| Lochalsh
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Professor, I'd never heard that song. Thank you, and lang may yer lum reek!
(I sometimes have to listen to Billy twice to understand him, and I'm a foreign-language specialist! :-))
Reply #662. Jun 19 10, 9:41 AM
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I must have mentioned her name to you long ago, but that was before I saw her again, and the magic is still there 100%. My friend is one I'd never want to upset or lose and as they tend to last 20-30 years while the women come and go within a few months for me I put them first. I also didn't like the idea of going to classical concerts- my parents made me go till I was about 12, was nearly always bored stiff and did turn one of hers down already which was pretty embarrassing and wouldn't really want to admit the true reason. To be honest I wasn't too bothered about her performance on the stage...
Reply #663. Jun 19 10, 10:38 AM
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| lesley153
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Great song, Gary. :)
David, you did. Ages ago, though.
Shame you didn't like the music. Perhaps you'd have enjoyed it more if you'd played the music, just as fussy eaters are more likely to eat meals they made themselves. |
Reply #664. Jun 19 10, 12:28 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Oh...That's what "bolded" means! ;)
Reply #665. Jun 19 10, 7:02 PM
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| Lochalsh
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I will never use idiomatic expressions again. My language henceforth will be solemn and sere. I would rather eat worms than hurt feelings.
Reply #666. Jun 19 10, 9:42 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Oops, sorry for the post above, thinking out loud, or, rather, thinking while writing but not really thinking. I'm getting to be quite the hijacker of blogs.
Lesley, re the tossing-cookies episode: You are so gracious with people. I would do well to emulate you.
((((((((((((Lesley)))))))))))
Reply #667. Jun 19 10, 11:10 PM
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| lesley153
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Lochalsh, you can't eat worms - they're not kosher. Sorry. Forbidden food. And you're not hijacking this - you're keeping it alive. Please don't try to emulate me because your language will end up being anything but solemn. Or sere. OK, finished now. Friends?
Gary, I like the Wellies song but it was going round in my head for the rest of the day. Argh! I loved the Granny song, which I haven't heard before.
Here's more Connolly, this time with subtitles.
"D.I.V.O.R.C.E"
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epeuVJXOAKM&NR=1
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Reply #669. Jun 20 10, 7:04 AM
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| Professer
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I remember Billy saying he did the Granny song as a P{ take of the country scene, and songs such as teddy bear and Honey. Think he did great job :)
Reply #670. Jun 20 10, 8:38 AM
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satguru
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I played classical piano from the music from 5-15. I have no recollection how I went from preparing for grade 5 to stopping lessons but a year or two earlier I had separate lessons in jazz and improvisation. When I found I could listen and make stuff up without having to follow music which was becoming more and more Chinese as it got harder I stopped classical altogether. I could barely read leger lines let alone some of the odder keys and have a few friends (and my mother) who can easily sight read the hardest classical pieces while I prefer playing other things by ear now. I found classical music boring all my life though with a few exceptions I do like, although played on the synthesiser is some of the best I've heard, but the sounds contribute a lot to that.
Reply #671. Jun 20 10, 8:48 AM
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| Lochalsh
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Lesley, yes ma'am, whatever you say, ma'am. (I'm a Unitarian at best; I believe we eat worms as well as drink wine--just so long as we approach both activities rationally and discuss them ad nauseam.)
Gary, thank you again!
Reply #672. Jun 20 10, 8:50 AM
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| lesley153
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Gary, he did a brilliant job! Here are some basic guidelines for doing what he did. I don't know who to acknowledge, because they're all over the internet. It's aimed at singing the blues, but becomes relevant if you have the stamina to read to the end.
"How to sing the Blues"
1. Most Blues begin “woke up this morning.”
2. “I got a good woman” is a bad way to begin the Blues, unless you add something nasty on the next line. “I got a good woman - with the meanest dog in town.”
3. Blues are simple. After you have the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes. Sort of. “Got a good woman With the meanest dog in town. He got teeth like Margaret Thatcher And he weighs ’bout 500 pounds.
4. The Blues are not about limitless choices.
5. Blues cars are Chevies and Cadillacs. Other acceptable Blues transportation is the Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Walkin’ plays a major part in the Blues lifestyle. So does fixin’ to die.
6. Teenagers can’t sing the Blues. Adults sing the Blues. Blues adulthood means old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis or Ann Arbor. But Memphis sounds better.
7. You can have the Blues in New York City, but not in Brooklyn or Queens. Hard times in Vermont or North Dakota are just a depression. Chicago, St. Louis, Ann Arbor and Kansas City are still the best places to have the Blues.
8. The following colors do not belong in the Blues:
a. violet
b. beige
c. mauve
d. taupe.
9. You can’t have the Blues in an office or a shopping mall, the lighting is wrong.
10. Good places for the Blues:
a. the highway
b. the jailhouse
c. the empty bed.
