Re: "Anybody out there?"
Will Dockery
>
> www.sullivanthepoet.com
>
> Web site building is not my forte, but, with practise both it and my
> poetry will improve...
Hey, you made it back, and so far have survived the fact that you
dared to say a good word about me!
One good way to keep the link available to your poetry website is to
add a sig at the end of your messages. That way when you post, if
someone wants to know about you, the details are available.
Probably not as /long winded/ as the one I'm using today, but this is
a great way to make Usenet work to your advantage, which is getting
your work to the people who want it... or not, or claim to not.
--
"Greybeard Cavalier" (video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6BGlXmtzE8
Recorded at The Vault
Columbus, GA 31901
June 13, 2006
Vocals: Will Dockery. Music: The Shadowville Allstars.
Based on "Greybeard Cavalier" by Will Dockery, 0x0000 and Brian
Fowler.
Video by Doug Cole
"God's Toybox" (video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h54SYLZIqnY
Recorded at The Loft
Columbus, GA 31901
July 5, 2006
Vocals: Will Dockery. Music: The Shadowville Allstars.
Video by Don Williams
petrolhead
Will! Hi Guy! Not only back but stuck my head above the parapet and
posted some of my work! As for saying a good word about you - Well,
whilst I can now see where they got the expression "Fire at will!"
from... 'I bin around kid' and I've got a hide like salt water croc to
prove it... Thanks for the links advice though - working on it as we
speak. (And still picking my own friends...)
Renay
"Will Dockery" <will.d...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Jun 28, 1:47 pm, petrolhead wrote:
>>
>> www.sullivanthepoet.com
>>
>> Web site building is not my forte, but, with practise both it and my
>> poetry will improve...
>
> Hey, you made it back, and so far have survived the fact that you
> dared to say a good word about me!
>
> One good way to keep the link available to your poetry website is to
> add a sig at the end of your messages. That way when you post, if
> someone wants to know about you, the details are available.
>
> Probably not as /long winded/ as the one I'm using today, but this is
> a great way to make Usenet work to your advantage, which is getting
> your work to the people who want it... or not, or claim to not.
absolutely! and if you'll cut and past the
same repetitive text about 200x that won't
annoy the shit out of people, either.
Renay
Renay
"petrolhead" <countye...@btconnect.com> wrote in message
news:1183054873.0...@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
"friends are overrated."
Will Drunkery
Will Dockery
"petrolhead" wrote
> On Jun 28, 6:57 pm, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Jun 28, 1:47 pm, petrolhead wrote:
>
> > >www.sullivanthepoet.com
> >
> > > Web site building is not my forte, but, with practise both it and my
> > > poetry will improve...
> >
> > Hey, you made it back, and so far have survived the fact that you
> > dared to say a good word about me!
> >
> > One good way to keep the link available to your poetry website is to
> > add a sig at the end of your messages. That way when you post, if
> > someone wants to know about you, the details are available.
> >
> > Probably not as /long winded/ as the one I'm using today, but this is
> > a great way to make Usenet work to your advantage, which is getting
> > your work to the people who want it... or not, or claim to not.
> >
> posted some of my work!
I'll have a look for it... which reminds me of another way to make Usenet
work /for/ you rather than sinking out of sight is to make the subject line
informative, and more easily searchable in the Google archive.
When you post a poem include the title and author, something like this:
"Mexico City Blues" by Jack Kerouac
There are other variations you'll see here, but that's the best, imo.
> As for saying a good word about you - Well,
> whilst I can now see where they got the expression "Fire at will!"
> from... 'I bin around kid' and I've got a hide like salt water croc to
> prove it... Thanks for the links advice though - working on it as we
> speak. (And still picking my own friends...)
Some good folks here, fair and tough, and have something worthwhile to
offer... you'll probably be able to figure out this cast of characters, good
and bad, fairly quickly.
Amadeus Jinn
"Will Dockery" <will.d...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1183053439.1...@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> www.sullivanthepoet.com
>>
>> Web site building is not my forte, but, with practise both it and my
>> poetry will improve...
