Time to Settle in for the Winter?

No, I haven't heard of Johnny Hartman, I will have to look for him. Yes, I just added Peggy Lee's album 'Black Coffee and Other Delights' and I am looking forward to finding a favorite track this winter. I remember her growing up but I don't remember what songs she did that I liked. Nancy Wilson is another old favorite that I am on a search to find what my favorite songs were. Isn't she doing a Jazz interviews segment on NPR? Anita Baker, Natalie Cole and Diana Krall are some newer favorites. I'm actually not a full fledged Jazz fan, there is some line that I don't appreciate once it's crossed. I grew up listening to my Dad play Bing and Frank and Benny Goodman. [g] My generation are the oldies which we listen to in the car a lot, but on the computer, I have too many other choices.

Loving to see so much interest in music, here, being the classically trained piano "player" I am. I find myself more drawn to the earlier jazz (also old blues), rather than the contemporary jazz the media moguls try to market today. Sorry Kenny G .... blech! You know, more like 1920's, 1930's, 1940's. Chicago, Atlanta, New Orleans, Mississippi, Harlem ...... gosh, I haven't thought about all that in what has been waaay too long.

..... bbl ..... going to start up iTunes for a bit :-)

Satch, Paul Whiteman, ...

Nuts, love the color of that DL.
I usually listen to classical, but all this talk has put me in the mood for a change.

LET HIM DIG:

An old man and woman were married for many years, even though they
Hated each other. When they had a confrontation, screaming and yelling
could be heard deep into the night.


The old man would shout, 'When I die, I will dig my way up and out of
The grave and come back and haunt you for the rest of your life!'

Neighbors feared him. They believed he practiced black magic, because
of the many strange occurrences that took place in their neighborhood.

The old man liked the fact that he was feared. To everyone's relief, he
died of a heart attack when he was 98.

His wife had a closed casket at the wake. After the burial, she went
straight to the local bar and began to party, as if there was no tomorrow..

Her neighbors, concerned for her safety, asked, 'Aren't you afraid
that he may indeed be able to dig his way up and out of the grave and
come back to haunt you for the rest of your life?'

The wife put down her drink and said, 'Let him dig. I had him buried
upside down......'

Women think of everything.

Ha ha ha!! Good one...we do think of everything don't we?

Could you survive another great depression?
I got 65%

www.blogthings.com/couldyousurviveanothergreatdepressionquiz/

I've heard that burial joke.

I got 79% ....not to bad.

Jan, I sometimes enjoy a little classical. I found a two CD set called 'Most Relaxing Classical Album in the World Ever'. How could I resist such a title. [g] I discovered there were quite a few tracks that I found familiar. I am sure I have heard them on movie soundtracks or somewhere. I love it. I love classical guitar and although I am not an opera fan, I did see the special in Rome with the Three Tenors back in 1990 and just loved that too.

The Three Tenors was a very memorable concert and I see that YouTube has one of my favorite parts of it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajE5g2mL504

Sherrie, he'll be digging to China! LOL!

Karen

The test for surviving the depression left out an important segment of the population.
The retireees. Questions about solvancy only applied to people of working age.
I got 55% because three questions didn't pertain to me.
When your beyond 60 its like that, we are invisible.

Sorry, did you say something, Jo Anne?^_^

L - O-- L
Wish you lived next door, we could make each other laugh all day.
Your the best.
I plan to compile all the slights against the over 60's someday.
Just too busy gardening to do it.

I only got 48% on the Depression Quiz - only because dh got laid off a few weeks ago. Does that mean I'm only 48% depressed? LOL!

Sorry to hear that, Sue. Hope he gets a new one soon!

I got a 60.
Sherrie I think I heard that joke somewhere...still funny.
Sue, sorry to hear about the layoff.

Well, I got 54% on that quiz. I just had to see what everyone was talking about. Some of those questions needed qualifiers for me, though.

Sue, hope your husband finds a new job soon. If I lost my job I'm fairly sure I could find something else, though it might not be in my line of work or what I would really like to be doing. There's lots of minimum wage jobs out there if you really needed a job, but I know it's not the same if you're used to making more, and especially if you need more to make ends meet.

Karen

As I enjoy much of classical music, I have station WCRB on as I wander around the house, hard on DH & very usefull to listen to in the dentist's office to outdo the sound of the drill.

How can one not like Bach?? .... or Buxtehude, though, they are Baroque, and not "really" Classical, like Haydn, or Beethovan who is often thought of as Romantic, and not classical.

I think I tend to gravitate more toward the Romantic period, esp. the piano stuff ... go figure, eh? .... esp. Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich and the like.

I installed that iTunes program and it has a whole section of classical music stations , and baroque, and romantic etc. In fact, EVERY genre!! I am addicted, plus it's "free." My favorite price. They also have several "flavors" of Christmas Music Only stations!!

