Yesterday, I travelled early to my children’s school for their festival of dances. On the Transmilenio (a bus rapid transit system that serves Bogotá, the capital of Colombia), I plugged the earphones in and put the Music collection on autopilot. Out came…
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Double Dare (1980) – Bauhaus
‘This song is a challenge to be true to yourself and your ideas’ – Don’t cower in night fright ‘Daring fake politicians to actually act like real people instead of the conservative little muppets they can be’ – In the…
All The President’s Men (1976) – Alan J. Pakula (Friday’s Finest)
Ben Bradlee: You know the results of the latest Gallup Poll? Half the country never even heard of the word Watergate. Nobody gives a shit. You guys are probably pretty tired, right? Well, you should be. Go on home, get…
Donna (1958) – Ritchie Valens
Donna first learned about Donna when Ritchie called her and told her that he wrote a song for her. He sang her the first part of Donna. She said: “of course I cried. It was just very, very touching. He…
The AnkiDroid Collection (Part 43) – The Crusades, Zionism & Golda
Ankidroid additions related to Science, History and Philosophy. More information about Anki can be found in this article. The Crusades The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church between 1000 and 1200 AD (medieval period) to…
Oh Boy! (1957) – Buddy Holly and the Crickets
If I was to go back to the dawning of it all, I guess I’d have to start with Buddy Holly. Buddy died when I was about eighteen and he was twenty-two. From the moment I first heard him, I…
25/9 – 1/10/23 Cake, Excess Deaths, A.I. Hitchens (on J.B Peterson) & The Goonies
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. This Poem is about CakePoem at Theodora Goss: Poems If I didn’t carewhat the world thought,I would eat all the cake. What cake? I…
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I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (1967) – Nina Simone
Nina Simone. I used to cross paths with her in New York City in the Village Gate nightclub. She was an artist I definitely looked up to. She recorded some of my songs that she learned directly from me, sitting…
The Mission (1986) – Roland Joffé (Friday’s Finest)
My father had a penchant for classic cinema and as a boy he would introduce me to movies that mostly went over my head and coerced me to sleep (which perhaps was ‘his mission’ all along). Citizen Kane, Casablanca, All…
Ode To My Family (1994) – The Cranberries
Ode To My Family is the third song to appear here from The Cranberries after their previous entry Linger. It is about singer’s Dolorus O’Riordan’s yearning for her simple life as a child after having achieved success. Her heavy Irish…
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