rohanaka
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FrankGrimes wrote:
All you need is a box; you've got plenty of hot air to heat it.
April....would you like me to loan you that hammer??? Mr. Grey may need a nap.... :-)
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Hiya Miss Butterscotch..... sounds a little scarry actually
My husband and I tend to have a bit of a "warped" sense of humor sometimes...but it's all in good fun... I tell him though that we have to be careful because if we ever tease each other that way in public...people might think we are serious! :-)
sound making machines
Ugh! I HATE noise when I am trying to sleep. The QT has a fan that he has to have running all night long and he keeps it on the floor by the bed, right by his head. And it is likely there as much for the "noise" factor as it is for the air movement. It could be 10 below zero outside...but he still has to have his "security" fan. I have learned to tune it out over the years....but that is only because I have bought him several new ones as time has gone by and I just keep trying to find the quietest ones I can....So I guess "Quietfan" might have been a better name for me in the long run after all! :-) Of course....when the fan starts to get too loud...there is always that hammer thing again....
how's the youngin' today
She is doing alright. Her birthday is later this week...the BIG "6"....she is just about beside herself with anticipation. :-)
Hope you are having a happy day.
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Hi Texanna...and welcome....
Sorry but it's not my kitty....I just found him by doing a little "google". He is cute though, isn't he. If he really were MY kitty I would be in trouble!! (Kitty's make me sneeze!) :-) Hope you enjoyed the youtubes...I went a little post "crazy" yesterday. :-)
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I'm afraid I've tried it all. Nothing works (except drugs!)
Ha...The QT and I have a little joke when one of us can't sleep... the other one will say..."Want me to go out to the shed and get the hammer??" (I know...sounds awful...I PROMISE we both know the other is kidding!!! ) So...there's drugs....and...there's that hammer thing....
Chris....my husband is a "sleeper" too. He is one of the few people I know that when he is tired he just gets up and goes to bed. (what a concept) I have NEVER been like that...I tend to be one who has to be so tired I just can't stay awake anymore before I can fall asleep...which might explain why I fall asleep watching movies at night so often ....I am not smart enough to just go to bed.
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I think cat naps give me more
energy sometimes than 50 cups of tea.
Alas....these days...this is as close to a catnap as I will likely ever get...
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Spandau Ballet
Well, you've gone beyond my "realm of knowledge" with that one. That's one I've never followed. I recognize the name, but don't recall anything specific.
I should go back to bed.
Good luck with that!! I think we should all get "nap times" like we used to do in kindergarten....I could live in a world where everyday, right in the middle of things we all get a nice snack and then just lay down and rest for about an hour... :-)
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Hiya Chris...
lead singer from Styx
Dennis DeYoung or Tommy Shaw???
He had a core band but at times drew in people to do a number on an album
I think Carlos Santana seems to do this a lot too.(I don't know much about him, though so I might be mistaken)
It's interesting how the "voice" may be different, but you can still hear a TAPP (or Santana) song and know that it is one of theirs. They have their own unique style to be sure.
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Is there one movie that you enjoy that you have to watch alone
I confess....Ladyhawke. (and I'm not sorry.) :-)
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Oh.....I haven't listened to TAPP in so long, I'd forgotten about some of these songs you folks are mentioning here...
I really like their instrumentals. It is unusual for a rock group.
Chris...I agree...and that is one of the things that made them stand out a bit for me... One that may not really be an official "TAPP" piece, but I liked a lot was the "collaboration" of sorts they did on the music for the movie Ladyhawke. In fact, the first time I saw that film, the music stood out as being similar to some of their styles. (PS..that is a film I need to go mention in the "Guilty Pleasures" thread....because I have always liked it....and the music has always been a part of that whole package)
Eye in the Sky is one of my favorites of theirs to be sure. I think (possibly) it is my all time fave for them. I also like the ones you mentioned Chris...Old and Wise was a very good song...I had forgotten that Ammonia Ave had as many good ones on it as it does. Also liked You Don't Believe...
And THIS one is perhaps one that I used to enjoy singing along with more than most (the range is just "mine" in this one... not too high or low. (But a lot of their songs hit me in that way...so they are fun to sing with.)
