Some of the finest pieces in popular music (speaking purely musically) have unfortunately been based around someone cheating and I was dismayed to find three of my all time faves, with three of the best singers going, almost labours of love, were excusing, even pushing, that unacceptable lifestyle.

So I decided not to post them after all in expanded form:

Dark End of the Street

Angel of the Morning

She’s a Mystery to Me

I researched each song and that was even more dismaying.

The first, sung by Linda, I knew was about wrong, so when in RL I said to my new friend Ay, having split with Aa, one of many times as it turned out … I suggested let’s reconstruct it, actually do that song, meet at the dark end of a street I know well, easy enough for both of us to get to, and she’d heard the song … so we met up, as in the song, but not as a cheating tryst … rather as an opening scene for a new beginning. Supposedly.

Who was I kidding? She secretly had someone as it turns out and Aa got to hear of it and came back to “reclaim her property”. And so to the second, with Merrilee, which was not only about cheating but was also a double entredre on a different Angel of the Morning … the chief fallen angel himself, the enemy of humankind. I used it in my book with a character, Julia, in a tryst with the very man she’d betray next morning, in a hail of gunfire.

The last was Bono’s song for Roy the Boy … a bit different in that it is her leaving him on a jet airliner for a rich man. The dark joke was that the actress in the clip was actually Bono’s wife of the time.

In one sense, all very exotic and chic … but in another … just tawdry, the whole thing. What sort of person actually embraces such things as a lifestyle? Either a lost soul … or a loser.

So, in that mood, I cast around for a more up tempo, happier song … guess which one appeared?

Again … fabulous singer, very good instrumentation, esp. with Dave Swarbrick, a trad storytelling from the C17th revamped by an English 60s/70s folk/rock band. And again, in the subject matter … tawdry.

(0542) Before going any further, remember that April Fool’s morn only works till your noon, after which the joke is upon you. (0616)

 

5. A reminder of the time period of this holiday

… and the programme for the Holy Week part of it:

4. Steve at 1339

• President Trump Tells Europe and Gulf States to Fix the Strait of Hormuz Themselves Amid Reports That He is Willing to End War Without Reopening Strait
• US Mideast Allies including Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Others, Urge President Trump to Continue War on Iran
• Bombshell Defense Filing: ATF Cannot “Identify” Bullet in Charlie Kirk Assassination With Accused’s Rifle
• [The] Ukraine Is “Mafia State” And Europeans Don’t Want It To Join EU, Says German Media
• Likely 60,000 German Deaths from mRNA COVID Vaccine
• Crowborough’s Illegal Migrants Are Catching Their Taxpayer-Funded Bus to Crawley and Not Coming Back
• Much more.

3. Noelia Castillo Ramos

A reminder that she’s a bit different to the “average” child rape by “Them”:

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a) In a clip that exploded across the platform on Monday, Cheltenham MP Max Wilkinson described X as a “massive problem” precisely because it gives critics of unchecked migration a voice.

b) Operators knew from the start that the 2025 Iberian blackout was due to renewable energy, according to audio recordings Spain’s legislature has obtained.

c) As much as leftists want her to fail—and are hoping that last week’s referendum defeat might trigger her downfall—Giorgia Meloni is holding onto her support base, and her party remains easily more popular than any other.

d) The Phone That ‘Had’ to Disappear.

e) Especially for today.

1. While we’re thinking “reprieve”, fellow reprobates

… Alex downunder reminds Brits:

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13. Moo corner

12. Noem is either right or she is wrong

11. What’s beneath the ballroom?

 

Going to post this, then go back and look at the previous film. Well rated, this episode:

 

Not sure what to expect here … we’ve never had it run here, it’s been sitting there but the title’s been offputting. 1937 eh? All right, let’s try it.

“I hold with what seems to be the majority opinion here, i.e. that this early Hitchcock effort is a neglected gem.

Though certainly not as well-done as some of his more noteworthy movies, I found it to be thoroughly captivating and entertaining, with the blend of suspense and humor that one finds in, say, “To Catch a Thief” or “Family Plot”. Derrick deMarney as the romantic lead does a particularly fine job; sort of a foreshadowing of the kind of thing Cary Grant later did so well. 

One thought is that the title is perhaps a bit of a double entendre; we always associate the phrase “Young and Innocent” with a female, but the story is really about the attempt of the lead character – a young man – to prove his innocence. Then again, is he really the lead, or is the story about the girl after all? I’m sure Hitch intended this touch of ambiguity.

Once again I have to thank American Movie Classics for bringing us another worthy movie from the past. Hitchcock fans should not miss this one (come to think of it, the only dog that I have seen from Hitch is “The Paradine Case”).”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_and_Innocent

(1050) I am reminded that if I say to a bro … take the mote from your eye, I must first remove the beam from my own. (Matthew 7:3-5). Indeed, I am myself a great sinner, pointing out the doings of this globopsycho or that, this wokeratchik or that … when my own sin must seem many times worse. (1140)

 

10. There are many things we’re being either railroaded into

… or prevented from doing. It’s getting worse, it’s being deliberately ratched from above.

9. Moo corner

8. Wind

7. IYE at 1339

(Also see comment under Tue 1 to 5.)

