For this week’s theme I decided to take a break and do some lighter fare and watch some movies based on French comics. I’d seen the first of the live action adaptation of Asterix staring Christian Clavier and Gerard Depardieu[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m sorry if i’m going on and on about biking progress but today’s ride was getting into wondering if there’s something wrong with my stopwatch territory so I must crow! The ride started out about average slowed down a little[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was beginning to start working on a Christmas playlist to start later this week and I started by starting to look for Duke Ellington’s version of the Nutcracker Suite when out of habit I searched for a Rhapsody instead[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On the suggestion of a friend I started experimenting with doing the ongoing theme of forgotten Oscar nominees whenever I didn’t have any better ideas, To start this exercise I decided to begin with the year of my birth, 1968. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t really have much of a plan for this year’s playlist other than keep things eccentric or at least interesting. For the first one is “We Three King”s from A Claymation Christmas Celebration. I’ve always been a fan of Will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s Christmas Music we have one of my all time favorites, Tom Lehrer. Regrettably I couldn’t find a live performance of this (if anyone in one is interested, Hong Kong Tenor David Quah, does a pretty good version of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Anytime you can sneak Miles Davis into a playlist is a win for me so here he is this year’s Christmas Playlist with Blue Xmas (To Whom it May Concern) along with Bob Dorough! It’s nearly as cynical as Tom[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I decided to take a brief break from my countdown of cynical christmas music and go with something a little bit light hearted with Snoopy’s Christmas by The Royal Guardsmen. I’ve always liked the Snoopy vs the Red Baron songs and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It occurred to me that it was a shame that the appearance of the pony suit in Sunday’s strip is the only appearance it gets in the entire story line and you don’t even get to see it fully assembled![…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As we get into the home stretch to Christmas tomorrow I thought I’d go with an old Disney classic of the 1932 Silly Symphony Santa’s Workshop, directed by Wilfred Jackson. As one can imagine, I’ve always been a fan of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
