Did this ever happen to you?

Subject: Did this ever happen to you?
From: Matthew B.
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 01:05 AM

I was typing a message on one of the threads late at night, and instantly saw a response to it from another Mudcatter I adore. Then it occurred to me that she and I were both up at this same unGodly hour (or Godly for her her, if she's in, say, China) and reading the same words at the same time, in silent, unconscious union. And I got this warm, gushy feeling about how this one little website in all the Web is such a magical place for me, a place where I feel truly close to people so far away, whom I've never even met, but have gotten to know so well and care about so deeply.

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 01:13 AM

Yes, it happens all the time with me. But everyone types faster and we are usually making rhe same cogent point. I don't feel fuzzy just envious and even more aware that great minds either think alike or have too much time on their hands. :)

Best regards

Don

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: Matthew B.
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 01:20 AM

A little of both, I suspect

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 01:25 AM

More than likely too much time. Like each of us :), Eh, Matthew.

Don

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 01:26 AM

uh,huh.

catspaw

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: alison
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 01:27 AM

Happens all the time..... not just reserved for Mudcat either....... used to happen even before all this internet stuff....... I can look at the night sky and see the same (mainly) constellations, same moon, as my friends are seeing somewhere else at a different time. I like to think they're watching us all......

could go on.. but I'd sound weird... hahahaha

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 01:34 AM

Somewhere, out there, beneath a sky of blue,

someones waiting for you..........

must be somg here someplace.

Don

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 01:52 AM

Alison, an old song I learned in church camp:

I see the moon and the moon sees me,
The moon sees somebody I'd like to see.
God bless the moon and God bless me,
And God bless the somebody I'd like to see.

I really think that God above,
Created you for me to love,
And picked you out from all the rest,
Because he knew I'd love you best.

I see the moon...

--seed

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: alison
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 01:59 AM

Thanks Seed,

That was beautiful. and very apt... I had been feeling very angry earlier.. I've calmed down a lot now, thanks to many of my wonderful friends here. It's night now with many of you and I hope the moon and stars are shining on you all.

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 02:14 AM

Many times, most notably one night when Catspaw, Banjer and I were jumping back and forth at the same time on three threads. That was the night that the term "thread creep' was coined. I was laughing as each thread I had just checked went blue, and I rushed to see what new piece of craziness had been posted.

Subject: Lyr Add: SHANGHAI BREEZES (John Denver)
From: SingsIrish Songs
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 04:22 AM

I am missing a special someone terribly at the moment after having just read and replied to an email from said person...and now to read those song lyrics you posted, Seed. Well, I am getting misty eyed all over again.

Alison, I've often looked at the stars and moon and felt closer to family and friends who are thousands of miles away from me...it is a nice feeling. And Don, you are thinking of the theme song (Somewhere Out There) to "An American Tail" (First Fivel the mouse movie.)

There's also the John Denver song "Shanghai Breezes" that has the same type sentiments...(see below)

I've had experiences online when I've received immediate email replies from family or friends. The instantaneousness is great!

SingsIrish Songs

SHANGHAI BREEZES
John Denver

It's funny how you sound as if you're right next door
when you're really half a world away
I just can't seem to find the words I'm looking for
to say the things that I want to say
I can't remember when I felt so close to you
it's almost more than I can bear
And though I seem a half a million miles from you
you're in my heart and living there

And the moon and the stars are the same ones you see
it's the same old sun up in the sky
And your voice in my ear is like heaven to me
like the breezes here in old Shanghai

There are lovers who walk hand in hand in the park
and lovers who walk all alone
There are lovers who lie unafraid in the dark
and lovers who long for home
Oh, I couldn't leave you even if I wanted to
you're in my dreams and always near
And especially when I sing the songs I wrote for you
you're in my heart and living there

And the moon and the stars are the same ones you see
it's the same old sun up in the sky
And your face in my dreams is like heaven to me
like the breezes here in old Shanghai

Shanghai breezes cool and clearing
evening's sweet caress
Shanghai breezes soft and gentle
remind me of your tenderness

And the moon and the stars are the same ones you see
it's the same old sun up in the sky
And your love in my life is like heaven to me
like the breezes here in old Shanghai

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 04:34 AM

I think you should all take a cold shower and go to bed - alone....
You're all incurable romantics.
(grin)
-Joe Offer, who often feels the same way-

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: SingsIrish Songs
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 04:38 AM

Ah, Joe...you specified the to bed ALONE, but what about the cold shower?

SingsIrish

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 04:51 AM

....think I'd better not reply to that. Might end up with my foot in my mouth....
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: SingsIrish Songs
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 04:59 AM

LOL

Sleepless in Southern California
(aka SingsIrish)

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: Big Mick
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 10:30 AM

Funny, sounds just like what I want to do when I feel the need to experience the wonder of it all. I climb my hill so I can get as close to the stars as I can. I take out my Low D, or my guitar, and I sit there and let it fill me with its magnificence. And I play to it all..........and hope that it can be heard.

Mick

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: The Shambles
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 01:57 PM

Oh, It's you making all that noise. You certainly ARE heard......... Can you please find another hill?

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: Big Mick
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 03:41 PM

Would you give me some context to that last remark, please Mr. Shambles, so I know how to respond. Thanks.

Mick

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 03:45 PM

Well, I'm here on the same hill, too, and it's gettin' kinda crowded. Mick, can you tune that guitar, please???
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 04:35 PM

I used to live behind a ravine (which is kind of a hill in reverse) and when sleepless,(often) would climb down to the bottom and make up minor key fiddle tunes from 2 am to 4 am. Twas heaven I'll tell you, although any people back up at the top who were contemplating suicide that night would not have been disuaded by the wafting minor scales. The tunes made ME happy though.
rick

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 05:02 PM

I wrote this song last fall during the series of weekend crashes, when in order to get a 'cat fix many of us were using Mudcat Help as methadone maintenance. This seems an appropriate time to revive it. (I would have used a link, but the Mudcat Help line seems to be out.)


Missing the mudcat on the banks of the ohio.

I met my Baby on a thread;
Our souls are one, that's what she said.
She said she'd always be with me,
But the Mudcat's down--where can she be?

(Cho.)
Max, only say you'll bring 'em back:
Without the threads, what good's my Mac?
Each time a weekend rolls around,
I'm all alone, 'cause the threads are down.

We always met, my Baby and me,
At the topmost thread just after three.
We'd play thread-tag 'til time for bed,
But not tonight, 'cause the threads are dead.

It's Saturday night, and I'm alone,
All I can do is weep and moan,
All I can do is cry them blues,
My Baby's gone, nuthin' left to lose.

--seed

Subject: Lyr Add: NO APHRODISIAC (The Whitlams)
From: Helen
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 06:24 PM

There's an Oz pop song which says much the same, although it gets a bit weird in the last couple of verses. It's a gentle melody and a low key arrangement.

I first heard it while driving back one Sunday night after visiting my boyfriend who lived 300 miles away.

I found the lyrics and chords at OLGA
Click here

http://www.groovin.org/Olga/main/w/whitlams/no_aphrodisiac.crd

Helen

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 23:31:11 +1100 (EST) From: Daniel Meijer To: [e-mail] Subject: CRD: Whitlams - "No Aphrodisiac"

"No Aphrodisiac" by The Whitlams

Transcribed by Daniel Meijer

This song is very simple, harmonically, even with the embellishments of the string section (Sydney's Fourplay - check them out!), but this doesn't detract from the song's impact. Love Tim Freedman's lyrics!!

Chords as follows - played by piano or arpeggiated by guitar. These are just the chords, voice them as you like, but on the CD, in the arpeggios, the guitar plays all chords as barre chords:

Dm Bb Gm Am
--5---6---3---5----
--6---6---3---5----
--7---7---3---5----
--7---8---5---7----
--5---8---5---7----
--x---6---3---5----

The arpeggios are picked:

Gm Am Dm
--------------------------
---------3------5-----6---
-------5------5------7----
-----5------7------7------
-----------------5--------
--3------5----------------

Dm
A letter to you on a cassette
Bb
'cause we don't write anymore
Dm
gotta make it up quickly -
Bb
there's people asleep on the second floor

Gm Am Bb
There's no aphrodisiac like loneliness
Gm Am Dm
truth, beauty, and a picture of you.

Dm Bb Dm Bb

Dm
You'll be walking your dog in a few hours
Bb
I'll be asleep in my brother's house
Dm
You're a thousand miles away
Bb
with food between your teeth
Gm Am Bb
Come up for summer, I've got a place near the beach
Gm Am Dm
There's room for your dog

Gm Am Bb
There's no aphrodisiac like loneliness
Gm Am Dm
truth, beauty, and a picture of you.

Dm Bb Dm Bb

Gm Am Bb
There's no aphrodisiac like loneliness
Gm Am Dm
truth, beauty, and a picture of you.
Gm Am Bb
There's no aphrodisiac like loneliness
Gm Am Dm
Youth, truth, beauty, fame, boredom, and a bottle of pills

Gm Am Dm

Gm Am Dm
There's no aphrodisiac like loneliness
Gm Am Dm
You shouldn't leave me alone
Gm Am Dm
There's no aphrodisiac like loneliness
Gm Am Dm
Bare feet like a tomboy, and a crooked smile

Gm Am
Dm
Truth, youth, beauty, fame, boredom, red hair, no hair, innocence,
Gm Am Dm
Saturday, and a picture of you
Gm Am Dm
A letter to you on a cassette
Gm Am Bb
You shouldn't leave me alone

Gm Am Dm
Forty and shaved, sexy, wants to do it all day
Gm Am Dm
with a gun-totin' trigger-happy trannie named Kinky Renee
Gm Am
Tired teacher twenty-eight seeks regular meetings
Dm
for masculine muscular nappy-clad brutal breeding
Gm Am
while his wife rough-wrestles with a puppy all
Dm Gm
aquiver on a wine-soaked strobe-lit asiatic hall of mirrors
Am Dm
and a dash of loneliness
Gm Am Dm
There's no aphrodisiac quite like it

Gm Am
Dm
Truth, youth, beauty, fame, boredom, red hair, no hair, innocence,
Gm Am Dm
impunity, and a picture of you
Gm Am
I got a video setup me love you short time
Dm
she pay me suck his finger with some fine wine
Gm Am Dm
and a dash of loneliness

Gm Am
Dm
Truth, youth, beauty, fame, boredom, red hair, no hair, innocence,
Gm Am Dm
awkwardness, impunity, and a picture of you.

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 06:29 PM

I thought once it might be satisfying to start a church on the basis of the "Most Wonderful Thing," where people would come together once a week and share good food and make music together and celebrate the thing in the past week that brought them the most wonder.

Out here under Wyoming's amazing skies, wonder comes easily. I think it's a lousy week if I haven't had at least two or three heartfelt "Thank you's" as I walk my dogs or drive around the "neighborhood." Sort of in keeping with "The Color Purple," although I must say I was practicing my particular brand of faith before Alice Walker codified it for us. The Church of the Holy Thank You.

(But then, I'm one of those cynical romantics, don'cha know? Getting more cynical and less romantic as time clomps by, but we all know that cynics are just heartbroken romantics...)

KC

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: The Shambles
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 08:06 PM

The BBC have for many years been running a short 'Thought For The Day' piece on the radio. It is what's known as a 'God Spot' as it of a religous nature.

Today I heard a question posed 'on air' as to whether atheists would ever have a thought worthy of inclusion?

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: alison
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 09:12 PM

hi,

Some great songs mentioned.. I love "Shanghai Breezes", and "No aphrodisiac like loneliness" is one of my favourites although it sounds a lot better than it looks.. wish I could post real audio.

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: alison
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 09:53 PM

Mick

Keep playing and singing from your hill.... it sounds great.

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: The Shambles
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 10:02 PM

Mick.

Yes carry on but keep the D a little lower, please.

Subject: RE: Did this ever happen to you?
From: Matthew B.
Date: 13 Jul 99 - 04:18 PM

KC -

May I quote you on that?

but we all know that cynics are just heartbroken romantics..

I'm imagining that Wyoming sky right now.