My Sweet Lord (1970) – George Harrison

Posted on March 20, 2024 by observationblogger — 18 Comments

It’s between John Lennon and George Harrison as to my favourite Beatle. We had John writing; just prior to his tragic passing – Watching the Wheels as reference to the The Wheel of Fortune seen in a lot of Gothic cathedrals. And George was this mystical-Eastern thinker that incorporated a lot of his worldview into his music and influenced others including of course the Beatles and that’s where we come to today’s featured track – My Sweet Lord. As I grow older and a little bit wiser, some music artists like George Harrison leave an indelible mark or feel like a kindred spirit the more I hear from them.

My Sweet Lord is from George Harrison’s 1970 album All Things Must Pass which was his first solo album and released just 7 months after the break-up of the Beatles. It featured as a double A side single with Isn’t It a Pity which I wrote about in November, 2022. My Sweet Lord was the first number-one single by an ex-Beatle and the biggest-selling single of 1971 in the UK. Aside from his contributions as a former Beatle and Traveling Wilbury, My Sweet Lord is the fifth song to appear here so far from George Harrison (solo). This is not my favourite George (post Beatles) single, that would go to Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) – his second US number 1 after today’s featured track.

[Chorus]
My sweet Lord
Mmm, my Lord
Mmm, my Lord

[Verse 1]
I really wanna see you
Really wanna be with you
Really wanna see you, Lord, but it takes so long, my Lord

[Chorus]
My sweet Lord
Mmm, my Lord
Mmm, my Lord

[Verse 2]
I really wanna know you
I’d really wanna go with you
I really wanna show you, Lord, that it won’t take long, my Lord

My Sweet Lord has overt religious connotations and references. Harrison wrote it in praise of the Hindu god Krishna, but it also contains Christian references. It’s said that Harrison’s goal was to combine both religions in one song so as to call out religious sectarianism, or the perceived notion of conflict between groups. 
The recording features producer Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound treatment and heralded the arrival of Harrison’s slide guitar technique, which he introduced with All Things Must Pass and also heavily prevalent in the song Isn’t It a Pity.
Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Gary Brooker, Bobby Whitlock and members of the group Badfinger are among the other musicians on the recording of My Sweet Lord. The song remains the most popular composition from his post-Beatles career. 

Harrison was sued for plagiarizing a similar tune to The Chiffons’ He’s So Fine. Harrison was eventually found guilty of ‘subconscious plagiarism’. The verdict caused a tidal wave in the music world with many artists rushing to add credits to their songs in which they borrowed similar tunes or were heavily inspired by.

Reference:
1. The Meaning Behind “My Sweet Lord” by George Harrison – American Songwriter
2. My Sweet Lord – Wikipedia

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Closer Than You Know (2016) – Hillsong United

Posted on March 19, 2024 by observationblogger — 11 Comments

Closer Than You Know is a contemporary worship song from the band Hillsong United which is part of the church – Hillsong; a global charismatic mega-church based in Sydney, Australia. This is the 6th song from Hillsong to appear here at the Music Library Project.
Soon after I was baptised by the Mornington Baptist Church in 2003 I couldn’t hear enough of the 2004 Hillsong album – For All You’ve Done which peaked at No1 on the Australian album charts (Mainstream charts mind you!). I would now consider myself more of an agnostic-christian who holds sacred ‘The Logos‘ (the divine animated force which pervades the Universe and the ‘Word’ made into flesh), archetypes, meta-heroes and spiritual truths of the Bible. I remain very fond of Christian music as most of my long time readers could attest.

Closer Than You Know seems an ‘audacious’ Christian ballad because most contemporary Christian music at least according to my limited and narrow exposure are acknowledgement or adoration pieces which ‘pay tribute’ from worshipper towards God. This song turns this on its head because it is written by God (or the inspired word of God) to devotee. That is bold on the writers accounts (Joel Houston, Matt Crocker & Michael Guy Chislett), but as explained to me ‘as if God were talking‘ songs are not so uncommon and not at all considered ‘sacrilege’ if the words are received by the worshipper as coming from the heart of God and affirmation of his infinite love for them.

I will admit that originally I was hesitant to include today’s song in the project, but after multiple listens I found myself predisposed to its slow and mellow melodic progression and visually evocative instrumentals. To me, Closer Than You Know requires patience on the part of the listener to allow the song time to wash over and spiritually cleanse. I love the potency of the line: ‘Heaven is closer than you know‘.
The song also reminds me of the sound (but to a more restrained effect) of another Christian song called The Next Time You See Johnny by Kenny Marx who was popular in the 1980’s and early 90’s.

