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Hallo ouens!
Willem Posted Aug 14, 2019
This is what Afrikaans sounds like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRkBQXksyDg
A mingling of quirks
SashaQ - happysad Posted Aug 17, 2019
Just catching up after my holidays - that was a lovely cloud video, thanks DG!
"Its interesting what keeps us going when times are hard. If things collapse on a practical and personal level, then its tough to cope."
Yes indeed... I agree an inner world is lucky to have, as it helps with resilience.
"My accent is a bit Received. I sometimes feel like returning to sender "
Yes, the technical term for BBC English is 'Received Pronunciation' - I never managed anything close to the old b/w BBC newsreels, as I like my flat Northern 'a', but I think there were a few factors involved when I went to Uni. Probably a bit of snobbishness or something, wanting to sound 'posh' rather than 'scouse', but I have a little bit of an ear for accents so when I met people from around the UK and around the world, my accent went wandering!
I enjoyed the video of the heavy equipment - the muzak was the perfect accompaniment to the sound of chainsaws that I have outside my house at the moment (tree surgeons are working in my neighbours' garden) and the machines outside yours were entertaining indeed (although also very noisy - I'm not surprised it drove words out of your head...)
Marianne and Leonard
SashaQ - happysad Posted Aug 17, 2019
"Surely everyone wants to be their own person, its not a prerogative of the artist. I think you can still be in a committed relationship, though. If you trust someone enough to say you love them, then surely its understood you don't want to own each other."
Yes - I agree. My partner was learning to write poetry, but also was doing very important work for other people so she did that while I did my own thing (eg work for h2g2) and then we spent time together. Trust was what we had, and we love each other for our differences as well as our similarities
A mingling of quirks
minorvogonpoet Posted Aug 17, 2019
But relationships change over time. , and then again with retirement. Maybe your quirks grow more pronounced, or your needs change with family and work commitments. You need to learn compassion - understanding your partner's weaknesses because you are aware of your own.
Marianne and Leonard
minorvogonpoet Posted Aug 17, 2019
Meanwhile, we're off to Edinburgh for the festival. No, I'm not performing.
If I get a chance, I'll tell you about it afterwards.
A mingling of quirks
SashaQ - happysad Posted Aug 17, 2019
Yes relationships change over time, but ownership is not something that should occur in the best ones... Trust was what my partner and I needed from the very beginning, as we were both acutely aware of our own weaknesses, but together we were stronger
In a way I am lucky, that I met the love of my life and our relationship is crystallised in perfection inside the invisible happysad balloon that I carry with me...
I sometimes wonder how things would have evolved, but the evolution that did happen is that I have ‘in laws’ that I get on well with
Edinburgh
SashaQ - happysad Posted Aug 17, 2019
Have a great time in Edinburgh! I hope you manage to get around ok and see some excellent performances
Afrikaans lovely song
cactuscafe Posted Aug 18, 2019
Evening all!
So that's what Afrikaans sounds like! I like it! Thanks Willem! It does sound like Dutch. A bit? Good song.
Interesting hearing lyrics in other languages. I have this DVD of music videos made by a quirky photographer chap named Anton Corbijn. There's a couple of German vids on it. I love the songs and the vids that go with it. Haven't got a clue what they mean. Funny thing is, I've never thought to translate them. I've made my own meaning.
Especially the polar bear video.
Which is?
Well, the singer goes to the beach in a polar bear suit and sings in a deserted beach bar.
Which makes for an almost-interesting posting.
Hullo Sasha!
cactuscafe Posted Aug 18, 2019
Hullo Sasha! Welcome back from your holidays!
Love your postings. Beautifully expressed. Yes, I remember that you carry a sadness, concerning your relationship.
Curious to think about how things might have been now, if things had been different. But precious memories are so great. I think they can heal.
I guess we all think about that. How would things have been if the path had gone this way instead of that way. Kind of like parallel universes. Or alternative endings.
I always wonder if I'd taken a different path on the life journey, would I, say, have still met certain people, or thought the same thoughts.
Where would I be now if I'd chosen to board the train that day, rather than miss it, because I found the Ace of Diamonds on the floor of the station cafe, and spent five hours trying to write a story about it.
Actually that last paragraph is fictional. Symbolic. Deep yet strangely shallow.
Edinburgh festival!
cactuscafe Posted Aug 18, 2019
Have a great time at the Edinburgh Festival mvp!!
Hullo cc!
