Wienergull
Geht in Ordnung
Sorry to add to the general sadness, but I've only just heard that the great American singer songwriter Warren Zevon died last weekend after a lengthy battle against lung cancer. Although I could never understand how someone who could write a song called Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner didn't attract a massive following, I suppose songs about mercenaries, CIA skulduggery, alcoholism, heroin addiction are not to the general taste. Althogh Zevon hung out with such West Coast "luminaries" as the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, his take on the California lifestyle was never bland:
"I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel
I was staring in my empty coffee cup
I was thinking that the gypsy wasn't lyin'
All the salty margaritas in Los Angeles
I'm gonna drink 'em up
And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill"
David Bellotti's ambitions to get back into politics as an MEP prompted me to plagiarise Zevon's best known song and only hit, Werewolves of London:
VAMPIRES OF BRIGHTON (LUGA BELLOTTI'S DEAD) - with apologies to Warren Zevon
I saw a vampire with a street map in his hand
Walking through the North Laine in the rain
He was looking for the Lib-Dem party conference
Wants to get himself elected again
Catch him creeping round your polling booth
Better not vote him in
An Albion fan got fanged late last night
Vampires of Brighton again
He's the gore-bespattered gent
Who lured us all to Kent
Lately he's been overheard in Strasbourg
Better keep him well away from you
He sucks blue'n'white striped blood like Nosferatu
Saw Luga Bellotti eating steak with Ian Hart
Doing the vampires of Brighton
Saw Luga Bellotti eating steak tartare with Gary Hart
Doing the vampires of Brighton
I saw a vampire drinking a Bloody Mary at Scally's
Bar & Grill
His slicked-back hair made me feel quite ill
Vampires of Brighton
"I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel
I was staring in my empty coffee cup
I was thinking that the gypsy wasn't lyin'
All the salty margaritas in Los Angeles
I'm gonna drink 'em up
And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill"
David Bellotti's ambitions to get back into politics as an MEP prompted me to plagiarise Zevon's best known song and only hit, Werewolves of London:
VAMPIRES OF BRIGHTON (LUGA BELLOTTI'S DEAD) - with apologies to Warren Zevon
I saw a vampire with a street map in his hand
Walking through the North Laine in the rain
He was looking for the Lib-Dem party conference
Wants to get himself elected again
Catch him creeping round your polling booth
Better not vote him in
An Albion fan got fanged late last night
Vampires of Brighton again
He's the gore-bespattered gent
Who lured us all to Kent
Lately he's been overheard in Strasbourg
Better keep him well away from you
He sucks blue'n'white striped blood like Nosferatu
Saw Luga Bellotti eating steak with Ian Hart
Doing the vampires of Brighton
Saw Luga Bellotti eating steak tartare with Gary Hart
Doing the vampires of Brighton
I saw a vampire drinking a Bloody Mary at Scally's
Bar & Grill
His slicked-back hair made me feel quite ill
Vampires of Brighton