Verse 1
I tempered the storm
Though your faith was small
I prayed while you slept
And the night waged war
We stood by the fire
And we walked on sea
And we drank of the wine
That was made of Me

Pre-Chorus
Don’t turn your eyes from Me
For my love won’t be undone
Don’t hide your face from Me
For my light has surely come
Surely come, surely come, oh

Verse 2
I carried that cross and I felt your pain
I took up your crown and I wore your shame
And death was a fire and its teeth were grim
But I left it behind along with all your sin

Pre-Chorus 2
Don’t turn away from Me
For my love won’t be undone
Don’t hide your face from Me
For my light has surely come
Surely come, surely come

Chorus
Lift up your eyes and see
Heaven is closer than you know
Lift up your voice and sing
Know that My love won’t let you go
And I won’t forsake you
Lift up your eyes and see
Heaven is closer than you know
Know I’ll never leave you
So lift up your voice and sing
Know that my love won’t let you go
And my light has surely come
Surely come, surely come
And I’m closer than you know
And I’m closer than you know

Most of the following is cherry-picked (or paraphrased) from the Wikipedia article below:

(Closer Than You Know) comes from the thirteenth live album by Hillsong United called Of Dirt and Grace: Live from the Land. The album features new arrangements of the songs from their 2015 studio album Empires where they took inspiration from the Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes. The group wanted to film live performances of the song around places in Israel where the aforementioned events took place, as well as other Biblically historical locations. The video below is described as ‘recorded live from a a quiet place from beneath an olive tree’.

Lucas Munachen of Jesus Freak Hideout opined that the “slow build” of most of the songs “creates an ethereal atmosphere that sets its sight above”, and called the usage of the filmed performances “an original concept that enhances the beauty of these songs even further.”

References:
1. Of Dirt and Grace: Live from the Land – Wikipedia

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One More Time (2023) – Blink-182

Posted on March 18, 2024 by observationblogger — 8 Comments

My son Jesus Mateo (see image inset with his sister Katherine Rose) and I were listening to this magnificent song yesterday morning before we left for football training. We have to wake up before the break of morning to get ready. Typically we play songs (alternate preferences – his song, then mine etc) via the smart Tv from the moment we get up to the moment we have to leave. It is one of my favourite parts of our weekend routine. Anyhows, today’s featured song One More Time is one of my children’s favourites of the ‘modern rock songs’ I like to play on occasion. You did read that correct… yes, modern Rock songs do still exist. Hurray!

I have my blogger-compañero Jeff to thank for bringing One More Time to my attention. This song by Blink-182 was listed in Jeff’s top 10 (#5) of all songs featured in 2023 at his esteemed blog – Eclectic Music Lover which was recently listed as # 20 of the 100 Best Indie Music Blogs by Feedspot.

If you can spare a minute then check out the song’s lyrics below in conjunction with part of the band’s history here:

I am thrilled to see the original line-up back together again and still making music. Formed in Southern California in 1992 by guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge, bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus, and drummer Scott Raynor, Rayner was later dismissed from the band in 1998 and replaced by Travis Barker, who remains the drummer to this day. Despite their commercial and popular success, they’ve had more than their fair share of ups and downs over their 30-year history. After releasing five albums, three of which reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200 Album chart, as well as scoring two # 1 songs on the Modern Rock/Alternative charts, the combination of family commitments (all three guys now had children), the toll of touring and increasing artistic differences caused tension among the band members. Consequently, they decided to go on a hiatus in early 2005 that ended up lasting nearly four years, with the band members not speaking with each other until October 2008, after Barker was involved in a plane crash that killed four people, leaving he and his collaborator Adam Goldstein as the only two survivors. Barker sustained second and third degree burns which ultimately required sixteen surgeries, multiple blood transfusions, and numerous skin grafts, and also resulted in him developing PTSD. Barker’s brush with death prompted him, DeLonge and Hoppus to come together, put aside their differences, and reunite as a band.

