One-Liner Wednesday: You Are What You Eat
Vegetarian Chicken??? – – – – – – – Part of the menu of the Chinese take-away just around the corner from my Mum’s house. One-Liner Wednesday 8 August 2018
Song Lyric Sunday: Drink – ‘Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting’
There’s no end of songs about ‘drink’ as potential candidates to match Helen’s theme this week, including more than several from what you might call my ‘usual suspects’ rota of artistes. This time, however, I’m going for somebody who hasn’t featured here before: Elton John. This song – which comes from the album ‘Goodbye Yellow…
One-Liner Wednesday: Days Between
“Magic is what we do, music is how we do it” – Jerry Garcia (born 1 August 1942) – – – – – – – Okay, I freely admit to having lifted this from the official Grateful Dead website, but hey. One-Liner Wednesday 1 August 2018
Song Lyric Sunday: Street – ‘Positively Fourth Street’
So what if it is Bob Dylan for a second consecutive week? This is one of my Top Five Dylan pieces and bang on trend for Helen’s theme this week: You’ve got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend When I was down you just stood there grinnin’ You’ve got a lotta nerve…
Song Lyric Sunday: Speak – ‘Queen Jane Approximately’
“And you want somebody you don’t have to speak to” Pink Floyd’s ‘Speak To Me’ – the beginning of ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ – was my knee-jerk response to Helen’s theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. However, it’s a bit of a stretch to describe those few spoken lines as ‘lyrics’, so I…
One-Liner Wednesday: Past The Halfway Mark
“You and I have memories/longer than the road that lies ahead” – ‘Two Of Us’, by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon & McCartney), from the album ‘Let It Be’ – – – – – – – Last week’s One-Liner was about the future, so in the interests of editorial balance here’s one about the…
Song Lyric Sunday: Break – ‘Break On Through (To The Other Side)’
Helen’s theme for this week is ‘Break’. My immediate thought was the Beach Boys’ ‘Break Away’, but that was immediately superseded by this. Earlier this year, The Doors released an album and film of their performance at The Isle Of Wight Festival in 1970. I was there and this is one of my most vivid…
One-Liner Wednesday: Plus ça change
“I have seen the future and it is very much like the present. Only longer” – from ‘The Profit’, by Kehlog Albran* – – – – – – * being a parody of the sanctimonious tosh that is Kahlil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’. One-Liner Wednesday 11 July 2018
Song Lyric Sunday: Think – ‘Badge’
It didn’t take too much…er, thought…to come up with a song to match Helen’s theme of ‘Think’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. Not surprisingly, Arethe Franklin’s ‘Think’ sprang to mind first, but ‘oui, mais non’ as they say in France. A close second, however, is this classic from Cream, featuring L’Angelo Misterioso – a…
One-Liner Wednesday: I’ll Drink To That
“good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well us’d“ – Othello, 2.3 – – – – – – Good old Shakespeare. One-Liner Wednesday 4 July 2018
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