Blinded by the Light
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Songs in Our Heart # 10 Blinded by the Light (Bruce Springsteen version) (Written by Bruce Springsteen; released February 1973) [Jersey enunciation and a rhyming dictionary makes for a strange brew…]*
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Songs in Our Heart # 9 Bird Song (Lene Lovich) (Written by Lene Lovich and Les Chappell; released September 1979) [The bird sounds like a pterodactyl, but it’s still a great dramatic betrayal song.]
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Glenelg v Port Adelaide at Alberton Oval, June 4, 2016 Bright, sunny day. Win to the reserves. And a bright start by the league side, with a 5 goal to 1 first quarter. Obviously the shock of taking on the Magpies with Chad Cornes as their coach had worn off. But then it seemed like the teams had changed guernseys: Port gave us a 7 goal to 1 pasting and took a narrow lead into half time. It is hard to see how one side could look so slick and accomplished for a half hour and then instantly swap that for sheer ineptitude. We guess…
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Ali takes out the Fab Four with one punch (photo by Autore Sconosciuto)
Muhammad Ali (January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) threw in the towel yesterday. Born Cassius Clay (he took his new names, respectively, from The Prophet and a commanding general of the third Caliphate), he was really the smartest and sweetest heavyweight. His poetry was naïve but he was pure poetry-in-motion in the ring – he looked great, he moved beautifully and his mouth was as fast as his feet and fists. Those titanic fights of the seventies (boxing’s apotheosis) linger in the mind, even for those who hate the sport: the 1971 loss to Joe Frazier, the Rumble in the Jungle over Foreman in 1974; the Thriller…
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June 3 – we recall Franz’s Death Day (1924) and mark his enormous posthumous legacy. Though a Czech, he wrote in German; Thus Nabokov called him the ‘greatest German writer of our time.’ You have to read Kafka’s situation tragedies as black comedy; jet-black comedy. “Kafka developed an obsessive awareness of the opaqueness of language. His work can be construed as a continuous parable on the impossibility of genuine human communication, or, as he put it…the impossibility of writing…In Kafka speech is the paradoxical circumstance of man’s incomprehension. He moves in it as in an inner labyrinth.” (George Steiner, After…
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