6. Lord T

 

Think many of us have personal missions later in life, as we see what lies ahead … mine was never planned … it just happened, possibly as a result of this Generations thing, trying to determine if there really are any … conclusion?

Yes there are, esp. post-war.

I got as far back with generations as 1929 to 46, 1912 to 29, 1895 to 1912. 1912 seemed a fair division as certain things were building, including Jeckyl Island and the Fed, World War but it was also clear that “half generations” also came into it.

For example, 1920/21 was highly significant … immediately post war, the great pandemic fading, couples marrying.

Look at a boy born in 1921, golden age ahead, up tempo living, all good. What age was that boy in 1939? You get my drift? After the 1929 crash and depression too …

“Half generations” make a lot of sense to me in this exploration. Look at a lad born post WW2 until maybe 1954/5 … rises out of austerity, into hope of a golden future, stability … but grounded, plus free.

1955 to 1963 though had no real world trauma, quite different to 1963 onwards … the latter were grouchy, cynical Gen X with resentment of Boomers.

Coming back a half generation before 1946 … born 1937/8 … depression, war, rationing … that must have affected them.

And we have one here we know of at Unherdables … I’m going to write to him ask if he’d write something about those years 1937 to 1946.

Then there’s 1929 to 1937 birthdate. What did they face? For someone loving the 1920s jazz, the history of eras … all this is fascinating. And part of that was my parents’ music. I don’t mean the vinyl LP collection … Sound of Music, James Last, Oklahoma …

I mean earlier … such as these two songs in this post. My father loved Richard Tauber, so he said. I was aware that Welsh male choirs were the rage too at one time. Before Vera Lynn.

What music did my da enjoy? I know he whistled Cock of the North ad infinitum. He wore cuffed hems, had a watch on a chain which went back in the vest pocket, trilby hat, carried a Gladstone bag … the one giveaway as to his origins. Worked in Bradford … commuted. Supported Bradford Park Avenue.

(0634) Morning all, first light. (0709)

 

5. Alberta

4. Steve at 1338

• Trump Says “Serious Discussions” Underway to “End Our Military Operations in Iran”
• Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Slams Congress, Demands Senators Return from Vacation to Reopen Government
• Christians in Syria Under Attack Once Again
• Nigerian Christians Massacred on Palm Sunday
• Trump Renews Threats To Iranian Energy Infrastructure After Attack On Haifa
• Pandemic fallout: Eating disorder hospitalizations return to pre-COVID levels, but youth mental health crisis lingers
• Welfare doesn’t pull people out of poverty – economic growth and freedom do
• An Israeli Leaked 1000 Hours Of Interrogation Video To Alex Gibney, Who Turned It Into “The Bibi Files.”
• Much more.

3. The new presidential library

As against:

2. DAD at 1338

a) Twenty-two people went on trial in France on Monday on charges of murder and other serious crimes centred on members of a Masonic lodge accused of running hit squads.

b) This is Paris 2026. The fact that Paris went from the “City of Love” to this is nothing short of a tragedy.

c) In Moncontour, Mayor Olivier Pellan, elected on March 15, resigned less than two weeks later. His home was vandalized with graffiti, and then his car was damaged.

1. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/03/diversity-is-such-blessing.html

… also at Jstack.

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24. Lord T sends

23. Toodles at 1338

|https://youtu.be/LZobJar3zQ8?si=q7sjne8b1S8zh5v4

22. More IYE at 1338

Andrew Kolvet and the TPUSA Money.

21. Some links

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/09/oxford-study-which-claims-myocarditis-is-higher-after-covid-than-vaccination-is-flawed-and-actually-suggests-vaccines-increase-risk-by-30

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/02/three-grim-myocarditis-updates

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/27/top-cardiologist-reports-47-fold-increase-in-serious-myocarditis-post-covid-vaccinations-as-he-calls-on-gmc-to-investigate

https://dailysceptic.org/2025/11/12/all-the-flaws-in-the-lancet-paper-that-claims-to-show-covid-is-a-greater-myocarditis-risk-to-children-than-vaccination

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/10/27/mrna-vaccines-injure-the-heart-of-all-vaccine-recipients-and-cause-myocarditis-in-up-to-1-in-27-study-finds

The key factor in all the “studies” showing the opposite is that they were Brit establishment with a vested interest in the result exonerating vaxxes.

 

There is the 1940 Raft and Bogie vehicle … but this came earlier, a British film, almost as well received … interesting place for a trucker movie:

“”They Drive By Night” (not to be confused with the Bogart) had a rare showing in a New York theater in 2009, as part of a series on British film noir. The only reason the theater screening matters is because of crowd reaction. And the reaction to this film, especially the final sequences, was absolutely joyous.

The movie is at least 2/3rds over before one of the main characters appears, the former schoolmaster Walter Hoover, played by the unbelievably urbane, stick-figure-thin Ernest Thesiger. The camera starts on his hands, so you only see what he’s doing– pasting newspaper clippings about lurid murders into a scrapbook– but when his face is finally revealed, the whole audience seemed to sit a bit straighter, and we stayed that way through the end, reacting with open delight to this character’s every movement, his every phrase.

I mean to take nothing away from the star of the film, Emlyn Williams (who wrote almost as many films as he starred in), but Ernest Thesiger was capable of turning a lousy movie into a watchable one, and a good movie into an unforgettable one. This is definitely the latter.”