>
> Hey, you made it back, and so far have survived the fact that you
> dared to say a good word about me!
>
> One good way to keep the link available to your poetry website is to
> add a sig at the end of your messages. That way when you post, if
> someone wants to know about you, the details are available.
>
> Probably not as /long winded/ as the one I'm using today, but this is
> a great way to make Usenet work to your advantage, which is getting
> your work to the people who want it... or not, or claim to not.
When the sigs are on the postings
at the bottom where they lay
as an enigma wrapped in phosphors
plays flames -- were tamped to grey.
--
AJ - http://Here.Nu
http://Midis.Here.Nu
http://Art.Here.Nu
Amadeus Jinn
"petrolhead" <countye...@btconnect.com> wrote in message news:1183054873.0...@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>> On Jun 28, 1:47 pm, petrolhead wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> >www.sullivanthepoet.com
>>
>> > Web site building is not my forte, but, with practise both it and my
>> > poetry will improve...
>>
>> Hey, you made it back, and so far have survived the fact that you
>> dared to say a good word about me!
>>
>> One good way to keep the link available to your poetry website is to
>> add a sig at the end of your messages. That way when you post, if
>> someone wants to know about you, the details are available.
>>
>> Probably not as /long winded/ as the one I'm using today, but this is
>> a great way to make Usenet work to your advantage, which is getting
>> your work to the people who want it... or not, or claim to not.
The roads of the Alligator Alley stretch
for miles though swamp and forests.
You can easily rent a fan-boat
and go hunting steggasaurus.
>>
Amadeus Jinn
"Renay" <rena...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> "friends are overrated."
> Will Drunkery
How is your baby, crying
now and then?
Yes, friends are overrated
as the crying starts again.
:) <kiss>
Dennis M. Hammes
> "Renay" <rena...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
>
>>"friends are overrated."
>> Will Drunkery
>
>
> How is your Tommy, crying
> now and then?
> Yes, friends are overrated
> as the crying starts again.
>
> :) <piss>
>
FiXord.
--
-------(m+
~/:o)_|
I do not "negotiate" for half my baby back, Solomon.
http://scrawlmark.org
Dennis M. Hammes
??? It annoys the shit out of Dockery.
(Well, his annoying himself with it ud explain why there's so /much/...)
Renay
"Amadeus Jinn" <a-j...@here.nu> wrote in message
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>
> "Renay" <rena...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
>> "friends are overrated."
>> Will Drunkery
>
> How is your baby, crying
> now and then?
> Yes, friends are overrated
> as the crying starts again.
>
> :) <kiss>
YOU CANNOT DISTRACT ME BY
ASKING ABOUT THE BABY! DON'T
EVEN TRY IT!
so yesterday she managed to pick up a
rattle and transfer it from hand to hand.
also, she's learning to mimic sounds and...
SHUT UP! YOU CAN'T FOOL ME.
I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO!
Renay
Dennis M. Hammes
Heh!
petrolhead
Will, again, thanks for the pointers - What about?....
'Obsession'.
Published 2002 Spotlight Poets
"Corridors of Thought"
ISBN 1 84077 077 5
www. sullivanthepoet.com
Is that what you meant - or is that too much information?
Will Dockery
>
> You don't hafta look for Dockery.
> You'll find him under your local windshield wiper.
> /If/ you're in a small-enough part of a small enough part of Georgia.
While finding Hammes anywhere but here on Usenet or hiding in his closet
will be close to impossible.
Now /that's/ small.
--
"Dream Tears" by Dockery-Mallard:
http://www.myspace.com/shadowvilleallstars
"Hasty Pudding" by Dockery-Conley:
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery
Will Dockery
No, that looks good, increases the interest in the poem "Obsession"
and give the link to that and more... the individual can take it from
there.
