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28 Mar 01 - 09:52 AM (#427464) Subject: What are you, really? From: Jim the Bart 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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28 Mar 01 - 10:06 AM (#427473) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bagpuss Don't know about anybody else here, but I'm a human being (or a saggy old cloth cat....). Bagpuss |
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28 Mar 01 - 10:12 AM (#427478) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: kendall I am whatever others make me out to be. Personally, I havn't a clue. |
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28 Mar 01 - 10:18 AM (#427489) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: LR Mole I am a hat. |
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28 Mar 01 - 10:35 AM (#427508) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Justa Picker A musician first and foremost. Everything else is secondary. |
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28 Mar 01 - 10:38 AM (#427512) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: annamill 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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28 Mar 01 - 10:40 AM (#427516) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bagpuss I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Bagpuss |
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28 Mar 01 - 10:48 AM (#427531) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: MMario In the reality of my innermost? a wastrel. |
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28 Mar 01 - 11:06 AM (#427547) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Bruce o. 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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28 Mar 01 - 11:08 AM (#427553) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Dharmabum Freelance Gynecologist |
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28 Mar 01 - 11:17 AM (#427557) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Rick Fielding 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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28 Mar 01 - 11:17 AM (#427558) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: JulieF 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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28 Mar 01 - 11:17 AM (#427560) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Kim C 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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28 Mar 01 - 11:19 AM (#427562) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST Dharmabum... can I be your apprentice?hehehe ..you're killing me |
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28 Mar 01 - 11:22 AM (#427564) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,John Hill I am the Eggman |
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28 Mar 01 - 11:22 AM (#427567) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST Hackneyed: A Legend in my own mind. |
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28 Mar 01 - 11:26 AM (#427571) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Allan C. I am a whole lot more like I am now than I was before. |
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28 Mar 01 - 11:26 AM (#427573) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Matt_R And I am the Walrus! Goo goo g'joob! |
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28 Mar 01 - 11:27 AM (#427575) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bagpuss 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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28 Mar 01 - 11:55 AM (#427605) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Big Mick 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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28 Mar 01 - 12:05 PM (#427621) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Jenny the T >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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28 Mar 01 - 12:22 PM (#427631) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Mrs.Duck 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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28 Mar 01 - 12:30 PM (#427638) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: katlaughing 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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28 Mar 01 - 12:34 PM (#427641) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mousethief 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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28 Mar 01 - 12:34 PM (#427643) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: catspaw49 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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28 Mar 01 - 12:36 PM (#427650) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Mrs.Duck 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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28 Mar 01 - 12:37 PM (#427651) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Art Thieme 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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28 Mar 01 - 12:41 PM (#427654) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: kendall 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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28 Mar 01 - 12:42 PM (#427656) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: wysiwyg As flexible as possible. |
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28 Mar 01 - 12:48 PM (#427671) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Mrs.Duck Art I just did and .................................. |
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28 Mar 01 - 12:59 PM (#427686) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: katlaughing 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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28 Mar 01 - 01:06 PM (#427690) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Kim C 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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28 Mar 01 - 01:17 PM (#427702) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: hesperis I am that I am |
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28 Mar 01 - 01:20 PM (#427704) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Big Mick 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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28 Mar 01 - 01:24 PM (#427706) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C 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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28 Mar 01 - 01:26 PM (#427709) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Bruce O. I think, therefore I am (I didn't invent that obviously), but after that it gets too complicated. |
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28 Mar 01 - 01:27 PM (#427710) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mousethief 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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28 Mar 01 - 01:37 PM (#427719) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Amergin I'm Popeye the Sailor! either that or a sex god.... |
