Trajan has been keeping us up to date with the VW scandal and at the Emperor’s meeting, he briefed us about Matthias Mueller talking over as CEO where he show us a picture of the new guy.
Jeez, within 2 seconds, Cleopatra wanted his number, if he was available but anyhow back to the topic.
The new CEO of Volkswagen :Matthias Mueller who is obviously muelling things over.
When I first saw the picture, I was thinking where have I seen him before?
The fact that he was head of Porsche didn’t mean a thing. Then it hit me. 
He is “Rocky” from the Rocky horror show – What a perfect analogy!
Not only that, but we have Susan Saradon singing this song that is so VW emission appropriate. All together now: “..Toucha toucha toucha toucha me, I want to be dirty..”
Nero.
Augustus asked me to try and cheer all you Volkswagon owners out there who are fegickt over by the diesel cheating scandal. How about this compilation of Volksmusik relating to emission scandal:
And last but not least..
Take it away !
Cleopatra’s post and her visual joke implying Kate Moss looks like Brian Jones from the Rolling Stones (I kind of agree) had me thinking of a “Kate Moss” Compilation.
So Roamans and without much ado, let’s start the top 10 in reverse order. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did. Click the “+” item to drop down the music video.
Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery And Museum
Belle and Sebastian have a new album out called “Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance“. I love it !
They have also guest authored Our Town: Belle and Sebastian’s guide to Glasgow. This is what singer Stuart Murdoch says about Kelvingrove Art Gallery And Museum:-
One of my favourite places in Glasgow is the Kelvingrove Art Gallery And Museum. There’s nothing too remarkable or internationally ‘important’ about it. Just a warm and beautifully ornate sandstone castle, built when Glasgow was the second city of the Victoria’s British Empire.
I’ve gone there on and off, on rainy sundays and sunny tuesdays, for the past 30 years. Now we take our wee boy there, and it’s his perfect place to run around and explore. He loves the stuffed elephants and the Spitfire hanging from the ceiling, though he’s a little worried about the velociraptors.
When i get a spare minute i like to drift around the permanent collection, The Glasgow Boys, The Colourists, the tale-end Impressionists. And i inevitably drift up to see Dali’s masterpiece “Christ of Saint John Of The Cross” – Glasgow’s best known painting, some would say a talisman for the city. I, of course, would agree with them. So it’s cloistered up in Kelvingrove, and we protect and admire it like a pearl in a very fine shell.
Other places they write about include Argyle Street, Finnieston and The Sparkle Horse.
Their guide is not a long read but it does remind me that I haven’t been to Glasgow in decades. Glasgow is often overlooked by it’s Eastern sister, Edinburgh. For those not familiar with the geography, they are actually very close to each other: About 45 miles.
Next time I am in Scotland, I will make the effort to go and visit.
Cleopatra has taken great delight in writing about the rise and stratospheric fall of Heather Cho, ex-Senior VP of Korean Air Lines. The more story she told, the more songs came into my head.
Well, Boppety bop. Ringy ding ding. Kerrang !
Here are my songs (+Youtube) that communicate to me, the attributes of the Heather Cho story.
For a good while, lovers have been attaching locks to Ponts des Arts bridge in Paris. However, the weight of those locks caused part of the bridge to collapse last Sunday – see Washington Post blog.
Looks like the band “Joy Divison” were indeed correct in their most famous song.
Night at Opera Poster: Source IMdb
BBC news most shared article is “Metropolitan Opera could go bankrupt in ‘in two years’”
The boss of New York’s Metropolitan Opera says it will “face a bankruptcy situation in two or three years” if it does not cut its wages bill.
General Manager Peter Gelb was speaking to BBC Radio 3’s Music Matters programme about the Met’s current funding issues.
He proposed cutting 16% of its $200m (£119m) labour costs by changing work rules for the orchestra and chorus.
Gelb also defended spending $169,000 (£100,000) on a poppy field stage set for the opera Prince Igor.
Unions have already threatened strike action over the proposed pay cuts, which are up for debate before the players’ current contracts expire at the end of July.
What’s this got to do with travel ? Roads-2-Roam recently wrote about attractions of New York City and under the the Lincoln Center, we said the “Met” was home to the Metropolitan Opera Company we said. Well, perhaps it will not be in a few years so we’ll need to note that for future revisions. Continue reading..