This is an extraordinary move coming from an artist that has been fiercely fighting bootleggers for most of his life and rigorously taking down videos on youtube. Talk about having Dylan at your fingertips. No longer do we have to…
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A little known Australian movie called ‘Candy’ and Tim Buckley’s ‘Song to the Siren’
Heath Ledger was at the peak of his acting prowess when he sadly departed from this great play we all take part called ‘Life’. He was posthumously awarded the Oscar for best supporting actor in his role as the Joker…
Tagged with: Brokeback Mountain, Candy, Daniel Day Lewis, easydiet.blog, Heath Ledger, Lincoln, The Dark Knight, Tim Buckley
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Leonard Cohen’s ‘Come Healing’ and 5 other contemporary spiritual masterpieces
As far as musical sub-genres go, contemporary-spiritual music doesn’t get its just-deserts! Heck, we might have got into the weeds professing our love for folk-rock and alternative seattle music, but when did you ever hear people spout on about ‘contemporary-spiritual…
Tagged with: archie roach, Blowing in the wind, Bob Dylan, come healing, Djarimirri, Geoffrey Gurrumul, hallelujah, leonard cohen, nick cave, Rufus Wainright, the ship song, there is a garden
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Nina Simone – Ain’t Got No, I got Life
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…
Tagged with: 20000 days on earth, ain't got No I've got Life, Bob Dylan, nick cave, nina simone
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
The greatest cover up in history – The unheralded Robert Zimmerman
Few Hollywood insiders know that Robert Zimmerman’s nuanced acting performance in The Night We Called It a Day landed him a tonne of movie scripts. If you have seen Robert in this short music video; his manner holding the gun…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, Cecil B DeMille, Don't Look back, Masked and Anonymous, Nobel Prize in Literature, oscars, Renaldo and Clara, Robert Zimmerman, Sidney Poitier
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Fallen Angels – Bob Dylan
Like its predecessor, the masterpiece Shadows in the Night ( my review here), this album is enticing a whole new audience to the Bob Dylan musical repertoire; the type of audience which lounged their music away and didn’t think twice,…
Meanderng Thoughts about the Beatles Anthology
In Australia, my first recollection of hearing The Beatles was at the tender age of six. In primary school we danced incessantly to Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and Yellow Submarine. It was a daily exercise ritual and I became increasingly disheartened and…
Tagged with: anthology, Bob Dylan, england, episodes, george harrison, help, john lennon, love me do, Ob-La-Da, Ob-La-Di, paul mccartney, the beatles, Yellow Submarine
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Dylan’s Desert Island Revue – Final Compilation Release
On the 4th September this year I initiated a project on the Bob Dylan Expecting Rain – Rare Recordings forum. The project entailed compiling Bob Dylan’s greatest live recordings, which are felt by members as superseding their original. One member…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, discussion, Dylan's Desert Island Revue, Expecting Rain, rare recordings, unreleased live recordings
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Alternative Seattle Music
The big music blasting the young hearts and minds of the early 90s was ignited from Seattle. Bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Sound Garden were pumping the airwaves with a vast array of steely melancholic acoustic…
Tagged with: Alice in Chains and Sound Garden, alternative, canberra, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, seattle
Posted in Music, Reflections
Posted in Music, Reflections
The Screen
It seems all I do these days is stare at the bright white screen. The computer has the gall to stare right back at me as if it knows better. It flickers to black … in the reflection I notice…
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