Welcome to this week's Word List! This time our source is the well-known songwriter and composer Randy Newman. Newman has written some outrageous songs, satirical songs, and on the other hand, tender love songs. He's probably best known for Short People, the world's most biased view of the vertically challenged, but there is also Yellow Man, which does the same thing for the Chinese. His songs advocate world-wide nuclear disaster (Political Science), marrying a hostile mental defective (Wedding In Cherokee County) or express love for an evident corpse (Lucinda).
However, he can also break your heart with songs like I Think It's Going To Rain Today, Marie, or Still the Same Girl. He has composed the scores for many famous movies such as The Natural, Paulie, and Monsters Inc. My favorite song of his may be I'm Dead (But I Don't Know It) with the Eagles backing him up as he sings about going on and on and on long after his talent is gone. So you see, he even makes fun of himself as when in another song he tells a woman, "I'm sorry dear, you're too late. I've already ruined my life." And I haven't even mentioned You Can Leave Your Hat On.
What we do here is to use at least 3 of the 20 words provided in a new original poem of our own. Then just link up, visit others, then sit back, relax, and listen to Randy Newman!
Your List:
beach
boulevard
cats
charming
cigarette
emotional
gypsies
hat
jolly
kangaroo
mirror
overflow
persuade
ruined
sailor
scarecrows
smart-ass
sorry
telephone
yellow
I will try not to be so late this time!
ReplyDeleteGreat subject, great list as always. I don't know if anything can get me writing again, but I'm glad this is here to give me a chance if the ice ever breaks. ~hedgewitch
ReplyDeleteAn interesting selection of words - an eclectic blend - I'm just sorry I couldn't work kangaroo into my scheme. I'll be curious to see what others compose this week.
ReplyDeleteThank you Shay for the inspiration! I look forward to your word lists.
ReplyDeleteI did post late on the others and I did finally comment on the others.
ReplyDeleteSorry, I'm late Shay. Am going to do some reading now.
ReplyDeleteLate? LOL! I don’t get mine in until the next Friday!! Have so, so missed you!
DeleteHello Hedgewitch, I apologise again for my inadvertent rudeness on my blog. I definitely did not intend to be rude but I can fully see how it would be perceived as such. I have tried again to comment on your poem and again it has said there's an error and I can't comment. Here is what I tried to say: "Yes, I remember now! The wonderful images of the sun - that amazing opening picture of the sun as a gin soaked gypsy and then the slide into much darker imagery of the debauched sailors. And then the sun as a bored cat. So beautiful!! I love this playful sun imagery. And then the mysterious ending of the telephone ringing. Very intriguing."
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking the trouble to leave your comment here, Jo. I appreciate it, and the whole issue is forgotten.
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