Daydream Believer

[Tangled up in Blue]

Oh Phil, y'old smooth talker you: a compliment (of sorts) at long last .... the supposed reference to the Beatles is, however, completely of your own inference: all I wrote here was my own humble thoughts.

Lisa,
My apologies.I googled it(as I often do with students' work) and got a link to some Michael Bubble lyric.Must be my faulty memory.:)
I seem to remember you saying that you'd done a creative writing course.It shows.Always happy to give credit where it's due.;)

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I love a good label more than most ... the word 'recidivist' is one used by some psychiatric nurses I know, and it's one of my favourites. In this instance though, Phil, I've not used any labels. QUOTE]

<he can 'present' - a naff Social Work word but too lazy to think of another<
<Care Team>
>dedicated group of carers<
>self-esteem>

Rob,
Granted they're not labels as such but they ARE jargon words commonly used in Clientland and amount to what some commentators would describe as no more than psycho-babble.
Such use of jargon is quite popular in TEFL too and personally I try to avoid it whenever I can.Remember Orwell.He was a big fan of using plain English to describe your thoughts and feelings.:soapbox:

 

[Mrs S]

Lisa,
My apologies.I googled it(as I often do with students' work) and got a link to some Michael Bubble lyric.Must be my faulty memory.:)
I seem to remember you saying that you'd done a creative writing course.It shows.Always happy to give credit where it's due.;)

Credit accepted, thank you, along with apologies. Some creative writing background yes, although my main interest was features (newspaper and magazines) and it was actually a 'professional' rather than 'creative' course (HNC Writing for the Media) - ha-ha: and so there I am: the 'qualified writer' ...... ;)

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

Get a room you two the tension is so tense,poor robert.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Get a room you two the tension is so tense,poor robert.

In your dreams Tony.Not anywhere else I strongly suspect!:p

 

[Mrs S]

Get a room you two the tension is so tense,poor robert.

Ooh-er blimey: far too 'creative' in your imaginative writing there Mr. Berricone ... some tension maybe yes, but not the sort that would necessitate the confines of a room ......

 

[Rob Noxious]

Bowie - 'Diamond Dogs'

Rob,

Remember Orwell.He was a big fan of using plain English to describe your thoughts and feelings.:soapbox:

Hey, the guy who wrote something about a big brother always watching him? :)

Talking of Orwell, Bowie's ambitious album, 'Diamond Dogs' (released in '74 - ten years ahead of its time), was written in the wake of David's reading of 'Nineteen Eighty-Four.' I read somewhere that he wanted to call it that but Orwell's widow, Sonia, refused him permission. This was his first album of original material after he'd sacked Mick Ronson the previous year and it signalled yet another new direction for South London's perpetual chameleon and creator of his own 'new wave' with every offering back then.

It starts off with the bleak, apocalyptic vision of 'Future Legend' and ends with the curious 'Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family.' In between you can find two songs with the same name ('Sweet Thing'), two poppy singles with alliterative titles ('Rebel Rebel' and the title track), some dark Orwellian-related songs ('We are the dead,'* '1984' and 'Big Brother') and an incongruously light but fulfilling ditty called 'Rock 'n' Roll With Me.' Last but not least is a track called 'Candidate,' which is another song in keeping with the general starkness of the tracks which remained album tracks. In a strange kind of way, the album represented a kind of 'rites of passage' for me. I was thirteen the summer it came out and I'd only ever known Bowie's 'pop' material. For my young ears, even 'Ziggy' and 'Aladdin Sane' were still in that category. This was a whole new bag altogether - it felt grown-up, 'mature' and all those categories that felt aspirational for someone who was still a boy but wanted to be more. On a less portentous note, it also reminds me of my old mucker, Chris Studds, who I managed to persuade to part with his copy for a couple of Slade albums which I foolishly associated with the immaturity that I wished to leave behind. Self-centred, self-obsessed? Yep, even (but especially) then! ;)

*See http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=fm247&x=19&y=23 where it features in the Radio Binfield &#8216;Hot One Hundred&#8217;! :clap:

 

[Rob Noxious]

What the ...?!

