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  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    Breathe out.
    So I can Breathe you In.

    Hold you In....

    Dave Grohl
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Nothing pukeworthy about it, Future Days is beautiful! I prefer it Just Breathe and The End (minus the keyed intro, should have gone with strings!) and certainly over anything by bands like GnR and ACDC which lack emotional depth.
    That's a great love song by the Foos, classic!
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    rr, that lyric gets me too.

    Thin Air is another one - it came at the perfect time, reflected the power of connection and affection across miles.

    By the way, every time I see this thread title now, I start humming the theme to the Love Boat :D
  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    Love is a great emotion that requires understanding and the ability to accept love that is given and I think that may be one of the bigger obsticals, I'm sure love is many thing's for many people, it hurts,it heals and could be the only thing that could really bring understanding to a crazy world.

    Godfather.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Godfather. said:

    Love is a great emotion that requires understanding and the ability to accept love that is given and I think that may be one of the bigger obsticals, I'm sure love is many thing's for many people, it hurts,it heals and could be the only thing that could really bring understanding to a crazy world.

    Godfather.

    Hell yeah, GF.

    Willingness to be vulnerable to hurt in the process? That is love.
  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,458
    rgambs said:



    116
    Let me not to the marriage of true minds
    Admit impediments. Love is not love
    Which alters when it alteration finds,
    Or bends with the remover to remove:
    Oh, no! it is an ever fix`ed mark,
    That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
    It is the star to ever wandering bark
    Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
    Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
    Within His bending sickle's compass come;
    Love alters not with His brief hours and weeks,
    But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
    If this be error and upon me proved,
    I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

    Haha, god this reminds me of university. I was in a seminar called "Love poetry", and we learned how to read this very sonnet in it's original pronunciation. The professor was a middle aged, very educated woman who always talked about "physical togetherness"
    :))

    Back to topic... While I don't believe in love at first sight, there is definitely something to that theory that humans know after a couple of seconds if they like somebody or not, even without talking to them. I find that quite interesting. Right away, you are unconsciously eliminating or sorting in. When I met my husband at the preparty for PJ20, I instantly took a liking to him. So I agreed to spend a weekend with him in the Detroit area. I drove there a week later all the way from Chicago in a rented car (my first automatic too) for a weird adventure. It could have ended badly with the wrong person, but my instincs served me well and we are happily married for almost two years now.
    I was single for almost 7 years before that and did not try to find love actively anymore. It comes when it comes. No need to give up hope or abandon love altogether. There is always a tomorrow.
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  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Leezestarr313 said:

    rgambs said:



    116
    Let me not to the marriage of true minds
    Admit impediments. Love is not love
    Which alters when it alteration finds,
    Or bends with the remover to remove:
    Oh, no! it is an ever fix`ed mark,
    That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
    It is the star to ever wandering bark
    Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
    Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
    Within His bending sickle's compass come;
    Love alters not with His brief hours and weeks,
    But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
    If this be error and upon me proved,
    I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

    Haha, god this reminds me of university. I was in a seminar called "Love poetry", and we learned how to read this very sonnet in it's original pronunciation. The professor was a middle aged, very educated woman who always talked about "physical togetherness"
    :))

    Back to topic... While I don't believe in love at first sight, there is definitely something to that theory that humans know after a couple of seconds if they like somebody or not, even without talking to them. I find that quite interesting. Right away, you are unconsciously eliminating or sorting in. When I met my husband at the preparty for PJ20, I instantly took a liking to him. So I agreed to spend a weekend with him in the Detroit area. I drove there a week later all the way from Chicago in a rented car (my first automatic too) for a weird adventure. It could have ended badly with the wrong person, but my instincs served me well and we are happily married for almost two years now.
    I was single for almost 7 years before that and did not try to find love actively anymore. It comes when it comes. No need to give up hope or abandon love altogether. There is always a tomorrow.
    That's actually inspirational! And you two are a great match! Maybe there IS hope!
  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    hedonist said:

    Godfather. said:

    Love is a great emotion that requires understanding and the ability to accept love that is given and I think that may be one of the bigger obsticals, I'm sure love is many thing's for many people, it hurts,it heals and could be the only thing that could really bring understanding to a crazy world.

    Godfather.

    Hell yeah, GF.

    Willingness to be vulnerable to hurt in the process? That is love.
    high 5 girl !

    Godfather.

  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Godfather. said:

    Love is a great emotion that requires understanding and the ability to accept love that is given and I think that may be one of the bigger obsticals, I'm sure love is many thing's for many people, it hurts,it heals and could be the only thing that could really bring understanding to a crazy world.

    Godfather.

    Right on! Great insight, accepting love is difficult for some... Some feel they don't deserve love and others, as HedoBot pointed out, are afraid of the vulnerability that comes bandaged hand in hand with love! Our crazy world needs more love of every variety.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    When I first read Ishmael, I was taken aback and a bit disappointed in myself in not seeing the obvious.

