A city without problemswithout memorieswithout deathwithout painBut there’s always someone who is a troublemaker This week’s featured movie The Bothersome Man (Norwegian: Den brysomme mannen) like last week’s Vivarium find the protagonists trapped in dystopian worlds where they attempt to escape.…
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San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) – Scott McKenzie
San Francisco is the quintessential zeitgeist song for the Summer of Love movement in the 1960’s. It is so palpable upon listen you can almost smell the ‘flowers in their hair’. The song emerged in 1967, written by John Phillips…
5 Year Anniversary Edition of the Music Library Project
On July 25th, 2019 – 5 years ago to this day, I began my initiative called the Music Library Project. I wrote on that day the following: This project is literally all my life in the making; in the sense…
Samson (2001) – Regina Spektor
Samson is an enchanting indie ballad by the American singer-songwriter Regina Spektor. It was recorded in just one take on Christmas Day, 2001. Although Samson was never released as a single it is considered one of Spektor’s greatest songs. It…
Samson In New Orleans (2014) – Leonard Cohen
Samson In New Orleans is the third song to be presented here so far from Leonard Cohen’s 2014 album Popular Problems. It stands as a poignant, elegiac piece, embodying both personal and collective grief and is peppered with arcane religious…
Sailing By (1995) – Sinéad Lohan
I have no idea how I learn’t of this song, but it’s a nice, warm and breezy tune for this rather frigid Saturday morning here in Bogota. Sailing By is a sweet dreamscape lullaby that resonates like whispers of the…
Vivarium (2019) – Lorcan Finnegan (Friday’s Finest)
Just yesterday my cinefile friend Bernie at Reely Bernie and I were discussing today’s featured movie Vivarium. Like him I only ‘quasi-liked’ it after first viewing, although the premise intrigued me and lingered somewhere in the recesses. Upon subsequent viewings…
Limón y Sal (2006) – Julieta Venegas
I love you with lemon and saltI love you just the way you areThere’s no need to change anything about youI love you whether you are coming or goingIf you’re up and down, and you’re notSure how you feel The…
Safety Haven (2003) – David Bridie
The shock of the new seeking asylumSafety haven some place with you Safety Haven appears a ‘mellower’ and more reflective sister-song to David Bridie’s audacious protest song Nation (Of the Heartless Kind). They refer to the plights of undocumented refugees…
Saddened Sick (2023) – Chief Springs
Almost a year ago I presented a sublime song from UK group Chief Springs called Elastic which remains one of my favourite tracks released last year. I was turned onto this group from my blogger friend Jeff at Eclectic Music…
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