--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> Yeah! Hey Unc, I didn't know what it was today, but *you* have 
> been *the* *mad* *poet*, and I LOVE that shit! 

I kinda like it, too. :-) Obviously, it pisses others off
and brings out their agressive, threatened sides. Go figure.
I think it's something associated with being in the cusp of
a big birthday; things have been fired up for me for the
last day or so, and the heat seems to keep increasing as
I approach the Big 6-0. 

> I'm fired up, and inspired- 
> I've put some champagne on ice, and when my beloved returns home  
> in awhile, I will pop that cork, and we'll toast each other in the 
> sinking golden California light. Right on brother! Have a great 
> weekend

You, too. I can think of no more holy or enlightened thing
to do than share some champagne with the one you love and
gaze at a beautiful sunset. Bruce Cockburn (my favorite
songwriter/wordsmith) wrote a song about that once. His
commentary on how the song came to him, followed by one
of the verses:

BC: But the song actually came from, out of a conversation 
with [fellow Canadian singer/songwriter] Sam Phillips, one 
point we were walking along, and it might even have been 
in Seattle and um, I was carrying this bag of stuff that 
I always carry around, this knapsack with whatever, you 
know, notebook, flashlight, toilet paper... 

JF/MW: ...the essentials.. 

BC: ...rope, Power Bars, all that stuff [laughing] and uh, 
we were walking up some hill somewhere and she is going: 
What do you carry in that thing anyway? And I said: Oh, 
it's everything I need for the Apocalypse! And, and, Sam 
just stopped and looked at me and said: What do you need 
for the Apocalypse besides champagne and a couple of 
glasses? And I [thought] man, that's a song you know, 
there's a song in there for sure! It took me a few years 
to figure out what it was but that's what really triggered 
the sentiment in Last Night of the World. 


I've seen the flame of hope among the hopeless
And that was truly the biggest heartbreak of all
That was the straw that broke me open

If this were the last night of the world
What would I do?
What would I do that was different
Unless it was champagne with you? 







------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 
Ever feel sad or cry for no reason at all? Depression. Narrated by Kate Hudson.
http://us.click.yahoo.com/YbEMxA/ubOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 

To subscribe, send a message to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Or go to: 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/
and click 'Join This Group!' 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 




Reply via email to