Ardith Hinton wrote to James Bradley, "Digging Deeper?AndDeeper"
on 07-03-05
13:42

 AH>  what is the theme??

 AH>                            [...]

 JB>  Mine: Feces, and compost seems to cover it!   maniac>


 AH>           Another gardener told me he'd learned a lot from
 AH> hard physical work. And one of the things I find very
 AH> interesting & rewarding about making compost is how nature
 AH> can turn so much stuff humans reject into "black gold"....
 AH> :-))

Pretty amazing isn't it? One year composting human waste, allows it to
fertilize other than root crops for us to eat! Otherwise, three or
five years and you can grow your carrots in it! Imagine??? 


 JB>  I just know my family worries about me. My song writing

 JB>  partners' wife was trying to set me up with friends,
 AH>      |partner's (unless two or more males are sharing one wife!)

 JB>  until I sent that little gem over the facsimile. ()-8*


 AH>           Hmm.  There's a saying that "art reflects
life"... and as a

Don't go there g-friend! 

 AH> musician you've probably had some experience with the seamy

I only met one troupe of rock musicians that made me pucker my butt,
 and watch the neighbourhood kids for a count. Accurately, they are
 all a seedy bunch, but they usually get so *much* that they don't
 have to troll deep either. 

Even the not-so-good looking MARGINAL players that I worked with did
 OK too! Imagine THAT!?!

 AH> side.  Music often involves pushing limits, including the
 AH> limits of social acceptability.  Your lyrics may be
 AH> disturbing.  But the stuff I hear on the radio isn't all
 AH> sweetness & light, and the ditty about Ms. Borden... like
 AH> most nursery rhymes... isn't so amusing when the historical
 AH> background is taken into consideration.  Although I didn't

"London Bridge is falling down. My fair lady [?]" 

 AH> go into detail with my students, I was pushing limits
 AH> there.  I've been told I make people think.  I certainly
 AH> tried to do that in the classroom, and I would imagine you
 AH> get some enjoyment from shaking up your family & friends
 AH> too.  ;-)


It breaks up the day! 

 JB>  like I say, my dark waters are a cold, ugly place.

 AH>           I realized they might be.  Some people need to
 AH> talk over such things with others.  Maybe you don't, if you
 AH> can work through them via music....  :-)

The songwriting partner is equally perverse with subject matter. But I
do believe I trumped him with this little didy. The seed to the story
started with a friend who had horrible epilepsy, and as a complication of
an attack, she slammed her head on a table. This was her mortal wound,
but once she hit the floor, some *idiot* says, "She just needs another
beer!" and starts pouring his into her mouth. Can you IMAGINE?

There was another story, but this idiot was just too crude (Not
dangerous from my estimation). He was pathetically caught is a
stupid quote, at such a tragic time, that it exceeded the
insensitive. He has never lived it down either.

Mom's seen my early writing, and I'll say it sounded more like Poe
than Humpty Dumpty. She was given my explanations, and she *knows* how
inane my thought process is. Disturbing to be sure, but usually an
attempt to understand ugly/stupid people. (I'm not saying "ugly" in
appearance either!)

 JB>  I thought this trait would make me a good murder
 JB>  investigator


 AH>           I thought I'd like to be a nurse until I saw my father after
 AH> surgery ... and noticed a drainage tube running into a bucket under
 AH> the bed!  I can do it now if the situation requires it.
 AH> But in general I make a better teacher & you may be doing
 AH> more good as a musician than you would have as a cop....  :-
 AH> )

My sis worked in Juvenile Recidivism Lockup. I *always* maintained I
couldn't do her job. When pressed why, "I'd draw blood from one of the
idiots. I am not built with the patience."

A cop, I know I couldn't do for the same reason. I know I don't have
patience, at once, not enough sternness. We had Four RCMPs marry into
my cousin's family, so I admired and respected authority early, but
the BS they have to tollerate...

 JB>  Sure a person can stomach La Trivi??? (Do you know the
 JB>  one I mean?) But the build-up, and the denouement can
 JB>  be a long and winding road.


 AH>           La Traviata.  I note with interest, however, that

THAT's why I couldn't finish the name. I started it wrong!

 AH> you've spelled the title as if you were thinking of trivia.

And Bethovan/Bach/... was considered disposable material in their
 lifetimes! 

 AH>  In the majority of musical plays the plot is little more
 AH> than a bridge between songs... and while it may be complex
 AH> it's usually not very profound.  I can get the gist of what
 AH> people are talking or singing about in Italian when I have
 AH> the libretto in front of me.  But do I care enough to sit
 AH> through three hours of it??  In most cases I don't....  :-)

Unless you pack a lunch, and throw it at the figures if they flub a
line? It was MUCH more exciting a performance, with more crowd
interaction in the days. <-;

I spent the night at the songwriting partner's yesterday. I realized,
Italian is likely my #3 language on the word/phrase level. I doubt I
could complete a sentence without being slapped on the face, which
makes me more fluent there than in French. O-8*

 JB>  Bugs Bunny will be the most recognized Opera singer,
 JB>  because Disney chopped it into digestible pieces


 AH>           Yes, I've noticed a lot of good music in those old cartoons....
 AH>  :-)

Music in cartoons, HAS to be Spiderman! Think of the time signature of
the title song alone. Walt, just ripped the page off a manuscript and
changed the words.

 AH> ["... but you cannot make him think."]
 JB>  I suspect that too was written before these PC days.


 AH>           Uh-huh.  Late 1960's, early 1970's.  And I was quoting....  :-)



 JB>   "You must say 'them!'"


 AH>           Nowadays I do.  Miss Langwidge may be rolling in her grave, but
 AH> I am trying to communicate with folks who would probably run
 AH> away screaming if they thought I sounded too pedantic.  One
 AH> must always consider one's audience.  ;-)


"Pendantic"... "Audience"... 

Shoot, I just spent a week or three on a usenet newsgroup... 

I am SOOOO sitting on my hands here. 


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