Hey everyone, It’s been a week since I wrote anything. If I haven’t been ill, I’ve been proof-reading reports for school or other such tasks. I do have a couple of things to update you about, though. One of them is particularly thrilling (for me anyway). No, I haven’t finished my Star Trek article for […]
Read more "Update: Doctor and Book Doctor"Today, I reached the midway point in the new series of Twin Peaks. I’m still loving every minute of it and this week’s Monday Music post, I decided to dedicate to some of the music we’ve been hearing on the show. It’s great to hear Angelo Badalamenti’s work more and more as we move through […]
Read more "Monday Music 17 – 2017"ZX Spectrum 48k. That was my first experience of a home computer: rubber keys and all. When Dad brought it home and unwrapped it, I entered a new world of entertainment. Granted, that world was made up of some weird game called Biorhythms where you controlled the population of foxes, rabbits and plants (seriously, I […]
Read more "R is for Right Trigger"Monday’s nearly done and I’m pretty tired. Happy to have finished my Q is for Quest post this evening. Here’s a nice piece of music from a great film from the first half of the 1990s: Last of the Mohicans. Loved this at the cinema. It’s a great adventure with a strong central relationship at its heart. […]
Read more "Monday Music 16 – 2017"“Treat the earth well: It was not given to you by your parents, It was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.” –Ancient Native American Proverb Featured image credit to Jeremy Bolwell, image courtesy of Geograph.org.uk. Other images from Gareth James […]
Read more "Q is for Quest"I was honoured, at the beginning of the month, to be invited to a wedding in Poland. It was the last of my close friends to tie the knot and the wife and I, accompanied by the boy, made the trip across Europe to attend. It was our first trip to eastern Europe. Actually, it […]
Read more "P is for a Polish Wedding"This week’s tune comes from a childhood favourite of mine: the 1966 musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. It’s one of those films that would always end up being put on during dull Sundays by my Dad to liven things up a little bit. If you haven’t seen it, I […]
Read more "Monday Music 15 – 2017"Hi there, As promised, here is a link to my conversation with Cameron and Hal on the YouTube channel, Obnoxious and Anonynous. We talked about all manner of things from Twin Peaks to Eraserhead and beyond. It was very late at night and I probably slurred my words and made no sense whatsoever but it […]
Read more "A Twin Peaks Conversation"Update: Since I published my article about the new series of Twin Peaks, I’ve received lots of positive feedback about it. It’s gone on to become my second most viewed post this year (second only to the mammoth Top 50 Spaceships ever (plus mine!) post from January). Anyway, in addition to the many views, I was […]
Read more "I’m going to be on YouTube!"This week’s tune: What is there to say? It’s a near perfect fit for the film, combining youth, hope and innocence with the real gravity of the subject matter. Elmer Bernstein composed the music for around 250 films. This was one of his best. And here’s one of my favourite scenes from the film as a […]
Read more "Monday Music 14 – 2017"Books, games, music, and life — filtered through the mind of a writer, drummer, and philosopher who thinks too deeply about all of it. If it moves something in your chest, I'm interested.
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