Comments on: This is the strangest life… http://mysteryoriley.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/this-is-the-strangest-life/ This day is not shot! Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:36:17 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Roads http://mysteryoriley.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/this-is-the-strangest-life/#comment-1136 Roads Thu, 01 May 2008 23:11:05 +0000 http://mysteryoriley.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-1136 <em>Riders on the storm</em> is the only one I have, although it makes me think of some 90scar advert, I think - maybe Goodyear, or Michelin, keeping a sleek coupe on the road. It was produced a bit like Chris Isaak's video (or was that a Jaguar commercial that used his song). The Doors and mean limousines aside, there's a slightly different kind of texture to this post which I can't ignore. <em>Unfortunately for us...</em>. Your understatement here is simply breathtaking, and it's effective beyond words in conveying a kind of all-conquering resignation. Just hold onto that, and bottle it if you can. Thanks for your writing, painful as it is. Riders on the storm is the only one I have, although it makes me think of some 90scar advert, I think – maybe Goodyear, or Michelin, keeping a sleek coupe on the road. It was produced a bit like Chris Isaak’s video (or was that a Jaguar commercial that used his song).

The Doors and mean limousines aside, there’s a slightly different kind of texture to this post which I can’t ignore.

Unfortunately for us….

Your understatement here is simply breathtaking, and it’s effective beyond words in conveying a kind of all-conquering resignation. Just hold onto that, and bottle it if you can.

Thanks for your writing, painful as it is.

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