Category: Enjoyment
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Eric Clapton, Joe Bonamassa and the Blues
Last week I added two great CDs by Eric Clapton and Joe Bonamassa to my music collection. Forever Man by Eric Clapton was released on April 28 and is a 3-CD collection of studio, live and blues recordings that “represents some of the finest recordings from Clapton’s ongoing solo sessions. Both in the studio and…
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Musings about Music and Sound & Color by Alabama Shakes
Over the years I have collected a large selection of music on CDs, but I have noticed over the last five years that while I will rush out and purchase the new CD of many of my favorite artists/bands (Van Morrison, U2, Eric Clapton, AC/DC, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Buffett) the same cannot be said of…
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Saying Goodbye to Raylan Givens and Justified
Last week the series finale of Justified aired on the FX network and the Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) and Ava Crowder (Joelle Carter) saga came to an end after six fantastic seasons. The six seasons of the adventures of Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens and the criminal elements of eastern Kentucky…
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2015 Stanley Cup Playoffs Begin This Week
The 2015 Stanley Cup Playoffs begin Wednesday night and the big news of the day (for us Blackhawks fans) was the announcement by the Chicago Blackhawks that Patrick Kane has been cleared to play in their series against the Nashville Predators that begins Wednesday night. Kane has been out of the lineup since breaking his…
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Furious 7 Movie Review
In the seventh installment of the Fast & Furious franchise everything is elevated to another level. If you are looking for a movie that has a little of everything, then Furious 7 is the movie for you. It has unbelievable action scenes (cars dropping from airplanes and flying between skyscrapers); outrageous fighting scenes: Hobbs (“The…
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Movie Review
The British retirees and widowers left residing at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel at the end of the original movie have stayed on in Jaipur, India and the hotel owner, Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel), has deemed his hotel venture a success and is looking to expand in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. The movie…
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Whether you are Irish or not, St. Patrick’s Day is a perfect day to celebrate all that is wonderful about Ireland and Irish Culture. Baileys Irish Cream . . . Shepherd’s Pie . . . Irish Pubs . . .Liam Neeson (Michael Collins) . . . Brendan Gleeson (The Guard, Calvary) . . . U2…
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Fargo – Binge-Worthy TV
A few weeks ago while a sporting event I still do not wish to discuss was being televised and watched by a record-setting number of people, I was busy binge-watching the television show Fargo. The show was named number one on many of the year-ending lists of the top television shows for 2014. After discovering…
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David Tennant – Binge-Worthy TV
It is an unusual occasion when an actor is recommended to you by others playing the same character in two different television shows, but I recently had the television shows Broadchurch and Gracepoint recommended very highly. After enjoying other shows that had their origins in other countries, most recently Homeland which is based on an Israeli…
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