Thinking about la

Subject: RE: Thinking about la
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 09:26 AM

That "la la la" is really

"la-ger: no! I said a BEER"

Subject: RE: Thinking about la
From: mooman
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 06:54 AM

I don't agree at all, She has a whole large city in the Western US named after her....!

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: Thinking about la
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 06:30 AM

And here I had thought that la was so bad off it had to go on the "banana Splits" TV show, just to get by...

8-{E

Subject: RE: Thinking about la
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 05:41 AM

So la ti da!

Subject: RE: Thinking about la
From: open mike
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 02:34 AM

dough...the stuff i buy beer with...is how i heard it...

Subject: RE: Thinking about la
From: Mudlark
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 01:11 PM

Being part French, I've always been a dough fan myself. Forget ti and jam...a baguette and some good olive oil, with maybe a little puddle of balsamic vinegar in the middle, and I'm in heaven.

Subject: RE: Thinking about la
From: Amos
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 11:55 AM

la has grounds for plenty of self-esteem, man. One of the major musical centers in the universe -- la-la land -- was NAMED after her!! Why should she let a bunch of dumb Hessian folksingers decide how she should feel about herself, anyway? She's into a much bigger scene, like, y'know?


A

Subject: RE: Thinking about la
From: GUEST,skipy
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 11:36 AM

do - a beer a mexican beer
ra - a man who buys me beer
me - a man I buy beer for
fa - a long way to the bar
so - I think I'll have a beer
la - la la la la la la         (drunkenly)
te - no thanks I'll have a beer
& that will bring me back to do

as sung by the brillian Grant Baynham

Subject: RE: Thinking about la
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 11:26 AM

Me and Homer is sticking with Doh.

~S~

Subject: Thinking about la
From: John Hardly
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 11:21 AM

I've been giving lots of thought lately to the plight of poor la. Of all the notes of the major scale, la alone suffers from no identity in herself. Forever destined to be merely "a note to follow 'so'", this poor note has, no doubt, suffered esteem and identity problems ever since the first guy ever hummed the first diatonic scale.

Sure, most of the other notes suffer spelling issues. I'm sure that do, the deer, has suffered no end of being referred to as "dew" or "due", Instead of the graceful "doe". And no doubt she constantly had to explain the spelling to her elementary school teachers. "It's French", I can almost hear her say.

And I'll bet that many of the note's parents made the most of the unusual spellings – like, ra's parents surely sewed a silk stocking from the pig's-ear spelling by telling young ra that he was named for the Egyptian god of the sun. From that point on I'll bet young ra had no problem holding his head high, "y" or no "y".

And ti, as it turns out, is one of those very laid-back California herbal teas. If ever teased about the improper spelling, she so goes to, like, her "happy place". Besides, with her good friends jam and bread, she's never felt the lonely ostracism suffered by the identity-less la.

I wonder if there is any kind of support group for co-dependent major scale notes. Going through life only finding identity in the act of "following so" would be a heavy burden to bear. And such a burden to ever be wondering things like, "So, how closely do I follow so?". "If it's an oriental piece do I follow further back?". The pressure to perform must be overwhelming at times. At times I'll bet that like most co-dependent relationships, la has almost lost the sense of where so ends and la begins.

I had hope for la the other day, though. I think the girl's getting an "attitude". I played a piece where she followed ra.