Books I've actually finished lately: 117

Without my shadow I don't know how the other half feels.

- Nick Cave

(Jury's still out on the audio sample. Cave is reading it himself...)

Coldplay lyrics...

can make me wish I didn't understand English.

- Jon Pareles, in The New York Times

(cf. almost every opera libretto ever.)

Stevie Wonder - in context

I just called to say I told you so.

Ever wondered

what the Welsh national anthem means?

Well, now you know.

Note to poets/song-writers

Avoid using brand names in your verses (and/or choruses).

It dates them - in both senses - in the worst cases to before the time of their release.

To wit:

Filmstar, an elegant sir in a Terylene shirt...

- Suede, 'Filmstar'

and some song I heard on Radio1 this morning that referred to 'American Apparel underwear'... (the first 16 words of which were 'hey').

Fair dos

Thou shalt spell the word 'phoenix' P_H_E_O_N_I_X, not P_H_O_E_N_I_X, regardless of what the Oxford English Dictionary tells you.

- Scroobius Pip, 'Thou Shalt Kill'

Too many writers... (?!)

Hard to credit.

[But nonetheless: courtesy Pleated-Jeans]