What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
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Road to Eurovision 2019: Week 3 – Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #5: Wet, Stanaj, MXMS, RY X, SG Lewis
Set a spell, people. Take off your shoes, throw that rat back into the race without you and smell those flowers that you keep racing by. It’s time to let life chill itself out, turn the dial down from fast to slow and meditate on the fact that while lots Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2019: Week 2 – Finland, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Montenegro
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2019: Week 1 – Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #4: Nafets, Anna of the North, Barrie, Elohim, Rex Orange Country
We hide way too much. Not that everything has to be out in the open – some things should be kept quiet for a variety of reasons. But too often we don’t discuss life in all its uplifting and brutal messiness, conversations that could help many of us to feel Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #3: MANE, Elk Road & JES, Eves Karydas, Haelos, Eilish Gilligan + Eurovision update
Life is full of all kinds of experiences, good and bad. Sometimes we can express how they make us feel and sometimes we can’t; for those times when words escape us, we have music artists to do the heavy-lifting, articulation-wise for us, such the five featured in this post. Hailing Continue Reading
Is this the real thing? It is … welcome to the Bo-Meme-Ean Rhapsody video
SNAPSHOT Welcome to the Official Bo-Meme-Ean Rhapsody fan video!. Initially, I just collected all the images and captioned them (lyrics by Freddie Mercury), and put them in order. But when I made the image folder public & shareable on Facebook, it went viral and exploded in about 3 days. My Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #2: SOAK, Dido, Beirut, Dodie, The Japanese House + Eurovision update
Life is a many-complicated thing. Yeah, yeah, I know it’s supposed to be “splendoured” but really sometimes, it doesn’t feel so much wondrous as complicated, a mix of the god and the bad, the lovely and the not-so-much and moments rich with potential but ripe with disappointment. Sure, we all Continue Reading
Boldly go where no carpool has gone before: the cast of Star Trek Discovery find their inner disco queen
Sure, they can face off against bloodythirsty, warmongering Klingons, triumph over bad guys from another dimension and rescue people in the nick of time from planetary into a devouring sun … but can the crew of the Discovery, Star Trek’s latest ship of the line, SING? Or, at least, singalong, Continue Reading