My parents are going out for the evening. Mum is glamorous in a fur coat, powder, lipstick, perfume, jewellery. I bury my face in the soft fur. I don't want her to go out. Maybe it's separation anxiety, maybe it's envy of the high time they were going to have without me, maybe I'm a … Continue reading Miss Reading
Month: May 2013
Mark Knopfler’s Romeo and Juliet – an analysis
For no particular reason I decided to learn the Dire Straits song "Romeo and Juliet" properly. Which means checking out the original chords (which I probably learned osmotically sometime around 1982), and correcting and memorising the words. I found a bug in my understanding of the chords for the last part of the chorus. Not … Continue reading Mark Knopfler’s Romeo and Juliet – an analysis
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