A digital commonplace for a Regular Guy called Charlie Pharis

Month: March 2004 (page 1 of 2)

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One of Those 80s Movie Music Moments…
Just now, in my dusty old (2 years old!) “Excellent 80s” soundtrack CD, the powerful and poignant Kate Bush ballad “This Woman’s Work” from the Kevin Bacon/Elizabeth McGovern film She’s Having a Baby, is playing. I’d forgotten how much that song – and that movie – made me “wipe a little dust from my eyes.” The Music from the 80s Movies website says this about the song…

“An amazingly powerful ballad that plays as Kevin Bacon waits to find out if his wife and baby will survive a breech birth; You get to see a montage of the birth, their parents, and Jake (Kevin) sitting alone with tears in his eyes as he suddenly realizes what’s really important in life.”

It’s as powerful to me right at this moment, listening to it, as it was when I saw the movie 15 years ago!

Maybe I’ll post about why it is that way to me…

One of Those 80s Movie Music Moments… Just now,…

One of Those 80s Movie Music Moments…

Just now, in my dusty old (2 years old!) “Excellent 80s” soundtrack CD, the powerful and poignant Kate Bush ballad “This Woman’s Work” from the Kevin Bacon/Elizabeth McGovern film She’s Having a Baby, is playing. I’d forgotten how much that song – and that movie – made me “wipe a little dust from my eyes.” The Music from the 80s Movies website says this about the song…

“An amazingly powerful ballad that plays as Kevin Bacon waits to find out if his wife and baby will survive a breech birth; You get to see a montage of the birth, their parents, and Jake (Kevin) sitting alone with tears in his eyes as he suddenly realizes what’s really important in life.”

It’s as powerful to me right at this moment, listening to it, as it was when I saw the movie 15 years ago!

Maybe I’ll post about why it is that way to me…

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“Going Back in Time” (And Other Highlights? from the 1980s)
I found a stack of CDs tucked away in my shelf this afternoon. Turns out they are a little 8-CD collection from my “free Napster” days that I made after I found the Music from 80s Movies website…

Now THAT is some pretty cool stuff…Huey Lewis & The News, Blondie, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet…WOW!

EXCELLENT!

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Well, Well, Well…Looky Here!
The Jackets are in the Big Dance! Woo hoo!

Let’s see…

UConn? Beat ’em already…pre-season NIT.

Duke? Beat ’em already…at Cameron. (OK, so the Blue Devils won 2 out of 3. That means it’s Tech’s turn! Right?)

Oklahoma State? Who knows?

Guess that’s why they call it “Madness,” right?!?!?

GO JACKETS!

Well, Well, Well…Looky Here! The Jackets are …



Well, Well, Well…Looky Here!

The Jackets are in the Big Dance! Woo hoo!

Let’s see…

UConn? Beat ’em already…pre-season NIT.

Duke? Beat ’em already…at Cameron. (OK, so the Blue Devils won 2 out of 3. That means it’s Tech’s turn! Right?)

Oklahoma State? Who knows?

Guess that’s why they call it “Madness,” right?!?!?

GO JACKETS!

A Journal Worth Putting My Thoughts In Van Gogh …

A Journal Worth Putting My Thoughts In

Van Gogh used it.

Matisse had it.

Picasso sketched in it.

Hemingway wrote in his while the afternoon sun of Paris filtered over his shoulder.

Now, I’ve got one! I wish I had had one when I was encouraged to “begin the 3 x 5 habit” back in school. It’s the perfect tool for keeping up with those 3 x 5 thoughts, and other stuff. It’s a handy size. It fits in my pocket. It has a “secret compartment” in the back. Oh, and it looks cool and gives me the feeling of capturing important stuff in a long line of creative people – which I hope to be – when I grow up.

It’s a Moleskine!

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A Journal Worth Putting My Thoughts In

Van Gogh used it.

Matisse had it.

Picasso sketched in it.

Hemingway wrote in his while the afternoon sun of Paris filtered over his shoulder.

Now, I’ve got one! I wish I had had one when I was encouraged to “begin the 3 x 5 habit” back in school. It’s the perfect tool for keeping up with those 3 x 5 thoughts, and other stuff. It’s a handy size. It fits in my pocket. It has a “secret compartment” in the back. Oh, and it looks cool and gives me the feeling of capturing important stuff in a long line of creative people – which I hope to be – when I grow up.

It’s a Moleskine!