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John Watt

Member
When I had the first shower curtain, I used it as a shower curtain.
I'd use a little birthday cake candle sitting against the far wall behind a shampoo bottle,
and that lit it up enough to make sections of it look realistic,
especially if they were moving a little.
And no, I wasn't sitting there wearing my snorkel mask and waving my fins. I wasn't.

I went back and the store was going under, getting the last one for half price,
and decided to use it for the wall.
Just when that was finished and I wished I had more to make it floor length,
I was wandering around and saw one screwed along the side of a refrigerator at a wrecker's.
He said if I took it off the fridge it would help him and I could have it for free.
He said one night the sunset lit it up like a special effect.
You should see the laser etched gift wrap they have this year.
However, the world does not need decorative laser etching.
Your scenery is far more fetching.
 
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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
A failed attempt by a conifer to get knotted :grin:

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John Watt

Member
"They say there's a tree in the forest,
a place where the young lovers go,
so come along with me, to the sweetheart tree,
and I'll carve your name next to mine".

Yeah, I'm sure we both know the words to that song by heart.
Is this what you're trying to say to me JHC,
or is my computer too soft-focused to read what you carved to me?
And it's not nice to disturb the seclusion of those conifers,
unless what I heard about you is true,
that your bed is covered in pine cones,
as far as your body can reach,
and it's rough and scratchy in your bed,
just like it's rough and scratchy in your head,
and the pine nuts get picked and eaten instead,
while you're loving as those pine needles embed.
I used to live in a world full of forests,
and all I could see were trees,
until I took my axe and made a nice clearing,
for all of my love to be, I said I need room to dance for me,
while I watch you pulling away on the old highway,
and you're wondering what we could be doing today,
yeah, yeah, yeah, guitar solo!
 
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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
"They say there's a tree in the forest,
a place where the young lovers go,
so come along with me, to the sweetheart tree,
and I'll carve your name next to mine".

Yeah, I'm sure we both know the words to that song by heart.
Is this what you're trying to say to me JHC,
You mean about getting knotted??
unless what I heard about you is true,
that your bed is covered in pine cones,
as far as your body can reach,
and it's rough and scratchy in your bed,
just like it's rough and scratchy in your head,
You old flatterer you
 

John Watt

Member
I was expecting you to get a little chippy with me,
but you must be still getting sticky with all your sap.

I can't say I just didn't type all that up,
but the part about being in your bed is riffing off a Jimi Hendrix song,
about living in a room full of mirrors, as far as your eye can see,
with broken pieces laying in your bed, going on like that.

I was looking at your garden photos again, really nice, a beautiful place to be.

The nuclear organ for world peace got a big boost yesterday,
when I was talking to a grandfather from India, happy to talk about his country.
I find that people from India are reluctant to talk about India, who I meet here.
He's a former air force pilot and lieutenant and he was telling me how India started it's nuclear program,
and how their first secret test caused world-wide controversy,
Russian and America blaming each other for breaking accords, accusing China,
before India admitted they were responsible.
He also said Russian, America and China all took multiple attempts to land a working craft on Mars,
but India hit it the first time they tried.
His description of the blast-off and the trajectories was hilarious, using his hands.
He was also a witness to the first test blast, describing how that happened.
Did you know that some people have severe nervous breakdowns just watching one?

Just from all the atomic bomb tests, we now live in an irradiated world,
no more pure atmosphere or soil anywhere, a Geiger counter clicking everywhere.
Every organ on earth is now a nuclear organ.
 
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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Just been clearing up some branches that I removed a couple of weeks ago I have a burn up every now and again to get rid of all the debris any way it took a couple of hours and then came back and had a coffee on the porch all I could hear was the background noise of the river plus the wind waltzing through the top of the poplar trees, a top dressing plane flew over so it took a few minutes for that to fly out of sound range then all that was left was the birds……….always the birds, they wake me up about 4:30am in the summer…..always the Bl**%y birds.
Just had a flash back of Peggy Lee with George Shearing Quintet doing “Dream a little dream of me”
 

John Watt

Member
People are talking about the birds here in southern Ontario,
more so this year than any other,
because most people are now noticing they aren't flying south for the winter,
not that we're having one.
Just to illustrate how bees, bugs and all animals are becoming extinct around here,
last summer I was walking behind government buildings and saw a cardinal,
all red and beautiful, the kind of bird you usually don't see even in the wild,
very secretive, it's colour a dead give-away.
It was walking across the tops of curbs eating bugs from below car radiators,
and that had to be deep-fried, crispy bugs, not fresh and tweet-sweet.
Too bad I didn't have my camera to get a video.

It's been so warm I grabbed a looking new, double disc DVD movie set for ninety-nine cents,
"The March of the Penguins", narrated by Morgan Freeman, seeing that many years ago,
with "On the Wings of Penguins", about African penguins known as "jackass penguins".
Yeah, I guess if I was a penguin who liked to hang around Africa I'd be called a jackass.
It's the second week of January, and I'm still helping an antique store put stuff out on the sidewalk.

Peggy Lee is someone who gets talked about a lot, all throughout my life,
but I've never seen the attraction, even "Fever" leaves me cold.
Doris Day, more of a farmer's daughter, supposedly, is still a turn-on,
so energetic and smiling, tall and thin, looking like a natural blonde.
But adults gotta like what adulthood likens them to, moi aussi.
That's "me also" in Quebecois, almost sounding like my aussie.

Did you ever see her live?
I can't think of anyone who wouldn't want to tour NZ if they got a chance,
unless they were afraid to leave Hollywood.

I finally got over my residual paranoia enough to try listening with studio headphones on,
having the gear to set up my TV and stereos for over four years, buying it all new when I could.
It felt natural right away, because I got Koss studio headphones when I was a teenager,
pulling all-nighters lying there in the dark, grooving away without a rainy day.

"Dream a little dream of me" has been percolating in my brain, aha, remembering Mama Cass.
Now I wish I hadn't. Blowsy, not arousy.
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
With Peggy Lee (I never saw her live) it was really the Shearing Quintet that attracted me I latched onto them as a teenager which was when I first started to play jazz although it was a Dixie Jazz band that I was lucky enough to get a job with but I just loved the Shearing sound and Peggy fitted in so well with that type of music, much later on I actually formed a copy cat group with a fantastic Vibe player but we could not pull in the numbers to make it financially feasible so that was that.
We were warned to expect a rat epidemic which is not good as the cats can only get the small ones and the big boys are quite vicious but the birds do seem to be growing in numbers as you say why bother flying to warmer climates when it is getting warmer here all the time, also the Ants are on the march millions of em. Did you know that the ant has the largest brain to body size of all living creatures a little bit scary eh.
I do a lot of headphone listening at night but at the moment it is just ‘too darned hot’
Birds singing in the sycamore trees dream a little dream of me.
 

John Watt

Member
Nice posting! It's inspiring me. I didn't know that about ants, you cerebralist you.
Did you know that a pair of flies, if left to mate for a year undisturbed,
will give birth to enough flies to cover the earth six feet deep?

It was New Zealand naturalists who made a small movie about emperor penguins,
going to learn as much about them as they can, fearing extinction,
not knowing if they'll survive warm temperatures or migrate away from antarctic meltdowns,
and huge new ice sheet separations, also losing smooth ice routes to ice pressure ridges.

This was a feature with the movie "March of the Penguins", narrated by Morgan Freeman.
This also had a National Geographic "critter cam" feature, a penguin wearing one.
This $2 purchase, as new, had another disc, a movie about African penguins,
with more features I haven't seen.

It's strange what ants can do as a communicative species, from long distances, without sounds.
I'm starting to think it's your voice I hear, singing "I still remember your name".

I'm not doubting your musicianship,
but when you say not pulling in the numbers, with maybe what is an esoteric, uh, specialist act,
were you playing around a lot, trying to build an audience?
Or were you waiting for a clone strike to take out a crowd?

I've always liked vibes, and think about making my own, having a xylophone as a kid.
When I saw McCoy Tyner, he had a little stringed African thing on top of his piano,
and he'd start by plucking on that, getting the audience to settle down and concentrate,
before he hit the piano or the band started playing.
That's what I'd use vibes for, or this Roland HP-400, 88 key piano I just bought, for $60.
Unfortunately, it doesn't qualify as a nuclear organ for world peace.
I had to type that, I could sense a moderator wondering, getting antsy about it.
Hey! What am I doing here in Ontario watching an antarctica movie?
I've had the window open beside me all afternoon, typing with my shirt off,
and I didn't get cold, it's all melting outside.
 
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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Nice posting! It's inspiring me. I didn't know that about ants, you cerebralist you.
Did you know that a pair of flies, if left to mate for a year undisturbed,
will give birth to enough flies to cover the earth six feet deep?

Thank goodness for Spiders eh.

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It's strange what ants can do as a communicative species, from long distances, without sounds.
I'm starting to think it's your voice I hear, singing "I still remember your name".

I'm not doubting your musicianship,
but when you say not pulling in the numbers, with maybe what is an esoteric, uh, specialist act,
were you playing around a lot, trying to build an audience?
Or were you waiting for a clone strike to take out a crowd?
I think we were too ambitious we tried out in a couple of local jazz clubs and received excellent feed back but that was from a dedicated audience perhaps we rushed it but obtaining a room that could seat at least 100 with a bar man was not cheap we did free advertising in the local clubs but the first night was about 20 people six weeks later maybe 35, just not on. I must add that all the musicians had other regular gigs so were proficient.
I've always liked vibes, and think about making my own, having a xylophone as a kid.
When I saw McCoy Tyner, he had a little stringed African thing on top of his piano,
and he'd start by plucking on that, getting the audience to settle down and concentrate,
before he hit the piano or the band started playing.
That's what I'd use vibes for, or this Roland HP-400, 88 key piano I just bought, for $60.
Thought you would appreciate this bit of the MJQ ‘Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise’ some nice improvisation from the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] 32 on by both Piano and Vibe, I always thought of this quartet as near to a classical quartet in their approach to the music.

<i>[video=youtube;crCxefHCLJA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=crCxefHCLJA  [/video]
Unfortunately, it doesn't qualify as a nuclear organ for world peace.
I had to type that, I could sense a moderator wondering, getting antsy about it.
Hey! What am I doing here in Ontario watching an antarctica movie?
I've had the window open beside me all afternoon, typing with my shirt off,
and I didn't get cold, it's all melting outside.
We are having a hot spell, just have to get your jobs done early by 11am its too hot. Even for golf!
 

John Watt

Member
The Modern Jazz Quartet is a staple of television and jazz radio around here, almost all my life.
I would just like them a lot better if they did a cover of Maneater by Hall and Oates.

Maybe all this typing about the nuclear organ for world peace has irradiated my brain.
Here's some lyrics I might just have finished.
Musicians around here say country music is ten years behind rock,
more about the use of distorted guitars and stadium ambitions.
The bars in Niagara Falls that have three-nighters are all country,
even if scoping them out showed me more grundgey, alternative kind of rock,
no clothes, no-one dancing or moving onstage, no hot lead guitarists.
If you can imagine a light funk like C + C Music Factory,
"Things that make you go Hmmm", "I'm gonna make you sweat",
I just wrote a country song, so sing along.

"I'm still a cowboy riding the range,
even if the greener grass on the other side is making my life strange.
I'm still getting cut, by the barbed wire crossing me,
but that's okay there's still a sunset to fulfill my destiny.

It's getting campy, beside this bliss is hippy raver,
her hot knife campfire heating up every stone,
when she's chewing to make my leather,
I shake my eagle feather,

and my head-dress gets dancing all night long.

Those buffed up low land oily men,
snort state lines to drive cattle calls,

those lone star porn star pumpers,
with their long gun prairie shooters,
blast their way through the entire world.

I came down from the high mountains,
and when they drove in that last spike,
I got off on that train, and when I found that room full of women,
they all began to look the same.

I need a new horizon, a light that's shining just for me,
I have to ride and ride and ride and ride to reach it,
to fulfill my sunset destiny."
 
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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
MMMMM, I have not heard the MJQ played on any NZ radio station for over ....ever.

The other night in Welland square
I saw a man that wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish that man would go away :cool:
 

John Watt

Member
Hey! I was getting into serious wordplay that really aren't good for lyrics,
but you hit a nerve and moved my local self in a very haunting way.
This actually works for what I was thinking about posting if you replied.

The nuclear organ for peace and the black hole tone it generated produced local results.
The deterioration of local topography has resulted in a back in time reality,
that has also exposed a retro mentality.

"The leaven of love, moistened with sympathy, stirred with desire for your highest good,
kneaded by the hand of providence, baked by the hand of spiritual supplication".

"We may live without friends, we may live without books,
But civilized man cannot live without cooks:
He may live without books- What is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope- What is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love- What is passion but pining?
But where is the man who can live without dining?

This is a recent find, having lots of fun with it.
It is a business printing, the left page being ads, the right the recipes.
So many local businessmen see the ads of their fathers,
and women have cried, seeing Country Fair prize winning recipes,
of their mothers or family.

Please notice the name Fonthill, totally appropriate here.
There's a font for us, a keyboard there for us,
we can post 'til our tendons pull, and read until our eyeballs hurt.
There's a font for us, with bills hanging over us,
every day wireless is sinking in, brain-wasting diseases begin,
and without a vote we let them in.
 

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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Sorry Mr Watts but I is just a un edu cated colonial boy I can't do that fancy stuff

The boy stood on the burning deck
picking his nose like mad
rolling it up in little balls
and flicking it at his dad :grin:
 

teddy

Duckmeister
The boy stood on the burning deck
His kneecaps turning brown
It really was his own fault
For pulling his trousers down.

SM I believe

teddy
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Some thirty inches from my nose
The frontier of my Person goes,
And all the untilled air between
Is private pagus or demesne.
Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes
I beckon you to fraternize,
Beware of rudely crossing it:
I have no gun, but I can spit. :mad::mad::mad:

Ha Ha Ha
Ha Ha Ha
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
 
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John Watt

Member
Wow! I see some pioneering wit to go with my antique cookbook,
and no, that wasn't my usual attempt at rhyming time,
just quoting sections from inside.

Why is that book scan so huge?

I was playing in a rock showband in Toronto when the Captain Highliner commercial came out,
and there was some frontman dead air happening,
so I went up to my mike and said in a child's voice like the commercial,
"Captain Hindgrinder, Captain Hindgrinder, have you ever been to sea?"
The keyboardist, from Nova Scotia, didn't miss a beat, saying
"Aye, but have you ever swallowed seamen Billy?"
We got lots of laughter and applause, but no-one tossed fish sticks onstage.

The nuclear organ for world peace not only has sent a black hole tone through the earth to Welland,
it's mutating time and space to erase proto-realities, with beneficial gap mentalities.

I remember when I found out Jimi Hendrix had passed away.
It was September, when the Fair was open, being there with friends.
When I went home that night and turned the radio on, I heard about him.
I would think it was the next year that I bought my Stratocaster and Marshall, with effects.
But today, on Facebook, someone posted a receipt from Manny's,
a New York music store where Jimi shopped, dated after my birthday in 1970.
That means I owned my guitar and amp before Jimi left us.
That's a freaky thought, changing my perception of myself and my guitar,
also knowing I'm still using some of those parts in my present guitar.
This nuclear glow makes me feel like I'm mind-melding with the late 60's.
No... no... it's happening again... and again...1970.jpgPeter's Fan.jpgTut's wood.jpg
 
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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
So a young John Watt! much better looking than Mike J or King Tut, I am not flirting, I am not a ...you know, strictly women for this joker.

Me (on right) in Perth 1964 not as handsome as JW :grin:

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John Watt

Member
You know JHC, there's always been a quiet dignity to your writings.
When you put up photos of your garden, I thought right away, bless you,
bless you, for not always being about obvious wealth.
And now you're letting us know you're the better half of the
Pet Shop Boys. I just got their movie on VHS, almost afraid to watch it.
I might like them too much, even if I know I can't come between them.

I can't say who's better looking, me with my hair growing out for the first time,
or you looking like a senior from an English university.
I wish the photo showed my 50 watt Marshall head on the eight ten-inch speaker cabinet.
At least you've got a beautiful vista and a bridge I'd love to bike-hike across.

I thought my three-photo reply was going to be a thread-killer,
but you bounced back the rebound.

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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Oh John I aint never been to these fancy varsity places and your three-photo reply was fantastic not a thread-killer, put up more pics of your self.
I is just a simple soul, you force me to show my earlier self embarrassed at being snapped we were supposed to hold still as it was a timed exposure but of course the drummer boy just couldn’t keep still, you know what drummers are like.

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Have I posted this before??????

And the true me in an alcohol free area at a jazz festival, just no sense of humour the Police. I do miss the festivals.Have I also posted this before ?? I must sort out some new pics.

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