Yesterday was my busiest day in a while, and just before I staggered off to bed I saw a newpaper headline about ‘Sheriff Fatman’ by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine. The song (which I like) immediately got stuck in my head and unfortunately it is not the type of music that lulls you to sleep. […]
Now…
Our neighbours have taken to playing, and singing along to, what seems to be the entire 1990s run of Now That’s What I Call Music between midnight and 3 every night. It’s disconcerting to be woken up a song that was everywhere for a week during my mid-teens, so that the opening bars are instantly […]
Today is
Here in Malaysia it’s 12 Rabi al Awwal. In Pakistan it was yesterday, shadowed by what had gone before. In the day’s honour, here is Amjad Farid Sabri singing Bhar do jholi, one of my favourite naats. Since this Youtube link may not work forever, and in any case it is improved (as are all […]
You’ve got the power
We were watching Glow last night – excellent show – and came on the episode with the training montage, overlaid by the most familiar song – so familiar that my eyes glazed over and I was eight years old again, watching a video cassette of my favourite cartoon, the Transformers movie. The song was Dare […]
Ticket to Scotland
I went online to buy tickets to an Odissi dance performance at KLPac and saw that Nicola Sturgeon has announced a new Scottish referendum. My first thought was: not another referendum. My second: I wonder, if we must move back to the UK, could it be to Scotland? Trump’s election is an outrage and I […]