Category: music

by Marthe Bijman January 14, 2022 1

What is your unguilty pleasure? – ENYA, by Chilly Gonzales

Musician Chilly Gonzales (born Jason Charles Beck) hates bananas. I’m not that fond of bananas myself. It’s that sticky, doughyContinue Reading

by Marthe Bijman November 26, 2021

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A winner of an alien – Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

Andy Weir’s latest Sci-Fi novel is on the subject of the end of the world: the sun is cooling downContinue Reading

by Marthe Bijman November 10, 2021

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Horrible lyrics and pitiful prose

My guilty pleasure is reading bad writing and then making savage but unspoken criticisms of it. It’s easy to lambastContinue Reading

by Marthe Bijman September 24, 2021

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Revealing the real story behind modern pop music – John Seabrook interview

John Seabrook’s non-fiction writing is the manifestation of his public image. The websites I have found that are dedicated toContinue Reading

by Marthe Bijman September 10, 2021

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Listen to this – Feel it

I am a fan of Nick Cave, and subscribe to his Red Hand Files communiques in which he answers questionsContinue Reading

by Marthe Bijman April 9, 2021

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And now for something completely different

Blogging about books and literature is something that I’ve been doing for more than a decade and may perhaps continueContinue Reading

by Marthe Bijman August 29, 2020

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Absolutely excellent – Going Medieval on Pop Music

One of the books I’m reading now is William Shakespeare’s Get Thee…Back to the Future, by Ian Doescher, which isContinue Reading

by Marthe Bijman July 20, 2020

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Listening to Someone Else’s Dreams – The Age of Anxiety, by Pete Townshend

All the Aging Groovies like me out there would know the name Pete Townshend, the Pete Townshend – a.k.a. Peter DennisContinue Reading

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