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      • How This Side of Paradise Was Born
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    • Female Punk Rock 1977-89
  • Swing Years and Beyond
    • December 20, 2003 The Swing Years & Beyond – Holiday Edition
    • February 18, 2006 The Swing Years and Beyond
    • SEPTEMBER 9, 2006 – THE SWING YEARS AND BEYOND
    • July 19, 2008 – The Swing Years and Beyond
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    • October 25, 2008 The Swing Years and Beyond
    • November 1, 2008 The Swing Years and Beyond
    • November 8, 2008 The Swing Years and Beyond
    • December 7, 2008 The Swing Years and Beyond – Pearl Harbor Day Special
    • December 18, 2010 The Swing Years and Beyond – Holiday Edition
    • December 21, 2014 Swing Years and Beyond – Christmas Show
    • April 18, 2015 The Swing Years and Beyond
    • May 17, 2015 The Swing Years and Beyond
    • September 12, 2015 The Swing Years and Beyond
    • October 31, 2015 The Swing Years and Beyond – Halloween Special
    • November 21, 2015 The Swing Years and Beyond – French Tribute
    • December 12, 2015 The Swing Years and Beyond – Frank Sinatra 100th Birthday Special
    • December 19, 2015 The Swing Years and Beyond
    • February 13, 2016 The Swing Years and Beyond – Valentines Day Special
    • October 15, 2016 The Swing Years and Beyond
    • December 31, 2016 The Swing Years and Beyond – New Year’s Eve Special
  • Music
    • “Hold Me Now” – THOMPSON TWINS (1984)
    • “My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg)” – The Ramones (1986)
    • “The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades” – Timbuk3 (1986)
    • “It’s My Life” – TALK TALK (1984)
    • “Joan of Arc” – OMD (1981)
    • “American-Soviets” – C.C.C.P. (1986)
    • “Raspberry Beret” – PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION (1985)
    • “Just Can’t Get Enough” – DEPECHE MODE (1981)
    • “Love Will Tear Us Apart” – JOY DIVISION (1981)
    • “Hold The Line” – TOTO (1978)
    • “Left Of Center” – Suzanne Vega (1986)
    • “99 Luftballons” – Nena (1983)
    • “Solitude Standing” – Suzanne Vega (1990)
    • “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” – Tears For Fears (1985)
    • “Faith” – GEORGE MICHAEL (1987)
    • Sting – “Russians” (1985)
    • “Cool Places” – Sparks (with Jane Wiedlin) (1983)
    • “Saved By Zero” – THE FIXX (1983)
    • “Oh L’amour” – ERASURE (1985)
    • “When Doves Cry” – Prince (1984)
    • “She Blinded Me With Science” – Thomas Dolby (1982)
    • “People Are People” – DEPECHE MODE (1984)
    • “It’s A Mistake” – Men At Work (1983)
    • “It’s A Fire” – Portishead (1994)
    • “Rio” – DURAN DURAN (1982)
    • “One Night In Bangkok” – MURRAY HEAD (1984)
    • “To Live And Die In L.A.” – WANG CHUNG (1985)
    • “19” – PAUL HARDCASTLE (1985)
    • “I.O.U.” – FREEEZ (1983)
    • “Enola Gay” – Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (1980)
    • “If You Leave” – ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK (1986)
    • “Dancing With Tears In My Eyes” – Ultravox (1984)
    • “I Got You” – SPLIT ENZ (1980)
    • “GOLD” – SPANDAU BALLET (1983)
    • “As” – GEORGE MICHAEL, MARY J. BLIGE
    • “Steppin’ Out” – JOE JACKSON (1982)
    • “Never The Same” – SUPREME BEINGS OF LEISURE (2000)
    • Music Monday “Glory Box” – PORTISHEAD (1994)
    • Music Monday – “Big in Japan” – Alphaville (1984)
    • Music Monday – “Digging Your Scene” – The Blow Monkeys (1986)
    • “Song For A Future Generation” – THE B-52’S (1983)
    • ”Blue Monday” – New Order (1983)
    • “True” – SPANDAU BALLET (1983)
    • “Days Go By” – Dirty Vegas (2002)
    • “Pop Muzik” – M (1979)
    • “Computer Love” – Kraftwerk (1981)
    • “Monkey” – GEORGE MICHAEL (1987)
    • “Virtual Insanity” – Jamiroquai (1996)
    • “Puttin’ on the Ritz” – TACO (1982)
    • “Dance Hall Days” – Wang Chung
    • “99.9F°” Suzanne Vega (1992)
    • “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” – DEAD OR ALIVE (1987)
    • “Doctor Doctor” – THOMPSON TWINS (1984)
    • “Shake the Disease” – DEPECHE MODE (1985)
    • “Freedom” – WHAM! (1984)
    • “Don’t Go” – Yazoo
    • “Money” – The Flying Lizards (1979)
    • Don’t You Want Me” – HUMAN LEAGUE (1981)
    • “Policy Of Truth” – DEPECHE MODE (1990)
    • “Fastlove” – GEORGE MICHAEL (1996)
    • “Too Funky” – George Michael (1992)
  • Words
    • Words to Live By – William Shakespeare
    • Words To Live By – Virginia Woolf
    • Words To Live By – Soren Kierkegaard
    • Words to Live By – Kurt Cobain
    • Words To Live By – Oscar Wilde
    • Words To Live By – Anais Nin
    • Words To Live By – Harriet Beecher Stowe
    • Words To Live By – Coco Chanel
    • Words To Live By – Emily Dickinson
    • Words To Live By – Little Edie
    • Words To Live By – Zelda Fitzgerald
    • Words To Live By – Molly Ivans
    • Words To Live By – Gracie Hansen
    • Words To Live by – Tamara de Lempicka
    • Words to Live By – George Santayana
    • Words To Live By – Yves Saint Laurent
    • Words To Live By – Andy Warhol
    • Words to Live By – J.F.K.
    • Words To Live By – Diana Vreeland
    • Words To Live By – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    • Words To Live By – Thom Browne
    • Words To Live By – Marilyn Monroe
    • Words to Live By – Oscar Wilde
    • Words To Live By – Jack Kerouac
    • Words To Live By – F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • Words To Live By – Kurt Vonnegut
    • Words to Live By – Hunter S. Thompson
    • Words To Live By – Harper Lee
    • Words To Live By – Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Words To Live By – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    • Words To Live By – Hellen Keller
    • Words To Live By – Buster Keaton
    • Words To Live By – Ernest Hemingway
    • Words To Live By – Holstee Manifesto
    • Words to Live By – Samuel Beckett
    • Words To Live By – Voltaire
    • Words To Live By – Mrs. Betty Bowers
    • Words To Live By – George Orwell
    • Words To Live By – Sade
    • Words To Live By – Winston Churchill
    • Words to Live By – Dale Cooper
    • Words To Live By – F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • Words To Live By – Elizabeth Taylor
    • Words To Live By – Mae West
    • Words to Live By – Elie Wiesel
    • Words To Live By
  • Banned Books
    • ‘10,000 Dresses’ by Marcus Ewert (Author), Rex Ray (Illustrator)
    • “Year of Wonders” by Geraldine Brooks
    • “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell
    • “What My Mother Doesn’t Know” by Sonya Sones

