My Muse ~ Movies, Music & Books https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com Journeys and words inspired by the arts... Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:25:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 12577948 It’s bigger on the inside https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2014/02/22/its-bigger-on-the-inside/ https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2014/02/22/its-bigger-on-the-inside/#respond Sun, 23 Feb 2014 03:49:24 +0000 http://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/?p=3228 I think what makes The Tardis so compelling as a storytelling device is its strength as a metaphor for our own human condition. Like us, it’s larger — much larger — on the inside than it appears on the outside. Infinite. Surprising. Confusing. Contradictory. And extraordinarily, strangely beautiful. And also like us, our minds, our […]

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]]> https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2014/02/22/its-bigger-on-the-inside/feed/ 0 3228 What’s that sound? ~ All Along the Watchtower, Bear McCreary style. https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2014/02/03/whats-that-sound-all-along-the-watchtower-bear-mccreary-style/ https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2014/02/03/whats-that-sound-all-along-the-watchtower-bear-mccreary-style/#respond Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:30:51 +0000 http://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/?p=3221 It’s a rare enough thing that television offers art of remarkable quality, but (imho) Battlestar Galactica — the “reimagined” series which aired beginning in 2003 — did just that. Not only in its scripts, cinematography, visual effects and acting, but also the soundracks scored by Bear McCreary and (for the pilot) Richard Gibbs. Exquisite stuff […]

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]]> https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2014/02/03/whats-that-sound-all-along-the-watchtower-bear-mccreary-style/feed/ 0 3221 I can love that tune on the very first chord ~ Donny Hathaway https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2014/02/01/i-can-love-that-tune-on-the-very-first-chord-donny-hathaway/ Sun, 02 Feb 2014 02:30:14 +0000 http://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/?p=3215 And some stuff you just love from the very first chord … timbre, qualities of its attack, sustain and decay, the authority with which it’s played, the key it’s played in, the instrumentation and even their arrangement, the way all these elements come together in that brief moment when sound establishes itself as music. You […]

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]]> 3215 Normalizing Celebrity ~ On the beauty of being vs. the glamour of fame. https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/11/11/normalizing-celebrity-on-the-beauty-of-being-vs-the-glamour-of-fame/ https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/11/11/normalizing-celebrity-on-the-beauty-of-being-vs-the-glamour-of-fame/#respond Tue, 12 Nov 2013 05:45:26 +0000 http://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/?p=3174 A fellow film colleague posted a link to a set of celebrity images. Some of those images had been photoshopped by Danny Evans to give his “artist’s impression” of what these celebrities might have looked like without makeup, hair stylists, fashion stylists, diets, personal trainers, botox and a battery of cosmetic surgery or korean plastic […]

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]]> https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/11/11/normalizing-celebrity-on-the-beauty-of-being-vs-the-glamour-of-fame/feed/ 0 3174 You’re not bad. You’re just in pain ~ Scent of a Woman https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/04/11/youre-not-bad-youre-just-in-pain-scent-of-a-woman/ https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/04/11/youre-not-bad-youre-just-in-pain-scent-of-a-woman/#respond Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:14:22 +0000 http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=2199 I have to admit, I’m still a bit miffed that Al Pacino won the Oscar for Scent of a Woman, essentially robbing Robert Downy Jr, who had so exquisitely channelled Charlie Chaplin that same year. But, hey, Pacino had his moments.

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]]> https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/04/11/youre-not-bad-youre-just-in-pain-scent-of-a-woman/feed/ 0 2199 To be kissed and salted ~ here is a picture https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/03/11/to-be-kissed-and-salted-here-is-a-picture/ https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/03/11/to-be-kissed-and-salted-here-is-a-picture/#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:46:16 +0000 http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=2585 This is, I am So beautiful and fierce This is, violence And holy words   And I swear fealty To smile beyond dignity To be kissed and salted To be kissed and salted Oh to kiss and be salted By love extreme This is Veda Hille. A pianist friend tells me her style is ‘percussive’. […]

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]]> https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/03/11/to-be-kissed-and-salted-here-is-a-picture/feed/ 1 2585 Don’t Drink The Water ~ A troubadour of the first order. https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/03/04/dont-drink-the-water-a-troubadour-of-the-first-order/ https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/03/04/dont-drink-the-water-a-troubadour-of-the-first-order/#respond Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:00:45 +0000 http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=2466 Matthews is a hell of a showman. I have a number of live versions of this song done fully-kitted out with a full complement of musicians. He and his band let it all hang out on stage and, as they say, the crowd goes wild. Which makes the essential power of this live rendition, featuring […]

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]]> https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/03/04/dont-drink-the-water-a-troubadour-of-the-first-order/feed/ 0 2466 Lager https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/02/09/lager/ https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/02/09/lager/#respond Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:55:51 +0000 http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=2416 A high-school chum, storm-bound in DC due to the recent blizzard, posted this image on my Facebook timeline. Thinking of you! — at Capitol Lounge. Of course, it tickled me like foam on my mustache. But it also jogged loose a memory. I can’t believe it was over a decade ago. Another friend was in […]

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]]> https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/02/09/lager/feed/ 0 2416 I Miss the Adulation, he said. I do not miss him, at all. https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/01/31/i-miss-the-adulation-he-said-i-do-not-miss-him-at-all/ https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/01/31/i-miss-the-adulation-he-said-i-do-not-miss-him-at-all/#respond Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:35:05 +0000 http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=2397 I’ve done something I haven’t done in a while. At a beautiful cabin in the remote British Columbia Chilcotins, I’ve picked up a Maclean’s news magazine. January 28, 2013 edition. A few pages and article skims in I discover a photograph of the disgraced former Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney. It spans two pages. […]

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]]> https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2013/01/31/i-miss-the-adulation-he-said-i-do-not-miss-him-at-all/feed/ 0 2397 Jethro Tull’s Journeyman ~ Kick back and enjoy the ride https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2011/08/26/jethro-tulls-journeyman-kick-back-and-enjoy-the-ride/ https://www.mymusemoviesmusicandbooks.com/2011/08/26/jethro-tulls-journeyman-kick-back-and-enjoy-the-ride/#respond Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:35:32 +0000 http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=2346 I’m not sure a more fascinating and inventive song — both lyrically and musically — has ever been created about the simple act of commuting home on the train. What I really love most about Jethro Tull’s Journeyman (Heavy Horses, 1978), is the way the bass drives both the melody and cadence, right from the […]

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