February 2012
2 posts
“Yeah, I’d like to go to all the pretty parties
Where all the pretty...”
– Last week’s amazing lyric (just a tad late…) by Ani Di Franco from The Million You Never Made
I’m in the middle of a little bit of heartache now
It’s difficult to figure it out.
Half-way down a high-wire line,
Half a mind to turn it about…
But it’s one step forward, another one back -
A long way to either side.
Can’t sit down and I can’t stand still,
Nothing to lose but my life…
this week’s amazing lyric
November 2011
4 posts
“A girl in the corner is crying, the silver haired lady’s alone
And the...”
– This week’s lyric by Steve Hindalong of The Choir (“Mercy Lives Here”)
“Seems life is written by a finger in the sky
high and far away,
Sometimes it...”
– This week’s lyric from “Shackles Fall” by Delta Twins
“I bought a crap detector
Emptied all my savings
It’s got a hair-trigger...”
– This week’s amazing lyric by Bill Mallonee from Vigilantes of Love’s “Earth Has No Sorrow Heaven Can’t Heal”
“Now lemme tell you a story, the devil he has a plan
A bag a’ bones in his...”
– Talking Heads (“Swamp”)
October 2011
4 posts
“Walk it with the spirit
Talk it with the spine
Mama sing “Open up...”
– This week’s amazing lyric by Chris Whitley from “Dust Radio”
WatchTreat your ears right. Listen to this album.
“Folk and Punk are wonderful friends at the party. Had they been alive at the...”
– Bill Mallonee from interview with “Down The Line” magazine
“Blackout, heatwave, .44 caliber homicide
The bums drop dead and dogs go mad
in...”
– This week’s amazing lyric from Billy Joel (“Close To The Borderline”)
September 2011
4 posts
“I make my peace by saying “Sorry”
I dance while you’re down...”
– this week’s amazing lyric by Bobby Pennock (from “Round Peg in a Square World”)
“Hey - look at me now -
I’ve been impaled on the horns of your sacred cow.”
– this week’s amazing lyric by Bill Mallonee / Vigilantes of Love (“Real Downtown”)
“I’m all out of faith - this is how I feel
I’m cold and I am shamed...”
– This week’s amazing lyric as sung by Natalie Imbruglia (but written by 3 other people)
July 2011
1 post
Forever?
Whenever I hear the phrase “it changed his/her life FOREVER”, I’m struck by how redundant and over the top the word “forever” is in that context. What phrases are jarring to you?
June 2011
4 posts
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