The video for this is a bit "Twilight Zone-ish" (and also very 80's) in fact...I am starting to have an 80's flashback....I think I need to go get my hair permed now and put in a few shoulder pads on my blouse.... :-)
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Chris...nicely done. I am already losing hair just sitting here thinking about what a challenge this would be. I am going to have to remain an interested fan on this one....but I bet you get several takers and I imagine you and the judges will have some tough challenges ahead too when choosing the winner. Good luck everybody. :-)
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Steady now...deep breaths.... :-)
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I have always enjoyed The Alan Parson's Project. IF I recall correctly, I only have two of their albums...but I haven't listened to either of them in likely 20 years.
That one actually makes me sad, more so than "Time".
There is a bit of sadness in the melody of Don't Answer Me that can get me once in a while.(and there is also that whole "stay on your Island" bit....but I think Time just happened to come out when I was in a high school crush...."oh...If he only loved me" phase and it more or less became that "break up" theme for me after that. Very melodramatic now that I look back on it...but ...those were the days... :-)
they never did anything good after that album
I sort of got into my "Bluegrass" era not long after Amonia Avenue came out....and so I lost track....but I think you are right as I do not recall much else by them after that...
Too bad.... Or we could just say.... Tough Break, Nick :-)
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"Moab had the greatest faces in the world. John wouldn't credit a Hollywood extra if he could do otherwise. He wouldn't use a Hollywood Indian if there was still a real Indian alive." Furthermore, wrote Harry Carey, Jr., in his memoir, Company of Heroes, "To Ford, there was no such person as an extra, and because of that, they all adored him. He knew most of them by name by the end of that first day. They'd do anything for him."
April, this is that whole "face" thing I have always noticed in his films....Hey...maybe once in a while I get one right!. :-) Very interesting article. I have been looking forward to this one ever since I found out (I think it may have been from you) that it was going to show. I will be at work when this is on, but I'm looking forward to taping it and will hopefully get to see it over the weekend maybe. (I had TCM send me a reminder)
Thanks for posting this. Looks like it will be a nice story...with lots of "Ford Faces" to look forward to. :-)
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Chris...I am sure we both have our own "pathetic" stories to tell....Believe me...I know I DO! :-)
Ok...this thread is too addictive...I am going to need a twelve step program to get out of here...April...yet another possible reason I have been avoiding it up to now...
I came across this one...in my search for "bleak"....NOT really bleak...but one of my all time favorite Allen Parson's .... I first saw this video way back in the mid 80's and got a big kick out of it...and to this day I still go around saying "Tough Break, Nick...only I more or less have had to revise it for the kidling...when I used to say that to her...if she did not get her way...she would always ask...."who's Nick?" and it was just too hard to explain...so for her, I say....Tough Break Baby...
And.... there is a slight nod to the old "Noir" films on here...but I think the ending is too "happy" so probably not a REAL noir tribute...still fun to watch after all these years.... April....thanks for putting up w/ me in here today....I am having way too much fun.
Ok...back to the bleak....
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and most everything I've ever written.
You too??? I didn't even want to go there... :-) We need to do a PM trade sometimes and just have a big "bawl" fest. :-)
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top 5 "bleak" songs---tunes or musical pieces that make you cry, what would they be?
Hmmmmm....well since we are just all over Dan Fogelberg today, he is the freshest in my mind...so I am likely going to be a bit skewed. I am sure if not for that, I might have a different list. I will say that I may come back here another time and think of some others and change my list because what USED to make me cry years and years ago is not the same as what tears me up as much now...
But for "Bleak"....way back when in my 20's.... when I was going through a "woe is me" phase...
That Souvenirs song that I posted for you earlier was definitly on the list....and probably also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0dMBqtGtOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvwrSdMY7dQ
Funny though...stuff that used to make me cry isn't always as emotional now....I managed to look all of those up w/ out even a little misty moment...I must be getting tougher in my old age.... Still...when I was in my "bleak" phase... they were a guaranteed tissue grabber.
