by Charles Norman | Sep 19, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
David Woodard – Grand Scheme of Things Every year you pull the same trick on me. You say you’re going to hold the ball while I kick it, but you never do! You always pull it away, and I land flat on my back! — Charlie Brown to Lucy Each year Charlie...
by Charles Norman | Sep 18, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Kasey Locke – Never Get to Heaven Last year a friend brought some tumeric roots back from Mexico, and gave us a pair. We planted them late. The leaves came up and grew a bit, then died away. I assumed that we would never see the tumeric again, and that Tumeric...
by Charles Norman | Sep 4, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Nolan George – Antony A girl sitting on the other side of the pool lowered her book, took off her sunglasses and looked at me. She was so extraordinarily beautiful that I nearly laughed out loud. She was unquestioningly gorgeous. She was a dark unyielding...
by Charles Norman | Aug 20, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Janet Devlin – Cinema Screen The rapper B.o.B was all over the radio and TV with ‘Airplanes’, a song that to this day evokes memories of this period – just one song in a list of many that I have ruined by attaching them to moments of my own annihilation. —...
by Charles Norman | Aug 13, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Rainsticks – Atlanta Traffic I equate films with sand castles. You get a bunch of mates and you go down and you say, ‘I’m gonna build this great sand castle,’ and you build it. And then the tide comes in and in twenty minutes it’s just...
