Perfect example of how blogging works … word association football … idea association. All Hallows Eve, just posted yew trees in graveyards elsewhere, youtube seemed to latch on and offered Olive Thomas, the sacrificial girl … then of course Jack Pickford, younger libertine brother of Mary … lost souls on the road to hell.

Which immediately triggered Chris Rea … plus a vague notion of running Tam Lin sometime today … that’s how this excuse for a brain operates. It’s also the wonder of blogging … so many ideas flying in from everywhere, not planned in the least … half an hour ago, I had no idea about this post … I did have a Jago Tube post to run after the initial two of politics.

So this is off the cuff … Chris Rea’s Road to Hell (reminded me of Jack and Olive) was clearly, to my Christian faith mind, about Hollywood, NYC, Paris or similar. The popular view, no doubt supported by CR himself, has been:

Uh huh … not dissing that entirely … the clip is of British roads in the main … but I’m quite sure the song opening ain’t about no stinkin’ M25 or M4, though MPs do sell their souls and London today is certainly a dirty hellhole since Khan.

Nope, to me, the song is about this:

Valley of the rich, myself to sell. And today is just the day to post this.

Which brings me to Olive Thomas … a story of dashed dreams and innocence ruined … just as it is today with the connivance of everyone. By the time you’ve watched … and more on that below the youtube … plus read the two biographies, methinks that pretty much sums it up.

Getting off the topic of the post for now and looking more at the documentary style … this narrator is pretty good. Clickbait beyond her picture is minimal, it’s not over-sensationalised, the tone is measured, the music is not overwhelming … overall, a good documentary imho.