Yet another meme

[rhythmaning]

I think I saw this first on chickenfeet2003, f4f3 or deililly, I can't remember.

• My alias is... Cleo Henry. Well, it was, last time I needed to use an alias – but that was twenty years ago. (I was going to offer a prize for anyone who guessed where I stole it from – but Google takes you straight to the right Wikipedia article! So no prizes.)



• The first thing I see when I wake up in the morning is... my wife’s right shoulder



• I can't survive the day without... water



• My weakness is... my strength



• My favorite love song ... changes every day; but somewhere between The Only Ones’ “Lover’s Of Today” and “Another Girl, Another Planet”; Elvis Costello’s “Alison” and “I Want You”, Patti Smith’s “Gloria” and “Because the Night”, New Order’s “Temptation”, almost anything John Coletrane played, and most of the George Gershwin catalogue. And a whole load of others, too. (Still, half of those are anti-love songs, the fallout from love songs, bitter and cynical and twisted... But still great love songs!)



• If I could warn the "youngsters" of today about something, it would be... don’t believe what you are told



• A gentleman always... Yes, a gentleman, always



• The perfect kiss should be... perfect. And worth waiting for.



• A kiss should never... be regretted.



• The most wonderful surprise I've ever received was... getting engaged



• My first crush was ... Penny. I was six.



• I got my first gray hair ... about fifteen years ago



• I keep having this dream about... [censored]



• My worst habit is... biting my nails.



• The thing I'm most proud of myself for is... doing things the way I think they should be done



• I wish I were a better... person



• My mother always told me... lots, but I’m buggered if I can remember any of it



• When I'm feeling down, I... play John Coltrane live recordings



• I can't wait to... leave my current job



• In school I was... pretty bright – not the top of the class, but very near the top…



• I'm sorry I didn't ... kiss her



• I'm glad I... kissed her



• I need to change... No, I am not sure that I do



• My favorite holiday is... Any holiday.



• My words to live by are... keep your promises.

Comments

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

"I Want You" is so bitter and twisted that I can only listen to it when maudlin drunk (which is, of course, the worst time to listen to it). The other one to listen to then is "Blue Valentines" by Tom Waits.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Bitter and twisted - but still a brilliant love song.

I will probably post this some other time, but on the back of your raving, I bought both Warren Zevon and Steve Earle greatest hits compilation type things. I really like the Warren Zevon - whose stuff I knew before (well, Splendid Isolation and Werewolf of London). Genius is just magic.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like Uncle Warren - he's been a voice of sanity for me on many a long night.

I'd love to see how a greatest hits sums up Mr Earle - his career has had so many twists and turns, from the fresh faced troubador who hit Nashville in his teens, through the country rock rebel of the 80's, off to jail in the 90's and reborn as the angry elder statesman.

I just can't see "Someday" sitting on the same platter as "NYC" (which brilliantly incorporates Someday's opening riff, actually) or "The Revolution Starts Now".

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Here's the Steve Earle compilation on Amazon - the Steve Earle Collection - http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000647HC/qid=1151160294/sr=8-2/ref=pd_ka_2/026-4876104-9978837

It only cost a fiver, so I reckoned it would be worth it just to find out what you were going on about...

The Warren Zevon I got was Genius - http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006LA4I/qid=1151160385/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/026-4876104-9978837

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

All good stuff (and enough to show why Nashville alternatively wrungs its hands and showered him with money) but all from the first stage of his career.

After touring The Hard Way, he had a long descent into heroin addiction, which ended up with him spending time in jail.

The comeback acoustic album "Train A Coming" is one of my favourites, and the albums that followed that one became increasingly politicised. The way ahead is pretty effectively foreshadowed by "Billy Austin"s line about the death penalty - "there's 27 men here, mostly black, or brown or poor, and most of us are guilty, but who are you to say for sure?".

The sense of humour shown on "A Week of Living Dangerously" survived to, though, right through to his impassioned plea for the Secretary of State to skank for him on "Condi Condi" from the latest album.

Hopefully he'll be touring again this year, and I can take you along and show you what all the fuss is about.