my friend at work does all the home deliveries of books and stuff to people who are housebound, often holed up in fairly depressing nursing homes with little or no family. last week he went to see a regular, bruce, who asked him if he could get a cd with louis armstrong's what a wonderful world on it. my friend said, yeah, no worries bruce. and bruce replied, yeah i think i'm gonna die soon, that's the song i'd like 'em to play at me funeral.
we went searching for such a cd today and found that all our copies were either out on loan or lost. i said, well i could download it from iTunes tonight and burn it onto a cd. my mate said, could you do that? that sounds perfect. we have to get this song for brucie.
so here i am downloading what a wonderful world and putting it on a cd for bruce.
bless.
Flying over Greenland made me feel really small.
Well, tonight I was driving home and I got sad. I looked at the lights and the waters, and it rained a bit to show me that they're similar at times, and then I looked at an elderly man closing up the old milk bar as I drove past, and started to think about the endlessness of time and the fact that things are always changing and dying and happening anew - things that usually excite me, actually, when I'm feeling more sure of myself. And so I started to cry just a little bit, before telling myself it was okay if I wanted to eat Pad Thai, which I ordered along with a beer. I drank the beer and read an article about the role of cryptos in contemporary writing and Tom McCarthy's artistic and literary interventions into the realm of radio and textual communication, and then, when I got back into the car, I felt like I had no feelings apart from dumb optimism and a need to sing along, yet more, to Beach House.
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I suppose this figures. Google's had our collective mind mined and found the grand narrative; the unifying thread.
Meeting someone who is truly good, through and through. Sadly this doesn't happen all that often.
...and they probably don't think they're truly good. hence their goodness.
I think postergirl might have meant good as virtuous. Not ''Fuck, I'm so good I can't barely stand it mate'' good.
yes, that's how i interpreted it fe.
Thus sayeth Saint Fe of Ye Hellcats (Book of Otter, chapter 12, verse 1- SING IT)
I know someone like this. He's a saint. I want to start a cult in his name he's so amazing.
I don't think I know anyone virtuous.
hmm, i've been wondering about that too fe. it's a tall call, i mean, human nature and all...
i kind of like my good people to have a streak of trouble running through them anyhow.
Did you guys miss him last week? He was all over the TV, FFS.
The Papa, MC-RC?
All that?
I'm made curious by saintly people, but I don't think I'm humbled by them. Mostly, time in their company is spent wondering where they source joie de vivre. Life is in the dark fold.
Fuck him, I don't count those virtues as virtues. Which is, I suppose, the reason why I don't know anyone virtuous.
I'm currently thinking of the two people I know that I would say were good. But despite the fact that they are lovely people with good values and kind hearts, they probably aren't virtuous.
Eerrr, prolly not.
I guess I'm talking along the lines of virtuous, but that makes the good people sound a bit too square, and like, virgins, or something. One of my friends is the most thoroughly decent person I've ever met - he just has an incredibly generous and loving spirit. But he still likes the rock 'n' roll and the sex.
Yeah, most of us fall into the ''there's good and bad in everyone'' category, like wot they sung about in 'Ebony and Ivory'.
papa roach
And here I was thinking 'Ebony and Ivory' was all about interracial sexytime. Shame on fantasy fox.
Not nice fuck him Block. More like fuck him with something that is pineapple like in shape, in his bum bum. And when I say that, I suppose I mean the idea of him, rather than him as a person. That's right, I want to fuck the idea of the Pope with a pineapple.
And with that, I'm going to bed.
Ebony Ivory
By paul mccartney
*Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh lord, why don’t we?
We all know that people are the same where ever we go
There is good and bad in ev’ryone,
We learn to live, we learn to give
Each other what we need to survive together alive.
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh lord why don’t we?
Ebony, ivory living in perfect harmony
Ebony, ivory, ooh
We all know that people are the same where ever we go
There is good and bad in ev’ryone,
We learn to live, we learn to give
Each other what we need to survive together alive.
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh lord why don’t we?
Ebony, ivory living in perfect harmony (repeat and fade) *
Yep, I think that'll do. And I'll drift off to sleep myself, soon, with that image in mind.
A truly sublime composition.
xpost!
expect to not be shaking 'ebony and ivory' from my head for the rest of the night now
this
there was a lovely old woman who would come into the hospital on daily basis and read her cards/mags to patients and have lunch witha different one each day. just to help out and put a smile on people's faces. how did she ever make the time for this?Incredible.
*hey postergirl, is this loving sprited man still available? :)
gotta luv generous rock'n'roll/sexy men *
How about in Ebony And Ivory when it goes through the ''we all know that people are same'' part the second time and McCartney does that completely inappropriate harmony. He was just showing off. Showing he could hit the same notes as Stevie. Not really relevant to this thread though. Sorry.
the teeny fingernails on babies
being in the country and looking up at the universe on a clear night
when people are genuinely good.
feralmedia - this one is even more offensive. FUCK YOU GOOGLE ADS!
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my mum. she has spent her life saving peoples lives. simple.
i was going to say Space.. but the idea of being in Space and looking into space just makes me antsy and want to be a Spaceship commander or something.
continues ramble outside
The nurses who looked after my Ma in palliative care.
Amazing, amazing human beings.
pallative care nurses are amazing in general. i remember thinking the same when my grandfather was dying. these people come in every day, knowing that nothing they do is going to save anyone, only make them more comfortable, and they have to deal with human death and grieving families on a daily basis.
i know i could never do it, it would break me.
My incontinence.
india - go visit india or africa - that will humble you quicksmart
on a less deep level and more superficial one
touring is a good leveller for bands who think they're ace - because you might have a sold out crowd in your home town only to travel to another one to play to ten punters who couldn't give a toss about you - its ace
I'm afraid not shazzadog; he is married. He had a rock 'n' roll wedding, of course : )