ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT?

 ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT - ELVIS PRESLEY

I've never been a great Elvis fan but this song (apart from the corny spoken bit) is beautiful and nicely sung. The songwriters are Roy Turk and Lou Handman.

Are you lonesome tonight? 

Do you miss me tonight?

The Old Girl aka Her Indoors and She Who Must Be Obeyed (or Lynn if she's within earshot) is down south for a week. I drove her to the airport late this afternoon for her to board the 5.25PM flight.

Since the end of 2020 she's been working from home and rarely goes away. In the past she used to work and live in Auckland during the week and only came home for 3 day weekends. She asked me if I'd miss her. I of course said that I'd arranged for party time over the next week.

I started by calling in to the local tavern on the way home for a pint and some chips.

They serve particularly nice chips there along with good local crafted beer. I only had the one beer and a pot of chips as I planned to have the rest of the vegetable pie (leek, potato, green beans, carrot and capsicum) pie I made last night but the chips (big chunky ones) were filling so I'll save the pie for tomorrow night.

I'll watch some stuff on TV tonight that The Old Girl doesn't like - particularly noisy stuff. Maybe Pink Floyd's The Wall. When Richard rang earlier and I said this he immediately thought I meant the prurient stuff so I told him about the documentary series I'm halfway through watching on Hugh Hefner and the Playboy mansion. What a piece of work that arsehole was. I'm glad he's dead and wish that he'd died decades earlier so that lots of young women didn't get tainted by his nasty old cock. Oh well,  c'est la vie. 

I also told Richard, to steam up his old black underpants, about a TV show I discovered named Naked Attraction. Now this definitely has prurient interest and I'm surprised that it's on mainstream TVNZ. 

It's billed as:

A controversial dating series in which people see potential love interests whose naked bodies are gradually revealed to them. Then they must get naked themselves and choose.

NAKED ATTRACTION TRAILER

The Old Girl would think I've lost it if she caught me watching this. Spoiler alert - I did sneak a peek at it and it is dire and actually ugly and not stimulating. There you go.

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Back in 1985 I saw a very good play/musical in London titled Are You Lonesome Tonight. It featured Martin Shaw playing an older Elvis just before his death. Alan Bleasdale (Boy's From The Blackstuff) wrote it and like all his other work was a powerful piece of drama.

PHOENIX THEATRE 1985 - MARTIN SHAW

My thoughts are with Sue and Robert tonight. Richard rang to say that Sue is unwell. I hope that you're feeling better tomorrow Sue, I know that it's horrible having to spend time in hospital away from home no matter how good the care is.