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A lesser known and not very commercial number on Billy Joel 's The Nylon Curtain album from 1982. Scandinavian Skies . Kind of a concep...

Thank you Traveller for da pic. MFBB.

I realize this may not be the best moment to come up with this post, as attention worldwide is turned to the US midterm elections. I also re...

The Belgian weather forecast sucked big time again today. Yesterday they predicted rain over the country all day. The following pics show ho...

New wave band Fischer Z with So Long . From the album Going Deaf for a living (1980). Fischer Z is a forgotten band now, and back in the da...

Never again say I'm a pessimist. It's the onset of winter, and this is La Primavera (Spring), the first of four violin concertos co...

From the 'This makes my blood boil' category. Last Sunday, October 24 2010, Gates of Vienna had the scoop of an appalling story: BRE...

There's a plethora of good subjects out there and actually I finally wanted to do some post about Europe's next big evolution, namel...

I really liked Level 42 . Carefree, unpretentious funk, easy listening. Children say , a hit from the 1987 album Running in the Family . For...

Over at The American Thinker, there's this gem of an article by Chidike Okeem, The Liberal Elite and Black Intellectual Serfdom : "...

Upbeat number from Belgian band Hooverphonic , The world is mine (album Jackie Cane , 2002). Originally (for a couple of years following th...

They told you that the US had no business in Vietnam, but never uttered a word about the involvement of the USSR and China. They told you ab...

In the mid-eighties, San Francisco based Huey Lewis and The News had a string of hits. Hip to be square comes to mind, but this wasn't b...

No comment. MFBB.

Today, President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor, posthumously, to Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller , who, aged 24, fell in combat against t...

I realize I'm late to the party, but I can't help a little gloating so this thing comes up again, here, on DowneastBlog. I'm tal...

Saturday was a day with shitty weather but unbelievably, the weather broadcast for this Sunday was a warm (up to 23°C) and sunny 3rd of Octo...

David McComb with Setting you free , from the album Love of Will (1994). He was the front man of famous Aussie band The Triffids . Died in ...

Circumstances and lack of time prevented me from ever putting up a decent post about this years' parliamentary elections in The Netherla...

Yet another mob of muslims aggressively taking possession of the streets. Only this time it's not in Paris' Barbès neighborhood, nor...