Bursting with Song!
I am so loving Keith Richards' memoir, Life . It is so charming & funny & addicting (how appropriate!).
In fact, I was reading it before I went to sleep last night and then I dreamed about Keith all night long. Especially his relationships with Doris & Bert. (In this very old book I have about the Rolling Stones (pictured below in its magnificent state of pristine preservation!!), there's a quote from Keith from around 1964 or something like that, where he refers to his parents as "Boris & Dirt." I always thought that was so funny -- you know, silly-funny.) I don't know exactly what I was dreaming, but I literally awoke at 5 AM singing out loud the song, I Could Have Danced All Night, from the musical, My Fair Lady. ("I could have danced all night; I could have danced all night; and still have begged for more. I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things, I've never done before...")
The cats stood on the bed in the dark, right next to me, and just looked down at me, probably thinking, Well, this is curious & new. They didn't do their usual pacing all over me and meowing and insistent crying of "feed us, feed us, right now!"
When I was a teenager, of course, I idolized the Stones. And my mother, of course, could not stand the Stones. For graduation from high school, a friend gave me the record Some Girls, which had just come out and of course, I never stopped playing it and one afternoon my mother, in exasperation, asked, "What on earth do you see in these people??"
"They're so clever, mom; they're so smart & some of these lyrics are so funny."
She just wasn't seeing it that way... Ah well. Onward. That was over 30 years ago. The book pictured below has been with me since I was 13. It cost an outrageous sum of $6.95 back in 1973. For me, back then, that was actually quite a lot of money so it took me awhile to save up for it, but I finally got it and then I carried it with me everywhere I went. 99% of the Stones stuff that I collected over the years is gone now, simply b/c I moved too many times to hang on to everything, but this book was everything to me. The idea of ever parting with it never occurred to me.
The inside cover is proof that it belonged to me: Property of Marilyn Barck (my maiden name, though it's quite hard to imagine I was ever a bonafide "maiden", isn't it?) (The label was made with a label-maker my dad gave me. The tape that made the labels had really groovy colors, don't you think?)
"I'll never know/ what made it so/ exciting; why all at once/ my heart took flight/ I only know when he/ began to dance with me/ I could have danced, danced, danced... all night."
We'll see if that sets the tone for a most splendiferous day, gang! Thanks for visiting! See ya.
In fact, I was reading it before I went to sleep last night and then I dreamed about Keith all night long. Especially his relationships with Doris & Bert. (In this very old book I have about the Rolling Stones (pictured below in its magnificent state of pristine preservation!!), there's a quote from Keith from around 1964 or something like that, where he refers to his parents as "Boris & Dirt." I always thought that was so funny -- you know, silly-funny.) I don't know exactly what I was dreaming, but I literally awoke at 5 AM singing out loud the song, I Could Have Danced All Night, from the musical, My Fair Lady. ("I could have danced all night; I could have danced all night; and still have begged for more. I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things, I've never done before...")
The cats stood on the bed in the dark, right next to me, and just looked down at me, probably thinking, Well, this is curious & new. They didn't do their usual pacing all over me and meowing and insistent crying of "feed us, feed us, right now!"
When I was a teenager, of course, I idolized the Stones. And my mother, of course, could not stand the Stones. For graduation from high school, a friend gave me the record Some Girls, which had just come out and of course, I never stopped playing it and one afternoon my mother, in exasperation, asked, "What on earth do you see in these people??"
"They're so clever, mom; they're so smart & some of these lyrics are so funny."
She just wasn't seeing it that way... Ah well. Onward. That was over 30 years ago. The book pictured below has been with me since I was 13. It cost an outrageous sum of $6.95 back in 1973. For me, back then, that was actually quite a lot of money so it took me awhile to save up for it, but I finally got it and then I carried it with me everywhere I went. 99% of the Stones stuff that I collected over the years is gone now, simply b/c I moved too many times to hang on to everything, but this book was everything to me. The idea of ever parting with it never occurred to me.
The inside cover is proof that it belonged to me: Property of Marilyn Barck (my maiden name, though it's quite hard to imagine I was ever a bonafide "maiden", isn't it?) (The label was made with a label-maker my dad gave me. The tape that made the labels had really groovy colors, don't you think?)
"I'll never know/ what made it so/ exciting; why all at once/ my heart took flight/ I only know when he/ began to dance with me/ I could have danced, danced, danced... all night."
We'll see if that sets the tone for a most splendiferous day, gang! Thanks for visiting! See ya.
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