After a blog-free and email-free 24 hours, due to technical problems, I am trying to get kick-started again.
Spent most of Thursday and yesterday feeling idiotically cheerful – I have now had 3 consecutive good nights’ sleep (though of course it won’t last…)
Been thinking about Lady Hester and how in fiction I will always root for a heroine (or hero) who steps out into the unknown, but in my own life I think I’ll stay where it’s safe and cosy, thank you very much (I never claimed to be consistent!)
Apologies for the contentious title, and bear in mind that anything said is based on my own, very personal, criteria.
On the way to yoga the other day, I had forgotten to put the CDs back in the car, and there was nothing interesting on the radio, so I picked up an old cassette lying in the cubby hole and put it in the player. Who should blast out of the speakers at me but Robert Palmer, singing ‘Some like it hot’. I still carry in a secret place in my heart the memory of him performing ‘Some guys have all the luck’ on Top of the Pops wearing tight leather trousers – aah, those formative experiences! Wind forward a few years, and I remember the first time I gave a lift to the ‘male best mate’ who has appeared in these pages a few times recently – he saw the box (no I don’t clean my car out very often – even though it was a different car!) and said: ‘I might have known you were a Robert Palmer fan!’ Now what did he mean by that? That I’m a lecherous middle aged female with sophisticated taste?
Sadly, RP is now RIP. Wonder if he and Jimbo ever gig together on the other plane? Somehow I can’t quite see it. I still love them both, anyway, which I guess shows how eclectic my tastes are. Ladies, just try curling up in front of a log fire and listening to ‘Aeroplane’ or ‘Riders on the Storm’ over and over again. It works for me.
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Jim Morrison’s spiritual heir – possibly
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Glad you're back on an even keel. Not much to say ... just saying 'hi'
 | husbandorcat [Member] 2006-01-29 @ 15:15 |
Don’t know about that, my keel seems to be in a permanent state of wild oscillation (probably a lousy metaphor, sorry).
I do think this intense soul searching is good for me, though doing it in such a quasi-public way is a tad bizarre, I admit. I can write the things I could never say to anybody – I suppose I just don’t believe anybody is ever actually going to read it.
Sorting through the recycling pile for some paper to light the fire, happened to notice that QUITE BY CHANCE the telly paper from a couple of weeks ago with the picture of Damien Lewis on the front had mysteriously surfaced again. Yes, I KNOW he has ginger hair, but what can I say? I’m a sad, sad case.
Actually, comparing DL with JM, RP and CS (not to mention CF, and even hubby), I realise that it’s the eyes that grab me every time (leather trousers notwithstanding).
Heard James Blunt on the radio and I have to say, I really don’t get it – to me, the man just sounds mawkish. Now, Robert Palmer’s ‘Aeroplane’ just has to be the most romantic, sexiest song I’ve ever heard. In case you’re not familiar with it, I found one site with a free sample of the first 30 seconds:
http://music.allofmp3.com/r2/Robert_Palmer/Don%60t_Explain/group_2579/album_1/albref_7/mcatalog.shtml
and one with the next 30 seconds:
http://robertpalmer.jubilee2000uk.org/
Of course, it’s highly questionable whether I should even be thinking of listening to romantic, sexy songs in my present state of mind, but there you go.
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