The Creative Type ...

[den]

I was just wondering...

being at this site for quite some time now, I've noticed that through all the shades and tones of orange and black, there are some very colourful people here! and a special nod to you newcomers! It's always interesting to see people's characters start to develop as they post and share their stuff with us.

So... I was thinking that besides love of reading, writing poetry, studying ( as so many of you seem to be attending school of some sort) what else do you do to express your creativity? Do you collect something weird? Do you belong to any esoteric groups? Do you have an odd hobby?

Of course ok I'll start :p

I paint, usually acrylic on canvas, draw and am often found with sketch pad in hand.
I'm trying to perfect the short story structure and omelette, love cooking.
I volunteer with the local humane society because I love animals and they bring me back down to earth and also give me inspiration.
I'm helping teach a group here that works with mentally challenged people to grow their own gardens on land donated by the city.
Oh yeah, and I collect clocks. :p

next?

[IWilKikU]

I'm into drama. I act and direct. I also try to write, although school kind of sucks up all my writing, but during vacations I often write short stories or start novels that never get past page 10. I used to juggle alot too. Seriously.

[den]

What did you juggle ?

[simon]

I eat and build fires.

[Lara]

I love to write.

I also work and pay bills, work some more and pay more bills.

I workout at the gym.

I am in the 30-39 age group.

I would like to take drama, but it isn't available where I live, only in the college.

[den]

:D hee hee , `Clan of the CaveBear' stylee?


Originally posted by simon
I eat and build fires.

[simon]

I have more style and natural grace, but in essence I find silverware an inhibitor and go for the chef boyardee boiling in a fire, followed by the antics of trying to take it out with two sticks, void of burning my extemeties of course.

[den]

Do you open the can before or after heating? or are ashes good for ya? :p



Originally posted by simon
I have more style and natural grace, but in essence I find silverware an inhibitor and go for the chef boyardee boiling in a fire, followed by the antics of trying to take it out with two sticks, void of burning my extemeties of course.

[Dyrwen]

I draw with charcoal. With it I usually produce surreal and abstract works, some up to 4 feet tall at times.

I also tend to write a lot, not too much creative writing really unless I've got a lot of time on my hands to go at it (since when I start, pages fly out quick) but I do write a lot of philosophy as well.

Otherwise, my creativity is more or less expressed in other's emotions portrayed in the music I listen to. Since I'm unable to commit time to producing music, I let those who share my feelings express them for me so that I might vent them in someway. Concerts are usually quite an endurance of pain and emotion for me.

[emily655321]

I draw with pen and ink, sometimes pencil. I love to draw people and hate straight lines. Usually surreal subject matter. Even as a little kid I never used crayons or markers; just black and white for me. I can't paint well, but I've been experimenting with creating mosaics out of tiny bits of construction paper. Ever since preschool people have been telling me I'm gonna be a famous artist or writer (which sucks far more than you might imagine), so now I'm going to go to art college.
I so envy creative writers. I used to write a lot of poetry and fiction, but as I grew up I stopped being able to. Inspiration comes to me in images, not words, and though I'm good at coming up with ideas and scenarios, anything that happens is deliberately created by me; characters never take on a life of their own.
I design tons of clothes for myself, but have yet to create any of them. When I was a little kid I'd make myself costumes to wear to school for no reason, and also wear my mother's long skirts.
I dabble in amateur photography, experimenting. I am clueless when it comes to technology, but I'm motivated by the type of image I'd like to be able to create.
I sing soprano in the church choir and sometimes cantor at Mass. We suck pretty badly, but it's not my fault :p
I pick out tunes on the piano -- am desperate to play better, but can't afford lessons. It's my favorite instrument.
I volunteer twice a week at the animal shelter with my mother. We clean/feed/love up the kitties. Also I bake desserts; I'm a peace activist; in HS I was in a gay rights group, and I'm still big on that issue; and I'm in a Clockwork Orange group on Yahoo. I also participate in this one really kickass literature forum online. :p

Damn, I do a lot. Yea me. I gotta learn when to shut my mouth.

[Blade]

sculpting

[fayefaye]

I draw sometimes, write poetry at bus stops and train stations, play piano. Only I like to mess up the timing and push the tempo. So I'll play the first movement of the moonlight sonata way faster than it should be, and the third wayyy slower. It kills musical people, people who believe in structure, people who can hear. Oh, and I sing.

