It's snowing here...

I think minus "The Blues" these are the best lyrics to any song... the band in any incarnation has ever done, anyone agree/disagree...?

Broken glass and cigarettes,
writing on the wall,
it was a bargain for the summer,
and I thought I had it all.
I was the one who gave you everything,
the one who took the fall,
you were the one who would do anything,
the one who can't recall
where she was while she was sleeping,
in another woman's bed,
or the doctors or the lawyers,
or a stranger that she met.
If there's nothing I can gain from this,
or anything at all,
it'd be the knowledge that ya gave me,
when I thought I'd heard it all.

It was a long time for you,
it was a long time for me,
it'd be a long time for anyone,
but looks like it's meant to be.

Social class and registers,
cocaine in the hall,
all the way from California,
on the way beyond that stall.
to those non-negotiations
to simulate a call,
all the bad of learning evils and
your ways around the laws
that keep you up and sitting pretty,
on a pedestal of fear
and now you're sleeping like an angel,
near the man who reaped it in.

If there's something I can make of this,
or anything at all,
it'd be, the devil hates a loser and
you thought you had it all.

It was a wrong time for you,
it was a wrong time for me,
it was the wrong time for everyone
but looks like I'm about to see for myself.

If I could go back in time, to the place
in my soul, there all alone,
lonely tear drops,
ooh, are calling you.
but I don't wanna know it now,
'cause knowing you, it won't change a damn thing.
but there was a time....

(Solo)

yeah, there was a time,
didn't wanna know it all,
didn't wanna know it all and
I don't wanna know it now,

yeah, there was a time,
didn't wanna know it all,
didn't wanna know it all and
I don't wanna know it now,

(Solo)

Oh, I would do anything for you,
there was a time....
I would do anything, for you
oh, I would do anything for you,
there was a time....

(Solo)

There was a time,
I would do anything for you,
Oooh
yeah there was a time,
didn't wanna know it all,
I would do anything for you!
didn't wanna know it all,
and I don't wanna know it now,
I would do anything for you
didn't wanna know it all,
didn't wanna know it all,
and I don't wanna know it now,
(to this love)
There was a time...

Thanks to HTGTH.

March 2

A half-empty flight to Los Angeles. I read the Sunday papers all about our brave warrior, Prince Harry, what a PR coup and what crap. Sleep most of the way, wake up over Idaho and Hot Springs Peak - Columbia Plateau.

As it's a new month here's a bit of what I've been reading and watching and listening to...

    Jake Arnott - He Kills Coppers. Going to read this, this week. I have all his books and have only read The Long Firm, which I loved.

    Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse. Another book I've had for ever, always start then never finish.

    Music

    The Mars Volta
    Eels - Blinking Lights
    Sly Stone - It's a Family Affair
    Megadeth - Train Of Consequences
    The Who - Magic Bus Denver 1970 Long version
    Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy. I got a finished version - couldn't get past the first two songs.
    Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times
    AC/DC - Shot Down In Flames
    Tesla - Hand Me Down World

    Enjoyed the film Warlords. The female lead was beautiful in a plain way. Nanking - The Documentary. Something to cheer up any evening. I gave it to Kazuyo and told her to see what her Grandad got up to in Manchuria. 'Good,' she said 'The Chinese deserve it.'

    Re-watched The Vertical Ray Of The Sun. A beautiful film, the colour, light, everything.

One of the sad things in LA is the closure of Tower and Virgin on Sunset. I went to the Vigin Megastore in Hollywood which was terrible, a poor selection of films with everything jammed together. Los Angeles is not what it used to be...