Poetry, Art and music and ...

[Jodi Frye]

Well well well, R U sure you want to hear this ? Might get 'frea-kay'...first i must take my Child to school ;)

BTW, just buy it.

~Heat does not wait for the sun, to be hot.
Nor wind the moon, to be cool.

[Grant Dixon]

What a wonderful Cyber world I have found on this Forum. The tastes are far
broader than I should have imagined art poetry and music. Ah ... this is
heaven. While my taste poetry is narrow drifting to the more common such as
Robert Frost, Robert W. Service, Ogden Nash there is still room for William
Shakespeare. On the other hand with music my taste are broad and eclectic I
ranging from Albinoni to Zappa. In art I have a very broad love of it but
do tend to like artist of the common people such as Breugel the French
Impressionist, Canadian Group of Seven and final but not exclusively
Oriental water colours. Don't get me started on photography as I can chat
for hours on the hand full of greats.

Ok show and tell time. What are your likes and dislikes?

--
Grant

Challenge Pages: http://home.cogeco.ca/~challenge/

[Grant Dixon]

It is Victoria Day a Canadian national holiday! So earlier I did my garden
thing. Next I redesigned the gateway to our Garden web pages using a new
photo. Suspect I will have to get out and take a bazillion photos of the
garden as it grows. Now rather than enjoy the sun I am finishing off a
paying web site that Doreen started ... she wants to plan some flowers and
seeing I don't know how to do that ... well I do but she thinks not! This
is all to keep my mind off of the F5 but it is not working.

Grant

Challenge Pages: http://home.cogeco.ca/~challenge/

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[no spam @yahoo.com Pete D]

>
> Favourite tune of all time; Horse With No Name, America ... it's about me
>

Jodi, Why are you in NY and not in the desert? "And there ain't no one to
give you no pain" "Laa laaa la, la la la la la...."

Where are you now?.

Pete

[no spam @yahoo.com Pete D]

I my not have good taste but I do like things that taste good.

<<The tastes are far broader than I should have imagined art poetry and
music.>>

Grant, are you at home today or just a little reflection at work?

Pete

[Jodi Frye]

OK I'm back

Poetry ? Prefer the unknown's.

Art ? ALL EXCEPT picky perfect that ya might have well just taken a photograph. ...Not to put down the 'picky perfect Artist's'....obviously talented.

Music ?...hmmmmm...anything but RAP.

Although i do have some favourites;

Zeppelin
Chicago
fleetwood Mac
Counting Crows
Steve Miller band
eagles
Meatloaf
Boston
Collins
Alice in Chains
+++++++++++++++ +++ + + + + + + (too many to list )

Favourite tune of all time; Horse With No Name, America ... it's about me

Favourite thing to do when alone ; ( Other than playing with Photoshop Elements )
~ Getting in my car on a hot summer day all windows down...cruisin' at an easy 45-50 mph's through the quiet countryside with the radio playin' my favourite tunes...not too loud but loud enough to drown out the world.

[Jodi Frye]

pete, i'm home, where else would i be.

Need time to step back today. I can't seem to get anywhere with my art...or anywhere good enough i should say. Freekin' eclipse.

do belong in the desert today..alone with my passion and maybe a junkyard dog.

[Grant Dixon]

Just guilt! Not big in spending money just for me. Usually spend so we can
all enjoy things I tend to live buy the old Scottish proverb "A joy shared
is a joy doubled" and this will not be shared as it would be just for me.

Grant

[no spam @yahoo.com Pete D]

>This is all to keep my mind off of the F5 but it is not working.
>

Grant,

That is not like buying a "Hugo" and having 18 months of regret before
taking it to the junkyard. If ten years from not it did nothing more than
fill space on a shelf in your office I don't think you would regret it.

But there must be some other item you are also considering that makes you
hesitate. Guess you must resolve that thought and then the F5 will be an
easy decision.

Pete

[Grant Dixon]

Jodi

Funny how some songs really seem to speak to you. For me it is the time of
my life that triggers certain songs. For some reason at this time it is
Jimmy Buffet that is doing it . My mind switches from song to song one
time I am the pirate over forty, the next .... well as I type it is Pencil
Thin Moustache.

