A Nice Looking Blog

I recently found this nice looking blog about Mike Oldfield. I kind of have to say “nice looking” because it is in spanish I do not understand much of it to be honest. For me there are at least some nice pictures to look at…
The blog is also powered by WordPress and is using a nice [...]

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Free is Nice – David Helpling

This time I would like to point you towards the music of David Helpling. David is a self-taught musician and he has released a few solo albums, composed music for movies and also collaborated with Jon Jenkins on their latest album “Treasure”.
On The Offical David Helpling Website you can download some previously unreleased tracks and [...]

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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before Something Bad Happens… # 995

Inspired by Steven Jay Schneider’s book “1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die”
# 995
Artist: Pink Floyd
Title: The Wall
Year: 1979

This is perhaps one of my first obvious albums in this series. You may think that there are other Pink Floyd albums that are better and perhaps you are right. They have done a few other albums [...]

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Two Kid Movies in One Day

Today I actually managed two watch two whole movies. It has been a long time since I did that. When I started to think about that I realized that both movies had the word “Kid” in the title… spooky…
 
The first one I watched this morning was the documentary called “My Kid Could Paint That” which [...]

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The Derek Zoolander Awards – Down With Love

This Derek Zoolander Award goes to a movie which almost gives the term “colour movie” a whole new meaning. The movie is called Down With Love and it is packed with a palette of sixties technicolor, great sets and cool outfits. The always funny David Hyde Pierce, mostly known as Niles Frasier from TV, has a [...]

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Hidden Treasure – Computer Incantations For World Peace

The first track on Jean-Luc Ponty’s album “Individual Choice” from 1983 is called “Computer Incantations For World Peace”.
I heard this track the first time when I was in Los Angeles in 1990 and it blew my mind. The track is built around some really wonderful synth arpeggios and to me it is almost hypnotic. I first heard this track playing on some really [...]

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How to stop James Bond

If you want to stop James Bond from escaping you should put up a roadblock like they do here in the movie The Living Daylights from 1987.
Do NOT forget your little red and white signs so that Mr Bond can see that you mean business!

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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before Something Bad Happens… # 996

Inspired by Steven Jay Schneider’s book “1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die”
# 996
Artist: Lucinda Williams
Title: Essence
Year: 2001

The album Essence by Lucinda Williams is one album I always come back to and every time I listen to it I get amazed by how good every single track is.
This is a calm and down to [...]

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Mr Bean – Nobel Prize in Comedy?

Last weekend I watched Mr Beans’ Holiday with my daughter. It had it´s moments but I must say this was the weakest attempt so far. I really enjoyed the first full length movie and the TV episodes are mostly really good.
My daughter liked when he made funny faces and silly things so I got out the [...]

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Some serious guitar playing…

When I saw the image of Chris Squire playing that bass with three necks, which you can see my previous post, it looked kind of familiar. Where had I seen that before?
And last night I remembered, it was in the Genesis video for the song “Land of Confusion”. But to my surprise Mike Rutherford beat Chris Squire with [...]

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