Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments Own every album and CD once CDs came out up to the Morningside Album. He lost me when he did the Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Once in awhile, after a few beers, I’ll play them, and luckily, my husband’s mother and his sisters loved him too back then, and he hates to admit it, but he likes him, too. Another favorite of mine and both my husband and I love them are Simon and Garfunkel and we own the albums and CDs. And then there’s Donovan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS8RZsOZ1Dw I’m lucky that we both share the same love of music, including classical, except where we have a problem is that my husband likes Smashing Pumpkins and I can’t tolerate them! » Posted By javaz On May 21, 2010 @ 6:55 pm I grew up playing guitar. The Ventures – Wipe Out –
This was the very first song that I ever learned as a 4 year old on the Hawaiian Steel String Guitar –
This was the very first song that I learned on an acoustic that also had steel strings and a neck far too wide for a child’s hand, but I did it anyway –
And then I learned this song in the 4th grade –
Don’t you miss Mary? » Posted By javaz On May 21, 2010 @ 6:43 pm Okay, if we’re talking favorite albums, go ahead and laugh at me, but I used to love Neil Diamond, before he went Elvis – in fact, the very first date that I was allowed to go on at 15 years old was to a Neil Diamond concert and my gosh, back then, he wore the black and was thin and was so damn sexy and Albert Brooks was the opening comedian and it is an excellent memory. Neil Diamond – Tap Root Manuscript – African Suite
» Posted By javaz On May 21, 2010 @ 6:28 pm Is that Midnight? If so, I just love that song, and it is one of the only ones that I can actually play on the piano Barbra Streisand did that song superbly. » Posted By javaz On May 21, 2010 @ 6:22 pm The song that says it all for me – Cat Stevens – Father and Son – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jek6iP6AuAQ Another one of my favorites – Simon and Garfunkel – The Only Living Boy in New York – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IwYQ1Vqf_4 And don’t laugh, but I love this song because of what it says about the moon – Neil Diamond – Done Too Soon –
» Posted By javaz On May 21, 2010 @ 6:20 pm Michael Jackson – Billy Jean – one of my all time favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PAJqgeeJf4 Doobie Brothers – What a Fool Believes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZ5DfCY6kY Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdQY7BusJNU Dire Straits – Money For Nothing –
» Posted By javaz On May 21, 2010 @ 6:13 pm The Power of Intermittent Fanning Do you remember Crusader Rabbit? (sorry about the O/T) We just discovered that our neighbor’s father was the originator of that cartoon! Sadly, Alex Anderson has Alzheimer’s and it is painful for his son, but the son has several original ‘stills’ (?) and artwork from his father. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusader_Rabbit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Anderson_%28cartoonist%29 I just thought it was sort of cool to sort-of-know someone related to the animation/cartoon industry. » Posted By javaz On May 27, 2010 @ 11:47 am LOL You are such a computer genius, AdLib, for your ability to run this site and then post the images that you did, and you were in France most recently, Cannes, and somehow your computer genius and Cannes for the film festival is related, and I’m trying to figure it out. Do you work for the movie-makers? Are you a script-writer or critic? Am I getting hotter in the guessing game or colder? » Posted By javaz On May 25, 2010 @ 4:28 pm Masters of Illusion and Intolerance Wow, I’ve just read all the comments on this thread and understand the passion expressed, and also understand why talking politics, religion and money is never a good idea, unless you are a member of PPOV! Isn’t it wonderful that all of us were able to express our feelings without the worry of ‘going to pending’ or having our accounts banned? Now, can we all talk about sex as that seems to be a topic we can all agree upon? Okay, maybe not! LOL When we lived in France, the company paid for us to take French lessons, and the French that taught them lessons were excellent because they didn’t stick to teaching us the language, but tried very hard to teach us their culture, and that was a good thing. We also tried to teach them what it meant to be an American and our culture, and it was all speaking French for the most part. Anyway, one of the best lessons we had from a Belgian and that’s a story because he wasn’t considered a real Frenchman by the French, yet he had the French attitude of superiority. Thiery believed that Americans never spoke about sex but freely spoke of money, whereby the French never speak of money but always speak about sex. Maybe you had to be there, but I thought that was an excellent encapsulation that showed the difference in our cultures. And another thing – was when it comes to religion – there are churches all over Europe and even Germany taxes their citizens to support their churches, but their churches are not like they are here. They regard our churches as being social institutions, whereby we have church gatherings besides services and we do. Plus, the French people we knew, and we said that we were Christians, they thought that we were the Born again religious right, so we learned real fast not to talk religion over there! » Posted By javaz On May 19, 2010 @ 4:06 pm One of the reasons we went back and were married in the Church, was a local parish priest – St. Bridget – and the priest was Fr. John. Oh, how we loved his sermons and beliefs, and was he gay? Maybe, but no one cared at all, because he was so liberal, and so unlike all the priests we all grew up knowing. He looked like Richard Chamberlain, you know, Dr. Kildare, but more so. Fr. John was awesome, but then he left for a summer to visit his family owned home in Ireland, and then older priests came in to take his place, and it turned ugly and ugly very fast. I walked away, even though my husband did not want to leave the parish, he understood my reasons and joined me in turning my back. I even wrote Fr. John while he was in Ireland and told him, and he was saddened, but even he understood, because he got it. He used to say on occasion during mass that he hoped a woman would someday say mass. Well, when the new bishop came in, and that’s a long story why the Phoenix diocese got a new bishop, he moved Fr. John from St. Bridget and then Fr. John went to church in Gilbert. There was a mass in which the couple were from a different faith, yet both Catholic faiths, and Fr. John invited the Greek Orthodox Catholic priest to say the wedding mass, and someone reported him, and he was de-frocked. But everyone knew the real reason he was defrocked was because there’d always been rumors that Fr. John was gay. Who cares? The parishioners from St. Bridget petitioned and did every thing possible to get Fr. John re-instated, but that bishop is a real SOB. To make a long story shorter, Fr. John has since been re-instated, but he no longer can be active in the church, so he’s considered retired, and he now teaches at ASU. This new bishop in Phoenix is a real piece of work. BTW, my husband’s uncle is a priest, and he was the guy in charge of St. Mary’s Basilica in Phoenix, and he married us, with Fr. John and three other priests that we knew through Fr. John and our activities with St. Bridget. We had the most Catholic wedding ever, and it was awesome, and my husband’s uncle cried, because my husband was the only person in my husband’s family that went through it all and was married in the church. It was all quite moving. The lack of tolerance in the church just turns us off. » Posted By javaz On May 17, 2010 @ 6:02 pm I can’t remember how old I was, but I do remember coming home from school and I was worried and scared, and I’m thinking I might have been in the 2nd or 3rd grade, but I told my mom that I had been told that the world was going to end soon and I was really scared. My mother told me that she had heard the same thing at my age, and look, the world is still here. My maternal grandparents came over from Austria, which once Hitler took over became Germany or something like that, and they were persecuted horribly for being immigrants. Then once WWII started, well, it got even worse and so my grandparents moved from Philadelphia to a German community in the thumb of Michigan where they were safer. My mother was born in that area and they were farmers, but she also lived with the guilt of being German, as Kalima references about collective guilt. They did round up Germans in this country, as they did the Japanese Americans, and my grandparents could speak English, but they were very hard to understand and since they were so very rural, they lived in fear of being sent to internment camps, but they were left alone. My mother spoke fluent German, but she never ever spoke it in front of us kids. My father came over illegally from Quebec! My mother’s parents studied and took their citizen tests and passed and were American citizens, whereby my father’s parents and my father for that matter, never did. My father and uncles served in WWII and had papers, and their original papers, which I have my dad’s, declare him a British citizen since at that time, Canada was still under Britain. So, I suppose if Arizona and whoever else, demands that Americans must be from actual American citizens, that I could be deported to Canada! LMAO My father’s first language was French, and he learned English once coming here, but even he had the accent. He taught us kids some French, but my mother always got so upset, because she feared that we’d all speak French and she’d be left out again. When they were first married, they lived with my father’s family and they spoke nothing but French, and my mother did not want to be left out again, and I truly can understand that. But it’s a darn shame, because us kids could have learned German and French, and we’d be tri-lingual, but them times back then were so very different. Or maybe not. » Posted By javaz On May 17, 2010 @ 5:31 pm That is so true. It’s like some of us say – if you disagree with abortion, then don’t ever have one! Or if you dislike gays, then don’t ever be gay! LOL. You know what I mean. Why must people push their beliefs on us all? I have hope because the younger generation, and you know younger people have a tendency to go against the grain, and they are so turned off with this religious stuff and homophobic attitude. The thing that worries me, well, I’m not worried about anything anymore because I’ve made my mind up that I do not have much time left to walk this earth, and I want to enjoy my husband and seeing a sunrise and sunset, but according to the polls, younger people are against a woman’s choice. Then again, one can never believe polls or the corporate media. We’d all be better off if people would just mind their own beeswax and clean their own houses before pointing fingers at others. » Posted By javaz On May 17, 2010 @ 5:07 pm Well said, Kalima! In the USA though, what the Catholics do not realize, whether lapsed or active, is that what we are is not the acceptable form of Christianity. I still consider myself a Catholic, too, even though I believe that the Catholic Church has deserted me, but then I think we’ve talked about that before. The most recent case here in a Catholic hospital whereby a woman who was 11 weeks pregnant, and it was a life and death decision, so a nun, after discussing the mother’s health with her, her family and doctors decided to abort the fetus so the mother could live was excommunicated instantly by the bishop and removed from her post. The update on that story is that the woman has also been excommunicated. According to the Bishop of the Phoenix Diocese, the end did not meet the need. He believes, as do the scholars from Loyola University that the woman should have died, which would in turn killed the fetus anyway. Until the Catholic Church regards women as equals to men, I will have nothing to do with the actual church. It was the reason that I walked away a second time. But I do consider myself a Catholic because I was baptized into the faith and I do think that it’s a wonderful faith, but man has ruined the true meaning. Hope that makes sense. » Posted By javaz On May 17, 2010 @ 4:57 pm Well, he didn’t like the moneychangers in the Temple. » Posted By javaz On May 17, 2010 @ 4:39 pm Hey BT!!! I saw him on 60 Minutes awhile ago and saw that he was having another mega-church built. I did not know that about his father. I think a really good example of a person of faith that did what people of faith should do in modern times was Mother Theresa, and even she had her doubts about God from all the suffering that she witnessed. » Posted By javaz On May 17, 2010 @ 4:23 pm Nellie!!!! I agree with you 100%. But it seems as though some feel that they must push their beliefs onto us all. Maybe people should learn to mind their own business and leave the rest of us alone. » Posted By javaz On May 17, 2010 @ 3:53 pm Beautiful post, CL, and I agree with everything you say and you said it all with such eloquence. One of our favorite people to watch on Sundays – and we do not watch him religiously (no pun intended) but if he’s on while we’re flipping channels, we watch Joel Osteen. I do not think the evangelical community accepts him as a Christian or one of them because he is so unlike any tele-evangelist. Osteen peaches hope and not fire and brimstone. He’s also a multi-multi-millionaire that has mega-churches, and I admit that I think that that is wrong, just as I think the wealth of the Vatican and in Salt lake City is wrong. If these Christian organizations truly followed the teachings of Christ, wouldn’t they give all their wealth to help the poor? » Posted By javaz On May 17, 2010 @ 3:26 pm I think one of the things we all do is paint each other with the broad-brush on so many issues. For instance, most liberals/progressives/democrats, at least when blogging, tend to paint the GOP as bible-thumping, gun-toting and even ignorant for allowing the Tea Party and FOX to lead the Republican Party. It is very hard not to think of Republicans that way, especially when they quote Rush, O’Reilly, Glenn, and Hannity. In my personal life, I do know 3 Republicans who are in fact true atheists, yet they never condemn the radical religious right that drives so much of the GOP. I also have 2 Democratic friends who are born-again, bible-thumpers and they do drive me insane by preaching to me and trying to convert me under the guise of saving my soul. And then we have Republican friends who do not own guns and believe the gun laws in this country, and especially in Arizona are far too liberal. But we also have a friend that is a Democrat who is a gun-owner and even though he does not believe that anyone is going to take his guns away, he sees nothing wrong with liberal gun laws. Perhaps we should all regard each other as Independents, since Independents don’t seem to carry any type of dogma. As many of you know, I didn’t want to believe that ALL Tea Partiers are racist bigots, and honestly, I’m still uncertain that all of them are, even though it sure does appear that way. I just think it’s a good rule of thumb to keep an open mind when it comes to judging people. I know people who are racists, true racist bigots, yet they completely accept and deeply love their adopted grandchild who is African American and apparently part Mexican. I know Democrats and yes, people who describe themselves as Liberals and/or Progressives that are racists by their stance on the SB1070 law in Arizona. And there are homophobes that are Democratic voters. I struggle nearly everyday with religion. I do believe that there are healers among us but whether or not they are given gifts from God is a question. I do believe in ghosts. I guess the thing that I try to do is to live my life the best that I can and try to be kind to others and generous, but I don’t do it for a heavenly reward, but do it because it’s human. Does any of that make sense or was this off-topic? » Posted By javaz On May 17, 2010 @ 3:12 pm Rude, Crude, and Dangerous To Know 60 Minutes interview with oil-rig survivor – http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/16/60minutes/main6490087.shtml?tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel If corporations are people, too, should BP be charged with negligent homicide for the 11 dead? And isn’t it true that BP execs were on the rig celebrating BP’s safety record when it blew? » Posted By javaz On May 16, 2010 @ 7:24 pm Planet Music Night: Summertime (well close enough) Hey Blues Tiger! If you are lurking – a very good friend of my husband’s is coming out in June from Oregon and he’s a fellow engineer, but also in a band! We’ve played with him before, and he’s formed yet another band, but this time it’s a “Geezer” Band and he’s sent us all the songs that he wants us to practice. He wrote them and he’s very, very good. Then he asked us to send the songs we play, so my husband sent him 23 songs that we do fairly well, but we don’t write, except for one song that we’re actually proud of. It’s a great hobby! Plus it keeps arthritis from settling into our fingers and it does keep our minds somewhat sharp. I still think that it would be a great idea with all the musicians and artists here and the writers that we form a band and call ourselves the Planeteers! This is one that I love to play – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceYjg1dy-h0 Good night all and hope you all have the best weekend! » Posted By javaz On May 14, 2010 @ 7:20 pm I do remember that movie. The funny thing about the girl from 7th grade that they sent away never to be heard from again, was that her father was a janitor at our Catholic School and rumored to be having an affair with one of the nuns. Oh, I could tell you stories. I’m just so glad that them days are long gone and a faint memory now. » Posted By javaz On May 14, 2010 @ 7:04 pm We freeze the strawberries when we do Champagne, and we only do Champagne on New Year’s Eve, and then plop the frozen berries in the glass and it keeps the wine cool and then we eat them. Oh goodness, I can’t do Champagne anymore, which is a good thing, but them were the days. » Posted By javaz On May 14, 2010 @ 6:52 pm That comment reminds me of a girlfriend from high school. Her father, who was a local judge, actually had a heart attack when she told her parents, and it was awful. Good Catholic school girls just didn’t do that back then. I even had another classmate while in the 7th grade that got pregnant, and they sent her away to some home in Wisconsin, and she wasn’t a friend, but others that were could only address mail to her using her first name. Those were very dark days and before the pill, but things changed fast by the time I got to high school. » Posted By javaz On May 14, 2010 @ 6:45 pm Champagne is the best, but it can drive one insane! Champagne is like Tequila – small quantity for sanity – except Champagne, unlike Tequila, is so hard to limit the intake because it tastes wonderful, especially when it’s chilled to the proper temperature.
» Posted By javaz On May 14, 2010 @ 6:34 pm You have a watch that plays MP3s? I don’t even know what the hell that means. My husband burns CDs all the time and we can get hours on a CD and that’s cool. I’m not ashamed to say that we don’t have an IPOD. Heck, we don’t even have a real cellphone – we have one that cost 7.99 and we do them Tracfone cards – pay as you go. We don’t have cable or satellite TV or Sirius Radio and we’re still on dialup! I guess that we are barbarians! addendum- we are actually part of the Nielson Rating Family! I have no idea why they chose us, but they pay us monthly – just a couple bucks – to do their surveys on the shows we watch and to rate them. » Posted By javaz On May 14, 2010 @ 6:12 pm You know, my husband and I absolutely hated rap with a passion, but honest to goodness, we have discovered that we do actually like some of it. We’d never buy any, but it’s an acquired taste and we are finding that we don’t hate it so much anymore. When our neighbors leave on vacation in a few weeks, I am logging onto their computer, since they have high-speed, and the very first thing I am looking into is the Mervins, because of Pepe, and then come back to this and play all of these and then maybe go back even further. » Posted By javaz On May 14, 2010 @ 6:06 pm LMAO! » Posted By javaz On May 14, 2010 @ 5:38 pm AC/DC – Shoot To Thrill from Ironman 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kD8sxIjVuc Not exactly a summer song, but a most excellent summer movie! I dislike movies like Ironman usually, but Ironman 2 rocked! » Posted By javaz On May 14, 2010 @ 5:20 pm The Rolling Stones – Summertime Blues – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6C9pEiG_4Y Stones – Summer Romance –
» Posted By javaz On May 14, 2010 @ 5:14 pm Aw, I miss Michael. Hi Kalima! » Posted By javaz On May 14, 2010 @ 5:08 pmComments Posted By javaz
LOL
My father played, all my brothers played, and I used to be so envious, so when I was about 4 years old, my dad taught me some songs on the Hawaiian Guitar – I still have my original finger-picks and slide and my goodness, how small were my fingers!
My dad graduated me to acoustic when I was about 5 and 1/2, and this is one of my favorite groups to this day, even though this wasn’t a song we played –
I still have the ticket stubs stapled to this Neil Diamond album!
LOL
He was an animator who also worked on Rocky and Bullwinkle!
Are you somehow involved in special effects or animation?
And the things neither of us spoke about, was always on our minds!
Churchgoers in the USA are a community and they have parties and picnics and things like that, whereby in Europe, people that go to church – well, they just go to church – their churches are not gathering places for anything other than services.
He was a handsome man, and my husband and I got so active in that parish.
We played guitar and joined the teaching of catechism classes and also joined the choir and those were wonderful times.
He wasn’t a pedophile but the new bishop was on a mission.
She told me not to worry about it and cautioned me that I would hear it again and again, but to pay it no mind because it isn’t true.
LMAO
Catholics, like Mormons and other faiths are not even considered Christian.
You have to be Born-Again, and be a charismatic Christian on top of that to be considered a Christian.
He never takes a stand for or against any one group, such as homosexuals.
He refuses to condemn any group because that’s not what Christ would do.
His sermons are uplifting and humorous and he just makes you feel good.
And all three of them do quote the FOX pundits.
Heck, they believe in the ‘End of Times’ and swear that if I reject being born-again that I will never reach heaven.
The bible quoting during inane conversations drives me bonkers, because one can never argue with scripture or faith.
(is that the correct term?)
No one ever fits perfectly into one particular slot because humans are such complex beings.
They never refer to their beloved grandchild by his race, but do worry about him since his parents are lesbians.
They may not use the racial slurs, but their lack of compassion for Hispanics is evident.
I do take comfort from my beliefs, while having my doubts.
And I do truly believe that a man called Jesus walked this earth, but as for him actually being the son of God or even rising from the dead, well, I struggle with that.
Why didn’t they helicopter out those remaining on the rig?
And is it possible that BP ignored all the warnings and pushed it forward so that they could hold their party congratulating themselves?
Off Topic, but I have to go now and practice, practice, practice –
He’s more along the lines of Bob Dylan, and he even sounds like Dylan but from Dylan’s younger years.
She got pregnant and in them days, it wasn’t like today.
She said that she was going to tell her parents to remember the Immaculate Conception, and that was very funny at the time, but also, very frightening and very worrisome.
That girl was forced to give up her baby and I do not know what happened to her.
She never returned to school but her older sister and brothers were still there but they never talked about her again.
It was like she never existed.
LOL
We never admit to watching FOX, and really, we only watch 2 Fox shows – House and Bones and then we watch the NFL during football season, but that’s it.
(I need to see the first one now but wish could see it on the big screen)
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