept of the Lamb of God and the associated liturgical text from the Roman Catholic Latin Mass. You’ll recall in a recent post about Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings where Barber used Agnus Dei…
20/8 – 26/8/19 Manson/Epstein, Tarantino, Springsteen & Humanity’s Future
Welcome back to Monday’s News on the March – ‘The week that was in my digital world’. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties…Tom O’Neill WordPress article from Badfinger at PowerPop: Manson must have had…
Afterglow (2006) – INXS
INXS were an Australian rock band fronted by the dynamic lead singer and main lyricist Mitchael Hutchence. They achieved international success from the mid to late 80s and early 90s with records like Listen Like Thieves, Kick and X selling…
Paris, Texas (1984) – Wim Wenders (Friday’s Finest)
Paris, Texas was one of the first indie movies I got addicted to watching….. although it kinda ripped my guts out. This film is an early warning to us all of how life can easily overwhelm without us realising it.…
Affirmation – Savage Garden (1999)
Affirmation is a song soaked with virtue signalling and moral exhibitionism, but to give credit where its due it was released long before these phrases became part of the popular vernacular. This Australian song by the pop duo Savage Garden…
‘Taking Pleasure of Influencing and Misleading’- Revisiting Oscar Wilde’s Only Novel
For today’s ‘Wednesday book quote’ we revisit Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. This section examines further the mindset and personality of Lord Henry whose brash and provocative monologue Youth is the one thing worth having was discussed previously.…
