Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to enthalpize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in enthalpy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, enthalpy.' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to enthalpize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in enthalpy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, enthalpy.' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
I like that Art. Energy is better given than received. Do unto others as you would undo yourself. In other words give it time before you whine. Or resonance not dissonance. Maybe do don't doodoo.
I'm full of them – or it.
Freddy's Felicity "Only ascertain as a cat box survivor"
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to enthalpize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in enthalpy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, enthalpy.' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm not sure if Neil would appreciate the misquote or not.
Chris
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Cloudbait Observatory https://www.cloudbait.com
My childhood favourit hit! Not that I was born in the time when Smetana published his work in 1875, but it is a piece I love since I heard it the first time and I still enjoy it.
I've been listening to a lot of Darryl Purpose since I first encountered him at a concert a couple of months ago.
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
I've also been listening to a lot of Passenger, a singer I had somehow overlooked until recently.
Both of these guys are first rate poets, compose great tunes, and are worth checking out if you don't already know them. I've collected all their albums.
Chris
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Cloudbait Observatory https://www.cloudbait.com
Know the quiet place within your heart and touch the rainbow of possibility; be
alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk. — Garrison Keillor
This bit of Cohen's lyrics perhaps belongs in the Politics thread...
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
rstevenson wrote:This bit of Cohen's lyrics perhaps belongs in the Politics thread...
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
And if you can completely keep it together reading this tribute- especially after this nightmare of a week- you should probably just go jump off a ledge.
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory https://www.cloudbait.com
<<"The Hut-Sut Song (a Swedish Serenade)" is a novelty song from the 1940s with nonsense lyrics. The song was written in 1941 by Leo V. Killion, Ted McMichael and Jack Owens. The first and most popular recording was by Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights.
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla, brawla too it
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla sooit
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla, brawla too it
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla sooit
Now the Rawlson is a Swedish town, the Rillerah is a stream
The brawla is the boy and girl, the Hut-Sut is their dream
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla, brawla too it
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla sooit
In a town in Sweden by a stream so clear and cool
There sat a boy just a fishin' and a dreamin' when he should have been in school
Now, he couldn't read or write a single Swedish word but happiness he found
In a little Swedish song he heard here's the way he made it sound
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah...
Now the girl played hooky from school that day, came down to the stream
She sat down beside the little Swedish boy and they began to dream
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah...
Now the brawla is the boy and girl, the Hut-Sut is their dream
The sooit is their teacher who caught them by the stream
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah...
Now the boy and girl are back in school, shattered is their dream
The teacher planted poison oak all along the stream
It's a crazy kind of a song to belong to a boy and girl
In love with a beautiful dream
But they love to sing, swing all the live long day
Shood to soon shahoon la shoon da shoo shooga shoogan on the Rillerah
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
The popularity of the song is lampooned in a 1940s film short. In the film, The King's Men (who also performed on Fibber McGee and Molly), play young men living in a boarding house who are endlessly singing the song while getting dressed, eating dinner, playing cards, etc., until an exasperated fellow boarder finally has them removed to an insane asylum.
The lyrics of the chorus are supposed to be a garbled rendition of a Swedish folk song. The song purports to define some of the words, supposedly Swedish: "Rawlson" being a Swedish town, "rillerah" being a stream, "brawla" being the boy and girl, "hut-sut" being their dream and "sooit" being the schoolteacher. The story told in the song is that of a boy (and later a girl) who play hooky from school and spend their days fishing and dreaming by the riverbank, until their schoolteacher finds them and, to prevent the incident from happening again, "plant(s) poison oak all along the stream." The children end up back at school. To explain why the words bear no resemblance to actual Swedish language, the song notes that the boy didn't know any Swedish and that the nonsense words were simply ones the boy made up to go along with the melody he heard.
The song was also recorded by various artists such as Mel Tormé, Freddy Martin, The Four King Sisters and Spike Jones. The song is of the same genre as other novelty songs of the era, such as "Mairzy Doats" and "Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Pool)." Some contend that the song was a rewriting of an unpublished Missouri River song called "Hot Shot Dawson".
The song is featured in the movies From Here to Eternity, Ace in the Hole, and A Christmas Story. In the 1942 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short Horton Hatches the Egg, the lyrics are further garbled as "Hut sut ra, sat on a willowa, so on, so on, so forth". A snippet of the song was also sung by Rowlf the Dog in a Veterinarians' Hospital sketch on the Muppet Show.>>
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<<"The Hut-Sut Song (a Swedish Serenade)" is a novelty song from the 1940s with nonsense lyrics. The song was written in 1941 by Leo V. Killion, Ted McMichael and Jack Owens. The first and most popular recording was by Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights.
