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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #1800 on: October 21, 2010, 02:58:55 PM
Hope you still can sleep well littletune! And that it doesn't hurt!
Thank you Wolfi! :) Well.... I wasn't sleeping very much... because I was crying for a long time because of my fish.... but then I had a really cool dream!!!  8)
And it doesn't hurt too much... but I found another bruise on my leg above my knee on the side. I didn't even know about it and it was the biggest bruise of all!!! It was very swollen and now it's getting blue... and it hurts a lot if I touch it. I guess I just hurt myself in too many places to know about all of them.  ::) I'm just glad my finger is ok! I mean if my finger still hurt I couldn't even play piano!

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Reply #1801 on: October 21, 2010, 04:11:46 PM
Right!  In a way, you were lucky in your misfortune.  ;D

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Reply #1802 on: October 21, 2010, 07:59:26 PM
Yes I guess I was. And I think I look kinda cool with a bruise on my nose  8)

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #1804 on: October 23, 2010, 12:46:20 PM
I guess this is the best place to post this question.  I have wondered and pondered over this for years: 
How many times do you see a dead bird, in the street, in the woods, wherever.  Maybe a couple times of year?  Maybe once a month?  Considering all the birds around us, where do they go when they die?  And this is a serious question.  I can't find an explanation.  I live out in the country where there are birds and birds and birds.  I have never, I repeat NEVER seen one dead bird.  Maybe sometimes they're eaten by feral cats or foxes, etc.  But I don't think in direct proportion to the birds that die.
Where do they go?  Maybe fly to heaven?

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Reply #1805 on: October 23, 2010, 12:59:02 PM
They probably disintegrate quickly.  They have hollow bones.  I saw one a year or two ago that got flattened in a couple days and was just a greasy spot in a week. 
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Reply #1806 on: October 23, 2010, 01:00:37 PM
I guess this is the best place to post this question.  I have wondered and pondered over this for years: 
How many times do you see a dead bird, in the street, in the woods, wherever.  Maybe a couple times of year?  Maybe once a month?  Considering all the birds around us, where do they go when they die?  And this is a serious question.  I can't find an explanation.  I live out in the country where there are birds and birds and birds.  I have never, I repeat NEVER seen one dead bird.  Maybe sometimes they're eaten by feral cats or foxes, etc.  But I don't think in direct proportion to the birds that die.
Where do they go?  Maybe fly to heaven?

Yes actually I have been thinking about that too  :-\ I think they do fly to heaven!!! And you know what else I have been thinking about? Like birds have wings right? So when they die and become angels.... do they get another pair of wings?? I mean cause angels have wings and birds have wings... and when someone becomes an angel they get wings.... so if birds become angels do they have two pairs of wings? I mean the ones they had before and the ones they get as angels?? And if they do have two pairs of wings can they fly even higher than normal angels?  :-\  8)

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Reply #1807 on: October 23, 2010, 04:43:18 PM
They probably disintegrate quickly.  They have hollow bones.  I saw one a year or two ago that got flattened in a couple days and was just a greasy spot in a week. 
YUCK :-X

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Reply #1808 on: October 23, 2010, 07:13:32 PM
 :( Well in my new book with piano pieces there is a piece about a dead bird  :( It must be a really sad piece!  :'(

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Reply #1809 on: October 23, 2010, 07:59:48 PM
 :o

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Reply #1810 on: October 25, 2010, 03:21:51 AM
Behold!   :o  Hell-spawn, demon puppies!  Beware.... Beware....

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Reply #1811 on: October 25, 2010, 06:06:11 AM
That poor mother!  She's already going into hyperventilation thinking about what's in store for her!

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Reply #1812 on: October 26, 2010, 02:48:33 PM
?hguoht ,aedi eht siht sI

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Download Audacity if you don't have it.  Record the following phrase, speak it into the computer.  Then reverse the speech.  The result is nice and creepy sounding.

