tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2009-11-12:/MokoFeed2009-11-12T23:47:40+01:00tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2009-05-07:/2009/03/16/lines-och-nan-och-5765509/#c9847906jkasper2009-05-07T22:39:00+02:002009-05-07T22:39:00+02:00Not so much a comment on this particular piece as for your work in general - I've read a dozen or so, so far, and have very much enjoyed them all. I'll try and make individual comments once I've had read a a few more. My God, you are prolific! tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-12-23:/2008/12/11/prose-poem-5204962/#c8615475kiki2u2008-12-23T10:46:48+01:002008-12-23T10:46:48+01:00HO HO HO :wave:<br> How are you?<br> Is everything OK?<br> Hope you have a nice Christmas :)<br> xxtag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-12-11:/2008/10/15/home-thoughts-from-abroad-4876567/#c8512115la_spice2008-12-11T16:41:14+01:002008-12-11T16:41:14+01:00Simply lovely......tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-12-03:/2008/08/13/the-first-noble-truth-4584068/#c8436942lostjohnny2008-12-03T09:52:57+01:002008-12-03T09:52:57+01:00It is pleasing to see a fellow promoting this dharma.tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-12-02:/2008/10/24/cinderella-in-the-english-west-midlands-4925120/#c8427607kiki2u2008-12-02T09:38:10+01:002008-12-02T09:38:10+01:00Hi John :wave:<br> Did you write this poem?<br> Weldone :)<br> xx Kikitag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-10-12:/2008/10/12/on-reading-an-interview-with-neil-young-4859039/#c7981844SeasideMan2008-10-12T14:56:28+02:002008-10-12T14:56:28+02:00I've been a fan of his for 30 years now, and some of his music still moves me almost more than any other. His acoustic music resonates back into time, and his electric guitar speaks in the same way that Hendrix's did. <br> <br> Tom.tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-10-09:/2008/10/09/leonard-cohen-music-to-commit-suicide-by-4846210/#c7961275SeasideMan2008-10-09T19:19:22+02:002008-10-09T19:19:22+02:00I've always liked Cohen and he has never sounded particularly depressing to me, unlike Radiohead for example.<br> <br> Tom.tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-28:/2008/08/19/title-4608362/#c7614038subville2008-08-28T11:08:48+02:002008-08-28T11:08:48+02:00I really like this poem :yes: xtag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-19:/2008/08/19/help-4608336/#c7547494la_spice2008-08-19T12:23:22+02:002008-08-19T12:23:22+02:00ps - you may also wish to edit the time stamp - in which case go to edit and click on a little x marked "properties" and you can change the time. tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-19:/2008/08/19/help-4608336/#c7547470la_spice2008-08-19T12:20:31+02:002008-08-19T12:20:31+02:00Click on "write" (as if you're doing a fresh post) then click on "edit" where you should find the post. Click on "edit" then change the status from "draft" to "everyone" or "friends" then "save" et voila!!!tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-16:/2008/08/16/on-hearing-joplin-on-the-radio-4595588/#c7525255SeasideMan2008-08-16T11:00:08+02:002008-08-16T11:00:08+02:00I think the blues goes a bit deeper than that. It's a scream from deep within the mind (or soul if you think there is such a thing) about injustices, a railing against all the wrongs in the world. <br> <br> I am learning blues guitar myself at the moment, currently focusing on Mississippi John Hurt. It's far more varied and complex than just 8 or 12 bars. There is also 11, 13, 14 and 16 bar blues, and also changes of time signature. A bar of 2/4, 5/4 or 6/4 just thrown into the middle apparently haphazardly. The alternating bass notes are often unexpected too. <br> <br> This is one of my favourites of his, "You've Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley":<br> <br> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-GN-BP_Qlk<br> <br> Tom.tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-14:/2008/08/14/the-second-noble-truth-4586891/#c7510624SeasideMan2008-08-14T11:18:29+02:002008-08-14T11:18:29+02:00This is the bit that put me off Buddhism. Sensual pleasure is one of the truly great things in life and it is absolutely not a problem.<br> <br> Tom.tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-14:/2008/08/13/the-first-noble-truth-4584068/#c7509738johnmacph62008-08-14T09:30:55+02:002008-08-14T09:30:55+02:00Well yes life can be shit. That is a blunt appraisal of facts<br> ...we are all learning and i don't have all the answers. We are asked to evaluate through our own ability to reflect and reason on things. Thus the approach is experiential.Satisfaction is not found by clinging to either what was good in the past or what we visualise as bringing happiness in the future. This approach has to work beyond hope and fear SO in a sense yuo are right we have to accept what is...but not by being attached to the notion of it...we have to be unattached to oiutcomes...read my blog the second noble truth which follows on from all this... love john tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-14:/2008/08/13/the-first-noble-truth-4584068/#c7508837husbandorcat2008-08-14T06:49:07+02:002008-08-14T06:49:07+02:00The First Noble Truth is that shit happens.<br> The Buddha just put it slightly more elegantly.