insomnia galore
a soldier in a trench in Verdun will go into no man's land tonight
the high, the mighty and the rich have their own reasons to be awake
In Finland they have environment all over the place. A Dutchman feels easily intimidated here.
in 1906, Enrico Caruso gloriously preformed Carmen in San Fransisco at the Tivoli Opera House. The next day an earthquake destroyed the city.
In the song, a giant wave sweeps him to a desert island in the Pacific, and the Great Caruso wonders : did my singing make the earth tremble?
A girl puts flowers on the grave of a young soldier, echoes of Pete Seeger's Where have all the flowers gone? sound and poppy flowers grow for the production of opium. The Dutch army went on a humanitairy mission in Afghanistan and ended up in a tribal opium war.
inspired by the WW1 poem In Flanders fields by John McCrae
you have one
you need it
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crime sometimes pays
a lovesong signed in Niki de St Phalle style
she wrote her husband Jean Tingely beautifully illustrated jealous letters, signed
Grrr...to you
Reginald & Ronald Kray combined murder with glamour and robbery with celebrity