Invocation
August 29, 2006 | 5 Comments
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Free association upon completion:
“…it appeared before me as an angel might,
but with softer wings and a gentler sigh… it asked if
i could see now and i replied yes, clearly…”
~~~
Monday Music Mambo, #114
August 28, 2006 | 2 Comments
This just in from the home office in Mamboville…
Greetings, everyone! It’s time for another mambo. I don’t have a theme this week. I’ll give two choices for the question. You can do one of them or both of them, whatever you wish.
1. Name a musician/band or two connected with your state. They could be from your state, have a member born in your state, played a famous show in your state - you get the idea. If you’re not from the U.S., pick a musician or band from your own country.
Antonin Dvorak ~ Tranquility – Symphony #9, E Minor, Opus 95 
Spillville, Iowa was the summer residence of the famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak.
Al Jarreau ~ We’re In This Love Together
Al Jarreau graduated from the University of Iowa in 1964 with his Master of Arts degree in Education.
J.P. “Big Bopper” Richardson – Chantilly Lace
Ritchie Valens – Come On, Let’s Go
Ritchie Valens – Donna
Ritchie Valens - La Bamba
Buddy Holly – Maybe Baby
I’m sure you all know the story about “the day the music died.” And it happened in a cornfield between Clear Lake and Mason City, Iowa.
Slipknot – Before I Forget
Good gawd, if you can stand your metal this heavy, bless your freaky head-bangin’ heart and here ya go. Slipknot is a band from Des Moines, Iowa.
Greg Brown – Down at the Mill
Greg Brown ~ You Can Always Come to Me
I just love Greg Brown. He sings a white man’s blues with a twist of Jack Daniels, served straight up from Iowa.
Tommy Bolin ~ Gypsy Soul
Tommy Bolin – Alexis
Tommy Bolin – People, People
Tommy Bolin ~ Hello, Again
Tommy Bolin - Post Toastee
Tommy Bolin was from my hometown of Sioux City, Iowa. He was an incredible vocalist and musician — his guitar playing was sheer bliss. He died of a drug overdose when I was a teenager and for many years I would visit his grave, leave some flowers and wonder why he had to leave so soon.
2. What’s your favorite place to see a concert? Is it a small club, a large sports arena, a concert hall, an outdoor amphitheater? Tell us why you like to see music in that place.
I prefer a small club first, with an outdoor amphitheater as a second choice. Clubs are more intimate and I think that tends to have an influence on the way the performers interact with the crowd. Small outdoor amphitheaters are nice because depending on the audience, one might have a need for fresh air circulation in order to stay … uhh… grounded.
Know what I mean, dude? Hehe.
Mmmm… loving the localized Mambo — it was fun! Don’t forget other musical artists with ties to Iowa, including “The Music Man” Meredith Willson, the incomparable baritone singer Simon Estes, and smaller 50’s rock groups like The Velaires.
It’s all good. :yes:
I hope your Monday is humming right along, my friends. More again soon!
~xoxox
A Psychology Experiment
August 27, 2006 | 1 Comment
A very shy guy goes into a bar and sees a beautiful woman sitting at the bar. After an hour of gathering up his courage he finally goes over to her and asks, tentatively, “Um, would you mind if I chatted with you for a while?”
She responds by yelling, at the top of her lungs, “No, I won’t sleep with you tonight!” Everyone in the bar is now staring at them.
Naturally, the guy is hopelessly and completely embarrassed and he slinks back to his table.
After a few minutes, the woman walks over to him and apologizes. She smiles at him and says, “I’m sorry if I embarrassed you. You see, I’m a graduate student in psychology and I’m studying how people respond to embarrassing situations.”
To which he responds, at the top of his lungs, “What do you mean $200?”
:rofl:
New Infatuations, vol. 2
August 27, 2006 | 2 Comments
I wish I could remember exactly how I stumbled across the following links, but this week has been pretty much a blur. (Too many chiropractic adjustments, blah blah blah…)
Anyway, these are new to me and I really like ‘em… I hope you do, too! Click the logos or the text links to go to each site.
