Monkey (and a few Ape) songs

source This post is all Max’ fault.  Today he posted on The Beatles’ tune Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except me and My Monkey.  I immediately thought of a couple more songs with monkey in the title and thought yes, I want to make a playlist.  Thanks to Max, Jim, Liam, and Graham for their…

The Oracle Speaks — Red is My Rain

Red is My RainYou, woman,are a pink rock,shadowed above,shot still with man’s urges;he who plays beautyas drunk lazy want.Sweet on smooth skin,he fiddles deliriously,mad as boiled sea.Blue diamond smells time.She storms less like lustbut sees how like wax the suit,a purple lie of sordid rust. The Oracle Speaks here.

#SLS — Joni Mitchell & Peter Gabriel, My Secret Place

Jim Adams is the ever-responsible host of Song Lyric Sunday.  Jim was called away for a few days but still made sure to post the prompt for Sunday.  Jim says: This week we have Duet, so you should look for songs that are sung as duets. Here are the “rules”: • Post the lyrics to…

#SLS — I Have the Touch by Peter Gabriel

Jim Adams is the anatomically-oriented host of Song Lyric Sunday.  Jim says: I am hoping that responses will be more evenly distributed with this week’s prompt being Arms/Elbows/Knees/Legs. Here are the “rules”: • Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme or not. If it does not fit, then…

Coloring Club Plus — 8/27/19

Two bonus pics!  Last (Sunday) night I went out to the car to retrieve the cat toy my daughter in-law gave me for Mlady.  It was just light enough to notice a dark shape on the hood of the car.  I thought it was a leaf or a large locust, but lo and behold it…

Coloring Club Plus — 5/14/19

I borrowed 3, count ’em, 3, Peter Gabriel CDs from the L today. The first one I listened to was “Up.” None of the songs were familiar to me. I chose, “The Barry Williams Show” as it really cuts to the bone and reminds me of a lot of reality TV shows. The very first…

Coloring Club Plus — 4/2/19

per wikipedia:  Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats is a compilation album by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel. It was released in 1990 as Gabriel’s first career retrospective, including songs from his first solo album Peter Gabriel (I or Car) (1977), through Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ (1989). It was remastered…