BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE

Subject: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Jeep man
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 08:32 PM

Tom T. Hall wrote a good song titled, "I LOVE". I think we all would benefit by listing just a few things we like. We see enough about what people don't like. Lets try.

I LIKE
OLD FENCE ROWS COVERED WITH HONEYSUCKLE. THE FRAGRENCE IS SO NICE THERE SHOULD BE A CHARGE. SMELLS BEST AT NIGHT.

DOGS. WHATS NOT TO LIKE?

LITTLE CHILDREN. THEIR INNOCENCE AND TRUST IS TRULY WONDERFUL.

CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS FOR SUNDAY DINNER.(THE MEAL EATEN WHEN YOU GET HOME FROM CHURCH, BEST WITH FAMILY AND AT LEAST ONE FRIEND.)

SUNSETS HERE IN THE BLUE RIDGE. THE AIR IS GETTING SHARP AT NIGHT AND MAKES IT EVEN BETTER.

BIRDS,(SEE DOGS)

PICKUP TRUCKS AND OLD MEN

OLD WOMEN TAKING CARE OF OLD MEN

SUNLIGHT COMING IN MY KITCHEN WINDOW WHILE I EAT MY BREAKFAST.

REMEMBERING TO THANK THE LORD FOR ALL THE ABOVE

JEEP

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: khandu
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 09:02 PM

Cows, my wife, my guitar, Mudcat, andy griffith, O Brother, my guitar, my son, PM's, Mudchat, memories, Jackie Gleason, old jokes, my guitar, my songs, the forest, Carroll County, The Boat Band, Bob Dylan, writing, recording, my guitar, Jubilee the Barrister, Alan Moorhouse, Shirley McClain, old shoes, dictionaries, my Mom, Sorcha Dorcha, my file cabinet, Gregory Peck, my guitar, Amos, blackberry cobbler, blackberry wine, blackberries, my fiddle, my hammered dulcimer, Spaw's input, emails from J. Rasmussen, my guitar...

These are a few of my favorite things!

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Sorcha
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 09:19 PM

Dogs, esp. the herding group, fiddles, Irish music, dogs, being an entertainer, Corgis, making music with friends, cooking, Border Collies, my husband, Briards, home-grown tomates, Basenjis, (well, you get the drift.......grin)

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 09:25 PM

Hi, Khandu: You listed your guitar twice.... hmmmm...

My list has to start with I love the Lord, then in no particular order, my wife, friends and family, the glory of a beautiful fall day... my wife and I are driving up to New Hampshire tomorrow to enjoy the colors. I love doing something for someone when they're down and not expecting it.. I love the sound of voices in harmony when you get one perfect chord and you know it. I even love the smell of the lawn when I mow it... even if tufts pop up as soon as turn my back. I love sunsets where we live... at the corner of Sunset Drive and Hillcrest Avenue. I love the smell of burning leaves in the fall, even though it's against the law in most of the United States, now. I love that first slice of pizza, when it hits my taste buds. I love it when people connect, because we spend so much time talking past each other. I love the new-found friends I've made on Mudcat... Hillbilly Bobert, Fortunato, C-Flat, Greg Stephens and this guy named Khandu. And too many others to list... I'm not sure whether the name is from Kipling... Khandu, the Jungle boy, or it's an attitude. And not to forget old friends like Art Thieme...

That's not even getting warmed up..

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: khandu
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 09:28 PM

Jerry, My guitar is listed seven times. Perhaps I should have listed it seven times seventy! ;-)

khandu is not from Kipling...it is just me!

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 09:30 PM

Oh yeah, that was Sabu...

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 09:57 PM

I like all animals wild or tame except armadillos. I like all musical instruments as long as they don't have spit-valves or require three phase 220V circuitry to operate. I liked Edward Abbey a lot and regret that I never got to that tavern in Moab, Utah to drink that beer with him. I like people with open minds and open hearts. I like John Prine, and John McCutcheon, and John McEuen, and John Hartford, and John Fahey, and John Lee Hooker and just about everybody I've ever met named John. I like the feeling that you get when a session hits its groove and everybody gets a big ole shit-eatin' grin on their faces. I like Martin Guitars & Gibson Guitars & Guild Guitars & Santa Cruz Guitars & Collings Guitars & Lowden Guitars & Breedlove Guitars & Gallagher Guitars & Wechter Guitars & even Fender, Dean, Alvarez & Yamaha Guitars. I like The Florida Folk Festival, which is exactly as old as I am, but will, hopefully still be around a long time after I'm not.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 09:59 PM

i can only see 6 my guitars!

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 10:02 PM

I also like the New Mudcat except for when it goes down and you have to use Shorty which doesn't yet have the upgrade so you don't have automatic line breaks and you wind up with something that look like the mess that I just posted above.

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Amos
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 10:09 PM

Oh the old Khandu was a righteous shmoo
With an eye for the good and the bright
He was known afar for his keen guitar
And his song like a southern night
He had a velvet tone like a night-wind's moan
On the long Mississippi's water
And the way this shmoo could lay down the blues
Would melt Bull Connor's daughter.

Khandu! Khandu! Keep on playin'
Stayin' true
True to you, who can do,
Those things only you khandu!

Warm regards, pal. Me, I love the dappled sun on the patio in a morning, the smell of French Roast, the flavor of a good cigar, the feeling of my best-beloved wife's strong small hand in mine, the sparkle in my daughter's eyes when her love of music wells to the fore, and I truly love the sight of life force asserting itself for freedom, wherever found. I love real communication, when the cards are all on the table and the common truth rears up and sweeps the game, and the light of love in any heart, no matter whose or where it is directed. I love the gracious curves of a well built sloop or ketch lapped with a running sea and a following wind, and the beauty of our gentle womenfolk, god bless 'em all. I love the incredible colors of dawn in Arizona and the tears behind the eyes of a Gauguin maiden. I love lots of things, and I really really love my Martin. By most of all, I think I love my wee lassie Barky and her Mom.

And, boy am I lucky!! What a life, huh?

A

A

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Deda
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 10:15 PM

I like my husband, my children, my grandson, my ex-husband, Amos, my other brother John, Amos' family and John's family, the sound of my husband playing piano, the sound of voices singing a capella, the sound of Amos singing and playing, the sound of my son singing and playing, the sound of water, the ocean, my nieces and nephews, all my dear friends, Boulder creek and an island in Maine. Those are my tops.

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Mudlark
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 10:51 PM

A few, a very few, of my favorite things: my Corgi dogs, country life, my Martin guitar, music-in most of its varied forms-sunrises/sunsets, being at the ocean when the night begins to over and the sound of the waves takes on mystery and the water is turned to liquid steel, art-particularly abstract art: Paul Klee, Matisse, my husband's, the friends I really connect with, on whatever level, homegrown cucumbers...not necessarily in that order...

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Trevor
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 06:35 AM

I like sneaking off early from work and catching Squilver, which is where I live, unawares. Especially if the sun is shining - it's quiet, apart from the buzzzard keening occasionally, the dog's asleep on his warm spot and the house is creaking to itself 'cos it doesn't know I'm there.

And I like that first time in late spring when you can actually feel the warmth of the sun on your head.

And I like the smell of bracken.

And I like that feeling when you're steering a boat at night and you can imagine that you are still with the world slipping by beneath you.

And I like seeing my sons, and the role-reversal that is happening when they ring me to see if I'm OK.

And I like the familiarity, and all the little shared signs and signals, when I'm with the right person.

'Why can't it be like this all the time' (Van Morrison)

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: greg stephens
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 06:51 AM

Frankfurter sandwiches. And I'll join Trevor on the buzzards mewing. They are just coming back to Stoke after a generation or two of being driven back to the hills with poison and gun, and what a pleasure it is to see them re-colonising.(memo to Americans our buzzards arent the same as yours, ours are a soaring kind of hawk, I think yours are more of a vulture type of thing )

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 06:57 AM

Hi, Greg:

We have Mockingbirds up here in New England... they moved up into this area twenty or thirty years ago. We had a pair nesting in a bush right outside our window, and they are a delight to listen to.
Aggressive buggers, too... they'd dive bomb me when I came out the front door, actually slamming in to the top of my head with their claws.. I didn't mind... it was just a pleasure to have them around... saucy birds, like out blue jays over here... birds with an attitude..

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 09:26 AM

My cat Merlyn the Mogificent, my boyfriend, my fiddles, my mandolin, Thai Food, spaghetti bolognese, chocolate, (Im getting hungry), Talking to people on mudchat, mudcat, gatherings, cider, irish fiddle music, jazz, blues, walks along the beach, sitting in the woods just thinking, my friends (there is alot of them so I won't mention them but they know who they are) to laugh, cuddles, flowers, good red wine! the moon and the sun!!

The list is endless!!

Cat

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Kim C
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 12:00 PM

I like the opportunity to be on this Earth with all of God's innumerable blessings. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: GUEST,Dirty Old Git
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 12:26 PM

Gawd - I've manged to get orf a that bl**din nursin' 'ome thread. I agree wiv the bit abaht "Old wimmen lookin' after old men" - mind you the wimmen don't 'ave to be that old.

I like the nurses bendin' over me when I'm pretendin' to be be poorly - easpeshly the ones wiv big knockers - matron's got big knockers, but she always buttons up on 'er blouse right up to the collar before she gets near me - and keeps er 'and infront of em.

I like big Brenda walkin' into the bathroom just as I've got a nice big st***y on - mindyer she tried to drown me las' time.

I like sittin' in the lounge on a sunny day when one of them pretty young nurses in 'er thin summer uniform is standin' in front of the french windows.

I like .... Gawd here comes matron - I better log orf.

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 12:35 PM

hamsters, mushrooms, straberries, guinnes, music,old cars, gold fish, vannesa mae, onions, mars bars, and loads of stuff that i cant remember right now.john

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: maire-aine
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 06:39 PM

my kitties (all 4 of them), my house, my friends, cheeseburgers with fries, digging in the dirt in my garden, yellow orange and red flowers blooming outside my window, Jethro Tull, hot black coffee with a splash of Amaretto, sitting in front of a fire in the fireplace, singing for people, playing in a session (any session), Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, early Ford Thunderbirds, my new front porch, Brother Cadfael stories, cleaning house (once in a while), clean clothes warm from the dryer, yellow split pea soup in the fall

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 07:18 PM

Raindrops on roses; whiskers on kittens;

Sorry, time for my medicene

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Jeep man
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 07:38 PM

Nigel,that is a great line. Wish I had wrote it. Jeep

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: khandu
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 07:50 PM

Such an embarrassment to a manly man like me to be sitting at my computer with moistened eyes from reading Amos' post. I am honored!

Add to my list...Amos' poetry!

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Amos
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 08:08 PM

The honor is all in the reflection thereof, amigo. Thanks for the kind words, they are greatly appreciated, in time when such are much too scarce!

A

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 08:32 PM

I like pretty well all of the above, plus the cantelope I am eating between postings here...

I also like frogs, come to think of it. They're very pretty looking and have great eyes.

And iguanas too. I wonder if Igwig has escaped yet?

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: GUEST,Taliesn
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 09:32 PM

My list of likes and loves would be too long to list.
I'll put it this way:
Without humor or music ,we must all surely go mad.

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 09:46 PM

Tom T. Hall put it real well in one of his songs when he wrote, "In some of my songs I have casually mentioned, the fact that I like to drink beer..." Well, Tom. T., 'ol Bobert with ya on that one.

Hey, howz about a freshy hit possum on the side of the road? Ummmmm! Few onions, a little garlic...

And howz 'bout the sound of them big boys comin' out of turn 2 down at the local track?

And that smell of cracklin' pine wood burnin' back in the woods where your uncle Wesley is stillin' up some good ol' Wse Ginny moonshine...

Or the sight of an ol' Glory decal in the back window of a Camero...

Or the taste, in the words of Donnie williams.... ahhhh, life's sweet wine....

I am such a hopeless romantic...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Gloredhel
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 11:40 PM

going to daily Mass at 10pm with my friends
packages from home
cream of wheat
the squirrels around here who try to take nuts twice the size of their heads
sitting next to Matt...or Jake, or Tom, or Paul, or Mike, or....
fall leaves that hide the asphalt in the parking lot
the fact that my car has a CD player
my harp, my other harp, my big harp, my piano, my guitar, and that really nice old Steinway grand in the music classroom

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 11:43 PM

Awwwww.

I like... (in no particular order)

...my family, mostly. My parents, grandparents, sister, and her kids, especially.

...Korean food.

...the sounds that come out of a duda (Hungarian bagpipe). No, I don't have one.

...my cats, Lemmy, Gollum, and Eddie.

...good seats at concerts.

...my dear friend, Xy.

...Columbia Heights, Minnesota. Where I'm from, more or less. NE Mpls is alright, too, though it's a little too popular for me, these days.

...Wendy's Classic Single hamburger, onions only.

...the Cedar Cultural Center.

...ayran. A Turkish yogurt drink.

...taking distorted polaroids of my own face.

...many bands, performers, etc. Too numerous, boring to list.

...Duluth, Minnesota. Nice place to relax.

...Goran Bregoviæ soundtracks. (Grr. The last letter in "Bregoviæ" should be a c with a little acute thingee over it. I knew it wouldn't work, heh.)

...not working.

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Peg
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 11:58 PM

Just being alive! The beauty of the earth laid out before me..

Most things by candlelight.

Old cemeteries.

Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

Trash-picking for treasure. Thrift shops.

The shift of the seasons, fast or slow, loud or silent...the smell of the moist, melting earth and lilacs in spring, the whitehotblue of summer skies and the smell of charcoal-grilled steak and the healing heat of the sun, the dreamy mornings of autumn full of mist and things to do and leaves crunching underfoot, the gleam of snowcrust at night when the moon turns it to sugared ice...

Singing! and listening to other people sing. And I like it when kids sing.

Animals. I love my cats and other peoples' dogs. I like wild animals in the wild.

My friends and chosen family, for letting me be who I am. My birth family for accepting me as I am.

Fruit! Especially local and in season. Apples most of all. Peaches, strawberries, pears, blackberries...

The undersides of silver maples before the rain comes...the way these trees seem to make the sky bigger and more mysterious wherever they congregate.

Brushwood, a folklore center/campsite in western New York.

England's green hills and fairy-tale streets.

Psychedelic and progressive rock from the 60s and 70s including Jethro Tull, the Moody Blues, Jefferson Airplane, Donovan, and many others...

Guinness. Vanilla ice cream. Potato chips. Roast pork. Fresh greens steamed with butter and red wine vinegar and salt and pepper...

Packages in the mail..okay, brown paper packages.

peg

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 11:58 PM

Oops, screwed up that link. :) Try this.

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 12:17 AM

Gloredehel, where the heck can you find a Mass at 10 at night?

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: GUEST,anon
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 08:38 AM

the ability to post silly things here on Mudcat and noone knows its me.

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 08:46 AM

My Family, my garden, my cat, Virginia Woolf, books, medieval history,Nova Scotia.......all of it......Bach, Martin Carthy, folk music, Mackeral, Propeller Ale, CBC radio Two andmy old Gibson.
   Great to have such a positive thread, thanks for starting it.

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: Gurney
Date: 10 Oct 02 - 06:03 AM

Aside from the obvious.. non-PC songs like hunting songs, fish and chips (cooked in tallow) with mushy peas and stout, fried bacon with mushrooms, coarse fishing on Autumn mornings, sea fishing on lovely Winter days, fixing things as good as new, old motorbikes, sometimes listening to tape recordings made live long ago.

Subject: RE: BS: THINGS THAT I LIKE
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 10 Oct 02 - 06:32 AM

cold crisp mornings, the sound of silence,
wind blowing golden leaves in sun dappled glades, beautiful voices in harmony,long lie - in on a weekend, snow covered mountains,a job well done,a large single malt,