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Ireland = Eire + Ulster

A tourist walks into a Dublin pub looking for directions and encounters Ding Dong Denny O’Reilly at the bar. Ding Dong insists on telling him the «real» history of Ireland over a number of pints. From the Normans to the Famine to 1916 and the sex shops of O’Connell Street, […]

Wales

•→ Visions of Wales ←• «We have for you tonight a fine young comic who’s been nominated for just every new comedy award going, but it hasn’t been easy for him because he’s come up against lots of prejudice and discrimination to get where he is today. Yes, folks, he’s Welsh. Please go absolutely mad […]

Bonnie Scotland

If you’re travelling to Scotland it may be worth learning some of these words. They are heard everywhere, and most of them have been included in the corpus of modern English vocabulary.

←Wauk yer wits

•→wikihow.com/Understand-Scottish-Slang←

↓ Caa canny!

•→Kenneth MacNeill _ Highland clearances ⇐

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David Lynch

→ http://www.davidlynch.de/

1. Eraserhead (song: In heaven) 2. The elephant man (song: Recapitulation) 3. Dune (song: Toto – Main title) 4. Blue velvet (song: Bobby Vinton – Blue velvet) 5. Twin peaks (song: Julee Cruise – Falling) 6. Wild at heart (song: Nicholas Cage – Love me tender) 7. Fire walk with me (song: Sycamore […]

LYRICS GAPS

 This is the home of a fun method for both learning and perfecting your English.  ⇓   It primarily focuses on spoken English.

¤  Taylor Swift:

‘We’re Never Ever Getting Back Together’⇒

 ∇   MORPHINE  ⇓ ◊→ ‘Thursday‘⇐[Cure for Pain]

[… Each blank needs a personal pronoun]

____ used […]

Speak my language!

A few extracts from Laurie Anderson‘s Stories form the Nerve Bible.

•→ On The Way To Jerusalem ⇐

There was a devout nun in the XVth century who decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; and she belonged to an order that wore bags over their heads. And the mother superior […]

Iggy Pop + Lou Reed

«I had just learned to smoke (cigarettes and grass), and I was excited about it. I had always had asthma and couldn’t smoke. One day I was walking down the street and someone blew a puff in my face from a passing cigarette on a fall day, which is always the worst season. […]

Bill Laswell + David Byrne

The first track from the album City Of Light, by Bill Laswell. It was released Jun 17, 1997 on the Sub Rosa label. In conjunction with the spiritually-infused spoken lines of Lori Carson, Laswell and his crew unearth rhythms seared from volcanic chasms, old tongues, and primitive civilizations.

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Amanda Palmer + Mayo Thompson

¤ Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra ⇐

♦ ‘Want It Back’ ↓

Hearts on a stringLike an older fashioned phone canBang, ringy-ring and you think you’re gonna get someThing you can bring to a party at your wake notThinking of the thing that you pay back when […]

Alison Krauss + Norah Jones

¤   Alison Krauss ◊  ‘Lay My Burden Down’  ↓

Gonna lay my burden down – lay my body in the groundCold clay against my skin but I don’t care at all

Can’t seem to find my piece of mind so with the earth I’ll lay entwinedSix feet underground – my feet are warm and […]

ani difranco + Patti Smith

Award-winning musician, songwriter, and poet DiFranco ⇑ chronicles her rise to fame with engaging candor. Fending for herself by age 15, she survived each unusual day with ingenuity and perseverance while pursuing her education and musical passion. She performed whenever possible in coffee houses, clubs, and other venues, developing an eclectic sound […]

Tom Waits + Bruce Sprinsteen

¤ TOM WAITS ⇐ •→Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame⇐ / •→http://genius.com⇐

•→ ‘BETTER OFF WITHOUT A WIFE’ ⇐

♥→‘Heart Attack & Wine’ ⇓ ♠ ‘Xmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis’ ⇓

hey charlie i’m pregnant and living on the 9th street right above a dirty bookstore off euclid avenue and i stopped takin’ dope […]

Tony Joe White + J J Cale

¤   Tony Joe White    [1943-2018]  a.k.a. the Swamp Fox

Some people talk  just to hear their lips rattle Got to high positions  –  Same old ship but with a different paddler  Told me that I had to get commercialized   if I was gonna fit in with the […]

Bob Dylan + The Band

•→http://genius.com/search?q=bob+dylan⇐ «I’ve always been a fan of Dylan’s paintings and drawings. I love his hockey player painting, used by the Band on their LP cover for Music from Big Pink. I also love Dylan’s painting for his own album Self Portrait. Before we parted, I asked Bob if he could do a charcoal drawing for […]

Merle Haggard + Willie Nelson

Originally a troubled youngster who served time in San Quentin prison (from 1957 through 1960), California native Merle Haggard [1937-2016] grew to become a country music legend. With 38 number one hits and 250 original songs, he remains one of the best-known and most covered artists in country music.

♦  ‘Branded Man’ […]

F L + 9″ Nails + Metallica + RHCP

¤ The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips are Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Michael Ivins, Kliph Scurlock, and Derek Brown with Phantogram and Liz Allen.

The band is best known for its associations with 1960s and 1970s psychedelic subculture, with elements of this culture permeating the group’s instrumentation, effects, […]

Rush + Martha & the Muffins

¤ The Rush ⇔ Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee & Neil Peart

Story … ⇒[Part 1] ⇔ [Part 2] ⇔ [Part 3] ⇔ [Part 4] ⇔ [Part 5]⇐

◊→ ‘Xanadu‘ ⇓

In SM Coleridge’s poem, Xanadu is the fictional name of the land where Khubla […]

Leonard Cohen + Loreena McKennitt

•→http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/poem.html←• [1934-2016]

∇ ‘You Want It Darker’ ⇓ [2016]

◊ Chelsea Hotel #1 ↓ [1972]

«Here’s a new song that we… just wrote off a couple of weeks ago – takes place in the Chelsea Hotel, in New York City, and it’s for a brave woman who.. er… […]

Robbie Robertson + Daniel Lanois

[1943-2023]

She walks alone down a sleazy backstreet, around a corner, up an alley to a dead endThere under a small blue light, she enters an unmarked doorwayA low heartbeat, a low pounding escapes into the night

This is a place she goes to fulfill a very basic needSomething people have […]

AC/DC

Formed in 1973 in Sydney, Australia, AC/DC found their earliest success in their native country. After releasing their albums in the U.S. and touring outside of Australia in the late 1970s, the band began to receive international recognition. Their breakthrough was «Highway to Hell», but this success was marred by the death of […]