I love classical music .I have an ancient 6 CD changer in my studio and load it up with Brahms,Chopin, and my favorite music to paint to is Gorekies third symphony.
My taste is all over the place where classic periods go, mostly romantic.
I even like Phillip Glass.
Christmas faves include ancient music, harps ,lutes,zacbutts. Som Vienna Boys Choire .
Play on.

Play on, for sure .... Have you ever given a listen to an Dmitri Shostakovich?

I am esp. fond of his Symphony No. 5 in D minor. These types of symphonies are very "pictorial." I think the Russian composers at that time excelled in painting very specific scenes with sound and symphony.

Actually, any of the "Great" Russian composers are favorites, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsikov, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, etc.

I CANNOT believe I forgot to add Tchaikovskii!!!!!!!

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Our hoses are not yet put away ...
The tulips need planting, perhaps another day.

The sun shines weakly for just a few hours,
While daughter and I dream of warming spring showers.

Cold beds in the garden which still need some covering,
Are fair game for the moles and the birds that are hovering.

Although this year's have been brilliant and bright,
We slacked very badly this fall and all looks a fright!

I'm hoping that next year, when the children are older,
To have the garden all put to bed before it gets colder.

"That's my story and I'm sticking to it!"

Love it Candyce!. Mine are the same way....only got half the chores done that should of been done.

Thank you Celeste. actually feel a lot better about our slacking off this year, after writing that poem. I have felt so guilty for weeks! Writing can be stress-relieving!

Willi I do like all of your new additions.
I'm German and love the deep somber stuff.
The Goreki is verry somber ,I like to paint to it because it doesn't invade my mo-jo while working.
I am not sure of this but I believe he wrote it for the citizens of Bosnia, maybe someone elas know for sure.

Thanks for the corection.
I had heard of the war survivers and completely jumbled the whole thing.

I studied all that and still had to go look it up ....

Great poem, Candyce! Did you write that yourself? Very talented.

Alas, I, too, did not get all completed this year. Part of the reason was that I was so sick for over 2 weeks with bronchitis and sinus infection, and part of the reason is that I have so little time this time of year, what with my work schedule getting me home after dark now. Like the summer much better. Anytime after daylight savings time is best.

Hey, I like the classical stuff, too, a wide variety. It's not my first choice of music to listen to, but I do like it very much.

Karen

LOL!
I sure did, Karen. I began just by writing that first line. It sounded almost 'Seuss-like' to me, so I continued. I couldn't help myself, and I send my sincerest apologies to Don Shirer.

If youve got it flaunt it.
Plenty of room for two wordsmiths here.

Well, I happen to be a fan of Vin Deisel, and though I'm no poet, I did happen to change the words of a song by Fergi called Fergilicious to Vindelicious. Works quite well, if I do say so myself!

Yes, I happen to like hip hop, rap, hard rock, soft rock, classic rock, motown, dance, country, easy listening, Latin, Middle Eastern, Turkish (singer named Tarkan), and everything in between. That's not to say that I like everything in every genre, but I like a little (or sometimes a lot) of each. There's some good stuff in every category, and I happen to change radio stations around constantly, depending on what I'm in the mood for.

Karen

Same here on the music Karen, alittle bit of everything.

It's odd; like Willy, I studied music for many years, and now it's kind of distracting to listen to. I remember the professor for whom I was a graduate assistant saying something roughly like that 20 years ago, and I really didn't get it then.

Willy, I never heard that "fa la la la" thing before, but it makes sense.

DH and I just fell in love with a John Adams piece we heard performed at a BU orchestra concert in Symphony Hall a few weeks ago - "Fearful Symmetries" - listen if you get the chance and you don't mind abstract modern music. There's not really a good youtube link or I would post it.

Carrie, I know what you mean about music being distracting to listen to. It is for me when I'm here on DG or doing other things where I have to read or compose something to type, etc. Depends on what I'm doing. I listen to music a lot when I'm driving, and I don't find it distracting then. Also, if I'm doing drawing, painting, any kind of crafts, housecleaning, etc., it's not distracting then, either. When I did ceramic work I loved listening to just about any kind of music, but especially classical, if it was the soothing kind, or also what some people would call 'new age' music.

I also used to listen to a lot movie soundtrack music. I liked a lot of what John Williams has done, like the Star Wars music, ET, Indiana Jones, Etc.

I've also loved the Star Trek movie soundtracks. I think the one I listened to the most out of the ST ones was ST6: The Undiscovered Country. I liked the Klingon themes. I've been attracted to some dark sounding themes. They appeal to my dark side, I guess. He, heee! I really liked the music from Conan the Barbarian, original score by Basil Poledouris. Great stuff!

Karen

Boy, I didn't know that "settling in for the winter" involved going over to the dark side! LOL!

now when I listen to music I notice things like:

"Hey, that's a variation on the main theme in retrograde inversion at the 5th"

ACK! Wish I could go back to listening to music and saying "I like that" and not know why!!

:-)

(Is there something wrong with the "dark side?")

:-) :-)

Don't you just hate those retrograde inversion variants?!!!^_^

Could be Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon.