This is now a lyrics site.

Greetings fine readers. Since this blogue started in 1973, we've seen massive success on a global scale. However, I feel it's now time to move on and to that end I'm transforming this into a lyrics database with user-submitted content. To get the ball rolling, here's Gloria Gaynor's 1893 hit, "I Will Survive":

At first I was afraid

I was petrified

Kept thinking I could never live

Without you by my side

But then I spent so many nights

Just thinking how you did me wrong

And I grew strong

And I learned how to get along

And now you're back

From outer space

I just walked in to find you here

With that sad look upon your face

I should have changed that stupid lock

I should have made you leave your key

If I had known for just one second

You'd be back to bother me

Go on now go, walk out the door

Just turn around now

Cause you're not welcome anymore

Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye?

Did you think I'd crumble

Did you think I'd lay down and die

Oh no, not I

I will survive

Oh I can paint my house without you

And I know I'll stay alive

I've got all my life to live

I've got all my love to give

and I'll survive

I will survive

Hey-hey

It took all the strength I had

Just to paint this room

I painted over the mirror

And I fell and broke my broom

And I spent oh so many nights

Trying to contact my dead uncle

I used to cry

But now I go spelunking

And you see me

Down in a cave

I'm not that chained up midget and I'm

Going to that rave

And now I've got a rare disease

But it doesn't bother me

And now I'm taking laxatives

Via suppository

Go on now go, walk out the door

Just turn around now

Cause you're not welcome anymore

This intervention isn't going very well

You can take mom and dad

And tell them both to go to hell

I'm staying here

And sniffing glue

Oh as long as I've still got a nose

That's what I want to do

I'm not going back to school

I'm not going to the pool

And I'll survive

I will survive

[Fade out]

Let me know if you have any corrections!!! I'm pretty sure I got them all!!!

Movie Houseplant Appreciation Day Presents: ¡Streets of Fire!

What do you get when you smush together a western, film noir, action flick, rock and roll musical, and set it in the Blade Runner city of the 50s? If you answered "the best movie ever", you'd be home by now.

Streets of Fire stars some guy named Michael Paré as the hero, and Willem Dafoe in a vinyl vest and Misfits-like hairdo as the villain.

"I can fit my whole head in my mouth"

Paré has to save the singer Ellen Aim, played by Diane Lane, from Willem Dafoe’s evil biker gang, the Bombers, who abduct her while she's onstage, singing original songs by Jim Steinman (Bat Out Of Hell). Along the way he recruits a band in their touring bus and Rick Moranis (Jagged Little Pill). Other rock and/or roll cameos include the Blasters and Lee Ving from Fear. After The Breakfast Club, this may be the most 80s movie ever to come out of the 80s.

"This song is called 'Holy shit these shoulderpads make me look like a Space Marine'"

Even though it's a weird, unrepeatable bomb, Streets of Fire is one of my favourite movies because it has such a unique style. The director, Walter Hill, said he wanted to make a movie featuring everything he thought was cool as a little kid, so the personality really comes through. That’s probably why the film ends with a sledgehammer duel: the perfect way to solve disputes.

Objectively the best thing ever filmed.

Have you seen Streets of Fire??? Have you seen streets on fire??? Have you seen beets on fire??? Leave a comment (in another time, another place).