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« Reply #2295 on: 11:45:05, 19-09-2007 » |
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Why does this rain make me happy?
Maybe you don't see enough of it. Try Glasgow. Although...  today it's nice and sunny and fresh here after all that freezing cold rain and wind yesterday. I think you folks further south are getting the same weather as us a day later at the mo, so look forward to some wind and another drop in temperature, then some sunshine. There are now piles of leaves on the ground too. |
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« Reply #2296 on: 11:53:25, 19-09-2007 » |
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Well it was pretty cold yesterday and it feels a little warmer today.
I've had piles of leaves on my lawn for at least a week now, but the trees seem to have got noticeably autumnal in the last few days... And since I'm going south tomorrow, that's probably when the rain and cold weather will reach London.
Oh dear, that's not terribly happy is it?
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'is this all we can do?' anonymous student of the University of Berkeley, California quoted in H. Draper, 'The new student revolt' (New York: Grove Press, 1965) http://www.myspace.com/itensemble |
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« Reply #2297 on: 11:54:39, 19-09-2007 » |
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But the rain makes you happy, hh |
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« Reply #2298 on: 12:32:09, 19-09-2007 » |
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'I'm singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again...' A friend of mine who used to lecture on film theory at Manchester Polytechnic (as it then was) once received a complaint from an extra-mural student for analysing that song as a urinary fantasy.  |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #2299 on: 12:33:43, 19-09-2007 » |
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I've just joined a gym  Not sure whether that in itself is worthy of the Happy Room, but the prospect of being a size 12 again certainly is. As is the fact that I've been meaning to do it for ages and finally stopped procrastinating. |
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #2300 on: 12:53:50, 19-09-2007 » |
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'I'm singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again...' A friend of mine who used to lecture on film theory at Manchester Polytechnic (as it then was) once received a complaint from an extra-mural student for analysing that song as a urinary fantasy. You can also play a passable verision of it on the slendro scale of gamelan. I know because I've done it. In public. |
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'is this all we can do?' anonymous student of the University of Berkeley, California quoted in H. Draper, 'The new student revolt' (New York: Grove Press, 1965) http://www.myspace.com/itensemble |
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« Reply #2301 on: 13:01:06, 19-09-2007 » |
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'I'm singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again...' A friend of mine who used to lecture on film theory at Manchester Polytechnic (as it then was) once received a complaint from an extra-mural student for analysing that song as a urinary fantasy. One day a careless typesetter will be printing a programme including both Finnissy's Golden Sleep and Dillon's Vernal Showers |
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #2302 on: 22:25:17, 19-09-2007 » |
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'I'm singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again...' A friend of mine who used to lecture on film theory at Manchester Polytechnic (as it then was) once received a complaint from an extra-mural student for analysing that song as a urinary fantasy. One day a careless typesetter will be printing a programme including both Finnissy's Golden Sleep and Dillon's Vernal Showers It will probably be on a Scottish island somewhere  |
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« Reply #2303 on: 00:00:13, 21-09-2007 » |
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Just had a good rehearsal. Great soloist. Violins seem to be doing what they should be doing! And that feeling when your left hand fingers sparkle on the notes and somehow feel detached from the rest of you.... Just magic! All I need now is for the bow to feel the same.... Tommo |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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Morticia
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« Reply #2304 on: 12:49:03, 21-09-2007 » |
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Oh joy unbounded! A trip to the greengrocer yielded not only cob nuts but wet walnuts as well Huzzah !
EXIT skipping, to find the nutcrackers.
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stuart macrae
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« Reply #2305 on: 13:26:40, 21-09-2007 » |
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Oh joy unbounded! A trip to the greengrocer yielded not only cob nuts but wet walnuts as well Huzzah !
EXIT skipping, to find the nutcrackers.
That sounds great (and a bit nuts  ) but what are cob nuts? and wet walnuts? |
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« Reply #2306 on: 13:33:12, 21-09-2007 » |
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In the absence of Chef Mort, I think cob nuts are very similar to hazelnuts. Wet walnuts are walnuts that, er, haven't yet been dried (we tend to buy them after drying), so they're softer and sweeter.
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Green. Always green.
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stuart macrae
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« Reply #2307 on: 13:35:42, 21-09-2007 » |
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Ahah...I feel an investigative trip to the greengrocer's coming on... |
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« Reply #2308 on: 13:40:14, 21-09-2007 » |
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Stuart, these are cob nuts, sometimes known as filiberts. Best eaten when the surrounding leaves are green, when they`re really fresh (you don`t eat the leaves! ) They have a smooth, almost creamy taste. Yum.  As for wet walnuts, they are nuts that have not long left the tree and have not dried out yet. The shells are, erm, wet. Or at least damp. They are nothing like the dried variety, they`re plump and moist. If you see any and like walnuts, grab `em, they`re only around for a couple of weeks. |
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« Reply #2309 on: 14:53:01, 21-09-2007 » |
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I think cobnuts, hazelnuts and filberts are all different names for the same thing. That's a nice photo. I don't think I've ever had a wet walnut. We used to have holidays in a cottage that had a huge old walnut tree in the garden, but we were never there at the right time of year for the nuts.  |
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