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I don't believe I have a soul mate, but if I had to say whose mind melded the most with mine, it would be Greg Gutfeld, except he's a lot smarter. (I probably misspelled his name, but he's a celeb, and I enjoy misspelling their names.)
How do the 6 hrs +/- time differences between here and England throw astrology? For that matter, what do Daylight Savings Time and the International Dateline have to do with cosmic forces? Is Chinese astrology better for starting at the time of conception? I'm asking stupid questions before I run out of wild oats (i.e., four Reece's to go). I say Mach's distant stars control my body but not my mind. If I exert some willpower and start living my life, then my mind will control my body. But I'm weird.
Now, I'm listening to a song for strings by Taverner that is as slow as that slowed one I posted. It is nice, and respectful of wavelengths, but it has these agitated Chinese parts. I was listening to Orlando Gibbons yesterday. It was not as good. The stringed instruments were horribly scratchy. They were period instruments, They played these violin thingies like cellos, only they held the bows upside-down. I really love the 6- to 8-part harmonies a capella, and would have loved to hear Gibbons' compositions get some treatment from a spirited choir in a hewn stone cavern, which I could not find on YouTube before giving up.
Cool you have the patience for those chamber music things. I love them too, but don't dissect them as to harmonies and beats. I just enjoy them.
I met a soulmate from a past life once.... very strange experience. It was in Diego Garcia..... long story, but we recognized each other. Old business alas, but it was nice chatting for the evening. Hmmm.
I like Gutfeld. I wrote him once and told him he looked like Gordon Marshall but he never wrote me back. I think Gordy and Greg are both nice looking. I like Bob Beckel too oddly, but wouldn't date him, he's such a hippy.
Astrology.... sorry I'm probably offending, but it's only a hobby, and I don't predict the future. I have seen some very interesting dipsy doodles happen in the stock market with certain conjunctions, so I suspect stock brokers DO use astrology.... not that I think it's a good idea!!! OOdddlle oop!
I don't do astrology "by the book" I observe people, and if I get the chance, analyze their personalities and tie it into their star chart. For example, men with a Mars in Pisces tend to have trouble with alcohol. (You won't find that in a book anywhere). Libras are sweet, nice men very intelligent, charming until you get to know them. They are NOT easy to play female to their male at all, and many of them are real slobs. They tend to fall in love and charm their ladies so their house will be picked up.... and while she's busy housecleaning, sometimes they're out charming ANOTHER lady. (it depends on the dude of course, not all are that way). You won't find that in a book either.
Won't touch Taurus or Capricorn for personality, I rarely get along with them, but I do work on my manners. Taurus are ALL musically inclined, as are also Scorpios (they are polar opposites). Leos don't know the meaning of the word "low self esteem"...... Capricorns are the true "beautiful people" of the Zodiac. Etc etc. NONE of that will you find in a book. Just my observations.
OK that's enough. It's not right to pigeon hole people just by the time they are born, of course. It's best to do the whole chart, and then you can get a better picture. My chart makes me out to be a weird whiner, with a lot of domestic proclivities. I'm happy with it.
OK you're forcing me to go to the nerd world. Weird Al actually has a really good voice... saw him concert years ago with my small son (who was nuts about him) I had a lovely evening!!! This song is going to the top of the charts last I looked
So, there are these cool YouTubes for Guillame Dufay where the monkishes sing, and they show the score. It is so relaxing to watch, but I don't have that luxury.
sorta nice puzzling out the Latin (thank you) I'd have to study it to learn it. Can you sight read that stuff?? I have to hear it and memorize it I'm afraid, you know, play it on the piano first and learn it by ear. Me mum could site read.... hit the note every time.
I think it's sorta cool the monks used to just do this stuff vocally, with no instruments. Too poor to own instruments I guess. Very beautiful stuff.
All I can hear is the gurgle of the aquarium. Doing sewing today, probably the same tomorrow, working on quilt, then shower curtain, then window blinds in that order. Been meditating on how to treat the "mask" at the top of the blinds. Doing Roman blinds in the windows. Sick of these nasty ol' curtains and not going to spend a fortune on tacky new curtains.
