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What are your favourite hymns? I am trying to pick some for the service. The family hymn is Guide Me O Thy Great Redeemer, which is always a good sing, but I need two more. In particular, I would like one out of the three song-spaces we have to be occupied by something that might be recognised by a wider group than just the born-and-bred Anglicans. Trouble is it has to be played on a church organ in an 11th century church so anything other than timeless gets shown up for what it really is. And, if the song lacks a certain requisite dignity the organ ends up sounding like a mighty wurlitzer and half the congregation get the giggles. I like Will The Circle Be Unbroken but the lyrics are hardly appropriate.
Are you able to come? If you do will you bring a uke? There will be many opportunities to play it.
R
Are you able to come? If you do will you bring a uke? There will be many opportunities to play it.
R
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I've been thinking about your quandary. My two thoughts are, my current favorite sacred harp tunes, with words by the immortal Isaac Watts, is a good positively eco-friendly text perfect for the summer solstice:
'Tis by thy strength the mountains stand,
God of eternal power;
The sea grows calm at thy command,
And tempests cease to roar.The thirsty ridges drink their fill,
And ranks of corn appear;
The ways abound with blessings still,
'Thy goodness crowns the year.
(We sang that on the radio, but it can also be really pretty - 344 Rainbow) The Poem:
http://books.google.com/books
http://www.fasola.org/indexes
My second thought is you should write your own appropriate lyrics for The Circle Be Unbroken, &C.
Happy May Day,
Sandy Hussein
"Now when I die don't bury me at all
Just place me away in alcohol
My forty four lay by my feet
Please tell them I am just asleep"
-Carter Family
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James, you fancy gentleman!Between You and Peter Zillmann
James! How the heck are you?
Hi Pete! Thanks for being my friend. The internet!
I'm doing fine. I work [...] jobs in the sf bay area. Life! Sometimes I play the my blue electric ukulele at open mics.
How are you?
Always,
James Welsch!
I'm doing fine. I work [...] jobs in the sf bay area. Life! Sometimes I play the my blue electric ukulele at open mics.
How are you?
Always,
James Welsch!
Ahh, the Intertubes. Is there anything they can't do?
I'm glad to hear you're doing well! [...] sounds wonderful. If you're going to do have a shitty job you may as well do it someplace wonderful like the Bay area. Good for you! I hope you love it there.
I don't think I've ever seen a blue electric ukulele. I'm glad to hear they exist and are in such esteemed custody. I've actually been considering getting myself a uke recently, though more the $30 trash variety than the investment-quality electric sort.
I'm well also. I work as a computer nerd at a small liberal arts college in southwest Michigan. I spend my free time traveling as much as my pocketbook allows. I've been doing state capitals for the past few years. 25 down, 25 to go. Didn't you live in Carson City once upon a time? Tiny little capitol building, Nevada has.
It's great to hear from you!
Yours,
Peter
I'm glad to hear you're doing well! [...] sounds wonderful. If you're going to do have a shitty job you may as well do it someplace wonderful like the Bay area. Good for you! I hope you love it there.
I don't think I've ever seen a blue electric ukulele. I'm glad to hear they exist and are in such esteemed custody. I've actually been considering getting myself a uke recently, though more the $30 trash variety than the investment-quality electric sort.
I'm well also. I work as a computer nerd at a small liberal arts college in southwest Michigan. I spend my free time traveling as much as my pocketbook allows. I've been doing state capitals for the past few years. 25 down, 25 to go. Didn't you live in Carson City once upon a time? Tiny little capitol building, Nevada has.
It's great to hear from you!
Yours,
Peter
Pete!
I was raised in Incline Village, NV, an hour from Carson City. It's true, you can walk right in the front door, down a hall, & right into the Gov's office. How many other states boast such intimacy?
No! Spend an extra hundred & order yourself a Fluke from Flea Market music - I am an unofficial spokesman for this wonderful company. Their ukes are magical.
http://www.fleamarketmusic.com/
For a couple hundred you can get electro-acoustic pick-up, perfect for open mics & playing with rock bands, or amplified hair-dryers, depending on what night of the week it is.
Here's some YouTubes of me playing my blue mountain uke:
I like your state capitol plan. I visited my fiftieth state, Alabama, last May.
James
I was raised in Incline Village, NV, an hour from Carson City. It's true, you can walk right in the front door, down a hall, & right into the Gov's office. How many other states boast such intimacy?
No! Spend an extra hundred & order yourself a Fluke from Flea Market music - I am an unofficial spokesman for this wonderful company. Their ukes are magical.
http://www.fleamarketmusic
For a couple hundred you can get electro-acoustic pick-up, perfect for open mics & playing with rock bands, or amplified hair-dryers, depending on what night of the week it is.
Here's some YouTubes of me playing my blue mountain uke:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW88jSi6n54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsITMCW9_p8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NupAdUGhRiA
I like your state capitol plan. I visited my fiftieth state, Alabama, last May.
James
I haven't counted them all yet, but Wyoming was just about as welcoming. In the front door, make a right, and don't trip over the Governor. In many cases I haven't been able to actually enter the buildings themselves, as I'm usually traveling on weekends and politicians seem to love time off.
Nice youtubings! And what a lovely instrument! I am smitten with one of your comments in the "Across the Universe" thread, "My sombrero is also backwards."
Congrats on finishing off all 50 states! Alabama was a challenge for me as well; I had the Dakotas and three states west of them left to go, and lonely Alabama as the easternmost I hadn't visited, lost between Florida and Mississippi. I'll be visiting Idaho (#49) this summer, which is exciting. I had a free trip to Hawaii (#50) all but planned, and it disappeared a few weeks ago when ATA Airlines a splode.
You're not that far from Sacramento (at least not by midwestern standards), and it's a lovely one to visit if you're interested in starting.
And thanks for the uke advice!
Nice youtubings! And what a lovely instrument! I am smitten with one of your comments in the "Across the Universe" thread, "My sombrero is also backwards."
Congrats on finishing off all 50 states! Alabama was a challenge for me as well; I had the Dakotas and three states west of them left to go, and lonely Alabama as the easternmost I hadn't visited, lost between Florida and Mississippi. I'll be visiting Idaho (#49) this summer, which is exciting. I had a free trip to Hawaii (#50) all but planned, and it disappeared a few weeks ago when ATA Airlines a splode.
You're not that far from Sacramento (at least not by midwestern standards), and it's a lovely one to visit if you're interested in starting.
And thanks for the uke advice!
Sir-
I lived briefly in midtown Sacramento. You saw the capitol mall, with every California tree represented. Sacramento has more trees per capita than Paris, #2.
I received some nasty comments about backwards flag on youtube (I deleted the ones inappropriate for children). What's with the mean "unpatriotic" "un-American" accusations going all over the blogosphere? Seriously, flag-pin lapels? But enough, Happy May Day, man.
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I lived briefly in midtown Sacramento. You saw the capitol mall, with every California tree represented. Sacramento has more trees per capita than Paris, #2.
I received some nasty comments about backwards flag on youtube (I deleted the ones inappropriate for children). What's with the mean "unpatriotic" "un-American" accusations going all over the blogosphere? Seriously, flag-pin lapels? But enough, Happy May Day, man.
10-4
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BJBetween You and Francis Gaskin
I think it's about time someone put an end to Boss Livingstone's corrupt and divisive brand of municipal socialism.
Sure, man! Copacetic!
This Boris character seems like a character. He's got my vote if you tell me to. Plus, doesn't appear that the Mayor of London is a spectacularly consequential office anyhow.
James
An excerpt from the New Yorker a few weeks ago:
This Boris character seems like a character. He's got my vote if you tell me to. Plus, doesn't appear that the Mayor of London is a spectacularly consequential office anyhow.
James
An excerpt from the New Yorker a few weeks ago:
"When I was traveling to a Boris Johnson campaign appearance one day by taxi, the driver told me that he'd like to meet Johnson. I assumed that he was an admirer: the drivers of what Londoners call black cabs, most of whom are white men of middling years, tend toward conservative political views [...] 'I'd like to ask him why he bumped into my taxi on his bicycle,' the driver went on. 'There he was, big black coat, blond hair, talking on a mobile. Ran right into me. Then he just rode away.'
“ 'Then you’re going to vote against him?' I asked.
“ 'Oh, no,' he said. 'I’d rather have George W. Bush for mayor than fucking Livingstone.'
“ 'You might want to give that one a little thought,' I said.
“I had been finding my way around London mostly by the Underground, despite Johnson's description of the system under Livingstone's management as 'armpit-nuzzling hell,' & I was astonished that when I finally climbed into a taxi it turned out to be the one taxi in London that Boris Johnson had hit with his bicycle. Then it occurred to me that, since Johnson is an inveterate cyclist who seems to have distraction as a default mode, he might have crashed into a majority of the taxis in London."
-Calivin Trillin, "Capital Fellows", The New Yorker, 14 April 2008
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