Classic Lines / June 22 2007
I was thinking last night, as I was working on some new songs, about my passion for popular songwriting in general, and about my appreciation of good lyrics specifically.
Whilst one can often find infamous and markedly badly-written lines and couplets from modern compositions being quoted in magazines, television and radio programmes and across a thousand beer-soaked, [...]
L’Etoile Mystérieuse / May 16 2007
Nelson is back home in London now and he rang today to tell me of a stimulating evening he spent in the company of a famous French movie-star.
‘I can’t tell you who it is, Nap, but suffice it to say, he is very, very well-known and respected,’ he told me over the phone.
Apparently, they spent [...]
Rats / March 1 2007
Urgh! Audrey and I have been invaded.
It has been obvious for a few weeks now that some kind of tiny animal - or animals – have been coming and going from a small but ever-widening hole near the drain, outside in our back yard.
Audrey has been rather excitedly snuffling away around the edges of the [...]
