Archive | February 14, 2013

Happy Valentine’s Day: “Chardonnay”

Chardonnay – Gravity: Summer Solstice, 1992 Go tell it to the sea, how he should let go his moonstruck, his shameless high tides – climbing each day, each night kissing at her cloudless indifference. Perhaps he’d answer that it’s all cyclical – hope driving him up the beach and the brooding low tides. Even so, […]

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RT at the BBC

BBC Radio 4 has this neat show–Master Tapes– where they bring in some artist to discuss one of their important albums. It’s a Q&A for the interviewer, John Wilson, and the audience to find out what makes artists tick in some manner, and to discuss why they do what they do in the way they […]

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Photography: On the outside

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ArtsWeek: Ms. Bronte, meet Ms. Austen…

“I could only conclude that excessive vanity, like drunkenness, hardens the heart,enslaves the faculties, and perverts the feelings, and that dogs are not the only creatures which, when gorged to the throat, will yet gloat over what they cannot devour.”  - Anne  Brontë, Agnes Grey  The (to us) least well known Brontë sister (that most tragic family […]

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Our favorite lyrics: S&R describes why we love certain lyrics, if not necessarily the song

Over the years I’ve come to a realization – some of my favorite songs have really stupid lyrics, and some of my favorite lyrics are in songs I’m not a big fan of or, in at least one case, I can’t stand. As a result, I put the following question to my fellow Scrogues: what […]

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