"Yeah, but now I'm gettin' old, don't wear underwear
I don't go to church and I don't cut my hair
But I can go to movies and see it all there
Just the way that it used to be"

--
Grant

[Jodi Frye]

Grant, you are a content man.

How did you get there ? That's OK, i know.

Fortunetly the blue sky will always be there along with the earth under my toes.
Waiting...quietly, patiently...with open arms

[Grant Dixon]

Jodi

Is it contentment? Maybe it is just learning not to piss in the wind!

Good thing when I wrote about Jimmy Buffett it is a good thing that "Why
Don't We Get Drunk" wasn't playing. Or none of the woman on the forum would
speak to me.

Grant

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[carl sutherland]

Grant,

My favorites as I think of them this morning are:
Favorite Group-The Doors
Favorite Group currently recording-Pearl Jam
Favorite Song-Un Bella Note-Madame Butterfly
Favorite Opera-Aida
Favorite Vocalist at her peak-Joan Baez
Favorite Vocalist now-tie-Sarah Brightman and Heather Nova
Favorite Blues Band-North Mississippi Allstars
Favorite Instrumental Group-Tuatara
Favorite Male Vocalist-Jim Morrison
Favorite Songwriter-Jim Morrison
Favorite Music-Rock and Roll in minor key
Most interesting and intriquing music- Classical Sitar arrangments from Northern India
Favorite guitar player-Jimi Hendrix
Favorite keyboard player-Ray Manzerack-The Doors
Favorite Harmonica player-John Sebastian
Favorite Poet-Jim Morrison
Favorite Photographer-Ansel Adams
Favorite PSE image editor-Jodi
Favorite Painter-Cezanne
Favorite Sculptor-Michaelangelo
Favorite Chef-Paul Prudome
Favorite Wine-Ch. Petrus, 1971
Favorite Jazz Musician-Louis Armstrong

That's it for now

Carl

[Chuck Snyder]

Carl, quite a list - I've even heard of some of them....!

:-)

Chuck (in redneck country)

[Jodi Frye]

I'm not crazy i'm just a little unwell
Right now i know you can't tell
Stick around and then maybe you'll see
A different side of me

[Bonnie L.]

Grant, You're a real stirrer-upper, facilitator, whatever. The OTTAWA SENATORS need you - tonight-URGENT..
B.L.

[no spam @yahoo.com Pete D]

No you aren't crazy you're just swell
If anyone looks deep they could tell
We'll all be here at least for a while
Maybe the other side will bring a big smile

"Jodi Frye" > I'm not crazy i'm just a little unwell

[Jodi Frye]

Pete, nice poem ;)

I confess i stole the words from a tune...but it fit....with the way i've been feeling lately. freekin' eclipse ! this one is mine though,

Six feet from the edge
Her feathers neatly hidden
The wind knows her name
She begs not to listen
Their little eyes sparkle
She holds the sparkle
Only six feet from the edge
Her name surrounds them.

[Grant Dixon]

Bonnie

What you see is a hollow shell of a hockey fan ... the Hab are no where
these past few years and if the Pea Soupers are not playing it ain't hockey!

--
Grant

[Grant Dixon]

Jodi

You do know the derivative of lunatic?

Middle English lunatik, from Old French or Late Latin; Old French lunatique,
from Late Latin lunaticus, from Latin luna; from the belief that lunacy
fluctuated with the phases of the moon

So be careful of who you tell your story to. It is safe with us as all
artist are slightly bent.

--
Grant

[Jodi Frye]

well it's too late to delete the poem ( would if i could)...honestly, i am not a lunatic. I wouldn't expect anyone to understand the meaning behind it or what it symbolizes but i can assure you that the 'edge' is something other than going 'cuckoo'.

Note to self; don't share anymore of my silly poems. ;)

[Jodi Frye]

Carl,

You just go ahead and share...you are the poet. ;)

[carl sutherland]

Jodi,

I loved your poems. Please give another. If you give another, I'll give one of mine.

Carl

[Susan S.]

Show and tell hmmm. Music - eclectic. I like Renaissance and medieval music a lot - (I used to play the recorder fairly seriously when young, and I've just dug them out again). Mozart. Carl Orf, some Benjamin Britten. I've also just dug out my old turntable from the top of the wardrobe, and I've been reliving the past - unhappily many of our old LPs got left behind in the UK when we emigrated. But I've been playing a lot of stuff that I played to death at university - Genesis, XTC, Madness, Joni Mitchell, the Police, the Stranglers. (My eldest daughter took one look at the turntable and commented that she'd seen those in pictures, but shouldn't they have a big horn coming out of it....!) On high rotation on itunes is the latest Peter Gabriel album, a Western Australian band called the Waifs, and the Minstry of Sound chillout sessions ...

Poetry - TS Eliot, Yeats, Dylan Thomas. Art - again eclectic. I tend to have favorite pictures rather than artists. My all time favorite piece of artwork is a tryptic in the National Gallery in London of St Michael and assorted angels. Florence is my idea of heaven.
If I could collect something then I think that it would be modern art glasswork. I have a few pieces but small children and a cat mean that I can't display them properly!

susan S.

[no spam @yahoo.com Pete D]

honestly, i am not a lunatic. i can assure you that the 'edge' is something

other than going 'cuckoo'.
>

Chuckle. Glad you are in better spirits.

[Marty Landolt]

Artist- Monet, Poetry-Pope, Music-Broadway Musicals & Operas...Rap is Noise, not music. There were some groups who did wonders with a sort of melodic speaking, one German bunch of children were so good.
Grant...buy it. My Nikon FG is over 20 yrs old and still producing like new. My Nikon Coolpix 775 fits nicely in my handbag.
Marty

[Dick Smith]

" Pea Soupers "

Who?

Still, I'm pulling for the Senators against NJD. Have been in awe of
J.S. Giguerre and the Ducks, ever since they beat my Wings.

Dick

[Not The Duchess]

Hmmm, favourites change all the time. Currently it seems I'm liking:

Vocalist: Johnny Lang
Group: Boomkat (or some of Pat Benatar's stuff from the 90's)
Artist: Claude Theberge
Type of Music: Anything bluesy
Poet: Robert Frost esp. The Path Not Taken
Passtime: sip wine (or beer if weather's hot)

These things do change with me all the time though.

NTD

[Chris Rankin]

Here's mine, but not limited to:

-Little Feat, George Thorogood,John Lee Hooker and Bill Monroe
-Robert H. Heinlein and Sam Clemens
-Black-eyed Susans, Queen Anne's Lace and Dandelions (when they're yellow)
-John Wayne and Errol Flynn movies
-Victorian architecture and linear mouldings, fine trimwork
-Tall margaritas (rocks w/ salt) and ice cold beer
-my family and friends

I'd list the dislikes but then I'd be taking up way too much bandwidth.

[carl sutherland]

Jodi,

If you do believe your poems are silly which I do not, here is a really silly thing I played with:

DARK WIND

dark wind is blowing
carrying despair
around us is howling
disease in the air

turning us inward
shutting us down
surrounding to smother
grinding to ground

where comes dark wind
why so cold
isolating from others
wanting the soul

dark wind no friend
a force to fear
a sinister being
we can not hear

dark side of nature
dark side of self
DARK WIND IS BLOWING

Carl

[Jodi Frye]

White Wind

Breath is sweet
Skin is toning
The wind blows
The eyes close
Up she sails
where the white wind blows
tremble with delight
no temptations in sight
The white wind takes her there
Darkness fades below
All the beauty is her
She knows nothing
She knows everything
Where the white wind blows.

[Chris Rankin]

White Wind blows,
Dark Wind receding,
Still Wind, silence interceding.

Sorry about that, it's late.

CR

[Jodi Frye]

Chris, sounds good to me ;)

...Born to be wild... that's the tune

[carl sutherland]

The Urban Howl

Siren cries to black night sky
The howl of an urban wolf
Another act of violence cries
A lonely sinister sound

Policemen fire
Firemen fight
Ambulance carries the carnage

Night breeds violence
Man attacks man
Another howl to the sky

Carl

[Jodi Frye]

It's just an illusion
This anger within
His shadows hide
Bruised with sin
He cannot see
The beauty within him
Lost in his mind
Love eludes him
The cries are real
It's only his soul
Begging to be heard
Longing to be seen

Step aside
Look inside
there it is
love is in him

[Jodi Frye]

Give me the beat boys
and free my soul
I want to get lost in your Rock 'n' Roll
and drift away

<life IS good>

[Chris Rankin]

Darkness overwhelming,
Creeping into the soul of despair
Breaks against the dawn of a new day.
Lightness and salvation
Guiding the way.

