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Musically Challenged/TOTW: Baby It's Cold Outside
It snowed today.
It’s pretty hilarious. Us Brits really can’t handle snow. Everything comes to a complete standstill and everyone starts to panic.
The only news story today is that there was some snow; apparently nothing else happened in the world today.
Taken Handbridge, Chester
when no one steps on my dreams, there'll be days like this
when people understand what I mean, there'll be days like this
when you ring out the changes of how everything is
well my momma told me there'll be days like this.
- Van Morrison, Days Like This
Woke up early this morning and got some errands done before a whopping allergy attack overtook me and I had to submit to a benadryl coma to kick it. Feeling better now but still super groggy from the drugs so I doubt I'll be doing much this evening. I hate feeling like a lump. Hope you guys are having a more productive and enjoyable Hump Day.
Inspired by Abi's Day 45.
Save your sermons for someone that's afraid to love.
You knew what I feel, then you couldn't be so sure.
I'll be right here lying in the hands of God.
If you feel angels in your hand, tear drops of joy runs down your face, you will rise.
Fillin' me up, now drain me
Skin begins to grow back slowly,
faster until I'm choking. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dave Matthews
For this week's Musically Challenged Group!
when i got my first dSLR, i headed straight down to Santa Monica Beach. not only is it one of my very favorite places but you'd be hard pressed not to find something worthy of a good image. a beach, a boardwalk, a Ferris Wheel, beneath the pier, loads of people and more.
you think i'd have grown tired of if by now, but you'd be wrong. i suppose i should choose another beach with a different pier. there are dozens of them scattered about Southern California. but i keep going back to Santa Monica.
aside from the obvious, i think it's in large part due to the nostalgia. i spent many, many days there as a child with my mom and brother, the games and such on the boardwalk that are decades old and remind me of faded photographs of Coney Island (though i'm well aware, on the whole, it's no Coney Island!), and the smell of cotton candy and saltwater: two of the best scents ever.
- for one of bebelabrees list of weekly songs in Musically Challenged.
- for round three in FU64 Challenge.
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"Boats and Birds," by Gregory and the Hawk
If you be my star I'll be your sky
You can hide underneath me and come out at night
When I turn jet black and you show off your light
I live to let you shine
I live to let you shine
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Whose tufted flowers, on slender stalks,
Louis May Alcott
In a quiet, pleasant meadow,
Beneath a summer sky,
Where green old trees their branches waved,
And winds went singing by;
Where a little brook went rippling
So musically low,
And passing clouds cast shadows
On the waving grass below;
Where low, sweet notes of brooding birds
Stole out on the fragrant air,
And golden sunlight shone undimmed
On all most fresh and fair;--
There bloomed a lovely sisterhood
Of happy little flowers,
Together in this pleasant home,
Through quiet summer hours.
No rude hand came to gather them,
No chilling winds to blight;
Warm sunbeams smiled on them by day,
And soft dew's fell at night.
So here, along the brook-side,
Beneath the green old trees,
The flowers dwelt among their friends,
The sunbeams and the breeze.
Spring came again, and the flowers rose
From their quiet winter graves,
And gaily danced on their slender stems,
And sang with the rippling waves.
Softly the warm winds kissed their cheeks;
Brightly the sunbeams fell,
As, one by one, they came again
In their summer homes to dwell.
And little Clover bloomed once more,
Rosy, and sweet, and fair,
photo by chrissy abbott
© 2009 Chrissy Abbott. All rights reserved.
This photograph may not be used without written permission. chrissyabbott@gmail.com
I'm almost caught up...another double bubble weekend!
I cooked today - a chicken and lentil curry (for the freezer, I've got a busy week coming up!), butternut squash soup, an Irish stew, a banana cake, lemon nuts (like ginger nuts, hard lemony biscuits). I spent all day in the kitchen with half an eye on the snooker and half an ear on my Ipod.
I meant to do this back in September, but I only got round to it this week. Sorry about that, -=Tom=- , but better late than never ;-). Two years ago, I went to see The Arcade Fire at Alexandra Palace (where we used to broadcast the telly from in London) and gosh, it's an amazing venue, and I got drunk and the gig was incredible and the guy I was with - a seriously random date - told me off for being "over-zealous" and we never saw each other again and it took me two hours to get home and I'd do it again tomorrow.