"!knee-whal-ah-eep-eyE"
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Reply #1813 on: October 26, 2010, 03:55:41 PM
WILD!!!!!!  ;D

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Reply #1814 on: October 26, 2010, 07:58:31 PM
I'm thinking if I should post myself singing  :-\  :P  :)

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Reply #1815 on: October 27, 2010, 08:46:53 AM
Not if they're baby pieces... ;D  (Only kidding!)

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Reply #1816 on: October 27, 2010, 04:14:16 PM
I'm thinking if I should post myself singing  :-\  :P  :)

I'm thinking i should post myself farting.

I have got some excellent rippers on record.

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Reply #1817 on: October 27, 2010, 04:28:57 PM
I think I heard that disc, The Fine Art of Flatulence, was it?

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #1818 on: October 27, 2010, 06:53:47 PM
I'm thinking i should post myself farting.

I have got some excellent rippers on record.

Thal
You know what you should do Thal? You should go on Britain's got talent with that!  :D  :P

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Reply #1819 on: October 27, 2010, 07:12:36 PM
Not if they're baby pieces... ;D  (Only kidding!)
Hmmm well...  :-\ I don't think I could sing anything like this:

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I don't know how can someone have a voice like this at 10  :o

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Reply #1820 on: October 27, 2010, 07:31:31 PM
You know what you should do Thal? You should go on Britain's got talent with that!  :D  :P

What an excellent idea. I will enter.

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Reply #1821 on: October 27, 2010, 07:36:31 PM
What an excellent idea. I will enter.

Thal
Great! I will watch you on youtube then!  :D  :D

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Reply #1822 on: October 27, 2010, 07:39:41 PM
I'm thinking if I should post myself singing  :-\  :P  :)

sure, why not? :)

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Reply #1823 on: October 27, 2010, 07:53:41 PM
sure, why not? :)
Hmm I think it would be a little embarrassing  :-[ , but I don't know.. I'm still thinking about it :)

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Reply #1824 on: October 28, 2010, 11:16:57 PM
Mildly amusing. ::)

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Reply #1825 on: October 29, 2010, 01:20:32 AM
I'm thinking if I should post myself singing  :-  :P  :)

Post it! :)
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Reply #1826 on: October 29, 2010, 07:15:04 AM
What an excellent idea. I will enter.
Yes, that's just about the right level for Britain's Got Talent, I'd say - or perhaps you could even start your own series called The F Factor...

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Reply #1827 on: October 29, 2010, 12:55:08 PM
"F" as in...?

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Reply #1828 on: October 29, 2010, 01:41:26 PM
Post it! :)
Thank you :) Yes maybe I will....  :-[ but I feel kinda bad about my singing  :-\ because when I was in third grade I was singing in a school choir and then just before we went to a festival our teacher told some of us that we shouldn't sing and that we should only open our mouth, so since then I felt really bad about my singing and I couldn't even sing anymore when other people were around because I just heard this horrible sound all the time, but now I had to get used to singing again because we have to sing really a lot at music theory.... so that's why I can't decide now  :-[  :)

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Reply #1829 on: October 29, 2010, 01:47:12 PM
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I'm thinking i should post myself farting.

I have got some excellent rippers on record.

Thal
You know what you should do Thal? You should go on Britain's got talent with that!  :D  :P
Better still, enter politics; these erputions could me rather more entertaining (and rather more intelligent too) than what's there usually. It would give a whole new meaning to the word "rip-deal"!

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Reply #1830 on: October 29, 2010, 02:17:28 PM
"F" as in...?
See post #1816 although, if that might not pass the censors, the series could perhaps be named Britain's got Thalent, I suppose...

