Sign your name across my heart

For some reason I woke up this morning singing Terence Trent d’Arby’s song, ‘Sign Your Name’.  The original video is up on You Tube but I prefer this version just because the sound is so much better.  I love this song, love his voice in this. 

Said by some (over there at YouTube!) to be a cross between Prince and Michael Jackson, I must say I agree.  Check out the second video below ~ ‘Wishing Well’ ~  to see for yourself. 

TTd changed his name to Sananda Maitreya a few years ago and now lives and works in Milan.

Sign Your Name (1987)

 

Wishing Well (1987)

Predictions of The Soothsayer, 1

Ooh, hold on….let me look into my crystal ball.  With my soothsayer’s hat on I sense a prediction forming in my mind’s eye.  Yes, yes, there it is.  Already pens are scratching across paper, keyboards are frantically clicking and printers are pumping out paper.   It’s a…a book!  …It’s a book and I predict that it will hit news stands within 6 months.  It will tell everything that we didn’t need or want to know of the ‘man behind the mask’, the ‘painful truth’ about the ‘tortured genius’, the story that no one even dared to utter during his life.  It will be the true story of Michael Jackson and, hold on, I see the title emerging from the mists….and it shall be named ‘The Man In The Mirror’.

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No hate mail peeps.  I am a fan of Michael Jackson’s music, sad for his family and sad for the loss of his musical talent but let’s not forget that four days ago most people when asked would have sneered, questioned his sexual proclivities and called the man disparaging names.  Now those same people are practically beatifying him.  I feel we need to get a little perspective here.

Skewed priorities

It’s amazing how with the death of Michael Jackson time seems to have stopped.  People have stopped starving to death in Africa, there are no wars, no threats to world peace, no environmental disasters, no companies announcing mass redundancies, entire nations are no longer financially crippled and global warming is no longer a threat to the future of our planet.  Phew.  Thank goodness for that then.

As my husband said this morning whilst watching Sky News:

‘We’ve had fifteen minutes of Michael Jackson, 15 seconds of British detainees being released in Iran, 10 seconds on the policing of the G20 summit and 5 minutes of Wimbledon.’

It’s good to know we have our priorities right.

Michael Jackson

Well that was a hell of a shock.  I wonder how the press, who have had a field day vilifying this man in recent years, will deal with the news of his sudden and untimely death.