The Glass Character
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Monday, April 24, 2017

Genetic mysteries

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I came from what is sometimes called a "musical family". We weren't exactly the ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Why Ryan is such an awesome kid!

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For one thing, he plays a trombone that's bigger than he is. He could've played clarinet in band - even a trumpet - saxophon...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

The face in the middle: or, am I clowns?

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This picture reminded me of a certain non-joke I kept hearing a few years ago, mainly because I heard it wrong. The original was qui...
Monday, September 8, 2014

A fizzing fountain of joy

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Close your eyes, keep them closed, and this is great. It's mane-tossingly European as it clip-clops by the glittering Rhine, and all ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

My favorite scene from Amadeus

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Everybody remembers this primal scene from Amadeus, when Salieri comes to realize that this snotty little pipsqueak he's been dealing...
Friday, November 22, 2013

By Jiminy - it's a fake!

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Y'know, it strikes me, when it strikes me at all, that Dorothy Parker was right when she wrote,  "this living, this living, t...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

Throw it all away, and listen

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I don't have the technical language to describe what the composer is doing from 4:10 to the end, but I had to listen to it 3 or 4 time...
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Margaret Gunning
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Welcome to Margaret Gunning's blog: a tribute to the strangeness of the ordinary. Ms.Gunning is the author of The Glass Character (Thistledown Press), her paean/tribute to the brilliant silent screen comic Harold Lloyd. Researching and writing this novel celebrating Harold's legacy and legend was by far the most compelling (and fun!) experience in her long and varied writer's life. The novel is available on Amazon and Kindle, Thistledown Press, and other major book sites. Her previous novels, Better than Life (NeWestPress) and Mallory (Turnstone Press) explore her lifelong fascination with family secrets, alienation, and the surprising joys of the ordinary. She has also written hundreds of book reviews (Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Globe and Mail) and newspaper columns for small-town papers across the country. Her philosophy: "Everything that happens is happening for the first time."
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