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by ~greg
Mon Dec 08, 2008 10:19 am
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: Ok
Replies: 2
Views: 755

Ok

This little song i wrote was actually inspired by a song of Leonard Cohen's -- OK Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this The fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king co...
by ~greg
Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:33 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Frontline - PBS - LC's "Democracy"
Replies: 7
Views: 3589

Re: Frontline - PBS - LC's "Democracy"

Frontline: The Choice, is tonight --- oct 14th --- on PBS Frontline: The Choice (2008 PBS, 9 p.m.) "Democracy is coming to the USA," sings the always relevant Leonard Cohen during an online promo clip for this two-hour in-depth look at presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. ...
by ~greg
Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:52 am
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: Moving On
Replies: 17
Views: 3093

Re: Moving On

And all the time
it was her
Her what?

She bit her.
==She (subject) bit her (object).

She scratched her eyes out.
==She (subject) scratched her (posessive) eyes out.

It was she
what did Boss in.



What profits a man if he gains his soul
but loses his grammar?
by ~greg
Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:11 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: in prospect of a visit
Replies: 17
Views: 2907

Re: in prospect of a visit

The Milly-Molly-Mandy books? Those are great!!!! ~~~ I don't know about Riddick. And I almost always agree with what Roger Ebert says about movies. (One exception was his idiotic review of Malena ) Here's the end of his review of Riddick - ... When Richard Roeper reviewed the current two-disc DVD of...
by ~greg
Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:28 pm
Forum: Other Writers and Writing
Topic: Harvey - Mary Chase
Replies: 0
Views: 1519

Harvey - Mary Chase

from the film of Mary Chase's play Harvey , with James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd. < mr dowd speaking > You know you, you two look very nice dancing together. I, I used to know a whole lot of dances, the flea hop, the black bottom, the varsity drag. I don't know, I, just don't seem to have any time a...
by ~greg
Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:44 am
Forum: Other Writers and Writing
Topic: Red Money - Bowie
Replies: 1
Views: 1331

Red Money - Bowie

Red Money - Lodger(Album) - Alomar, Bowie Can you feel it in the way That a man is not a man? Can you see it in the sky That the landscape is too high? Like a nervous disease And it's been there all along It will tumble from the sky It's been there all along Project cancelled Tumbling central Red M...
by ~greg
Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:23 am
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: in prospect of a visit
Replies: 17
Views: 2907

Re: in prospect of a visit

"tho it must have been unmemorable to me. I think you like it because the gorgeous guy is almost a namesake. Yes, I'm sure that's it." ~~~~~~~~~ no, that's not it, at all. He was namesake. That much is true. I am surprised you remembered that. But I wasn't thinking of that. And you think h...
by ~greg
Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:00 am
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: in prospect of a visit
Replies: 17
Views: 2907

Re: in prospect of a visit

quite right. very good! Very impressive! And I stand, essentially, corrected. ~~~ Strictly speaking, however, "parallel" should only refer to straight lines and planes (or "flats", generally, in n-dimensions.) A math teacher might ask a student to define "parallel" in o...
by ~greg
Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:04 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: in prospect of a visit
Replies: 17
Views: 2907

Re: in prospect of a visit

in jumbled parallels --- I’ll want to braid that hair I like the whole poem. And that line is probably right, too. So this is a purely formal objection, which I over-rule myself. "jumbled parallels" is an an oxymoron. And while there's nothing wrong with that, you then immediately put &qu...
by ~greg
Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:57 am
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: If I was silence instead of words
Replies: 19
Views: 3173

Re: If I was silence instead of words

On 9/11 Michael posted a lovely poem - If I were a poem, not a man I'd be even shorter than what I am It seemed to me to be Michael's own response to his just having taken one small step in the direction of saving the world. Actually, it was a giant leap. Which, - G-d-speed (- that is, with luck, no...
by ~greg
Sun Sep 14, 2008 12:32 am
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: If I were a poem, not a man
Replies: 30
Views: 4505

Re: If I were a poem, not a man

i couldn't get it from that link, but managed to by other means, and put the relevant part into an mp3, here: http://relay.twoshakesofalambstail.com/wolkind-greenpeace.mp3 (about 8meg) unfortunately there's no video. but for anyone who has trouble visualizing Michael, i managed to, by other means, a...
by ~greg
Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:07 pm
Forum: Other Writers and Writing
Topic: Galveston - Jimmy Webb
Replies: 1
Views: 1287

Galveston - Jimmy Webb

Galveston - Jimmy Webb Galveston, oh Galveston I still hear your sea winds blowing I still see her dark eyes glowing She was twenty-one When I left Galveston Galveston, oh Galveston I still hear your sea waves crashing While I watch the cannon flashing And I clean my gun And I dream of Galveston I ...
by ~greg
Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:56 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: If I were a poem, not a man
Replies: 30
Views: 4505

Re: If I were a poem, not a man

and who's the bald git in the black? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7609409.stm Isn't that just like Michael? Always looking out for the little guy! And that's just one more reason why we know that, if Michael was a tree, he'd be one of the tallest of sequoias. But admit it, Michael. You know y...
by ~greg
Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:30 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: Destruction
Replies: 8
Views: 1523

Re: Destruction

Joney wrote:...on Wednesday, perhaps we'll all disappear into a black hole.
i'll bite:
I'll bet anybody anything that we'll all still be here thursday.

Jarkko can be the bank.
(-no matter what else happens, he'll certainly still be here.)
by ~greg
Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:10 pm
Forum: Other Writers and Writing
Topic: Rain!
Replies: 39
Views: 28091

Re: Rain!

I think it's going to rain today - Randy Newman Broken windows and empty hallways A pale dead moon in the sky streaked with gray Human kindness, overflowing And I think it's going to rain today Scarecrows dressed in the latest styles With frozen smiles to chase love away Human kindness, it's overfl...

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