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That's what I was thinking.....underpanties thread. I'm sure this didn't have anything to do with The old days - Aboard the Apollo.....did it?
The Little Thread Which Grew - the Apollo '73 to Everything But
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That's what I was thinking.....underpanties thread. I'm sure this didn't have anything to do with The old days - Aboard the Apollo.....did it?
afaceinthecrowd
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That's what I was thinking.....underpanties thread. I'm sure this didn't have anything to do with The old days - Aboard the Apollo.....did it?
I was on the Apollo in the old days and I liked this just fine on this thread!
Blue Spirit
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A Fun Reminder
That was a fun ad.
It reminds me of the photo of the real semi-nude female skydiver in freefall that
used to hang on the wall where I jumped in Perris.
There are a lot of female jumpers these days. A great sport and very safe.
That was a fun ad.
It reminds me of the photo of the real semi-nude female skydiver in freefall that
used to hang on the wall where I jumped in Perris.
There are a lot of female jumpers these days. A great sport and very safe.
afaceinthecrowd
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Oh my God Lakey, You're Right!
Uh...yeah, you're right. Played it back five or six times
and, I'll be damned...there was some CLASSICAL MUSIC. Now that's a real hoot! I've always been fond of watching air-pressure drag coefficients in play and the "Flight of the Valkyiers" makes it so much better!
Uh...yeah, you're right. Played it back five or six times
and, I'll be damned...there was some CLASSICAL MUSIC. Now that's a real hoot! I've always been fond of watching air-pressure drag coefficients in play and the "Flight of the Valkyiers" makes it so much better!
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CarmeloOrchards
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footnote:
After years of having a screenplay knocking around inside my head, I finally started doing note cards and outlining tonight. Perhaps in 3 or 4 years I'll have a finished product.
After years of having a screenplay knocking around inside my head, I finally started doing note cards and outlining tonight. Perhaps in 3 or 4 years I'll have a finished product.
RogerB
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That's what I was thinking.....underpanties thread. I'm sure this didn't have anything to do with The old days - Aboard the Apollo.....did it?
As noted, it was as homage to our Heidrun for her and others posts earlier on this thread on the subject of the acceptance of bodily exposure in Germany, compared to elsewhere.
Though I'm with you Nick, I too prefer au naturel. Though I'm still amazed that that is an advertisement that runs on TV over there! The other side of the coin being, I thought it was a very clever and funny piece of art.
R
nw2394
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Dunno. I guess in Britain such an ad would be a little too much for the Advertising Standards Agency to bear - though I think, if it were allowed to be aired on TV here, we wouldn't see quite the level of complaint that I suspect would be the case in a number of US states.
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Ted
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Dunno. I guess in Britain such an ad would be a little too much for the Advertising Standards Agency to bear - though I think, if it were allowed to be aired on TV here, we wouldn't see quite the level of complaint that I suspect would be the case in a number of US states.
N
My main complaint is over pixelating naked boobs. Now that I find offensive.
CarmeloOrchards
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tomorrow
Tax Day and Free Coffee
Bring a reusable travel mug into your local Starbucks on April 15th, and you'll get a free brewed coffee.
Tax Day and Free Coffee
Bring a reusable travel mug into your local Starbucks on April 15th, and you'll get a free brewed coffee.
CarmeloOrchards
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I just found a web page that has free military style music downloads:
http://www.gridcogames.com/HOI Stuff/military_music.htm
I like martial music, brass bands. Without them what would the Music Man (Robert Preston) save the world from Pool Halls with?
This guy has collected lots of old military band music from the US, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Spain, Hungary, USSR, Russia
If there was ever an old military song that you liked, you may find he has it for free downloading.
i've always liked the Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa. I like to sing along (I'm not kidding). Back pre 1980, there was a radio station owned by a cowboy named Gene Autry. He had KMPC in LA and KSFO in San Francisco among many more. Those two I listened to day and night. On Sundays in the City (SF), there was a DJ named Scott Beach. He was a part of the original "Committee," a comedy troupe. He was multi talented. I worked with him on a TV game show where he was the announcer (and Jim Lange of both KMPC and KSFO was the host). He played every form of music imaginable. My favorites were ragtime, barbershop, and military band. His father was a member of "The Lake Oswego Four," a fantastic barbershop quartet in Oregon. Scott played his father's music. He also sang along to Stars and Stripes Forever. In case you download Stars and Stripes, here are the lyrics:
Stars and Stripes Forever
by John Philip Sousa
Let martial note in triumph float
And liberty extend its mighty hand
A flag appears 'mid thunderous cheers,
The banner of the Western land.
The emblem of the brave and true
Its folds protect no tyrant crew;
The red and white and starry blue
Is freedom's shield and hope.
Other nations may deem their flags the best
And cheer them with fervid elation
But the flag of the North and South and West
Is the flag of flags, the flag of Freedom's nation.
Hurrah for the flag of the free!
May it wave as our standard forever,
The gem of the land and the sea,
The banner of the right.
Let despots remember the day
When our fathers with mighty endeavor
Proclaimed as they marched to the fray
That by their might and by their right
It waves forever.
Let eagle shriek from lofty peak
The never-ending watchword of our land;
Let summer breeze waft through the trees
The echo of the chorus grand.
Sing out for liberty and light,
Sing out for freedom and the right.
Sing out for Union and its might,
O patriotic sons.
Other nations may deem their flags the best
And cheer them with fervid elation,
But the flag of the North and South and West
Is the flag of flags, the flag of Freedom's nation.
Hurrah for the flag of the free.
May it wave as our standard forever
The gem of the land and the sea,
The banner of the right.
Let despots remember the day
When our fathers with might endeavor
Proclaimed as they marched to the fray,
That by their might and by their right
It waves forever.
music only:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpr5lYMz7LE
with lyrics sung:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDrz3N0H2Ew&feature=related
http://www.gridcogames.com/HOI Stuff/military_music.htm
I like martial music, brass bands. Without them what would the Music Man (Robert Preston) save the world from Pool Halls with?
This guy has collected lots of old military band music from the US, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Spain, Hungary, USSR, Russia
If there was ever an old military song that you liked, you may find he has it for free downloading.
i've always liked the Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa. I like to sing along (I'm not kidding). Back pre 1980, there was a radio station owned by a cowboy named Gene Autry. He had KMPC in LA and KSFO in San Francisco among many more. Those two I listened to day and night. On Sundays in the City (SF), there was a DJ named Scott Beach. He was a part of the original "Committee," a comedy troupe. He was multi talented. I worked with him on a TV game show where he was the announcer (and Jim Lange of both KMPC and KSFO was the host). He played every form of music imaginable. My favorites were ragtime, barbershop, and military band. His father was a member of "The Lake Oswego Four," a fantastic barbershop quartet in Oregon. Scott played his father's music. He also sang along to Stars and Stripes Forever. In case you download Stars and Stripes, here are the lyrics:
Stars and Stripes Forever
by John Philip Sousa
Let martial note in triumph float
And liberty extend its mighty hand
A flag appears 'mid thunderous cheers,
The banner of the Western land.
The emblem of the brave and true
Its folds protect no tyrant crew;
The red and white and starry blue
Is freedom's shield and hope.
Other nations may deem their flags the best
And cheer them with fervid elation
But the flag of the North and South and West
Is the flag of flags, the flag of Freedom's nation.
Hurrah for the flag of the free!
May it wave as our standard forever,
The gem of the land and the sea,
The banner of the right.
Let despots remember the day
When our fathers with mighty endeavor
Proclaimed as they marched to the fray
That by their might and by their right
It waves forever.
Let eagle shriek from lofty peak
The never-ending watchword of our land;
Let summer breeze waft through the trees
The echo of the chorus grand.
Sing out for liberty and light,
Sing out for freedom and the right.
Sing out for Union and its might,
O patriotic sons.
Other nations may deem their flags the best
And cheer them with fervid elation,
But the flag of the North and South and West
Is the flag of flags, the flag of Freedom's nation.
Hurrah for the flag of the free.
May it wave as our standard forever
The gem of the land and the sea,
The banner of the right.
Let despots remember the day
When our fathers with might endeavor
Proclaimed as they marched to the fray,
That by their might and by their right
It waves forever.
music only:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpr5lYMz7LE
with lyrics sung:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDrz3N0H2Ew&feature=related
CarmeloOrchards
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Were you in the German military last life?
Yes, it is good music.
We are all playing a game, there isn't necessarily a right and wrong. I was American during WW ll. Without Germany Italy and Japan, there would have been no war to fight. I cry whenever I see Casablanca
I was on the side of the South during the American Civil War. I am quite unrepentant. And I also cry whenever I see Gone With The Wind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGUOSz-rTn4
lkwdblds
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Musical Soul Mates
Leon and Carmelo - Your posts above caused huge stirrings in me as regards certain time periods and their music. Its amazing how similar our tastes are.
Besides the Horst Wessel song, there is another German military song that brings tears to my eyes. In English it is called, "I once had a Comrade". The English translation would go something like:
I had a Comrade,
A better one, you would never find.
The drums beat for battle,
He walked by my side,
In exact cadence and step.
A cannonshot, came a flying
Would it kill him or would it kill me.
It was he, who took the hit,
He laid before my feet.
He reached his hand up towards me,
Even as I was just reloading.
Comrade, I can't give you my hand any longer,
You wil remain forever in eternal life,
My good comrade, my good comrade.
My track was in German speaking lands for hundreds of years up until 1827, then I tried France, the USA, Portugal, Czechoslovia, as a Jewish boy, and then the USA again. The first USA stint was down in Billy the Kid territory in New Mexico. The New Mexico life ended at only 21 years of age and the Czech life at 13 years of age, the other lives were long.
As to Carmelo's post, I love the Marches of Sousa and have a Sousa CD which I play in my car. My favorite American coposers are Sousa, Scott Joplin and George Gershwin. I also love Dixieland and love to hear the Dixieland bands play at venues such as Disneyland which feature them. Also, the Confederacy, even though I detest slavery, I have a tremendous soft spot for the Confederate States of America, as to their culture and their music. My two favorite songs are "Down South in the Land of Cotton, old times there are not forgotten, ..." and "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee". To me, Scott Joplin with his Ragtime and Syncopation type of music was one of the great composers of all time. I am also a big fan of Barbershop quartet types of music from the 1890's in America. Also, I love Boogie Woogie and the singing of the Andrews Sisters. The Andrews Sister solos or when they teamed with Bing Crosby were just fantastic. Patty Andrews, the youngest of the 3 sistrs is still alive, well into her 90's Then there was that singing Cowboy Gene Autry who owned those radio stations and the Angels Baseball team. I went with the Cub Scouts to a Gene Autry concert in 1948 at the Shrine Auditorium in L.A. Another good singing cowboy was Roy Rogers who was good but I liked Gene better.
Casablanca, yes a great, great movie from the early WWII period. I always pulled for Germany to win, even in WWI I felt they were no better or worse than the other combatants. WWII is a different matter. That once proud nation allowed power to fall into the hands of a psychotic killer. That regime had to be obliterated and the country had to pay a terrible price for seating that mad man into power and fighting so valiantly for him. What a legacy for a once great nation to have to live with. Well, not surprisingly, they have come back from the Hitler debacle and are making their presence felt now as a peace loving basion where war and weapron are de emphasized and avoided as much as possible.
Lakey
Leon and Carmelo - Your posts above caused huge stirrings in me as regards certain time periods and their music. Its amazing how similar our tastes are.
