Anarchy Heaven

A night or two ago I went to a Lucinda Williams concert. It was thrilling. For a number of reasons which I'll walk you through............

Oh, by the way, today was the end of Term 1 & the beginning of my two & a half weeks holiday.

So, in celebration, I am going to Set My Sentences Free even more than I normally do. I may start a sentence mid-sentence & maybe even finish it mid-sentence. I may attempt to write in the style of Virginia Woolf or Agatha Christie or Alice Walker. Famous Literary Characters, like for instance, Blanche duBois may make Guest Appearances & pose for Wardrobe Remix. 

 Sounds like Anarchy Heaven. 

But I just remembered that on friday I am going on a two week Blogging Holiday. So that means that I've only got a couple of posts to do this. 

Better Start Pronto.......

1. It was a Christmas Gift from Peter & Nigel who own my local cafe, 'Zinc'.

2. We had front row seats.

3. Lucinda is six weeks older than me.

4. It was a chance to dress in my new Slightly Slutty way.

Isn't this exciting? Are you following me? I hope so.

When Lucinda first came out I was mildly shocked & disappointed. Not that I expected  her to look like Kylie Minogue or Madonna or even Dolly Parton.

  I took one look at her Last Century Rock Chick Standard Outfit & instantly wanted more. In fact I wanted frequent Costume Changes - a Delta Airlines Flight Attendant, a Middle Ranking Executive in a navy suit & pearls, HM Queen Elizabeth & maybe Miss Peggy Lee for the Encores. 

But of course Lucinda doggedly kept the same outfit on for the whole two hours.

 I am now going to say something Quite Harsh: It looked like she made up the outfit about twenty years ago & in the intervening years hadn't bothered to check in the mirror to see that she had grown a Medium Muffin Top. If you don't believe me, look at the photo.

Now I'm going to Attempt a Save: I admired Lucinda's Muffin Top. Mind you, I wouldn't like to have one myself. 

But..... It in no way detracted from her Absolutely Amazing Voice &  Total Mastery of the stage.

And I just love that she's my age & at such a Creative Peak & everyone is madly applauding her & thinking she's fab & wonderful & not ready for the Seniors Card. Or if she is, she just uses it to get free transport & other discounts & still keeps on rockin

Where Are They Now?

It's late at night, & I'm celebrating the beginning of my Well-Deserved Holidays by Staying Up & blogging. Anyway, I'm far too excited to sleep.
Excited & irritated. I'm irritated because I've been trying to upload a video from utube but it keeps on saying there's an error.
How dare they?
So now I've turned my attention to something else entirely.
Lately I've been collecting pictures of old 'Seventeen' magazine covers from the late sixties. As a teenager, I would buy 'Seventeen' every month & devour all the pictures of 'Real Life' American girls & feel really lousy & ripped off that I didn't look like that or have their fabulous lives or that I lived in a Shoe Box.
You can imagine my intense joy when I recently discovered this wonderful cover from 1970. It features two perky college students who really look Everything I Wasn't Back Then - smiling, clean, poised, popular & THIN. It all came flooding back to me.
But after staring hard at the cover for probably hours, I suddenly recognised The Toothy One. Wasn't she one of those NY social x-ray types who always feature in 'Social Diary' pages of mags like 'W'? Of course, it's Jameeeeee Gregory.
Jamee is now a philanthropist, writer of a book on NY apartments & a fixture on the NY social circuit.
It wasn't hard to find a million current pictures of Jamee attending the Opening of Many Envelopes. She looks pretty good really.
Hope she's had a Great Life.