I was never a Doors fan. I thought them a little too light, a little too pretentious. I mean, at the time I was into Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath. The Doors were almost "pop" by comparison.

But then they came out with L.A. Woman. I seem to remember… Read full post »

Rhodes is really two islands. Granted, nowhere will you find the charm of Symi harbour, but the South of the island is brimming with untouched hillsides of olive groves, pine forests, fig trees and sleepy old white villages where you will still see grandmas sitting on shady steps… Read full post »

Call me sentimental, it doesn't matter. I lost my dear Dad back last January and shortly before he died I wrote the poem below for him. He was a great man. 

No he didn't change the world or achieve great fame. But he was raised from a baby by his diminutive… Read full post »

Having just watched The Who doing "It's Hard" on Dustbowldiva's blog, I'm prompted to ruminate on which have been the best rock voices of the past 40 years or so.

What about...

Robert Plant

Paul Rogers

Roger Daltrey

Tina Turner

Ian Gillan

Roger Chapman (Family)

Captain Beefheart

Billy Gibbons (ZZ… Read full post »

“It’s a bit of a misnomer that really, isn’t it.” Said Gary. He and his “men” (if a gang of two qualifies for such an epithet) were sitting in the shade sipping their tea and dunking their biscuits. They were taking a break whilst tackling one of the myriad jobs (l… Read full post »

Well, I've now been using OS since June 4th 2009 and how do I feel about it?

By and large I think it's excellent. I really like the fact I've struck up a few relationships with people living in places thousands of miles from where I sit right now. I… Read full post »

At a time when most rock bands were plagiarising the great blues artists and often conveniently forgetting to credit them (Led Zeppelin's "Lemon Song" on Led Zeppelin 2 is a good example. It's simply a re-working of Howling Wolf's "Killing Floor," albeit a brilliant one, but poor old Chester… Read full post »

I wrote a while back about helping our friend Josie prepare to move to Arhangelos from her present home in Lindos, here on Rhodes. It was while my wife and I were up and down the stepladder, busily "emulsion-ing" walls in Josie's new home, that Dimitra, her new neighbour, had arrived… Read full post »

I hope I'm succeeding in making my list as eclectic as possible. To many, an album like this wouldn't be classifiable as "rock" per se; though there's no other category you could really put it in either. It's simply one of the most wonderful sounding half-hours of music you could… Read full post »

Too many people would say that Dark Side of the Moon ought to be up there with the greatest rock albums. It would be hard to disagree with them.

But, for me Dark Side - although brilliant and truly "dark" - was the start of a complete change of direction… Read full post »

In July of 2008 we visited my parents in the UK and this pic was the last taken of my dad and I. I didn't know it at the time, when we asked the landlord of the "Cross Guns" at Avoncliffe (an impossibly beautiful place near Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire) to… Read full post »

Check this out (http://www.stephencmeyer.org/) and then say that to believe in intelligence in creation is to be a fool?

Where do the subjective, blind-faith Darwinists get off then? It's about time reason prevailed. Let's at least hear some evolutionists humbly admitting that to disagree with them d… Read full post »

On Tom Waits' breathtakingly good album "Mule Variations," from 1999, there's a track which is more of a poem than a song really.

 It's track 8 and it's called "What's he Building?" If you know the track you'll know how fascinating it is, as TW speaks his way through… Read full post »

I was sitting home alone one night

In L.A. watching old Kronkite on the seven o'clock news

It seems there was an earthquake that

Left nothing but a Panama hat

And a pair of old Greek shoes.

Didn't seem like much was happenin'

So I turned it off and… Read full post »

Dear Mr. Hitler,

I am so glad you didn't get your way. I am very sad you even did the things you did, but all in all I am very grateful you failed. I know you were just a good old Darwinist. Yup, Charles is largely responsible for what you did… Read full post »

I am not one for making comparisons, or even lists come to that.  But I thought it might be fun to compile some ideas on what have been the great milestones in music over the past forty years or so. So here's post No. 1 in an occasional series, "Greatest… Read full post »

Just finished this book. It's by Markus Zusak, whose mother grew up in wartime Germany. It's a very powerful and insightful book.

 Highly recommended.  Read full post »

You may have to copy this cartoon to your PC to read what it says, sorry!

I've been in a brief exchange of e-mails with an evolutionary "scientist" who says "it's not looking good for 'creationism'." He kind of inferred that if I hadn't done the thousands of hours of… Read full post »

Following an enjoyable trawl through A Kind of Blue's pages and seeing his many Pink Floyd lyrical snatches, here's one of my faves...

Who are you and who am I

To say we know the reason why

Some are born, some men die

Beneath one infinite sky.

There'll be war,… Read full post »

Just in case you may enjoy reading travel books with a distinctively autobiographical and anecdotal flavour (or flavor!), especially about things Greek, check out these reviews on my first two books:

REVIEW of Feta Compli!

REVIEW of Moussaka to My Ears 

Details on how to purchase both… Read full post »

The evolutionist says that things evolve out of need. The environment around the creature (can you use that word when you don't believe in a "Creator?") is supposed to have induced the "evolution" of the eye.

OK. Let's apply a bit of Mr.… Read full post »

This will very likely find its way into my third book...

Ray and Celia are a British couple who retired to their new home in Pilona, a small village between Lardos and Kalathos. It's also a fairly strong stone's throw from Lindos, although the other side of a mountain. When Ray… Read full post »

Further to my "...Malign the Swine" posting, this will illustrate the point made in the opening comments perfectly...

English Language Logic...

I take it you already know

Of tough and bough and cough and dough?

Others may stumble, but not you

on hiccough, thorough, laugh and through!

We… Read full post »