Whilst removing frost from the car windscreen this morning, I found myself singing The Jam’s “Scrape Away”.
I went shopping, and when we returned couldn’t find the bread. “Where Did Our Loaf Go?”
Spent late morning/early afternoon in the garden. I was singing in my head “Pruning Back The Hedge” (to the tune of Talking Heads “Burning Down The House”
Hoovering needed doing, and I had the urge to grow a moustache and sing about how I yearned to get away from domestic mundanity (I can report there was no urge to dress up in drag (honest!)).
First drink of the night just finished – I’m on the way to being “Comfortably Numb”
When shopping, did you say hello to The Man In The Corner Shop?
I often sing the opening lines….
“My love is in league with the freeway
Its passion will ride, as the cities fly by….”
after a much needed time in the toilet.
[Big Log / Robert Plant}
If I’m not working & I don’t have much to do, I often play this on a Thursday Afternoon. I don’t sing along. I just sit and listen.
The mundane life of the Parklife narrator character hints at desperate loneliness.
“I get up when I want except Wednesdays, when I am rudely awakened by the dustmen.
I put my trousers on, have a cup of tea, and think about leaving the house…”
He celebrates going to the park, to feed the pigeons. He’s telling us that this is a tremendous way to spend the day. And all the other people he describes are ridiculed. He’s the one who has it all worked out. He’s the happy one.
When I heard it on the radio, I was really taken by it. Like a mini play within a pop song. The video played for laughs, which is a shame.
A cold but bright-blue sky Sunday in The Languedoc. As every Sunday, start off with Ella & Louis. Then this morning, as per Tiggs instructions, on to Ms Giddens. So far anything but mundane…
You may be crazy and all mixed up but, at least, you still obey orders!