IS IT A BIRD...IS IT A PLANE!?

New album by Annie Lennox will be released in the U.K. on on 1st October, 07! New video and single DARK ROAD can be viewed below: and the album web site can be accessed by clicking below: http://www.songs-of-mass-destruction.com/main.html

THE PUMPKIN EATER The story of a marriage of two sensitive, articulate people, bound together by the strongest physical and emotional ties yet helpless in their inability to communicate. Just watched this film, now I can't sleep because it's haunting me. I recommend it, just make sure you have plenty of chill out time before you need to sleep because it makes you think. The Pumpkin Eater takes its title from the nursery rhyme: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater / Had a wife and couldn't keep her. / He put her in a pumpkin shell / And there he kept her very well." As this allusion suggests, one of the central concerns of the film is female entrapment - the experience of being kept 'in a shell'. The heroine, Jo, has all the ostensible trappings of a happy life: a handsome, successful husband, a beautiful house, an enviably affluent lifestyle, and battalions of healthy children. Yet she still comes to the conclusion that her life is "an empty place". ...

Fifty-nine minutes at the New York KISS Expo 2007

Here's the next selection of underrated/seldom (if ever) played tunes. This period of the band is especially dear to me as I was a young adult at the time of the release of these albums. My favourite tunes are here, even though it took time to appreciate some of them back then, especially Ace Frehley's solo stuff Wiped Out, What's On Your Mind and Fractured Mirror. The latter soon became my all time second favourite instumental, the first being Albatross by Fleetwood Mac. 'Fraid I didn't manage to get past Peter Criss' tenure in KISS so there will be a further selection covering the 1980's and later in a future post. Drop me a line to let me know what you think about these tracks, you can use the comment on this blog button if you wish. See ya, Andy. Picture Below: KISS circa 1980...coming soon.

pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp Poetry by Edward Hughes aka Bernard Badpoet aka BB aka my "significant other". Geoff's Death (in memoriam Geoffrey France 1917-2006) Nov 6 2006 Exit. Stage managed, Without applause. Footlights dimmed, And then out. It's over. He's gone. What was Isness Is now Wasness. There's no more business To transact. No show to transfer, And no bow taken. Forsaken? We all are. For each run ends, And every House darkens. Bernard Badpoet Nov 2006 The Human Delusion (Inspired by Richard Dawkins' book 'The God Delusion") I am Dawkins' Robot, Complex in my way, it's true, But I only exist to serve to serve my genes, As they are the ones that do. They allow my sham existence, Whilst turning to their task Of striding across the millennia With a single-minded zest. From Amoeba to Me they've condescended To join in Corporate groups, And even Albert Einstein Was simply one of the troops. My life story weaves a ...