Stormy?

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I spent another long day yesterday at John-John's, catching up with all the "Marvel geek" stuff I hadn't seen - the whole X-Men: 97 animated series and not one, but two of the original (20th Century Fox) X-Men films [which are not a patch on the cartoon, and quite half-arsed in comparison to anything Marvel's own studio has produced].

Deadpool didn't get a look in this time around, but I found the above spoof versions of the sort of advert that used to be in the comics I had when I was young, which are too good not to share, dear reader!

I got home (via Uber cab) in the wee small hours, just in time for the most tremendous thunderstorm!

Coincidence? Maybe.

Although all that's blown over, and today's weather's not that bad, I still think this old fave is appropriate...

...a track I previously described as "a battle-royal between Miss Viola Wills and Miss Lena Horne":

Viola Wills - Stormy Weather (Disco Video Mix by Glenn Rivera)

Faboo!

Just like a paperback novel; the kind the drugstore sells

Oh. My. Gawd. This has been a looonnnggg week...

...but it's almost over! And to celebrate that fact and get that party started, how about a double-bill from the late, great Viola Wills?

First up, a track from way back in 1992 that I first heard this week, courtesy of the lovely Ana Matronic Dance Devotion show on Radio 2:

My Friend Sam feat. Viola Wills - It's My Pleasure

To add to the sparkle, however, here's one of the lady's more familiar numbers, a cover of an old Gordon Lightfoot standard:

Viola Wills - If You Could Read My Mind

That's brought the energy levels up a bit - Thank Disco It's Friday!

Have a great one, peeps!

You even asked me to wear your ring

The weekend's just about here, it's payday, our friend John-John's birthday bash is on Saturday, and the clocks go back so we have an extra hour in bed on Sunday!

What better way to start the party with a bang than by donning a silver fringed sequinned top, frizzing our hair to buggery, and boogying along with Miss Viola..? Thank Disco It's Friday!

Viola Wills - Gonna Get Along Without You Now

Ah ha, hmm, gonna get along without you now
Ah ha, hmm, I'm gonna get along without you now

You told me I was the neatest thing
You even asked me to wear your ring
You ran around with every girl in town
You didn't even care if it got me down

Ah ha, hmm, gonna get along without you now
Ah ha, hmm, I'm gonna get along without you now
I got along without you before I met you
Gonna get along without you now
I'll find somebody who is twice as cute
'Cause I didn't like you anyhow

You told everybody that we were friends
But this is where our friendship ends
'Cause all of a sudden you change your tune
And haven't been around since way last June

Ah ha, ooh, ooh, gonna get along without you now
I got along without you before I met you
Gonna get along without you now
So long my honey, goodbye my dear

Gonna get along without you now, ooh, hoo
Get along without you now, ooh, hoo
Get along without you now
Get along without you now

You tell him, girlfriend!

Have a faboo weekend, dears...

Gloom and misery everywhere

Malign, that's what this weather is. We had one sunny-ish day on Saturday, then yesterday and today the miserable drizzling rain returned. Just in time to go back to the office, as if that weren't depressing enough already. Will we ever get a proper Springtime?

Hey ho, on this Tacky Music Monday, I have the perfect pick-me-up - a battle-royal between Miss Viola Wills and Miss Lena Horne!

Viola Wills - Stormy Weather (Disco Video Mix by Glenn Rivera)

Oh, that's better...

...and could have been equally at home on a Thank Disco It's Friday...