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28 Mar 01 - 02:07 PM (#427733) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bardford 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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28 Mar 01 - 02:27 PM (#427744) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: McGrath of Harlow 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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28 Mar 01 - 02:30 PM (#427746) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Geoff the Duck 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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28 Mar 01 - 02:33 PM (#427748) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Geoff the Duck Right, that's that sorted out - What's "Cute" about us English? |
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28 Mar 01 - 02:38 PM (#427754) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mousethief The way y'all talk. It's so quaint! |
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28 Mar 01 - 02:43 PM (#427760) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Mrs.Duck 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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28 Mar 01 - 02:49 PM (#427763) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Nancy 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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28 Mar 01 - 03:04 PM (#427772) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Joe Offer I am a voice crying in the desert. Why the hell don't you guys listen to me? -Joe Offer- |
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28 Mar 01 - 03:09 PM (#427774) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mousethief Joe -- We're afraid you're after our chickens. |
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28 Mar 01 - 03:24 PM (#427784) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: tiggerdooley A child |
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28 Mar 01 - 03:35 PM (#427800) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Kim C I'm a good ole rebel. |
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28 Mar 01 - 05:39 PM (#427907) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Mr Red The Man that broke the bank at Monte Carlo. |
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28 Mar 01 - 05:43 PM (#427911) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: CarolC Bloody hell... I haven't a clue. |
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28 Mar 01 - 05:47 PM (#427913) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Naemanson I am a wand'ring minstrel. |
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28 Mar 01 - 05:56 PM (#427922) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: John Hardly a frustrated, middle-aged, musician wannabe, writer wannabe, who's not satisfied that I did alright in the field in which I make a living. another anonymous headstone when all is said and done. |
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28 Mar 01 - 06:08 PM (#427932) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Amos A HUGE spiritual being tangled up in endless miles of Lilliputian threads and constrained by the vectors of space and mass to stick to a second-rate body on the surface of a lovely quaint if primitive little planet on the limb of some third-rate galaxy about as far as possible from the center of a minor galaxy cluster, out on the borders of a two-bit supercluster, suspended part way down the backside of a low-class Filament in a Universe that keeps insisting in the dominance of trivial issues like mass, inertia, unidirectional time and general solidifcation. Please notice my thumb is out.... |
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28 Mar 01 - 06:19 PM (#427942) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Ebbie Mousethief, I have to ask: What's an 'orker'? I assume it has something to do with green fields and red barns but I can't be sure. Ebbie |
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28 Mar 01 - 06:44 PM (#427960) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: katlaughing Amos! Take a breath and carry on! Bravo!! LMAO!!! |
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28 Mar 01 - 08:00 PM (#427994) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Cap't Bob I am the worlds largest leprechaun. Cap't Bob |
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28 Mar 01 - 08:11 PM (#427998) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Brendy I'm five feet two, and I'm six feet four. B. |
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28 Mar 01 - 08:14 PM (#428000) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Big Mick Cap'n Bob, I used to t'ink I was the same............till I had the great pleasure of meeting you. Mick |
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28 Mar 01 - 08:24 PM (#428004) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,PeteM at work confused. As to what I want to be when I grow up .........who knows???? |
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28 Mar 01 - 08:29 PM (#428007) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Uncle_DaveO I've instructed my wife that on my gravestone is to be engraved, "A GENTLEMAN AND A SCHOLAR.....AND A LOVER." A gentleman: One who, in the words of Oscar Wilde, never hurts anyone else's feelings--unintentionally. A lover???? Not in the bedroom-athlete sense (only), and CERTAINLY not in the Don Juan sense, but in the sense of daily habitual tenderness and consideration and so forth. After thirty-seven years of marriage I think my Beautiful Wife will indeed put that third description on the stone. Being a folksong singer and banjo and guitar player are important to me, but those three things on the stone are really who I hope I am. Dave Oesterreich |
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28 Mar 01 - 08:35 PM (#428011) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Little Neophyte I am someone on a relentless, never ending quest to remember who I am. Little Neo |
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28 Mar 01 - 09:40 PM (#428033) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bill D I thought you'd never ask: I am, in my heart, a synthesist....one who is jack of many trades, and master of few. I studied Philosophy, but found even that to be not broad enough. In a sci-fi novel I read once, there was this giant ship, sent from earth to colonize the stars...designed to survive hundreds of generations if nesessary...(hydroponics, databases...the works)...but all the specialization necessary to make a big ship run eventually created a society in which most individuals had little idea what their history was or what the relationship was between their job and and others. So...this kid was born, who was a mis-fit...failed all the aptitude tests and seemed to be doomed to menial labor...but he explored, found secret places, discoved ancient texts,(you get the idea)..and LO! it was discovered that the 'planners' had forseen all this and planted stuff for just such a one to stumble onto so as to rekindle knowlege and forge lost bonds between the disciplines...a *synthesist*....... ...that's me.....in the meantime, until I'm called, I turn wood and kibitz. |
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28 Mar 01 - 09:44 PM (#428035) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Troll I am my wife's friend and my kid's dad. I'm a working musician when they will hire me. I'm a retired postal worker, a manic-depressive, bi-polar and arthritic. I give names to the different parts of my personality- Angie, Freddie, Chuck, Mr. Feebish and troll |
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28 Mar 01 - 09:51 PM (#428038) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,John Dodd, d. 1620 Under this clod Lies John Dodd Dead by God.