<br> Is satisfaction to be found by changing external circumstances, or by accepting what is? And if 'what is' has never been satisfactory in the past, how can we make things any different?tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-12:/2008/08/12/the-losing-of-the-lassie-4575811/#c7491811la_spice2008-08-12T09:20:25+02:002008-08-12T09:20:25+02:00Lovely :)tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-06:/2008/08/06/for-a-friend-4551597/#c7451498johnmacph62008-08-06T18:41:09+02:002008-08-06T18:41:09+02:00my error shd be 26/07/08 thanks for pointing that out. Have amended the error. johntag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-06:/2008/08/06/for-a-friend-4551597/#c7451309The_Walrus2008-08-06T18:15:02+02:002008-08-06T18:15:02+02:0026/8/08? I don't think we had that date yet!tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-05:/2008/08/05/fourteenth-century-welsh-poem-4546976/#c7443695johnmacph62008-08-05T18:17:14+02:002008-08-05T18:17:14+02:00YES I WOULD SAY I ADAPTED IT RATHER THAN TRANSLATED STRAIGHT TRANSLATION DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK...JOHN tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-05:/2008/08/05/fourteenth-century-welsh-poem-4546976/#c7443622SeasideMan2008-08-05T18:02:00+02:002008-08-05T18:02:00+02:00Lovely poem. You translated that yourself?<br> <br> Tom.tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-05:/2008/08/05/le-chant-d-amour-piaf-4545296/#c7441423SeasideMan2008-08-05T12:38:50+02:002008-08-05T12:38:50+02:00Interesting challenge, and thanks for explaining. Have you heard Alex Harvey's rather fine version of Au Suivant as Next?<br> <br> Btw if you reply to me rather than to yourself, I get an email to tell me that you've replied. <br> <br> Cheers, Tom.tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-05:/2008/08/05/le-chant-d-amour-piaf-4545296/#c7441097johnmacph62008-08-05T11:51:16+02:002008-08-05T11:51:16+02:00well i sing brel in the original apart from "Amsterdam" in which i use the lyrics that bowie uses. i think that this serves the spirit of the song more since dutch and english are related languages. i am adapting brel to read more for the page than to fit accurately the distributionof words to music. it is all about awareness,bringing what is francophone into english idiom...that is what iam trying to do.. iam a songwriter too but find this hard because i cannot write down my music. just the guitar chords and then the rest must followtag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-05:/2008/08/05/le-chant-d-amour-piaf-4545296/#c7441034SeasideMan2008-08-05T11:42:10+02:002008-08-05T11:42:10+02:00Yes, as I said, I noticed the lyrics were different. <br> <br> Brel was a true artiste and incredibly influential. When you say you are "adapting" the songs, do you mean translating them into English or something else? Are you a musician and/or singer?<br> <br> Tom.tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-05:/2008/08/05/le-chant-d-amour-piaf-4545296/#c7440999johnmacph62008-08-05T11:35:55+02:002008-08-05T11:35:55+02:00no le chant d'amour is a differnet song with a rolling piano behind it. the song yuo refer to starts with<br> <br> the blue sky that holds us all around<br> and the earth is shaken to the ground<br> when yuo love me if you love then<br> then i, i do not care...that's an off head translation. i am working on adapting the songs of brel and piaf at the moment hymne a l'amour is one of them. have recently adapted la chanson des vieux amants by brel love johntag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-08-05:/2008/08/05/le-chant-d-amour-piaf-4545296/#c7440923SeasideMan2008-08-05T11:19:46+02:002008-08-05T11:19:46+02:00When I saw your title I thought you were referring to this song:<br> <br> "Hymne à L'Amour"<br> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjR5xFZxZK8&feature=related<br> <br> But I now see that you aren't as the l;yrics are completely different!<br> <br> Tom.tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-07-25:/2008/07/25/the-new-beginning-4496342/#c7366928deleted user2008-07-25T13:38:21+02:002008-07-25T13:38:21+02:00Its lovely to fall in love when your older because we see it for what it is and avoid the hurt it can bring, so enjoy more whilst it lasts.tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-07-22:/2008/07/22/the-depressed-lover-4482493/#c7340809la_spice2008-07-22T11:10:11+02:002008-07-22T11:10:11+02:00Hi John - you can edit your posts :yes:<br> <br> Go as if to write a new post then click on the edit tab - change the text then "save"<br> <br> Or easier still use the edit function at the foot of the posting you want to edit.<br> <br> Mariantag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-07-22:/2008/07/22/the-depressed-lover-4482493/#c7340713johnmacph62008-07-22T10:53:13+02:002008-07-22T10:53:13+02:00another spelling mistake<br> <br> eemd=seemedtag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-07-21:/2008/07/21/when-a-wife-complains-of-her-husband-s-i-4478001/#c7337579skip24682008-07-21T21:48:10+02:002008-07-21T21:48:10+02:00Yes, may tomorrow be even happier than today. Please feel very welcome to visit our blog.tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-07-21:/2008/07/21/when-a-wife-complains-of-her-husband-s-i-4478001/#c7333307deleted user2008-07-21T12:58:06+02:002008-07-21T12:58:06+02:00me too,but cheer up who knows what tomorrow may bring.tag:johnmacpher.blog.co.uk,2008-07-18:/2008/07/18/a-nighean-donn-na-buaile-4464861/#c7316792tylluanpenry2008-07-18T21:35:45+02:002008-07-18T21:35:45+02:00Lovely! :yes: