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    What Made You Sad Today?

    in Random Samples

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    On 1/31/2024 at 2:55 AM, Principled Man said:

    Just found out that my longtime friend, Diane, lost her firstborn, Jeffrey (41 years old). 

     

    DRUGS ruined his life for the past 20 years or more, and now they finally got the best of him.   :sad:  

    I'm sorry to hear this. My condolences. :rose:

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    Graphic Novels, Anyone Else Enjoy Them?

    in Turn The Page

    Posted · Edited by Sun & Moon

    I really enjoy graphic novels, have been loving them since my teens. In the 1990s I read the Corto Maltese adventures by Hugo Pratt, various works by Robert Crumb, Ghost World by Daniel Clowes, and such. I like stories that are touching, funny, bizarre, cranky, melancholic...

     

    Here's a couple I've read within the past few years - I don't know about the recommendations, though :) . 

     

    - Blankets by Craig Thompson. (A beautiful story about growing out of teens.)

     

    - Melody : A Story of a Nude Dancer by Sylvie Rancourt. (A witty and sympathetic Canadian autobiographical account from the 1980's with naivistic graphics.)

     

    - Megg, Mogg, & Owl by Simon Hanselmann. (What can I say..? Be prepared for.. anything. I've found myself laughing my lungs out on some very suspicious turns of events :rofl1::facepalm::shakehead::rofl2:.)

     

    - Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust. (Hitch-hiking and lessons learned.)

     

    - Shit Is Real by Aisha Franz. (In all it's avant-gardism, this is a perfect description of a broken heart.)

     

    - Spinning by Tillie Walden. (How can Walden catch loneliness and abandonment with just a few colours?)

     

    - The Twilight Man : Rod Serling and the Birth of Television by Koren Shadmi. (A bit boring, but I wasn't familiar with the Serling story itself.)

     

    - In Waves by A. J. Dungo. (Fine graphics, and a big plus for the surfing history subplot, but this sad, sad story was too long.)

     

    One of my favourite graphic novels of all times is Kosmista kauhua ("Cosmic Horror") by Aapo Rapi and Peppe Koivunen. It is a story about a vampire and his friend whose relaxed way of life is suddenly interrupted as a bureaucrate knocks on the castle door. What follows is an encountering with modern horrors with both bureaucracy and prejudice by "the normal". This sounds like a really sad story but is written with a warm and empathetic touch and illustrated with bold colours. The album has been translated from Finnish to French.

     

     

     

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    Merry Christmas!

    in Random Samples

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    8 hours ago, toymaker said:

    I hope everyone is having a good day!

     

    Did I have a dream?

    Crimson misty memory

    At the fireside

     

     

    Through the endless winter storm

    Endless rooftops from my window

    Silver, blue and frozen silence

    A deep Sahara of snow

    Frozen in an everlasting view

     

     

    I see red

    A pleasant-faced man

    His beard is white, his face is lined

    Bearing a gift beyond price

    The things I’ve always been denied,

    Precious gifts beyond compare

     

     

    Time stands still

    Feelings run high

    As excitement shivers up and down my spine

    This feeling I can’t rise above

     

     

    Then all at once

    Fly by night away from here

    To blaze across the heavens like a brilliant shooting star

     

     

    I think a couple of albums still aren't represented . . .

    :biggrin: This may be one of the best Christmas poems I've read recently. :thumbsup:

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    What made your day today? v.2

    in Random Samples

    Posted · Edited by Sun & Moon

    Today is the independence day in Finland. I'm glad to be celebrating it, especially concerning what has been done in Ukraine by our common neighbouring country. I lighted up two candles and placed them by the window like has been done for about a hundred years. I have a kind of a solemn feeling.

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    What are you reading?

    in Turn The Page

    Posted · Edited by Sun & Moon

    19 hours ago, NoahLutz said:

    I go on fits and spurts.  I can go months without reading anything, but then start devouring a few books a week.  As my body breaks down and my interests move away from things involving screens, books are becoming a more frequent part of my recreation.  But Plato’s dialogues aren’t much work: they are immediately understandable and accessible, unlike some concepts in The Republic or virtually anything by Aristotle.  

