The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
Although not widely known among English-speaking audiences (you might have caught it, however, playing briefly during a scene in the 2003 film Io Non Ho Paura, which was released the following year in the U.S. as I’m Not Scared), Italian superstar Mina’s song “Parole Parole” was quite a hit when it was first heard in [...]
And Far Away (Free subscription) | 01/01/2008
I am not a very musical person. When I use my iPod, I am usually listening to geeky podcasts. In the car, I only realize that the radio/cassette player were turned off when I park the car. At the office, I am usually subjected to Ibarhim's and Yasmeen's music, but wouldn't notice if I [...]
Jeremayakovka (Free subscription) | 10/27/2007
. The theme to the film adaptation of the immortal novel Zorba the Greek, rendered by the mortal Dalida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Summer's gonna leave us...
Jeremayakovka (Free subscription) | 10/27/2007
The theme to the film adaptation of the immortal novel Zorba the Greek, rendered by the mortal Dalida. .
London, City, Summer? (Free subscription) | 09/30/2007
...My Baby Shot Me Down. The point of this post is to give you this. But to understand why I got to to here, you have to read on after. "I was 5 and he was 6" I mentioned the tragic Dalida below . I figured I'd do some preparation for a posting on her, and found this: Which I thought was the French version the of Cher's biggest 1960's hit, written by Sony Bono. Until I listened and realised she was...
Gatochy's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/01/2007
Highlights of a Gente magazine, No. 10, January 15-21, 1974. You can read the whole magazine from the beginning, starting here . On the cover is Carla Barros, the winner of the Miss Portugal beauty contest in 1973. She's beautiful! I think she has a Rita Hayworth Latin kind of beauty. Her sisters are just as beautiful too, what luck! Her eyebrows are over plucked though, a problem in the seventies....
Fashion Geek (Free subscription) | 06/27/2007
Just like any metropolitan city, Paris is busting at the seams with art and museums, not to mention gorgeous pastry shops and cheap wine. From the Louvre to the Musée D'Orsay to a quick train ride out to the Versailles...
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 06/26/2007
3quarksdaily A philosophical meditation on hipster irony, the problem of origins, and death. Hipster irony is at bottom a preoccupation...
Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 06/25/2007
Paroles, by Dalida, words in romance and daily life Wordy Rappinghood by Chicks on Speed, postmodern words Word
