Joni Mitchell at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival / Both Sides Now “I’ve looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It’s life’s illusions I recallI really don’t know life at all.” Roberta Joan Mitchell (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter. As one of […]
Carly Simon and Harry Conick, Jr. / I Have Dreamed Gorgeous pieces of music come back into our lives through many ways. In this case, it was my habit of listening to late night radio of Coast to Coast AM. Here, the bumper music for a segment a few nights ago I had to track […]
Miles Davis / In A Silent Way Photo by Richard Yost/Editing by John Fraim _______________________________ John Fraim The normal winters in Columbus, Ohio are usually tame creatures without much animation to them. Columbus is rated high on the chart of cloudy days a year. Meaning, days that have all the drama to them of “being […]
The Song “Golden” from Kpop Demon Hunters 1,191,772,887 views Jun 23, 2025 #1 top music video KPop Demon Hunters is a 2025 American animated musical urban fantasy film co-written and directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans. The story follows a Kpop girl group, Huntrix, who lead double lives as demon hunters. They face off against a […]
“It’s all there—screentime addiction, the replacement of friends with devices, the phony sycophancy of bots … “The mood of the current moment. Many of us feel just like those abandoned toys.” Ted Gioia ___________________________________ I’ve been following the blogs of Ted Gioia on his Honest Broker substack. (Thanks to Bill from Texas for putting me […]
BEHIND THE SCENES MAKING A HISTORIC FILM One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a 1975 American psychological comedy-drama film directed by Milos Forman and produed by Saul Zaentz. It is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson as a new patient at a mental institution and Louise […]
Rescue of Polar Bear Cub An unlikely rescue and pretty obviously AI. But great AI used for an emotional story. From the Mystic Animals site where more of these types of videos can be found. Welcome to our channel — where compassion meets incredible wildlife stories. As noted on Mystic Animals, “Here, we share powerful […]
Elie Wiesel as a Young Man Miles Davis / In A Silent Way _______________________ He was fifteen when the soldiers came. What he saw in the camps was so horrific that he stayed silent for ten years. When he finally spoke, his words changed history. In Sighet, Romania, in 1944, Elie Wiesel was a teenager […]