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28 Mar 01 - 10:25 PM (#428050) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: SINSULL I am the sum of all my parts. |
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28 Mar 01 - 10:25 PM (#428051) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: hesperis Hey, Bill D, what was the book? |
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28 Mar 01 - 11:16 PM (#428093) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Cap't Bob Aye MICK ~ thar's still hope for you. Eat your praties three times a day and you will fill oot that wee frame of yours. At least that's what my blessed Grandmother used to tell me when I was but a lad. Cap't Bob |
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28 Mar 01 - 11:36 PM (#428100) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,_gargoyle I'm a gargoyle, always been a gargoyle, and proud to be a gargoyle, will always stay a gargoyle.
Upon my birthing day, my looks chased the doctor away.
Did mighty fine work for Dick and Sue, did all they ever asked me to do.
Let me raise my head and make a suggestion
At least have the courtesy of a laughing-cat and put B.S. at the front by your scat.
Damn! Will there EVER be order in this house? |
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28 Mar 01 - 11:44 PM (#428101) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Anon2, etc. Keep up the good work gargoyle. |
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28 Mar 01 - 11:48 PM (#428104) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,A. Nony Mouse I figured that out BS's the BSers is the only way to go, and it's fun messing up the messes. |
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28 Mar 01 - 11:51 PM (#428106) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: CarolC Hey gargoyle... Maybe it's not just a folksong group any more. Maybe it's more than that now. Maybe trying to keep it just to folksongs is like trying to keep a flower in a bud and not allowing it to open. That's what it looks like to me, anyway. Carol |
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29 Mar 01 - 12:35 AM (#428115) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mousethief Carol, ignore the flames, just like in Hell. Ignore the flames. Ignore the flames. I have to say it over and over sometimes (and sometimes it doesn't work, as witnessed over in that other thread...). Ebbie, cow-orker is a mispunctuated joke on co-worker. Lame one, I know, but it's become habit now. Alex |
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29 Mar 01 - 12:37 AM (#428116) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Chip2447 A fulltime dreamer, a poet, a singer of song, and a teller of tales. A writer, a magician, a musician, a friend and a lover. A Shaman, a healer, a mentor and a student. A jester, a rogue, a scholar and commrade. A jack of all trades and a master of none, born 500 years too late in this lifetime... After all is said and done, "I think, I think I am, Therefore I am, I think" Thanks to the moody blues... |
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29 Mar 01 - 12:38 AM (#428117) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: catspaw49 So garg......How's tricks? That one's not up to your usual standards although you seem to have gotten a better spell checker. I mean, what's with the rhymes? You just don't seem to have the old pizzazz man.......That post almost made sense and you are usually more cryptic. Well, times change I guess.............. Spaw |
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29 Mar 01 - 12:53 AM (#428127) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: CarolC Alex, ignoring the flames is a good philosophy in most instances, and I'm glad you want to live by that philosophy. I think sometimes it can be helpful to put one neutral post in after a post like gargoyle's. Sometimes that seems to preempt some of the more inflamatory responses that posts like that one seem to get. The key word here is neutral, containing no emotional content or inflamatory language of any kind. Not even sarcasm or irony. I've been flamed a lot in the last week or so. I have responded as graciously as possible to some of them, and I have ignored others. Thankfully, this one was not aimed at me. Having flames aimed at you hurts, doesn't it? I agree that in no instance is it constructive to respond to a flame with another flame or with any kind of emotional response. Thanks for your concern. Carol |
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29 Mar 01 - 01:22 AM (#428136) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: katlaughing Damn, Spaw, you're right! "The courtesy of a laughing-cat" why I am almost misty-eyed! The rhyming was great, gargoyle! |
