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Subject: What are you, really? From: Jim the Bart Date: 28 Mar 01 - 09:52 AM Everyone wears many hats in life. Some you take on, some are placed upon you. Very few of us get to fill the role in life which we consider to be our own. Many of us would prefer a life centered around the music; that's why we come here to the Mudcat. I would be willing to wager that very few of us actually work as musicians, composers, conductors, recording engineers or any of the myriad professions connected with music in this age. So my question is simple: Regardless of what you do for a living, in your heart of hearts, what do you consider yourself to be? I am a musician and philosopher (note that I didn't say you had to be good at the thing you consider yourself to be). I pay my way as a software trainer, but my passion lies in exploring how the world works, through music. When faced with a serious life choice, everything else must allow for that. There, I have confessed. I will never be as committed to software training as I am to the music. Now it's your turn. What are you, really? |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bagpuss Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:06 AM Don't know about anybody else here, but I'm a human being (or a saggy old cloth cat....). Bagpuss |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: kendall Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:12 AM I am whatever others make me out to be. Personally, I havn't a clue. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: LR Mole Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:18 AM I am a hat. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Justa Picker Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:35 AM A musician first and foremost. Everything else is secondary. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: annamill Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:38 AM I an definitely a lady of leasure, woman of wealth, with no objective except to lay in the sun, next to the water, listening and learning to play music. Unfortunately, in reality..... Love, annamill |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bagpuss Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:40 AM I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Bagpuss |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: MMario Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:48 AM In the reality of my innermost? a wastrel. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Bruce o. Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:06 AM Just another trying to find my way out of a morass of ignorance. Maybe someday I'll see something on the other side that I can use for a beacon. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Dharmabum Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:08 AM Freelance Gynecologist |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Rick Fielding Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:17 AM Amateur psychologist. It wouldn't be fun if I had to make my living from it. Oh, and Vegematic demonstrator at a Carnival. Former perennial World Seies baseball star. Ahh, who's kiddin' who? Musician. Rick |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: JulieF Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:17 AM A wild child , a nymph of the wood, living wild and free , a precocious intellect and wit, the voice of an angel The demon analyst who can help any one overcome their problems ( Computer that is) in reality a 37 year old pragmitist who worries ( the family say overworries) and who has to practice spontenaity. Defined by the absolute horror that is the state of my house and the feeling that somewhere I'm letting someone down. The solo sing marred by a tendancy to shake from a place deep in the depth of me and an inability to remember all my own words ( Although I remember every one else). Actually sometimes the job's not far off and I have to admit , if it was just slightly more intellectually challenging just some of the time. I do have a fairly sharp wit - but why do you always come up with the brilliant comeback ten minutes after you needed it. Julie |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Kim C Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:17 AM A singer. All I ever wanted to do was sing, for as long as I can remember. I wanted to be a rock star but you see how that turned out! ;-) It's not how I make my living, and it's not quite how I imagined it... but I am a singer. Sometimes I get paid in money, but the appreciation is a much greater wealth. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:19 AM Dharmabum... can I be your apprentice?hehehe ..you're killing me |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,John Hill Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:22 AM I am the Eggman |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:22 AM Hackneyed: A Legend in my own mind. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Allan C. Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:26 AM I am a whole lot more like I am now than I was before. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:26 AM And I am the Walrus! Goo goo g'joob! |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bagpuss Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:27 AM I think we find out what are the most important roles in our life by thinking about whether we would be essentially the same person if that role were gone. I am a singer and a psychology researcher - both are equal parts of what makes me me. I couldnt stand it if I wasnt able to sing for some reason, but equally, I would hate to lose the academic and research side of me. If I couldn't do it as a job, I would do it as a hobby. Maybe one day I will swap and become a singer by profession and a hobbyist researcher. Then maybe I will find out if both those roles are the same to me. Bagpuss |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Big Mick Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:55 AM I am Rick Fielding, Dan Milner, Sandy Paton, Caroline Paton, Art Thieme, Jeannie Robertson, Odetta, Saul Alinsky, Cesar Chavez, Mother Jones, Dorothy Newman, Jeannie Cogan and Dick Greenhaus. Mick |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Jenny the T Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:05 PM >I'm a little teapot, short and stout. I never could get the hang of that game--I'd always end up with both fists on my hips. I guess I'm a sugarbowl. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Mrs.Duck Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:22 PM What time is it?6.20pm Right in that case I'm a Mummy trying to put two babies to bed and type at the same time. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: katlaughing Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:30 PM So that's really been you all this time, huh, Mick? Does Heather know? Sure was great talking to you the other day when I called Caroline and Sandy. Wish'd I'd known it was really you! **BG** I am a writer, have been ever since I can remember. I'd like to make more money at it, but lack the motivation to be aggressive enough for that. Besides which, one reader telling me how much they loved something I've written is worth more than any amount of money. ON the other hand, I would feel a lot less guilt if I were contributing more, financially, even though it is not asked of me. My words, then my music and animals. That is who I am.
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mousethief Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:34 PM I love how Brits start sentences with "Right." It's so cute. I'm a dad, a stepdad, a husband, a tonsured Reader, a parishioner, a believer, a sinner, a jerk, a poet, a songwriter, a singer, a guitar player, a cross-stitcher, a reader of various types of books, a collector of various types of books, a computer programmer-analyst, an employee, a son, a step-brother, an uncle, a cousin, a philosopher, a college graduate, a tall, pudgy, bald guy, a listener to various kinds of music, a driver, a cow-orker, a handyman, a shopper, a "consumer" (how I hate that term!), a human organism, a depressive, an ADHDer, a patient, an ex-husband, a male, one hell of a nice guy, and if you're still reading this you're far more persistent than I am. Alex |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: catspaw49 Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:34 PM Having no idea, I'd say a lot of folks view me as a real dimbulb jerk with a bizarre sense of humor. To that end, assuming you are not humor impaired, I would urge you to visit and play some games at what has zoomed to the top of my website list. Had enough of Elian Gonzalez yet? Try the "Deportation Game." Fed up with your kids watching Blue's Clues or Pokemon? Need some Easter cheer? Watch the Bunny lay colored eggs or make your own Chocolate Bunny....go for the Nougat filling. So if indeed you are a real sick fuck like me, check out Killfrog.Com. Its a good question Bart, but at this stage of my life I'm simply a Dad...........and I embarass Michael a lot! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Mrs.Duck Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:36 PM Right they're in now but still shouting so for the next few moments I shall be me winding down on the 'puter close enought to become Mummy again if needed. All day long I have been nose wiper, a psychoanalyst, a physiotherapist, an actor, a surrogate parent, a social worker, an arbitrator, an occasional punchbag, an administrator, a clerk, a legal adviser, a counsellor, a voice in the wilderness, an artist, a politician, a total wreck and hopefully at some point an educator. Later on this evening I might manage a short trip to the pub and become a musician/singer for a while before coming home and being a wife, a friend, a lover(unless called upon to be Mummy again!) Then I will close my eyes and in my dreams be me! |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Art Thieme Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:37 PM I am a banana chasing a bagel through the Holland Tunnel. That's a dream I had once. Now----lemme see you make something freudian out o' that ?!? Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: kendall Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:41 PM Julie F, how does one practice being spontaneous? You did that on purpose to see if anyone was really listening, right? |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: wysiwyg Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:42 PM As flexible as possible. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Mrs.Duck Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:48 PM Art I just did and .................................. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: katlaughing Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:59 PM Art, is there a condom on the banana?**BG** Sorry, sorry, couldn't resist! Ya just kinda set it up real good there! luvyakat |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Kim C Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:06 PM Alex, you like to cross-stitch? I used to do that a bunch before I discovered knitting. Still have all my stuff, though, and still buy cool new stuff because I Might Need It Someday. ;-) I too am a Needleworker/craftsperson/seamstress but that is something I started later on in life, long after Singing. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: hesperis Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:17 PM I am that I am |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Big Mick Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:20 PM Shit..........I forgot...........I am also Kendall Morse, Gordon Bok, Ed Trickett, Ann Mayo Muir and Kath Westra.................... All the best from all of us, Mick |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:24 PM Malvina Reynolds had a poem once. Ah, it's over here in THE MUSE OF PARKER STREET: You can't run away No matter where you go. The world isn't big enough For you and yourself, And everywhere, that YOU comes tagging along. You can't run away From the ones you love. For they are you, too, You are the sum of what they think of you, And if you run They wonder for a while, And then you grow less and less with every mile. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Bruce O. Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:26 PM I think, therefore I am (I didn't invent that obviously), but after that it gets too complicated. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mousethief Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:27 PM Art Thieme: The banana is, of course, a penis, and the bagel is a faulty cervical cap. The tunnel is of course the tunnel of love. This has to do with your fear of birth control failing. No? Oh well, it was fun to type. KimC: Yeah, I do cross-stitch. I tried knitting once, and just couldn't keep the tension right. So I gave it up. And yeah, I'm a seamster or whatever the word is for a man who sews. Sewer? Whatever. I was doing that long before I took up singing, though. I was on the "sailmaking" team in my Sea Explorer Ship, which meant that at Regattas (competitions analagous to camporees in boy scouts) we competed against other teams using big ol' ugly needles, a "palm" (device for pushing needles through canvas), heavy "stuff" (thread) and canvas, making 2 kinds of stitches and a grommet. We always won. We was good. Kendall: spontaneously. Alex |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Amergin Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:37 PM I'm Popeye the Sailor! either that or a sex god.... |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bardford Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:07 PM There's only one thing that I know how to do well And I've often been told that you only can do What you know how to do well And that's be you, be what you're like, Be like yourself They Might Be Giants-"Whistling in the Dark." That being said, at the end of the day, for all intents and purposes, to wit: I am a rock. I am an island. I am a bold deciever. I am a jolly shanty boy, as you shall soon discover I am a bard of no regard. I am me mother's darling. I am a joker, a smoker, a midnight toker. I am slain by a cruel fair maid.
I am Ned of the Hill.
I am in sympathy with the miners.
I am a young lover and sorely oppressed.
I am a driver on a western highway. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:27 PM I am a whole lot more like I am now than I was before. Very elegantly phrased Allan!
Non sum qualis eram.
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Geoff the Duck Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:30 PM I am pink, therefore I'm SPAM???? Nope - I am just out of the bath, and - as the saying goes - If it has got a wet bottom and goes "Quack" - It's a Duck!!!!! Quack! Geoff the Duck |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Geoff the Duck Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:33 PM Right, that's that sorted out - What's "Cute" about us English? |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mousethief Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:38 PM The way y'all talk. It's so quaint! |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Mrs.Duck Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:43 PM Right,I think it's so cute the way you find us so cute!! Si je suis que je suis je ne suis pas que je suis. Quesque je suis? Une canarde. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Nancy Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:49 PM Recently retired potter, folkie since birth, tree hugger, dog lover, lover of mirth. Beach comber, time waster, sells short and buys long, writer, reader, singer of songs. Old folksong singer, emphasis not what it used to be.... nancy |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Mar 01 - 03:04 PM I am a voice crying in the desert. Why the hell don't you guys listen to me? -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mousethief Date: 28 Mar 01 - 03:09 PM Joe -- We're afraid you're after our chickens. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: tiggerdooley Date: 28 Mar 01 - 03:24 PM A child |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Kim C Date: 28 Mar 01 - 03:35 PM I'm a good ole rebel. |
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Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Mr Red Date: 28 Mar 01 - 05:39 PM The Man that broke the bank at Monte Carlo. |
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