[Jay]

I draw, charcoal and pencil. Collect stamps :p.

[simon]

Den: Open the can before heating or it will explode all over you and all persons within a 5 yard radius. This explosion will undoubtedly inflict burns.

[papayahed]

I don't do anything, but I am looking for a creative outlet. Last month i was toying with getting a drum set, a couple months before that I went and painted pottery. What i do do very well is traumatizing my coworkers: I've signed them up to wildly inappropriate mailing lists, decorated their cubes for christmas (way over the top), and made little cut outs of many of them and stuck them all over the office and countless other creative things I can't think of at the moment, hhhmmmmmm......idle hands ARE the devils playground.

[GapingStarling]

Photography, mostly. I have a darkroom, and process my own black and white film - I like to muck around with time exposures, of waterfalls, or fireworks, or stars...
And the farm just down the road has baby cows right now, so I'm on a bit of a bovine streak at the moment :)

[IWilKikU]

Originally posted by Den
What did you juggle?
Just juggling balls. I could never get anything oblong right, which prevented me from moving on to flaming chainsaws :(

Originally posted by simon
Open the can before heating or it will explode all over you and all persons within a 5 yard radius. This explosion will undoubtedly inflict burns.
I have a hole in my sleeping bag from finding that out the hard way. Only I was destroying Bush's baked beans rather than Chef Boyardee. :D

[IWilKikU]

Originally posted by GapingStarling
And the farm just down the road has baby cows right now, so I'm on a bit of a bovine streak at the moment :)

Uhh... what you do in your own time is your own business!!!:eek: :eek: :eek: ... poor baby cows. ;) :p

[psycojones]

wine... collect and drink.
running, hiking, working out.

[Blade]

wine collect eh, any personal favorite?

[Koa]

my creativity is all bottled up inside of me and occasionally comes out in something i dare to call poetry... it used to also force me to start writing short stories, but I finished only one or 2 of them... talk of lazyness and lack of discipline...

I used to want to be a painter when I was in kindergarten, but that's really not for me... can't even draw a flower properly, and I'm not a visual person at all...

Uh, so sad, i really don't do anything else... I used to want to be a journalist too, but that dream was killed a couple of years ago...it comes back at time, but I have many issues to solve before I get confident enough to do anything...

Just to add something, for those who still don't know, I'm interested in learning languages, thought of course I'm too lazy even for that :D But it can surely be added to the list of my passions.

[IWilKikU]

Oh come on! No one thought my cow joke was funny?!? :D:D:D

[fayefaye]

I laughed. :) I smiled at koa's post too. sorry sista, but You're so like me. :D [I liked the phrase 'what I dare to call poetry.' can't be bad as all that] most of the time I want to express myself I end up having two or three hour phone rants. Where it's me and my best friend screaming about how much everything sucks for about half an hour, than two and a half hours of talking about food, mostly. :D I"m proud to say I've perfected the packet mix mudcake, and I can make pancakes and banana smoothies. :) Last time I tried to flip a pancake, it landed on the stove and caught fire. My immediate reaction was to grab some OIL. But right after that I grabbed a towel to smother it. And finally my brain kicked in and I reached for water and turned off the stove. Then I realised it was only a bit of pancake hanging off the edge of the frying pan, and all I had to do was lift the frying pan and it went out by itself. :D Eventually. And that is why I should never cook.

[Koa]

Oh I see...my rants appear to be mostly in the internet these days, more than on the phone... scary!

And I can't even cook!!! My friends spend time making nice cakes or fine food, and I just don't have any interest in doing that... I just can cook my pasta and all those other basic things, I'm not even bad at that but I have no passion for going further and be a chef... which for an Italian woman is quite rare it seems...

[IWilKikU]

I mostly eat in a cafeteria that is quite possibly the worst cafeteria in any uni in the world. But my girlfriend cooks REALLY well so I invent special occassions where we need to celebrate by not eating in the cafe.

[Koa]

Really??? Is she English??? My English ex-idontdaretocallhimboyfriend was impressed cos in his view I was able to cook...cos for his English mind cooking just meant take something from the freezer or from a can and put it in the microwave....

