This incredible song features Mexican christian singer Marcela Gandara. My music project houses lots of wonderful music from Marcela. I was enchanted with her music from first hearing. I remember when I was in a fragrance shop perhaps a decade…
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The Killer (2023) – David Fincher (Friday’s Finest)
Sucking the cool out of James Bond and injecting formaldehyde into deadpan, this steel rail of a movie wisely adds humor to its calculations, the Reznor/Ross combo score defibrillates when needed, and Tilda Swinton brings the ice. Although I’m not…
Penguin (2011) – Christina Perri
When a male penguin falls in love with a female penguin he will search the entire beach to find a pebble to present to her and when he finally finds it he places it in front of her feet like…
Peggy Sue (1957) & Peggy Sue Got Married (1959) – Buddy Holly
(Peggy Sue) Gerron stated that she first heard the song at a live performance at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium in 1957, and that she was “so embarrassed, I could have died.” Today you get two Buddy Holly classics in the…
Tagged with: Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, Norman Petty, Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue Gerron, Peggy Sue Got Married
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Peggy Day (1969) – Bob Dylan
Peggy Day is the second song to appear from Bob Dylan’s 1969 record – Nashville Skyline after the previous entry I Through It All Away. Building on the rustic style he experimented with on John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline displayed a complete immersion…
The Phantom Thread’s New Year’s Eve Party
‘Phantom Thread’ Is The Perfect New Year’s Movie For A Cynical Year – Slash Film To share and celebrate making more cherished memories in 2024, I hereby inaugúrate what will become a New Year’s Eve tradition at Observation Blogger by…
Tagged with: cafe society, Daniel Day Lewis, it's a wonderful life, new years, new years eve, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, when harry met sally
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
Pay in Blood (2012) – Bob Dylan
Pay in Blood is the second song to appear here from Bob Dylan’s 2012 album Tempest after my previous entry Long and Wasted Years. I always loved this song as I do the whole first half of the Tempest album. Like…
The Father (2020) – Florian Zeller (Friday’s Finest)
I thought I would never witness Anthony Hopkins broach upon or eclipse his remarkable performance in Remains of the Day, but what he accomplished in The Father has to be included in his Holy Trinity of crowning achievements; namely the…
Pasties and a G-String (At The Two O’Clock Club) (1976) – Tom Waits
This song and lyric is so Charles Bukowski-esque. I know Waits adored Bukowski’s writing and narrated a number of his poems including Nirvana which I posted on. Tom Waits’ reading comes closest to the world-weary Bukowski voice and the grizzled sighs…
Tagged with: Charles Bukowski, Pasties and a G-String (At The Two O'Clock Club), small change, Tom waits
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
The AnkiDroid Collection (Part 49) – Evangelical, Lost Gospels & Asceticism (The Judeo-Christian Edition)
Ankidroid additions related to Science, History and Philosophy. More information about Anki can be found in this article. Evangelical An evangelical is one who takes the bible seriously and believes in Jesus Christ as saviour. It comes from the Greek…
Tagged with: asceticism, book of wisdom, evangelical, lost gospels of the Hebrews, solomon
Posted in Reading
Posted in Reading
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