Here we are in August and I’ve already found several songs containing it. It remains to be seen how many will be checked off by others before the month is over. The one I went with today is The Kinks, with “Picture Book.” With Kinks songs, you really can’t go wrong. They are up there…
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Doodads — Queen Anne and Witch Hazel
Do you ever wonder why they name plants after women? I just wondered when I saw the two flora I am including are named Queen Anne and Witch Hazel. Anyway… the first pic is a lovely patch of lace out near the road. It grows all over here. There is a plant that has gone…
#SLS – “Singing from the Windows” by Dave Matthews Band, from Walk Around the Moon
Dave Matthews Band “Walk Around the Moon” album cover (link takes you to Pitchfork review) image link My first thought on great album closer is something that has every instrument vibing full blast with echoing screams by a long-haired 1970’s musician like Robert Plant or Steven Tyler. A song, when it ends, the silence is…
FFF46 — “The Rider-Waite Deck,” by Ichabod Wolf (2024)
Ichabod Wolf I came across, “The Rider-Waite Deck” on Spotify’s Release Radar awhile back and have had it in my favorites playlist since then. There is something compelling about Ichabod Wolf’s (Kieren Smith’s) resonant, fatalistic voice recite-singing the lyrics. The lyrics tell the tale of man who has been beaten hard by love and who…
Alien Series (through Covenant) repost from 2021
movie poster link (AKA Everything you always wanted to know about the Alien series but were afraid to ask.) The Alien Series (through Covenant) The Series includes Alien (1979,) Aliens (1986,) Alien 3 (1992,) Alien: Resurrection (1997,) Prometheus (2012,) and Alien: Covenant (2017.) I’ve watched all of these in the last couple of weeks. I…
#FF — One More Time (fan-fic)
PHOTO PROMPT © Marie Gail Stratford One More Time Ripley stretches her new body, disturbing Jones’ sleep. He meows in protest, stands, hunch-stretches, and heads for the kitty box. Coffee! Her body says. Espresso gurgles and steams. Ripley’s lips have just touched the rim of the cup when her comms unit goes off. “We need…
dVerse — Tuesday Poetics — Wee Troubadour
Wee TroubadourLast summer’s three, she climbed the chunky boulder, playing follow-the-leader to the little seven boy, therewith his dad, and leapt off when we weren’t looking.She bent her knees as we’d instructed, but her lipshit a knee. Her lips swelled along with bleed. Tears.This summer’s four climbs her rocky friend with morein mind. Its elevated…
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