Posts

'Last Night (8 Days Ago) Ma-ma Passed Away, "Good-Bye, Son " Was All She'd (Fail to) Say...I've No More Any Reason to Stay, So I'm Leavin'...Leavin', Leavin', Leavin', Leavin' Free...Yes, I've Gotta Leave 'Ole Dun-ed-in Town, I've Gotta Leave 'Ole Dun-ed-in Town, I've gotta Leave 'Ole Dun-ed-in Town...& the Leavin's Gonna Get me Down....

A Very Belated 'Last Farewell' to A Rare Voice, Talent & Thoroughly Decent Human Being: Roger Whittaker, Singer-Songwriter Extraordinaire - However Unrecognized by the Music 'Intelligensia' of Y(our) Day & Age - Your Passing is Noted with Incredible Sadness by Those of Us Who Admired & Adored You & Your Unique Contribution to Western Music/Culture in the Later 20th Century...

To the Once Glorious & Beautiful & Much-Renowned City of Portland, Oregon in the United States of America: What A Tragedy Has Unfolded in Your Very Midst: R.I.P.

To Note the Passing of a Living Legend of Musical Yesteryear, Burt Bacharach (Last Friday Morning (Around a Week Ago), New Zealand Time), At the Rather Impressive Age of 94 Years

Too many songs to name/remember, Burt, but one thing you said/sang which will live on into perpetuity: what this world needs now is love, sweet love, not just for some but for everyone . Nuff Said.  

I'd Be Somewhat Remiss Not to Bemoan the Passing of the 'Davidic Age' (i.e. the Age of the Davids) in New Zealand Politics, As We Now Enter the Age of the Crises, I Mean, Chrises...

To my politically-attuned/inclined nephew:  perhaps your moment   to enter the fray has finally arrived... As the insightful, inspirational Robin Williams of 'The Dead Poets Society' fame might well have said: "carpe diem!"