“Have yourself a merry little Christmas…” – the execution scene from “The Victors” (1963)
The Victors is a 1963 film depicting American GIs over the course of World War II. Portrayals of World War II now tend to be reverent and serious, ever since…
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Play That Funky Classical Music White Boy
Raiding the vast (and out of copyright) canon of classical music has been a recurrent theme in popular music, from Frank Sinatra to The Farm to Eric Carmen (though Carmen’s…
Review of “Guys and Dolls” from StompTokyo.com 1999/2000-ish
While the website Stomp Tokyo still exists, this particular review is on it no more…and I am not sure how well it fitted with Stomp Tokyo’s overall aesthetic of “B-movies, Godzilla…
New York songs: Liza Minnelli, Carey Mulligan, Lou Reed, The Clash, Lang Lang
New York has been much celebrated in song. In recent years, these songs have tended towards the unpleasantly grandiose; New York as an arena of near-unlimited personal fulfillment and narcissistic…
Rain songs: Sinatra, The Go-Betweens, Linda Perhacs
It’s a rainy morning and with numbing literality I am going to post three songs with the word “rain” in the title. Three songs which, in different ways, capture something…
Séamus Sweeney 