This song is my husband’s party trick. I’m being serious. He knows every single word, and can recognise it from the first split second of the track starting. I don’t really know why that is, aside from having heard a lot of Billy Joel at some point in his life, but it is a factContinue reading “We didn’t start the fire”
Category Archives: Lightning Blogs
Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)
There are a number of songs that conjure incredibly strong memories of particular people, routines and instances from my student days when I was part of the university’s ballroom and latin dancing society. As a society, we started staging showcases as a form of fundraising, or so we told ourselves – in truth, they usuallyContinue reading “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)”
Mercy
“Yeah, yeah, yeah!” Aside from being an excellent chacha that I’m pretty sure was on the list for so many medal tests I scribed for, danced, ran the music for… and so on, this song is really excellent for its fabulous seventies styling in the music video. It also contains one of my favourite everContinue reading “Mercy”
It must be love
When this song came on, I had an immediate flashback to being about fourteen, and being so very cool. And by cool, I mean, not at all cool, not even connected to the right century of music for my classmates. Dad introduced me to the music of his youth, including Madness (Our house… in theContinue reading “It must be love”
Hold my hand
“Standing in a crowded room” – sheesh. Nothing like six months of behavioural conditioning and anxiety to make something that seemed so natural seem so damn strange. Early on, I watched movies and got upset because the characters weren’t keeping their distance. It was so weird. Now, I wonder what the hangups are that weContinue reading “Hold my hand”
A horse with no name
I’m really looking forward to going on an adventure. I officially felt incredibly cooped yesterday. I’ve been going through waves of coping better and then worse by turn. I am sure I am not the only one, and this turns into a bit of a maudlin reflection on being a badly-behaved little moaner, so ifContinue reading “A horse with no name”
Creep: Bardcore edition
So, my excellent sister-in-law sent me a very excellent bardcore song a while ago. What a wonderful genre of internet weirdness that you kind of have to just let wash over yourself, absorb, go ‘that was weird, let’s listen to more!’. I mean, I was a good target for this, considering I spent two yearsContinue reading “Creep: Bardcore edition”
New York Girls
It’s Friday! There is frosty-cold beer in my glass, and pizza in the oven. It’s a good time to be alive! I’ve found another foot-stomping folky jig, complete with some strings and group chorus. The weather has finally cooled down to a more moderate, British take on summer – no longer quite as sweltering, butContinue reading “New York Girls”
Walking on the waves
“An island in the sunlightLaughter in the rainA whisky in the darknessIt all feels just the same.” What a delightful folky Scottish vibe. I must make more of a habit of bringing in a bit more folky kind of stuff into my regular rotation, because I like it a lot, and well, it always putsContinue reading “Walking on the waves”
Learn Me Right
Brave is a delightfully atmospheric movie. I really enjoy it, and I think that while it isn’t necessarily the best in terms of its narrative structure, I like that it has a butt-kicking princess who is determined to be the master of her own fate (but ultimately learns that her family is important to her,Continue reading “Learn Me Right”
Everyday Adventures 