Musique Noire - Fade to Black - Dire Straits

Music and lyrics by Mark Knopfler

A WIlliam Boroughs Christmas

I hope nobody's gonna their thong all in a knot (actually, I hope they do) over William Burroughs After all, it's just a story.   ;-)

Pagan Sphinx Entertainment Highlight: The New Coen Brothers Movie

If life is just a series of small, pleasurable amusements, I think I'll take it.   ;-)

Film makers Ethan and Joel Cohen Coen prove that good American films can still be made. Here is the trailer from their latest movie A Serious Man. WP, Lovely Stepdaughter #1 (visiting from San Francisco for the weekend) and I went to see it on Saturday night. We got there late and had to sit 12" from the screen but well worth it, since the offering from the creators of Fargo, is always likely to be entertaining.

That all religions often fail us than not, is an under-statement. Not to mention the god of Mathematics.



And because there's not a bone in my body that can resist the song in its entirety - Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane:

Music for Sunday - John Prine- Lake Marie

A song that tells a story - actually two stories. This goes out to my friends Cunning Runt and his brother, Gary. 

They have both been on my mind.

Birthday Wishes for C.R.

This is going out by request to my friend The Cunning Runt. And it's his birthday today, so why don't you go on over to Little Bang Theory and wish him a good one!

Glitter and Doom

A trip through the world of Tom Waits can be disorienting. His ramshackle story-songs, with their creaky instrumentation and dusty poetry, usually leave listeners with more questions than answers, and his persona outside of his music revolves around a playful but guarded mix of fiction and reality...read more