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“I never joke about my ranking, 007!”: The Official and Correct Ranking of the James Bond Movies, conclusion

And at last, here we are: the top five James Bond movies. I like that my top five has quite a bit of variety: it spans more than 40 years of films, and five of the six men who have … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

Ever see any of these “ambience” videos floating around YouTube? They are long videos, usually multiple hours long, that you can turn on and let play in the background if you want a specific sonic ambience. There are “rushing stream … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) is a composer about whom I know very little. I can’t even name a work of his off the top of my head! But maybe I should change that, after listening to today’s piece, Four Motets for Christmastime. … Continue reading

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Licence to Rank: The Official and Correct Ranking of the James Bond Movies, part 4

So here we go: the first half of my person Top Ten James Bond movies! Let’s refresh our rankings to this point: Part One: 26. LIVE AND LET DIE 25. DIE ANOTHER DAY 24. THE SPY WHO LOVED ME 23. GOLDFINGER 22. DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

A longer work today, and one that I’m unfamiliar with to this point: the Christmas Oratorio by Camille Saint-Saens. Saint-Saens was one of the most gifted musical prodigies in history, ranking almost with Mozart in terms of the ease with which music … Continue reading

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It really is like this (a writing update)

Since I rededicated this space as my primary home online and the center of my blogging universe, I haven’t discussed my writing progress much! But first, a diversion. Someone shared this painting on Twitter the other day, and I found … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

OK, yesterday I featured Queen doing “White Christmas”. Freddie Mercury is one of the four faces on my personal Mount Rushmore of popular music voices, so let’s see what I can find by the other three? Here’s Annie Lennox: Next … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

Here’s a rarity that I didn’t even know existed. It’s not the best quality recording, because it’s taken from a live show more than forty years ago, but the worst recording of Freddie Mercury is still a recording of Freddie … Continue reading

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And now, an airplane.

Just because, here’s a cool-looking plane. It’s meant for really big cargo, and it’s called–get this–the “Super Guppy”. You can see the full size version of this here.  

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

Since I’m doing all this James Bond content of late, here’s a Christmas song from the James Bond Christmas movie, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service! (Yes, it’s a Christmas movie, but yes, that ending…sob….anyway….) This song is heard in the movie … Continue reading

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