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I’ll miss Eartha Kitt

The last few days have seen the death of significant figures:- Conor Cruise O’Brien, Bernard Crick,  Davy Graham and Adrian Mitchell.
They all made their mark.  They left something they created behind, which is why they are mourned by people who never met them.
Here’s an extract from a poem about the necessity of creation in the [...]

This is a guest post by Cornelis Gijsbrechts

El mismo escritor a que vengo aludiendo dice que las catedrales, sin ojes que las contemplen, carecen de valor y que son los ojos que hacen las catedrales. … Hasta cierto punto - y no más - esto es verdad, pero ¿no lo es también que las catedrales [...]

This is a guest post by Cornelis Gijsbrechts

(Continued from last week)
The above painting by Frans Francken II (1581-1642) is an imagined scene in Brussels of the abdication of the Holy Roman Emperor, King Charles V. In 1555 and 1556 Charles V divided the empire between his son Philip II and his brother Ferdinand. The Spanish and [...]

Well, it has finally happened.

Spotify is basically a huge online music service, with pretty much everything I want to listen on it that allows me to listen at will, pause,  and repeat. It is like having the largest MP3 collection in the world.
It has about 200 tracks by the late David Munrow. It has an [...]

An album cover by the band Scorpions (for their 1976 LP Virgin Killer) placed on their Wikipedia page has provoked UK-based ISP’s to block the entry. According to this Live News story:

A Wikipedia article page has been banned by British internet service providers, due to the editors’ refusal to remove an image of a controversial [...]

This is a guest post by Cornelis Gijsbrechts

(continued from last week)
The image shows Lucky Luke, the cartoon cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow.
Here is what Victor Stoichita has to say about Lucky Luke:
“Lucky Luke’s tuft of hair indicates nonchalance, while his double’s indicates fear. The hero’s hat marks the speed of the action, while [...]

What has happened to the Christmas single?
When I were a lad (tear) Slade and Wizzard fought for the Christmas number one spot. Before that Elvis, Phil Spector, Lennon and virtually everyone else regularly released yuletide hits. During the punk wars you were nobody unless you had released a three chord version of a Christmas carol. [...]

This is a guest post by Cornelis Gijsbrechts

If a viewer were to look at a reproduction of Vermeer’s ‘Artist in His Studio’ and notice the four nails holding up the wall-map he or she might not make that much of it. A more ruminative viewer might feel reassured that what appears to be quite a [...]

… that The Smiths first appeared on national television. Yes, it was 24 November 1983 on the BBC’s Top Of The Pops, that Morrissey sang ‘This Charming Man’ into a bouquet of gladiolas, a stylistic affectation made possible by the fact that TOTP was entirely mimed.
Well, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FytmTXgk_C0

I wish I could say I witnesed [...]