Tag: tradition

  • Interesting Chords: The Girl From Ipanema

    Interesting Chords: The Girl From Ipanema

    My dad – who was a jazz guitarist in his spare time – has a phrase ‘interesting chords’, like ‘some of those chords are interesting‘ i.e. unusual. He also has a love of Bossa Nova, and introduced me to the phrase ‘plink plink/cling cling jazz’ – I suspect he must’ve heard the Stan Freberg spoof…

  • The Love of Butter

    The Love of Butter

    The best film on butter making you’ll ever see. In fact probably the best film on food production ever…this man and his workers are artists. And his enthusiasm for butter is infectious. Things should be done with love and sometimes mechanisation is not the way…I think the current situation has shown that sometimes the old…

  • Don’t Put A Ring On It

    Don’t Put A Ring On It

    I’ve never really gotten the romance industry, or all these commercialised methods of expressing love, like Valentine’s Day, or Mother’s or Father’s Day. Yes sometimes you play along (I doubt I will get my blowjob today, I might get the steak though :-P) but as this video points out, quite often these things aren’t tradition,…

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