BS: Sometimes I feel

Subject: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Jan 06 - 09:16 PM

like a motherless child.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Jan 06 - 09:16 PM

like a nut. Sometimes I don't.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Beer
Date: 14 Jan 06 - 09:18 PM

with my hands.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Jan 06 - 09:19 PM

....

Anybody else want to share how they sometimes feel?

If so, the floor's {or at least the thread's} yours.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Jan 06 - 09:21 PM

Ha Ha! That's a good one, Beer {for everybody?}

Sometimes I feel that some people think they are too witty for their own good.

{I'm talkin bout myself here}

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Jan 06 - 09:59 PM

Like an idiot. And all of the above too.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 14 Jan 06 - 10:04 PM

misunderstood

other times I feel like wearing a hat

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 09:53 AM

like running away. But I always find myself when I do.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: MMario
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 10:05 AM

...nobody likes me, everybody hates me, think I'll go eat worms.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Alba
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 10:14 AM

... I feel pretty, oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and bright and then again sometimes I feel none of the above..:>)
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: artbrooks
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 10:17 AM

Tired and depressed. And then I remember that I don't live in Erie or Pittsburgh any more, and all is well again.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: *daylia*
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 10:24 AM

Big fat juicy ones? Long slim slimey ones? Itsy bitsy? Fuzzy wuzzy?

WORMS!!!!!!

That's gotta be it. I feel like a warm'n wriggly (but never one'n only) Worm today. And I'm in good company too. See?

~~~~ ... ~~~~ ... ~~~~ ...~~~~...~~~~...

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: the one
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 10:26 AM

LIKE TED.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 11:28 AM

like reading the mudcat but i cant get on.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: number 6
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 11:39 AM

... down right shitty.

I'm currently suffering from a sinus infection.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 12:30 PM

You've been breathing that Irving Air again, haven't you sIx?

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 12:48 PM

Did somebody mention Pittsburgh?!

There are times that I feel like insulting my adopted city myself. But the sun is shining today so this isn't one of those times.

:o)

Back atcha, artbrooks.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: bobad
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 02:15 PM

Like spring couldn't be here soon enough.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: kendall
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 02:18 PM

When I feel like walking down the street and knocking people's hats off, I know it's time to go to sea again.
A free tape to the first one who posts where I stole that quote.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 02:25 PM

Moby Dick.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: kendall
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 02:27 PM

That was too easy, but pm your address and you shall have a tape of Beginners Luck.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 02:28 PM

A bad-assed whale comes to mind, Kendall, and it's from what is possibly the greatest American novel ever written. It was exciting to me as a kid, and since you've reminded me, it's time to reread it.

I am hoping there's enough there so that someone who hasn't got any of your recorded material can post the answer and hear you. That is my thanks back to you.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: leftydee
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 02:29 PM

Elmer Fudd as Ishmael. Now there's a cartoon I'd love to see!!

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 02:35 PM

I don't feel like Moby Dick; that's where Kendall's quote is from. Ishmael, that is. Do I really get a tape?

Feelings? How 'bout Joni Mitchell:

And I feel like I'm just being born;
Like a shiny light breaking in a storm.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 02:37 PM

Dang. I was writing that post while Elmer was giving the answer. Good for you. If you haven't heard Kendall, you're in for a real treat.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 02:46 PM

You may as well send Kendall enough $ to get him to send the works in one shipment... written works as well... worth every penny.

Say... I wonder... Kendall... are any of your TV shows avaiable in any form?

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: kendall
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 03:50 PM

Yes, Elmer, I meant it. All I need is an address.

Gnu, all those tv shows were copyrighted by Maine Public Broadcasting. I've been meaning to contact them and find out if I can copy them. If so, I will make up some for sale. It's been 25 years so maybe they are free of copyright infringement.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: GUEST,dianavan
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 04:15 PM

like a nat u ral woman.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 04:32 PM

Dianavan, that'a a good one!

****

Pittsburgh's just won the football playoff!
Sometimes I feel proud about my adopted home-sportswise, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 04:37 PM

. . . like a motherless child.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: John O'L
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 04:49 PM

Wake up Peace

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 04:53 PM

Sometimes IIIIIIII feel
Like I been tied..(Bee-domp-domp-ba-da)
to the Whippin' Post

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 04:55 PM

Wake up Peace

Easy for YOU to say.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: John O'L
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 04:59 PM

8.55 AM here

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Amos
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 05:00 PM

like going to sleep and not bothering with waking up again...


A

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 05:01 PM

You too?

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Okay. I know this thread isn't above the line, but I just checked some online websites for the lyrics to this "Negro" spiritual and I'm not finding the same words that I remember my church choir singing.

Here's one version:
"SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD"

from « American Negro Spirituals
by J. W. Johnson, J. R. Johnson, 1926


Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long ways from home
A long ways from home
True believer
A long ways from home
Along ways from home

Sometimes I feel like I'm almos' gone
Sometimes I feel like I'm almos' gone
Sometimes I feel like I'm almos' gone
Way up in de heab'nly land
Way up in de heab'nly land
True believer
Way up in de heab'nly land
Way up in de heab'nly land

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long ways from home
There's praying everywhere

Source: Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child

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Then there's this version:

Melody - Harry Thacker Burleigh, 191? (1866-1949)

Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child
A Long Way From Home
True Believer
A Long Way From Home   
Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child

Sometimes I wish I could fly,
Like a bird up in the sky
Sometimes I wish I could fly,
Like a bird in the sky
Little closer to home

Motherless children
Have a real hard time
Motherless children
Have a such a real hard time
So long so long so long

Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child
So far away

Sometimes I feel
Like freedom is near
Sometimes I feel
Like freedom is near
But we're so far away

Sometimes I feel
Like it's close at hand
Sometimes I feel
Like the freedom is near
But we're so far from home

Sometimes, sometimes,
Sometimes
So far, so far, so far,
So far Mama from you, so far

Source: Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child version 2

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But I remember being taught that song this way:

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child.
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
[True believer] *
A long way from home.
A long way from home

Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone.
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone.
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone.
[True believer] *
A long way from home.
A long way from home

Sometimes I feel like an eagle in the air
Sometimes I feel like an eagle in the air
Sometimes I feel like an eagle in the air
A long way from home
[True believer]*
A long way from home

* optional phrase.

I'm curious which version of this song is most familiar to folks here.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: bobad
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 05:04 PM

Like it's déja vu all over again.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 05:05 PM

Clarification: My "you too" comment was directed to Peace.

****

Amos, pleasant dreams are all well & good. But we need your energy in the waking world.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 05:12 PM

[I just read this on another thread. Is this a line from a song?]

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: GUEST,Sidewinder - PM
Date: 04 Feb 05 - 08:09 AM

Like A Bird On A Wire, Or A Drunk In A Choir, I Have Strived All My Life To Be Free...

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Firecat
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 05:19 PM

Angry and stressed and fed up and too many other things to list.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 05:20 PM

. . . like a rudderless duck.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 05:28 PM

"Angry and stressed and fed up and too many other things to list."

Probably because you're eating too much red meat.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: bobad
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 05:31 PM

Azizi, it's a Leonard Cohen song :

Bird on the Wire

    Like a bird on the wire,
    like a drunk in a midnight choir
    I have tried in my way to be free.
    Like a worm on a hook,
    like a knight from some old fashioned book
    I have saved all my ribbons for thee.
    If I, if I have been unkind,
    I hope that you can just let it go by.
    If I, if I have been untrue
    I hope you know it was never to you.

    Like a baby, stillborn,
    like a beast with his horn
    I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
    But I swear by this song
    and by all that I have done wrong
    I will make it all up to thee.
    I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,
    he said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
    And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
    she cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"

    Oh like a bird on the wire,
    like a drunk in a midnight choir
    I have tried in my way to be free.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 05:40 PM

Best rendition was by the Neville Brothers, IMO.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 05:57 PM

I disagree with you Peace. I like Tim Hardin's rendition the best.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 05:59 PM

I met Tim a few times in NYC, and heard a few sets, but I have never heard him sing it. So, let me rephrase that: Of all the renditions of "B on a W" I have heard, I like the Neville Brothers' version best.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel....
From: Severn
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 06:00 PM

...and sometimes I merely grope.

Sometimes I reach out and nothing's there,

and some days I'm completely out of touch, with not even any in reserve back in the warehouse.

But today, I might not feel as good as a young James Brown, but I do feel GOOD!

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 06:08 PM

... like starting something new... then I look at all the things I have to finish first.


I used to have a badge that said 'I feel 100' and people would ask 'a 100 what?' so I'd grope their ass (if male, arm if female) and say '37....'. You had to be there.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 06:10 PM

Usually I have to pay for that.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: leftydee
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 06:41 PM

I feel like a cigarette even though I quit them 21 years ago. Ooooooh it's a nasty habit!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: autolycus
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 06:52 PM

Elated. Fed up. Loving. Complacent. Angry. Tired. Happy. "and some uver fings that's j'st,j'st out o' copyright" i.e. silly. Neutral. Nothing much at times when I'm in my head. (Why is Mudcat addictive?)

Then again I'm a Cancerian, motto "I feel therefore I am."

I think it's great when people say how they're feeling - we all have them - even the ones who say they don't, do.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: frogprince
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 06:54 PM

Sometimes I feel,
and somebody feels me in return...

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 06:54 PM

like a migraine stopped time.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: John O'L
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 06:58 PM

...and sometimes I don't.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: frogprince
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 07:02 PM

Her boyfriend was cultured; he studied at Yale;
He praised her in French, German, Latin and Braille.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Beer
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 07:10 PM

3 years January 2nd. Lefty. And yes, sometimes I feel like one.
beer

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 07:26 PM

I usually feel with my fingers, which makes absolutely no sense. We should fing with our fingers and feel with our feelers!

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Amos
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 07:33 PM

Fing yourself, BWL!! It makes yer feelers go zonng!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Bizibod
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 07:46 PM

like sitting in a box.

Or spying on people.

Or singing down a cardboard tube.

But mostly , I feel like chocolate.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: John O'L
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 07:59 PM

Sometimes I think, too...

Sometimes I think too...

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 08:56 PM

