Throw Your Arms Around Me is one of the most well-recognised contemporary love ballads in Australia. A swell of pride and love for my native country and its music envelops me when I hear this. Not just that, but it’s…
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Throw Your Arms Around Me (1990) – Hunters & Collectors
Tagged with: Australia, hunters & Collectors, mark seymour, throw your arms around me
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Live is Life (1984) – Opus (Ft. Maradona)
Today, we watch the most iconic warm-up in football history – Diego Maradona’s dance to Live is Life by the Austrian group Opus. I remember when I was 16, my father and I were up in the wee hours in…
16/10 – 22/10/23 Dating Advice, Fediverse & ‘Jacked’ Kangaroo
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Matthew McConaughey gives dating advice to Lex FridmanVideo interview extract at Lex Clips I love Matthew’s honesty about finding love late in life, accepting…
Tagged with: Australia, Dating, Fediverse, Kangaroo, Lex Fridmen, love, Matthew McConaughey, Self Aware Patterns
Posted in News, Reflections, Sport and Adventure
Posted in News, Reflections, Sport and Adventure
9/10 – 15/10/23 Nude Swimmers, Israel Attacks & Dinner Invitation
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Lifeguard from Argentina and Noosa surfers rescue nude swimmers ripped out to seaNews article at ABC News (Australia) An off-duty lifeguard from Argentina and…
Tagged with: Australia, Brett Weinstein, Bruce Goodman, dinner invitation, efrat Fenigson, Israel attacks, middle east, rescue, swimming, wag the dog, Weave a Web
Posted in News, politics, Reading, Sport and Adventure
Posted in News, politics, Reading, Sport and Adventure
Confirmed by Mother no Less, ‘David Hobson is the Greatest Singer at Australian Christmas Carols’
My favourite Christmas carol O Holy Night sung by my favourite Christmas carol singer David Hobson. There is another post I wrote about his mesmerising performance of The Holy City. Nothing jolts me into the festive spirit more than listening to…
Tagged with: Australia, carols, Christmas, David Hobson, o holy night, the holy city
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Jim Jones (1992) – Bob Dylan
Jim Jones is my joint favourite song from Dylan’s 1992 record Good as I Been To You. Canadee I-O which has already featured here is my other favourite from his cover versions of old mainly 19th Century folklore ballads. The…
Breaker Morant (1980) – Bruce Beresford (Friday’s Finest)
This Australian war drama film concerns the 1902 court martial of lieutenants Harry Morant, Peter Handcock and George Witton—one of the first war crime prosecutions in British military history. Anyone who has seen this film won’t forget the closing lines and level of final defiance while facing…
Great Sporting Moments 5 – Cameron Smith wins The Open at St Andrews
“What a week. I’m going to fall apart here I know,” a tearful Smith said after lifting the trophy…“I had a lot of support out there, especially the Aussie guys. You kept me going out there. This one’s for Aus.”…
The Castle (1997) – Rob Sitch (Friday’s Finest)
This contains one of my all-time greatest comedic lines in Australian cinema history…Dad says to son Steve: ‘Oh Steve could you move the Camira, I need to get the Torana out so I can get to the Commodore‘. Steve –…
‘Life, Bottom Heavy Like a Kangaroo’ – Anthony Burgess
This is the third excerpt presented here from Anthony Burgess’ masterpiece Earthly Powers. Octogenarian British writer Kenneth Toomey recalls with spectacular clarity (as he almost always does) his visit to Australia in 1930 or thereabouts. Australia is where I was…
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