Yes. You told me about the Roman blinds, not too far from the statue of the pancake man, as I recall.
I used to be a good sight reader until I started losing my sight. I used to say I could play about 95% accurately the first time, and I could practice my little soul out, and get no better. Now, I'm just sort of horrendous. I can sing, though, if I hold the book up to my nose.
I listened to the Justin interview. I wish he wouldn't believe that fans would be having a party with or without him. He should know by now how crushed we'd be without him.
I was wondering if maybe in the stars' quarters, behind the golden ropes, they got to watch whatever they use for closed-circuit TV today, and that's how Justin knows fans are being naughty. Maybe that was what he meant about wanting better TV selections in his room.
Now there's a concept. Perhaps all that naughtiness is just wishful thinking too...............
"I'd be happy if I could just get a girl to talk dirty to me"......... Goose in *Top Gun*
Actually the last time I swapped a dirty joke with a dude (it was purely social too......... the guy was disgusting otherwise, but I figured he was safely three states away) he starting sending me "I love you" emails. In fact it got a little creepy. Remind me not to swap dirty jokes with an uninteresting dude from here on out. Sheeesh.... talk about over reacting!
leslee you and are are pretty clean cut (one of the reasons I like rooming with you) but I assure you, there are some lady fans out there who do nothing but pass around band photos (close up too) of "anything below the waist" and discuss it in full graphic detail. It got downright ............. well, boring (nicest thing I can say without sounding like a total prude) but I stopped rooming with some folks (at Tahoe) because of the on and on sexual discussions. Geeze you'd think they hadn't had any for like centuries. And the close circuit television... like I say, pretty boring. A nice football game would be much more exciting.
Heck I'm an adult, I'm confident of my own personal "intimate" abilities (and I sure as heck wouldn't discuss it publicly!!!) IMHO people who talk on and on about it perhaps are a little insecure... or frustrated. (shrug) Married chicks too. I mean, what gives???
One thing Justin has absolute right. All they have to do is get out their photo albums (above AND below the waist) and the band doesn't even have to show up. The fans can all pile in the hotel rooms, photo albums in hand, and have a jolly time sharing. Booze, weed, coke etc etc......... it's all out there in the hotel rooms.... party time. Some show up reeking at the shows, fumes rolling off them... they may as well be in their own rooms with the album on as at a live show, they are so wasted.
OK sorry I'm being cynical, but I have a rep in the fan base for a reason.
These Roman blinds will be quilted so they block out the sun in the morning. Man I have trouble sleeping in the summer.
I suppose being a psychologist you know how to draw this out of folks. Most fans I know are highly successful business people, well-adjusted, super-intelligent, very into music - they make me feel like a worm. When he said fans were getting naughty, I thought he was talking about punching all the buttons in the elevator or trying to ooze past the golden ropes.
What Justin mentions sounds rude, like getting invited to a birthday party and leaving the birthday boy to eat his lunch by himself in the corner. If I had to hazard a guess, and I'm on a huge losing streak, I would is-pose fans come to see Justin, and when they find he is not walking around the ship talking to people, they find something else to occupy their time, rather than sitting in their cabins waiting for Justin to call.
Well put!
I certainly hope Justin is reading. That is it EXACTLY.
Alas so many turn to drink. I'm trying to spend my "spare time" when I head out on Moody trips, looking at architecture or something. People should find "other" healthy outlets. Like it or not, Justin is not ours to command 24/7
I'm really excited to see where this solo tour will lead the merry band next.
Very rainy here today.
I would is-speculate (I'm is-learning syntax from government staff reports and legislation.) he would travel the Midwest. One can only hope. Lots of folks like this part of the country in October. I tend to get depressed. We have a nice trailer park out in back where I work. The landlord loves good tenants.
It takes all my time to find a place to blog/submit articles and the venues on-time. Eternal vigilance has its price, and I'm far from being eternal.
What am I hearing? Nature's calling.
I'm listening to some wacked-out Renaissance stuff. I'm listening to the stuff that shows the scores. These particular items are so messily written, I wonder if they were intended to sound so messy.
