‘Falling’ is the theme that Helen has set us for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge. Lots of songs out there about falling in love, of course, but while this is certainly a love song, it has a rather different take on ‘falling’. I’m a recent convert to Spotify and one very agreeable consequence of…
Helen has chosen the theme of ‘courage’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. There are clearly plenty of songs out there that fit the theme in a broad sense. Many of them, though, I’d consider to be off limits for me, in the sense that they are about the challenges of being a woman. To…
”I may be past it – but at least I’ve got history.” One-Liner Wednesday 29 November 2017
That would be Neil Young, of course. I used to listen to Neil Young a lot in my youth. I was captivated by the first time I heard his distinctive quavery voice on ‘Helpless’ and I owned a couple of his albums – ‘After The Goldrush’ and ‘Harves’t – as well as the live CSN&Y…
This week, Helen at This Thing Called Life One Word at A Time has chosen the theme of ‘Obsession’ for Song Lyric Sunday. Of course, there are lots of songs that deal with obsession – mostly related to love (and lust) – and some of them are downright creepy. However, I think that this song…
Pat on the back for myself, but I saw this theme coming, having looked at the Marquessa’s fiction prompt for this week. It was Dylan Thomas who wrote: “Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light” Amen…
For ‘W’ it could only be The Who. Having, notoriously, slept right through their performance at the Isle of Wight in 1970, I finally got to see them at the opening night of the Rainbow Theatre in November 1971. They tumbled onto the stage at the end of a line of high-kicking chorus girls, Moon…
“‘Storage solution’ my arse. It’s a shelf.” One-Liner Wednesday 15 November 2017
I’m British and saying ‘Sorry’ is what we do. Besides, experience has taught me that it’s always best to apologise, even if only as a precaution. More seriously, has there ever been a better song about regret for causing unintended pain than this? I was dreaming of the past and my heart was beating fast…
“I worry that I’m neurotic” – let’s just say ‘Anon’ and leave it at that, shall we? One-Liner Wednesday 8 November 2017
the only deadhead in the hameau 