In Memoriam Mark Hollis: On April 5th, here is Talk Talk with April 5th
One of the first, if not the first, albums I bought independently with my own hard-saved chore money was the Talk Talk compilation Natural History. It turned out this was…
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Scott Walker RIP – Angels of Ashes
Only two days ago I cued this up for publication. It turns out Scott Walker had already died. A while back I posted Scott’s “Little Things (That Keep Us Together)”…
The lost worlds of Debois and Julieta Guipeal at the Tipperary County Museum
This is Portrait of a Man, by Julieta Guipeal: Apologies for the photo quality – this was taken with my phone’s camera in a well-lit (and thereby reflective) space. It…
Gizella Bodnár AKA “Airplane Gizi” RIP
Gizella Bodnár has died. No, I hadn’t heard of her either until I came across her via Wikipedia’s Recent Deaths page. Hungary’s “Queen of Thieves”, she also earned the name…
Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe, and a cheers to the Poe Toaster
Poe would be 210 if he was alive today, which would be a surprising development for all concerned. And presumably today will see the appearance of the Poe Toaster at Poe’s Baltimore…
“he was an affectionate husband and tender father, in friendship steady and sincere; to all beneath him courteous, truly just and therefore universally esteemed and beloved. He lived under the influence of religion and died cheerfully supported by it ” – the grave of Jeffry Prendergast, buried in 1713 by his 99 year old father who would live to 111
Readers may note I am partial to the wisdom of gravestones , or even just a striking epitaph. . Trying to find out more about the holy well I came…
Francis Lai RIP
Francis Lai, French composer of soundtracks such as A Man And A Woman and Love Story (and, um, Emmanuelle 2) has died. From the Variety Obit: Lai’s plaintive piano melody…
Joachim Rønneberg RIP
Joachim Rønneberg has died. He was the last living link with the heroics of the Norwegian resistance’s sabotage of the Nazi driver for the atomic bomb, via infiltration of the…
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