Richard Harris with MacArthur Park. From his 1968 debut album A Tramp Shining.
"MacArthur Park" is a song written by the American singer-songwriter and composer Jimmy Webb, first recorded in 1967 by the Irish actor and singer Richard Harris. Somewhat curiously, this song about the end of a relationship (of Webb with his then love interest Susie Horton) is classically structured.
Wishbone Ash with The King will come. Album Argus (1972).
British rock band. Formed in Torquay, Devon in 1969 and still around!!!
Nite.
MFBB.
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Saturday, March 21, 2026
SATURDAY NIGHT TEARS FOR FEARS, DAFT PUNK.
Tears for Fears with Until I drown. From the 1995 album Raoul and the Kings of Spain.
Change was the hit that first caught my attention in what now seems aeons ago. Possibly one of the most underrated bands of the late eighties/early nineties. Curt Smith is from Bath, Roland Orzabal, who has Argentine roots, from Portsmouth. Friends since childhood, they formed TfF in 1983. To be sure, Raoul and the Kings of Spain was the second (and final) album without Smith's involvement, but they have since reconciled.
Daft Punk with One More Time. From the 2001 album Discovery.
French electronic music duo formed in 1993 in Paris by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.
Goede nacht.
MFBB.
Change was the hit that first caught my attention in what now seems aeons ago. Possibly one of the most underrated bands of the late eighties/early nineties. Curt Smith is from Bath, Roland Orzabal, who has Argentine roots, from Portsmouth. Friends since childhood, they formed TfF in 1983. To be sure, Raoul and the Kings of Spain was the second (and final) album without Smith's involvement, but they have since reconciled.
Daft Punk with One More Time. From the 2001 album Discovery.
French electronic music duo formed in 1993 in Paris by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.
Goede nacht.
MFBB.
Sunday, March 08, 2026
RECOMMENDED VIDEO: ALI TABRIZI'S "TOP 3 PREDICTIONS FOR EUROPE IF ISLAM KEEPS GROWING".
Ali Tabrizi (* 8 October 1993, Ramsgate, UK) is a British filmmaker of Iranian origin whose main claim to fame is the Netflix series Seaspiracy.
It's not going to end well.
But then, I've been telling that to everyone on this here blog for about 22 years.
MFBB.
It's not going to end well.
But then, I've been telling that to everyone on this here blog for about 22 years.
MFBB.
Saturday, January 31, 2026
SATURDAY NIGHT NEIL DIAMOND, THE HOLLIES.
Neil Diamond with I am...I said. From the 1971 album Stones.
American singer/songwriter from Brooklyn, NY. Still around, still active (somewhat) despite a respectable age of 85 and Parkinson's Disease.
The Hollies with He ain't heavy, he's my brother. From the eponymous 1969 album.
English rock/pop band which formed in Manchester in 1962 and is also still around - unbelievable!
Goede nacht.
MFBB.
American singer/songwriter from Brooklyn, NY. Still around, still active (somewhat) despite a respectable age of 85 and Parkinson's Disease.
The Hollies with He ain't heavy, he's my brother. From the eponymous 1969 album.
English rock/pop band which formed in Manchester in 1962 and is also still around - unbelievable!
Goede nacht.
MFBB.
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
RECOMMENDED VIDEO: "BELGIAN BEAUTIES; THE RENARD FIGHTERS" BY ED NASH'S MILITARY MATTERS.
As a Belgian myself AND an aviation enthusiast to boot, I have known about the Renard designs for a long time, but for most of my followers I guess it will come as a surprise that in the late thirties, several sleek fighter prototypes represented an interesting 'what if' for Belgian military aviation. Unfortunately, the promising R36 lost its attractiveness for both the BAF and potential foreign buyers after the prototype crashed. And the R37 and R38 simply came too late to even be considered for purchase, as Belgium had alreay bought Hawker Hurricanes, Fiat CR42s and Brewster Buffaloes. Still, it's an interesting story, told well by Ed Nash:
A Renard type that DID make it in active BAF service was the R31, a parasol monoplane used for recce. In the event, during the so-called 18-Day Campaign in May 1940, it even performed some ground attacks. The type was Remi Van Lierde's mount.
MFBB.
A Renard type that DID make it in active BAF service was the R31, a parasol monoplane used for recce. In the event, during the so-called 18-Day Campaign in May 1940, it even performed some ground attacks. The type was Remi Van Lierde's mount.
MFBB.
Monday, January 12, 2026
RECOMMENDED VIDEO: "HOW FEMALE POWER CAUSED THE DECLINE OF THE WEST" BY ALEXANDER GRACE.
Highly recommended, and before you start huffing and puffing, WATCH IT TILL THE END. I admit the title is somewhat clickbaity, but the guy is delivering truthbombs in spades... and is NOT targeting females at all. If after viewing you still think so, you have understood zilch.
MFBB.
MFBB.
Thursday, January 01, 2026
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026!!!
To all my followers (are you even still there?), my very best wishes for a happy, prosperous and above all healthy New Year!
And another year has passed. One that was fraught with downright depressing developments, be it one the battlefield in Ukraine, on the streets of Western Europe, or in the Pacific.
From the looks of it, it doesn't seem to be getting any better in the short term, although as regards the war in Ukraine, I have modest hopes that this is the last war winter. As for Western Europe, I guess we still have to swallow a LOT more mayhem before sufficient Europeans rise up and hang their traitor politicians from the nearest lampposts. The influx of litterally millions of semiliterate, unassimilable 3rd World welfare seekers continues unabated and one can only conclude that if it is not by design (although more and more I tend to think it IS), then, in any case, it is facilitated.
These are momentous times. On the one hand tech empires in East and West come up with ever more baffling milestones in the field of space exploration, quantum computing, biotech, AI and what not.
On the other hand we are witnessing an incomprehensible desire by the Western Left to obliterate all that is good, noble and worthy of preserving. In most if not all western societies, there are signs that people have had enough and are standing up. But will there be enough time? Will there even be sufficient Europeans and Americans who object to being replaced?
Time will tell. As for me, I will do my damnedest best - modest though my efforts are - to stave off the apparent leftist desire to turn our beautiful countries into the 3rd World hellholes where their favored constituencies come from.
MFBB.
And another year has passed. One that was fraught with downright depressing developments, be it one the battlefield in Ukraine, on the streets of Western Europe, or in the Pacific.
From the looks of it, it doesn't seem to be getting any better in the short term, although as regards the war in Ukraine, I have modest hopes that this is the last war winter. As for Western Europe, I guess we still have to swallow a LOT more mayhem before sufficient Europeans rise up and hang their traitor politicians from the nearest lampposts. The influx of litterally millions of semiliterate, unassimilable 3rd World welfare seekers continues unabated and one can only conclude that if it is not by design (although more and more I tend to think it IS), then, in any case, it is facilitated.
These are momentous times. On the one hand tech empires in East and West come up with ever more baffling milestones in the field of space exploration, quantum computing, biotech, AI and what not.
On the other hand we are witnessing an incomprehensible desire by the Western Left to obliterate all that is good, noble and worthy of preserving. In most if not all western societies, there are signs that people have had enough and are standing up. But will there be enough time? Will there even be sufficient Europeans and Americans who object to being replaced?
Time will tell. As for me, I will do my damnedest best - modest though my efforts are - to stave off the apparent leftist desire to turn our beautiful countries into the 3rd World hellholes where their favored constituencies come from.
MFBB.