dVerse — Quadrille 166 — “Candy, baby!”

Apple-cheeked, she crunches leaves;her feet map their way to crystal falls. I breathe in; her honey-sweetness is sin. “Candy, baby!” She turns; her lashes bow assent.She minuses shirt, shorts, bootsand says, “Let’s jump in!” Trees whisper over sugared sighs. Directly inspired by Iggy Pop’s song, “Candy.” Mish is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday.  Mish…

Music Challenge — Let’s See What’s on Your List

image link Dale Rogerson put a music challenge up on facebook and I completed the challenge there and decided to move it over here.  I’ve not only put the song titles in but links to each song.  Feel free to create a post with your answers and put a link in my comments or give…

dVerse — Haibun Monday — Autumn’s voice (aki no koe)

After turning off the sound machine’s waves, walking to the toilet and hearing my morning tinkle, I pad down the carpeted hallway to the kitchen. Dotty gives a soft meow as she curls around my ankles. Where the floor registers’ heat poured silently from them, the new heating system whispers warm that is felt more…

Paul McCartney’s “Appreciate” (music video)

NEW album cover Per wikipedia, New (stylized as NEW) is the sixteenth solo studio album by English musician Paul McCartney, released on October 11, 2013 through MPL Communications, Hear Music, and Universal International. The album was his first since 2007’s Memory Almost Full to consist entirely of new compositions. I haven’t heard this album, but…

Happy Beatles Halloween!

Just saw this at the “Beatles. Come Together Page.“ And then of course, I was compelled to find an appropriate video to go with this.  Using Beatles Halloween, I found this gem:

TSM 231 — Landslide

Stevie Nicks Haven’t we all been there, when being on is a turning off; when the energy, instead of balanced is vacuum, sucking qi, blood turn to dust. They all want a piece of me. It is then that I become very small and close my shell. “Landslide” is a Fleetwood Mac song that Stevie…