– 100 Best Songs of 2023 – Eclectic Music Lover

[Verse 1]
Strangers, from strangers into brothers
From brothers into strangers once again
We saw the whole world, but I couldn’t see the meaning
I couldn’t even recognize my friends

[Verse 2]
Older, but nothing’s any different
Right now feels the same, I wonder why
I wish they told us, it shouldn’t take a sickness
Or airplanes falling out the sky

[Chorus]
Do I have to die to hear you miss me?
Do I have to die to hear you say goodbye?
I don’t wanna act like there’s tomorrow
I don’t wanna wait to do this one more time

Read the remainder here.

The following is ‘cherry-picked’ from the Wikipedia article below:

One More Time is the second single and the title track of their ninth studio album, which marks the return of Tom DeLonge on guitar and vocals after he left the band in 2015…Recorded over a span of seven months, One More Time… lyrically explores familiar territory like relationships and maturation, as well as lyrics inspired by the band’s own history and bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus’ battle with cancer. Barker handled the production, largely tracked at his Woodland Hills compound in the band’s home state California…One More Time became the band’s third number-one album on the Billboard 200 in the U.S., and reached the top five in a dozen other countries. 

References:
1. 100 Best Songs of 2023 – Eclectic Music Lover
2. One More Time (Blink-182 song) – Wikipedia

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Precious Memories (1986) – Bob Dylan

Posted on March 17, 2024 by observationblogger — 9 Comments
Bob Dylan performing at Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland in 1986 with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. 

Precious Memories is the first song to appear here from Bob Dylan’s twenty – fourth studio album Knocked Out Loaded. Although I would consider this a lower-tier Dylan record, it still includes a few gems on it like today’s featured song Precious Memories. I have listened to this album since its release (1986), yet I never realised until researching this song that Precious Memories is a ‘cover’ of an old ‘hymn’; a traditional gospel song. It was credited to J. B. F. Wright in 1925 who was born in Tennessee on February 21, 1877. The hymn was first recorded by The Turkey Mountain Singers in 1928. Precious Memories has been covered by a plethora of outstanding artists including Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris and Waylon Jennings.

[Verse 1]
As I travel down life’s pathway
Know not what the years may hold
As I ponder, hopes grow fonder
Precious memories flood my soul

[Chorus]
Precious memories, how they linger
How they ever flood my soul
In the stillness of the midnight
Precious sacred scenes unfold

[Verse 2]
Precious father, loving mother
Glide across the lonely years
And old homes scenes of my childhood
In fond memory appears

[Chorus]
Precious memories, how they linger
How they ever flood my soul
In the stillness of the midnight
Precious sacred scenes unfold

I am perplexed how scantly known and underrated this song is from Bob Dylan. That might be because the album in which it appears (Knocked Out Loaded) was so poorly received. Precious Memories has just 18,000 views below since it was officially released on You Tube 5 years ago. I love hearing this song and have never grown tired of it.
On a more positive note regarding the record; the 11-minute epic Brownsville Girl (originally titled – New Danville Girl), co-written by Sam Shepard, has been cited as one of his best songs by many critics / fans. I’m not in accordance with that legion. I have, over the years, tried and tried to see what I may have been ‘missing’ in that song, but I remain at a loss to comprehend the ‘fuss’.

Knocked Out Loaded includes three cover songs, three collaborations with other songwriters and two solo compositions by Dylan. The cover art is a reworking of the January 1939 cover of Spicy Adventure Stories.

References:
1. Knocked Out Loaded – Wikipedia
2. Precious Memories (Hymn) – Wikipedia

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Mr. Brown (1970) – Bob Marley and the Wailers

Posted on March 16, 2024 by observationblogger — 15 Comments

My original reason for including today’s song Mr. Brown in the Music Library Project was for nostalgic purposes. But having heard it again for the first time in decades I cannot help but fancy its catchy rhythm and vibe which creates such an infectious groove. Also it’s lovely sung by Mr. Marley. Mr. Brown holds a significant place in Marley’s discography because it acts as a prelude of what would become the modern day Reggae Revolution. Marley was a true pioneer in that regard. Also, this is one the earliest songs recorded by the original Wailers.

When I was in recess from my studies at the Academy as a late teen, I visited friends who lived in Coogee, a beach side suburb in Sydney. These were what you might call our freewheelin’ years when we unashamedly partook in almost everything frowned upon by ‘the establishment’. The beginning of today’s song acts as a ‘portal’ to one such activity we participated.
Our mutual friend Paul was a charismatic lad who had this uncanny ability to make me cackle at the drop of a hat. This wasn’t more evident than when Paul sang the following lines from today’s featured song Mr. Brown:

Mr. Brown is a clown
Who rides through town in a coffin

and this……

Is Mr. Brown controlled by remote?

