i just curious as to what kinds of things you like to sculpt, draw, ect.Quote:
Originally posted by smilley0688
I love art. Sculpting, painting, drawing,... all that stuff.
(btw welcome to the forums :D )
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i just curious as to what kinds of things you like to sculpt, draw, ect.Quote:
Originally posted by smilley0688
I love art. Sculpting, painting, drawing,... all that stuff.
(btw welcome to the forums :D )
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?
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.
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
I love the mandolin. Unfortunately you really need those triple flanged polyeurithane ear plugs when I play.
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.”
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
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.
I'm starting to get the impression that mutilated hands are an *asset* to ... uh... guitar-itry. Hmmm.........
...just kiddin! just kiddin. :p
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
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.
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
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?
Hahaha...ha....*looks over shoulder*....
........... you want to use me for what now?
My creativeness at getting lost leads me to meet many creepy and unusual guys.
Tell them Em says "hi." :DQuote:
Originally posted by simon
My creativeness at getting lost leads me to meet many creepy and unusual guys.
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.
...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.
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.
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...
Chipoltle's and Qdobo's are the best for burritoes! mmmmm. Thats the first place I'm going to eat when I get home.
i just spent close to an hour checking out sites highlighting Is My Blog Burning - cake walk theme; god i'm hungry
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?
eeeew my favorites *barf* I think I heard somewhere that scientists have finally proven iceberg lettuce to have less nutritional value than water. :p
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.
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!
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.Quote:
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?
(using up remnants of food in my fridge before semester ends Friday)
Oh my goodness. I forgot to eat today. *pauses, kind of bewildered* Still better than hotdogs though. Those things are dee-sgust-ing.
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.
Holy crap, where do you go to school?? A Dickens workhouse?
University of Victoria Vancouver Island Canada
Does the Board of Health know about them?
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.
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.
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 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!!!Quote:
Originally posted by Sancho
Btw, I ate at a Mexican Restaurant in Piccadilly Circus awhile back
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.
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!
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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.
Welcome back, Shea. :D
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.