[fayefaye]

English food is DISGUSTING!! kik, there ISN'T a good cafeteria in the whole country. :D

[Blade]

i beg to differ, my cafeteria is quite good

[fayefaye]

but don't you live in the US? I"m talkin english cafeterias with weirdo cafeteria ladies

[GapingStarling]

Sorry, Kik, I haven't been on 'cause I've been upisland for a few days -- I thought your cow joke was good too (well, I blushed, and then I laughed...):p :D

[den]

Any food is great if someone else cooked it for ya...

yeah, I thought the english boiled everything :eek: :p

[verybaddmom]

um, ya. i have to totally support the contention that english food sucks pretty bad.
i used to live with this guy from Manchester, and his idea of gourmet was mushy peas (pronounced Mooshay pays) which caused him to evacuate whole office buildings for days afterwards and tasted like split peas soaked in eau de old sweat sock.
however, running a close second was his old favorite, steak and kidney pie. now i, personally am not one for organ meats (no comment), but anything that takes three hours to put together, and then has to be carefully steamed (yes, steamed) and still tastes like split peas soaked in eau de old sweat sock just does nothing for the reputation of the inhabitants of the region.

[verybaddmom]

i have never really considered myself a creative person; however, i do love to cook (with the exception of the above mentioned culinary mistakes) and once i have mastered a recipe, i usually try and put my own spin on it. a while back i worked in a bar that allowed me freedom to create and i came up with some interesting drinks that sold really well, but usually knocked out the consumer in two or less, which isnt exactly a marketing boon.

also, i love kickboxing, which i find allows me time to both express myself creatively and blow off steam, while working up a sweat. this is good as the only other time i break a sweat is, well. nevermind. on that note, i have creative outlets that are unmentionable. and this is where i sign off. blushing.
:o

[IWilKikU]

Originally posted by Koa
Really??? Is she English??? My English ex-idontdaretocallhimboyfriend was impressed cos in his view I was able to cook...cos for his English mind cooking just meant take something from the freezer or from a can and put it in the microwave....

No, my girlfriend is DEFINATLEY not English. She's American. And its true, the food in England is really gross. The pub I work at serves somthing called "Bubble and Squeek". Evidently its cabbage mash with chunks of terrifying, unidentifiable meats and veggies. Eew. I have yet to meet an English woman who can cook English food that doesn't make me want to hang myself.

[Koa]

Aaah right Kik. Now everything fell into place. For a moment I was worried that you had met the only English woman who knows the meaning of the word cook...You know, if such girl existed, her place would be in a museum! :D Now there are also stereotypes about Americans&Cooking, but I'm sure that there are some who don't eat only hamburgers and peanut butter... :D

[emily655321]

The majority do, however, abstain from anything they cannot deep-fry and smother in ketchup.

[Isagel]

Deep fried mars bars? How do they do that? (And WHY?)

Sadly ... I work, and that´s mostly it.

But sometimes - I write , paint (badly, but who cares!) , cook - right now I´m trying to learn how to cook thai food to my boyfriends delight, tend my garden, and once in a while I´m involved in live action roleplaying events. I dress up, sometimes in period costumes, and pretend I´m someone else for awhile. That is really a lot of fun.

I used to practice kenpo-karate and train selfdefense - but I´m not sure if that can be considered creative. :-).

Oh, yes - and I dance every chance I get.

[Kiwi Shelf]

Okay, my turn
I like to take pictures, haha my camera is like my baby. It's sad. It is fun to try and capture moments in the worlds history...
I also dabble in writing, but nothing too intense. My life generally takes all my time away for that, but one day I will write a novel.
:)
I also like to watch movies, sing very badly...
Okay, so school and work takes away from any form of a social life, I try though. hehe

[IWilKikU]

Originally posted by emily655321
The majority do, however, abstain from anything they cannot deep-fry and smother in ketchup.

