Category Archives: Music for a Sunday

Music for a Sunday: When I close my eyes

What I give thanks for: places that aren’t gone…yet. Happy Thanksgiving.

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Music for a Sunday: That rich windy weather…

You are Bogart, he is George Raft, that leaves Cagney and me…

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Music for a Sunday: You make me feel so bourgeois

An acoustic version of the great classic. “What’s your name, honey?”

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Music for a Sunday: The summer’s out of reach…

…and what better song to sum up the melancholy? From the sun going down alone to a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac…it’s all in there.

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Music for a Sunday: Hast du etwas Zeit für mich?

An only slightly fanciful version of how stupid the Cold War mentality could get. Germany was caught in the middle of it all, and Germans (including this Canadian one) were heartily sick of the posturing, brinksmanship, and general nonsense from … Continue reading

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Music for a Sunday: You could come if you wanted to…

Just another end-of-summer tune for gettin’ silly to.

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Music for a Sunday: They met in a hurricane…

A song to fit both the weather (Hurricane Irene, now a tropical storm petering out) and my mood (sombre and pensive, but still daring to hope.)

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Music for a Sunday: And do you feel scared?

I do. But I won’t stop and falter: And after a day like the one I just had, things had BETTER get better.

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Music for a Sunday: Never mind the bollocks

What could be better than this song for Merry Old England right now? Okay, maybe this one: And after all this, won’t you give me a smile?

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Music for a Sunday: I close my eyes to the restless skies

Hiroshima Day was yesterday. This great Canadian song from yesteryear comes to mind: Watch the video closely and you’ll see some real live World War II vets marching in.

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