No Ipod, oh my God! |
This blog has been brewing for a while. Carrying on from my last blog where I wanted to include Neil Young but I've saved him for this one. I'm lamenting the state of the music industry or wondering w...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:28:00 GMT |
No Ipod, oh my God! - part 2 |
It seems we're headed down the road of MP3s taking over from CDs. Someone a few years ago remarked, "you haven't used an Ipod before have you?" I didn't feel I was missing out on anything then &a...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:21:00 GMT |
Gyan, Liyarn Ngarn, See the Sun...... |
I would just like to share with you some CDs & DVDs I've purchased lately which have inspired me a great deal. The first is 'Gyan & Leunig - Billy the Rabbit'. It's a collection of songs based...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:52:00 GMT |
Writers Fest/Non-violence |
One of the benefits I derived from the Byron Bay Writers Festival last weekend was that it may have cured my bloggers block. I really enjoyed the stories the writers shared, mainly those from ethnic b...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:37:00 GMT |
Took the children away |
Many moons ago I attended a gig with 2 friends, back when a gig meant a concert, not a digital term.Paul Kelly topped the bill, accompanied by 2 singer/song writers I hadn't heard of.One was Neil Murr...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:36:00 GMT |
Trust |
I saw a Hal Hartley film once called 'Trust'. He's a British film maker who specializes in no shit dialog, ie. strong characters who speak directly to each other.The female lead's catch phrase was "th...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:11:00 GMT |
Quote, unquote |
Here are a few quotes that have tickled my fancy over the years.Old Taoist saying - "Those who know don't speak & those who speak don't know."Old Chinese saying - "The journey of a thousand miles ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:11:00 GMT |
Medit - Ocean |
I can feel the sand between my toesand taste the salt with the buds in my nose.The Ocean drones like a lion's roarlapping against my feet on the shore.I walk forever and ever and everuntil I arrive at...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:51:00 GMT |
The Purple Patch King is .......Van (The Man) |
Speaking of purple patches, I read in the August issue of 'The Word' music mag, (featuring Van Morrison), where someone was raving about Bowie's purple patch between 'Heroes and Low' or whatever.On an...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:24:00 GMT |
"If its to be, its up to me" - 3 x 3 = free |
It's been a pretty crazy past three weeks and here's me trying to make sense of it.There's been two sequences of three events occurring over these three weeks.At first I thought the law of karma had g...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:05:00 GMT |
