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May
16

MARNIE ISSUES

I never considered Marnie to be one of Hitchcock’s best films, that is, until I went out with a
6 min read
May
05

PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE LIVES

“Ghosts aren’t attached to places but to people, to the living.” - Huay There seemed a kind of harmonious perfection
3 min read
Apr
30

SPRING INTO SUMMER

April 30th (Walpurgis Night) is celebrated as representing the halfway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice and
1 min read
Apr
27

BIT RANDOM

Friday evening had gotten off to a good start after I bumped into a local poet friend of mine, who
4 min read
Apr
23

TWILIGHT OF THE KING

Given that our current king is the epitome of a man who is perpetually not one with his people or
4 min read
Apr
06

YOU'RE GETTING TO BE A HABIT WITH ME

With the sun shining briefly on this grey island of ours this Bank Holiday Monday, I thought I’d match
1 min read
Apr
05

RUSTIC CHIVALRY

I put aside Bach’s Easter Oratorio, Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, and the soundtrack to MGM’s Easter Parade this
2 min read
Apr
02

TALKING TALK BOX

Demolition Man My first experience of hearing a Talk Box came when I had the opportunity to listen to my
3 min read
Apr
01

SUMMIT MEETING

I had completely forgotten that the German composer Richard Wagner (1813–1883) took a 12-year break after completing the
4 min read
Mar
30

PUNCH DRUNK

RAGING BULLY Middleweight boxer Bernard Hopkins’s ring-walk entrance a few days after 9/11, set to Ray Charles’
6 min read