I wanted to try the type of processing the impeccable Emily has tried recently: low contrasty and pinky and this was as good as it got. Sorry for a not particularly wonderful tribute, but a tribute nonetheless.
And I find it funny how something we do every day scores so low Scrabble wise. Gotta love Scrabble
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Rebellion (Lies) by The Arcade Fire
Sleeping is giving in
No matter what the time is.
Sleeping is giving in,
So lift those heavy eyelids.
People say that you'll die
Faster than without water.
But we know it's just a lie,
Scare your son and scare your daughter.
People say that your dreams
Are the only things that save ya.
Come on baby in our dreams,
We can live our misbehaviour.
Everytime you close your eyes,
Lies, lies!
People try and hide the night
Underneath the covers.
People try and hide the light
Underneath the covers.
Come on hide your lovers
Underneath the covers.
Come on hide your lovers
Underneath the covers.
Hidin' from your brothers
Uderneath the covers,
Come on hide your lovers
Underneath the covers.
People say that you'll die
Faster than without water,
But we know it's just a lie,
Scare your son, scare your daughter
Now here's the sun, it's alright!
Now here's the moon, it's alright!
Now here's the sun, it's alright!
Now here's the moon, it's alright!
But everytime you close your eyes,
Lies!
For Musically Challenged / mycuteladybug's week / Colors, by Amos Lee
"Cuz when you're gone,
all the colours fade.
When you're gone,
no new years day parade.
You're gone,
colours seem to fade."
And TOTW / Alter Ego
The silly romantic (I think I abandoned her in my teenage years, but who knows...)
And because some days you do feel like sitting on the ground and just staying there for a while.
(I used it again, Pareeerica's pretty texture. But it has been a while...)
Melissa Etheridge~Come to my window
I would dial the numbers
Just to listen to your breath
I would stand inside my hell
And hold the hand of death
You dont know how far Id go
To ease this precious ache
You dont know how much Id give
Or how much I can take
Just to reach you
Just to reach you
Just to reach you
Come to my window
Crawl inside, wait by the light
Of the moon
Come to my window
Ill be home soon
Keeping my eyes open
I cannot afford to sleep
Giving away promises
I know that I cant keep
Nothing fills the blackness
That has seeped into my chest
I need you in my blood
I am forsaking all the rest
Just to reach you
Just to reach you
Oh to reach you
Come to my window
Crawl inside, wait by the light
Of the moon
Come to my window
Ill be home soon
I dont care what they think
I dont care what they say
What do they know about this
Love anyway
Come to my window
Crawl inside, wait by the light
Of the moon
Come to my window
Ill be home soon
The txalaparta is a unique music ensemble of stones, woods and pipes and two players who beat out a rhythm that is musically a tour de force of co ordination.
It is an old form of music much in vogue in the Basque region of Spain but has suffered terminal neglect and as a result not much of it is known to the people. The genre of music originated as a mode of communication in the hilly regions of the Basque foothills from one village to another to announce funerals, making of cider etc etc.
There has been a steady resurgence of the music form over the last 15-20 years.
Maika and Sara Gomez are twin sisters from the Basque region who are one of the leading proponents of the txalaparta. They go by the name of "Ttukunak".
They make a fine sight while they play the exotic music and the sound of course to use the cliched term is -"awesome"
You can see a slideshow of photographs on the band's website ttukunak.ning.com/
You can hear some samples of the music here
You can hear some samples of the music here
For more on jazz and upcoming events while in Goa, you must visit www.heritagejazz.com the brain child of Armando Gonsalves.
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this is the intersection of Melrose Avenue and Fairfax.
see the longish horizontal whiteish bits? those are actually from an electronic billboard atop what i refer to as The Nexis of All Evil.
three sister stores together in a row: Ed Hardy, Christian Audigier, and Crystal Rock. the clothing sold in these stores make my eyes bleed.
Brett Michaels, Hulk Hogan and Jon Gosselin all dress in head to toe Ed Hardy gear, and somehow have fooled themselves into believing they look cool. need i say more?
told you. Nexis of All Evil.
there are other stores, other signs, other lights there as well, though. which produced all the circle-y, vivid, colored, gorgeousness of little balls that i still won't call Bokeh.
this is an entry for Man Met Brill's ridiculously stellar weekly song list in Musically Challenged. Klaxons, Arctic Monkeys, Belle & Sebastian, Radiohead, Muse, and more!
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"Mardy Bum," by Arctic Monkeys
"And yeah I'm sorry I was late
but I missed the train
And then the traffic was a state
And I can't be arsed to carry on in this debate
Musically speaking
musically speaking, of course.
to speak the language of music
is to speak a language that few know,
but most appreciate.
just speak.
whether with your own vocal box,
or a box of strings shaped so much like a silhouette.
it's the same lullaby to the ones you love,
and to those who want to know love.
musically speaking, of course…
musically speaking of course.
of course, of course, it's the music
quality of sound, but
what separates an audible sound
from an audible noise?
is it the same as what separates a grown man
from that of boys?
a mother enjoys her son with or without maturity.
ask the mother what separates men from boys,
and she will say of her children, “they're all the same”;
I love them all the same.
but for music, it's not it's not all the same;
it's not all the same.
the beauty of sound is very different from
the audible noise of a cacophony of aura.
the beauty of sound,
whether from an instrument of voice
or instrument of tin or wood…
Music…
the beauty of sound…
is only appreciated when it has the maturity
of texture and depth and feeling.
of course, of course, it's the music.
musically speaking of course.
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These magical songsters are busy in the garden at the moment throwing the fallen leaves around in the borders searching for meals. They certainly run my beloved Hawfinch close as a favourite British bird. And they certainly give my local Nightingales a run for their money musically when they arrive in a couple of months. How I love to hear that tapping noise in some shrouded corner as they find another snail, and break it up on an anvil, usually a stone, but often just a patio slab. The remains of past snacks devoured scattered all around. This from a few months back, when they were busy feeding another brood. Fortunately I had four lots of youngsters raised in the garden last year by two pairs, fingers crossed again, Lakenheath.
Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun,
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.
So I took what's mine by eternal right.
Took your soul out into the night.
It may be over but it won't stop there,
I am here for you if you'd only care.
You touched my heart you touched my soul.
You changed my life and all my goals.
And love is blind and that I knew when,
My heart was blinded by you.
I've kissed your lips and held your head.
Shared your dreams and shared your bed.
I know you well, I know your smell.
I've been addicted to you.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
I am a dreamer but when I wake,
You can't break my spirit - it's my dreams you take.
And as you move on, remember me,
Remember us and all we used to be
I've seen you cry, I've seen you smile.
I've watched you sleeping for a while.
I'd be the father of your child.
I'd spend a lifetime with you.
I know your fears and you know mine.
We've had our doubts but now we're fine,
And I love you, I swear that's true.
I cannot live without you.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
And I still hold your hand in mine.
In mine when I'm asleep.
And I will bear my soul in time,
When I'm kneeling at your feet.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
I'm so hollow, baby, I'm so hollow.
I'm so, I'm so, I'm so hollow.
Day 178--"Take 'em out the hood, keep 'em lookin good" --Jay Z, "Big Pimpin"
For red.dahlia's musically challenged week. ;)
You never realize how much hair you have on your fingers until you take a macro,
damn Flickr oversharpening...I'm too far into "lazy sunday" mode to bother tinkering with it.
I am having one of "those" days today. Taking forever to get started on anything, uninspired, and dragging along even though I have a whole pile of things to do today. I think it's because after two weeks of holidays, I'm not looking forward to going back to the daily routine.
Maybe I just need more coffee....
FGR: Red
Musically Challenged: Baby It's Cold Outside
Beautiful, gifted and very artistic Celtic Harpist Sarah Marie Mullen will be playing live at the 2011 Arizona Renaissance Festival (ARF) weekends February 12 through April 3!
I played with the white balance in Canon Digital Photo Professional then tweaked smore more in Photoshop CS3 just for fun.
I took this photo with assist from Twig the Fairy who taught me how to do silhouettes.
Thank you Twig I am still learning so much from you
another day
just believe
just breathe
- Telepopmusic, Breathe
Well, karaoke got scrapped tonight, but we're doing a girls' night at my best friend's house anyway. Wine + vampire dvds. Probably True Blood. Lots of gossip. Fun times. Holler! Hope you guys have some fun planned for tonight and this weekend!
My Face is My Canvas: Emulation #73
Musically Challenged: Telepopmusic - Breathe
An oldie. Been lazy and haven't shot much lately, but I thought this would work well for another one of Squeaks Musically Challenged songs.