My girlfriend comes from a conservative southern christian home. Her and her sister are amazing homemakers. She's going to make a damn good wife. We're talking huge three course dinners of traditional southern food (not deepfried), big chunks of meat and potatoes, fresh garden-picked veggies, homebaked bread, homemade fruit pies, everything from scratch. She also likes to expiriment with multicultural food and makes good Indian, Italian, Pastries, basically if you can give her a recipe, she can make it. If she learns how to make Kebabs, I think I'll die. Just die. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[smilley0688]

I'm in the 13-19 group.
I'm into drama, on the improv team at school. We, as a whole, didn't do very well in the competition, but it certainly doesn't help that we are a new team and had only several practises. I love art. Sculpting, painting, drawing,... all that stuff.
I'm a drummer.:D Been playing for almost a year, had piano for 5 years before that.
I like talking to people I know on messenger and playing computer games.
I'm a swimmer. I've taken Bronze Medallion, Aqua Leaders, and am currently in Bronze Cross, if that means anything to anybody. It is my goal to become a lifeguard. I was on the school swim team.
It's probably already obvious I love to read.

[Blade]

Originally posted by smilley0688
I love art. Sculpting, painting, drawing,... all that stuff.


i just curious as to what kinds of things you like to sculpt, draw, ect.

(btw welcome to the forums :D )

[smilley0688]

Right now in art were working on water colors, and I'm really enjoying that. My flowers are turning out quite well if i do say so myself,... I'm going to invest in some good brushes as I start to get money.

I like to draw pretty much anything. I try to stay away from drawing things more on the cartoony side, because thats what I tend to lean towards doing. When i put time into a sketch, they turn out really well.

I dont really sculpt as much, partly because it's so messy to do at home, and partly because I have yet to find sufficient clay.

What do you like to do?

[Sancho]

Sorry to break in on this. Did Blade get banned?

Anyhow, I don’t have a creative bone in my body but I really like stringed instruments. My wife will leave me if I bring home another ratty old guitar. I own and play badly many guitars. I also own and play badly a banjo a mandolin and a ukulele. I’ve been thinking about getting a fiddle. Maybe I just need a bigger amp. Nah.

The neat thing, I think, about the guitar is that there always something else to learn. I think that holds true for literature and philosophy as well; to one degree or another they all make life a little more worth living.

[emily655321]

Why would Blade be banned?? Unless it happened like, an hour ago, then no.

I love the guitar, but I'll never be able to learn it. I've tried. More ratty guitars, Sancho! And try the mandolin. Your wife can't hate a mandolin. It's been scientifically proven that it is impossible to hate the mandolin. :D

[Sancho]

I love the mandolin. Unfortunately you really need those triple flanged polyeurithane ear plugs when I play.

[Sancho]

Oh Yeah, one more thing:

Emily, Emily, Emily, …. Em! “I’ll never be able to learn it”??? What the…Djanjo Reinhardt’s left hand was so badly burned that his index and middle fingers were essentially fused. People listen to his recordings today and still can’t figure out how he did it.

I’m no Djanjo Reinhardt but I did remove the tip of my left index finger with a Makita Power Saw a while back. Ha - Gives me an excuse.

The beauty of the guitar is that someone can pick one up for the first time in their life and within a couple of hours have something that sounds pretty good. Then it just keeps getting better - - a guitar is such a personal instrument. BB King likes to name his favorite Axe “Lucille” but I don’t think Elton has ever named his Piano.

So anyhow, if you like guitars, head on down to the local pawn shop, find yourself an orphan that needs a good home, learn some chords (power chords if your new friend is electric, heh heh) and the next thing you know you’ll be rippin’ into Jimi’s “Red House.”

[emily655321]

LOL. I know, I know, I know. I'm a defeatist... *thinks* But a defeatist with tiny weak hands, so that's an excuse :p (Guitars seem to be made on a gender bias - like trying to strum a freakin cello!) Right now I'm trying to relearn on a second-hand keyboard the bits of piano I used to know, so that's my first priority. But thanks for the encouragement. Between you and the impromptu lessens of my friends I'll force myself to learn eventually. :D

[IWilKikU]

Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath had the tips of his index and middle fingers chopped of in a factory accident. He has prothstetics, but he can still rock.

[emily655321]

I'm starting to get the impression that mutilated hands are an *asset* to ... uh... guitar-itry. Hmmm.........


...just kiddin! just kiddin. :p

[IWilKikU]

Guitaritry. Thats a great word! I love words that people fashion out of pre-existing ones. particularly ones that end in -age, -osity, -ology, and now -itry. :D

[simon]

I'd like to add to my previous comment of only building fires that I also walk in the dark and creatively get lost a few times a week.

[emily655321]

simon -- your creative properties are most incongenial. Make a torch, man!


Oh, and...thanks, Kik! :D I routinely speak in Em-glish without even paying attention to myself. How many other languages offer so many opportunities for invention while remaining (relatively) grammatically correct? It makes brain happy.

Em :D

[verybaddmom]

i really like the endings "ish" and "y" in the context of:
I am so on time(ish)!
or
what is that thing(y)?
use em all the time...not em, but em....ya know?

[emily655321]

Hahaha...ha....*looks over shoulder*....
........... you want to use me for what now?

[simon]

My creativeness at getting lost leads me to meet many creepy and unusual guys.

[emily655321]

Originally posted by simon
My creativeness at getting lost leads me to meet many creepy and unusual guys.

Tell them Em says "hi." :D

[kilted exile]

I am not very creative at all:mad:. I have in the past tried drawing; Music etc. however it normally goes very badly.

Also, with regards to British women and cooking: It aint just the women that cant cook, we British guys are not that that good at it either.

[amuse]

...i don't think i'm creative either :( i love to cook, whether health food, asian foods, (you should see my "food" folder on favorites :D) cookies or any and everything with apples, and etc., and i've played flute and piano, but mostly my only creative outlet is poetry. i like to swim and walk, and am teaching my boyfriend's brother spanish next year; he's getting home-schooled, but i don't think that counts.

[Sancho]

Whooooeeeee! I’m getting’ hungry. Can’t cook too well but I can sure eat. Cajun, Creole, Soul-food, Chinese, Japanese, Thai-food, French, German, Italiano mmm-mmm-good, North of the border, South of the border, oh yes and in de islands mon, way down yonder in India, Florida Oranges, Georgia Peaches, Texas Ruby Red Grapefruits, Jersey Beef Streak Tomatoes Washington Apples, Rainier Cherries, California Strawberries, Maine Blueberries, and Alabama Goober-Peas, Canoles from Mike’s in Boston’s North end, Beignets from Café DuMonde in New Orleans, and Irish Coffee from The Buena Vista in San-Fran.

OK, I have to go now.

[Sancho]

I'm still hungry. Tango hambre.

Ray's Famous Pizza, NYC; Gino's Pizza, Chicago: never could warm up to Emo's Pizza in St Louis; Stubb's BBQ, Austin/Lubbock; M&J Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque; Hitchin' Post, Casmalia, California...

[IWilKikU]

Chipoltle's and Qdobo's are the best for burritoes! mmmmm. Thats the first place I'm going to eat when I get home.

[amuse]

i just spent close to an hour checking out sites highlighting Is My Blog Burning - cake walk theme; god i'm hungry

[simon]

It's sad to be drooling over the mere mention of a food type after eating the only palatable thing in the caf, iceberg lettuce with ranch dressing and chocolate milk, how's that for dinner?

[emily655321]

eeeew my favorites *barf* I think I heard somewhere that scientists have finally proven iceberg lettuce to have less nutritional value than water. :p

[Sancho]

Kik, it must be worse than I thought over there, those are chain restaurants you named for chrissakes. You oughtta consider a semester down in Texas: Jurado’s, El Paso; Fuente’s, San Angelo; Josey’s Burritos, Lubbock; Mi Tierra, San Antonio; Mama Ninfa’s, Houston; La Fonda, Santa Fe (New Mexico works too)… I could go on and on.

[IWilKikU]

Well yeah, obviously your going to find better burritoes in Texas than in a chain in VA, but damn dude, have you ever had a Qdobo Chicken queso burrito? OMG its sooooo good!

[kilted exile]

Originally posted by simon
It's sad to be drooling over the mere mention of a food type after eating the only palatable thing in the caf, iceberg lettuce with ranch dressing and chocolate milk, how's that for dinner?

It's still better than what I had for dinner tonight: chopped up Hotdog sausages fried in a jar of Uncle Ben's sweet & sour suice.
(using up remnants of food in my fridge before semester ends Friday)

[emily655321]

Oh my goodness. I forgot to eat today. *pauses, kind of bewildered* Still better than hotdogs though. Those things are dee-sgust-ing.

[simon]

Tonight was fish mush, they like to call it salmon pattie, salmon ball, or salmon cake, but it's all fish mush, with either egg sauce (you can tell it's egg because the egg bits are large and floating around) or dill sauce which is basically mayonaisse drowning little green flavourless things. Yummmm, it's a good night fish mush is.

[emily655321]

Holy crap, where do you go to school?? A Dickens workhouse?

[simon]

University of Victoria Vancouver Island Canada

[emily655321]

Does the Board of Health know about them?

[Sancho]

Kik, I Gotta admit Qdobo’s ain’t bad. I’ve got a weakness for the Green Bean Burrito at that California chain - Del Taco. Btw, I ate at a Mexican Restaurant in Piccadilly Circus awhile back – they brought us out a bowl of tortilla chips with butter ?????

Simon, all I can say is, “Lo siento mucho.” That stuff sounds less palatable than an MRE.

Emily, lol, "holy crap" you have a way with words.

[Shea]

Hey guys, I'm back, and too lazy to figure out how this topic got on food, but judging by the growl in my stomach, someone else has shared my symptoms.

Speaking of disgusting, my husband, who hates to throw any food away, once had a hamburger made with frost-bitten meat and a moldy bun. To top that off, he accidentaly picked up the wrong canister and put coffee grinds in his Kool-aid istead of sugar, but he drank it anyway! :p I sat and watched him eat all of it, but I had made myself a bowl of soup. :D

BTW, my creativity comes out in my cross-stitch, harp and sewing, but I think you all knew that already.

[den]

Hey Shea! Long time no read :p

Harp, now there's something I'd love to learn, it looks so elegant and sounds wonderful and I'd love to have one just to decorate my apartment with. :D
Do you have your own harp? When did you start learning to play it?

[IWilKikU]

Originally posted by Sancho
Btw, I ate at a Mexican Restaurant in Piccadilly Circus awhile back

I didn't know there was a Mexican resturaunt in Piccadilly. There's one in Leicester Squere called "Chiquitoes" that really tastes like authentic mexican food. But it is WAAAAAAAAAAAY overpriced. The exact same burrito that I can get in my mex-rest at home cost $4.50, here costs 8.50 (pounds)!!!! And it was the cheepest thing on the menu!!!

[verybaddmom]

it appears, by looking at this poll, that us old farts are definitely in the minority. i really had no idea that so many of the users were so young. for some reason, i assumed that everyone was my age...egocentric twit i am.

[den]

Well... yeah we (30-39) are in the minority vb, but I don't mind ;) I've still made some great friends here. A lot of students happen onto this place when looking for ebooks, so it makes sense. Oh! Idea for another poll!



Originally posted by verybaddmom
it appears, by looking at this poll, that us old farts are definitely in the minority. i really had no idea that so many of the users were so young. for some reason, i assumed that everyone was my age...egocentric twit i am.

[emily655321]

Welcome back, Shea. :D

[Sancho]

Well don’t feel bad guys, I’m that lonely 4.17% up there. I need to get AP to vote I don’t look so out of place.

Kik, hopefully that place at Piccadilly has gone out of business by now. We ate there right before the first gulf war. It was sort of off of a side street and down below street level. The food was lousy the price was high but the entertainment was good. We fell in with a bunch of drunken Germans and had a large time. They’d sing a German folk song then make us sing a tune; all I think of were sea chanties – “Your mother swims after troop ships – and catches them – so lets sing another verse that’s worse that the other verse – an waltz me around by my willie.” The Britt’s were trying to decide whether the Germans or Americans were more barbaric.

[emily655321]

LMAO@Sancho's shanty (whew, say that three times, let alone fast)

[Koa]

mmm foood...*needs to go on a diet*

[Sancho]

Heh heh,

Right you are. OK, so I wanna talk about guitars some more.

Emily, small hands needn’t be a detriment. I once had a friend (Uhh that sounds funny “I once had a friend”) anyhow, she was a very small woman with tiny hands and was probably the best classical guitarist I’ve known. And those classical guitars have big honkin’ fret boards. She’d hold the neck almost vertical and play with her wrist practically straight.

There are a few guitars that are known for their smaller necks and thus are popular with people who have small hands: Taylor’s OO model, Martin’s OM model, I’ve got a Fender Stratocaster that plays like butter; it’s got a thin neck.

Incidentally people with large hands complain too. Look at a picture Jimi Hendrix. His hands were so big that they made his Strat’ look like a toy.

Anyway, if you're halfway as good with notes as you are with words we may have another Eddie Van Halen on our hands. (I'm still cracking up over that monocle in the champagne glass bit.)

[emily655321]

LOL poor Koa. So mean, Sanch :D

I'm trying to picture myself using that vertical technique, and all I can see is myself as Ravi Shenkar. Eep. (btw, in googling to make sure I spelled his name right, I discovered this post... just thought I'd share he joy: <http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/AutoSitar> )

Mmm.... Jimi Hendrix's big hands..... :p

And thank you for the compliment. :D I'll go for one of those. Although, I must admit, it's easy to be funny when you steal from the Simpsons. (Whoops! I guess the contest's off. Heh. I didn't have a real prize anyway.) I'll take credit for the champagne bit, though. (Is it right to begin and end a statement with the word "though?"....though? No. Gah, I'm turning into Plath.)

Anyway, I'll keep working on it. Thanks, Sancho.

[Sancho]

Dang it! My writing is so poor I may have unintentionally expressed a hurtful idea. Koa, I no-way no-how meant to tell you that I thought you should diet. (I intuitively think that you’re probably being too hard on yourself.) I was trying to say that I need to diet; that one I can guarantee. After all, I’m the one who has been mindlessly blabbering about food now for the last umpteen posts. Whew.

[emily655321]

LOL I thought you were kidding anyway, Sancho. I don't think it'd hurt her.

[IWilKikU]

Koa's a tough bird. If you hurt her feelings for real, she probably wouldn't let you know.

[emily655321]

Or she'd write a really creative and biting poem about you and post it. (hint hint, Koa :p)

[Sancho]

I'm bulletproof

[simon]

Not from an air to air missile.

[emily655321]

Those are really hard to catch in your teeth.

[Sancho]

Break right - chaff - flares - pull - pull - pull - put it on the beam, get out of plane, pull - pull - pull. You can make it miss. I'm tellin' Ya I'm bullet proof.

[emily655321]

But are you gravity proof?

[Koa]

Originally posted by IWilKikU
Koa's a tough bird. If you hurt her feelings for real, she probably wouldn't let you know.

Oooh... i had lost track with the thread and only by chance noticed you were talking about me...:D
Nice one kik... You got me thinking about it... probably true, at least in some occasions... (but how did you get to talk of this btw? :D)
*blushes for her selfcentredness*
(*wonders if she just invented a word*)

[emily655321]

LOL You said you needed a diet and Sanch said "Right you are" and I said he was mean and he apologized profusely and then Kik said that. :D

[Koa]

Oh now i see... well i actually interpreted sancho's post as something like 'who cares i'll go on with what i have to say'...which is perfectly fine as what i had said was just a random comment that came to my mind as all this thinking of food reminded me i should have less of it :D I didn't think his post was particularly related to mine, and didn't mind at all... I'm not even sure I read all of his post cos I know nothing about guitars....

Edit: I didnt' see emily's post before I wrote this... anyway I guess I didn't catch the 'right you are' as something directed to me but as something like 'rrrright let's move on to something else'... sometimes i don't pick subtleties (subtelties?) in this sort of sentences, i guess they're too colloquial for me to always get them in their full meaning. Maybe. Who knows...well anyway... Really hope that sancho didnt mean what you thought he meant, or i'll bite him to death (ever told you of my vampire-identity?:D:D:D:D)

[emily655321]

LOL well, that's how I interpreted it too, and I assume that's what he meant. I think he was the only one bothered actually. :p

[Sancho]

Originally posted by Koa
...i'll bite him to death (ever told you of my vampire-identity?:D:D:D:D)

Yikes, My bullet proof armor is starting to chink.

(I was tempted to do my best Austin Powers: "Yeah baby!")

[emily655321]

*walks sedately over to the record player, puts on a Strawberry Alarm Clock, waits for the first note, and proceeds to do a little Nancy Sinatra dance like frickin crazy*

[dhm]

Hey don't knock Nancy!!!

My boots are made for walking!