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Reply #1831 on: October 29, 2010, 02:22:42 PM
I get it.  It just hit me!  Flatulence.  ;D

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Reply #1832 on: October 29, 2010, 02:34:36 PM
Thank you :) Yes maybe I will....  :-[ but I feel kinda bad about my singing  :- because when I was in third grade I was singing in a school choir and then just before we went to a festival our teacher told some of us that we shouldn't sing and that we should only open our mouth, so since then I felt really bad about my singing and I couldn't even sing anymore when other people were around because I just heard this horrible sound all the time, but now I had to get used to singing again because we have to sing really a lot at music theory.... so that's why I can't decide now  :-[  :)

Unfortunately, stories like this are not unusual at all.  It's amazing how much our voices are affected by those kinds of thoughts and feelings and beliefs, but it's not just singing, either, it's everything we do.  Even in my own considerably small experience so far, I have seen plenty of "cases" where a person's voice/singing may seem one way for awhile (for whatever reason), only to recieve the right kind of care and attention and then bloom into something that others (even with "very trained" ears) couldn't seem to possibly imagine before.  Strangely, the general idea out there is that singing is something different than playing an instrument and that playing an instrument is something different than singing.  I mention that mostly because in my experience so far, I have noticed that when it comes to singing, once a person starts treating it more like an instrument the results are much different (and same with piano playing -- treating it like singing).

The urge that you have to post it though makes me think that somewhere in there you would like to share, and that's a lot in itself! :)
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Reply #1833 on: October 29, 2010, 02:51:22 PM
Unfortunately, stories like this are not unusual at all.  It's amazing how much our voices are affected by those kinds of thoughts and feelings and beliefs, but it's not just singing, either, it's everything we do.  Even in my own considerably small experience so far, I have seen plenty of "cases" where a person's voice/singing may seem one way for awhile (for whatever reason), only to recieve the right kind of care and attention and then bloom into something that others (even with "very trained" ears) couldn't seem to possibly imagine before.  Strangely, the general idea out there is that singing is something different than playing an instrument and that playing an instrument is something different than singing.  I mention that mostly because in my experience so far, I have noticed that when it comes to singing, once a person starts treating it more like an instrument the results are much different (and same with piano playing -- treating it like singing).

The urge that you have to post it though makes me think that somewhere in there you would like to share, and that's a lot in itself! :)

Thank you!! :) :) I'm not even sure why I started thinking about posting it  :-\ I don't really know why I feel like sharing it...  :) I mean I do like to sing and I always liked it, just that after that (when my teacher told me not to sing) I always feel like I shouldn't be singing and like I'm going to hurt someones ears  :-[   :)

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Reply #1834 on: October 29, 2010, 03:21:21 PM
Thank you!! :) :) I'm not even sure why I started thinking about posting it  :- I don't really know why I feel like sharing it...  :) I mean I do like to sing and I always liked it, just that after that (when my teacher told me not to sing) I always feel like I shouldn't be singing and like I'm going to hurt someones ears  :-[   :)

I do understand.  Believe me.  The reality is that there are going to be people in the world who decide to think one way about something like that for whatever reason.  Don't sing for them for now :).  (Unfortunately,) My general feeling is that oftentimes people are not looking deeply enough into each other and that there are solvable things that never get solved because it just needed deeper investigation.  Did you know that often it is individuals with the biggest voices (and I mean this quite deeply) who have the biggest cases of "ugly duckling" while developing?  People with huge amounts to give can often have a huge span of time in feeling like they are still developing, and it's really easy to be critical during that time.  It also doesn't help if the only reinforcement is on the seemingly negative side.  

I think though that those feelings and concerns are ultimately reversable, but it's only possible through taking more footsteps regardless of discomfort for you during some of that.  And, just because something feels uncomfortable (even if it's REALLY uncomfortable) doesn't mean you are doing something wrong.  It is important though to find out who you can take risks with and sometimes that's a bit of a process :).
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Reply #1835 on: October 29, 2010, 05:38:44 PM
1. Pastoral from Kapustin's jazz etudes
2. Where is Bernhard...
3. Does he have any recordings?
4. If so where are they...
5. Debussy's Suite Bergamesque
6. My gf lol

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Reply #1836 on: October 29, 2010, 07:16:01 PM
I do understand.  Believe me.  The reality is that there are going to be people in the world who decide to think one way about something like that for whatever reason.  Don't sing for them for now :).  (Unfortunately,) My general feeling is that oftentimes people are not looking deeply enough into each other and that there are solvable things that never get solved because it just needed deeper investigation.  Did you know that often it is individuals with the biggest voices (and I mean this quite deeply) who have the biggest cases of "ugly duckling" while developing?  People with huge amounts to give can often have a huge span of time in feeling like they are still developing, and it's really easy to be critical during that time.  It also doesn't help if the only reinforcement is on the seemingly negative side.  

