One-Liner Wednesday: If at first you don’t succeed..
“We are always ready to despise a goal which we have not succeeded in reaching” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 6 January 2021
Song Lyric Sunday: P or G – ‘Green Is The Colour’
To begin the New Year, Jim is embarking on a three-week season of Song Lyric Sunday prompts consisting of a choice of two letters of the alphabet, the title of the selected song having to begin with one of them. First up is P or G, and my first thought was this Pink Floyd beauty,…
One-Liner Wednesday: ‘Yes, Minister’
“The situation, without of course being of an alarming nature, might well be envisaged as serious and even, from certain angles, as susceptible of being regarded as critical” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 30 December 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Sensations – ‘Hungry Like The Wolf’
To the best of my knowledge, I haven’t featured Duran Duran in my Song Lyric Sunday contributions before now. Truth be told, they are a little after my time. However, the lyrics of this perfectly respectable song meet Jim’s brief for this week of ‘Aroma/Flav(o)ur’. Dark in the city, night is a wire Steam in…
One-Liner Wednesday: Getting On
“Our past, and the physical lesions in which it is recorded, determine our future” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 23 December 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Shapely – ‘The Width Of A Circle’
Jim’s key words for Song Lyric Sunday this week are geometric shapes. It wasn’t as easy as usual to find something to match the brief, but there is this, the opening track on Bowie’s third studio LP, ‘The Man Who Sold The World’. The title track is by far the best-known song on this album,…
Song Lyric Sunday: Soft Fruit – ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’
Jim offers us a range of soft fruits as prompts for Song Lyric Sunday this week. There is no more than a handful of songs that I can truly say were life-changing on first hearing. This definitely was and would have been the first. I suspect that I won’t be the only participant in SLS…
One-Liner Wednesday: Thief Of Time
“So long as things are possible, we postpone them” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1liner Weds 9 December 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Pets – ‘Bird On The Wire’
“I have tried in my way to be free” Jim’s broad theme of ‘domesticated animals’ for Song Lyric Sunday this week gives me an opportunity to post my favourite, most resonating, Leonard Cohen song. Although the title includes ‘bird’, the very last thing that this song is about is domestication, however. Like a bird on…
One-Liner Wednesday: Diamonds in the dust
“There are moments in life when a sort of beauty is created by the multiplicity of the troubles that assail us” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 25 November 2020