Two that will usually still get me now, though not necessarily bleak.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNonF2n4qdE
and one that I could not find on youtube...and I only recently discovered it a year or so ago...but almost always makes me cry...
http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/l/littleriverband2344/whomadethemoon111831.html
Ok...I know... this is all more than 5...and if I tried really hard I KNOW I could come up with even more...so but I better stop now...I may bust out bawling at any moment if I get too deep into this...but did I mention that I love a good cry??? :-)
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think Elton John was right!
Oh..yeah..I love a good cry....I get the same way about movies too from time to time. :-)
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"Dancing Shoes"
Oh.. Chris...good call on that one...April you might like this on a lot.
PS... April....let me know if you do find an album you want to buy...I hope you'll enjoy it after me running on and on about him.(Now I will have guilt if you don't end up being as impressed) And PSS. you are right....he was WAY cute.
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Is he still alive?
No...sadly he past away back in 07...cancer if I recall. He was much too young to be sure.
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Chris...Ha...you must have been posting while I was typing my little heart out...thanks for the "woman of taste" comment...I definitely don't hear THAT too often! :-)
"Captured Angel."
I hate to pick favorites among all his albums...but this may be just about my favorite ....if I had to choose....I think I about wore that sucker out when I first got it.... The Last Nail is on there and for a while...I think I listened to that one every single day... I went through a "bleak" time I guess and all my favorite songs seemed to be sad or nostalgic.... (But then Bobbie McFerrin came out with Don't Worry Be Happy....and somehow managed to snap me out of it!! ) HA.
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The Reach is on his album called The Innocent Age...a really good album ( and also the one that has Run for the Roses in it...I was wrong earlier....Longer is from his Phoenix album.) Souvenirs is the title of the album for the song w/ that same name that I posted the lyrics for earlier. I have all his early albuns, except for one) but I don't have any of his stuff that came out after 1987.
I did however see this on google:
http://www.danfogelberg.com/infoportrait.html
It appears to have A LOT of his early stuff mixed in with some of his later recordings. And it has The Reach on it as well. The one song I did not see (maybe I overlooked it?) was Longer. I had heard that later in life he sort of left that song of his "play list" of things he would sing at concerts....and I attended 2 concerts in the 80's and he never once played it...so I think there may be some truth to it. (maybe it was one of those "personal" songs and the relationship went south or something??) Anyway....there are a couple of different "greatest hits" type albums I think on that same site I posted here so that might be a way to go to get variety. But I can recommend a lot of his earlier stuff. I don't think there were any of those albums that I was disappointed in. (except maybe Exiles) (PS.."Greatest Hits" type albums are how I used to get a lot of my favorite songs by other artists without having to buy all their records....(I was a tightfisted thing even way back when)
Hope this helps. :-)
oops....Longer IS on that compilation album I posted...I am definitely needing new glasses....right near the very top....that makes this an even better option. :-)
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The Reach (about Maine!!! )
Hey now! I'll have to listen for that one
Just for you.... :-)
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I used to listen a lot
I always MEAN to listen...sort of like how I always MEAN to dust the furniture or mop the floor....sooner or later I get to it...but not nearly as often as I would like.
wish I were as good as you.
PS...don't be too impressed...because I am sure I would not do nearly so well nowdays... I was 19 at the time.(about a gazillion years ago) If I had to do that now I think my brain would likely blow a fuse or something... but it was a lot of fun. :-)
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sorry to be late to another party
Hey thanks!! And don't worry....It's never too late to enjoy a good Duke tribute! :-)
(2000 posts... HA!! NOW who is the blabbermouth??) :-)
Off Topic: Favorite Music?
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Like a graveyard
OH now...that is a bit extreme....besides....you don't want to give him any more excuses...you know... like: "I couldn't ramble because I had to go to a funeral". :-)
Maybe just a light tap or two will do...and then he will get a good little nap and wake up a new man. Or better yet...he will wake up with amnesia...yeah....that's it! He can get amnesia and then when he asks "who am I" we can say....
"You are a famous "ramble writer" and you were just about to embark on a month long session of writing your greatest rambles ever...And then we can set him to work catching up on all those "empty promises" Or even better yet...we can say...You are Gary Cooper....or John Wayne... and you hate football...and you just can't stand Grace Kelly....nah...that would just be mean. :-)
Frank...this one's for you:
(my gosh, my golly...what WAS little Debbie thinkin with this one'??)