Ooh-er blimey: far too 'creative' in your imagination Mr. Berricone ... some tension maybe yes, but not the sort that would require a room ......

:O :stunned: :censored: :puke :offtopic:This thread is supposed to be about where the music takes you ... get back to the creative writing you lot and less of these scenarios if you please! :thump: :) ps aren't these smilies great?! :clap:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

. Some creative writing background yes, although my main interest was features (newspaper and magazines) and it was actually a 'professional' rather than 'creative' course (HNC Writing for the Media) - ha-ha: and so there I am: the 'qualified writer' ...... ;)

Ah.
Five years ago I was offered the choice of doing the Writing or the Speaking course on the EPP(English for Professional Purposes)Degree programme which I teach on, part-time, at the UAB.I chose the Speaking programme(far less marking).
So I guess I can say I'm a qualified and experienced speaker if not a "qualified writer." :)

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

Ah.
Five years ago I was offered the choice of doing the Writing or the Speaking course on the EPP(English for Professional Purposes)Degree programme which I teach on, part-time, at the UAB.I chose the Speaking programme(far less marking).
So I guess I can say I'm a qualified and experienced speaker if not a "qualified writer." :)

Please Phil this thread is only for where the music takes your little bro,lets get back on thread,sex pistols never mind the bollocks now thats tuneage.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Please Phil this thread is only for where the music takes your little bro,lets get back on thread,sex pistols never mind the bollocks now thats tuneage.

Got some muisical memories you want to share with us Tone?:)
:)The music scene in Barna is a bit quiet at the minute but gigs by Coco Montoya,Joan Baez and Michael Nyman are in the offing.:clap:

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

Got some muisical memories you want to share with us Tone?:)
:)The music scene in Barna is a bit quiet at the minute but gigs by Coco Montoya,Joan Baez and Michael Nyman are in the offing.:clap:

Alas Phil i suffer from a rare disorder of stupidness,sounds strange but i cant recall song names or words even if they are bands i love or have loved.I have been in to music since i was 13,paul mccartney,gary numan and been going to gigs since i was 16 and had a fresh gig start at 40 when my daughter wanted to see bands but just dont remeber much.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Peter Gabriel - 'I Don't Remember'

Alas Phil i suffer from a rare disorder of stupidness,sounds strange but i cant recall song names or words even if they are bands i love or have loved.I have been in to music since i was 13,paul mccartney,gary numan and been going to gigs since i was 16 and had a fresh gig start at 40 when my daughter wanted to see bands but just dont remeber much.

... check this one out, Tone! From his third solo album - another that was untitled. I can't play this song now without thinking of you ... :)

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

What a waste

As I mentioned on another (Ian Dury) thread,I'm currently reading Will Birch's excellent new biography of this great English eccentric.
Ian Dury's backstory is fairly well known.He was bright and despite contracting polio at Southend 's open air swimming pool,aged seven, and effectively missing two years education , passed the 11 plus and went to High Wycombe Grammar school as a boarder.
While there in his last year(1959)he was sent to an educational psychologist ,a Miss Boniface,at her surgery in Grays to work out why he was underacheiving at Grammar School.
She gave him a number of tests and told him,"You're very intelligent.""I know" he replied,"what's the problem?"
Miss Boniface explained that she had to do her tests for Essex County Council.
Dury added,"I'm not particularly disturbed,I'm quite happy but I'd much rather be at home."
As it turned out, Dury passed three GCE O Levels later that year (in Art,English Language, and English Literature)just enough to get into Walthamstow Art College.
You could have knocked me down with a feather (to quote an Ian Dury lyric-Clevor Trevor actually)when I saw the name,Miss Boniface,on the page.
Back in 1962 I was knocked down by a car in Prince Avenue after playing football for my school team,Earls Hall.I spent quite a bit of time in hospital with a badly broken leg and had to take quite a lot of time off school in 62/3-my 11 plus year.
To cut a long story short, when I finally returned to school(not long before the exam)I was judged to be a "borderline" candidate for a Grammar School place.I had to do a battery of psychological tests etc with none other than.........Miss Boniface.
I remember her as being a fat,matronly sort of woman,with rather a strange sort of accent(Scottish ?)who smelled of peppermints.
Her parting shot to me was.."I think you'll be much happier at Secondary Modern School,Philip."
I've never forgotten her name,or that insensitive remark.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Elvis Costello &amp; The Attractions - 'Secondary Modern'

