Alison Krauss: Take me for longing
She’s the one we’re listening to these days, her voice is the one rocking me to sleep. This is one of my favorite bluegrass love songs, straight from the heart.
Patti Smith: Horses
She‘s a giant, punk stands on her shoulders. I drove my dad absolutely crazy playing “Horses” (“that’s pornography!” “no, that’s art!”) and her version of “Gloria”. When I tried to convince him that she was a poet and an intellectual, he said, “How can she hear herself think?” Actually, I think the performance comes after […]
Emmylou Harris: Calling my children home
Just about to book my trip to visit my old mother. Not having children of my own, I can only imagine what it must have meant to her to watch her sons and then me go off oversees. Here is a song I found after my brother Chris sent me another great link of Emmylou […]
The Story of Bonnie and Clyde
by Bonnie Parker (herself!) You’ve read the story of Jesse James – Of how he lived and died. If you’re still in need of something to read, Here’s the story of Bonnie and Clyde. Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang. I’m sure you all have read How they rob and steal, and those […]
The bare necessities
The students at the biotech company I teach at work veeeery hard, and I’m just translating a study on biotechnology and pharmaceuticals in Munich that is super interesting, so you’d think that’s what we’ll be discussing next lesson, right? Wrong. There was a request, you see, to compare the German and the English text of […]
Susan Boyle Sings on Britain’s Got Talent
Britain’s got Talent! As for the opening act of the season, we were told as children: Don’t judge a book by its cover. The old “freakshow” is alive and well, and it’s still got morals for the masses. The embedded video doesn’t run, so see it here. What I’m doing with this A group of […]
Pub talk and Lisa Hannigan
I know you need it to break the ice but… I hate small talk. I love pub talk. Life is jut too short to waste on banal subjects, and it is just so marvellous to meet people and find common interests. That’s why I enjoy going to the pub to meet friends, colleagues, acquaintances. Eamonn […]
