URI:
   DIR Return Create A Forum - Home
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       Global Collapse
  HTML https://globalcollapse.createaforum.com
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       *****************************************************
   DIR Return to: General Discussion
       *****************************************************
       #Post#: 1188--------------------------------------------------
       Re:  RE is Dying 2
   DIR By: moniker
       Date: October 9, 2021, 7:57 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       --- Quote from: RE link ---
       >
       > As a long time reader, you know how I love Phil Ochs, so a
       real good choice of tunes there. :)  There are great covers of
       the tune by numerous folkies, Joan Baez does a great one.  My
       favorite is the version done by Marianne Faithful.
       >
       >
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpU5A4WZc-M
       >
       > Besides being Mick Jagger's girlfried and a serious substance
       abuser, she was also the great (or great-great, not sure)
       granddaughter of the Marquis de Sade.  A true blue blood member
       of the Illuminati.  Her enunciation in absolutely perfect Eaton
       and Cambridge quality King' English really makes the song
       poignant, IMHO.
       >
       > I never though I would make it past 50 and lived my life as
       though I would not.  I had the poor fortune not to die young,
       though I had many opportunities and close calls.
       >
       > Far has mailing me shrooms, I have yet to even have an Amazon
       delivery to this address.  So it will have to wait some, and as
       I said I really do not see that as any real change for me.
       >
       > Far as I know there are no fishing expeditions for cripples, I
       even have had trouble getting set up for Mealz-on-Wheelz.  They
       never pick up the phone and the voicemail is always full.  The
       "excursions" done by the Life Works program just drive cripples
       and old folks around, most of the time you are in the van for
       maybe an hour in a park somewhere.  No thanks, I'd rather stay
       home.
       >
       > RE
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Phil Ochs is great, but riddle me this: "Country Roads" has 397
       million youtube views but is neither on the top 10 folk or
       country songs lists.
       #Post#: 1189--------------------------------------------------
       Re:  RE is Dying 2
   DIR By: RE
       Date: October 9, 2021, 10:33 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       --- Quote from: moniker link ---
       >
       > [quote author=RE link=topic=26.msg727#msg727 date=1628455673]
       > As a long time reader, you know how I love Phil Ochs, so a
       real good choice of tunes there. :)  There are great covers of
       the tune by numerous folkies, Joan Baez does a great one.  My
       favorite is the version done by Marianne Faithful.
       >
       >
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpU5A4WZc-M
       >
       > Besides being Mick Jagger's girlfried and a serious substance
       abuser, she was also the great (or great-great, not sure)
       granddaughter of the Marquis de Sade.  A true blue blood member
       of the Illuminati.  Her enunciation in absolutely perfect Eaton
       and Cambridge quality King' English really makes the song
       poignant, IMHO.
       >
       > I never though I would make it past 50 and lived my life as
       though I would not.  I had the poor fortune not to die young,
       though I had many opportunities and close calls.
       >
       > Far has mailing me shrooms, I have yet to even have an Amazon
       delivery to this address.  So it will have to wait some, and as
       I said I really do not see that as any real change for me.
       >
       > Far as I know there are no fishing expeditions for cripples, I
       even have had trouble getting set up for Mealz-on-Wheelz.  They
       never pick up the phone and the voicemail is always full.  The
       "excursions" done by the Life Works program just drive cripples
       and old folks around, most of the time you are in the van for
       maybe an hour in a park somewhere.  No thanks, I'd rather stay
       home.
       >
       > RE
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Phil Ochs is great, but riddle me this: "Country Roads" has 397
       million youtube views but is neither on the top 10 folk or
       country songs lists.
       [/quote]
       Country roads is a John Denver tune, not Phil Ochs.
       Not sure how they come up with those "Top Ten" lists, or define
       the genre.  Country Roads might be considered "Pop" music.  I
       don't think Yuotube figures in, probably record sales or radio
       plays.
       RE
       #Post#: 1192--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 🏥 RE is Dying 2
   DIR By: Digwe Must
       Date: October 10, 2021, 10:18 am
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       Did someone say Phil Ochs?
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB-BBVQLnxI
       A really good cover of TBFF
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4BYOJ1tc-k
       #Post#: 1202--------------------------------------------------
       Re:  RE is Dying 2
   DIR By: moniker
       Date: October 10, 2021, 8:14 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       --- Quote from: moniker link ---
       >
       > [quote author=RE link=topic=26.msg727#msg727 date=1628455673]
       > As a long time reader, you know how I love Phil Ochs, so a
       real good choice of tunes there. :)  There are great covers of
       the tune by numerous folkies, Joan Baez does a great one.  My
       favorite is the version done by Marianne Faithful.
       >
       >
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpU5A4WZc-M
       >
       > Besides being Mick Jagger's girlfried and a serious substance
       abuser, she was also the great (or great-great, not sure)
       granddaughter of the Marquis de Sade.  A true blue blood member
       of the Illuminati.  Her enunciation in absolutely perfect Eaton
       and Cambridge quality King' English really makes the song
       poignant, IMHO.
       >
       > I never though I would make it past 50 and lived my life as
       though I would not.  I had the poor fortune not to die young,
       though I had many opportunities and close calls.
       >
       > Far has mailing me shrooms, I have yet to even have an Amazon
       delivery to this address.  So it will have to wait some, and as
       I said I really do not see that as any real change for me.
       >
       > Far as I know there are no fishing expeditions for cripples, I
       even have had trouble getting set up for Mealz-on-Wheelz.  They
       never pick up the phone and the voicemail is always full.  The
       "excursions" done by the Life Works program just drive cripples
       and old folks around, most of the time you are in the van for
       maybe an hour in a park somewhere.  No thanks, I'd rather stay
       home.
       >
       > RE
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Phil Ochs is great, but riddle me this: "Country Roads" has 397
       million youtube views but is neither on the top 10 folk or
       country songs lists.
       [/quote]
       Sorry to go off topic, but "Country Roads" is Bluegrass. Since
       "Tangled up in Blue", for example, has only 25 million views
       this is an enormous difference. There's alot going on here, but
       I believe John Denver was becoming too popular and political;
       so, he was taken down by the power elite.
       By the way, I'm sorry to hear about your ongoing health
       problems, RE.
       I have not posted in about 18 months since the last time I
       mentioned that I threw away a math proof like Matt Damon in
       "Goodwill Hunting". Then I got spooked when Murdoch put a
       comparison of Covid and the movie "Contagion" on the front page
       of the NY Post a few days later.
       #Post#: 1207--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 🏥 RE is Dying 2
   DIR By: Phil Potts
       Date: October 11, 2021, 4:59 am
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       --- Quote from: Digwe Must link ---
       >
       > Did someone say Phil Ochs?
       >
       >
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB-BBVQLnxI
       >
       > A really good cover of TBFF
       >
       >
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4BYOJ1tc-k
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Country Roads probably couldn't be taken seriously by music
       critics because it's too ubiquitous of a tune, used in eg auld
       Lang syne
       Here's a great John Denver song, but again it's tune is loosely
       the same used in eg 6 ribbons. I like him but he was not really
       a composer
  HTML https://youtu.be/nd_kR7XzlkY
       #Post#: 1211--------------------------------------------------
       Re:  RE is Dying 2
   DIR By: moniker
       Date: October 11, 2021, 10:25 am
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       As performed by the real composer with all the verses, twang and
       some fiddle. Your not in West Virginia anymore but East of Eden.
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=god9teAQaZw
       #Post#: 1212--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 🏥 RE is Dying 2
   DIR By: Digwe Must
       Date: October 11, 2021, 12:44 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       --- Quote from: moniker link ---
       >
       > As performed by the real composers with all the verses, twang
       and some fiddle. Your not in West Virginia anymore but East of
       Eden.
       >
       >
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=god9teAQaZw
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Liked it.
       A couple of contemporaries who could sing, write and play in a
       tribute to another good one
       This one gets me all faklempt.