Mr. Brown was originally released as a single in Jamaica and sold 15,000 copies. It has since appeared on various compilations such as Songs of Freedom.

Background (according to the Wikipedia article below):

The theme of the song relates to a rumor that was spreading through Jamaica that a duppy, or ghost, had been spotted in numerous locations speeding through the land on a three-wheeled coffin, perched upon which were three John crows, or buzzards, one of which could talk and was asking for a Mr. Brown. Glen Adams wrote the lyrics after hearing the story, and after Lee Perry’s suggestion, was sung by The Wailers.
To go with the terror theme, the song has spooky elements such as evil laughter. The song has been featured on a few Halloween albums.

[Verse 1]
(Who is Mr. Brown?)
Mr. Brown is a clown
Who rides through town in a coffin
(Where can he be found?)
In the coffin where there is three crows on top
And two is laughing

[Verse 2]
Oh, what a confusion, ooh, yeah, yeah
What a botheration, ooh, now, now
Who is Mr. Brown? I wanna know now
He is nowhere to be found

[Chorus]
From Mandeville to Sligoville
Coffin runnin’ around
Upsetting, upsetting, upsetting the town
Asking for Mr. Brown
From Mandeville to Sligoville
Coffin runnin’ around
Upsetting, upsetting, upsetting the town
Asking for Mr. Brown (Read the remainder here)

References:
1. Mr. Brown (song) – Wikipedia
2. The Meaning Behind The Song: Mr Brown by Bob Marley – old time music

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The Kindergarten Teacher (2018) – Sara Colangelo (Friday’s Finest)

Posted on March 15, 2024 by observationblogger — 3 Comments

Lisa Spinelli: Talent is so fragile and so rare. And our culture does everything to crush it. I mean even at four or five, they’re coming into school attached to their phones, talking only about TV shows and video games. It’s a materialistic culture, and it doesn’t support art, or language, or observation. Even my own children, who are great, they don’t read. You know, you think maybe it’s just a phase. But I worry that it’s something larger. A lack of curiosity. A lack of reflection. No one has space for poetry.

The Kindergarten Teacher is the fourth movie to be presented here which features a member of the Gyllenhaal family. The first movie was Waterland directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal (father of actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal), the second Brokeback Mountain starring Jake, the third Crazy Heart with Maggie in a supporting role and now today’s movie which showcases the achingly alluring performance by Maggie who plays Kindergarten teacher Lisa Spinelli. I had wanted to see this movie years ago but felt some trepidation given the sensitive subject matter involving such a young co-protagonist.

IMDB Storyline:
Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and freedom to nurture his talent.

Yesterday I took the plunge on this movie and I’m sure glad I did. It’s an intellectual and emotional tour de force. I appreciate movies which don’t insult its audiences with simplistic concepts, stereotypical plots, caricature portrayals and contrived endings. It is a painful telling of the society we live in. It is directed with velvet gloves by treating its topics and protagonists with deft poise and sensibility. There is nothing crazy in this film and it has just one significant plot twist, but that didn’t stop it from building and building until I just couldn’t wait to see what happened next. The characterisation was what really made The Kindergarten Teacher shine. Only two characters really needed development, and they got all of it. I was enthralled in their relationship.

The Kindergarten Teacher is a modern-day psychological drama which doesn’t tell you what to think, but demands one does their own thinking to unpack its purpose. It holds a mirror up to ourselves to make us question our innate desires, actions, and natural aggression. Fundamentally, ‘the Teacher’ finds these same underlying biological instincts at loggerheads or severely limited and repressed by the Super-Ego (Civilization and Society), but she doesn’t seem to care about that conflict since what she perceives she is doing is nurturing and upholding ‘art’ (in the form of her 5 year-old student prodigy) in the face of hell-bent materialism.

The Kindergarten Teacher is based on the 2014 Israeli film of the same name. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2018. Director Sara Colangelo won ‘Directing’ at the same event. On Rotten Tomatoes, 90% of 103 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website’s critical consensus reads, “Elevated by a bravura performance from Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Kindergarten Teacher is one American remake that retains its impact the second time around.”

