Don't ask a blind man those questions.

If Emily D. was here, I'd want to give her a big kiss.

POEM 1212 (circa 1872)

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

— Emily Dickinson

Contrariwise construction
produces guys all fucking sideways
with manly contradictions.

I wonder what really is happening to us all (in the existential sense) of the whole population, not just the participants of this thread, nor the inhabitants of the forum, but of the entire world.

When I was younger (child) whenever i was in the backseat o my Subaru, or wood-paneled mini-van, or ven as I was just walking (I used to walk for miles each and every day) I always pondered what is the inside of a random stranger's home, their apartment, one's abode. Not just the houses of which I passed across, but how peopel lived in Asia, in Canadia, in Galapagos, where I was born, wheres I once lived, and thus, onwards. I always imagined that no two dwellings were the same, but I'd still come to find similarities.

And that's how my dream super-power of teleportation really found its first use, if I ever achieved it.

I used to pet the glossy pages of the National Geographic magazines & wonder about similar things.

If I see moon-rise
& don't think about you, dear,
feel free to kill me.

Music guru needed

I have a small dub of a piece of music that I recorded from the movie In The Electric Mist.
I would like to ask your help in identifying it. It is possibly one of the 16 songs listed, but it may also just be some incidental music.
I also would like to know the style of music so that I can search out more music of similar ilk.

Would one of you fine folk accept an email from me so as to hear it and help me out on this?

Zook....

The help I could be
is a matter of question,
but e-mail away!

likewise. I'll be happy to give it a whirl so you have my email.

e-snips.com is but a click away for all your media-hosting needs...
(in case you were thinking you could only share the snippet through an e-mail attachment)

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http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lb...id25o1_500.jpg

Carl Sagan

+ bonus

Jet,
Is there any software tool or website that allows searching based on sound file parameters rather than words? I bet there is but I haven't found it yet.

Sometimes what I read,
let alone how I listen,
makes searching scary.

...hilarious!

Funny you should mention that, Ocm?.

A few days ago I was searching for unusual, creative search tools and came upon one that might even work for the above mentioned sound clip search. But my link for that is on my home laptop and now I'm in work...though technically, I am not working at this moment while "wasting" time here. The software can actually search for pictures, even things in pictures like faces, based on some kind of algorithms that look for text based patterns in the "computer language" that makes up the picture, or sound, or whatever. The guy who developed this has versions targeted specifically for certain purposes, such as facial searches, various objects, and of course one is specifically designed to hunt for pornography of your choice.

//If we don't pretend
with us & ours, we're losing
all we have to give.

I want triangulation,
as I challenge us to prove me wrong,
by improper means, I guess.//

I "like" algorithms!

I saw a commercial about the iPhone having an app that functions in a similar distinction as you portrayed it (you play a sound snippet, most preferably one of a song, and the app verifies, decodes it, and presumbably, spits back an answer as to what you subjected it to).

I have never tried it.

Wow. Specialization is taking leaps & bounds further within all the time.

Zooks. I would offer my assistance, but I have no sound on my pc right now.
Have you had any luck with your search?

I listened to Zooks' clip and found it to be a haunting melody that I like, but I have no idea who did it or what it is.

Zooks, maybe you want to try this: FindSounds - Sounds-Like Search

Good idea that... but at 20 bucks, I can buy the whole album on Itunes for $16.00

Guess I'll just have to loop the wav that I have....

I shall try that e-snips.com, Jet speaks of......[COLOR="DarkSlateGray"]

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Dunno if this works, but I think I hosted it here:

http://FastFreeFileHosting.com/file/...-mist-wav.html

I am picking apart.

Why aren't we at 100K yet? You guys are seriously slacking!

Zooks, I think I found it.

I just kept hunting and gathering and next thing I knew...POP! it was there. Try this and let me know what you think:



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Since today is Veterans Day in the U.S., the "top 5 at 5" picks on WXPN (local radio station plays 5 songs of a certain theme at 5pm each day) were all songs by veterans. This one by Kris Kristofferson, who is a veteran, in some strange way led me to the find above:



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Bonus similar character Celtic tune:



If I ever meet a Celtic princess, I'm going to marry her.

Hey-lo, Chariot.

We've sustained ample attrition of bodies to aid us, but we marked the official occasion sometime in the past season or two, I believe.

When was the official date again, Zooks?

Are you still picking winners, BadNick?

How was your (collective?) weekend, ring & Ocm(w)?

Why am I so sluggish to begin content-driving (blogging) again?
[ventured guess: I have a low tolerance to continually exposing my heart to the crickets.]

Are we having fun yet?! --[I'm currently enthralled in a new teevee program called Party Down. I'm at a loss for adjectives. (The Office-esque comedy about waiters aspiring for Hollywood.]

Oh, and I forgot: it's nice to have you back in real time, jewels.

Thank you very much for that, Nick.

I swear that I downloaded a song that has that same name, that sound NOTHING like this one, so I ignored songs that had this name.
...


....
Now that I've listened to it a few times, I am actually not convinced that it is the same song either.... Very similar, same band/instruments/style etc, but different tempo, and perhaps chords?

I am not musically gifted, I sing like a cane toad, and can't even play a decent tune on an Ipod, so forgive me if you believe other wise?


.

And so the search continues..?

Honestly? I'm still looking for that 10th inning-Baseball-Doc-by-Ken-Burns intrumental interlude.

It's so Charlie brown-esque, and hauntingly-beautiful.

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EDIT: here's the context, for a refresher...

I actually meant to reply to this when you orignally posted it - didn't I? (checked; I didn't.)

When I was living in in the tiny left-hand peninsula (Tampa Bay) of the panhandled-peninsula state, I used to have this beautiful park and pond in my neighborhood (it was a half-mile circumference water body, and there was only one not-very-busy-at-all road that led into main traffic by it, so it was always peaceful and serene). It was near a daily routine that mother and I would go to the park, and we'd bring white bread to feed to the ducks and geese. I'm not sure how to transition the story right about here, but one day as I was tossing out scraps twenty feet or so from the pond's edge, I noticed murky-green scales floating towards the food. I never saw the big ones, but there were definitely some child alligators within the pond, and a few were brazen enough to climb the steep embankment from the pond, up onto the grass, and half-chase the birds. It seems they wanted the bread all to themselves.

Hey Jetée, thank you! It's good to be back and see your amazing posts.

'Bout them there gators, I don't recall I've ever seen them crossing the road, but I have seen them in many small bodies of water throughout the state.

But I have seen these crossing the road in the Keys.

http://photos.igougo.com/images/p224...L-Key_Deer.jpg

Zooks,
I'm probably not any more musically gifted than you so my impression may be wrong. But to me it sounds like the same "song" but not the same performance of it. And my searching around seemed to support my conclusion based on what many other people were saying about both the soundtrack and this version of it ...not that that guarantees anything for sure on the internetz.

Musically, I like George Thorogood's version better, which might indicate something.

I saw George and the Delaware Destroyers live a couple times at the Bijou Cafe in Philadelphia ...back in the late '70's when it was still there. The Bijou space is about as large as a sizeable living room so we were about 10ft from him on stage with his serious sound system, all at table level in front of us. We just kept yelling "louder, louder!!!" and he obliged us thorogoodly.

Please speak up, I can't hear you. This was part of what set me in my Bad path.



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http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...oodatbijou.jpg

"...the day (he) was born,
the nurses all gathered 'round,
...gazed in wild wonder"

//Feeding the dark side
while not nourishing it, too,
is tricky bizness//

2+3+6-7=4

Never mind, I said;
I'll keep editing the nonce
until I'm happy.

MORE OPINION:

While some extra steps
have their value undefined,
those we take are ours...

I was a 'bout to state that I thaught (thunk?) that George's name had a "U" in there somewhere, but then I looked at the poster - the young youtuber typo'd Georgie's name, and not the other way 'round (whereby i have been mistakenly thinking that Thurogood never had a "U" in his name to begin with).

Sorry for the confusion.

Plus:

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8...do1_r1_500.jpg

If I could forget
more or less of what I have
I'd surely choose less.

(2x3/6)+7=8

2, 3, 6, 7, 9
the goose drank wine
amonkie chewed tobacco on the street car line

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