Yes! Make your own online newspaper — simply choose the stuff you want to browse each day and it collects it all in one place for you.
Need some silly, smartass, pretty, sparkly things to put on your blog or leave in other people’s guestbooks? Of course you do! Click the picture above to go to Blog Adorn — and adorn your pages with free, hosted images.
With one line of code you can begin displaying items you’re consuming on your blog. Or… just share your list with others on the All Consuming website. It’s interesting to see what everyone else is up to!
The Daily Scribe: One pond… many loti.An evolving compendium of quality religious writing by bloggers. It’s like taking a comparative religion class online. Love it!
If you know someone who is expecting and might like to start a baby blog, you’ve got to check out the templates by Jen at Lollipop Designs — they are so cute! It sounds like she works mainly with WordPress, but other publishing services are negotiable. Her prices are very reasonable as well. Here’s a great baby gift idea: a personalized domain and a website that’s completely set up and ready to go!
Happy, happy Sunday to all of you. Send up prayers of thanks… and share your love with those you hold dear.
:kiss:
Friday’s Feast, #108
August 25, 2006 | 8 Comments
Appetizer:
If you could have a free subscription to any magazine, which one would you like to have?
The New Nude. I saw a copy of it last year and was completely mesmerized by the subject matter and the quality of the images. (Translation: I like purty pictures of nekkid people.)
Soup:
Describe your living room (furnishings, colors, etc.)
- The walls are painted the palest peachy color you can imagine; the ceiling is white.
- There’s a ceiling fan, with walnut colored blades, brass hardware and 3 frosted glass shades.
- All of the trim in the room is dark, natural wood.
- There are white mini-blinds on all 4 windows.
- The floor is narrow plank hardwood, medium brown.
- There is a 7 ft. long overstuffed sofa on one side of the room (it’s a beautiful floral pattern, but we keep it covered with a tailored khaki slip cover so the cats don’t hair it all up.)
- Above the sofa is our shelf loaded with small antique collectibles and other goofy stuff. On another wall is one of my favorite abstract paintings that I created in 1996, titled “Sailing in the Runcible Spoon.”
- We have two overstuffed recliners (Jer’s is a dusty mauve color, mine is blue.)
- There are two heavy end tables, and a lamp on each one. The lamps are medium colored wood with square, parchment colored shades.
- An antique mission-style rocking chair that we keep filled with throw pillows.
- We have a tall industrial metal shelf in one of the corners that holds the TV, DVD player, VCR, videos, books, plants, and my Bose iPod Dock. Randy like to crawl to the top of it and threaten to knock things off whenever he wants attention. He’s such a little assmunch.
Of all the areas in our home, I always wish the living room was a bit larger. The house was built in 1920 and I guess this room was probably meant to be a receiving parlor, not family room filled with big ol’ furniture and an entertainment center. Of course, when we moved in here 15 years ago we didn’t own jackshit, so it seemed huge at the time. Heh.
Salad:
What does the shape of a circle make you think of?
Eternity. It has no beginning or no ending; it just goes on forever.
Main Course:
Name 3 things in your life that you consider to be absolute necessities.
(I am going to assume that the question is in regard to material items.)
My computer, my car, my art supplies.
Dessert:
What was the last really funny movie you watched?
Uncle Buck. Gawd, I LOVE that movie; I have to watch it a couple times a year. The one line that always cracks me up is when Uncle Buck (played by John Candy) is bitching out the school principal who happens to have a huge ugly mole on her face. He ends his rant with this:
“Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.”
Bwwwwahahahaha! More people need to be told off like that. :rofl:
~ XoxoOXoXOxOXOXoxxx (yeah, that many… just take ‘em and feel the love.)
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My name is Christine Thurow and I am a professional artist, living in my lovely home state of Iowa. My humor is sarcastic, my wit dry and my appetite for unbridled hedonism, ravenous. Did I say hedonism? I meant intelligent exchange.
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