What's on your mind now?

[littletune]

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!!! 
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!

[birba]

Right!  In a way, you were lucky in your misfortune. 

[littletune]

Yes I guess I was. And I think I look kinda cool with a bruise on my nose 

[Bob]

What a way to go.... Death by celery.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101021/ap_on_bi_ge/us_produce_plant_shutdown;_ylt=AuTe5z4vq.uO5bLmgw5EEq8DW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTJ2M3NodjNwBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAxMDIxL3VzX3Byb2R1Y2VfcGxhbnRfc2h1dGRvd24EcG9zAzEzBHNlYwN5bl9hcnRpY2xlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDdGFpbnRlZGNlbGVy

Esp since they came up wth red celery now.  Of all the things to have kill you. 

[birba]

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?

[Bob]

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. 

[littletune]

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?    

[birba]

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

[littletune]

  Well in my new book with piano pieces there is a piece about a dead bird  It must be a really sad piece! 

[birba]

 

[Bob]

Behold!     Hell-spawn, demon puppies!  Beware.... Beware....

https://purinaanimalallstars.yahoo.com/?v=8435182&l=100000085

[birba]

That poor mother!  She's already going into hyperventilation thinking about what's in store for her!

[Bob]

?hguoht ,aedi eht siht sI

.sehY



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"

[birba]

WILD!!!!!! 

[littletune]

I'm thinking if I should post myself singing     

[birba]

Not if they're baby pieces...   (Only kidding!)

[thalbergmad]

I'm thinking if I should post myself singing     

I'm thinking i should post myself farting.

I have got some excellent rippers on record.

Thal

[birba]

I think I heard that disc, The Fine Art of Flatulence, was it?

[littletune]

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!   

[littletune]

Not if they're baby pieces...   (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 

[thalbergmad]

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

What an excellent idea. I will enter.

Thal

[littletune]

What an excellent idea. I will enter.

Thal

Great! I will watch you on youtube then!   

[pianowolfi]

I'm thinking if I should post myself singing     

sure, why not?

[littletune]

sure, why not?

Hmm I think it would be a little embarrassing  , but I don't know.. I'm still thinking about it

[Bob]

Mildly amusing.

[m1469]

I'm thinking if I should post myself singing  :-   

Post it!

[ahinton]

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...

Best,

Alistair

[birba]

"F" as in...?

[littletune]

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   

[gep]

[

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!   

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"!

gep

[ahinton]

"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...

Best,

Alistair

[birba]

I get it.  It just hit me!  Flatulence. 

[m1469]

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!

[littletune]

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     

[m1469]

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 .

[shadowzerg]

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

[littletune]

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   

[thalbergmad]

I am not a great singer, but i have been told I do a pretty good Al Jolson impression.

Thal

[ahinton]

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?

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

...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.

"List to me, while I tell you, bout the Hinton that blighted me life"

Thal

[thalbergmad]

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.

Thal

[tds]

Banjo is most suited for Bach.

quote of the year!

[Bob]

Full orchestral version here.     Not one of those amateur performances.

[birba]

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".

[Bob]

It does get old after awhile.  Sometimes I can't it out of my head though. 

[littletune]

I think I would start laughing sooooooo bad if I was there!  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.  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      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!!!       

[birba]

It does get old after awhile.  Sometimes I can't it out of my head though. 

It is sort of catching, isn't it?

[littletune]

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!   

[pianowolfi]

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!   

Don't worry Have a look here:

 

[littletune]

That's really funny    So is it possible to watch that and not start laughing at all?