Tag: lists of note

Things To Not Worry About – Self Help

February 1, 2021 Scott Parker-Anderson

I think about this list often, especially when I feel like I am maybe spinning a bit too hard on something that I should not

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Things To Not Worry About – Self Help

March 10, 2015 Scott Parker-Anderson

I think about this list often, especially when I feel like I am maybe spinning a bit too hard on something that I should not

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Nora Ephron – Self Help

March 4, 2014 Scott Parker-Anderson

This list kills me, reminds me. focuses me, shuts me up, angers me, softens me, and inspires me to grab life and wring every last

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Smells Like Teen Spirit

May 10, 2013 Scott Parker-Anderson

We drive by Kurt and Courtney‘s old house a lot on our way home, we drive by the park where there are always people taking

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13th (Self Help) Day of Xmas – Enjoy Yourself

December 25, 2012 Scott Parker-Anderson

We all make lists, written or mental, we all make promises, resolutions, and deals with ourselves.  Sometimes, we keep them, sometimes, they fall away.  We

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12th (Self Help) Day of Xmas – Don’t Worry

December 24, 2012 Scott Parker-Anderson

I swear, I cannot get though a week without some sort of Fitzgerald.  I feel like this is advice he is giving his daughter, but

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2nd (Self Help) Day of Xmas – Nora

December 14, 2012 Scott Parker-Anderson

This list kills me, reminds me. focuses me, shuts me up, angers me, softens me, and inspires me to grab life and wring every last

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Marcus

July 26, 2012 Scott Parker-Anderson

As filming of Giant came to an end in September of 1955, Elizabeth Taylor gave co-star James Dean a Siamese kitten that he named Marcus. A week

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What I Won’t And Will Miss – Nora Ephron

June 29, 2012 Scott Parker-Anderson

The great Nora Ephron passed away this week, aged 71, following a battle with leukemia that began in 2006. She had many strings to her bow, but

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Turkey Recipes

May 26, 2012 Scott Parker-Anderson

During his lifetime, the great F. Scott Fitzgerald filled numerous notebooks with ideas, letters, jokes and essays. My favourite of these items, and the most

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For Characters Who Don’t Dig Jive Talk

May 22, 2012 Scott Parker-Anderson

The following glossary was printed on the inside cover of “Boogie Woogie in Blue,” a 1944 album by jazz pianist Harry “The Hipster” Gibson. Most

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