Not wanting to play the name game, a musician (cyber) friend of mine told me I'd get it. I was about as happy as maybe adg was, making the piano connection with the guitar...(one of the Pirate Radio gigs of past).

*I think probly the 'Meat Puppets' (a band in which Kurt Cobain did many covers on his last(final)album. 'MTV UNPLUGGED LIVE NYC') got a bad rap from Nirvana. If anyone HAS NOT heard them. They might not like them. They are 'blue-grass' at best. Even bordering on 'Country'...OH that dreaded word Country music....."any goat ropers in the house"(kidding as I like all the OLD stars LIKE Hank Snow and Lefty)....

*I was able to figure out a 'Meat Puppets' song. And the whole thing! NOTHING worse playing as an amatuer and losing a song at the chorus, or worse the bridge!!!ALSO figuring out the obvious. I KNOW I"LL NEVER play lead guitar. I play rhythem guitar...And I gotta learn to hang with that..

**MY Roofs got a whole in it! Won't post the words, but I love depressing songs. And it's not depressing really. Especially the music part. I NEVER in my wildest dreams, thought I'd figure out such an easy song, that sounded so good. There's not allot of songs I'd be confortable doin in company these days. This definately has a new edge! And singing is probly 'THE' best exercise for Asthma!!!!! Pete wasn't kidding when he said, help me, if you'd clear out your lungs on this next song. Miracles never seice.

*screw the spelling Arnie. I realize this is barely legable....lol

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no problem rb...
noting your recent increase in posting, i've begun to appreciate your spelling in a new light...

i secretly suspect:

1. you are an alien <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/alien.gif" width=28 height=20> from another country, or possibly another planet?

or

2. you are correct, and the rest of us are dead wrong! <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/looney.gif" width=15 height=15>

in any event, i'm happier that you express yourself (especially the stream of consciousness posts), than choosing to avoid it all because you just couldn't spell the damn words.

Sort of like bring your own god... it's bring your own spelling!

AMEN!!!

Alien spelling is an adventure!
I really don't mind it at all, I just have to bust chops now and then!

Keep posting... I'm finding my own goddess, who is just back from vacation as well! Your streams of consciousness (all of you) are shedding much-needed light on my path!

Peace, Love, Music & (((HUGS)))
~Wyldflower
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Bring your own spelling! That's great it's pretty much how English spelling evolved anyway. I find reading RB's stuff to be a worthwhile challenge. You can't just skim through and expect to get the gist of it.

i don't worry about spelling, very much. I have learned to edit myself,though. Otherwise, my stream of conscionceness becomes a white-water rapids.
I do miss the pithy and friendly dialog that was so prevelent here, not long ago, who knows... maybe there are cyber-cycles, like the seasons, kinda binary waxes & wannings

I'm afraid that if I ever learn to totally understand women, politics and RB, that there will be none of lifes mysteries left to solve.....SO I AIN"T EVEN GUNNA TRY!!! <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15> Keep it up RB, I don't hafta understand it to enjoy it!!!! I mean how could I listen to Dylan all these years if it you had to understand people to listen to them!

I know just what you mean, Larry.. I mean, words balance on our heads, just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine...!

or....as a certain young folksonger/songwriter wrote....
"If the world turns in G,
let's give it a tune,
and, if the world don't like it,
we'll take it to the moon..."
SLG

At my kids' school they eliminated spelling tests and spelling as a subject. You don't get marked off for incorrect spelling on writing assignments anymore. They have "core words" that must be spelled correctly everytime they are used, but we're talking about (I'm not kidding) "the", "are", "a". The idea is that once the kids are freed up from worrying about spelling they will be opened up to write more, and more creatively. So you see, rb is ahead of the curve here.

Challenging indeed! I'm looking into a Govt. drug testing program. A brand new bullet, that will let me say in one sentence which now takes more than a paragraph!....<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/eek.gif" width=15 height=15>

*But funny in person I don't really say that much. At least I try not to. The older I get, listening seems much easier. . . .<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/zzz.gif" width=20 height=24>

Wow, Anna, that's sick! Written cmmunications, will be a part of literacy, for a long time to come. Too bad your local school board &, teachers & administrators, have "given up" Too bad you can't suggest they persue a career "change" or, as school admins, would say, a
"lateral re-focusing"....

A 6th-grade teacher, who admitted she couldn't spell (and proved it), teaching English and spelling was just one of many reasons why my sister decided to home school. Luckily she lives near Ann Arbor where there are many resources and an active home-school organization.

Spelling isn't the only problem--many out there can't figure out the difference between "your" and "you're"--not a big thing, maybe, except it IS.

But, RB, no one has ever really equated spelling with intelligence. (I mean, look at Bumper--the only time he spells correctly consistently is when he's typing in a 25-letter word.) So, post away, using whatever letters you like. Maybe we could call it "blunderphonetics."

heehee, I like that Pam. it's true too, I can make it, thru "loquascious verbosity", but thw smakker wirds get all googed up!

Hey, I play several Meat Puppetts tunes, and love their music, their stuff is definitely wild, but very very well articulated, Imagine the Dixie Dregs with less pretension and lyrics that sound like abstract verses of Tennyson interpreted by Salvador Dali., I kd you, not they really are very very good musicians. Some of the few acoustic cuts they released show very clearly these guys are Picker Monsters with a taste for sounds with a bit more torque and twang. Check out Too High to Die as a first album. and read the lyrics too, the songwriting is very alliterative and interesteing.

Oh oh! another articulate Irishman! be very afraid....
Thanks for the info, Michael, I'll look thru the discography section of my local butcher shop, for the Meat Puppets..any group that brings "Hello Dali" to mind, I wanna hear!!

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