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The White Stripes with Seven Nation Army . Fun Lovin' Criminals. With Scooby Snacks , that was. I s'ppose I'm sound...

A French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo , a household name in France, had its offices torched after it published a motoon accompanying an...

Franz Ferdinand with Take me out . Running on Empty , an old Jackson Browne hit. Nite. MFBB.

Local H with Bound for the Floor . From their second album, As good as dead (1996). Duran Duran with Skin Trade . Nite. MF...

This item is already about two weeks old, but its relevance will remain assured for what presumably will turn out a long, long time yet. Roo...

We start with some easy listening: Keane with Crystal Ball. Orbit with Medicine . From the album Libido Speedway . Nineties rock...

Ennio Morricone's magnificent piece 'The ecstacy of Gold'. Part of the soundtrack of the Sergio Leone spaghettiwestern The Good,...

I meant to do a post on something completely different, like the emergence of rocket scientist calibre intellectuals Shakira and Lady Gaga a...

Last week, De Standaard suddenly discovered there's apparently a problem with gay couples being pestered away from their flats, neighbor...

Some Britrock tonight. First The Rolling Stones with Under my thumb . Recently heard a band using a xylophone? Hmm? Do today's ban...

Reader Koen R. sent me the link to this James Delingpole video. I like Delingpole. I'm pretty sure greens would very much like the...

Via The Daily Mail, September 25 : Screenshot from The Telegraph, September 26 "A fanatical terrorist has escaped being thrown...

Solveig's Song by Edvard Grieg. Performance by the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra . Franz Liszt's Liebestraum . Perform...

I realize I'm late to the party but all through August and September I felt I had to do some post regarding the London riots; just as I ...

Smashing Pumpkins with Tonight, tonight . Keane. Somewhere only we know . Yeah, it's actually a Sunday Night Music. Was rea...

First, via our US Navy friend CDR Salamander the following sobering audio recording on September 11, 2001 between a NY Fire Department dispa...

From the Clintonian Era, a Tracy Bonham subhit, Mother Mother . Night Calls , a number from The Singing Sponge. Aka Joe Cocker. ...

A field day again for Belgium's 'top' newspaper De Standaard , and it's not even September 11 yet. In the UK, retired judg...

My friend and fellow conservative Traveller, an accomplished engineer who has been active in a plethora of countries, sent me the following ...

Talking back to the night . A Steve Winwood number from about 500 years ago. Cute song by Lisa Germano, Small Heads . Nite. Boy...