When a friend in Melbourne introduced me to the music of David Gray, I was puzzled why I’d never heard of him before. It was music that struck me right off the bat which would explain why Please Forgive Me…
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The AnkiDroid Collection (Part 51) – Tenochtitlan, Nomenclature & Gehenna
Ankidroid additions related to Science, History and Philosophy. More information about Anki can be found in this article. Tenochtitlan Buried beneath what is now Mexico City, lie the ruins of the greatest city of the Aztec empire—Tenochtitlan (ten-och-tee-TLAN). In 1325,…
Planetarium from ‘La La Land’ (2016) – Justin Hurwitz
What I love most about this scene (and you could say the whole movie) is that you can’t really tell where reality ends and fantasy begins. The Planetarium scene from La La Land is one of my favourite scenes in…
22/1 – 28/1/24 – The Tao of Philosophy (Special Edition)
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Fall Asleep to Alan Watts Tao of PhilosophyAudio presentation at Soul of Life Alan Watts talks about meditation, silence, and other concepts of reality…
Piper To The End (2009) – Mark Knopfler
Anyone up for a bit of Celtic music? I know I am, especially if it is from the masterful guitarist and singer-songwriter Mark Knopfler. A lot of his solo music (post Straits) is unassuming and restrained, but I find it…
Blood in My Eyes (1993) – Bob Dylan
Blood in My Eyes is the second song to appear here from Dylan’s 1993 traditional-folk record World Gone Wrong (WGW) after the previous entry – Delia. This album was a follow-up to his other acoustic guitar and harmonica record –…
Tagged with: blood in My Eyes, Bob Dylan, I've Got Blood In My Eyes For You, Mississippi Sheiks, World Gone Wrong
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Pictures of You (1990) – The Cure
By 1989, Cure lead singer and songwriter Robert Smith was a bit weary of his band’s gradual movement toward the pop charts away from their moody early work. He felt he needed to create something lasting, a coherent album-length artistic…
Pictures at an Exhibition – Promenade (1874) – Modest Mussorgsky
In this piece (Promenade) Mussorgsky depicts himself “roving through the exhibition, now leisurely, now briskly in order to come close to a picture that had attracted his attention, and at times sadly, thinking of his departed friend. – Vladimir Stasov…
Tagged with: Modest Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition Promenade, Viktor Hartmann
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Baker Street (1978) – Gerry Rafferty
This song is one of the best pop singles of the 1970s. It was on the album City To City. This was Rafferty’s first release after the breakup of his former band Stealer’s Wheel. Rafferty had been unable to release any…
Doina: Sus Pe Culmea Dealului (Picnic at Hanging Rock Theme Music) – Gheorghe Zamfir
Before I left Australia to come to Colombia, I went to Hanging Rock in Victoria, Australia as a personal pilgrimage. Hanging Rock is an archetypal character in the movie. I felt great nostalgia wandering this ethereal and dreamy landscape. I can…
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