pkondz
Brace yourself for immediate disintegration
- Joined
- Mar 9, 2007
Saw the video. Flip it!
And...
The reason the picture didn't
turn out, was because it's a
video.
I did some digging and found it.
Funny... I just saw that a few days ago.
Most (some?... one?)
of you know that I
like Japanese gardens.
Normally, Japanese dai-dōrō
are used to line paths.
So this one was curiously placed
within a thicket of bushes and trees.
Apparently... the bridge is
designed that way...
because it's pretty.
Or technically Feng Shui.
It's also designed that way
to focus attention to the
place and moment.
If you don't... you'll walk off
and into the water.
Both restrooms were out of order.
Poop.
Uh... I mean...
It was built in eighteen
months and consists of
I couldn't show you, as there
were signs indicating no
photography was allowed.
I didn't enter the temple,
not knowing the proper
protocols and not wanting
to offend.
I parked my car, sashayed up
to the front door,
nodded to the woman who
opened the door and walked
in right behind her.
I'd borrow it (take when she
wasn't home)
and play it on dad's Hi Fi.
And the entire crowd sang:
"La lalalala la lalalala la lalalala la!"
And it was perfect.
And it was magic.
And it was just right.
Considering how busy you are
I'm surprised it's only 5 pages.
shhhh...
Don't tell anyone, but...
I still would've picked
the ratatouille.
Oh, I guess that makes sense.
I've only been the one time
and didn't see any.
But maybe because I was on
the more major thoroughfares.
Really!?!?!
Where do you think chickens come from?
What are you going to see??
Funny... I just saw that a few days ago.
I didn't know that. I always thought they were just put in random places for decoration.
I wonder.... maybe it's also that way, or just a happy consequence, that it also causes one to see various views from the bridge by forcing the crosser to turn as they navigate it. Certainly one must slow a bit to guard their steps, and as they do, they may pause looking this way then that and see a different perspective with each section. ?? Just a theory.
Gorgeous! The bronze patina is perfect.
I must post a couple of our famous Japanese Maple here in the Portland Japanese Garden here. Hundreds of local photogs flock there in the Autumn to see it/capture it. It's pretty big and although I've not seen in Fall, it's on my list to do someday.
Perhaps a sashay was not in order either. Rather a brisk trot...
er....
18 months?!
How..... ?!
No. Words.
While I do respect their customs, this does sadden me some. I guess in some ways though, it does force one to truly be in the moment and maybe the memories of its beauty would be better kept?
Nah, just ask. A lot of places have a docent of sorts or regular worshippers who are often very willing and eager to be a "culture broker" for newcomers. When I was at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul they briefed guests and gave them tips as well as head scarves before they went in.
So, I guess you found a place to take care of "pressing business" since you're back to inferior modes of locomotion.
I have vivid memories (there aren't many of those left as I approach geriatric status) of my dad and his purchase of his 6' tall speakers with subwoofers. They literally took up the space of a wall in our "rec room". I would put on vinyl of Ravel's Bolero or some Fleetwood Mac and let 'er rip. LOUD! So much beautiful sound. The days of high quality sound is gone- you just can't replicate it with digital medium.
Whoa! I'm sure that was almost tear evoking.
sorry to clog up your thread, but when I find the time to be on, I take advantage of it.
Well, considering how fast your thread moves....
Your secret's safe with me.
But, one of them IS on THE major throughfare- I-5. On the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon. But they try to time those lifts NOT during either rush hour.
Yep. My very favorite flavor as a kid, and even into my adulthood, was B&R's Burgundy Cherry. MMmm!
Well, duh. They that's why they crossed the road. Chicken babies.
First we started off here at home on Prime watching Fantastic Beasts, then went to the theater to see Pt. 2. Which wasn't as good as the first. Ah well, most sequels aren't.
Cracks me up! What a classy guy he was.
Really!?!?
I'm surprised you haven't
taken the clan.
It's not even that far from you!
I passed on that one.
It might be interesting, but...
I'm not a huge hockey fan.
I know.
It's anti-Canadian.
But there ya go.
Someone did not get lucky
that evening.
It just... worked there.
But...
Um....
I was singing along
all night long.
I don't think I ever realized the American falls was divided like that - called Bridal Veil. I've been there a few times.Niagara Falls is actually
three separate falls
Horseshoe, American
and Bridal Veil falls.
I've seen everything on this list...except the markets.Also on the list of things to do are:
CN Tower
Royal Ontario Museum
St. Lawrence Market
Casa Loma (Gothic revival mansion)
Kensington Market
The Distillery District
Ripley's Aquarium of Canada
Toronto Island...
Seems like a well designed bridge for sashaying though.I did smile at this foot bridge:
I wonder if any teenagers with their phones have walked off the edge.It's also designed that way
to focus attention to the
place and moment.
If you don't... you'll walk off
and into the water.
I had no idea this existed in Toronto.I also visited the
BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir
(Hindu temple)
Incredible. I can't imagine the talent nor the time required to accomplish that.The details carved into
the wood are insane.
One good thing about getting old. Eventually, old stuff is cool again.(on vinyl... when it wasn't
just hip, but the only medium)
that came out in 1974.
Interesting. I didn't realize that.He also talked about how
Toronto was the home
of his husband David Furnish
and that his kids were Canadian.
The end.
Wait, what?Well...
I did see a couple things
If you have time, it’s usually more interesting.I like the path less taken
from time to time.
Don’t know that it’d phase a spirit much but it may be a potentiall comical deturant for the habitually Cell-Phone dependent among us (and it is more visually appealing then a streight walkway).I did smile at this foot bridge:
Where’s the goose?
How many times did you ring it?
Or not…Both restrooms were out of order.
Poop.
Must be that look of constipation.People ask me for directions.
And always when I'm on vacation.
ThatSay that fast five times!
Almost too much for the eye to take in.
And that’s almost an understatement.The details carved into
the wood are insane.
You’re forgetting about 8-TracksMy sister owned his first
Greatest Hits album
(on vinyl... when it wasn't
just hip, but the only medium)
Borrow?I'd borrow it
There it is…(take when she
wasn't home)
You lost me…(Not WiFi... Hi Fi.
Google it, kids.)
Had to sneak past the security infrastructure to get in there too, didn’t ya’?I hopped on the subway
(first time in Toronto!)
and made my way downtown
where my sister works.
Agreed, but…I find it sad that we live
in an era where precautions
have to be taken against
people who can drive and
are certifiably insane.
Translation: Ran willy-nilly like a seven-year-old whilst screaming nonsensically at the top of ones lungsSoon, they opened the doors
and we made our way inside.
Gott’a watch for the ticket-scam thing.Just before we did, the doorman
turned away a man and his date.
I wonder if he was trying to sneak in
or had been scammed with a fake ticket.
Go into the light!And then...
The lights dimmed
and went dark.
Gmaj7 to be exact.Spotlights centered on the piano.
Elton John sat quietly and...
...brought his hands down.
On one chord.
Thus recreating the GYBR recording.The arena erupted.
I need me a Bernie…"Bernie would write the lyrics in one room
and then I would go in another room
to do the melody.
It likely wasn’t a hindrance, to be sure.We never wrote a single song
in the same room together.
Maybe that's why we've stayed
together for fifty years."
Didn’t know that one."I cut out the part that explains
what the whole song is about."
It’s a good trope for those few acts and those few songs where this just happens naturally.Suddenly, the entire band stopped playing
and the only sound was the percussionist
smacking out a beat.
And the entire crowd sang:
"La lalalala la lalalala la lalalala la!"
And waved their cell phones around in the airSoon after, the final song
was sung and Elton left the stage.
The crowd cheered
Don’t go into the light!!!!And with that, Elton glided up
a ramp and through a door
that had opened in the screen.
Tell me about it…I don't like how my idols and heroes
are getting older.
Nice summation, there.Time should just stand still.
And for a little while, that night.
It did.
Did you see it in this chapter?
Just one of those corners of the continent we haven't visited yet. We had actually started making plans to get up that way a few years ago, but then suddenly the opportunity opened to go to Hawaii that year. So the plans for Niagara were shelved.
We can't all be fans of everything. There's just too many things.
Sing away! Like I said, I know I'm the grump here. So I don't go, I'm happy, and the people at the concert are happy. Win-win.
I don't think I ever realized the American falls was divided like that - called Bridal Veil. I've been there a few times.
I've seen everything on this list...except the markets.
Seems like a well designed bridge for sashaying though.
I wonder if any teenagers with their phones have walked off the edge.
I had no idea this existed in Toronto.
Incredible. I can't imagine the talent nor the time required to accomplish that.
One good thing about getting old. Eventually, old stuff is cool again.
Interesting. I didn't realize that.
Wait, what?
There’s more.
Oh good, I can use some distractions.
(and I wasn’t in the mood for roast Minstrel, just now either)
Carry on.
If you have time, it’s usually more interesting.
Unless you figure out along the way, that there’s a good reason for it to be less taken.
(but even then, you’ll have a good story)
Don’t know that it’d phase a spirit much but it may be a potentiall comical deturant for the habitually Cell-Phone dependent among us (and it is more visually appealing then a streight walkway).
Where’s the goose?
How many times did you ring it?
(pretty sure someone would have to drag me away)
Must be that look of constipation.
Makes you seem like you’ve been studying up on things.
That
That
That
That
That
Almost too much for the eye to take in.
The intricacy is stunning.
And that’s almost an understatement.
You’re forgetting about 8-Tracks
Borrow?
Siblings don’t “borrow” things from each other…
There it is…
Welcome to the normal family dynamic.
You lost me…
I looked, but “wifi” isn’t listed in my good hardbound 1500 page 1977 dictionary.
Guess I’ll have bust out the cross index and look that up in the Britannica (along with that there “Google” thingy you mentioned) once I get home this evening.
Had to sneak past the security infrastructure to get in there too, didn’t ya’?
Agreed, but…
I ain’t so sure that hiring the certifiably insane to participate in the attempted thwarting of the certifiably insane is necessarily the most appropriate method of implementing a solution.
Translation: Ran willy-nilly like a seven-year-old whilst screaming nonsensically at the top of ones lungs
Gott’a watch for the ticket-scam thing.
You won’t know that they’re bogus until you get to the door.
And in truth, I can’t say with certainty that the ones I purchased are bona fide.
There’s no way to check that I know of.
And while I’ve never had a problem with such (nor worried about it before), when we go in March, it will be the first concert I’ve ever attended where I believe that it could be a distinct possibility.
Gmaj7 to be exact.
(of course the voicing of it is also quite specific)
Thus recreating the GYBR recording.
Nice.
I need me a Bernie…
The music I can do, but I hate trying to write lyrics.
Didn’t know that one.
Interesting story.
Then again, it’s hardly the only tune written that makes no real sense.
It’s a good trope for those few acts and those few songs where this just happens naturally.
(and sometimes uncontrollably)
And waved their cell phones around in the air
(all of which were displaying videos of a either a Bic or a Zippo)…
Don’t go into the light!!!!
Tell me about it…
Nice summation, there.
It was as if I were looking at myself in a mirror…
I've got to the point where I am just saying that I have read and caught up. Sorry but I've been so busy I can't even I eeo up with my own report.
You love it and you know it…And... There it is.
Better bring a bucket…But roast minstrel is so good!
Especially with a little mint.
Have seen that one.
You’re still It.Duck... duck... er… um...
That was distracting and does make one wonder what was up.Not really sure why.
I strongly suspect
the disarrayed sand garden
had something to do with it.
Mystery solved.Face all pinched up...
Yeah! That'd do it!
Just a matter of paying attention to what is actually being asked.See? Toldja it was easy.
What can I say; I R Old…You're right!
For some reason, I thought
they came a little later than that,
but the were around from
1964-1988. (Thanks Google.)
Dang, now I’ll have to upgrade my gear just to hear it.There's an 8 track with
a full explanation.
And then there’s the part where it will fade out in the middle of the explanation, switch tracks, and then fade back in.But you have to wait for
the right track to come along.
Well, apparently our boarders are fairly porous so you have that going for you.Well... yeah.
Do you think any place would
willingly allow me in?
Yeah…
And yet...
Point?And your point being?...
There’s the problem.Did you get them from a third party?
Nope…GYBR?
Is that an acronym for the fact that
Bennie was recorded in a studio
with no live audience?
And it was added in from a different
concert that Elton John did?
Naaaa…Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
comes to mind.
Mirrors don’t tell lies.
You love it and you know it…
Better bring a bucket…
Have seen that one.
And all I’ve got to say on the matter is…
You’re still It.
That was distracting and does make one wonder what was up.
Too bad they didn’t leave a rake setting out; you could’a tried you hand at creating serenity.
Just a matter of paying attention to what is actually being asked.
(and being a smarta$$ helps as well).
What can I say; I R Old…
(..er then 8-tracks)
Dang, now I’ll have to upgrade my gear just to hear it.
Don’t you have a 78 of it that I can load up on the Victrola I already have?
And then there’s the part where it will fade out in the middle of the explanation, switch tracks, and then fade back in.
Seriously, I have memories of some tunes always fading out and then back in mid-song.
Don’t remember what compilation “album” it was, but the Beatles tune: Rain vividly comes to my mind for doing this back in the day.
Well, apparently our boarders are fairly porous so you have that going for you.
Point?
Since when have I ever had a point?
There’s the problem.
It was already sold out, so I went through a reseller.
The reviews for the site were mixed but not all negative so I took a bit of a gamble on it.
The transaction went through no problem and I got the down load of what for all intents and purposes appear to be perfectly legit tickets. But there’s no way to actually know until you get there and the bar-codes either work or they don’t.
Like I said, this is the first time I’ve actually been just a smidge worried about it.
Nope…
“Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”
The album the tune came from.
I know that the crowd sounds are mere overdub, but it’s part of the overall sound of the tune. As such, I think it’s cool that it allows an opportunity to easily recreate what was a studio track even more effectively on the road then how it comes off on radio.
Mirrors don’t tell lies.
we just wish they did.
Of course it is.
Of course it is.
Who else could it possibly be????
The very idea!Of course! If there were two of you, well, I just wouldn't know what to think!