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« Reply #3915 on: 01:34:40, 18-08-2008 » |
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I'm sticking with my glasses, never tried contacts.
Poem about losing my glasses
the place is unfamiliar
my face is bare
I've mislaid my glasses
I've looked in my glasses case
but they're not there
and I need my glasses
to find my glasses
but I'll be alright
I've got a spare pair
somewhere
[John Hegley from "Glad to wear Glasses"]
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« Reply #3916 on: 01:36:46, 18-08-2008 » |
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Our Okazaki Fragment is now addicted to Arabic music. After a bout of intoxication with same he is disconsolate until it is put on again or until a severe effort to distract him is made.
Help!
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« Reply #3917 on: 01:38:10, 18-08-2008 » |
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I had to wear glasses when I was 9. Hated 'em then, hate 'em now. Some people look great with specs. I don't. Vain? Moi? Yup. Maybe we should have a Vanity thread? Or should that be for New Music?   Sort of in a new vein? [superglues mouth shut and carries on typing nonsense] |
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #3918 on: 01:43:20, 18-08-2008 » |
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but lots of men noticed me through a glass darkly.
I used to have a glass darkly but it got dropped and broken. These days I have a brass one which I think is much safer. |
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #3919 on: 01:46:35, 18-08-2008 » |
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I'm sticking with my glasses, never tried contacts.
As an actor, I had no choice, Andy, but the moment I tried them, I knew they were for me. I wear specs occasionally - early mornings, long flights, lazy days - but my sight with lenses is far better, and my eyes have stayed more or less stable since I've been wearing them: well over thirty years now. |
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« Reply #3920 on: 08:06:32, 18-08-2008 » |
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Haiku:
On Looking Out of the Back Bedroom Window without My Glasses
What's that amazing
new lemon-yellow flower?
Oh yes, a football. (Ms Cope yet again) |
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« Reply #3921 on: 08:19:23, 18-08-2008 » |
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Haiku:
On Looking Out of the Back Bedroom Window without My Glasses
What's that amazing
new lemon-yellow flower?
Oh yes, a football. (Ms Cope yet again)  We've all been there ... |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #3922 on: 08:39:09, 18-08-2008 » |
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Our Okazaki Fragment is now addicted to Arabic music. After a bout of intoxication with same he is disconsolate until it is put on again or until a severe effort to distract him is made.
Help!
I think that there are far worse things with which he can become addicted. Besides, Arabic music gives you quite a wide range of possibilities to play with and potentially introduces him to the magical world of microtonality... All you have to do now is navigate a perfect path from Arabic music to Turfan's music and you have an instant fan club! |
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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 #3923 on: 08:53:18, 18-08-2008 » |
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I love Arabic music.
I love all kind of music, but Arabic music is very good. I was exposed to it at an early age. There were many Republics that used similar kind of language.
There is Indian music that I was exposed to at an early age too (Khrushev and Brezhnev after him were friends with India).
They are different musical languages.
The Arabic music proper must be very interesting to investigate. I am more familiar with Azherbaidjan or Uzbek variety.
There is Georgian music. It is absolutely beautiful, but they are different.
You always start me thinking in an interesting direction, hh. I loved that Edith Piaf. Thank you.
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« Reply #3924 on: 08:57:27, 18-08-2008 » |
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I don't know much about Georgian music. Can you recommend somewhere to start?
It's nearly 9am. I should get into the shower and wake myself up.
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« Reply #3925 on: 09:07:42, 18-08-2008 » |
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Lets ask Reiner. Or may be not. He probably doesn't know because they are not popular now and a different state.
In my time we were all friends and brothers. (Here there is similarity with with Yugoslavia).
Let me think. They are absolutely unique and beautiful. They don't remind me of any music. They don't sound Arabic at all and they don't sound Russian. They are amazing singers.
You probably saw their dances. The small states in that area are unique. There are Armenians, Georgians, Azheries.
Some of them have a different kind of drum.
Georgian singing is so unique. I can listen to them all day. THey are so musical.
I am sure people here know.
You better get going because this can wait.
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #3926 on: 09:22:44, 18-08-2008 » |
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hh, as it happens the Dough Archive has a Georgian music niche, particularly (though not exclusively) centred on the Rustavi choir, who made a big impression here in the nineties. With singers from each of the nation's traditions, they were particularly well placed to interpret this music which hails from the meeting point of three cultures, and requires virtuoso vocal techniques, not least in the specialised yodelling known as krimanchuli. Hearing this for the first time (in a broadcast concert) was a revelation which led me on a search for their recordings, not always easy to come by, especially in pre-internet days....
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« Reply #3927 on: 12:25:05, 18-08-2008 » |
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Re. my previous waffle about sons and car racing, for those who understand these things, apparently he won his class yesterday in the "sprinting"  and was given a lovely silver plate-type trophy. |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #3928 on: 13:24:00, 18-08-2008 » |
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I thought the Olympic cycle "sprinting" I watched this morning was hilarious - it was a slow bicycle race until suddenly they got going. As I'd never seen this before I couldn't understand what on earth was going on at first! Apparently 2 "sprinters" once stopped for an hour, each waiting for the other to go first. They've changed the rules so they can't do this any more!  |
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #3929 on: 13:38:49, 18-08-2008 » |
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MJ - just wait until the Maddison.....
Actually, did you see the Keirin? That's as mad as a bag of cats (or to update that phrase as I read on a website earlier, as mad as a bag of syphilitic badgers)
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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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