Tunes on Tuesday ~ Herb Alpert
drunk under the boardwalk, out of the sun
I never wanted t go to Mexico. and while I was in Mexico City I hated it with a passion But I would stop shaving and using deodorant to spend a week in Tijuana with my Californian friend.
I know she would like sitting at the bar, chatting up men.
But the stupid hat on me, maybe not.
I’m an Englishman, a legal alien.
The monster does it better.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
my friend drinks, smokes,
hangs out in bars too
Tunes on Tuesday ~ Dance Moves
being a classic means a lot more than being just old
Some music makes me smile, and some music makes me feel like dancing. This compilation does both.
I’ll bet that you can’t watch this video without wanting to dance.
Or buy an Oldsmobile and turn it into a hot rod.
Please listen watch and listen with nostalgia.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Ford Model A
flathead hot rod
Seascapes and Serenity Lost ~ available on Amazon
Random Jottings ~ Vacations
English told to lock away their passports for a year
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forget California
no holidays for Brits for a year
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buy a sunlamp and some bags of sand
it’s the nearest you’re going to get to a vacation
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United Kingdom cut off from the rest of the world
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no sunshine holiday romances please, we’re British
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we English travel not to escape everyday life, but to escape Covid
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doctors say that having fun increases your risk of dying from COVID-19
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
no man needs a vacation so much as the man who has been in lockdown for 308 days
Having No Libido
let nature decide on your sex-drive
not doctors and drugs
she should make my temperature rise
In the past when I heard of people who stopped taking their medication for schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, depression, or some other mental issue….. because the drugs made them feel like they; ‘weren’t themselves anymore’ ~ well I used to think they were being stupid.
For the past few days I’ve been taking a drug called Amlodipine to help lower what was my catastrophically high blood pressure, and it worked dramatically quickly ~ which is good. There have been some immediate side-effects ~ which is not so good. I’ve been drowsy, a bit confused and clumsy, my memory is crap. and I’ve got a constant headache. There’s another side effect; no interest whatsoever in sex, total lack of sex-drive, zero libido, and no chance at all of having an erection. I checked, one of the side effects of Amlodipine is to dramatically reduce the production of the male sex-hormone testosterone.
It feels like a very important part of my personality has been removed ~ I don’t feel like myself anymore. I’m not me. And, not only do I feel weird, I don’t like it one little bit.
You might wonder how I know my sex-drive and lustful desires have disappeared, given that I’ve been in lockdown for months, and not had a date in all that time. The strange thing is I knew, and I know that my masculinity has disappeared along with the testosterone which used to flood my body. I’m not interested in women in any sexual way whatsoever, and strong sexual feelings have been with me since adolescence. Some other aspects of maleness have also gone; like I’ve lost my sense of direction ~ I don’t automatically know where North is anymore. Spacial awareness is out of the window, single-mindedness and black and white thinking has gone, and I’m finding it difficult to focus on one task at a time. I’m depressed, tired all the time, and irritable. Even my voice is changing.
Who knew that testosterone does much more to the male body than creating and increasing sexual desire and performance? (I’ve even checked this out by watching some internet porn, and nothing, zip, nada.)
Some women say that men are merely life-support systems for their penis. And that the way to a man’s heart isn’t food, it’s casual sex. All I know is that it’s horrible when a man’s masculinity vanishes.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
a great body, fabulous ass, fantastic pose
what effect is that having?
‘nice picture…..’
Seascapes and Serenity Lost is available on Amazon
Monochrome Monday ~ Arizona
in reality, the Arizona desert is monochromatic red
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
road trip
Red Rock State Park
(poetry anthology on Amazon)
Lazy Sunday Music
lazy Sunday afternoon
I’ve got no mind to worry
I close my eyes and drift away
Quite suddenly I’ve some to believe that there are some songs an English Gentleman shouldn’t play of a Sunday afternoon, and some others that perfectly fit the Sabbath. Ergo, this is the first of what is going to be a regular feature on this here blog. Little Star by Madonna. This is for a very close friend.
I don’t expect you to completely agree with me.
But then an Englishman never gives a hoot for another person’s opinions.
These days I’m more Californian, cosmopolitan, transatlantic, edgy, than died-in-the-wool, stuffy, staid English Gentleman
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
and I have no plans to amputate my ear
Arc Troubles
it wasn’t raining until Noah built the arc
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Noah though he could fix the arc
with just a phillips screwdriver
the geese disagreed
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with thanks to Paula Light for the phillips, thought, geese prompt
jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Canada Geese, the golfers least favourite bird
Scenes on Sunday ~ Jerome, Arizona
at least Arizona is different
Arizona is also big and mostly empty
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
I don’t know what happens upstairs
but they serve a great burger
Songs on Saturday ~ Bruce Springsteen
I desire very little
but the things I do consume me
Dancing In The Dark is my favourite Springsteen track, for a reason that goes back a long, long way ~ another time, another place, another woman.
Not all romances can have a happy ending.
Try and bring the dancer back into your life.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Road Trip
Jerome Arizona
Waiting For A Star To Fall
she was like a falling star I tried to catch in my hands
I only got burned
All men eventually meet that one woman, that star that burns too bright in his heart. All men dream of walking alone with her in the moonlight. All men are destined to have their dreams and desires destroyed. Lucky men come back from that and have some fun with someone who knows what love is.
there are nightmares calling,
shooting stars falling,
brightly burning,
for an instant.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
she’s not hiding her light
