Olivia Newton-John — R.I.P.
August 8, 2022Olivia Newton-John has died, it was announced today. She was 73, same age as me. In the 1970s I had a continuous crush on Stevie Nicks, Diane Keaton, and Olivia Newton-John. A most-peculiar period for…
Category Archives: music
Sunday Serenade: ‘Rain’ In Drought Land
July 10, 2022As half the year has glided by seemingly in a flash full of shit news and real-life weirdness, I need to escape the wiles and worries of the nowadays and drown myself in some ‘rain-prominent‘…
Boris Flies And Cries ‘Them’s The Breaks’
July 7, 2022Across the wide pond this Thursday morning a musical interlude in the sound of a dipshit leaving. Boris Johnson resigned as UK prime minister, but in a slow-stepped process that will supposedly not take place…
Sunday Serenade — ‘Ourself Behind Ourself, Concealed’
May 22, 2022End of another weekend, and close to the end of a month, plus, close to the heat of summer — not so bad outside this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley, warmish, but breezy…
Destination 12: ‘Summer Breeze’
May 4, 2022Upper reaches of the word ‘warm‘ this late-afternoon/early-evening Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — short of 6 PM right now and even with a slight breeze it’s reportedly 98-degrees outside. Shit-on-a-barbeque-stick. I was out…
Write Now: ‘Changing Faces In The Middle Of A Dream Gets You Old’
May 1, 2022(Illustration: ‘Man writing Painting,’ by Rebecca Beris, and found here). Sunny and breezy this early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — May Day, May Day! This year is whiplash-throttling down the tracks, huh? I…
Sunday Semi-Serenade — ‘Dancing In The Dark’
April 3, 2022Early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — today another sun-splashed one with nice temperatures cooled by gentle breezes. In the sense of external living conditions, this is probably as good as it gets. All…
Sunday Serenade: ‘This Laugh’s On Me’
March 13, 2022Despite a shitload of shit happening all over on many levels and subjects, I doomscrolled on the InterWebs until my fingers wept and concluded the nowadays is an enigma wrapped in a riddle painted by…
Music In An Ukrainian War: ‘Are we that wait—sufficient worth—’
March 6, 2022Again doomscrolling this afternoon to the music of Ukraine still afire, with the flames getting higher. And an update from the Guardian‘s live blog not too long ago — results about the same as yesterday,…
Sunday Serenade — Big Screen Opening-Music Memories
February 6, 2022Instead of political bullshit — surfed the InterWebs this afternoon/early evening, but nothing odd or significant to catch the eye — I instead listened to the main title of one of my way-most-favorite movies, “Lawrence…