The only other suggestion I'd have immediately is to add the "http" to
the link:
http://www.sullivanthepoet.com
Since just www.whatever doesn't always work for whatever reason.
petrolhead
>
> - Show quoted text -
"Roger Wilco... " Will add similar to poetry post henceforth - what a
cracking word "Henceforth" rolls right off the tonge dunnit? - By the
way, did you get a look at 'Obsession'? Be interested to hear what you
thought?
Will Dockery
> On Jun 28, 6:57 pm, Will Dockery wrote:
>> On Jun 28, 1:47 pm, petrolhead wrote:
>
> > > Will, again, thanks for the pointers - What about?....
>
> > > 'Obsession'.
> > > Published 2002 Spotlight Poets
> > > "Corridors of Thought"
> > > ISBN 1 84077 077 5
>
> > > www. sullivanthepoet.com
>
> > > Is that what you meant - or is that too much information?
>
> > No, that looks good, increases the interest in the poem "Obsession"
> > and give the link to that and more... the individual can take it from
> > there.
>
> > The only other suggestion I'd have immediately is to add the "http" to
> > the link:
>
> >http://www.sullivanthepoet.com
>
> > Since justwww.whateverdoesn'talways work for whatever reason.
>
> cracking word "Henceforth" rolls right off the tonge dunnit? - By the
> way, did you get a look at 'Obsession'? Be interested to hear what you
> thought?
No, but I did follow the exchange between you and George Dance on the
poem "A River Run", which looks interesting, so I'll begin there when
I visit your site, to check out the complete poem.
Troia
In most places, sigs are supposed to be 4-lines-or-less.
There are exceptions (ahem) but you might want to keep in mind, if you
plan to post to various-and-sundry groups, that it's a long-standing
sort of standard.
-- Troia
Dennis M. Hammes
The Duck's been spnaked for it for years.
Also about advertising spam.
Just makes 'em longer.
And continues to refuse to correct his sig delimiter, mandating
hand-trimming.
Will Dockery
"George Dance" wrote:
>petrolhead wrote:
>
> > I would welcome the opportunity to see some of
> > your own work - do you have a site?
>
> No site - all my stuff's on Usenet - but after reading this I decided
> I needed something to introduce myself; so I put together a Top 11.
> These are my personal favourites of my own poems; others' mileage
> varies considerably.
>
> Afterglow
> http://tinyurl.com/39p7r3
>
> Away
> http://tinyurl.com/2yqjl5
>
> A Busride on a Summer Night
> http://tinyurl.com/3636cc
>
> Doggerel
> http://tinyurl.com/2seu6q
>
> Flowers for Vera
> http://tinyurl.com/2euncp
>
> Ideas of March
> http://tinyurl.com/2kz4ff
>
> Mars & Avril
> http://tinyurl.com/35ewpr
>
> A Midwinter Night's Eve
> http://tinyurl.com/2x24w2
>
> Syd's Sunrise
> http://tinyurl.com/ywqv5b
>
> Threnody
> http://tinyurl.com/yq7xlj
>
> Upanishad
> http://tinyurl.com/yvmzfj
This is a great idea, and one I don't remember seeing used here, to promote
your poetry and meanwhile also reviving the archived comments... and leaving
the poems open for revival, if the new readers want to make new comments.
George Dance
Well, thank you for drawing attention to it. Back on the 3 I was
just starting my work-week, so I didn't have time to comment; but I
have to say I was rather blown away when I went into google and found
this subject thread.
I added a couple more tinyurls today:
Lucky Penny
http://tinyurl.com/2uk7gv
My Pretty One
http://tinyurl.com/38lvgr
(BTW, I remember you mentioning Henry Conley wanting to write muic to
one of my poems, but I'd already gone to someone else. Well, I've
heard nothing from that front (note to self: send an email today), and
now I've got a second poem (Lucky Penny) crying for its own music. If
you wish you can show that to Mr. Conley; and if he wishes to write
music for it, on the terms you discussed earlier, I'd have no problem
with that.)