Bad places:
a. Ashrams
b. Gallery openings
c. Weekend in the Hamptons
11. No one will believe it’s the Blues if you wear a suit, unless you're an old black man.
12. Do you have the right to sing the Blues? Yes, if:
a. your first name is a southern state-like Georgia
b. You’re blind
c. You shot a man in Memphis.
d. You can’t be satisfied.
No, if:
a. You were once blind but now can see.
b. You’re deaf
c. You have a trust fund,
d. Your baby didn’t leave you.
13. Neither Julio Iglesias nor Barbara Streisand can sing the Blues.
14. If you ask for water and your baby gives you gasoline, it’s the Blues. Other Blues beverages are:
a. wine
b. Irish whiskey
c. muddy water.
Blues beverages are NOT:
a. Any mixed drink
b. Any wine kosher for Passover
c. Yoo Hoo (all flavors)
15. If it occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it’s Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is a Blues way to die. So is the electric chair, substance abuse, or being denied treatment in an emergency room. It is not a Blues death, if you die during a tennis match, a facelift or liposuction treatment.
16. Some Blues names for Women:
a. Sadie
b. Big Mama
c. Bessie
d. Bertha
e. Josephine
f. Lucille.
17. Some Blues Names for Men
a. Joe
b. Willie (variations: Little Willie, Big Willie, Willie B.)
c. Lightnin’
d. Almost anything with “howlin’ in front of it
Note: Persons with names like Sierra, Sequoia or Skye will not be permitted to sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.
17B. Other Blues Names (Starter Kit)
a. Name of Physical infirmity (Blind, Cripple, Asthmatic)
b. First name (see above) or name of fruit (Lemon, Lime, Kiwi)
c. Last Name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore, etc.)
18. A Blues way to communicate is to dial up the telephone or to “holler.”
E-mails (sorry) or faxes are not Blues ways to communicate.
19. People with the Blues eat barbecue, corn bread, beans, and their last meal.
20. Good Blues instruments: Guitar, Slide Trombone, Saxophone, Harmonica.
Bad Blues instruments: everything else, especially the oboe, french horn, viola.
21. You got the Blues if you have lumbago or a bad back. You don’t have the Blues if you have any disorder ending in “syndrome.”
22. Black Jack is a good Blues game. Keno is not a good Blues game.
23. Blues jobs include working on the railroad, picking cotton, musician, just got fired.
24. Blues animals include the junkyard dog and mule (not donkey).
25. Most country songs can be interchanged with Blues songs (woman left me, crop didn’t come in, dog died, etc pretty much work in the Blues). Most alternative songs cannot be interchanged with Blues songs for obvious reasons.
Finally: Epitaph on a Blues musician’s tombstone:
“I didn’t wake up this morning.”
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Reply #674. Jun 20 10, 9:11 AM
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| lesley153
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David, you know how a piano works, and you have the confidence and skill to improvise - you're perfectly placed for blues and jazz.
Lochalsh, which wines do you find best complement worms?
Yoohoo Deunan! Beautiful selections. Have you not had wellies before? |
Reply #675. Jun 20 10, 9:16 AM
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No, I am a "play in a puddle" kind of person. Yet, the other day, during a rain storm, we observed a woman wearing them while walking in the rain. It brought my desire for them to the front and now I want to splash in puddles while wearing WELLIES.
Reply #676. Jun 20 10, 9:22 AM
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| lesley153
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| When you get them, I would like to see them, please. Preferably before they get splashed? :D |
Reply #677. Jun 20 10, 9:25 AM
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| Lochalsh
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Lesley, wonderful riff on the blues, but didn't you forget New Orleans? Ya got to put on your travelin' shoes, woman! :)
Here's what transpires way down yonder in that city of Nawlins:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNM_jCM4CGk
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I prefer a delicate, dandelion-inspired wine with my worms, though with a soupçon of earthiness. (Of course, mine are silkworms, and not your--ahem--garden variety.) I serve them on a bed of vermicelli, to be sure.
Reply #678. Jun 20 10, 10:17 AM
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| lesley153
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Oh nuts - I looked at a lot of different versions, and used one without Nawlins.
Love the clip. I do like this kind of music. Last week I was talking to a friend who had just been to a jazz concert, and I told her that, although the first records I bought were by Kenny Ball and his Trad Jazzmen (blush cringe blush), I liked the sort of jazz you hear in smoky basements, with old men playing drums with brushes, and she said brightly "You're not allowed to smoke now." Sort of spoilt the image.
Dandelion-based accompaniment sounds good. Peter Rabbit would approve. Side salad of mulberry leaves? |
Reply #679. Jun 20 10, 11:00 AM
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| Lochalsh
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I've seen this woman in the sort of club you've described. I'm sensitive to smoke, but I didn't notice it because the Big Easy is so hot and humid, even late at night, and all the doors and windows were open.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f-eqIN4zfo
I love N.O., and my heart breaks for that wonderful culture and all the travails its citizens have gone through in recent years.
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Yes, mulberry leaves, and perhaps some pre-bed chamomile tea. (I used to climb the mulberry tree behind my house and snack away a summer day.)
Reply #680. Jun 20 10, 11:29 AM
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