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Posted on: 07-09-07 09:08:21
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BTW, I saw it 30 years ago.
Nice! That's only a year after Graham Rawlinson's thesis was published. Amazing!
Thank you. I am an amazing person and have done amazing things in my life. I know it and many have recognized it. So your recognition is one more to notch up.
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BTW, I saw it 30 years ago.
Nice! That's only a year after Graham Rawlinson's thesis was published. Amazing!
Thank you. I am an amazing person and have done amazing things in my life. I know it and many have recognized it. So your recognition is one more to notch up.
Amazing humility too!
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BTW, I saw it 30 years ago.
Nice! That's only a year after Graham Rawlinson's thesis was published. Amazing!
Thank you. I am an amazing person and have done amazing things in my life. I know it and many have recognized it. So your recognition is one more to notch up.
Much more amzing is the fact that you were only 4 at that time - when most children have not even learnt A B C..... (just kidding)
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Location: carl sagan's universe
Posted on: 10-09-07 23:06:09
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Originally posted by BlueLobster
Amazing humility too!
Thank you again!For all that boost! Much appreciated.
Did you make it to the Roger Waters concert?
Here's a write-up I did that won 13 awards- no less.
Even Carol Kenyon has an excerpt on her site.
Roger Waters Spaces Out Toronto
Turn on, tune in, space out! That's the message the back screen on the stage seemed to send as an arm kept turning on the radio, tuning in and choosing a song as the person puffed on a cigarette and swigged some booze (Johnny Walker's Black Label, I think it was) and Roger Waters, one of the principals of Pink Floyd, strolled onto the stage to strike the first chord, a signal it seemed for the audience at the ACC to light up and pervade the auditorium with the sweet smell of vegetation (you know the kind I am 'reefering' to), and the concert exploded into a surreal realm as Roger along with his band entranced the public with their phenomenal performance!
The first set consisting of new and older familiar material like 'Mother', 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond', 'Have A Cigar', 'Wish You Were Here', 'Great Gig In The Sky' with a spaceperson floating high in the auditorium followed by the customary pig also floating, but this time with 'Impeach Bush Now' emblazoned on its behind, really spaced out the people, extracting from them loud exclamations of approval! In between all this, Roger sang a new composition entitled 'Leaving Beirut', about an Arab family who looked after him during his trip there when he was 17, backed with comic type illustrated panels and speech blurbs on the humongous screen behind. As he sang the lyrics 'education f%#ked you up', the crowd roared with enthusiasm reminding them of the lyrics in 'Another Brick In The Wall.'
Then followed a short interval and the band came back on treating the admiring attendees to the ultra-super highlight of the evening: a superb live rendition of the greatest rock album of all time- Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side Of The Moon'- backed with surrealistically psychedelic and fast moving images on the mother of a screen behind them. I don't know what is on the dark side of the moon, but that spaced out and flawless execution of the album really sent me there! One of the lady singers (I am sorry I couldn't catch her name) belted out her guts in amazingly high-pitched notes with real emotion (Grace Slick - take a bow) prompting thunderous applause from the enrapt audience! This was as good as it gets!
Then for the encore set, what other than the much anticipated 'Another Brick in the Wall' with the legendary lyrics "We don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control…" followed by yet another vintage Floyd tune 'Comfortably numb' with the backdrop screen showing a person taking deep, deep drags!
The awesome, dynamite, awe-inspiring, phenomenal, fantabulous, spaced-out, far-out, way-out, out of this world, concert on September 20, 2006, was a real mind- numbing experience!
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Some egotist I am and some English I use!
Location: carl sagan's universe
Posted on: 10-09-07 23:11:19
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Much more amzing is the fact that you were only 4 at that time - when most children have not even learnt A B C..... (just kidding)
I am amazing but not that amazing! But thanks for puffing me up!
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Originally posted by BlueLobster
Amazing humility too!
Thank you again!For all that boost! Much appreciated.
Did you make it to the Roger Waters concert?
Here's a write-up I did that won 13 awards- no less.
Even Carol Kenyon has an excerpt on her site.
Roger Waters Spaces Out Toronto
Unfortunately I didn't. I will next time however.
13 awards huh? Lord sweet Jesus! Where were you when Waters left PF?
Speaking of concert experiences, one of the best bands on the scene I know of is Incubus. Music's best described as eclectic, lyrics have great depth and the band just exudes an energy that sets them apart from the current crop. As phenomenal as "Make yoursef" was, one of their recent hits "Megalomaniac" was awesome too. You should give it a listen.
On the topic of concerts, wonder what Zack de la Rocha is upto these days.
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Location: carl sagan's universe
Posted on: 11-09-07 23:18:06
Incubus,
Excellent excellent band! I am more familiar with their earlier work incl."Make yourself".
Haven't heard their latest from last year though I believe it's a blast!
Make yourself lyrics for those who are wondering what we are talking about:
If I hadn't made me
I would've been made somehow
If I hadn't assembled myself
I'dve fallen apart by now
If I hadn't made me
I'd be more inclined to bow
Powers that would have swallowed me up,
but thats more than I can allow
If you let them make you,
they'll make you paper-mache
At a distance your strong
until the wind comes,
then you crumble and blow away.
If you let them **** you,
there will be no foreplay.
But rest assured
they'll screw you complete
'til your ass is blue and grey.
You should make amends with you.
If only for better health.
But if you really want to live,
why not try and Make Yourself?
If I hadn't made me
I'dve fallen apart by now
I wont let em' make me,
it's more than I can allow.
So when I make me
I wont be paper-mache.
And if I **** me....
I'll **** me in my own way.
You should make amends with you
If only for better health.
But if you really want to live,
why not try and Make Yourself?
Make Yourself.
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Too cool a band!