Besides the Horst Wessel song, there is another German military song that brings tears to my eyes. In English it is called, "I once had a Comrade". The English translation would go something like:
I had a Comrade,
A better one, you would never find.
The drums beat for battle,
He walked by my side,
In exact cadence and step.
A cannonshot, came a flying
Would it kill him or would it kill me.
It was he, who took the hit,
He laid before my feet.
He reached his hand up towards me,
Even as I was just reloading.
Comrade, I can't give you my hand any longer,
You wil remain forever in eternal life,
My good comrade, my good comrade.
My track was in German speaking lands for hundreds of years up until 1827, then I tried France, the USA, Portugal, Czechoslovia, as a Jewish boy, and then the USA again. The first USA stint was down in Billy the Kid territory in New Mexico. The New Mexico life ended at only 21 years of age and the Czech life at 13 years of age, the other lives were long.
As to Carmelo's post, I love the Marches of Sousa and have a Sousa CD which I play in my car. My favorite American coposers are Sousa, Scott Joplin and George Gershwin. I also love Dixieland and love to hear the Dixieland bands play at venues such as Disneyland which feature them. Also, the Confederacy, even though I detest slavery, I have a tremendous soft spot for the Confederate States of America, as to their culture and their music. My two favorite songs are "Down South in the Land of Cotton, old times there are not forgotten, ..." and "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee". To me, Scott Joplin with his Ragtime and Syncopation type of music was one of the great composers of all time. I am also a big fan of Barbershop quartet types of music from the 1890's in America. Also, I love Boogie Woogie and the singing of the Andrews Sisters. The Andrews Sister solos or when they teamed with Bing Crosby were just fantastic. Patty Andrews, the youngest of the 3 sistrs is still alive, well into her 90's Then there was that singing Cowboy Gene Autry who owned those radio stations and the Angels Baseball team. I went with the Cub Scouts to a Gene Autry concert in 1948 at the Shrine Auditorium in L.A. Another good singing cowboy was Roy Rogers who was good but I liked Gene better.
Casablanca, yes a great, great movie from the early WWII period. I always pulled for Germany to win, even in WWI I felt they were no better or worse than the other combatants. WWII is a different matter. That once proud nation allowed power to fall into the hands of a psychotic killer. That regime had to be obliterated and the country had to pay a terrible price for seating that mad man into power and fighting so valiantly for him. What a legacy for a once great nation to have to live with. Well, not surprisingly, they have come back from the Hitler debacle and are making their presence felt now as a peace loving basion where war and weapron are de emphasized and avoided as much as possible.
Lakey
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lkwdblds
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Comment about one of Rogers Posts.
Roger posted on the Alan Walter"s thread yesterday about the between lives period typically being about 15 months. That worked perfectly for me as to my last life. I was a 13 year old Jewish boy in the Sudetenland area of Czechoslavia when the Nazi's took over control of the country in 1938. My Dad got papers for us to leave and we were leaving with all our posessions in a horse draw wagon and were stopped alongside a train track by a Nazi Officer and asked for our papers. My Dad started insulting the officer and calling him names and then insulted Hitler. The officer made a motion with his hand and some soldiers down in a small gulley alonside the train tracks came up and opened fire on us, killing us all. That was about August of 1938 and I was born into my current body in December of 1939 in L.A. There it is 15 months. When I read Rog's post yesterday, it gave me a little more certainty that the incident actually happened and was not made up.
Lakey
Roger posted on the Alan Walter"s thread yesterday about the between lives period typically being about 15 months. That worked perfectly for me as to my last life. I was a 13 year old Jewish boy in the Sudetenland area of Czechoslavia when the Nazi's took over control of the country in 1938. My Dad got papers for us to leave and we were leaving with all our posessions in a horse draw wagon and were stopped alongside a train track by a Nazi Officer and asked for our papers. My Dad started insulting the officer and calling him names and then insulted Hitler. The officer made a motion with his hand and some soldiers down in a small gulley alonside the train tracks came up and opened fire on us, killing us all. That was about August of 1938 and I was born into my current body in December of 1939 in L.A. There it is 15 months. When I read Rog's post yesterday, it gave me a little more certainty that the incident actually happened and was not made up.
Lakey
CarmeloOrchards
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This is probably more a paean to the ipod than anything else. I remember playing 78s on a windup phonograph. I played 33s and 45s on my little electric phonograph over and over. When our family got a stereo it was such a marvelous device. Eight tracks I had for a milli second. I still have a cassette player in my pick up. I tend to trash cassettes, but I play my Al Jolson and Chris Many tapes while driving. If no one has any Celestial Navigations music, you're missing something.
I've got folders upon folders of CDs, but I rarely load them in CD players.
What I do have is a computer loaded with 30 days worth of music and lectures (including Jack Horner and LRH lectures) sports talk, and NPR programs. Name a genre, I have it. I can plug my ipod in and download whatever I want to listen to. I have enough content that I can change my mind in mid play. These are the good old days for listening to recorded music and talk.
When we travel (ski, beach, etc), my daughter and I play our ipods. We both have eclectic tastes. One moment we're listening to Fleetwood Mac, the next moment the Eagles, then Queen Latifah, ragtime (shameless music that will drag your son, your daughter into the arms of a jungle animal instinct mass-teria), showtunes, opera, country music, Christmas music, surf music, pop, etc. We raised the kids with all sorts of music and movies.
Having an ipod means freedom of choice. The ipods plug right into the stereo in the car or truck. If your mood changes, you change the music at the click of a finger.
Having loads of recorded music just increases my desire for live music. Live shows with Jimmy Buffett, Toby Keith or a multitude of ragtime players or barbershop quartets , who you've never heard of are always better than recorded music.
There is a dimension to live that just can't be recorded.
Go see live musicians and you walk out humming and greatly appreciative of others' talents. In the summer there are free concerts in abundance. The concerts I hit are both free and the big shows.
I think what happened with Germany is a macrocosm of the microcosm of individuals. Germany is an intellectual and order driven country. It collapsed and went rogue. I've done the same as an individual. Power does not mean sanity. I've had my share of German cars, because I like them. When the German economy is working properly, we all (the world's people) benefit.
RogerB
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It Was Challenge
Lakey, my Love, it was Challenge that wrote that piece, though it was placed under a quote from me . . . so my name was on top.
Personally, I have found a shorter time between lives. But that's a topic for another time
Rog
Lakey, my Love, it was Challenge that wrote that piece, though it was placed under a quote from me . . . so my name was on top.
Personally, I have found a shorter time between lives. But that's a topic for another time
Rog
I have never run any track of being in Germany. By what I have run and pieced together I have been a South African since about 1734 when I was shipwrecked along the coast.
But German lieder sung well always give me a very strong feeling of homeliness and the Horst Wessel produces tears without fail. I suspect it has more to do do with the emotional wavelength that is given in the music rather that the actaul content. HW often gets interpreted in a very supeficial way - about a comrade dying - when in fact it has a very deep spiritual meaning about how the phenomena of bodily death are transitory and minor, and cannot impact on the love that exists between us, how that love surpasses all earthly phenomena.
But German lieder sung well always give me a very strong feeling of homeliness and the Horst Wessel produces tears without fail. I suspect it has more to do do with the emotional wavelength that is given in the music rather that the actaul content. HW often gets interpreted in a very supeficial way - about a comrade dying - when in fact it has a very deep spiritual meaning about how the phenomena of bodily death are transitory and minor, and cannot impact on the love that exists between us, how that love surpasses all earthly phenomena.
Ted
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I am a major fan of live music since my days at the original Fillmore Auditorium and live concerts at Golden Gate Park.
These days I am an advocate of live, local musicians. Some of the best music around comes from people you have never heard of.
Here is our own Kaleigh Baker. Our family are fans in a major way. Join us the next time you are in town.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKZRQGZu66M&feature=related
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