Just wanted to say, of EVERYTHING I have ever heard from Jim, this song, and this song only is my favorite of his. I don't listen to it unless I'm driving, but I catch myself humming or singing it a lot, usually when I'm thinking too much.
It's a great song that gives you a lot of reasons to reflect back on your life, on choices and mistakes made and roads taken, long or short.
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> Also think the motor industry (in particular wing mirrors)
> has had an influence on Jim (LOL):
>
> "That phrase I would see all the time, cos I don't drive,
> so I'm always in the passenger seat, and I would always be
> looking at this weird mysterious phrase 'objects in rear
> view mirror, are closer than they appear', and in my mind
> it got scrambled to '...may appear closer than they are',
> and I guess it just became, it just immediately suggested
> ghosts to me, and the past, and I thought it was a fairly
> transcendent, thrilling image about ghosts. That the
> things you leave behind you, may seem to be with you, even
> though they're not. They may always seem to be in the back
> seat'.
>
> (Jim on writing 'Objects...' - Radio 1, 1994)
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>
> > Watched the movie Run Silent, Run Deep (Gable, Lancaster)
> > on TV tonight and while the movie is nothing special to me
> > - it reminded me of the huge and vast influence art &
> > media has had on Jim's work....every great phrase, every
> > great scene, every joke, every cliche...EVERY INFLUENCE
> > IMAGINABLE...every everything...
> >
> > HE REMEMBERED EVERYTHING! And used it...
> >
> > Jim is the Master Chef of SNOUT TO TAIL
> > songwriting...nothing wasted...and soooooo delicious.
> >
> > Hungry Jack...in the "Insatiable Appetite" zone :)
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