Songs In The Key Of Life ~ Stevie Wonder It was released in September 1976, and I was 15 years and eleven months old, and I owned it on the day of release. I had saved up money, waited impatiently, the release had been delayed while he remixed and fiddled. It was a double album, … Continue reading What’s your all-time favourite album
Tag: music
If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?
I have done this and I would do it again. If that counts. If it were possible, I would do it in a different decade to the early 90’s that I chose. The first few years of my married life were spent abroad, and when we returned to the UK, the area of south London … Continue reading If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?
What is your favorite genre of music?
I don’t like these kinds of questions. The instant anybody asks me to name my top three albums, or favourite songs, I feel the pressure to narrow things down and how could I possibly restrict myself and what about all those I will have to leave out? If I had to, I would have to … Continue reading What is your favorite genre of music?
Whistling in the Dark
There is always a song in my head. I whistle and hum and sing a line from something. An old show tune, a current ear worm hit, a song I have always loved. Music is never far from my brain. I walk into a room, I turn on music, sit at my desk to write, … Continue reading Whistling in the Dark
On what subject(s) are you an authority?
Some of these questions accidentally steer you into belittling yourself. Not on purpose, I think it is just where the question leads you. I start off full of hope and I sit and think about the question and write and delete and write and delete. Eventually I resign myself to the fact that I can’t … Continue reading On what subject(s) are you an authority?
Open Journal #25
Listen to this on the podcast I understand that Christmas isn’t great for everyone, and maybe here we have a higher percentage of bah humbug than you might expect from your average crowd. We are swamped with adverts and hammered with the message of peace and goodwill until we want to kill with our bare … Continue reading Open Journal #25
Write about your first crush.
Our school was putting on a pantomime. That very English show that gets to include shouted-out catchphrases, songs, sketches, old jokes, and a Dame— a man dressed as a parody of a woman, not the Judi Dench type. In our area, this was a big deal. At the time, it ran for a week and … Continue reading Write about your first crush.
What are you passionate about?
Music. All of it. Most of it Ok some of it. I could list what I like and what I don’t like. judgement would flow out of you. because music does that. It is a yay or a nay or a meh. If you like what I like then you relax, don’t do it. but … Continue reading What are you passionate about?
Open Journal #7
Listen to this on the podcast The first few lines of My Story talk about my father being violent, locking me in rooms, and that I never talk about it. In chat a few days ago I was talking with someone and they told me they had read my story and said nice, kind things … Continue reading Open Journal #7
Open Journal #6
Listen to this on the podcast It has to be some music today, we are going to always come back to music, it walks with me through all of this abuse stuff. At moments of pain it soothes and allows me to centre myself. When I am heading into stressful moments i arrive with it … Continue reading Open Journal #6