Happy Big Cushy Chair Tuesday ;-)
(45 of 52)² Cranking out my 52 weeks shots..wanna get done before Jan 1.
Spent the entire day from 7am to 7pm moderating exam papers, but then scuttled off to the loft to musically mess about.
The wonder of the internet - I recorded a cover of this song (A Xmas song released in April) - youtu.be/zWkCCvoCJY8
I put a link to it on my Instagram story and tagged Audrey Jackson, who did the original - she replied that she'd listen when she got off work - and she did - and approved! (Audrey's in California. I'm in a suburb of Stoke-on-Trent)
Here's my indie-ska take - soundcloud.com/the-credit-card-of-hope/its-a-wonderful-li...
After knowing Fươg zYn,Danbo was sooooo impressed by her musical talent and decided to learn piano too....but well..i guess danbo was still a lil bit too short now..his legs cant really reach the pedals..lol..
for my new favorite group ever: Musically Challenged.
i loved taking the photo prior to this. actually grabbing inspiration from a specific song, singling out a lyric or two, and then creating an image to be paired with it.
this photo, though, was not intended for any song. this image is one of my favorite ones from Seattle. it's in Pike Place Market. this gorgeous, sloped, cobblestone street that leads down to an even more interesting alley.
so i selected a song amidst the ten to choose from per week and matched the song to the photo. not as gratifying, but i miss this little cobblestone street, dammit!
"The Sound of Silence", by Simon and Garfunkel
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Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
- Tool, Schism
Look at me! I'm playing Musically Challenged this week! Now Tara can't yell at me! I hope that this was the intended song. When I clicked the lyrics from the group thread, it took me to Sober instead of Schism. But I liked the lyrics of this one better.
I really need to start playing in Musically Challenged more often. I miss using music to inspire shots. Or, alternatively, using music to give already composed shots a new twist.
Hi Tara!
Musically Challenged: Tool - Schism
And yeah, let's go ahead and tag this as a secondary shot for My Face is My Canvas and TOTW too. Why not? I do run these groups after all. ;)
Explored!
Yeah but all of these things
All these things
They're all truly nice but ain't nothing
Ain't nothing compared to the love that's running through your little blue veins
The color of your cheeks is of the blood rushing to them. :)
Today was fun, I finished the write up for the "familiarize yourself with flickr" powerpoint for James, I'm helping out in my photography class from last semester to get hours for service learning to graduate (hopefully) in Fall 2010 (YAY!) Can't wait. the electricity came back on! now my house is warm and my furkids are happy. I got to see Donnie for a bit after class today, it was nice since I havent seen him since Saturday, It's been a busy busy week. I still need to finish editing maggie and her family session, start planning the engagement session for this Saturday, and find some time to schedule two family sessions this month and a maternity session for Jamee. :) I'm so happy i love photography. Also! I'm looking forward to all my classes this semester. So far it's turning out pretty awesome.
Project 365: day 223
TOTW: Baby, it's cold outside
Musically Challenged: The Raconteurs - Blue Veins
My Face is My Canvas: Emulation Week 17
Oh yeah, almost forgot, i entered a contest hosted by hotshoecards.com please go and vote for me! I think you have to register but it's free and you can enter too! see my entry here
thank you flickr <3 for helping me hit the 100k mark in views <3
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uno: I’m re-editing some older photos, like the one above which was taken in July. I scoured through some older images to have a go at processing them differently now that I am addicted to Lightroom. I’d not posted this particular photo before but I did process it- in a way that makes me slightly cringe-y now.
I’ve included the unedited original shot below for no reason.
dos: Feeling Croppy and Tapper forced me to join FU64 several weeks ago and it’s since become my favorite group here (aside from Musically Challenged, of course). Those two, along with Dreamy Jason, have whored the group out this week and it’s my turn to do the same. But I’ve got an annoying cold and my brain isn’t functioning properly, so I made The Potato write me a script, in my “voice”, to post here.
Luckily for you guys, I’ve edited out the truly disturbing bits.
"FU64 is an uncensored group where folks mock each other jovially, post photos in a tournament and discuss the rape of livestock on a disturbingly frequent basis. Sometimes it is just a regular challenge group - (think of it as the equivalent of having a good romp in missionary with the lights off - it is still fun but nothing spectacular) and other times it blossoms into something a lot more fun - (I’m thinking disco lights, cowboy outfits, and lederhosen). Please to be joining us? Our next game is starting soon and the more people that play, the more fun it is.
