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Music Monday – “I can almost smell the perfumed nights/And see the starry sky/I wish you comin’ with me baby/’Cause right before my eye”

Isn’t the Internet amazing? I heard this song on my random “Flow” playlist the other day.  It’s a song from 1977 by an obscure New Zealand band that I’d never heard before but it felt fitting even though we’re going to Mexico instead of Cuba, leaving in February instead of April, but hoping for sun […]

Posted 17 February 2020 § MusicMonday § Randomness § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

“Losing My Religion” – The Story Behind the Song

A bit more about the song I featured in yesterday’s “Music Monday” post…

Posted 28 January 2020 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Every whisper/Of every waking hour I’m/Choosing my confessions”

Recommended by a patron at my branch… “Losing My Religion” – Lacuna Coil

Posted 27 January 2020 § Library § MusicMonday § Randomness § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

[Spoilers] The Entire Emperor Palpatine Story

The entire Star Wars universe can be pretty confusing, especially when there are years if not decades between films. Seeing the arc of a single character through the whole series does a good job of explaining different moments and motivations…  

Posted 14 January 2020 § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas/We followed a coyote through the dust of Mexico/Every one of them except for me survived/And I am still alive”

There are very few songs that can make the hair on my arms stand on end. This song, a reworking of an older song I loved growing up. But instead of focusing on men dying doing manly things as in the original, the update is about women dying in service of larger social issues. Incredibly […]

Posted 06 January 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – KISS Does The Beatles

Found this flitting around YouTube – is there any band that doesn’t love The Beatles?  (Okay, Michael Stipe famously dissed The Beatles as “elevator music” but I think he later admitted he only meant they weren’t the music he listened to but often heard in the background.)  

Posted 27 December 2019 § FridayFunLink § MusicMonday § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “We could leave the Christmas lights up till January/This is our place, we make the rules/And there’s a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you dear/Have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years?”

“Lover” – Taylor Swift

Posted 23 December 2019 § Family § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “It’s bitterly cold with three feet of snow/And this wouldn’t be home If the wind didn’t blow”

“Just Me and the Ponies (For Christmas This Year)” – Corb Lund

Posted 16 December 2019 § MusicMonday § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Christmas Eve will find me/Where the love light gleams/I’ll be home for Christmas/If only in my dreams”

I can’t believe I’ve never posted this song before – one of the most absolutely beautiful, heart-wrenching Christmas songs of all-time. And so appropriate these days too. We’re extremely excited for our first Christmas in our new house of course. But it also comes with mixed emotions knowing that a decision we made only two […]

Posted 09 December 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Five Home Selling Tips Your Agent Doesn’t Know

We’ve got our house listed, have already had a handful of showing and I find myself watching videos like this in the small hours of the night (not bad advice but not sure it’s highly top secret knowledge either!) 😉

Posted 01 December 2019 § Humour § List § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,