References:
1. The Kindergarten Teacher (2018) – IMDB
2. The Kindergarten Teacher (2018 film) – Wikipedia

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Mary es Mi Amor (1971) – Leo Dan (ft. Andrés Cepeda)

Posted on March 14, 2024 by observationblogger — 2 Comments

This song Mary My Amor (Mary My Love) by Argentine Leo Dan (featuring Colombian Andrés Cepeda) transfigures from a prototypical soft Latin Pop song into a wondrous track as it ascends at the bridge (00:53) where Leo sings ‘Si un dia me faltas tu‘ (If one day I lose you) and the instrumental interlude (including the Mariachi trumpeting). The harmonies, choral backing and superior orchestral arrangement sets this piece apart.

Leopoldo Dante Tévez (born March 22, 1942), known as Leo Dan, is an Argentine composer and singer. He recorded more than 20 albums during his long career during the late 20th century between Argentina and Mexico. His appreciation for Mexican music led him to record with mariachis, and from there, he went to international fame. Today’s song was sent to me by my dear friend Gloria who resides here in Bogota.

Leo Dan currently lives in the United States. He, Palito Ortega and Leonardo Favio are considered the principal Argentine singers of the Nueva Ola (New Wave) music that was popular in the 1960s and 1970s in Latin America. With a mellow voice and his individual interpretative style, Leo Dan is one of the most recognized figures among Spanish-language vocalists. His inspiration went further than interpretation; he also wrote most of his popular hits.

Below is a crude English translation of the first segments of Mary es Mi Amor (Mary is my Love):

Mary is my love
only with her do I live happily
I know that I could never love anyone else
because I really love her

That’s why Mary please
give me your hand and let’s always be like this
after all what more can I ask of you
If I am happy, very happy

If one day I lose you
May God help me die
I will not again be happy in this life.

In 2012, the Latin Recording Academy honored Leo Dan by presenting him with The Latin Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Tévez’s hit Te he prometido features prominently in Alfonso Cuarón’s 2018 multi-Oscar and Golden Globe-winning film Roma which featured here at Friday’s Finest.

References:
1. Leo Dan – Wikipedia

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The AnkiDroid Collection (Part 56) – Allopathy, Proton / Photon & Superposition

Posted on March 13, 2024 by observationblogger — 2 Comments

Ankidroid additions related to Science, History and Philosophy. More information about Anki can be found in this article.

Allopathy

Naturopathy vs Allopathy

Allopathy is the system of medicine that aims to combat disease by using remedies such as drugs or surgery. ie “the treatment of disease by remedies that produce effects opposite to the symptoms,” as opposed to naturopathy / homeopathy which intends to build the bodies natural defense system. It is the term applied by homeopathists to traditional medicine. 

The difference between a photon and proton

A photon is a quanta of light and is a mass less particle through which energy transfers when light propagates. It travels at the speed of light and has no charge.
A proton is a positively charged article having a finite non zero mass which forms the positive part of the atom. They are discrete packets having finite energy.

Superposition

Superposition is the ability of a quantum system to be in multiple states at the same time until it is measured.

The bottom line on Quantum Mechanics: What we observe is much less than what actually exists. Position and velocity are what you observe, but until you measure the particles, their positions don’t actually exist. Only the wave function does. Fundamentally, there is a difference between a thing when you are looking at it and when you are not looking at it. You cannot observe the wave function.

So it’s a particularly different view of reality.
The question you might want to ask is why does reality look normal to us at all. Why don’t I see a probability cloud all over the place? We don’t know…

At no point did we put new worlds in. The worlds were already there. In the Copenhagen textbook Schrödinger’s Cat Thought Experiment, we had to erase part of the wave function. So if you saw the cat awake you erase the part where the cat was asleep and vice versa. And ‘you’ are quantum mechanical just like everything else in the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. If an electron can be in a superposition of that place, then a cat can be in a superposition of awake and asleep and you can be in a superposition of seeing the cat awake and seeing the cat asleep. And finally the Universe can be in a superposition of one where you saw the cat awake and one where you saw the cat asleep.

For more information see my post – Reflections on ‘The Many-Worlds’ Theory by Sean Carroll
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Burning Love (1972) – Elvis Presley

Posted on March 12, 2024 by observationblogger — 18 Comments

Though it had obvious hit potential, Elvis had just separated from his wife, Priscilla, and was not in the mood for a Rock n Roll number, so he wasn’t keen to record it. Elvis’ producer Felton Jarvis had to persuade him that the song was worth trying, and after 6 attempts, the “King of Rock and Roll” came up with an inspired take.
– Songfacts

This is one of my favourite Elvis songs and was his biggest hit single in the United States since “Suspicious Minds” in 1969. Burning Love was written by Nashville songwriter Dennis Linde, and originally released by country soul artist Arthur Alexander earlier in 1972 on his self titled album, 4 months prior to the Elvis version. It was Elvis’s 40th and final Top Ten hit reaching No.2 in the American Hot 100 (it was kept out of the top spot by Chuck Berry’s “My Ding-a-Ling“). The electric guitar opening and riffs were overdubbed and played by Dennis Linde himself.

