We’ve been listening to Duffy for the last 6 months and I think she knocks spots off Amy Winehouse. Duffy is now receiving a lot of attention in the US and UK – here’s her most recent song – judge for yourself – I predict she will be a major star in the classic style….
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Duffy
Posted in Music, tagged Duffy on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recommendation – Polish Music
Posted in Music, Poland, Things I Like, tagged Polish Music on February 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Regular readers will know (I wonder how many blog articles are started with those four words!) that I am a big music fan – our CD collection now exceeds 2500 albums. Even when I download tracks from iTunes I still need to have the hard copy in the collection. There was a time when I [...]
International words
Posted in Language, Music, Poland on January 15, 2008 | 8 Comments »
My manuscript for the book is full of words and sentences I can only best describe as belonging in the Polglish language. Most of which I learn when having lengthy discussions with Polish people.
I’ve started reading a book, The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World by Adam Jacot de Boinod. [...]
The future of music videos
Posted in Music on November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Online music downloads, online radio stations and iTunes have fundamentally changed the way we listen to music. But when it comes to music videos little has changed – sure YouTube is huge but many of the videos are home made/amateur videos. What I mean is the making of videos
Wave of Sorrow
Posted in Music, Things I Like on November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I find that when you know the story behind the making of a song or movie you appreciate them so much more. For example my absolute favourite movie of 2006 was Babel and after I watched the making of the movie I appreciated it so much more. The same can [...]
My Music Listening
Posted in Books, Music on November 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I was talking to my wife about song lyrics and how I hear the words far more now than I used too. This made me think of the following section from the book which I will share with you – When I was younger, much younger I envisioned my eighty-five-year-old [...]
