I just finished reading this really well-written piece about HBCU marching bands - specifically Prarie View A&M's Marching Storm in today's Times. The video that accompanies it covers everything the story does and is very good as well.
I like pancakes 'cause they're stackable. Ooo, and waffles 'cause you can put things in the little holes if you wanted to.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
tina f. - Sep 08, 2007 10:32:41 am PDT #6425 of 10003
sarameg - Sep 08, 2007 6:22:29 pm PDT #6426 of 10003
OK, for you music people, thoughts on Tom Russell, specifically Man From God Knows Where
I get goosebumps from it, but I think there is some self-identification going on. (Half my ancestry is recent Scand immigrants, other half are are farmers of irish immigrant origin. And then we spread out to Cali and had black sheep and don't really resemble our rootsand really are only americans and...) I mean, I've found the records of my grandmother's passage through Ellis Isle, and that stuns me how recent that was.
Is it just sentiment, or is it really as good as I like to think? (Not that a criticism will make the goosebumps go away... I like his voice.)
Glamcookie - Sep 08, 2007 6:34:03 pm PDT #6427 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Mary's Danish
I loved them! Saw them about a trillion times lo those many years ago.
DavidS - Sep 09, 2007 11:11:10 pm PDT #6428 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Aha! Take that Book!
I just wrote the ending. Which, unfortunately, does not mean the book is done yet. But it didn't have an ending and now it does.
It's either very good or crap. (Something to do with potatoes and spiderwebs. How can that be wrong?!) After some seventy two hours of writing I can't really tell anymore.
Other sections seem to be very good though. I go back to fix things and instead say, "Hmmm, that'll do pig words."
Still not done. And it has to be done by tomorrow. But it is a whole book now. Just some sections have holes and the joins are rough.
I will continue with the sandpaper until I have to hand it over.
Jon B. - Sep 10, 2007 1:39:33 am PDT #6429 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Something to do with potatoes and spiderwebs. How can that be wrong?!
As long as it's not pretentious.
Congrats, David!
sumi - Sep 10, 2007 4:26:16 am PDT #6430 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Woo hoo on having the ending!
Hayden - Sep 10, 2007 6:09:11 am PDT #6431 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Congrats, man! I'm closing in on my first truly complete draft, too, although I have some major revisions coming up.
Sue - Sep 10, 2007 6:47:08 am PDT #6432 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Congrats David! For me, getting that first draft, even a very rough one, is the hardest part.
Scrappy - Sep 10, 2007 8:47:11 am PDT #6433 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Hooray, Hec! Good news indeed and I am sure the sanding will go well.
DavidS - Sep 10, 2007 9:49:10 am PDT #6434 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
As long as it's not pretentious.
I can't guarantee that, Jon! Also? There are metaphors.