WHAT IS TIME?

In response to:Lines...och nan och

Thu, 07 May 2009 22:39:00 +0200

Not 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!

In response to:prose poem

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:46:48 +0100

HO HO HO :wave:
How are you?
Is everything OK?
Hope you have a nice Christmas :)
xx

In response to:Home Thoughts From Abroad

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:41:14 +0100

Simply lovely......

In response to:The first noble truth

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:52:57 +0100

It is pleasing to see a fellow promoting this dharma.

In response to:Cinderella in the English West Midlands

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:38:10 +0100

Hi John :wave:
Did you write this poem?
Weldone :)
xx Kiki

In response to:on reading an interview with Neil Young

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:56:28 +0200

I'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.

Tom.

In response to:leonard cohen-music to commit suicide by?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:19:22 +0200

I've always liked Cohen and he has never sounded particularly depressing to me, unlike Radiohead for example.

Tom.

In response to:sONG TO THE FUTURE LOVE

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:08:48 +0200

I really like this poem :yes: x

In response to:HELP

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:23:22 +0200

ps - 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.

In response to:HELP

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:20:31 +0200

Click 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!!!

In response to:ON HEARING JOPLIN ON THE RADIO

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:00:08 +0200

I 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.

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.

This is one of my favourites of his, "You've Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-GN-BP_Qlk

Tom.

In response to:The Second Noble Truth

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:18:29 +0200

This 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.

Tom.

In response to:The first noble truth

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:30:55 +0200

Well yes life can be shit. That is a blunt appraisal of facts
...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

In response to:The first noble truth

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:49:07 +0200

The First Noble Truth is that shit happens.
The Buddha just put it slightly more elegantly.
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?

In response to:The losing of the Lassie

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:20:25 +0200

Lovely :)

In response to:for a friend

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:41:09 +0200

my error shd be 26/07/08 thanks for pointing that out. Have amended the error. john

In response to:for a friend

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:15:02 +0200

26/8/08? I don't think we had that date yet!

In response to:FOURTEENTH CENTURY WELSH POEM

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:17:14 +0200

YES I WOULD SAY I ADAPTED IT RATHER THAN TRANSLATED STRAIGHT TRANSLATION DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK...JOHN

In response to:FOURTEENTH CENTURY WELSH POEM

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:02:00 +0200

Lovely poem. You translated that yourself?

Tom.

In response to:le chant d'amour ...piaf

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:38:50 +0200

Interesting challenge, and thanks for explaining. Have you heard Alex Harvey's rather fine version of Au Suivant as Next?

Btw if you reply to me rather than to yourself, I get an email to tell me that you've replied.

Cheers, Tom.

In response to:le chant d'amour ...piaf

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:51:16 +0200

well 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 follow

In response to:le chant d'amour ...piaf

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:42:10 +0200

Yes, as I said, I noticed the lyrics were different.

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?

Tom.

In response to:le chant d'amour ...piaf

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:35:55 +0200

no le chant d'amour is a differnet song with a rolling piano behind it. the song yuo refer to starts with

the blue sky that holds us all around
and the earth is shaken to the ground
when yuo love me if you love then
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 john

In response to:le chant d'amour ...piaf

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:19:46 +0200

When I saw your title I thought you were referring to this song:

"Hymne à L'Amour"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjR5xFZxZK8&feature=related

But I now see that you aren't as the l;yrics are completely different!

Tom.

In response to:The new beginning?

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:38:21 +0200

Its 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.

In response to:The Depressed Lover

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:10:11 +0200

Hi John - you can edit your posts :yes:

Go as if to write a new post then click on the edit tab - change the text then "save"

Or easier still use the edit function at the foot of the posting you want to edit.

Marian

In response to:The Depressed Lover

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:53:13 +0200

another spelling mistake

eemd=seemed

In response to:When a wife complains of her husband's improvidence...

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:48:10 +0200

Yes, may tomorrow be even happier than today. Please feel very welcome to visit our blog.

In response to:When a wife complains of her husband's improvidence...

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:58:06 +0200

me too,but cheer up who knows what tomorrow may bring.

In response to:a nighean donn na buaile

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:35:45 +0200

Lovely! :yes: