Subject: Lesley is here now.
Posted by: lesley153
Date: Nov 09 09
I'd always thought that once you got a blog you had a blog in perpetuity, and could continue to add to it, whether you were a paying member or not. That may have been right at one time, but it isn't now.
I wrote an update yesterday, a few hours after I'd had an email to tell me that my paying membership had expired, and got an "access denied" message. I thought it was a shame to waste it. Off I go...
Posted by: lesley153
Date: Nov 09 09
I'd always thought that once you got a blog you had a blog in perpetuity, and could continue to add to it, whether you were a paying member or not. That may have been right at one time, but it isn't now.
I wrote an update yesterday, a few hours after I'd had an email to tell me that my paying membership had expired, and got an "access denied" message. I thought it was a shame to waste it. Off I go...
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terraorca 
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I'm not afraid. Reply #6041. Feb 09 18, 2:34 PM |
sadwings
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That happens to be a line in a quite explosive heavy metal song, Mark. I'm not afraid I'm not afraid Nothing touches me I'm a walking razor blade..... Lyrically speaking, it's really a very interesting and peculiarly fascinating song that delves into the mind and the feelings of a kid that grew up in an evidently pretty tough and violent area of New York City. Another verse goes..... My greatest fear as a kid One which I always kept hid Was to come home from school And find my mother dead Can you imagine that? The name of the song is In My World by a group called Anthrax. You should check it out sometime. No, I'm only kidding! That thing would knock you right through the wall and I wouldn't want to be responsible for that. :-p You could still check out the words to it sometime if you want. Makes me very thankful that I didn't have to grow up in the kind of hell that is described in that song. Reply #6042. Feb 10 18, 5:20 AM |
| terraorca
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Kevin, Music to me has always been entertainment, perhaps a little bit of protest thrown in, but never about fear. My greatest fear when I was a kid was the constant threat of nuclear annihilation. Music and athletics were both escapes from that fear. Music for listening Athletics for participating. Mark Reply #6043. Feb 10 18, 2:41 PM |
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Kevin, I pulled up "In My World" by Anthrax on Youtube and I couldn't understand the lyrics due to the overwhelmingly loud driving guitar and the hanging from the stage theatrics. To me, metal, was never about the lyrics, you weren't meant to hear or understand the lyrics, it was more about loud theater. I would have to see the print out of the words to ever be able to hear/see/understand the lyrics. Perhaps there was a message there, but at the live concerts, the audience was never meant to hear/understand the lyrics. IMHO. Mark Reply #6044. Feb 10 18, 2:50 PM |
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I've never tried to put any kind of limitations on what music should be about, Mark. Considering that music is a form of artistic expression, it is and should be about anything the artist chooses it to be about. Love, joy, hate, fear, good times, bad times, sex, overcoming adversity, just whatever. That last one is the subject matter that I like the most about a lot of the stuff I like to listen to. In fact, overcoming adversity is a major part of what that Anthrax song is all about. Sometimes reality can be a pretty cold, hard slap in the face and there is a lot of that very thing in that song. I agree, you might as well forget about trying to understand all the words in most heavy metal songs, even most straight rock and roll songs are hard enough to understand, but you can easily pull up the lyrics to any song. All you have to do is google the artist and song title and then just add the word "lyrics" and it will pop right up for you. Yeah, I have never really been all that much of a fanatic about lyrics and having some overwhelming need to understand every word in a song. Sure, it's always nice when a song has words that actually mean something worthwhile and I'm not taking anything away from that, but for me what really means the most to me about music is what kind of groove it lays down. It's about what the music itself says, not the lyrics. The lyrics are secondary. After all, there were no lyrics at all in music when it first evolved. It was simply the musical instruments themselves telling the story. When lyrics become the primary, that's when it becomes poetry. I hope we aren't "hijacking" Lesley's thread, Mark. :-( Lesley, I hope you don't mind Mark and me chatting on your thread this way. Why don't you come and join us sometime over there? Reply #6045. Feb 10 18, 6:37 PM |
lesley153
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Reply #6046. Feb 10 18, 7:59 PM |
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My daughter is hovering over the Atlantic on a Virgin Atlantic flight, even as we speak. She expects to land at Heathrow around 6:30 a.m. Then, drop luggage at a hotel (she didn't say which one), and off to have a coffee near the Thames, while watching the city wake up on a Sunday morning. Reply #6047. Feb 10 18, 9:11 PM |
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Lesley, dang it. I've never heard anyone mispronounce Israel. Not even once. Now "Realtor" is a word, when mispronounced, that makes my ears bleed. It's not "REE-la-tor," but I'm sure all of you know that, because this is a thread full of exceptionally bright people! And I'm certain, as a wee, small bairn, I was taught that "gray" was feminine, and "grey" is masculine. Same with "blonde" (feminine) and "blond" (masculine.) I know there are other variations, but I can't think of any right now. Helllllooo Early Onset Insomnia. Reply #6048. Feb 11 18, 2:27 AM |
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Supposably the world is full of people who say and spell things the wrong way and use words that aren't even real words and use the wrong grammer and all that. Irregardless, I am one guy who never does that hisself. I Pacifically make sure I am saying and spelling each word the rite way. I take the time to do this Atlantically as well. I guess as long as we don't have a nucular war that blows us all back into the Stone Age, we will be okay. Hope everything goes well with your daughter's trip, Postie. I have always wondered if London has a Nickrow and a Jaredrow airport along with the Heathrow. You know, as in Nick and Jared and Heath from The Big Valley? Ahyuk! I'm such a dork! :-p Right, Elle? Dorkus the rootin' tootin' Cowboy? Reply #6049. Feb 11 18, 1:35 PM |
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I believe that there are two kinds of music. 1) The kind of music with making money being the number one priority. 2) The other kind. Mark Reply #6050. Feb 11 18, 2:52 PM |
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Yeah. it's all about that mo' money, alright. Everything is always about mo' money. And it's always the lamest, most monotonous music with the simple, predictable patterns all the way through it that will always make the most money and will always be the most popular, as a general rule. People like simple just like Mongo like candy. Reply #6051. Feb 11 18, 3:25 PM |
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You do have a point, Dorkus. "Supposably" and "Irregardless" are also ear-bleeders. I don't think I've ever heard "Pacifically," but I have heard "My "periperal" vision isn't working. Reply #6052. Feb 11 18, 10:19 PM |
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Ha! Gawd, I can't believe after all this time I am still laughing - out loud, mind you - at the mere sight of the name "Dorkus". Man, how I wish that I had somehow gotten to be a comedy writer. I bet you could probably do a little of that yourself, Elle. Yeah, that's funny - you have never heard anyone say "pacifically" and I have never heard anyone say "periperal". That's like a lot of people around these parts will say "clift" instead of "cliff." That and "drownded" is a good one. "Yep, he fell off the clift into the crick and drownded." Oh, and "spayeded" is a good one around here as well. Gotta go have my cat spayeded. Reply #6053. Feb 12 18, 3:07 AM |
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"Spayded" I've heard, and I always "think" of it as "spaded." It also makes my ears bleed. "Crick/Creek" go hand-in-hand; there's no getting away from that one, so I gave up long ago. But I say "creek." Reply #6054. Feb 12 18, 9:06 PM |
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I say "creek" as well, but I do say "y'all" pretty frequently. Can't help it. I either say that or "you guys". What else is there? You-uns? I don't think so. My pals from the east coast on my highly sophisticated warship used to rag me all the time about saying "fixing to" like I'm fixin' to do this or that. Festus says that a lot on Gunsmoke. Reply #6055. Feb 13 18, 1:09 AM |
| terraorca
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I axed the perfesser a question. Reply #6056. Feb 13 18, 1:14 AM |
| terraorca
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When we don't hear someone, we say 'paleese' instead of 'please' or 'excuse me' or 'what did you say.' Reply #6057. Feb 13 18, 1:17 AM |
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Haha Mark! I forgot about "perfesser, too. And "axed." All my Texas friends say "I'm fixin' to..." And "rip roaring." "We've got ourselves a rip roaring barn-burner." And I think everyone now has picked up "y'all." Not sure why. It just rolls off the tongue, I guess. My personal favorite is "All y'all." When I lived in Florida for one truly bizarre year, hosts and hostesses at restaurants would literally back away from me when I greeted them with, "Hey, how are you?" No clue why that was so terrifying. But no one ever hesitated to say to me," Where are YEW from? Y'all shore do tawk funny." Yes indeed, that would be me -- the girl with zero accent. (This mouse is driving me batty. It is One Uncooperative Rodent.) (I may need food...) Reply #6058. Feb 13 18, 1:38 AM |
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Ahyuk! Boy, howdie! Ain't that a knee-slapper? I tell ya whut! Hoooo, doggies! Reply #6059. Feb 13 18, 5:49 AM |
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What the heck? Reply #6060. Feb 13 18, 7:02 AM |
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