Time to get my blog started and what better way for a bookworm and music lover than to quote from books and lyrics, I simply go into raptures when I read a single sentences that paint a vivid picture.
Tom Waits for example while talking about a hooker in a bar, "as she jack-knifed her pretzel legs over a naugahide stool". WOW, that paints a perfect picture for me that needs no other description at all, close your eyes and the rest of the scene in the bar comes to life.
Mervyn Peake in his novel Titus Groan gives us "a lady who lives in a sea of white cats". Once again the WOW factor is so strong, so many cats in a room all moving and the impression is of a slow swelling sea.
J P Donleavy in The Beastly Beatitudes Of Balthazar B writes "the sweet nut flavour and milky white beauty of my mother's breasts were taken away and I made my first frown". I think most of us can relate to that one.
Sometimes words are not even needed. Listen to Fleetwood Mac's Albatross and you can hear the rolling sea provided by the bass guitar, the breaking waves from the cymbals and the mellow cry of the mighty bird overhead in the haunting guitar playing of Peter Green. I don't know how many thousand times I have heart that song but I still pull over, stop the car and close my eyes every time it comes on the car radio.
Well that's it folks, I broke my duck and thanks for listening.
Tom Waits for example while talking about a hooker in a bar, "as she jack-knifed her pretzel legs over a naugahide stool". WOW, that paints a perfect picture for me that needs no other description at all, close your eyes and the rest of the scene in the bar comes to life.
Mervyn Peake in his novel Titus Groan gives us "a lady who lives in a sea of white cats". Once again the WOW factor is so strong, so many cats in a room all moving and the impression is of a slow swelling sea.
J P Donleavy in The Beastly Beatitudes Of Balthazar B writes "the sweet nut flavour and milky white beauty of my mother's breasts were taken away and I made my first frown". I think most of us can relate to that one.
Sometimes words are not even needed. Listen to Fleetwood Mac's Albatross and you can hear the rolling sea provided by the bass guitar, the breaking waves from the cymbals and the mellow cry of the mighty bird overhead in the haunting guitar playing of Peter Green. I don't know how many thousand times I have heart that song but I still pull over, stop the car and close my eyes every time it comes on the car radio.
Well that's it folks, I broke my duck and thanks for listening.