by Charles Norman | May 21, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
The Crystal Furs – Expo 67 Ruins may be decaying, they are not dead, they are filled with possibilities for wondrous adventure, inspiring visions, quiet moments, peripatetic playfulness, dystopic preparation and artistic potential. — Bradley Garrett,...
by Charles Norman | May 18, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
John Dredge and The Plinths – Where I Used To Be From where I stood I watched them recede in the frame of the roadway, between the Moorish house and the Lombardy poplar. Then the little sedan boldly swung past the front truck and, free at last, spurted up the...
by Charles Norman | May 16, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Jeremi Duran – Don’t Take It So Seriously Lazy Eye: What’s your real job, sir?Scout Master Ward: I’m a math teacher.Lazy Eye: What grade?Scout Master Ward: Eighth… I’m going to change my answer, in fact. This is my real job: Scout...
by Charles Norman | May 14, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Ghost Fan Club – Passing Through You only gotta do one thing well to make it in this world, babe / You got a woman waiting for you there / All you ever gotta do is be a good man one time to one woman / And that’ll be the end of the road, babe —...
by Charles Norman | May 8, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Christopher Ryan – A Little Bigger People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom? — Thich Nhat Hanh My wife talks to our peppers and tomatoes. Oooh...
by Charles Norman | May 6, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Borrowed Books – Altona The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice. — Steve Aylett, Bigot Hall Consider the pantomime horse: two people who share a single quadruped costume, enclosed within a relationship of...