     

    I’m a bit of a completionist, so I can understand wanting to finish a book you started.  However, I would recommend just ditching Dorian Gray.  Once the conceit of the novel is introduced, there is almost nothing that happens from a narrative standpoint that is interesting, and almost nothing to make you think.  You can just skip to the last 5 pages of the book, read the Wikipedia entry, and save yourself 5 hours.  

     

    James Joyce is almost the opposite.  For Ulysses I had to read the Cliff’s Notes (are those still a thing?) for every chapter before reading the text because it was so dense and obscure that I had no idea what was happening without the study guide.  However, unlike Dorian Gray, Ulysses could spur on philosophical, epistemological, aesthetic, and moral conversations.  But for me, all that would have been inaccessible without both a study guide and some people to talk to about it.  

    But all this is in the category of “one for the brain”.  There are few joys like being sucked into a “one for me” book and being carried away by it.  Enjoy The Way of the Bear and wherever that may take you.  

    I remember reading The Picture of Dorian Gray maybe 15 years ago, and what I recall of it was some kind of a stagnated emotion and perplexion.

     

    A very ambitious and skilled newer (2012) translation of Ulysses to Finnish has been on my reading list for many years now. As is another massive and tricky one day novel, a Finnish classic Alastalon salissa by Volter Kilpi (1933). It is probably THE book that most often is being left aside after a while because it is such a peculiar (but highly praised) book. My father can, however, boast of really have read that masterpiece. But he is a man with a lot of patience and curiosity.

     

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastalon_salissa

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    What are you reading?

    in Turn The Page

    Posted

    On 11/17/2023 at 11:32 AM, Rhyta said:

    Me too :smile:

    Same here. On the very day My Effin' Life was published the commercial audio book service that I've occasionally used happened to offer me one month/20 hours of listening time for 0,10 €! :ohmy: So I can enjoy Geddy reading his memoir for no money at all. Quite a timing! I've only listened one hour to the section where Geddy describes the aftermaths of passing of his father. Not an easy read, but quite interesting so far.

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    Bass Players!

    in Making Modern Music

    Posted

    On 11/18/2023 at 5:16 AM, Wandering Hermit said:

    ^ Thanks goose. I'd never seen that before. Have you played one of these and if so is it hard to get used to fanned frets?

    It would be nice to try a bass with fanned frets for just to hear and feel how it is. It could take a while to get accustomed to those frets, but anything that gives more low end... :wub:

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    What made your day today? v.2

    in Random Samples

    Posted · Edited by Sun & Moon

    Finding out that hybrid picking actually comes quite naturally. I had never really tried playing guitar before I got my Telecaster a few weeks ago. I'm having trouble fitting my fingers on the fretboard going up the neck, though. No such problems on the bass - and I hardly visit those frets anyway as I'm responsible of the low end.

     

    What actually SAVED my day and the day before has been the strong support from my family and friends as the finality of the breakup of our ten year relationship about 1,5 months ago has really hit me hard this week. The strong anxiety and sorrow feel a bit lighter when there are people around that really care. :heart:

     

    I'm so thankful I have those loving loved ones, and the bass, and the Tele. :heart::heart::heart:

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    What made your day today? v.2

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    5 hours ago, goose said:

    I start each day with an early AM hike in the Sierra foothills, and today was an extra special one.  Above the orangey horizon was a perfect crescent moon with Venus in conjunction, mimicking the Turkish flag.  After a brisk hike enjoying that scenery, on returning to the trailhead I noticed three does passing in front of my parked car.  I glanced to my immediate left and four more deer were staring at me 15-20 feet away.  Looking back toward my car there came a huge-bodied buck, leader of the herem.

    You really had a stunning start for the day! :happy:

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    What made your day today? v.2

    in Random Samples

    Posted · Edited by Sun & Moon

    It seems like I have a new friend! :wave: With my old friends scattered in different places and after six and a half years of living in this city far away from home I've felt lonely. This friendly woman invited me to her house for the very first time today. We ate together, talked and laughed a lot, and cried a few tears, too, as we have so much in common.

     

    It turned out that she had been studying and working in the small village I come from. Both of us come from another part of Finland and have found this city quite hard to make new friends in (as do many, many others). Six hours passed quickly, and we immediately felt like we've known each other for ages.

     

    This is quite amazing! :smile:

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