I started to make a list of the LP’s I wanted to work through but gave up after a few minutes. there are far too many to list. Having said that there *are* a few highlights to mention, for example, Johann Sebastian Back “Overtures 1 – 4” played on ‘original instruments’ by Concentus Musicus Vienna, … More Music? What music?
Well ok this one *isn’t* quite as horizontal as the one we saw was, but it’s damn close!! This one was supplied by a friend in the AO forum. It was taken up on the Gold Coast… the lights are on the highway. Ours was also far lower on the horizon and so appeared far … More Horizontal Crescent Moon
At age 84 the man who was possibly *the* best known mime artist around the world has finally died. Marcel lost his father to the invading German forces in WWII and joined first the resistance and then the Free French Army. It wasn’t until 1946 that he finally began to study acting and mime but … More Vale Marcel Marceau
Reading in the papers this morning about some supposed lesbian antics going on between those whiter than white soap opera sisters Marcia and Jan Brady, (Maureen McCormick and Eve Plumb). Well the story is a non-event since who really cares whether it’s true or not. What got me laughing was that the report shows this … More Oops wrong Brady Bunch!
Yet again another Australian was sentenced to death for heroin smuggling. This time it was Hong Viet Nguyen a 40 year old of Vietnamese descent caught with 95- grams of the drug in his clothes. And how much did he sell his life for? Just US$10,000. You have to wonder at what’s happening in these … More Another death sentence
Why on earth could a lovely little girl like this be abandoned on a railway station and have *nobody* come forward to identify her or know who she is? Temporarily named ‘Pumpkin’ because of the ‘Pumpkin Patch’ clothes she was wearing, she was found wandering on a Melbourne railway station fifteen minutes after the man … More Lonely Pumpkin
Just visited Kat’s Karaven and found a post from May 2007 which carries the MP3 of John Peel’s first Top Gear on 1st October 1967. It’s 60 mb but I couldn’t resist it. Quite amazing. It’s carrying *live* tracks from people like Traffic, Nirvana, Floyd etc. Some of this stuff I’ve either never heard before … More Late Great John Peel
Uncomfortable reports are surfacing around the globe about ‘confirmed’ DNA testing that ‘shows conclusively’ little Madeline McCann missing now for over 4 months was given sleeping tablets in a sufficiently high dose to kill her! The DNA that produced these results is said to have been found in the boot of the hire car the … More Did McCann do it?
I’ve little sympathy for the Bali Nine directly, other than the usual human concern for them. They knew what they were doing when they tried to smuggle drugs out of Indonesia. They knew the penalties included a death sentence and were prepared to take the risk. They lost. On the other hand I have tremendous … More Who'd be parent to a drug mule?
Most people will never have heard of Clare, but she died today after losing her struggle against skin cancer. Clare used a tanning solarium around 20 times in her early 20’s but three years ago was diagnosed with a particularly malignant form of cancer. She was operated on, but the cancer returned and yesterday it … More Clare Oliver dies
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