Mr. Watts finally suggested he turn complaining into composing and create better melodies and lyrics. Isaac did, and over the next fifty-plus years more than six hundred of his hymns were published. Some people found fault with Isaac’scontemporaryworship songs. But at least several prominent le...
She began exploring the island and came upon the Walled City, a place of lawlessness and squalor, open sewers and rats, gangs, drug addicts, and prostitutes. Thirty-some thousand people on six acres. No building codes enforced . Years prior the area had been occupied by the Chinese imperial...
The odour of old prison food takes a long time to pass you by When you've been inside Day upon day of this wandering gets you down Nobody gives you a chance or a dollar in this old town Hovering silence from you is a giveaway Squalor and smoke's not your style "I don't like ...
Apologies for mangling the lyrics to “The End of the World”, originally a 1963 hit for one Skeeter Davis (who was a big influence on Dolly Parton according to Wikipedia, and had a propensity for appearing on American country music programmes with Dougall from the Magic Roundabout on her h...
In fact, Pelé’s home of circa 1940 is a more affluent and dignified squat even now compared to the canvas squalor that legions of latter-day Brazilians have to exist in. Certainly, plusher than the domestic setting my infant father inherited in postwar Edinburgh. I feel it’s important ...
"You go inside, and there was Axl in this immaculate, perfect room, surrounded by all this squalor. That was the dichotomy of Guns N' Roses." However, Axl still had his demons. His came in the form of mental illness; he had been diagnosed as manic depressive, ...
About my parents reaction, my mom was the first to leave. My older brother (who was still in the church) took her to a bus stop to live with other family members because she had become suicidal about the conditions of living there. Misery, poverty, and squalor will make anyone ...
I think that's where gay men find their own defenses. Edie's the patron saint of all those qualities." Wright eventually agreed to work with Frankel and Korie on the musical and all three men decided their narrative should not begin as the documentary did, when the squalor and decay of ...
And yet Ryuji had discovered on the return leg of his last voyage that he was tired, tired to death of the squalor and the boredom in a sailor’s life. He was convinced that he had tasted it all, even the lees, and he was glutted. What a fool he’d been! There was no ...
Dahlquist and fil came out of the woodwork, with everyone on the block more than happy to cite the constant bird-flipping, the obscene insults and the general squalor that surrounded the harpie and her mordent boy. Dahlquist and Zube of course denied everything. Movie fans will remember the...