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29 Mar 01 - 04:29 AM (#428190) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: JulieF Kendal - practising spontenaity - every time an opportunity comes up try to suppress the little voice in the back of your head that goes - not enough money in the kitty, haven't orgainsed anything so can't do anything, have to do something much more important but boring. The longer you can suppress that voice the better you are at spontinety - I could be completely spontenaious ( is that a real word ?) if I didn't have to think about so many other things. What I try and do - is organise days with nothing in - so I can go with the flow - usually nothing happens but occasionally it works All the best Julie |
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29 Mar 01 - 04:29 AM (#428191) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Gervase Me? Right; I'm a pain in the arse, a chancer, a dreamer, an incurable romantic, a hopeless optimist, a manic depressive, a skater on life's thinnest ice, a piss-artist, a socialist, a humanist, an unreliable but lovable parent and partner and probably the sort of person your mother told you never to play with. Just like everyone else, really. All things considered, I'd rather be a saggy old cloth cat, though... |
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29 Mar 01 - 06:39 AM (#428229) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock I am a gatherer of information and trivia - mostly trivia, a reader of books, a crude-minded joker; I am interested in everything (I'm nosey!), I like listening to people and music, I am someone who believes this life is all we've got, so let's make the most of it, and I am in love. |
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29 Mar 01 - 07:08 AM (#428239) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Clifton53 I am a man of constant sorrow. |
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29 Mar 01 - 07:11 AM (#428240) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Grab I'm a picker, I'm a grinner... Grab. |
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29 Mar 01 - 08:21 AM (#428275) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: kendall Julie I have always thought that spontaneity was automatic. It just happens without thought. |
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29 Mar 01 - 08:30 AM (#428287) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Just a fool without cap or bells (or talent). RtS |
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29 Mar 01 - 08:51 AM (#428303) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: JulieF Kendall - I don't think that we do anything without thought, unless it's a purely physical reaction. I have similar views on the subject of intuition, which I know a lot of people disagree with me about. I do think that you can change how you react so that you do become more spontaneous. Its like knowing you can let yourself go in specific circumstances - so what looks like spontaneity to the outside is really the end of a considered thought process. Julie |
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29 Mar 01 - 09:13 AM (#428317) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mkebenn I've always been a dreamer without the will to waken an alcoholic not quite drunk enough A halfassed Davy Crockett with a prayer in his pocket with a road before me only I've made rough Mike |
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29 Mar 01 - 09:35 AM (#428334) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Matt_R I am king King of the universe I am king King of the skies |
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29 Mar 01 - 09:44 AM (#428338) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Dahlin I am a work in progress. Albeit an aging one at that. |
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29 Mar 01 - 09:47 AM (#428340) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: catspaw49 All jokes aside, I've loved this song for 30 years and it hits me where I live......a little more everyday. I'm a dreamer by nature and I've always been Tryin' to dream myself out of this world that I'm in. In my dreams I escape all the troubles around. And it ain't cost a penny for the pleasures I've found. CH: What is the part, that I play today? A beggar, a businessman, king for a day? I've played many the parts and I'm the first to agree, That I'm still looking round for the man that is me. I'm a dreamer by nature and I've always been, Looking for something not there. My financial condition don't bother my dreams, 'Cause in fairy tale money I'm my own millionaire. CH------ In my dreams I'm a rich man but in real life I've hid, From the fact that I got me a wife and a kid. If I lose what I got, well then they lose it too. Tell me what in this world's a poor dreamer to do? CH-----End. Spaw |
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29 Mar 01 - 10:41 AM (#428388) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Matt_R I am a music lover, but into so many kinds of music that I cannot be classed as a folkie, rocker, etc. I am an artist, but I am not really strong in any particular area. I am a friend, but am still too shy and reserved to be totally comfortable with people. I am a singer, but I have an annoying voice. I know multitudes of things, but they are mostly useless to anyone besides myself. I am a person, but largely ignored in real life. That's who I am. |
