Tabaco and Chanel inaugurates all songs (approximately 200) starting with ‘T’ in the alphabetical listing of the music library project. I don’t know how the smell of tobacco conjures sweet romantic memories of the smell of someone’s skin, but it…
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Dune (2021) – Denis Villeneuve (Friday’s Finest)
I haven’t been as floored or thoroughly transported by a Science Fiction / Fantasy film series since George Lucas’ Star Wars and Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings. You could even say the Dune films are a mixture between the aforementioned…
Tagged with: Denis Villeneuve, dune, Frank Herbert, lord of the rings, Star Wars, Timothée Chalamet
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
It Ain’t Me Babe (1964) – Bob Dylan
I like this photo of Bob. You know that standard Elizabethan image of Shakespeare we all see (with the large lace collar which encircles his neck – called a ‘ruff’), well I could imagine something like the above being the…
Tagged with: a complete unknown, Another Side of Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, It Ain't Me Babe, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, june carter
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
It’s In The Rain (2005) – Enya
Please excuse my recent hiatus from WordPress, but I went on an impromptu vacation for four days with my daughter Katherine Rose to Melgar, Tolima – jungle country, not too far from here – Bogotá, Colombia. Oh and also forgive…
Tagged with: Amarantine, enya, it's in the rain, katherine, melgar, Piscilago, tolima
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
The Book Thief (2013) – Brian Percival (Friday’s Finest)
The Book Thief is a rare kind of film for its day. It gleams like the sun, glistens like rays on the surface of water – for here is a dark tale that lights up the very soul. The Book…
Tagged with: Brian Percival, geoffrey Rush, Marie-Sophie Nélisse, the book thief
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
[Nothing But] Flowers (1988) – Talking Heads
My friend Nancy over at The Elephant’s Trunk postscripted her January 10th article: ‘By The Side Of The Road‘ with today’s featured song [Nothing But] Flowers by Talking Heads: I don’t know whose idea it was and I don’t care but having Dunkin…
Tagged with: David Byrne, Johnny Mar, naked, talking heads, the smiths, [Nothing But] Flowers
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Piano Concerto No. 10 (Concerto For Two Pianos), K. 365; 3rd Movement (1779) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I let this jubilant and playful finale play in the background this morning as I tended to a few things and I couldn’t help feel more buoyant and lightness. I first heard it as a teenager in the Amadeus movie…
Tagged with: 3rd Movement, Concerto For Two Pianos, K. 365, Piano Concerto No. 10, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Posted in Music
Sympathy For the Devil (1968) – The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones received serious heat with Sympathy for the Devil. They were accused by many of it being devil worship. Yet, the point of the song is clearly more about the flaws in mankind as it documents events through…
6/1/25 – 12/1/25 – 85, Religion & Lynyrd Skynyrd
Welcome to my first Monday’s News on the March for 2025 – The week that was in my digital world. 85Reflection post at Britta’s Blog – Letters From Scotland My family ancestry partly traces back to Scotland, which has always…
Tagged with: 85, Alex O’Connor, allman brothers, ben Shapiro, Britta’s Blog – Letters from Scotland, Lynyrd Skynyrd, religion, scotland, southern rock, southern rock.
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Posted in Movies and TV, Music, News, Reflections
O Mio Babbino Caro (1918) – Giacomo Puccini (Ft. Maria Callas)
O Mio Babbino Caro (“Oh my dear Papa”) is a soprano aria from the opera Gianni Schicchi (1918) by Giacomo Puccini (image left) to a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. ‘It is sung by Lauretta after tensions between her father Schicchi…
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