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Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Nostalgia

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...and for your listening enjoyment....

Neil Young Now and Then


Whiter Shade of Pale...Procol Harum

We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
but the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
as the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
the waiter brought a tray

And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale

She said, 'There is no reason
and the truth is plain to see.'
But I wandered through my playing cards
and would not let her be
one of sixteen vestal virgins
who were leaving for the coast
and although my eyes were open
they might have just as well've been closed

She said, 'I'm home on shore leave,'
though in truth we were at sea
so I took her by the looking glass
and forced her to agree
saying, 'You must be the mermaid
who took Neptune for a ride.'
But she smiled at me so sadly
that my anger straightway died

If music be the food of love
then laughter is its queen
and likewise if behind is in front
then dirt in truth is clean
My mouth by then like cardboard
seemed to slip straight through my head
So we crash-dived straightway quickly
and attacked the ocean bed

Monday, July 17, 2017

46 Years Ago Today!!




















7-17-71 to 7-17-17!!...46 years ago REALLY!!??

Where have the years gone!!??

....Remembering the 17's....another chapter in a life....

...and for your listening enjoyment...memories from the Chicago concert in a small town rodeo arena--AMAZING!!

Color my World

...and more from 1971....now...I call that MUSIC!!!


How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

You've Got a Friend

Imagine

Heart of Gold

Riders on the Storm

Stairway to Heaven

...I diverge...I saw this one and JUST HAD to include it!!

Knockin' on Heaven's Door!!

Saturday, July 1, 2017

Wander

For your listening enjoyment....Helen Jane Long




Sometimes there's just some nanu-nanu things going on out there!!


In one day....I had 3 separate references to the movie Dazed and Confused.



  • Through a conversation about Ben Affleck, I realized he was in it.
  • In researching Texan accents...of course, Matthew McConaughey's name came up.
  • And in the episode of Rectify I was watching...the brothers were going to watch the movie!!

...and then two occurrences of "Life is a Gift"....


  • A friend's email closed with..."and Life is a Gift."
  • And in Rectify Season 2, Episode 1--Kerwin tells Daniel to wake up--Life is a Gift!!

Since that day...these nanu-nanu sorts of things are happening more and more!!  COOL!!

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Accents continued

...and here goes with Indiana....


Hoosiers, more Hoosiers...and more Hoosiers...FUNNY!!


I listened to the accents folks recorded from around the state...and didn't really hear the "countrified" Indiana accent I remember from my past.  Maybe I'm just remembering an accent from a past generation?

The young folks all seem to just sound unaccentless...mid-western...


Southern Indiana, Southern Indiana

Northwest Indiana

Northern Indiana


Monday, May 1, 2017

May Day

Happy May Day!!

Some further delving into accents...I thought I'd see what kind of accent I have!!

(side-notes--I remember NOT understanding a convenience store worker in Georgia who was trying to give me directions.  I thought she was saying go down the highway to highway "286"...but she was saying to just go down the highway "two exits"!!  WHAT an embarrassing experience that was as I kept repeating the question in various ways until I finally understood her!! Also, I now realize I don't say Nevada the way a Nevadian would say it--I say the "va" like vaaah/vamonos...NOT "va" like vaseline!!)

I wish I had known about the worldwide accent project from numerous years ago!!...some FUNNY accent videos out there!!

Part 1: Let's start with Texan accents!! 

Texas Twang!!
Texan Words--I only use Howdy...but that is a very recent addition to my vocabulary--Howdy Doody!!
Austin
East Texas--I think she sounds like a west Texan!!...probably too much time in LUBBOCK!!
These sound more East Texas to me East Texas
Northeast Texas
Dallas
Fort Worth
Panhandle
El Paso
Southeast Texas
West Texas
Ya'll
HoustonHouston
South Texas
Deep South Texas

Saturday, April 1, 2017

Birthday Greetings!!

Happy...Happy...Happy SUPER DUPER Birthday MONTH greetings my sweet!! Wishing you 30 days of FUN!!

I've been watching A LOT of UK English movies/series lately...and I finally realize I am a UK English dialect snob!! So...I tried to figure out WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!!


I'm NOT saying I prefer the haught-y taught-y RP dialect!!  But...it certainly doesn't grate on my nerves!!....I guess I like the Southern Standard English accent....I wish I had that accent and NOT a Texan accent!!  AARGH!!


RP, Oxford, Posh--LOVELY GIRL!!

Joel and Lia

Anglophenia

Annachirisu

LOL!!...Satisfied

30 dialects

BBC English

UK English Accents

Hugh Grant in Love Actually

An accent like this one GRATES on my NERVES!!  

Tom Hollander in A Good Year


There's another annoying British accent where they add an "r" to words like America...I'll keep looking for an actor who speaks that way....

I'll also start paying attention to US English movies/series to see IF I feel as strongly about the dialects spoken around the US!!

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Vegans Unite!

Why I Will Always Be Vegan–Vegan Shift

"If I ever wanted to be worthy of living, it was to be as a person who lived with integrity, courage, honor and consistently with my values for truth, liberty, justice, respect, dignity, equality, empathy, kindness, compassion and peace for all earthlings.

I will never be able to undo what I have unconsciously and unquestioningly participated in for far too long as I was developing in the non-vegan, discriminative, deceptive, disconnected programming culture I inherited. Though I am viscerally saddened in discovering the magnitude of unnecessary, horrific and violent reality that is at every foundation of humanity’s present course of soul killing, animal killing, world killing, self-fulfilling, self-destruct, what I can do now is make a stand to change the course of that world for the direction that I would see us have.

I have never felt more alive, driven or committed to a life of purpose and passion as I have since I unplugged from the marketing matrix and awakened from the trance of currently dominant American culture of dysfunctional and misdirected priorities obsessed with blind consumerism, materialism, entertainment, sports, celebrity culture, and "what's in it for me" mentality. It is a powerful thing to know I am not alone on this mission, that there are in fact millions of vegans moving this world in the most awesomely epic odyssey for human consciousness and advancement towards peace ever undertaken in our history.

It is a beautiful thing to know that no matter one’s family history, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, ability, career, etc. they can decide to live vegan while concurrently pursuing the rest of their life’s dreams, purpose, passion, ambition or cause. I have found and strive determined to fulfill my destiny to empower a rapid world vegan shift. Though everyone dies, not everyone really lives. Dare to see the invisible, feel the intangible, and achieve the impossible by breaking the chains of fear and ego-driven apathy, ignorance, injustice, indifference, privilege, entitlement, culture, tradition, greed, corporate interests, habit or addiction, and begin living with an eco-driven compass of compassion and nonviolence for the people, for the planet and for the animals.
'If not you, who? If not now, when?' Hillel
Join us.
Love life. Live vegan!"

Treatise for a Vegan Shift