The Dance of the Night

Certain conditions lead to wild adventures…at least in the mind. For example, if you drive down a deserted country road at speed, at night, in the pitch black, while listening to Prokofiev’s The Dance of the Knights, you immediately feel like an agent of some great intrigue, charged with deeds of epic importance. You must [...]

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The Man Who Can’t Be Serious

A surface reading of the lyrics of The Man Who Can’t Be Moved should be enough to induce fits of mocking laughter in anyone, but i added notes…
Going back to the corner where I first saw you,
Gonna camp in my sleeping bag. I’m not gonna move,
Yeah you read that right. Homelessness is the new cure [...]

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Knock Three Times….Beware Apartment Living

There’s a lovely film called Now and Then. It’s one of those coming-of-age movies that didn’t turn out to be as entertaining as visiting a distant relative you don’t know in the nursing home of a Sunday. Rosie O’Donnell’s in it, and Melanie Griffith. Actually, it’s got quite a good cast. It’s about the friendship [...]

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