by Charles Norman | Apr 24, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
The Unswept – Forget The Day Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl. ― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is...
by Charles Norman | Apr 13, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
laughingstock – Something Lite To remain master of one’s four virtues: courage, insight, sympathy, and solitude. For solitude is a virtue with us, as a sublime bent and bias to purity, which divines that in the contact of man and man, in society, it must...
by Charles Norman | Apr 9, 2020 | Off the Wall, Song of the Day
Under the Covers with Bob Dylan There exist people whose lives were transformed the first time they heard Bob Dylan. Full disclosure: I am not one of those people. I eased into Bob Dylan — adding a track here, an album there — through a process of...
by Charles Norman | Apr 3, 2020 | Off the Wall, Song of the Day
Five Songs to Brighten Your Friday Lockdown Jukes, held with his head in chancery, had to listen to what seemed horrible suggestions.’Don’t want… you get lost… so long… ship isn’t… Rout… Good man… Ship…...
by Charles Norman | Mar 30, 2020 | Song of the Day
The Gold Coast – All This Time Every culture has an origin narrative, the story of how their people came to exist on this earth. The tales are passed from one generation to the next, vocally in cultures that do not have a written language. In my tribe the legend...