life is good.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 11:33 PM

Sometimes I feel like...
Screaming
close my eyes
It's times like this
my head goes down
and the only thing I know
is the name of this town
is the name of this town -Deep Purple "Sometimes I Feel LIke Screaming"

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 11:34 PM

Sometimes I feel like Elvis
Here I am with everything and nothing at all
I've never felt so helpless
I don't know who I am now that you're gone
Sometimes I feel like Elvis - Wynona Judd "Sometimes I Feel Like Elvis"

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 11:46 PM

Sometimes I feel
Like I don't have a partner
Sometimes I feel
Like my only friend
Is the city I live in
The city of angels
Lonely as I am
Together we cry - Red Hot Chili Peppers "Under The Bridge"

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 11:56 PM

"Sometimes I Feel Like A Moth" - Ramsey Lewis

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: open mike
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 01:16 AM

I feel like Hank Williams tonight..
a song i have heard done by Alice Stuart..

also see this page...
of "I feel"
songs..
http://www.ibiblio.org/folkindex/i02.htm

including I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag - Countyr Joe McDonald

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 03:48 AM

... like chicken tonight... apparently it tastes a lot like Hank Williams.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 07:35 AM

Bobad, thanks for identifying that Leonard Cohen "Bird on the Wire" song.

Guest, thanks for the great list of "Sometimes I feel" songs.

Our list of songs and sayings and feelings keeps growing. I'm lovin it. And, speaking of loving, here's another song to add to this list {though it doesn't include the word "sometimes":

I FEEL PRETTY

I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty and witty and bright!
And I pity
Any girl who isn't me tonight.

I feel charming,
Oh, so charming
It's alarming how charming I feel!
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe I'm real.

See the pretty girl in that mirror there:
Who can that attractive girl be?
Such a pretty face,
Such a pretty dress,
Such a pretty smile,
Such a pretty me!

I feel stunning
And entrancing,
Feel like running and dancing for joy,
For I'm loved
By a pretty wonderful boy!

-snip-
[Of course, I'd change "boy" to "man"]

Source: The Official West Side Story Lyrics Site

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Severn
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 09:41 AM

Actually, if the police were to shadow a few of these people who constantly sing "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" to themselves and find out where they go when they feel like one, they might finally be able to locate some of those missing children displayed on the milk cartons and junk mail and find out where they've been kept all this time, and lock up a responsible party or two.

(Without infringing on the rights of the majority of us who merely love one of the more beautiful Spirituals in both word and tune in existance,of course!)

....And remember, if you see a picture of an adult obviously over 21 in the upper left hand corner of one of those pieces of junk mail who is not accompanied by a juvenile, don't worry, as they're only real estate agents. And despite the coincidince, my friends in real estate, whose real families I've known since childhood, assure me there is no connection whatsoever, even though they'd obviously have more access to places to hide the kids than anyome else. I don't know what they'd be doing with them or training them for anyway, but still I always wondered.....

So with my one major try at being a legitimate Conspiricy Theorist being a total failure, you can understand why I leave the political threads to the rest of you. Sometimes I feel......

it's probably better that way.....

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 09:59 AM

Sometimes I feel this guy lied to me
honestly I do

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: LilyFestre
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 10:21 AM

Anxious, alive, nervous, excited, interested, curious, behind, nerdy, intrusive, loved....and that's all before the first cup of coffee! :)

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: alanabit
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 01:55 PM

I thought Autolycus felt, "...like a snapper up of unconsidered trifles..."

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 05:07 PM

like this

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 05:13 PM

Sometimes I feel like I am leaving life behind.
My hands are moving faster than the moving of my mind.
Thoughts and generations of my dreams are yet unborn
I hope that I will find them, 'fore my movin' gets to worn.
If only I could live to see, the dawning of the dawn.

(This was one of the first songs I learned to play on guitar)
Third Week in the Chelsea- Jefferson Airplane's Bark album.
Peace. Rustic

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: autolycus
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 05:48 PM

Not feel like a snapper-up, just am a snapper-up.

Meanwhile I feel loads of things.

I feel energised at the moment, which is annoying cos it's bed-time.

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: number 6
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 06:08 PM

... extremely shitty.

Still suffering from infected sinus ... patiently waiting for the antibiotics to kick in.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 06:29 PM

Hope you feel better soon, number 6.


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Writing this it just occurs to me that there sure are alot of meanings for the word "feel".

Here's what I found online at http://www.answers.com/topic/feel:

verb: "feel":

To be physically aware of through the senses: experience, have. See knowledge/ignorance.

To bring the hands or fingers, for example, into contact with so as
to give or receive a physical sensation: finger, handle, palpate, touch. See touch/not touch.

To reach about or search blindly or uncertainly: fumble, grabble, grope, poke. See seek/avoid, touch/not touch.

To participate in or partake of personally: experience, go through, have, know, meet1 (with), see, suffer, taste (of), undergo. Archaic prove. Idioms: run up against. See participate/abstain.

To be intuitively aware of: apprehend, intuit, perceive, sense. Idioms: feel in one's bones, get vibrations. See knowledge/ignorance.

To undergo an emotional reaction: experience, have, know, savor, taste. See feelings.

To experience or express compassion: ache, commiserate, compassionate, pity, sympathize, yearn. Idioms: be sorry, havetakepity. See pity.

To view in a certain way: believe, hold, sense, think. See opinion.

-snip-

And there's more where these came from...

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Jan 06 - 05:22 AM

Crappy... well, today anyway. Doc says my blood pressure is low and he's sorry but he can't prescribe me 3 weeks in the Bahamas.... I said I'd prefer Mauritius.


LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Jan 06 - 11:50 AM

Absolutely overwhelmed, especially by the sunset tonight... As I look out of my window, the sky is lavender, duck egg blue, flame yellow, blaze orange and rosy pink... it's a stunning sight and I have no batteries in the camera to record it..... but then even Turner couldn't do this sky justice.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 17 Jan 06 - 07:59 PM

MIDDLE AGE

Sometimes I feel; I mostly don't.
Mostly I kneel - but sometimes won't.
I live the day as best I can,
without a thought, without a plan.
If there's a chance, I mostly miss.
I rarely love, I mainly kiss.
With absent mind most of the time,
I more or less still find the line.
A bumbling fool, one day to next,
not even angry - just mildly vexed.
Sometimes in time, but mostly late
life doesn't rhyme, can't concentrate.
No will to fight, no time for fun;
from day till night I'm on the run.
Little to mark my whole life through.
You think you're better? then more fool you!

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 17 Jan 06 - 08:14 PM

I hasten to add that the above is not autobiographical, but rather a collage. Me, I have a life of course! Every waking moment is spent creatively. My receptors are open to all the stimuli the world has to offer. And I feel great. All the time. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 17 Jan 06 - 09:36 PM

So El Greco, did you write that?

Great! But I'm glad that it's not a true description of you- all the time anyway.

Sorry, but I can't join you in saying that "Every waking moment is spent creatively. My receptors are open to all the stimuli the world has to offer. And I feel great. All the time."

But since you added a smile to the end of your comment, maybe you really didn't mean that you were a superman. All the time.

I guess sometimes it's okay to feel human.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 03:49 AM

It's OK to feel humen - precisely my point, Azizi.
Even the most alert amongst us have flat moments or even periods.
Even Casenova must have kissed absedmindedly (without "love").
No, of course I am not superhuman, except in my dreams - but don't tell Nessie and spoil it for me! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: autolycus
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 04:48 AM

I'm assuming Azizi had meaning 6 (undergo an emotional reaction)as nearest to what they had in mind when starting this thread.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 04:59 AM

Very likely; but I can't help what thoughts are triggered by a phrase...

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 07:22 AM

When I started this thread, I was thinking of songs or sayings that started with the phrase "Sometimes I feel". But I love how threads evolve, and I love exploring the different meanings words have, and the different ways words are used {maybe those two mean the same thing, but maybe not}.

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I just realized that I did what Peace did even before Peace did it:

See Alba's 15 Jan 06 - 10:14 AM "I feel pretty post" and my 16 Jan 06 - 07:35 AM post that includes the song "I feel pretty." I know I read Alba's post, but I forgot that I read it.

Oopsie daisy!

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Here's another way the word "feel" is used.

"I feel you" {as in "I feel, you man" or "I'm feelin you" or "Are you feelin me on this one?} are sayings that come from hip-hop culture. "Feelin" in these contexts means being empathetic, and understanding the person's point of view, or approving of what the person said, or does. It's interesting to me that "I feel you" took the place of "I hear you" {maybe because Verizon's cell phone company co-opted the saying and changed it to "Can you hear me now?".

Though I'm not a fan of hip-hop music, I love the creativity of hip-hop language practices. I'm really feelin it.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: number 6
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 11:39 AM

... pretty good!

The antibiotics are kickin' in and I now have full vision in my right eye and certainly feel less pain.

Life's starting to look good again.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: JennieG
Date: 19 Jan 06 - 12:55 AM

Jolly good number 6!

Sometimes I feel.......



.......underwhelmed.......

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 19 Jan 06 - 07:57 PM

Deep Purple
Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming

While you were out...
the message says
You left a number
and I tried to call
But they wrote it down
in a perfect Spanish scrawl
in a perfect Spanish scrawl

Yet again
I'm missing you
King size bed
(in a) hotel someplace
I hear your name
I see your face
I see your face

(The) back street dolls
and the side door johnnies
The wide eyed boys with their bags full of
money
Back in the alley
going bang to the wall
Tied to the tail
of a midnight crawl
Heaven wouldn't be
so high I know
if the times gone by
hadn't been so low
The best laid plans
come apart at the seams
and shatter all my dreams

Sometimes I feel like...
Screaming
close my eyes
It's times like this
my head goes down
and the only thing I know
is the name of this town
is the name of this town

Yet again
I'm missing you
won't be long
O' coming home
Until that distant time
I'll be moving on
I'll be moving on

Deep Purple: Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Amos
Date: 19 Jan 06 - 08:04 PM

I feel ya on the lingo, Aziz!! :D


A

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 19 Jan 06 - 08:14 PM

Yeah but the lingo keeps on changin -which is a sign of its vitality.

That's why I keep checkin out Hip-Hop magazines like The Source and Vibe-to see what's new in "languaging" much more [very much more] than for the music.

I tend top mix and matching-a little bit of hip-hop, a little bit of 60s soul talk, and mostly mainstream American talk {which has incorporated alot of the other anyway..

It's all good . Well, not really. But I know how to play pass what I don't like and groove with what I do. So it works for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes I feel
From: Azizi
Date: 19 Jan 06 - 08:16 PM

oops- "tend top" is supposed to be "tend to"

Sometimes I feel like I need to take a break.

And so I will.