(via Shutterstock) I love music. It moves me in so many different, profoundly deep ways and it acts as a soundtrack to my life, sometimes making sense of stuff I’m going through and other times simply giving me some diversion from the annoying bits and pieces of life. Like commuting; Continue Reading
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Merry pop culture Christmas to all … and to all a good streaming-reading-listening night!
(courtesy Pinterest (c) Charles M. Schulz) Merry pop culture Christmas everyone! I have had a ball as always this year writing about all kinds of books, movies, TV/streaming shows, graphic novels/comics and songs, and while it’s been tough to keep writing in my spare time when my day job as Continue Reading
On 12th day of Christmas … I listened to Songs for Christmas by Christina Perri
(courtesy Apple Music) Have you ever sat back and watched a Christmas special, especially a British one with its earthy humanity and whimsical sense of joy and felt like someone was giving you a great, big soul-reviving hug? If you have, and here’s to everyone being so beautifully treated, you Continue Reading
On 6th day of Christmas … I put 15 more pop culture ornaments on my tree incl. ABBA, Parks and Recreation, Ziggy and Goofy
(via Shutterstock) What, what, you say, you have yet more ornaments to place upon the tree? Why yes, yes I do; every year I tell myself I’ll stick to 9 or 10 new ones, just the best of the best and yet every year, 50 to 60, sometimes more make Continue Reading
On 5th day of Christmas … I listened to A Christmas Album by Matthew Ifield
(courtesy EMI Australia) Hailing from Sydney, Australia, Matthew Ifield is an up-and-coming 18-year-old singer who has the gloriously lovely voice of an old soul. He brings his nuanced and warmly emotive vocals to full winning effect on A Christmas Album which comes the singer fervent love of the season. I Continue Reading
On 2nd day of Christmas … I listened to Seth MacFarlane & Liz Gillies’ We Wish You the Merriest
(courtesy Verve Records/Republic Records) Granted it’s not a hard and fast rule, but like so much else when it comes to Christmas, the music of the season is supposed to have buoyant joyfulness to it, as if all the weight of the past year, soaked in banality and adulthood and Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #100 – Christmas 2023 singles – Andrea + Virginia Bocelli, Michael Bolton + Mickey Guyton, One Republic, ASTN + DITA + Ingrid Andress … plus new Ingrid Michaelson song
(via Shutterstock) There are Christmas albums without number, and while it’s fun to listen to a whole roster of songs from one artist which bring the season musically alive, there’s also something rather wonderful about a song here or there which give a few minutes of magical joy before they Continue Reading
Ring in the festive season with Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas
(courtesy IMDb (c) AppleTV+) Christmas is an inherently exuberant time of the year. Whether you choose to lean into that exuberance is another matter entirely, but regards of whether you’re a tinsel addict or a Scrooge, there’s no escaping the fact that the most wonderful time of the year is Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more birthday songs #99: Retro favourites including “Pop Muzik”, “Born to Be Alive”, “I Eat Cannibals”, “Video Killed the Radio Star” and “Elaine” by ABBA
In my early years of discovering music in the 1970s, all I really listened to were the bands/artists my parents liked like The Seekers and Nana Mouskouri, and of course ABBA who were HUGE in Australia at the time. But then somewhere around disco bursting onto the scene, all kinds Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #98: Baby Queen, Cat Burns, Tom Walker, Bonnie McKee + Jade LeMac … and Eurovision 2024 update
(via Shutterstock) One of the lovely parts of life is that we set out expecting everything to be wonderful. Fuelled by the innate optimism of youth and free from the scars of bitter experience, we naturally assume, because why would we think otherwise, that life will be one long moment Continue Reading