[Chris Rankin]

You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometime
You just might find
You get what you need

[Jodi Frye]

.......and i don't want the world to see me
cause i don't think that they'd understand

[Chris Rankin]

you might say you ain't got a hold on yourself
you might say you only try your best
you might say you only need a rest
you might say you only fool yourself

[no spam @yahoo.com Pete D]

Jodi,

"even rode my motorcycle in the rain, and you told me not to drive, but I made it home alive, so you said that only proves that I'm insane".

Pete

[Jodi Frye]

you may be right,,,

I may be crazy,..

Oh well

[Dick Smith]

Or perhaps.....

Cold hearted orb that rules the night,
Removes the colours from our sight.
Red is grey and yellow white,
But we decide which is right.
And which is an illusion???

Dick

[Chuck Snyder]

Now THERE'S some poetry! KIWS!!!

Chuck

[no spam @yahoo.com Pete D]

"But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for...."

Pete

Everyone knows these are song lyrics.... Right?

"Jodi Frye"

[no spam @yahoo.com Pete D]

Jodi, wait. No it doesn't. Want me to say it?

"Pete D" > Naw.
>
>
> "Jodi Frye" > Pete, does it matter ?
>
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[Jodi Frye]

if i see my reflection
on a snow covered hill
would a landslide bring me down ?

Naw

[no spam @yahoo.com Pete D]

[Jodi Frye]

[imacgirl]

Now for some music! I'm an absolute music fanatic, and like Grant, I listen to everything from A to Z. My music favorites list is at least a mile long...!

Last night I went to the iTunes Music Store for the first time and WOW....what an assortment of music!! The only saving grace for me is my slow dial-up connection or I'd be in some serious trouble buying everything. Much to my surprise I even found Jean-Luc Ponty's "Enigmatic Ocean"; he has to be one of the best electric jazz violinists!

If you love music as much as I do, and don't have a Mac, Apple is going to release a Windows version of the iTunes Music Store soon...

:-)

Barb

[carl sutherland]

Barb,

I am seriously shopping for a Mac-probably a portable one initially. What hardware do you have, what do you recommend, and where do you purchase it (Apple Store online?, another online outlet?). Any recommendations would be appreciated. Also, what scanner do you use, if any. Some scanners seem only to be for PCs. PSE 2, email, and some word processing is about all I do although I am probably going to get a camcorder.

Thanks

Carl

[imacgirl]

Carl,

That's terrific to hear...I'm sure you'll love owning a Mac!

I have the 800MHz G4 Flat Panel iMac with a SuperDrive (can burn both CD-R's and DVD-R's) which I got back when they first came out in February 2002 at The Apple Store. I highly recommend going to the Apple Store, if you are lucky enough to have one nearby, and check them out in person. That's what sold me on them...great store!

My machine came with 256MB RAM and I've added 512MB myself for a total of 768MB. This amount of memory is a must for running PSE 2, i Photo and i Tunes at the same time, which is the norm for me.

I don't own a laptop as of yet, but I'm sure somebody else on this forum could steer you in the right direction with that. I'd even like to know about that...it's the next thing on my wish list.

As far as scanners go, I have the HP ScanJet 3570c which runs perfectly with my Mac, I'm running OS 10.1.5, but Jaguar 10.2 will run with this scanner also. It has a negative and slide adapter built into the lid which I often use and I'm very happy with the results. I scan these images directly into PSE 2 from the scanner so I can edit them.

This is my first computer and think my iMac is the best thing I ever bought, well that, and my Minolta Dimage S414 digicam! Mac's are so easy to use and you can't beat the fabulous software that comes with them...iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, etc.

:-)

Barb

[Barbara Brundage]

Hi, Carl. Just to add to what Barb said, I'd stay away from Canon scanners, although their X support is pretty good. But if you get into serious scanning, none of the upgraded third-party drivers like Vuescan or Silverfast support them, probably because they are so limited. I'm not unhappy with mine, but if I were planning to do a lot of serious photo scanning I don't know that I'd want another canon.

Either the 12" ibook or the new 12" powerbook is a great little computer if you want a portable. If you are thinking of something like a 15" PB, I'd wait a bit, since that one is due for an update sometime soon.