I think though that those feelings and concerns are ultimately reversable, but it's only possible through taking more footsteps regardless of discomfort for you during some of that.  And, just because something feels uncomfortable (even if it's REALLY uncomfortable) doesn't mean you are doing something wrong.  It is important though to find out who you can take risks with and sometimes that's a bit of a process :).
Thank you for telling me all this m1469!  :) And for being so nice  :)  8)

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Reply #1837 on: October 29, 2010, 08:34:39 PM
I am not a great singer, but i have been told I do a pretty good Al Jolson impression.

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Reply #1838 on: October 29, 2010, 09:22:59 PM
I am not a great singer, but i have been told I do a pretty good Al Jolson impression.
...on the corner of which particular Gravesend street and who might be the certain or uncertain little lady that goes by? (or shouldn't I ask, even rhetorically?) - OK, sorry, just a wee wind-up, since I know well, of course, that Mr Jolson and the implied Formbanjo person were not one and the same, but the temptation just seemed to be too great to resist, albeit only momentarily and for some unaccountable reason, thank goodness...

By the way, did you hear the Bach on BBC R3 the other day played on the banjo accompanied by mandolin and guitar?

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Reply #1839 on: October 29, 2010, 09:35:51 PM
...on the corner of which particular Gravesend street and who might be the certain or uncertain little lady that goes by? (or shouldn't I ask, even rhetorically?)...


Do not recall Al singing that.

Anyway, my Jolson rendition took part at the Rugby Club a few years ago.

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Reply #1840 on: October 29, 2010, 09:38:21 PM
By the way, did you hear the Bach on BBC R3 the other day played on the banjo accompanied by mandolin and guitar?

Indeed not, Radio 3 appears to be banned in my office and at home whilst the soaps are on.

Banjo is most suited for Bach.

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Reply #1841 on: October 29, 2010, 09:44:50 PM
Banjo is most suited for Bach.

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Reply #1842 on: November 01, 2010, 03:26:12 PM
Full orchestral version here.   ::)  Not one of those amateur performances.


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Reply #1843 on: November 01, 2010, 03:43:43 PM
I can't believe they still "perform" this piece.  It's SO dated.  It was funny when the conductor wiped his brow after the "first mvt".

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Reply #1844 on: November 01, 2010, 03:45:25 PM
It does get old after awhile.  Sometimes I can't it out of my head though. 
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Reply #1845 on: November 01, 2010, 04:00:44 PM
I think I would start laughing sooooooo bad if I was there!  ;D I couldn't even go out! I think it's kinda like that game when you have to look someone directly in the eyes for as long as you can without laughing, but then you just start laughing anyway.  ;D It's just like EVERYTHING starts to be funny!!! All the people and everything!! It's just like someone would be tickling you all the time  ;D  ;D  ;D I think they would have to carry me out if I was there!!!! Cause people really couldn't enjoy the silence with me being there!!!  ;D  ;D  ;D :P  :P

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Reply #1846 on: November 01, 2010, 04:36:20 PM
It does get old after awhile.  Sometimes I can't it out of my head though. 
It is sort of catching, isn't it?

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Reply #1847 on: November 01, 2010, 04:56:10 PM
It does get old after awhile.  Sometimes I can't it out of my head though. 
No I can't get it out my head either!!! And everytime I remember I start laughing. That will be great when I'll be on the bus or at school and I'll just start laughing for no reason!  ::)  :P

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Reply #1848 on: November 02, 2010, 10:19:15 PM
No I can't get it out my head either!!! And everytime I remember I start laughing. That will be great when I'll be on the bus or at school and I'll just start laughing for no reason!  ::)  :P

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Reply #1849 on: November 03, 2010, 08:10:19 PM
That's really funny   ;D :D So is it possible to watch that and not start laughing at all?  :o  :)  :P
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