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My 10 Favourite Christmas Songs

I’ve posted a lot of Christmas songs over the years, mostly as Music Monday posts, but I don’t think I’ve ever tried to make a list of my favourite Xmas songs, at least until now. So what makes a great Christmas song in my mind? Weirdly with how joyful the season is, my favourites mostly […]

¶ Posted 02 December 2018 § Family § List § MemoryLane § UK § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, music, xmas

Friday Fun Link – Trump Sings Ariana Grande

This is pretty funny… …though, to be fair, Obama also got the same treatment:

¶ Posted 30 November 2018 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Meme § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music, unitedstates

Narcos Mexico

Our latest Netflix obsession…

¶ Posted 20 November 2018 § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history

Music Monday – “If we were vampires and death was a joke/We’d go out on the sidewalk and smoke/And laugh at all the lovers and their plans/I wouldn’t feel the need to hold your hand”

A lot of my music-loving friends had posted something about this song but I’m embarrassed to admit I didn’t even give it a listen because I thought the title was terrible and reminded me of “Twilight” or something. But I finally gave it a chance and boy, was I wrong. Probably one of the most […]

¶ Posted 19 November 2018 § Family § MusicMonday § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, parents

Comparing Some Swedish Guy’s 7 Year (7000 Hour) Guitar Progress To My Own 22 (!) Year, Didn’t Count The Hours Guitar Journey

I bought my first guitar after coming back from a University exchange to England in 1995. It cost me $60 and I still have it. It’s an El Degas model which is Spanish for “cheap crap”. 🙂 (Wow, Google tells me these guitars were actually made in Japan and mostly exported to Canada in the […]

¶ Posted 14 November 2018 § MemoryLane § Travel § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Every Stan Lee Cameo Ever

It’s not surprising when you learn that a 95-year old real-life superhero has passed away but it’s still sad. Millions of kids (including me) were influenced by Stan Lee over the years – in making us into readers, in making us think about good and evil, in making us into dreamers – but in his […]

¶ Posted 13 November 2018 § Jobs § MemoryLane § News § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, history, movies

Music Monday – “Get me drinking’ that moonshine/Get me higher than the grocery bill/Take my troubles to the highwall/Throw ’em in the river and get your fill”

I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I was really getting into Tyler Childers – watching videos of him, reading articles about him, dreaming about taking “road” trips to see him, joining Facebook groups about him, playing his songs (badly) on guitar and listening to his music non-stop. At the time, I made a Music Monday […]