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29 Mar 01 - 10:54 AM (#428399) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: catspaw49 Except for that silly crack about your voice, you're getting more mature all the time Matt. Very well thought out and introspective. Glad to see it.........Its a long way back to Meebo. You may have made my day.....week, I think.....with that one post. Spaw |
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29 Mar 01 - 10:59 AM (#428403) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Ha! Matt! That shy bit doesn't work with me - you were perfectly happy scolding me for not liking the Beatles...*BG* |
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29 Mar 01 - 12:03 PM (#428472) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Troll Matt, well said! Gargoyle, nice to see you are still around and tryin' to keep it honest. troll |
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29 Mar 01 - 12:05 PM (#428475) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,guest brian green folk singer & guitar picker |
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29 Mar 01 - 02:36 PM (#428606) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Chester Eye'm a ne'er due well. Eye ain't got a life, and eye doant keer, neither. Best diskripshun uv a fiddler eye kin think uv. |
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29 Mar 01 - 03:35 PM (#428651) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bill D hesperis...can't remember that book for the life of me right now....been 30 years |
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29 Mar 01 - 03:48 PM (#428659) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Amergin I am the hill where poets walk..... |
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29 Mar 01 - 03:50 PM (#428661) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bert I'm a singer first, then a designer. After that I guess I'm a dabbler, a jack of all trades (take too long to list 'em). Fortunately for you Mick, you didn't include me in your persona list. And fortunately for all of us, Gargbuddy I don't think there ever will be order here. And I'm glad I'm Matt's friend. Bert. |
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29 Mar 01 - 03:55 PM (#428670) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: gnu I am the only driver in New Brunswick that flicks the turn signal on when the foot comes off the accelerator pedal, @$#^#$%&* !!!!! Of course, I'm singing Irish Trad songs while I'm driving, or when stopped, or when slamming on my brakes, or.... gnu |
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29 Mar 01 - 04:04 PM (#428681) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Greyeyes One who has sipped of the wine of life. One who tries to live his life the best that he can. |
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29 Mar 01 - 04:17 PM (#428689) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: CarolC Hey gnu... flattop told me that drivers in Bouctouche stop for you if you even just look across the road. Is that true? |
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29 Mar 01 - 04:40 PM (#428704) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: gnu Well, I just got back from a tour through the rally course know as Moncton and I believe it was a 'Toucher in front of me for about eight intersections who was looking for the "right" street in a rather reckless manner. She NEVER used her signal light and I had to lock up all four the first time she decided to stop abruptly. As for your question, are you talking about drivers in front of you, pedestrians, or other ? BTW, is flattop from Bouctouche ? Maybe I should do a NB 'Cats thread to see who I can hook up with. Hranners are scarce around the Moncton area. Just located the only other one I know of in this area last week. We are jammin on the weekend and I can't wait. gnu |
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29 Mar 01 - 04:50 PM (#428714) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: CarolC He was talking about drivers stopping for pedestrians. flattop is a Cape Bretoner. He spent some time living in New Brunswick while he was growing up. He lives in Ontario now. |
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29 Mar 01 - 05:18 PM (#428740) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: gnu Yes, I find the smaller the community, the more regard given to the pedestrian, and Bouctouche is no exception. Pedestrians are, for the most part, well regarded here in Southern NB, even on the race courses in Moncton, but if you ever visit Moncton, don't take any chances because the average driver's intelligence doesn't seem to match the manners. BTW, that moose you mentioned in the Spring thread was probably a cross-border shopper from NB. It seems so weird to me, being from the boglands, that some people have never seen moose or yotes or whatever. Guess I'm just lucky. Guess that's what I really am, just a good old backwoods boy. gnu |
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29 Mar 01 - 07:20 PM (#428823) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: John Hardly "I've always been a dreamer without the will to waken an alcoholic not quite drunk enough A halfassed Davy Crockett with a prayer in his pocket with a road before me only I've made rough --Mike" Absolutely loved that, Mike! Like I was walking along peacefully minding everyone's business and that reached out and GRABBED me! --JH |
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30 Mar 01 - 06:45 AM (#429081) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: mkebenn Thank you, John, maybe I'll finish it someday. Mike |
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30 Mar 01 - 10:24 AM (#429229) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Patrish I'm living a baggy life, its all too loose My Alice band has slipped I'm wearing very odd socks And my shoes don't fit
But apart from that I'm fine! |
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30 Mar 01 - 10:33 AM (#429236) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Blues Killer I'm drunk. Really! Blues Killer |
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30 Mar 01 - 11:45 AM (#429273) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Lyrical Lady Everything we are - everything we dare to be We're prepared to play our part To create a fantasy
Sometimes we are parents
We are builders, and we're painters
Everything we are - everything we dare to be
Some of us - retired
But inspite of our vocations
Everything we are - everything we dare to be This song was written by Carole Mc Andrew for our up coming 20th anniversay 'Play' on our little island. Some of the words were changed, with permission to suit the 'Cat'. LL
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30 Mar 01 - 05:03 PM (#429534) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: CarolC Thanks gnu. I've always wondered why I didn't see any moose when I was in the wilderness parts of Canada. I'm guessing the one I saw was habituated to being around people since I saw it in the parking lot. Maybe moose in the wild are more shy? |
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30 Mar 01 - 05:15 PM (#429541) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: guest(intruder-inactive) ...the last of the oldest ones ...the lightwielder ...a very tired old soul who is turning over the world to my idiot children |
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31 Mar 01 - 06:50 AM (#429877) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,(jo) im a gelfling i practise random acts of kindness and senseless beauty and look for the wonder in the world |
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31 Mar 01 - 07:39 AM (#429902) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Sarah the flute I am bored at work ! |
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31 Mar 01 - 08:32 AM (#429921) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: gnu CarolC... moose in the TRUE wild are much LESS shy. But, it depends on many factors, age, sex, time of year, number of moose, time of day.... EG, Sally would visit at dusk every day last fall. Big guy only visited once in the middle of the night - saw his tracks in morning - close enough for him to look in the windows of the trailer. Perhaps the snoring from my trailer was misinterpreted. I had one HUGE bull who would come to me for sugar cubes when I called - to about ten feet away. Worst thing I ever did. He was summarily shot at dawn the first day of the following season. I've always felt responsible because I taught him to come to me. I really didn't think anyone would take him that far back in really rugged country, but I was wrong. I have had four or five moose running all around me, confused and scared by my presence, in the rut. I have had four or five watch/ignore me while I sat and had a smoke and talked to them, in the winter. I've watched four bulls square off and spar in what seemed like a round robin type training camp as if I was the audience. I've had cows with calves run at first sight and I've had cows with calves charge, which is the most dangerous situation in these woods, other than a hungry bear who doesn't understand why I am at the top of the food chain. Anyway, the days of walking past a moose or bear at tewnty feet or feeding moose birds on your shoulder are waning as access to the backwoods by ATV's and such increase. But, you can still find lots of wild places if you are willing to hoof it. gnu |
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31 Mar 01 - 10:31 AM (#429959) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bat Goddess I'm a singer of traditional songs, thanatolithologist, closet natural historian (but the skulls are on the walls), and I used to be a typographer but now I'm a digital prepress production tech. Bat Goddess |
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31 Mar 01 - 11:03 AM (#429971) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Amos Well... this is interesting, Bat Godlet...
The American Heritage instructs us that:than•a•tol•o•gy (th^n1ú-tÄl2ú-jT) n. 1. The study of death and dying, especially in their psychological and social aspects. [ Greek thanatos death] So I guess what you would do as a thanatolithologist would be...looking up really dead stones and getting them to share their feelings? If so, I can relate. I feel that way at work sometimes... Regards, A |
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31 Mar 01 - 11:33 AM (#429983) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Jande I'm a "Jande of all trades", and have managed to master a few. The rest are intermediate and beginner. I am "the reach that exceeds the grasp or what's a heaven for?" I am . Indeed. ~ Jande |
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31 Mar 01 - 12:27 PM (#430015) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: vindelis Unique |
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31 Mar 01 - 06:32 PM (#430243) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bat Goddess Thanatolithologist -- sorry, just the study of gravestones and gravestone carvers. In my case, particularly New England slate markers between 1650 and 1815-ish (willows and urns make my eyes glaze over) and the carver John Just Geyer. Trip over some other pretty interesting stuff, tho' and just got back with a bunch of undeveloped pictures from Mountain View Cemetery (designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, c. 1863) in Oakland -- way out of my era & style, but what a great place!!! Bat Goddess |
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31 Mar 01 - 06:41 PM (#430249) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST My calendar watch went dead. I'll have to go look in the mirror to find out what I am today. That's not always a pleasant sight. |
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01 Apr 01 - 01:43 AM (#430399) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Robo I am the Man from God Knows Where. Rob-o
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01 Apr 01 - 03:28 AM (#430412) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST,Dharmabum We are what we do. As St John Lennon put it "Life is what happens while we're making other plans.... |
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01 Apr 01 - 03:45 AM (#430416) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: wdyat12 I am part BS, part real S, and mostly made of salt water, with a collection of musical instruments I wish I could play better. That's why I'm here on Mudcat. wdyat12 |
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01 Apr 01 - 08:56 AM (#430486) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bernard It is a question I seem to ask myself more often as I grow older. I used to think I was a musician primarily, with a job as Sound Engineer which fitted in quite nicely to give me a reliable, steady income. These days I find that I am becoming less able to do my job, what with arthritis and tinnitus both combining to make the physical and acoustic demands moving out of my reach. The depression that this and another failed relationship have conspired to precipitate mean that I've also lost interest in music, and in the social activities associated with that. So what am I, really? Do tell me - I'm always the last to find out... |
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01 Apr 01 - 11:08 AM (#430548) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: JohnB If I asked my wife, she would probably say something like "an absolutely wonderful, pain in the ass", she's still asleep so I wont risk becoming anything worse by asking her now. Seriously though if you want to know how you are percieved, ask others. There again there is a risk involved with that, they might tell you the truth. I am also tired after reading all of these postings on this thread. JohnB |
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01 Apr 01 - 11:24 AM (#430559) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Amos Bernard: Don't be fooled by transient conditions and turns in the script -- what you REALLY are is a Great Author. Like all Great Authors, you know, of course, that the script has to set up some Great Obstacles for the Hero to overcome. As the Set Designer you also get to decide what the environment in which the Hero, Bernard yclept, overcomes these Barriers in the Pursuit of Happiness, a condition to be defined by the Chief Psychologist Consulting to the Great Author, who also happens to be Bernard... |
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01 Apr 01 - 02:50 PM (#430673) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Bernard Mmmm.... |
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01 Apr 01 - 02:55 PM (#430676) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: gnu Mmmm.... ? I waited for a 127 post thread to load for, "Mmmm...." ? C'mon... some insight... some wisdom ... something. Rrrrgnu |
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01 Apr 01 - 03:27 PM (#430701) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: Amos Relax -- that's just the Chief Psychological Counsel practicing his post-doctoral psychotherapeutic techniques, such as Advanced Active Listening and Semi-acknowledgement. It's all in the Wrist. A |
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01 Apr 01 - 04:52 PM (#430758) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: GUEST So psycho-babble came from the wrist. I didn't think it could have come from a real homo sapiens brain. |
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01 Apr 01 - 05:09 PM (#430767) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: gnu Thanks for finnaly killing the thread, GUEST. It needs a #2 anyway. |
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01 Apr 01 - 06:00 PM (#430804) Subject: RE: What are you, really? From: CarolC Please go here for part two of this thread. |