THE X FACTOR

 

You were caught by your ex girlfriend

Chatting up her best friend

But the reason she’s your ex girlfriend

Is you factor best friend

THE PLAZA FROM GAZA - AS SEEN ON TV

 

We watch on TV

As the horror unfolds

It’s Breakfast in America

Lunchtime in England

We watch as the towers burn

Great plumes of smoke

Blackening the sky

Flames burn unchecked

Metal buckles and windows break

Bodies fall like rag dolls

Tumbling earthward

And hit the portico

We watch the pictures

Dumbstruck at this surreal scene

And await news

Of other flying bombs

We watch through tear stung eyes

As a tower falls

Collapsing like a house of cards

Killing the rescued and the rescuers

While in Palestine they dance

The women cheer

The men shoot guns

The children jump with joy

And laughter rings round

In the echoes of the gunfire

As the innocent die

Palestine Dance’s

GINSTER QUERY

 

I saw a large woman wearing

A sweatshirt, it was a tight fit

With the word 'Guess' printed on it

I paused for a moment

Casting a long gaze with my eyes

Then I said too many pies?

GOTTLE OF GEER MUM

 

My mother was a ventriloquist    

Good at throwing her voice rather

For ten years I thought that the dog

Was telling me to kill my father

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – THE CHANGELING (1980)

“The Changeling” is a horror drama, Screenplay by William Gray and Diana Maddox from a story by Russell Hunter and Directed by Peter Medak.

 

When music professor and composer John Russell (George C. Scott) and his family are enjoying a perfect family vacation, a freak automobile accident claims the lives of his wife and daughter.

Consumed by grief, he is urged to rent a huge nineteenth century house, and the house seems to possess all the room John needs to reflect and hopefully write music.

However it isn’t long before he realizes he is not alone in the house as he shares it with the spirit of a murdered child who has homed in on John's grief and despair and uses him to uncover decades of silence and deceit.

With the help of Claire Norman (Trish Van Devere), who helped John secure the house, they set out to find the answers and the powerful and devious man who guards them.

This is not a violent or “Kensington Gore” type of horror, it scares with great story telling, eerie sounds and dark corners and it uses pathos with great effect.

The film also benefit from accomplished direction and the acting excellence of its stars and a great supporting cast including Melvyn Douglas, John Colicos and Barry Morse.

WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE WHY (21)

 

Who’s that lady?

What Lola wants

When the door opened

Where love has gone

Why do we love?

TRAIN MAN

 

Railways are Masculine

You can shout that from the steeple

Because they use the same old lines

To pick up people