SashaQ - happysad Posted Aug 20, 2019
"Love your postings. Beautifully expressed. "
Thank you x
Yes, I have precious memories that I can visit in my inner world
"Kind of like parallel universes. Or alternative endings. "
Yes! Some decisions could have gone another way, but we would potentially have lost some things while gaining other things.. The result may not have been better after all, and I have achieved things I never imagined I could when I faced particular choices, so I am grateful for that, and for the lovely people that I meet on the particular path here
"Symbolic. Deep yet strangely shallow."
Hullo cc!
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Aug 20, 2019
Somehow, I wonder if anybody could use some quiet music. I just made this for FWR because he said he didn't know 'Waly Waly', and was there a Heavy Leslie verions?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Dqi09Oy-4
Sorry for the interruption. Go back to the shallow, but deep thoughts. That reminds me of sunlight glinting off flat stones at the edge of the river...shallow, but deep...
Hullo cc!
FWR Posted Aug 20, 2019
Your interuption is like a pebble thrown into a still pond GoHL, each ripple creating a new reality...
Hullo cc!
cactuscafe Posted Aug 20, 2019
Nice river thoughts. Poetic. Beautiful in fact. Watercolour. Soothing.
Indeed! Each ripple creating a new reality. I like it. In fact I think I love it.
Interruption? How could you ever interrupt? You are wonderful.
I think a perfect conversation, like what we have around 'ere on this site, is like a glorious collage, a creative juxtaposition of thoughts and topics and ideas, each one completely irrelevant to the next , (speaking purely for my own completely off topic cconversational tendencies.)
And yet not irrelevant at all, because everything is somehow connected, even when its not.
Erm right.
Hullo!
Just saying hullo to the subtitle. I like these subject titles. If we put them together, we have in fact the aforementioned glorious collage.
Oh, where's the GOHL soothing music link? Better go backwards and find it.
Heavy Leslie Lovely
cactuscafe Posted Aug 20, 2019
Nice Waly Waly. Love that sound, wonder what is the name of the HL setting that makes that tone?
Love your videos. The other night I woke at that strange 3am hour and was feeling really agitated about some curious nameless Thing. You know that strange hour when all emotions get somehow exaggerated, and The Thing stalks and prowls.
Anyway, I thought about your videos, and the nameless agitated Thing disappeared and I smiled deeply. Nice. Thanks.
What about 3am then? Its somehow between night and dawn. Its too early for breakfast (unless one is in a night bus or something, or on night shift).
Its far away from dawn's light, but on the other side of night.
I knew this person once who said that the only time she had ever enjoyed jelly and ice cream was on a night bus, at around 3 am.
Interesting picnic in fact. How did she travel with jelly and ice cream in her bag? I never thought to ask her.
All I could ever get together were squashed cheese sandwiches, with a melted chocolate bar stuck to them.
Heavy Leslie Lovely
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Aug 21, 2019
HL setting was an alleged harmonica. I forget the number, I was rolling the wheel around until it sounded right. Glad you liked it.
And oh, how pleased I am that these little videos can be used to treat this condition - of which I know the name, because I remember it from an Anglosaxon poem, though don't ask me which one because I'm not sure, it might be the Wife's Lament (checks internet, yes, it was, when I learned this I couldn't check the internet), anyway....are you ready for this?
The word is 'uhtceare'. It means 'waking up before dawn and being all fussed, stressed, and worried.' And it bugged people a thousand years ago, how about that? They probably had to get up and sing a song...or play it on a pentatonic lyre. Now you can just pull up Youtube. Ain't life grand?
Another pebble, maybe...
Heavy Leslie Time Travelling GoHL Minstrel
FWR Posted Aug 21, 2019
Time machine, mobile phone, pop back and play some James Taylor at three am (lunch time for some, so take some butties!) The future world will be a better place! Maybe?
Alleged Harmonicas and Time Travel
cactuscafe Posted Aug 21, 2019
The Alleged Harmonica. Now, there's a marvellous wordpainting title.
Somewhere between the alleged harmonica and the theramin link, I breathe deeply and see ghost roads in the creases of the leaf.
Erm right. I'm inspired though. Ripples. The Fragments.
The Theramin Link? No idea. . I just remembered the sound of the theramin. Almost as mystical as the alleged harmonica.
(very interesting history, the theramin, but I can't go into that right now).
And I saw a strand of sonic energy, rippling out of the theramin, which became, briefly, The Theramin Link, sort of like a time travel corridor.
Uhtceare?? Uhtceare????
(wonders where she can purchase a pentatonic lyre. Possibly in that retail park about two miles along The Theramin Link, on the left if you're heading towards ... towards .... towards where????)
Well, this is a marvellous revelation. There's an ancient word for it.
How do you say it? oot-see-air-eh?
So the ancients also knew it, I wonder what it is? Must be to do with light and dark, and sleep patterns, sensors in the brain. Perhaps.
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