Oh, if I start listing all the music I like, I'd never stop. There are a lot of fine singer.songwriters out there, eg.
And all that jazz.
Not to mention classical as it's called (see Hal).
I need a soundtrack, & almost always write to something...
Doug
On 2012-07-12, at 3:13 AM, Andrew Burke wrote:
> Yes, Doug, I'm an Allman Bros fan - and Dylan and Tom Waits - but
> otherwise a jazz nut. Go figure. (My poetry taste is equally as
> bewildering.)
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> Andrew
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> On 11 July 2012 23:08, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Well, duh, I get it, Max, & neatly done.
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>> And 'swing'? That's jazz, not heavy rock, although it still hath its own charms perhaps....(I'm an Allman Brothers type myself, but I guess they have some jazzy chops...).
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>> Doug
>> On 2012-07-09, at 7:42 PM, Max Richards wrote:
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>>> Yeats Travestied
>>>
>>> [This is no country for late middle-aged men -
>>> Lawrence Upton]
>>>
>>> 'This is no country for middle-aged men,
>>> the young girls sneering at us,
>>> as if we're only fit for middle-aged women.
>>>
>>> But why are those same middle-aged women
>>> sneering at us also? those chooks?
>>> can they read our minds? us middle-aged men!'
>>>
>>> *
>>>
>>> I speak as one long past middle-age,
>>> expounding* Eliot Yeats Hardy
>>> to youngsters who simply weren't ready.
>>>
>>> THEY weren't going to wear long pants
>>> at the beach, let alone roll up the cuffs.
>>> They took no walks in lost love's haunts.
>>>
>>> No, they were surfing, and snuggling in vans,
>>> dancing under strobe lights under the influence,
>>> and coolly changing partners.
>>>
>>> Snuggling, they'd say, the word's so fusty -
>>> you can't know what it is to be lusty.
>>>
>>> In my next life I shall try being young,
>>> having missed out first time round,
>>> dreamy, bookish, in hiding.
>>>
>>> Once back in this world, I'll neglect
>>> all dreams of art and intellect -
>>> fiery sensual music is all I expect.
>>>
>>> But the young, I already detest their music,
>>> Doesn't it frankly make YOU sick?
>>>
>>>
>>> *I was an ex-Poundian
>>>
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Latest books:
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Wednesdays'
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Why can’t words mean what they say?
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