As an incentive, I’ll send nude SPs of Dreamy Jason to anyone who joins up. Plus, I am an admin of the group; all I touch is brilliant; you all want to be a part of my world, right?"
So, pretty please come play?
Pat Beers of the band The Schizophonics ( Musically they are kinda like a cross between Jimi Hendrix , Iggy Stooge , MC5 & Steve Marriot of the Small Faces )
I live in a cool neighborhood . This show was happening near my place and it was free !
Awesome band ! So much kinetic energy going on .
They are going to play in Paris France very soon and I am sure they are gonna love them there.
More infos here : schizophonics.com/shows
For musically challenged.
There's a sickness in my soul,
And I don't know, but I've been told it's uncurable
There's a darkness in my heart
Slowly tearing me apart, it's unbearable
A drop of blood, a lake of tears
And baby after all these years, you're still beautiful
And I've been loved, and I've been used
Cut wide open, scarred and bruised, I'm unbreakable
Flesh it heals I know, hearts they never mend
Lovers come and go girl right now I need a friend
Great song by Everlast
I spied this sock money in a guitar hanging from the ceiling of Champy's restaurant in Chatt., Tn.
Happy Wacky Weekend!
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anaïs Nin
I took up 365 as an escape and for me to create. I miss creating, I miss being able to force myself to come up with ideas. And as an entrepreneur I needed that, I need to be able to come up with thoughts outside the box, to force my mind to see things in between.
I started with not knowing a lot of things. I started exploring. Exploring things I can take and things I can’t and it excites me.
I might fall from time to time but getting up after falling is a high I can't get enough of.
I want to sincerely thank you for all your lovely comments. You guys are what keep me going.
If you think that a kiss is all in the lips,
c'mon, you got it all wrong, man.
And if you think that a dance is all in the hips
oh well, then do the twist.
Well if you think holding hands is all in the fingers
grab hold of the soul where the memory lingers
and make sure to never do it with a singer
cause he'll tell everyone in the world
what he was thinking about the girl.
Yeah what he's thinking about the girl.
- The White Stripes, The Denial Twist
**Explored**
I don't know how it's humanly possible not to love this song. I get it suck in my head for days at a time. Which is one of the reasons I chose it as one of the weekly challenge songs this week in Musically Challenged.
Anyway, if you guessed that these manga eyes were a challenge to paint on, you are very right. But once they started getting closer to finished, I started to love them. And I'm still sitting here with them on my face as I type this, over thirty minutes after taking the pictures, because I want to show my dad when he gets home. Ha. Great choice of genre for this week's Emulation Challenge in My Face is My Canvas!
In other news, I have spent all day trying to re-work somebody else's trial brief into something cohererent and worth submitting to the court. It's been a frustrating challenge. And now I'm going to stop thinking about work and relax for the rest of the evening. Hope you guys are doing the same now!
365 Days (self portraits): Day 238
My Face is My Canvas: Emulation Week #10
Musically Challenged: The Denial Twist - The White Stripes
I listen to the wind
To the wind of my soul
Where I'll end up well I think,
Only God really knows
I've sat upon the setting sun
But never, never never never
I never wanted water once
No, never, never, never
- Cat Stevens, The Wind
Model: Zee Anna
Fort Myers Beach, Florida
Easily my favorite shot taken this week. Anna is so damn graceful, it hurts. It kind of looks like she's hooked a ride on a cloud, I think.
Musically Challenged: Cat Stevens - The Wind
Inspired by Léah and MA 2k11 here on Flickr, my attempt at a little musically influenced corner...
... just one little problem, it's mostly my tastes in music* (another reason why the Fashion Royalty girls hate life here!). 'Twas great fun hunting down the various posters, photos, tickets etc... it all looks a bit organised though; the wall clutter needs to grow a little more 'organically'.
*Music is something I came to somewhat later than most; I'm afraid my formative teenage years were spent listening to Monty Python LPs and Goon Show tapes! Despite the best efforts of friends (inc. a dyed in the wool Beatles fan) nothing I heard resonated within me... until I stumbled across the likes of Merle, Johnny, Willie & Emmylou. I have broader tastes these days but, for the most part it tends not to be particularly modern and/or mainstream.