As I mentioned on another (Ian Dury) thread,I'm currently reading Will Birch's excellent new biography of this great English eccentric.
Ian Dury's backstory is fairly well known.He was bright and despite contracting polio at Southend 's open air swimming pool,aged seven, and effectively missing two years education , passed the 11 plus and went to High Wycombe Grammar school as a boarder.
While there in his last year(1959)he was sent to an educational psychologist ,a Miss Boniface,at her surgery in Grays to work out why he was underacheiving at Grammar School.
She gave him a number of tests and told him,"You're very intelligent.""I know" he replied,"what's the problem?"
Miss Boniface explained that she had to do her tests for Essex County Council.
Dury added,"I'm not particularly disturbed,I'm quite happy but I'd much rather be at home."
As it turned out, Dury passed three GCE O Levels later that year (in Art,English Language, and English Literature)just enough to get into Walthamstow Art College.
You could have knocked me down with a feather (to quote an Ian Dury lyric-Clevor Trevor actually)when I saw the name,Miss Boniface,on the page.
Back in 1962 I was knocked down by a car in Prince Avenue after playing football for my school team,Earls Hall.I spent quite a bit of time in hospital with a badly broken leg and had to take quite a lot of time off school in 62/3-my 11 plus year.
To cut a long story short, when I finally returned to school(not long before the exam)I was judged to be a "borderline" candidate for a Grammar School place.I had to do a battery of psychological tests etc with none other than.........Miss Boniface.
I remember her as being a fat,matronly sort of woman,with rather a strange sort of accent(Scottish ?)who smelled of peppermints.
Her parting shot to me was.."I think you'll be much happier at Secondary Modern School,Philip."
I've never forgotten her name,or that insensitive remark.

Amazing coincidence - she must have served the whole of Essex, so to speak. Talking of your secondary modern, did you know that in the 'pop novel,' FM247: This Is Radio Binfield!,' Eastwood is referred to as 'Beastwood'? I used to have to run the gamut of those guys on the way back from Westcliff. What bare knuckle boxing bouts we used to have (wistful sigh) ...

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Amazing coincidence - she must have served the whole of Essex, so to speak. Talking of your secondary modern, did you know that in the 'pop novel,' FM247: This Is Radio Binfield!,' Eastwood is referred to as 'Beastwood'? I used to have to run the gamut of those guys on the way back from Westcliff. What bare knuckle boxing bouts we used to have (wistful sigh) ...

I was involved in some of those ahem boxing bouts myself!

 

[Rob Noxious]

I was involved in some of those ahem boxing bouts myself!

:sherlock: :)

 

[Rob Noxious]

XTC - 'Radios In Motion'

Please Phil this thread is only for where the music takes your little bro,lets get back on thread,sex pistols never mind the bollocks now thats tuneage.

Tony - I am really pleased when people share their music-related stories and I'm particularly grateful to Phil, OBL and Canvey Shrimper for doing so here. In fact, I'd like to seek their permission to broadcast their tunes/stories in the near future on a local radio station and give them psuedonyms. How about it, guys ? You'll be my first 'listeners' to have written in ! :cool:

 

[canveyshrimper]

Tony - I am really pleased when people share their music-related stories and I'm particularly grateful to Phil, OBL and Canvey Shrimper for doing so here. In fact, I'd like to seek their permission to broadcast their tunes/stories in the near future on a local radio station and give them psuedonyms. How about it, guys ? You'll be my first 'listeners' to have written in ! :cool:

Go for it mate. :)

 

[Rob Noxious]

Go for it mate. :)

Thanks, H! Don't worry, I will leave my own thoughts on the 'rubbers' out of it! ;)