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Thanks Katray and Mike
Glad you enjoyed it! I've enjoyed your stuff too!
posted by
Antonionioni
on September 24, 2006 at 4:00 PM
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Excellent in originality, famous names and music flash by for the minds eye, every seen a clear picture. I enjoyed your very clever poem Tony. Thank you. Mike
posted by
lionladroar
on September 24, 2006 at 12:04 PM
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Great sounds Tonysonit
Lyrical verse - music the sweetest uniter. I much enjoyed this poem.
posted by
Katray2
on September 24, 2006 at 11:55 AM
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Thanks for your comments everyone!
Aaa! I've just discovered, if you go back to remind yourself what the comments were, and then go forward again, you lose what you've just been furiously typing for the last five minutes. Sheesh.
Marie-Claire - if you can't use Amazon, or download from other people on one of those MP3 file-sharing sites, like you I'm a bit weak on certain things. I wouldn't know how to send you stuff by email. Anyway, the stuff I've got on my computer isn't Serge's best stuff - that's on CD. If you want I could do a compilation on CD and post it. Let me know by email if you want this cos I'll need your address. Are you really in NZ? Blimey. Yes, I have read A la recherche, it's my favourite book ever. It's not so much a novel, more an autobiography, but what makes it fantastic is the long sentences that make so many clever observations and weave all over the place like a piece of baroque music. My eldest daughter is about to do a 4 year French course at Oxford. She loves Paris (not just in the springtime).
Rarmcwa - alright mate? as we say over here. By the way, did you see my response to your's and your wife the amateur diver's kind invitation? We must email each other. On Sinatra, altho I have a few CDs, I'm not an authority - that's why I had to ask whether he sang at Caesar's Palace. Does anyone sing there? Maybe it's just a glorified bingo hall. I haven't got OBE singing that song, I know Eddie Fisher did it - and Siouxsie and the Banshees, curiously. I've been listening to Eddie Fisher singing 'I'm Walking Behind You' recently (not a lot, you understand - that would be insane.) The title's a bit creepy, that's what got me interested.
Right, must compose a new sonnet. It's approaching 8pm here and I want to watch a dramatization of 'Jane Eyre' that begins at nine. What an exciting life! And funded partly now by Blogit!!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on September 24, 2006 at 11:38 AM
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Dynamite!
As a registered Beatlemaniac, (and Dylanhead too - and boy, are you ever right to exclude Saved) I grooved on this offering like a Big Dawg!
Just one question; the cover of Mine Papa I hear all the time over here is by Eddie Fisher. Did Old Blue Eyes cover it as well, and release it only to our Cousins? Or is my knowledge of Sinatra's discography utterly deficient? I suspect the latter, but please advise.
posted by
Rarmcwa
on September 24, 2006 at 9:38 AM
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Great! The last two lines make it!
posted by
nonconformist
on September 24, 2006 at 8:50 AM
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Dang! I missed a word, sorry. "know"
posted by
marieclaire66
on September 24, 2006 at 3:29 AM
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Do you Marcel Proust in French?
Have you read "A la recherche du temps perdu"? To be honest I can't remember if I have. He is one of the classics everyone knows by name....I must scan my shelves and dust some of my old books out....
posted by
marieclaire66
on September 24, 2006 at 3:28 AM
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tonysonit! Where can I find Gainsbourgh music without spending a fortune.
I found this cool French website but they would not allow me to download because I was not a resident, how annoying! Is it possible to send me a few music samples or is it too much trouble??? NZ has nothing to offer and the alternative is buying on the net, last resort for me, I have to control myself her. Do you speak any French mon ami?
posted by
marieclaire66
on September 24, 2006 at 3:24 AM
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Thanks all of you!
TAPS, I've sent Ariala the picture I'd like in the gallery. I hope I can get one in there, as I can't use my own site: it won't let me.
Straightforward and Kat, thanks. I've seen your sites and will do again. Very shortly I've got to go for a run. And it looks like rain...
posted by
Antonionioni
on September 24, 2006 at 2:54 AM
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My goodness, Tonysonit. You've written a lot in the length of time you've been here. And I hadn't even seen that you were here. Thanks for visiting my Blog so I would see you. You might consider sharing your picture on
THE UNOFFICIAL BLOGIT PHOTO PAGE by emailing a photo of yourself to Ariala. Then we can all see you and you might want to look at all the bloggers there if you haven't already.
posted by
TAPS.
on September 23, 2006 at 9:47 PM
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People like to term who they don't like as the other who will go 2 hell
posted by
Straightforward
on September 23, 2006 at 8:13 PM
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posted by
Kat02
on September 23, 2006 at 6:51 PM
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Thanks PF and M-C
Yes, it suddenly occurred to me I hadn't covered music yet. All I really wanted to do was list some names - the challenge was to make it fit the rhymes and correct number of syllables. Couldn't resist saying a couple of other things, though.
Yes, Marie-Claire, I'm a big fan of Serge Gainsbourg. He's best known for 'Je t'aime', which is good, but there are about forty classics he's done, e.g. '69 Annee Erotique' and 'Marilu' and 'Melody Nelson' to name just three. And check out the weird joke-Nazi album, 'Rock Around the Bunker'. I don't mean he was pro-Nazi. He was a potential victim, being a Russian Jew in France during the war. Great stuff.
posted by
Antonionioni
on September 23, 2006 at 3:45 PM
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oh! you know Serge Gainsbourgh??
probably spelt it wrong. do you know "je t'aime, moi non plus". He was a chain smoker... but I liked some of his songs.
posted by
marieclaire66
on September 23, 2006 at 3:14 PM
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Great job! I feel this passionately about music too....you say it well.
posted by
Passionflower
on September 23, 2006 at 3:01 PM
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