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Music Monday – “Ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa/Ma ma se, ma ma sa/Ma ma coo sa”

Back from a week in Mexico and will likely do some resort-themed posts over the next few days starting with this one… And my big thought of the day is – I really have no idea why most Cancun resorts have a Michael Jackson impersonator as one of their nightly shows when you never see […]

¶ Posted 02 March 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Randomness § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: allinclusive, travel

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 § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: holiday

Why Is OK Computer So Good?

My generation’s “Sgt. Pepper’s”?

¶ Posted 12 February 2020 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language

Music Monday – “We’re all gonna die someday lord/We’re all gonna die someday Mama’s on pills daddy’s over the hill/But we’re all gonna die someday”

“We’re All Gonna Die Someday” – Kasey Chambers

¶ Posted 03 February 2020 § Humour § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language

Normally I’d Save A Post Like This For Music Monday…

…but this feels unique enough to deserve a stand-alone post:

¶ Posted 02 February 2020 § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool

“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 § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: language

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 § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Sorry, @officialRPL, I have a new favourite “RPL”

Radiohead has launched the Radiohead Public Library – a massive online archive of streaming albums, music & concert videos, rarities, merchandise and much more. Here’s a list of ten things that are getting fans very excited about this new site. And just for the heck of it, something not on the RPL site but instead, […]

¶ Posted 21 January 2020 § Internet § Library § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: cool, history

Music Monday – “I was takin’ everything they had to give/It wasn’t all that bad a way to live/Well I’m in this desert town and it’s hot as hell/But no one’s buyin’ what I got to sell”

“Jerusalem Tomorrow” – David Olney

¶ Posted 20 January 2020 § MusicMonday § News § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Saturday Snap – Old-Fashioned #Saskatchewan Saturday Night

My daughter doesn’t realise that when her dad was growing up, before the Internet and the 500-channel universe, TV bingo and polka parties were literally the only forms of entertainment available (no wonder I became such a big reader!) 😉 We re-created a small-town Saskatchewan Saturday night at our house tonight: Playing (fake) TV Bingo… […]