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCLZnCiH_k0
       #Post#: 1225--------------------------------------------------
       Re:  RE is Dying 2
   DIR By: moniker
       Date: October 12, 2021, 3:15 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       --- Quote from: Digwe Must link ---
       >
       > [quote author=moniker link=topic=26.msg1211#msg1211
       date=1633965918]
       > As performed by the real composers with all the verses, twang
       and some fiddle. Your not in West Virginia anymore but East of
       Eden.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Liked it.
       A couple of contemporaries who could sing, write and play in a
       tribute to another good one
       This one gets me all faklempt.
       [/quote]
       Beautiful song. Thanks for posting.
       The melody to Port of [old] Amsterdam seems to be a variation of
       Scarborough Fair, which is an Old English tune. Obviously not
       original to JD. He had an excellent voice for pop and a very
       fresh face.  :)
       I'll take faklempt over farmischt any time. I used to have a
       real problem with being overwhelmed with emotion. It prevented
       me from singing, but decades of work on myself including chakra
       toning and kundalini yoga ameliorated this. It may indicate a
       fourth chakra or tiferet blockage.
       #Post#: 1834--------------------------------------------------
       A Cripple Thanksgiving
   DIR By: RE
       Date: November 25, 2021, 10:15 am
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       It's thw 1 year Anniversary of having my leg chopped off.
       What I am Thankful for:
       I am not in agonizing Pain requiring 20 mg of Morphine every 4
       hours to dull it somewhat.
       I am not going Cold Turkey to get myself off the opiates.  Got
       that done in January.
       I am out of the Gulag with the roaming Zombies and disgusting,
       poorly prepared cheap food.
       I got on Medicaid and get PCA Cripple Helpers for a few hours a
       day.
       My digs are warm, the rent is affordable and gas and electric
       still pretty cheap.
       What I am not Thankful for:
       I have plenty of good food, but I can hardly eat again.  Nausea
       sets in after a couple of bites of anything.  I dread when it
       moves down the alimentary canal and I have to spend my time on
       the throne waiting for it to exit my body so I can flush it out
       to sea.  The less I eat, the better because it means fewer trips
       to the loo.
       Restaurants now around here completely suck.  Besides the fact I
       can hardly eat, the food is not a whole lot better than the
       Gulag food.  Tokyo, the Asian restaurant which was OK has new
       owners, and now you don't even get a pot of Tea with your meal.
       It costs extra.
       My fake leg is so far 100% worthless.  It offers no additional
       independence, is terrifically uncomfortable to wear and actually
       gets in the was for making seat transfers and moving around in
       the digs.  The wheelchair works much better without the hardware
       strapped on the stump.  ATK prosthetics are just over priced
       junk.  There is a reason you never see anyone wandering around
       on these things.  BTKs yes, ATKs, no.  I have never seen anyone
       in all my years walking around with one.  Mine so far is just a
       sculpture propped up for display in the digs.  I have been
       waiting months for PT to try to make it useful, but lack of PT
       staffing has delayed that.  I doubt it will make much difference
       once I get it anyhow.
       I am bored out of my skull all the time, even when the PCA shows
       up.  They are not very interesting to talk to.  Besides scanning
       the newz each day popping up on Google and pasting a few reports
       here, I got nothing to do.
       My Thanksgiving Feast this year will be my traditional one for
       the last few years, a Frozen Swanson Hungry Man Turkey TV
       Dinner.  Except of course, I'm not hungry and it probably will
       take me 3 days to finish it, if I don't throw it out first.  No
       PCA coming over today, so I will have to microwave it myself.
       It's too early to nuke it yet though, so now I'll head back to
       my recliner, put on my sleep mask and meditate until my bowels
       or bladder force me out of the chair for another roll over to
       the toilet.
       RE
       #Post#: 1835--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 🏥 RE is Dying 2
   DIR By: Nearings fault
       Date: November 25, 2021, 10:32 am
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       It sounds rough RE. I admire that you started off with what you
       are thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving hope you find some joy in
       the day.
       Cheers,. NF
       *****************************************************
       Page 6 of 14
   DIR Previous Page
   DIR Next Page