Scooter Chronicles

The Cardigans - “First Band on the Moon”

Tracks:

1. Your New Cuckoo
2. Been It
3. Heartbreaker
4. Happy Meal II
5. Never Recover
6. Step On Me
7. Lovefool
8. Losers
9. Iron Man
10. Great Divide
11. Choke

I went out on a few dates with a young lady a couple of years before meeting Marcia. One day we stopped in Harmony House to browse around. She ended up buying this album on CD and we listened to it the rest of the evening. “Lovefool” was often played on the radio. Later I bought a copy, not sure if I really wanted to, but I took a chance....

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A few nights ago Marcia and I watched “Notes on a Scandal” starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett, with co-stars Andrew Simpson and Bill Nighy.

For a synopsis of the movie, I turn to Donald Liebenson’s review which is posted at Amazon.Com as the description:

Gold stars to all for this taut psychological thriller based on Zoe Heller’s novel that that gets more insidiously twisted as it unfolds. Oscar-nominated for her chilling performance, Dame Judi Dench gives a master class as schoolteacher Barbara Covett, a frumpy, friendless, and flinty spinster who lives with her...

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