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Kindness. Humanism.Secular. Sceptic. History, Pre-Raphaelites, Reading, Life-Long Learning. 'Sanity Is Not Statistical'.'Fill the unforgiving minute...'.

Sunday 7 July 2013

The Borgias : Waters of a Spring

‘‘Look at you…like Narcissus in the spring waters…you don’t know Narcissus?Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection, in the waters of a spring’
God she’s beautiful. Jesus Christ. I love it when she kisses Paolo’s reflection.

Saturday 6 July 2013

Imagine Dragons- It's Time- Cover by Riley Biederer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O8AGPqo3iw

So this is where you fell
And I am left to sell
The path to heaven runs through miles of clouded hell
Right to the top
Don't look back
Turning the rags and giving the commodities a rain check

I don't ever wanna let you down
I don't ever wanna leave this town
'Cause after all
This city never sleeps at night

It's time to begin, isn't it?
I get a little bit bigger but then I'll admit
I'm just the same as I was
Now don't you understand
That I'm never changing who I am


It's time to begin, isn't it?
I get a little bit bigger, but then I'll admit
I'm just the same as I was
Now don't you understand
That I'm never changing who I am


This road never looked so lonely
This house doesn't burn down slowly
To ashes, to ashes

Sunday 9 June 2013

Taylor Swift - Sparks Fly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKar-tF__ac - Official video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yo429lyuso - Live in Rio

The way you move is like a full on rainstorm
And I'm a house of cards
You're the kind of reckless
That should send me runnin'
But I kinda know that I won't get far
And you stood there in front of me
Just close enough to touch
Close enough to hope you couldn't see
What I was thinking of

Drop everything now
Meet me in the pouring rain
Kiss me on the sidewalk
Take away the pain
'cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile
Get me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down
Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around
'cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile

My mind forgets to remind me
You're a bad idea
You touch me once and it's really something,
You find I'm even better than you imagined I would be.
I'm on my guard for the rest of the world
But with you I know it's no good
And I could wait patiently but I really wish you would

Drop everything now
Meet me in the pouring rain
Kiss me on the sidewalk
Take away the pain
'cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile
Get me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down
Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around
'cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile

I run my fingers through your hair and watch the lights go wild.
Just keep on keeping your eyes on me, it's just wrong enough to make it feel right.
And lead me up the staircase
Won't you whisper soft and slow?
I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

Tuesday 7 May 2013

Taylor Swift

“I think about what I’d think of my decisions when I’m 80 looking back, and it helps me make sound, responsible choices.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19797669

Monday 22 April 2013

Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History - 2. Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians

Lucy Worsley presents

Nov 1688 - William of Orange lands in England with an army

Scrofula = The King's evil

Aged 32, Mary II dies of smallpox

1704 - Anne becomes Queen

Anne had 17 preganancies?

'Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough'

1714 - Queen Anne dies

George II and his son Frederick had a bad relationship

Wednesday 20 March 2013

The Pre-Raphaelites - Episode 2 - BBC Four

Hogsmill River in Surrey (Ophelia by Millais)

Lizzie Siddall (aged 19) posed in a tin bath for Ophelia painting.

'The Hireling Shephard' - Hunt

John Ruskin married Effie in 1848.

1855 - Effie marries Millais

'Pretty Baa-Lambs' - Ford Maddox Brown

'An English Autumn Afternoon' - Ford Maddox Brown

Tuesday 12 February 2013

‘I don’t really think I’m that nice. I think I’m probably just a sociopath who understands that niceness sells’ - Steve Carell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlwxET69wrE

Wednesday 6 February 2013

Monday 4 February 2013

Howard Goodall

Howard Goodall's Story of Music - 2. The Age of Invention

Somewhere only we know - Keane

'Arcangelo Corelli'

'Antonio Vivaldi' - Summer - The Four Seasons

Henry Purcell - 'An evening hymn'