"I'm Eighteen"

'I'm eighteen and I like it

Yes I like it, oh I like it, love it, like it, love it

Eighteen, eighteen!

Eighteen, eighteen and I like it'

Apologies to Alice Cooper. 

18/50

Let's be honest, the Janis Ian post was better.

At Seventeen

'And those of us with ravaged faces

Lacking in the social graces

Desperately remained at home

Photographing 180s on the phone . . .'

Apologies to Janis Ian. 

17/50 

What Janis Ian said . . .

Ellis Peters makes it seventeen in this old crime fiction 'What you must read' list. 

Will I jump straight into book number eighteen? I'm genuinely not sure. I enjoyed Cadfael so much that I'm tempted to read the next book in the series. 

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 10

A song that makes you sad.

I'm struggling here. I was too quick in choosing Elbow's 'Scattered Black and Whites' earlier. If I'd planned it out better, that would have been the song for today. I'll pick this song  . . . 'cos it is a beautiful song . . . sad or not.



Janis Ian - At Seventeen (Live, 1976)

The Next 30 Day Song Challenge - day 19

Day 19 - A song that tells a story

Sadly I've already mentioned Joel and Rosselson on the Another 30 Day Song Challenge, so those two great singer-storytellers are out of consideration. This song and this song immediately sprang to mind when thinking about the challenge but I think that has more to do with my unresolved issues concerning Red Wedge and my unread copies of Marxism Today from the '87/'88 period.

So I'll get off the eighties lefty schtick - if only for a moment - and plump for Janis Ian's 'At Seventeen'. Drop dead gorgeous: