I got this one by email from my Mother in Norway.

A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead.
He remembered dying, and that the dog walking beside him had been dead for years.He wondered where the road was [...]

I heard a very interesting program recently about the writing of a Leonard Cohen song So Long Marianne. I am not great Leonard Cohen fan but that might change I have to admit I was impressed by the interview. Leonard came across really well. They interviewed his muse for the song as well. Both are [...]

There has been a growing number of record deals in the last year that for a whole host of artists that manage not just their albums but there entire output. For many of the big artists more money is coming from tours than from sales of records. Is this a good trend? To answer that [...]

Radio 4 recently presented a program about Madonna at 50. The focus of the program was how Madonna had adaptive her style to match each new style of music. There is in principle nothing new about that. Rolling stones have been doing that for a long as they have been around taking on attributes and [...]

Obama last night addressed some Berliners, When any possible American president addresses Germans, comparison are made to JFK’s famous speech and sometimes to Ronald Reagans speech which is considered in some circles to have been more influential in bringing about the biggest change in Berlin in sixty years. The bringing down of the Berlin wall. [...]