[emily655321]

LoL My boots were made for many things, but I don't think walking is one of them. I suppose it would have helped to buy the right size.

[Shea]

Originally posted by den
Hey Shea! Long time no read :p

Harp, now there's something I'd love to learn, it looks so elegant and sounds wonderful and I'd love to have one just to decorate my apartment with. :D
Do you have your own harp? When did you start learning to play it?

I know this was a while ago, Den, but sorry I've been dawdling from the computer.

I've got a 5 foot harp and I've been playing for over nine years. I love it, it's very relaxing! There's something about it leaning on my shoulder across my body while I play, it's almost like rocking a baby to sleep. And your right, I makes a lovely piece of furniture too!:)

[den]

Aw don't worry about it ;) I know you've been busy :D

<jealous> So you have your own harp? 5 feet! wow, may I ask how much such an instrument would cost? Not one made of gold of course :p Did you have private lessons for it or did you go to school to learn? Can you possibly compare it to playing another type of instrument?



Originally posted by Shea
I know this was a while ago, Den, but sorry I've been dawdling from the computer.

I've got a 5 foot harp and I've been playing for over nine years. I love it, it's very relaxing! There's something about it leaning on my shoulder across my body while I play, it's almost like rocking a baby to sleep. And your right, I makes a lovely piece of furniture too!:)

[Shea]

Mine was $3000 but it was 8 years old when I got it. It had been a display in a music store (deep in the North Carolina woods (how romantic is that?)). Brand new it would have been about $5000. Actually, 5 feet really isn't that high, the ones that you see in an orchestra are over 6 or 7 feet high. It is my goal one day to have one of those, but they start around $20,000. Those are pedal harps, and if your interested, I'll explain the difference. Here is a link to a picture just like my own harp. The wood is just a little darker walnut. IMO, Dusty Strings makes the best harps!

http://www.dustystrings.com/shop/harps.shtml

I had private piano lessons from the time I was 7, but I don't play much any more. The lessons however, let me easily teach myself to play harp. I got a book to learn technique, and it just took off from there. I would say that the harp is a cross between a piano and a guitar (which I also dabbled in a little bit), but is definately unique. Of all the instruments that I've ever tried to play, the harp is one that I never felt compelled to throw across the room no matter how many times I messed up!

[random_hero]

I make really weird multi media art peices, I love the idea of drawing, but my hands only like to draw a couple of things. Ill post some B&W pics I took this year and also I really want to make films, but all of my freinds are too busy to be subjects. I hate computer animated art, except for flash animation and some cool fotoshop collages. I play bass and guitar and want to get some turntables. And I like skateboarding and razor scootering and dirt biking and freestyle walking (parkour to the europeans here) because it gives me the freedom to paint the urban landscape with... nevermind.
My favorite thing to do is skiing. Everything from my hat to my bindings on my skis were carefully chosen to reflect me and my personality. On the mountain I charge hard, mach5 all the way, and then start some long smooth carves, listening to the metal edges rip through the fresh groomed snow. The terrrain parks will be an outlet for creativity, as soon as my skill catches up.
And I love writing. I wrote out a videogame proposal, 3 pages in length one day for no reason, it was about gay rollerblade gangs and had a full story. I stayed up until 3 in the moring after working 5 7 hour days in a row (hey Im 18) and wrote "The Index Card Story" about a guy named Void who is elected to be the Savior of a small group of people supressed by a... long story. It was a concept, I used no paragraph breaks and it was stream of concious type stuff. I envisioned it hanging on a wall in a museum, like 300 yellow 3x5 index cards filled with writing. So yeah... thats it.

[emily655321]

Originally posted by random_hero
And I like skateboarding and razor scootering and dirt biking and freestyle walking (parkour to the europeans here) because it gives me the freedom to paint the urban landscape with... nevermind.

LMAO :D :D

[amuse]

oh, koa, it is "subtleties." :)

[random_hero]

Yes... I like razoring. Scootering. I can do tailwhips though, and when your skateboards keep getting stolen and all you have left are your little sisters scooters you make do. And the statement in questin, you know "painting the urban landscape," that was caught on tape while I was at this girls house. She lives a block away, and seeing as I still dont have my liscense I scootered to her house and tried to defend the lowly aircraft-grade aluminum two wheeled wonder.