We had a power failure, so I picked up a potential review book and a flashlight. It sounds wack in the beginning. The author claims war is good because it creates big government, and big government creates peace and prosperity. Yeah, thought I. I can string random words together, too.
Then, he mentioned King's College Choir, and I flashed back to Cambridge. I've never been there. It reminds me of the plague. But I've been flashing back there a lot. Up until a few days ago, I thought I was the only person alive who cared for the music of Orlando Gibbons. Now, he's everywhere. He seems to be noted for his melodies, but what I liked from his selections in two hymnals was his fresh chording. Nobody makes mention of that. The most-viewed YouTube stuff by him is bland.
Anyway, I decided it was far more edifying to read along with the monks than to continue with the book. I saw King's College was hiring a bursary who need only be familiar with Word, Excel, and telephones. I had all the qualifications, until I got to the end. Then, it said something about being of high moral character and trustworthy and that kind of stuff.
Hearing the simple sounds of water gurgling. After crawling through the monster camellia bushes, I need to wash everything AGAIN including myself. Annoyingly my hair looks pretty good when it's absolutely filthy. bath bath......... warm water, soap .......... and a good novel.
I really need to get a chainsaw. The plant growth around here is out of hand.
This was beautiful. Sydney-poo sent me a subscription to the church's magazine. I called to cancel it. I got a lady with a thick German accent, and I almost hung up assuming she wouldn't understand. Well, as it turns out, she used to work in victim services in a women's shelter. She knew exactly what to do. She had a soft and soothing voice and she connected me with the people with whom I need to talk, blocked Sydney from further shenanigans with their orders departments, told me I need to talk to the police for my good and Sydney's. Everything she said made so much sense. It was like I had dialed a direct line to . . . heaven. . . . . Hey, wait . . .
luna, remember the carafe of water at Yoshi's?
I remember my pocki's at Yoshi's.......... They had lovely decor, but I was in a terrible mood that evening. My issues.
I'm glad the nice lady with the accent has good sense. I agree. You're being terrorized.
Meanwhile back in Vien.... or was it Prague?
I found this movie for $8.76 and I'm tickled to death, I haven't seen it in a long time. Then I just listened to this documentary..... I stopped in the middle of the discussion on class differences. I really need to dig even more into the 18th century. Fantastic movie.
I'm still digging on the monks. In fact, I'm ready to let the little political tyrants rant and rave. I want to study (in a low-life, uneducated way) the wave dynamics of cathedrals. I've been thinking about this since watching a documentary yesterday wherein a dude said how nice it was to have his echo come back to him in tune.
I could just see the great minds of the day coming up with the best of dimensions for cavity resonators and then having the designs blown to bits by draughtsmen who wanted to make things conform to traditions, contractors who wanted to save a little here and there, politicians who would prefer a big, fat statue to their glory in place of pleasing harmonics, committees who wanted to make themselves sound important by changing this and that, shoddy workmen cutting corners, etc.
That happened to the factory my great boss of yore designed. We calculated the extreme angles of the sun in calculating the overhangs for the passive solar windows. I was wondering how much sacred geometry went into the building. He had said he wanted it to be able to withstand a jet landing on it. It wasn't a normal building, and that freaked people out. So, after he died, the new guy said the overhangs were too long. He changed the blueprints and the orders without even asking. Well, then the plant started getting super, super hot, and they had to do a bunch of fix-its for those passive solar windows. The first boss, everybody concluded, was a jerk for wanting such stupid windows.
And so, I salute all you jerks out there. I feel your pain - the official jerks, not the real ones. Did I say that?
The documentary was really good, they talked about working with all those candles in the last surviving wooden theatre in Europe. Right there in Prague. I wonder if the Moodies have ever been able to make it back to Prague.... I wonder if they were going to play in that theatre.... or did they just stand around in the streets playing their instruments?
I suspect an all wood theatre would have very different acoustics than stone. The Honeycomb house in Palo Alto was like that.... the whole house was supposed to be a resonance chamber I think. Redwood not a good choice tho. I would dig a cedar house built like that tho.
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