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You just need some tear-proof mascara! ;-) Of course, your tears also prove you’re not a vampire! We don’t know about any of the others here on GA! They could all be reading from their underground vaults! ;-)

How can a person evoking all kinds of positive feelings be a waste of space? No, tim you are needed in this world, you are! Every kind and compassionate person is needed, so strongly needed. A great poem even if it is sad! And so it does give a link to the second one. You see things clear and tell them out loud. How strong is that! Therefore you are even more needed. An other great written poem! Courageous! Your poems show the beauty of your soul, tim. I am happy about everyday, you are part of my life. A.

Happy birthday! Have a good day!

RIP to a beautiful, but tortured soul.

Donald Glover is so awesome. The song also has that 70's funk sound that I love. (not to be confused with disco...ugh)

In 1967, I was still living across the street from Barak Obama (I never met him, but we went to the same elementary school – he and my brother had just completed kindergarten, but they were in different classes). Barak and I moved away from Hawaii that same summer (he to Indonesia, we to San Diego).

We all knew George knew! Brett knew George knew! Only Billy thought he didn’t! ;-) …And then there’s Billy’s obtuse mother…

Two out of three ain’t bad…

One of the local stations used to run reruns of Cougar Town. They used to advertise it with a clip of Courtney Cox asking, “Who is Alice Cooper? Was she pretty?”

I think this was our introduction to Adam (and Payne). ;-) Oops! I didn’t remember his earlier appearance…

So James sent HotShot! ;-)

...nice to see you back here...

Yes, the elder Bach's style was lambasted in his time as too eccentric and far far from mainstream currents (which it was!). It's ironic that folks nowadays think of him as the leading composer of his time. It was only with the near-accidental posting of the Baron von Sweeten to Berlin that he encountered J.S.'s music and brought it back to Vienna where composers like Mozart encountered a forgotten master. I love the story that on his way to Berlin himself, Mozart stopped in Leipzig and had to see Bach's organ. As he was playing J.S.'s music, an old man - who had been one of Bach's students - clambered into the church thinking it was doomsday; that his master had risen from the dead.

The Dwarves were all too hairy for me. The Elves all had long hair. Dominic Monaghan and Elijah Wood are more my type! But there’s something about Viggo Mortensen (when he’s clean-shaven and has shorter hair) that appeals to me too. (I’ve seen way too much of Orlando Bloom!)

Fili (Dean O’Gorman) and Kili (Aidan Turner) were the pinup boys in The Hobbit!

The aria starts about min 12:33 (although I think this performance is lackluster as best.....). Here are strong Beethoven elements before Beethoven was Beethoven.

I love to explore new music; always an adventure. Interesting you mention Beethoven - I hear great influence in this piece on Beethoven's liebermeister, Antonio Salieri. There's one aria I can think of that might be illustrative....if I can find it on youbute

And you know this from personal experience? ;-)

He's very modern, I think. Without him, the state of the art would not have progressed to the degree it did. Mozart would never have been Mozart, that much is sure.

I’ve never experienced anything even remotely so traumatic! But I have been in hospital waiting rooms eager for doctors to report the results of surgery after my father’s quintuple bypass, his larynectomy, and the removal of my mother’s brain tumor. I remember seeing my father in ICU after the bypass looking absolutely tiny on the bed with all the machines blinking and beeping dwarfing his body! We snuck my father's young colleague in with us as another brother. We had grown up with the guy and people used to joke that he was my younger brother’s younger brother. They only let us go in in pairs. My father survived decades after his bypass. My mother’s tumor was only diagnosed after she seemed to have Alzheimer’s and they did some checking – her surgery was successful, but she never was really herself even before the procedure. My dad’s throat was operated on after they found cancer, the surgery was successful, but the cancer came back. Due to his age, he declined further treatment and died more than 15 years ago, less than two years after my mother died.

The Hobbit was an interesting choice…

How sweet Drew.

Is that an appropriate conversation topic in the Lounge? ;-)

C.P.E. Bach, wq 168, slow movement

Only in the thumbnail picture. You’re are clearly not a cartoon in the bigger size!