One-Liner Wednesday: Doing Silly Things
“The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity” – Proust: The Captive (La Prisonnière) – – – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 30 September 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Siblings – ‘Sister Morphine’
Jim’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is siblings. ‘ Leonard Cohen’s ‘Sisters of Mercy’ was the first song that came to my mind, but I’ve already deployed it in this thread. Fortunately, I then recalled one of the deeper cuts from the Rolling Stones’ seminal ‘Sticky Fingers’ album, released in 1971. Like most…
One-Liner Wednesday: Selective Memory
“As for people in society, there are very few things that they remember” – Proust: The Captive (La Prisonnière) – – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 23 September 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Canadian – ‘When You Dance I Can Really Love’
‘Let us now praise famous Canadians’ is the essence of Jim’s prompt for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. If you’ve dropped by hoping for some Justin Bieber then you’re definitely in the wrong place, but there’s plenty of excellent Canadian music to choose from. As I haven’t featured him for a while, I’ve gone with…
One-Liner Wednesday: Beware of zealotry
“If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it upon other people” – Proust: Cities Of The Plain (Sodome et Gomorrhe) – – – – – – – – – #1liner Weds 16 September 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Contrasts – ‘Hello, Goodbye’
Jim’s theme this week is ‘contrasts. This song – which surely needs no further introduction – is full of them. You say yes, I say no You say stop and I say go go go, oh no You say goodbye and I say hello Hello hello I don’t know why you say goodbye, I say…
One-Liner Wednesday: Ignorance is bliss
“I may tell you that I attach little importance to knowledge. Things that can be learned do not interest me.” – Proust: Cities Of The Plain (Sodome et Gomorrhe) – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 9 September 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Culture – ‘Vesti La Giubba’
A complete change of pace this week for Song Lyric Sunday, as Jim has chose the themes of Musical and Opera. As a general rule, I can’t get to grips with musicals, apart from the odd so-called ‘jukebox’ type. The one about Tina Turner was pretty good. When it comes to opera, I do have…
One Liner Wednesday: On trend
“It is splendid to be advanced, one can never be advanced enough” – Proust: Cities Of The Plain (Sodome et Gomorrhe) – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 3 September 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Nasty – ‘Don’t Be Cruel’
There’s a dark edge to Jim’s trigger words this week: ‘cruel’; ‘evil’; ‘wicked’. I’m taking this one quite literally. And besides, it was the first tune that popped into my head. You can’t beat Elvis: why even try? You know I can be found, Sitting home all alone, If you can’t come around, At least…
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