Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

 The song Mamma Mia was released in 1975. The film Priscilla, Queen of the Desert was released in 1994. It has now been longer since the film came out than it was between between ABBA and the film's nostalgic look back!

 Alabama Song (Show Me the Way to the Next Whisky Bar) is by Brecht and Weill??

 

 The story of Goody Two Shoes has nothing to do with someone who is holier than thou or exceptionally virtuous. It is the story of someone who used to have only one shoe and has been given a COMPLETE PAIR!  "Goody" is just a term of address. It is short for '"Goodwife." Sorry Adam Ant.

 

 The sacrifice Harry Potter's mother made to save his life always reminds me of the tragic death of the great Kirsty MacColl.

  Glory be to God for dappled things—    For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;        For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;    Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;        And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange;    Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)        With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:                                      Praise Him.

  In 1921, there was a movement to place a fig leaf on the Cerne Abbas Giant. The protest reached the Home Office, which treated it as a joke but also announced that it would be inappropriate to act against the protected monument. It has also been determined that the carving is medieval, rather than, as long believed, Stone Age.

Watching the 1978 Ralph Bakshi animated Lord of the Rings in a fit of (misguided) nostalgia. John Hurt as Aragorn! Anthony (C3-PO) Daniels as Legolas! Annette Crosbie as Galadriel! Hadn't realized how much influence it had on Peter Jackson!  Jackson visually quotes Bakshi when the Hobbits hide from the Nazgul!

 "To you, Baldrick, the Renaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it?"

 Does anyone else worry that if Harry Potter wears the Cloak of Invisibility too much he'll turn into Gollum?