    (I still shake my fist; damn you, Quinn!)

    Many a time I had to go back some pages in the book and re-digest - almost as mental confirmation of what I'd read and how perfectly sensible, reasonable and also instinctual were his words.

    That "how did I not get this" epiphany - the light-bulb moment.

    It somehow hit me via a nice little mental slap in realizing that love has no capacity to flourish if we don't love ourselves to begin with.

    Actually...fuck loving ourselves and its triteness.

    Let us like ourselves, be comfortable BEING with ourselves just one on one.

    The rest will break the glass naturally.

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    ^^^ Ishmael is an amazing book-light-bulb-in-the-brain going off, indeed!

    Here's nifty little love ditty from the amazing Psychedelic Furs- "We Love You"

    I'm in love with Catholics
    I'm in love with your blue cars
    I'm in love with the words that scream
    We are so stupid, we all dream

    I'm in love with Frank Sinatra
    Fly me to the moon
    I'm in love with fools like you
    I'm in love with doing the twist

    I'm in love with the bodies that scream
    They fall so far, they fall so far
    I'm in love with The Supremes
    Oh, baby love

    I'm in love with Sophia Loren
    I'm in love with Bridget Bardot
    I'm in love with the whole dumb scene
    I'm so in love, you know what I mean

    I'm in love with Anthea and Donna
    All that shit that goes, uptown top ranking

    I'm in love with the factory
    I'm in love with the BBC
    I'm in love with your TV
    They're so in love with you and me

    I'm in love with a nuclear bomb it falls
    I'm in love with shopping city dreams
    I'm in love with real men
    They go through the air for oxygen

    Love is just a car like you
    That turns so blue and turns so blue
    No blue cars will run my world
    No playboys will black my word

    I would walk a million smiles
    For one of your miles Bob
    Hey, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop

    We love you, we love you, we love you
    We love you, we love you, we love you
    We love you, we love you

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Ooooooh!!! love the Furs!! Here's a realistic love song by my friend's band, The Ben Miller Band:
    http://youtu.be/5_EZBVp9Gwk
    Enjoy!
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Just a little plug here.. Cause I loooooooove these guys' music, if you liked that, check them
    Out in iTunes. They're building quite the catalog!!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    whispering hands said:

    Just a little plug here.. Cause I loooooooove these guys' music, if you liked that, check them
    Out in iTunes. They're building quite the catalog!!

    whispering hands- first off- so cool that you're a Furs fan! I saw the Psychedelic Furs twice in the eighties and have written about those shows for a book I'm putting together that includes an on-the-street encounter of sorts with guitarist John Ashton and a funny story about Richard Butler in San Francisco.

    That's a cool video you posted there! I'm not a big bluegrass/jug band fan but I am hugely impressed with the fact that these guys are a part of a small but growing group of musicians who are helping keep traditional forms of music like this alive and well. We have bluegrass musicians here in Placerville who do the same- in fact a friend of mine is off and on in a group that incorporates some of this in there music. So good job and very cool!

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    brianlux said:

    whispering hands said:

    Just a little plug here.. Cause I loooooooove these guys' music, if you liked that, check them
    Out in iTunes. They're building quite the catalog!!

    whispering hands- first off- so cool that you're a Furs fan! I saw the Psychedelic Furs twice in the eighties and have written about those shows for a book I'm putting together that includes an on-the-street encounter of sorts with guitarist John Ashton and a funny story about Richard Butler in San Francisco.

    That's a cool video you posted there! I'm not a big bluegrass/jug band fan but I am hugely impressed with the fact that these guys are a part of a small but growing group of musicians who are helping keep traditional forms of music like this alive and well. We have bluegrass musicians here in Placerville who do the same- in fact a friend of mine is off and on in a group that incorporates some of this in there music. So good job and very cool!

    Awesome! Yeah they have a pending patent on gloves that allow you to play the " electric washboard" and the " electric" spoons as well! I'll see if I can find a video of it..
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    http://youtu.be/dF4rGYPgr6c
    Ok here Ya go! The electric washboard played by Doug Dicharry
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    whispering hands said:

    http://youtu.be/dF4rGYPgr6c
    Ok here Ya go! The electric washboard played by Doug Dicharry

    Excellent! Spoons and all!

    What is that the guitar player has attached up high on the neck of his guitar? I can't make it out.

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    edited November 2014
    It's a slide bar..it's to keep his band from over sliding frets while playing. By the way that guy IS Ben Miller. The guy in washtub bass is Scott Leper.
    Post edited by whispering hands on
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    whispering hands said:

    It's a slide bar..it's to keep his band from over sliding frets while playing. By the way that guy IS Ben Miller. The guy in washtub bass is Scott Leper.

    Interesting.

    Good luck to your friend's and their band!

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    :D

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