One-Liner Wednesday: Listen to your body
“To kindness, to knowledge we make promises only: pain we obey” – Proust: Cities Of The Plain (Sodome et Gomorrhe) – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 5 August 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Acquisition – ‘We’ll Gather Lilacs’
And now for something completely different. This week’s theme is, broadly speaking, ‘gathering’. This was the first song that came into my head when I saw the prompt. Brits of a certain age (mine) will quite possibly remember listening to the BBC Light Programme early on a Sunday evening, when they would be entertained (sic)…
One-Liner Wednesday: Not Her Best Look…
“I thought she had been dead for years, which would be the only possible explanation for the spectacle she presents” – Proust: Cities Of The Plain (Sodome et Gomorrhe) – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 29 July 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Same/Different – ‘The Same Thing’
Same or different is the choice for Jim’s Song Lyric Sunday this week. You can find excellent versions of this song by The Allman Brothers and The Grateful Dead among others, but here it is as performed by Willie Dixon – who did, after all, actually write it in the first place Why do men…
One-Liner Wednesday: That’s debatable…
“It is far more difficult to deface a great work of art than to create one” – Proust: Cities Of The Plain (Sodome et Gomorrhe) – – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 22 July 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Baked Goods – ‘MacArthur Park’
“Someone left a cake out in the rain” Baking is the broad theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week. Nobody knows why – but then again, why not? Anyway, seeing that prompt took me straight back to this compelling oddity from 1968: Richard Harris singing Jimmy Webb. Anything was possible back then. On a more…
One-Liner Wednesday: Not For Sharing
“One hungry man has no need of another to keep him company” – Proust: ‘The Guermantes Way’ (Le Côté De Guermantes) – – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 15 July 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Elementary – ‘This Wheel’s On Fire’
The four elements of the ancient world provide the prompts for Song Lyric Sunday this week. This song by Bob Dylan, in conjunction with Rick Danko of The Band, appeared on The Basement Tapes in the mid-seventies, but is probably more familiar – at least in the UK – in the 1968 version by Julie…
One-Liner Wednesday: Dying Is Such A Bore
“If i wait too long, I may be dead before they elect me. That really would be unpleasant” – Proust: ‘The Guermantes Way’ (Le Côté De Guermantes) – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 8 July 2020
Song Lyric Sunday: Good, Better, Best – ‘Had Me A Real Good Time’
Jim’s looking on the positive side with the keywords for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. And if you’re looking for some good old raucous fun, there were none better than The Faces. Thought I was lookin’ good So I cycled ‘cross the neighbourhood Was invited by a skinny girl Into her high class world Left…
the only deadhead in the hameau 