Showing posts with label Morticia Addams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Morticia Addams. Show all posts

Monday, 27 October 2025

I can face a new tomorrow, if I make it past today

Monday again...

It's a blustery day out there and, as we prepare to haul ourselves out into it for another edifying week at work, we need something jolly to cheer our spirits...

...so let's start the countdown to Hallowe'en this week, who better on this Tacky Music Monday to provide a pick-me-up than... Morticia Addams?!

Death is just around the corner
Waiting patiently to strike.
One unplanned electrocution
That's the kind of end
I can comprehend.

When I'm feeling uninspired
Or I need a little spree
I'm reborn knowing
Death is just around the corner
Coming after me.

Death is just around the corner
Waiting high upon the hill
Someone buried in an avalanche (gasp)
That's the kind of fig
I can really dig.

Marriage often disappoints you.
Not each husband is a gem.
So I'll mourn
Knowing death is just around the corner
Coming after them.

If life were plums
I'll muddle through some.
But when death comes
I hope it's gruesome. (hot-cha)

Some people die from public stoning,
Faulty wiring, faulty zoning,
Cherry pits they didn't know were there.

It could be by a jungle cat
A slippery mat.
A baseball bat.
Perhaps an unsuccessful love affair.

It could be on a speeding train,
It could be underwater.
It could be too much Novocain
Or even by your daughter.

Perhaps a bad mosquito bite.
A title fight.
Religious rite.
My darlings, it might even be tonight.

Death is just around the corner
No one's ever been immune.
Turning off a respirator
With a simple click
Strenuously quick.

I can face a new tomorrow
If I make it past today.
I feel good saying
Death is just around the corner
Simply on its way.

Death is just around the corner
And you have to be enthralled.
For your death is just around the corner
Happy being both the mourned and mourner
Because death is just around the corner
Coming for us all.

Have a good week, dear reader.

Monday, 29 October 2018

I can face a new tomorrow - if I make it past today



Monday again! Sod it.

As we haul ourselves back out into the bleak and bitter air, just to sit and be bleak and bitter in the office, so we need something jolly to cheer our spirits...

...and, with it being Hallowe'en this week, who better to sing for us on this Tacky Music Monday but... Morticia Addams!


Death is just around the corner
Waiting patiently to strike.
One unplanned electrocution
That's the kind of end
I can comprehend.

When I'm feeling uninspired
Or I need a little spree
I'm reborn knowing
Death is just around the corner
Coming after me.

Death is just around the corner
Waiting high upon the hill
Someone buried in an avalanche (gasp)
That's the kind of fig
I can really dig.

Marriage often disappoints you.
Not each husband is a gem.
So I'll mourn
Knowing death is just around the corner
Coming after them.

If life were plums
I'll muddle through some.
But when death comes
I hope it's gruesome. (hot-cha)

Some people die from public stoning,
Faulty wiring, faulty zoning,
Cherry pits they didn't know were there.

It could be by a jungle cat
A slippery mat.
A baseball bat.
Perhaps an unsuccessful love affair.

It could be on a speeding train,
It could be underwater.
It could be too much Novocain
Or even by your daughter.

Perhaps a bad mosquito bite.
A title fight.
Religious rite.
My darlings, it might even be tonight.

Death is just around the corner
No one's ever been immune.
Turning off a respirator
With a simple click
Strenuously quick.

I can face a new tomorrow
If I make it past today.
I feel good saying
Death is just around the corner
Simply on its way.

Death is just around the corner
And you have to be enthralled.
For your death is just around the corner
Happy being both the mourned and mourner
Because death is just around the corner
Coming for us all.


I'll drink to that!

Wednesday, 8 July 2015

That's why I'm in such exquisite agony


She does "Say Something Hat" days very well

Many happy returns today to the utterly magnificent Anjelica Huston who, no matter what film she is in, always steals the screen...

To celebrate, here she is as Morticia (with Gomez) camping it up in The Addams Family:


[The classic song by Tom Lehrer, of course.]

Anjelica Huston (born 8th July 1951)

Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Bidi-bidi-bidi





It's the 75th birthday today of the Addams Family's "Cousin Itt" and Buck Rogers' "Twiki" - both played by the same diminutive actor, Felix Silla.

More about Felix

Any excuse really for a little trip down memory lane...




And why not?

Tuesday, 28 April 2009

Cara mia



On what would have been her birthday today, my research threw up a few things I never knew about the lovely Carolyn Jones, most famous for her role as Morticia in The Addams Family.

For example, she has the distinction of giving the shortest film performance ever nominated for an Academy Award, for her six-minute role in Bachelor Party (1957). She also appeared in The Tender Trap with Frank Sinatra, and The Seven Year Itch with Marilyn Monroe, and alongside Elvis Presley and Walter Matthau in King Creole.

I also never knew she was married to media mogul Aaron Spelling. They divorced in 1964.

According to press reports Carolyn Jones was one-eighth Native American, and she was a descendant of the famous Apache chief Geronimo In actual fact she was born in humble beginnings in Texas. Her parents had a troubled marriage, and her father, Julius Alfred Jones, abandoned the family in 1934. Many years later, Caroline received a telephone message from a man claiming to be him. She refused, however, to return the call.

She suffered from colon cancer, which she hid from her colleagues (as she always wore a wig to cover the fact that she was naturally blonde this probably wasn't difficult), carrying on working by day and receiving chemotherapy by night. But the cancer spread, and she died in 1983.

A remarkable woman...