Evenstar

This song, better than any without lyrics in my opinion, perfectly captures the essence of love. It is dramatic. It is fragile. It is bold. It is restrained. It aches, as love does - either blissfully, shared, or agonisingly, lost. From memory, in The Lord of the Rings, the music covers a part of one …

The Fifth Element

One of my favourite films. And the soundtrack, an excellent example of which is attached below, is, well, excellent. It's a pretty simply gorgeous science fiction love story. The love story itself is possibly the most epic in existence. The fate of all life, in fact, in The Fifth Element, depends on love. Plus I …

Shameless View Grab

Just noticed I'm close to 10,000 all time views so this. Keywords. . . . Hmmmm. . . . Boobs. Sex. War. Nude. Trump. Coronavirus. Fire. Climate. Climate change. Climate crisis. Impeach. Impeachment. Drugs. Star Wars. That'll do. And an eye grabbing photo: Carnival, Brunswick Heads NSW. Greta Thunberg. Kobe Bryant. Now we wait. . …

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World – my take

(Spoilers throughout, and especially toward the end.) It is above all else a film about conflict. Explicitly, that between the British and the French in the days of sails and cannon and muskets on the high seas of the so-called at the time “far side of the world” (around the south-east and west coasts of …

The (artist once formerly known as) Prince is dead.

During my childhood Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares 2 U was a favourite of mine. At least until I discovered she was bald. Hey, I was a kid. And us men, we’re all at least a little superficial. It probably wasn’t an issue of attraction, anyway. Guess I just thought women should have hair. But I …

US and UK – I Lived By the River – Part Four of Nine

Portland, Oregon, was as you may remember a progressive Pacific-north-western American city I missed while riding a dragon (Wicked Camper) from California to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This is a little regrettable because since then I’ve learned without much effort more about the city’s vibrancy, despite its almost year-round wet-and-cold-weather. Such weather was itself credited …

US and UK – I Lived By the River – Part Two of Nine

When I’d first booked a return flight from Gold Coast Airport on Friday October 12, 2012, Wednesday December 12 was meant to have been the end of the greatest geographical, physical and intellectual journey of my life, at LAX International Airport to Brisbane via Auckland. Instead, blessedly, I was setting out from Blackheath, south-east London …

US and UK – A Small Sweet Bite of That Biggest of Apples – Part Five of Five

It’s so appropriate that New York gets five blog posts. A real testament to its imposing in every way scale. Plus I know I, predictably, got enough photos to go with so many words, which is reassuring. This bit is worth the extra thousand words or so. You’ll enjoy it, I guarantee it, or your …

US and UK – A Small Sweet Bite of That Biggest of Apples – Part Three of Five

Both happily surprised and comically disappointed that Emma was much more co-ordinated on ice-skates than she’d suggested, I spent three hours or about five or six miles skating around the Wollman Rink with that energetic and diminutive lady of the old country. She talked constantly. About everything. Like she was a paintbrush that had been …

US and UK – Some Guys Can Handle Las Vegas – Part One of Four

Wicked Campers’ Vancouver depot dude said through the cigarette haze surrounding us that no Goddamn way could I walk from the Marpole area where the depot was located, to Vancouver International Airport.  Funny, it perhaps deceivingly looked a walkable distance, just across the north arm of the Fraser River delta.  I must take a cab, …