BEAUTIFUL...

Paul Simon -
So Beautiful or So What -
Dazzling Blue
https://youtu.be/vbZJb21EDFM

Glastonbury
By Liam Allen
Entertainment reporter, BBC News


Simon is promoting new album So Beautiful or So What on his UK tour

GLASTONBURY 2011

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• 'Legal high' tests at Glastonbury
  

When Paul Simon walks on stage at Glastonbury on Sunday - the highlight of a
rare UK tour - it will be a far cry from his first gigs in England.
In 1965, the unknown singer-songwriter, aged 24, moved to London
to perform in folk clubs, earning £3 for his first job.
"It was a big adventure for me - I used to go take my guitar,
get on a train and go to wherever I was going by myself," he recalls.

• BBC Glastonbury Festival - 2011
  
• The Introducing stage
  
• Line-Up - By Day
  

Simon & Garfunkel's subsequent hit Homeward Bound -
"I'm sitting in the railway station, got a ticket for my destination" - was famously
written while waiting for a train in north-west England.
Fast forward 46 years and his UK tour, which started in
Nottingham on Thursday, features an eight-piece band and 40 crew members
- a figure that will be expanded for Sunday's Glastonbury appearance.
"Just the amount of guitars our band carry is something - we carry about 20 guitars,"
says the 69-year-old.

“Start Quote
I have a particular affection for when I was playing in the British folk clubs. They were like tiny little theatres, not even that, because there wasn't even a stage”
Paul Simon

In contrast to Glastonbury,
where he will play to tens of thousand of fans, his recent tour of the
US and Canada included a number of club gigs - his first in years.
"I like the energy of the clubs. Of course, it's different from the 60s.
Now when I play in clubs, people are standing so there's dancing."

"But I have a particular affection for when I was playing in
the British folk clubs. They were like tiny little theatres, not even
that, because there wasn't even a stage - just a microphone and
sometimes there wasn't a microphone."

People sat on the floor "and just listened", adds Simon, who
released his first solo album, The Paul Simon Songbook, in the UK
in the summer of 1965. The record was not given a full release in the US
until 2004.

Exquisite harmonies
Just before he moved to London, Simon and his schoolfriend Art Garfunkel
released the album Wednesday Morning 3AM, in the US. It flopped.

Paul Simon UK top 10 hits

• March 1966 - Homeward Bound - 9 (Simon & Garfunkel)
  
• July 1968 - Mrs Robinson - 4 (Simon & Garfunkel)
  
• April 1969 - The Boxer - 6 (Simon & Garfunkel)
  
• Feb 1970 - Bridge Over Troubled Water - 1 (Simon & Garfunkel)
  
• Feb 1972 - Mother And Child Reunion - 5
  
• Jun 1973 - Take Me To The Mardi Gras - 7
  
• Sept 1986 - You Can Call Me Al - 4
  

While Simon was away, producer Tom Wilson took it upon himself to
overdub electric guitar and drums on to the album's The Sound of Silence
in an attempt to capitalise on the new acoustic folk-rock sound,
championed in the US by The Byrds.
The new version soon began to gain airplay, and by late 1965 had climbed its way
to the top of the US charts.
Simon duly flew home to reunite his distinctive voice, songs
and rhythmic guitar playing with the exquisite harmonies of his old friend.

"Right before I left to go and join Art Garfunkel in the
States I was making £25 or £30 a night, maybe £100 a week,"
remembers Simon.
"I felt vaguely guilty that I was earning so much more than the average working man.
"And then, of course, I went home and the next thing you're a millionaire."

Many of the songs from their subsequent January 1966 hit
Sounds of Silence album - including Kathy's Song, about Simon's romance
with a British girl - had appeared on The Paul Simon Songbook.

Tabla and whistling
Simon says his new solo album, "So Beautiful or So What", is a return
to the days when he would sit and write songs with his acoustic guitar.

The starting point for all his songs since the career-redefining
1986 album Graceland, which fused African rhythms and instrumentation
with his gift for melodic poetry, had been drumbeats or layered tracks.

But despite the return to guitar-based composition, the influences remain eclectic.

Standout tracks include otherworldly The Afterlife - "you've
got to fill out a form first, and then you wait in the line" - complete
with heavily processed acoustic guitar over a laid-back soca beat.


Simon & Garfunkel recorded five studio albums

New single Rewrite, meanwhile, features tabla drums and whistling.
He says he's looking forward to sharing new material,
together with a smattering of golden oldies, at Glastonbury -
"a festival that has the nation's attention... a big deal" -
and at his other UK dates.
"I was here in the UK when Simon & Garfunkel became international stars
and it was here that I learned how to perform," he says.
"Friends I made here I still have and it was a very, very happy period in my life
so I feel as if it's a second home."
So Beautiful or So What, is out now.
_________________________________________

Too much to highlight or explain, but I must say,
I thank God for this blessed and Blessing, Psalmist For Our Age!
(listening to "Late In The Evening" as I write )

"Dazzling Blue", Lyrics
Truth or lie, the silence is revealing
An empty sky, a hidden mound of stone
But the CAT scan’s eye sees what the heart’s concealing
Now-a-days, when everything is known
Maybe love’s an accident, or destiny is true
But you and I were born beneath a star of dazzling blue
Dazzling blue
Miles apart, though the miles can’t measure distance
Worlds apart on a rainy afternoon
But the road gets dirty and it offers no resistance
So turn your amp up and play your lonesome tune
Maybe love’s an accident, or destiny is true
But you and I were born beneath a star of dazzling blue
Dazzling blue
Dazzling blue, roses red, fine white linen
To make a marriage bed
And we’ll build a wall that nothing can break through
And dream our dreams of dazzling blue
Sweet July, and we drove the Montauk Highway
And walked along the cliffs above the sea
And we wondered why, and imagined it was someday
And that is how the future came to be
Dazzling blue, roses red, fine white linen
To make a marriage bed
And we’ll build a wall that nothing can break through
And dream our dreams of dazzling blue

2010 Words and Music by Paul Simon

O.K., I'll also add a Big, THANK YOU...
from my early childhood to this very day,
when no one else 'got it', Paul Simon's music
always popped up to tell me at least someone Did.

And this very day, another Prayer was answered

REWRITE
https://youtu.be/B2oDowFw5WM
I’ve been working on my rewrite, that’s right
I’m gonna change the ending
Gonna throw away my title
And toss it in the trash
Every minute after midnight
All the time I’m spending
It’s just for working on my rewrite
Gonna turn it into cash
I’ve been working at the carwash
I consider it my day job
Cause it’s really not a pay job
But that’s where I am
Everybody says the old guy working at the carwash
Hasn’t got a brain cell left since Vietnam
But I say help me, help me, help me, help me
Thank you!
I’d no idea
That you were there
When I said help me, help me, help me, help me
Thank you, for listening to my prayer
I’m working on my rewrite, that’s right
I’m gonna change the ending
Gonna throw away my title
And toss it in the trash
Every minute after midnight
All the time I’m spending
Is just for working on my rewrite, that’s right
I’m gonna turn it into cash
I’ll eliminate the pages
Where the father has a breakdown
And he has to leave the family
But he really meant no harm
Gonna substitute a car chase
And a race across the rooftops
When the father saves the children
And he holds them in his arms
And I say help me, help me, help me, help me
Thank you!
I’d no idea
That you were there
When I said, help me, help me, help me, help me
Thank you, for listening to my prayer

2010 Words and Music by Paul Simon
(and even if you don't 'get' the deeper meaning,
I dare anyone to resist The Simple JOY of this song.
And the whistling; it was only last summer
I was moved to speak to a neighbour for the first time,
when I heard he Was Whistling Again.
I'd been worried for him, as he always Whistled
while he worked in his garden, and it always made me smile,
but then suddenly, he was working silent.
So I set my mind to inquire after his well being the next time I passed.
Instead, there he was Whistling away,
and I simply had to let him know it always made me happy,
and that I had been worried, which made him happy.
A fair, simple, yet precious, human exchange.)

allure wrote:#29098

This thread is the biggest pile
of mad dogs absolute unadulterated shit
to have ever graced anywhere ever.

dixie d wrote:#29099
Allure,

I don't think it is, not if you where in my position.
...I also see a grass of water.

A "GRASS"..."OF WATER"
thanks dixie,
I needed that...and I fully agree,
I also See,
a "GRASS" as piss weak as "WATER".

Hey, forgive me my crassness
(time and place and all that),
and I'll forgive the 'typo'...
..."Grass of Water"...cracked me up...
in the best of ways..

"allure"
A, piss weak as WATER, "GRASS",
trying to LURE folk away from
SEEKING, SIFTING and SORTING
shit from sugar for themselves.

SOMETHING SO RIGHT
https://youtu.be/JgPr-sd7eKg
You've got the cool water
When the fever runs high
You've got the look of lovelight
in your eyes
And I was in crazy motion
Til you calmed me down
It took a little time
But you calmed me down

When something goes wrong
I'm the first to admit it
I'm the first to admit it
But the last one to know
when something goes right
Well it's likely to lose me
It's apt to confuse me
It's such an unusual sight
I can't get used to something so right
Something so right

They've got a wall in China
It's a thousand miles long
To keep out the foreigners
They made it strong
I've got a wall around me
You can't even see
It took a little time
To get to me

Chorus

Some people never say the words
I love you
It's not their style
to be so bold
Some people never say those words
I love you
But like a child they're longing
to be told

Chorus

...and, From the ugly...
...To The Beautiful...

dixie d wrote: 01-07-2011, 02:57 AM #29129
Quote:

Originally Posted by cori YES I WILL Prince ALBERT II of MONACOmarrying australian swimmer Charlene Wittstock officiasl july 1, july 2, 2011 at church 2 sept 2011 2 sept 11 2nd 911 ?? yes, ALBERT WILL ALBERVILLE school WINNENDEN, COMA, AMOC MONACO - COMA - AMOC Albert = son of RAINIER Rain, Iran, and the Winnenden-Kärcher colors of NUKE Wittstock and Woodstick a magic item Albert studied at the US Amherst College: see full post http://forum.davidicke.com/showpost....ostcount=29114 And coincidentally, when Albert marrying his Olympic swimmer Charlene, at Amherst College this happens: Kendra Stern '11 Named Division III Female Athlete of the Year ... https://www.amherst.edu/athletics/te...-11/0615_stern

Well Cori, at the risk of being banned. Stern to me means Stern Review, so maybe there is a link to Nicholas Stern


Nicholas Stern, at World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, January 2009

Davos

And Cori you also mentioned...

Quote:

Wittstock and Woodstick a magic item

If you look on the Davos Wiki page you see the following...

Quote:

A sanatorium in Davos is also the setting of the Thomas Mann novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain).

I also wonder if there might be a link to America and You Can Do Magic, but who are the Magicians?

Any link to The Magicians

I know one Magician here in Thailand.Last edited by dixie d; 01-07-2011 at 05:00 AM.


01-07-2011, 03:48 AM #29130
Just to add to the above the You Can Do Magic song I was thinking of was
by Limmie & the Family Cooking and these are the lyrics...

Quote:

You can do magic you took the raindrops that filled my eyes and put them back up in the skies and then made the gray skies turn blue you can do magic you took the heart that was broken in two and you put it back together, know how to keep it beating i beg you not to stop and pray you keep repeating your magic magic you can do magic baby you can do magic magic and i know that every dream of every lover comes true when you can do magic magic like you can do magic honey love is never tragical, then yah got the magical feelings coming thru i was a loser love was a game that i've never learned i lost at every mothers son until i just forgot how to play now i remember you took my hand and showed me the way and it musta been the magic added to your kissing cause love is never good if love is ever missing your magic magic, you can do magic baby you can do magic magic and i know that every dream of every lover comes true when you can do magic magic like you can do magic honey love is never tragical, then yah got the magical feelings coming thru (feelings coming thru) you can do magic magic you can do magic baby you can do magic magic and i know that every dream of every lover comes true when you can do magic magic like you can do magic baby you can do magic magic nd i know that every dream of every lover ...

You see to me, it depends on what the Magic is being used for?

Limmie also reminds me of the word Alternative names for the British

Quote:

Main article: Limey Limey is a Caribbean and North American slang nickname for British people, originally referring to British sailors and seamen. This term is believed to derive from lime-juicer, referring to the Royal Navy and British Merchant Navy practice of supplying rations of lime juice to British sailors to prevent scurvy. The term "Limey" is thought to have originated in the Caribbean in the 1880s. An alternate explanation comes from the Limes Britannicus, which was the northern most border of the Roman Empire dividing Scotland and England but it is unlikely that this term was well known in the Caribbean and North America at the time this nickname arose. A certainly false etymology is that "Limey" is a derivative of the phrase "Cor blimey" ("God blind me!").

North America reminds me of Canada, and today is Canada Day.Last edited by dixie d; 01-07-2011 at 03:58 AM.

SOMETHING SO RIGHT
https://youtu.be/JgPr-sd7eKg

You’ve got the cool water
When the fever runs high
You’ve got the look of lovelight
In your eyes
And I was in crazy motion
‘Til you calmed me down
It took a little time
But you calmed me down

When something goes wrong
I’m the first to admit it
I’m the first to admit it
But the last one to know
When something goes right
Oh, it’s likely to lose me
It’s apt to confuse me
It’s such an unusual sight
Oh, I can’t get used to something so right
Something so right
They got a wall in China
It’s a thousand miles long
To keep out the foreigners
They made it strong
And I got a wall around me
That you can’t even see
It took a little time
To get next to me

When something goes wrong
I’m the first to admit it
I’m the first to admit it
But the last one to know
When something goes right
Oh, it’s likely to lose me
It’s apt to confuse me
Because it’s such an unusual sight
Oh, I swear, I can’t get used to something so right
Something so right

Some people never say the words
“I love you”
It’s not their style
To be so bold
Some people never say those words
“I love you”
But like a child they’re longing to be told

When something goes wrong
I’m the first to admit it
I’m the first to admit it
But the last one to know
When something goes right
Oh, it’s likely to lose me

It’s apt to confuse me
Because it’s such an unusual sight
I swear, I can’t get used to something so right
Something so right
Something so right

1973 Words and Music by Paul Simon

notice what dixie so gently,
politely left out...

sear
verb (used with object)
1. to burn or char the surface of:
She seared the steak to seal in the juices.

2. to mark with a branding iron.

3. to burn or scorch injuriously or painfully:
He seared his hand on a hot steam pipe.

4. to make callous or unfeeling; harden:
The hardship of her youth has seared her emotionally.

5. to dry up or wither; parch.
–verb (used without object)
6. to become dry or withered, as vegetation.
–noun
7. a mark or scar made by searing.
–adjective
8.sere¹ .
Origin:
before 900;
(adj.) Middle English sere, Old English sēar;
cognate with Dutch zoor;
(v.) Middle English seren, Old English sēarian,
derivative of sēar
—Related forms un·seared, adjective
—Synonyms
1. See burn¹ .

...so...
...still a bit tender, on the inside
...so...
you cut off
the burnt bits on the surface,
you don't chuck the whole steak,
when it's just right, on the inside...

...a magical cook,
or, just knows how to hear,
when the sizzle's just right...


...listen, hear, from your first breath
until...it's late in the evening...
https://youtu.be/57RIlznOpDM
The first thing I remember, I was lying in my bed
I couldn't've been no more than one or two
And I remember there's a radio, coming from the room next door
My mother laughed the way some ladies' do

Well it's late in the evening, and the music's seeping through

The next thing I remember, I am walking down a street
I'm feeling alright I'm with my boys and with my troops, yeah
Down along the avenue some guys were shootin' pool
And I heard the sound of acapella groups, yeah

Singin' late in the evening, and all the girls out on the stoops, yeah

Then I learned to play some lead guitar, I was underage in this funky bar
And I stepped outside to smoke myself a J
When I come back to the room, everybody just seemed to move
And I turned my amp up loud and I began to play

It was late in the evening, and I blew that room away

First thing I remember when you came into my life
I said I wanna get that girl, no matter what I do
Well I guess I've been in love before and once or twice have been on the floor
But I've never loved no-one the way that I love you

..and I love you

And it was late in the evening, and all the music's seeping through

SPIRIT VOICES
https://youtu.be/W_QpfDbBPFc
We sailed up a river wide as a sea
And slept on the banks
On the leaves of a banyan tree
And all of these spirit voices rule the night

Some stories are magical, meant to be sung
Songs from the mouth of the river
When the world was young
And all of these spirit voices rule the night

By moon
We walk
To the brujo’s door
Along a path of river stones
Women with their nursing children
Seated on the floor
We join the fevers
And the broken bones

The candlelight flickers
The falcon calls
A lime-green lizard scuttles down the cabin wall
And all of these spirit voices
Sing rainwater, seawater
River water, holy water
Wrap this child in mercy – heal her
Heaven’s only daughter
All of these spirit voices rule the night

My hands were numb
And my feet were lead
I drank a cup of herbal brew
Then the sweetness in the air
Combined with the lightness in my head
And I heard the jungle breathing in the bamboo

Saudocões (Greetings!)
Da licenca um momento (Excuse me, one moment)
Te lembró (I remind you)
Que amanhã (That tomorrow)
Será tudo ou será naoa (It will be all or it will be nothing)
Depende coração (It depends, heart)
Será breve ou será grande (It will be brief or it will be great)
Depende da paixão (It depends on the passion)
Será sujo, será sonho (It will be dirty, it will be a dream)
Cuidado, coração (Be careful, heart)
Será util, será tarde (It will be useful, it will be late)
Se esmera, coração (Do your best, heart)
E confia (And have trust)
Na força do amanhã (In the power of tomorrow)

Lord of the earthquake
My trembling bed
The spider resumes the rhythm
Of his golden tread
And all of these spirit voices rule the night
And all of these spirit voices rule the night
And all of these spirit voices rule the night

1990 Words and Music by Paul Simon
(Portuguese Lyrics by Milton Nascimento)
...RE-WRITE.. ..Your 'Title'...
https://youtu.be/B2oDowFw5WM
I’ve been working on my rewrite, that’s right
I’m gonna change the ending
Gonna throw away my title
And toss it in the trash
Every minute after midnight
All the time I’m spending
It’s just for working on my rewrite
Gonna turn it into cash

I’ve been working at the carwash
I consider it my day job
Cause it’s really not a pay job
But that’s where I am
Everybody says the old guy
working at the carwash
Hasn’t got a brain cell left since Vietnam

But I say help me, help me, help me, help me
Thank you!
I’d no idea
That you were there
When I said help me, help me, help me, help me
Thank you, for listening to my prayer

I’m working on my rewrite, that’s right
I’m gonna change the ending
Gonna throw away my title
And toss it in the trash
Every minute after midnight
All the time I’m spending
Is just for working on my rewrite, that’s right
I’m gonna turn it into cash

I’ll eliminate the pages
Where the father has a breakdown
And he has to leave the family
But he really meant no harm
Gonna substitute a car chase
And a race across the rooftops
When the father saves the children
And he holds them in his arms

And I say help me, help me, help me, help me
Thank you!
I’d no idea
That you were there
When I said, help me, help me, help me, help me
Thank you, for listening to my prayer

2010 Words and Music by Paul Simon

"Vincent"
by
Don McLean
(w/ lyrics &
paintings of
V. Van Gogh)
https://youtu.be/ZTHrTOzfqhg

NOT beautiful...

...and Not surprising...knowing how much "tintin" revers Groningen
and CURSES THE BLESSINGS of JACOB...

Dutch harness horse...The breed is based on the
native Groningen and Gelderland horses...Dutch Harness Horses
are highly recognizable........................FOR THEIR UGLYNESS!!!

But then, those who want to "be their own god", rather than
SERVE THE CREATOR GOD, never quite get, that going from
one extreme (Przewalski's Horse),

to the other,

IS, GOING NOWHERE...

Jaca Navarra mares.

Beautiful,


is rain in it's season...


...how much more beautiful, when justice reigns...



ooh look, a 'magic number', it must be "just for 'you' ", 'cori'...

true lilly Today at 11:44 amThe connection has timed out

The server at forum.davidicke.com is taking too long to respond.

so much for your 'god'...Shut DOWN, Again,
as 'they' often have to, when having a CRISIS Meeting

...you sure 'you' aren't 'cori'...see David Icke is only a
'sock puppet' of 'tintin'="you insult cori, you insult me",
and well, 'cori' HAS OFTEN Stated how much they HATE
HUMAN BEINGS and WANT 99.9% of HUMANS DEAD,
and well, anyone desperate to have folk 'lord' and Follow
David Icke/'tintin', must share 'the untouchable cori's',
BALD FACED LIES UNTO DEATH, Selling agenda.
<blockquote>

AUNT TISWAS wrote: This clown got the ban from the DIF because he was getting above his station and asking too many questions about decisions which were behind the scenes.
they did well in the DIF, and Icke is getting that T Shirt issue sorted out.

</blockquote>Look, one can't invite people to a Fancy Dress,
then throw them out because their dress wasn't Formal.

Besides being just plain rude, it's the insane behaviour of
one acting so above their station, they believe themselves
to 'be bigger than god'.

...as It Will