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| Gangster Blues |
Dressing up in American shops is a lot of fun but there is something about this look that doesn't quite get the smiles it should from the shop people. Oh well! It just goes to show how 'representation' can tell a succession of untruths. Or might that be truths - who knows I really might be the bad guy depicted (or not). Lately I have been thinking about buying a kite. There is something wonderfully cathartic about launching it and then watching it holding the breeze, falling and flying and flying and falling, swooping over water and land and buildings, flying and falling and falling and flying - and then I realise its just another Icarun theme - and possibly thoughts of escape, oh how i could do with an escape right now but there seems to be no chance of that. One thing I cannot run away from is the fact that I am too trendy for my shirt. It seems that months after I first blogged The Civil Wars the rest of the world caught up - and their CD has just been publicised as a new release. So hears to them again, may they enjoy their second coming (on this blog at least). They write some good songs but here's one of Lenny's - indeed one of his very best:
