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| caissier | May 6 2013, 08:58 AM Post #1 |
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Many happy returns Dai !! |
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| Mobson | May 6 2013, 09:34 AM Post #2 |
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Happy Birthday Dai...hope you have a good one... plus of course
Edited by Mobson, May 6 2013, 07:57 PM.
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| Norm Deplume | May 6 2013, 09:58 AM Post #3 |
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Many Happy Returns dai. Have a nice one! |
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| caissier | May 6 2013, 10:41 AM Post #4 |
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Edited by caissier, May 6 2013, 10:41 AM.
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| Mobson | May 6 2013, 10:55 AM Post #5 |
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Oooooh new smileys...like those - lucky Dai!
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| waiting4atickle | May 6 2013, 11:30 AM Post #6 |
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Happy Birthday, dai. Take care blowing out all those candles. |
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| Mobson | May 6 2013, 11:48 AM Post #7 |
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Yes please be careful...there are so many domestic accidents these days....
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| dai Cottomy | May 6 2013, 02:57 PM Post #8 |
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Thanks for your kind wishes, folks. A very enjoyable day with a party of eleven Cottomy family members in the house for Birthday Lunch. Cake and candles (no conflagration, Mobs) and bubbly. The Cotswold gang are overnighting, and the rest returning to their various abodes. The Grim Reaper checks his diary, shrugs his shoulders and puts it back in his pocket. |
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| rumbaba | May 6 2013, 04:22 PM Post #9 |
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Happy birthday to Dai, Happy Birth Dai Today!
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| madfor4 | May 6 2013, 05:21 PM Post #10 |
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Another year over.....Keep up the good work...
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| dai Cottomy | May 6 2013, 06:05 PM Post #11 |
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Thanks Rum and Mad. Off we go again.
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| becky sharp | May 6 2013, 09:56 PM Post #12 |
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Hope you got lots of nice dai Happy Birthday! May- Cee started a thread for you as well http://s4.zetaboards.com/Radio4forum/topic/9876163/1/ |
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| dai Cottomy | May 6 2013, 10:22 PM Post #13 |
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Thanks, Becky. |
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| dai Cottomy | May 6 2013, 10:59 PM Post #14 |
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Thanks, May-Cee. |
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| May-Cee | May 7 2013, 10:17 AM Post #15 |
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Cheers, dai (and Becky!) I had to rush off as soon as I posted; only saw later that caissier and I were posting at the same time. Hope you had a swell day anyway. Actually, I was thinking of you last night when I was playing Mussorgsky. Nothing sinister! I just remembered, when "Night On Bare Mountain" came up, that you nominated it on a Halloween Music thread a couple of years ago. |
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| Mobson | May 7 2013, 01:31 PM Post #16 |
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To celebrate your new age, you have a new avatar Dai - prey tell it's story...(if you want to that is)
Edited by Mobson, May 7 2013, 01:31 PM.
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| dai Cottomy | May 7 2013, 02:46 PM Post #17 |
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It's called Henri Rousseau's Dream - inspired by Henri Rousseau, (known as the Douanier) - the self-taught French painter who created whimsical jungle scenes, even though he never actually travelled to a jungle! I thought that a tiger would be a change from a bicycle! |
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| rumbaba | May 7 2013, 03:06 PM Post #18 |
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I'm still seeing the bicycle |
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| dai Cottomy | May 7 2013, 03:22 PM Post #19 |
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Yes, it's particularly suitable for Hallowee'n as it was originally written as a tone poem with a Witches Sabbath as it's theme. Although it is credited to Mussorgsky, the version that we are familiar with now was revamped and orchestrated by Rimsky Korsakov. Mussorgsky's origninal was never performed during his lifetime. In 1940, Walt Disney included it in his animated film "Fantasia" when it was adapted by Leopold Stokowski, and combined with Schubert's "Ave Maria" to illustrate the defeat of the profane by the sacred. My favourite piece by Mussorgsky is "Pictures at an Exhibition. |
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| dai Cottomy | May 7 2013, 03:26 PM Post #20 |
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Give it time. |
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| becky sharp | May 7 2013, 03:29 PM Post #21 |
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I saw the tiger but it has now returned to the bike! |
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| Mobson | May 7 2013, 03:40 PM Post #22 |
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Not this one then..... also called The Dream! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Rousseau_-_Il_sogno.jpg Edited by Mobson, May 7 2013, 03:45 PM.
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| becky sharp | May 7 2013, 03:44 PM Post #23 |
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No,not that one...
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| Mobson | May 7 2013, 03:45 PM Post #24 |
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| dai Cottomy | May 7 2013, 03:50 PM Post #25 |
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Not the same title Mobs, mine's called Henri Rousseau's Dream....shows a bloke riding a tiger. Edited by dai Cottomy, May 7 2013, 03:52 PM.
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| Mobson | May 7 2013, 03:56 PM Post #26 |
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Look what I found for you Dai! The Jungle Line Rousseau walks on trumpet paths Safaris to the heart of all that jazz Through I-bars and girders, through wires and pipes The mathematic circuits of the modern nights Through huts through Harlem through jails and gospel pews Through the class on Park and the trash on Vine Through Europe and the deep deep heart of Dixie blue Through savage progress cuts the jungle line In a low-cut blouse she brings the beer Rousseau paints a jungle flower behind her ear Those cannibals of shuck and jive They'll eat a working girl like her alive With his hard-edged eye and his steady hand He paints the cellar full of ferns and orchid vines And he hangs a moon above a five-piece band He hangs it up above the jungle line The jungle line the jungle line Screaming in a ritual of sound and time Floating, drifting on the air conditioned wind And drooling for a taste of something smuggled in Pretty women funneled through valves and smoke Coy and bitchy wild and fine And charging elephants and chanting slaving boats Charging chanting down the jungle line There's a poppy wreath on a soldier's tomb There's a poppy snake in a dressing room Poppy poison poppy tourniquet It slithers away on brass like mouthpiece spit And metal skin and ivory birds Go steaming up to Rousseau's vines They go steaming up to Brooklyn Bridge Steaming, steaming, steaming up the jungle line By Joni Mitchell |
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| Mobson | May 7 2013, 03:58 PM Post #27 |
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In this link you can hear her sing the first four lines to a jungle beat! http://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=47 |
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Oooooh new smileys...like those - lucky Dai!

Take care blowing out all those candles.
12:36 AM Jul 11