Will Dockery
"George Dance" wrote:
> On Jul 3, 4:20 pm, "Will Dockery" wrote:
I'm very familiar with that schedule you described... 12 hours, probably, on
3 days plus 6, and off 3. Did that for most of the 1980s in my millrat days,
and later in another factory right around the time of 9-11. Always prefered
the allnighters when all the bossmen were home in bed and we had the huge
building to ourselves... literally another world behind those mill fences
and the blocked up windows.
Then the first day off was a period of "recovery" sometimes, and the next
two were like having a vacation every week.
> have to say I was rather blown away when I went into google and found
> this subject thread.
>
> I added a couple more tinyurls today:
>
> Lucky Penny
> http://tinyurl.com/2uk7gv
>
> My Pretty One
> http://tinyurl.com/38lvgr
>
> (BTW, I remember you mentioning Henry Conley wanting to write muic to
> one of my poems, but I'd already gone to someone else. Well, I've
> heard nothing from that front (note to self: send an email today), and
> now I've got a second poem (Lucky Penny) crying for its own music. If
> you wish you can show that to Mr. Conley; and if he wishes to write
> music for it, on the terms you discussed earlier, I'd have no problem
> with that.)
Just started reading "Lucky Penny" today, and the interesting comments from
Stuart, and I think Conley could pull something pretty interesting out of
it. Reminds me a bit of a recent one of ours called "Ragpicker Joe":
Ragpicker Joe
On a stroll,
along a Southside dole.
To collect my thoughts,
and learn what I used to know.
Ambling down the street,
friend to all he meets:
here comes Ragpicker Joe:
Hey hey man,
you got a pistol in your hand.
Don't go doing the things
we often talked about...
Ragpicker Joe,
it's our lives now don't you know?
It just ain't worth doing all that time...
Sally Sue came back,
took his cadillac,
her brothers jacked him up
and left him on the curb.
This is life in the city
we got our ways and our means.
Ragpicker Joe...
He said man
I got the upper hand,
gonna win this war
come high water or ice.
Ragpicker Joe,
why did you go do
all those things you did?
Ragpicker Joe
do do do do...
those things we talked about in jest.
That's the last I seen of old Joe,
he got blown away by the tornado,
an act of God but absolutely just.
Ragpicker Joe
why did you go do
things we often talked about in jest?
Ragpicker Joe
blown away by a tornado
sad case but what did we expect?
Words: Will Dockery
Music: Henry Conley
In other words, I know from the converstation with Stuart and Vera that you
sort of had a 1950s doo-wop sort of thing in mind for "Lucky Penny", but I'm
also hearing an earlier pop sound in it, as well... The Beatles' "Honey
Pie", that sort of (1920s?) kind of sound (not sure of the exact terms I
mentioned, but Henry usually doesn't sing except some harmony and bridges,
so I'd be doing vocals on this demo, which I need to make sure is tolerable
for you... heh.) with that peculiar echo in the voice that the early sound
recordings had and McCartney simulated so brilliantly:
Honey Pie
She was a working girl
north of england way
now she's hit the big time
in the USA
and if she could only hear me
this is what id say
Honey pie
you are making my crazy
im in love but im lazy
so wont you please come home
Oh Honey Pie
my posistion is tragic
come and show the magic
of your Hollywood song
You became a legend of the silver screen
and now the thought of meeting you makes me
weak in the knees
Honey Pie
you're driving me frantic
Sail across the atlantic
to be where you belong
Will the wind that blew her boat across the sea
kindly send her sailing back to me?
-Lennon/McCartney
Anyway, yes, I'd like to show "Lucky Penny" to Henry and see what comes
out... we can move this over to the LP thread for further discussion...
George Dance
http://tinyurl.com/39p7r3
A Busride on a Summer Night
http://tinyurl.com/3636cc
Doggerel
http://tinyurl.com/2seu6q
Flowers for Vera
http://tinyurl.com/2euncp
Ideas of March
http://tinyurl.com/2kz4ff
Lucky Penny
http://tinyurl.com/2uk7gv
Mars & Avril
http://tinyurl.com/35ewpr
A Midwinter Night's Eve
http://tinyurl.com/2x24w2
My Pretty One
http://tinyurl.com/38lvgr