Kate Bush’s poignant classic. Based on Peter Reich’s story of his father’s arrest for building a device that, so it’s said, actually DID make rain. (And yes, that IS the always-awesome Donald Sutherland, playing Wilhelm Reich.)
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Music for a Sunday: You will pay tomorrow
My Facebook amigo Billie posted this to my page last night, and it’s too good not to share. Christ, how DID I miss this gem when it first came out?
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: A quarter-life crisis never looked so cute
I remember mine, and I remember what got me through it. How ’bout you?
And yeah, we could use some more talk about a revolution. AGAIN.
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Only to twist again…
Dreamy, low-key gorgeousness. Shot in Scotland, where the landscape comes with moodiness built right in.
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Anyone here know how to Madison?
Long live (???) camp. Tim Curry (as Dr. Frank N. Furter) always did have a certain je ne sais quoi. Remember, he seduces both Brad AND Janet.
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Hangin’ out with Janis, movin’ to Atlantis
One of the best guitar intros ever, and probably my favorite of all their songs.
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: The earliest indignada?
I’m not sure if she was writing an actual protest song here, but this old tune of Sade’s certainly applies to a lot of people out there, occupying the world:
“We are hungry, but we’re not gonna give in…”
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: When I close my eyes
What I give thanks for: places that aren’t gone…yet.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Music for a Sunday: That rich windy weather…
You are Bogart, he is George Raft, that leaves Cagney and me…
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: You make me feel so bourgeois
An acoustic version of the great classic. “What’s your name, honey?”
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: The summer’s out of reach…
…and what better song to sum up the melancholy?
From the sun going down alone to a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac…it’s all in there.
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Hast du etwas Zeit für mich?
An only slightly fanciful version of how stupid the Cold War mentality could get. Germany was caught in the middle of it all, and Germans (including this Canadian one) were heartily sick of the posturing, brinksmanship, and general nonsense from both sides. Only now, much later, can we see why: Given that the NORAD jets […]
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: You could come if you wanted to…
Just another end-of-summer tune for gettin’ silly to.
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: They met in a hurricane…
A song to fit both the weather (Hurricane Irene, now a tropical storm petering out) and my mood (sombre and pensive, but still daring to hope.)
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: And do you feel scared?
I do. But I won’t stop and falter:
And after a day like the one I just had, things had BETTER get better.
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Never mind the bollocks
What could be better than this song for Merry Old England right now?
Okay, maybe this one:
And after all this, won’t you give me a smile?
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: I close my eyes to the restless skies
Hiroshima Day was yesterday. This great Canadian song from yesteryear comes to mind:
Watch the video closely and you’ll see some real live World War II vets marching in.
Continue readingMusic for a Monday: A lament for Che
Yes, I know, this is very belated; I should have put this up yesterday: Steven Soderbergh’s two-volume movie of Che’s Cuban triumph and his Bolivian downfall is hugely ambitious, and in some instances falls short of its obviously high intent. Benicio del Toro, despite the first film’s subtitle “The Argentine”, isn’t from Argentina, and, though […]
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Amy Winehouse, RIP
Calle 13 posted this video to their official page with the comment: “Wow, Amy Winehouse died! What a shame, she had a tremendous voice!” I think that about sums it up, yes. Whatever else she had going on, despite the tabloids that hounded her ad nauseam (and, in so doing, probably exacerbated her troubles), her […]
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: One to listen to while you read your trashy tabloids
Although…heh…this week, if you’re in Britain, you’ll have one less. In which case, a little consolation may be in order. So, here you go…an old Spitting Image sketch of Rupert Murdoch conferring with two of his “rep…
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