What I’m listening to

Old Time Radio Free Podcast and Download Blog has a fascinating array of audio treasures from decades past. Let me give you a few examples:

The Goon Show – The Spanish Suitcase
Django Reinhardt
Ella Fitzgerald
Maxwell House Coffee Time
Jeff Regan Investigator

I also enjoyed The Ark, which was a show on Radio National in Australia presented by the delightful [...]

Still thinking about Susan Boyle

I posted about this a week ago, and here I am still thinking about Miss Susan Boyle, singer.
Article here from the BBC’s website on 22 April 2009.
So has she changed the way society views beauty?
Don’t bet on it, says Ellis Cashmore, author of Celebrity/Culture [...]
“The astonishment we feel re-enforces the belief that there exists [...]

Am I that shallow, too?

Think about it. How often do you make a decision about a person based first upon their appearance? It takes a fraction of a second to sum up a person, to think “yes, this is a winner” or “no, this is a loser”, or “yes, this person might be my friend.”
Like many thousands of others, [...]

Music

I feel lost. I don’t know where my musical identity has gone to.
Several years ago I gave up working on my solo singing. Up to that point I had spent (in total) probably thousands of dollars over the years on private tuition, travel, sheet music and more. I was a good singer. Adaptable, musical, sensitive, [...]

It’s Music AND Lyrics, gal!

I have the theme tune for Thomas the Tank Engine going through my head at odd times: getting changed, putting out the compost, sorting recycling. The weird thing is that I can’t get the words right. I end up singing “Shunting hucks and trawling fate”.
Beth Hering’s recent post has reminded me of that show. I [...]