Today is our last day in Sweden. We’ll jet off into the dark western sky for another hop over the North Sea. After landing in Heathrow we’re in for what is bound to be a harried race across London to Gatwick Airport – with slightly more luggage than we arrived in Sweden with ten days [...]
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“I was dreaming of a steel guitar engagement
When you drink my health in scented jasmine tea
You knifed me in my dirty filthy basement
With that jaded faded junky nurse
Oh, what pleasant company…”
-The Rolling Stones – “Let It Bleed”*
I’ve not got a lot of great photos of Sweden to share with you today because, if the truth [...]
I’m As Cool As A Cucumber In A Bowl Of Hot Sauce
“Well I think I’m losing my mind this time
This time I’m losing my mind
That’s right, said I think I’m losing my mind this time
This time I’m losing my mind
Yeh, you can’t front on that…”
-The Beastie Boys – “So, What’cha Want?”
The Easter holidays in Britain mean a wonderful four day weekend in the height of Spring. [...]
Camembert
As a geneticist I knew, intellectually, that my son would be 50% identical to me at the DNA level. What I didn’t realize was what that meant in real life – that I would look at him and often see myself looking back. It is not like a mirror because it’s three dimensional and tangible [...]
Don’t go gettin’ no ideas from the neighbors’ Weimaraner
“Not on your arm
Not on your leg
Not in the toast
Not in the eggs
Not on the carpet
Nor the linoleum
Just how’d your little brother get it smeared all over him…”
-Over the Rhine – “The Poopsmith Song”
The strains of preparing for a trans-continental move must be getting to me because I’m finding the blogging juices have run bone [...]
Over the Rhine - "The Poopsmith Song" [2:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Great Lake Swimmers - "See You On The Moon" [4:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadA very merry unbirthday to me! To who? To me!
More About Wordless Wednesday
Six months isn’t a proper birthday, but it is certainly an unbirthday worth noting.
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The Sugarcubes - "Birthday": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Sufjan Stevens - "Happy Birthday": Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadMiscellany at week’s end
“All my bags are packed
I’m ready to go
I’m standin’ here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye…”
-John Denver – “Leavin’ On A Jet Plane”
Actually none of that is true, but we do have our tickets. And Z has his passports. That Australian one is yummy – tastes like emu.
I’ve really not [...]
Larsen & Furious Jane - "Australia": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - "Leaving On A Jet Plane" [2:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadHe was the one made me what I am today
“Señores y señoras
Nosotros tenemos mas influencia
Con sus hijos, que tu tienes
Pero los queremos
Creado y areglado
De Los Angeles
Juana’s adiccion!”
Listening to Jane’s Addiction, the wonderful SoCal alternative pioneers, always takes me back to Tallahassee, Florida. I lived there for a couple of years at the outset of the nineties. For a good part of that time I [...]
Best Shot Monday: In Bloom
Variety being the spice of life and inspired by Arizaphale’s foray last week I’ve decided to forsake Wordless Wednesday for Best Shot Monday.
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Z’s Music Monday: Belle & Sebastian
“And the head said that you always were a queer one from the start
For careers you say you went to be remembered for your art
Your obsessions get you known throughout the school for being strange
Making life-size models of the Velvet Underground in clay…”
-Belle and Sebastian – “Expectations”
There are a number of British bands that it [...]
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