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla, brawla too it
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla sooit
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla, brawla too it
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla sooit
Now the Rawlson is a Swedish town, the Rillerah is a stream
The brawla is the boy and girl, the Hut-Sut is their dream
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla, brawla too it
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah, add a little brawla sooit
In a town in Sweden by a stream so clear and cool
There sat a boy just a fishin' and a dreamin' when he should have been in school
Now, he couldn't read or write a single Swedish word but happiness he found
In a little Swedish song he heard here's the way he made it sound
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah...
Now the girl played hooky from school that day, came down to the stream
She sat down beside the little Swedish boy and they began to dream
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah...
Now the brawla is the boy and girl, the Hut-Sut is their dream
The sooit is their teacher who caught them by the stream
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the Rillerah...
Now the boy and girl are back in school, shattered is their dream
The teacher planted poison oak all along the stream
It's a crazy kind of a song to belong to a boy and girl
In love with a beautiful dream
But they love to sing, swing all the live long day
Shood to soon shahoon la shoon da shoo shooga shoogan on the Rillerah
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
The popularity of the song is lampooned in a 1940s film short. In the film, The King's Men (who also performed on Fibber McGee and Molly), play young men living in a boarding house who are endlessly singing the song while getting dressed, eating dinner, playing cards, etc., until an exasperated fellow boarder finally has them removed to an insane asylum.
The lyrics of the chorus are supposed to be a garbled rendition of a Swedish folk song. The song purports to define some of the words, supposedly Swedish: "Rawlson" being a Swedish town, "rillerah" being a stream, "brawla" being the boy and girl, "hut-sut" being their dream and "sooit" being the schoolteacher. The story told in the song is that of a boy (and later a girl) who play hooky from school and spend their days fishing and dreaming by the riverbank, until their schoolteacher finds them and, to prevent the incident from happening again, "plant(s) poison oak all along the stream." The children end up back at school. To explain why the words bear no resemblance to actual Swedish language, the song notes that the boy didn't know any Swedish and that the nonsense words were simply ones the boy made up to go along with the melody he heard.
The song was also recorded by various artists such as Mel Tormé, Freddy Martin, The Four King Sisters and Spike Jones. The song is of the same genre as other novelty songs of the era, such as "Mairzy Doats" and "Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Pool)." Some contend that the song was a rewriting of an unpublished Missouri River song called "Hot Shot Dawson".
The song is featured in the movies From Here to Eternity, Ace in the Hole, and A Christmas Story. In the 1942 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short Horton Hatches the Egg, the lyrics are further garbled as "Hut sut ra, sat on a willowa, so on, so on, so forth". A snippet of the song was also sung by Rowlf the Dog in a Veterinarians' Hospital sketch on the Muppet Show.>>
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The tune doesn't resemble that of any Swedish folk song that I have heard of! And as for the story, no Swedish teacher would plant poison oak along streams in Sweden, because poison oak doesn't grow here! (And what I know about poison oak, I basically learned from the movie Coraline.)
Swedish Wikipedia has this to say about poison oak (called giftsumak by those who know a Swedish name for it), translated from Swedish into English via Google translate:
Poison ivy (Toxicodendron diversilobum) is a plant of the family anacardiaceae. The most famous name of the plant is the English name of Western Poison Oak. On occasions such as relative Toxicodendron radicans severe allergic contact dermatitis, poison ivy dermatitis. Poison ivy are very common in the US and Canada's west coast.
That's about as much gobbledygook as the "Swedish" Hut-Sut song! The lyrics of that song really only resemble the kind of "Swedish" that is spoken by the Swedish chef on the Muppet show!
Incredible that it's been that long. I can't be 50 years older than I was then!
DId you know -- trivia alert -- that when the Beatles were in Toronto for 2 concerts in August 1966, the head of their police security squad was named Sgt. Randall Pepper? And that on Paul's left shoulder in the album cover photo there is an OPP (Ontario Provincial Police) patch?
Jus' sayin'.
Rob
PS
My future (and still current) wife was one of the girls in the audience for one of those two concerts. She wasn't impressed because all the screaming kept her from hearing them play.