[Verse 1]
Lord Almighty
I feel my temperature rising
Higher higher
It’s burning through to my soul
Girl, girl, girl, girl
You’re gonna set me on fire
My brain is flaming
I don’t know which way to go

[Chorus]
Your kisses lift me higher
Like a sweet song of a choir
You light my morning sky
With burning love

[Verse 2]
Ooh, ooh, ooh
I feel my temperature rising
Help me, I’m flaming
I must be a hundred and nine
Burning, burning, burning
And nothing can cool me
I just might turn into smoke
But I feel fine

The song was originally released on the B-side of the single It’s a Matter of Time and later on the album Burning Love and Hits from his Movies: Volume 2.

More interesting trivia from Songfacts:

In addition to making the original commercial recording of a song later covered by Elvis, Arthur Alexander has the claim of being the only songwriter in history to have his songs sung by The Beatles (“Anna (Go to Him)”), the Rolling Stones (“You’d Better Move On”) and Bob Dylan (“Sally Sue Brown”).

Dennis Linde, who wrote this song and also provided the guitar intro, was reclusive by nature and was at one time tagged “Nashville’s best-kept songwriting secret.” Apart from “Burning Love,” most of the successful songs he wrote were for Country stars, including,Roger Miller (“Tom Green County Fair” – 1970), Garth Brooks (“Callin’ Baton Rouge” – 1993) and The Dixie Chicks (“Goodbye Earl” – 1999.) In Britain, Welsh Rock and Roll revivalist Shakin’ Stevens recorded a #10 hit with his version of Linde’s “A Letter to You” in 1984.

In 2005, an Australian woman, who was evidently not a fan of this song, stabbed her partner in the back, thigh, and shoulder with a pair of scissors because “he played the song too many times.”

References:
1. Burning Love – Wikipedia
2. Songfacts – Burning Love

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4/3 – 10/3/24 – Dune 2, Ping Pong & Fastest Man

Posted on March 11, 2024 by observationblogger — Leave a comment
news on the march

Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world.

Awe Strikes Back in Dune 2
Movie Review at Reely Bernie

Before I read Bernie’s article, I was willing to hold out for the weekend to see Dune 2 with the kids, but his brilliant review got me on my high-horse to see it first thing. I’m going to see it again with them this weekend.

I wanted to do a ‘Friday’s Finest’ of Dune 2 last Friday, but I realised I could never top Bernie’s outstanding article. Basterd. So I thought I’d slot him in here at Monday’s News on the March.

Theatrical movie releases at the beginning of the year are predictably rancid. Only a colossal sandworm can devour the memory of The Beekeeper, Mean Girls, and Argylle.

Thankfully, that worm arrived on February 29 to represent the second part of Director Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of the Dune universe. And, like his first effort nearly three years ago, Dune: Part 2 is an enthralling exercise in awe—both practically wrought and imaginatively immense.

Ep2. Ping Pong With Pineapple | 24 Hours with Roger: Shanghai Edition | UNIQLO
Video presentation at UNIQLO

I have missed watching the wizardry of Roger’s tennis game on the world stage, so I thought this might alleviate the cravings. This was fun and I hope you enjoy it too.

Roger engages in a heated match of table tennis against an unlikely opponent: seven-year-old Gui Duoer (aka Pineapple).

The Fastest Man Alive | Bolt
Video presentation by Olympics

Every now and then I like to revisit some of the greatest human sporting achievements. They might include; the documentary Bobby Fischer Against the World, Mohammad Ali’s victory in Rumble in the Jungle or How George Foreman took back his title. It was nice to get this Usain Bolt video in my feed since it had been a long time since I viewed his remarkable feats and long standing domination of the sport.

Step into the electrifying world of Usain Bolt, the legendary sprinter whose lightning-fast speed redefined the Olympic Games. In this video we look back at the extraordinary journey of the fastest man on Earth as he blazed his way through the Olympic history books.

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