Similar Posts
I’m with stupid..
.. a nice fellow but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.” Not that being on the wrong side of clever means all that much as it is apparent that most people can be convinced to believe anything no matter how ridiculous. You may be with me in thinking that anybody who…
Nothing
..interval between, might be more ‘natural’ than trying to compress sleep into the one eight hour stretch. I seem to recall hearing on a radio program that the segmented pattern of sleep might been preserved in the ritual of monastery life but otherwise the tradition has slipped from modern society’s collective memory. Having said that…
The Promoters cont. (2)
The Promoters cont. I’d have to say that our version of I’ll Be Gone and the almost as inevitable couple of blues tunes, absolutely stole the show. Just about everybody told us how touched they were, and then asked if we were still performing (!) etc. In so many ways it was a wonderful couple…
Momentum
.. in any case, I was on modest stipend (a bursary) that I was contracted to repay by becoming a teacher after graduating. In fact, now that I mention it, ambition is another area I’ve always been deficient in, so you put that together with a lack of vision and you might begin to understand…
Crazy Heart
.. that Bad doesn’t get the girl in the end, but he does get his song-writing groove back . And about the songs, I was almost surprised that I liked them quite a lot. Stylistically they were veering towards country-rock for the most part, but they were consistently better than average with smart, self-deprecating lyrics….
Where from hare?
.. plumbing and television, but maybe this New Year it’s time for a revision of my list. As I was driving back to Curtin from Fyshwick last Thursday evening, having successfully bought some deck oil as instructed from the Fyshwick Bunnings, I was thinking about how much easier it is to get around Canberra these…