Our house is a No Jello zone.
Quote from: Laura on January 16, 2009, 12:52:55 PM Our house is a No Jello zone. Because of some horrid incident??
Can anyone give me the correct spelling of a word that is used in conjunction with Bossa Nova the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim that sounds like "soldage", having to do with nostalgia? I have googled different spellings and can't find it, but I figured JMK, bk or someone else here might know. ( I know JMK has a busy day today and might not be around!)
Jobim incorporated Gilberto's syncopated sound into song after song, finding that its supple form lent itself equally to irresistible melodies and jazz improvisation.''Tom was always open to many musical ideas,'' says Nascimento, speaking from through an interpreter. Jobim wrote the music on most of the songs on Chega de Saudade, the 1959 Gilberto album that is bossa nova's ground zero (Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes was bossa's first lyricist). On the cover that Nascimento and the Jobim Trio recorded of Chega's title track, you can hear bossa's cool jazz influences, understated vocal style and playful pop openness -- plus the sound of a train in Minas Gerais. Bossa nova has become the soundtrack for lounges and cocktails, but with its plaintive tunes, it was created more for unhappy hours than happy ones.According to Ed Morales' book The Latin Beat, ''An untranslatable Portuguese word roughly meaning melancholic nostalgia, or a longing for homeland, saudade is key in the bossa nova aesthetic.'' Saudade is the Brazilian blues, Daniel Jobim says.
S. Holden is using the word in his interview and I'd like to spell it correctly, at least. Thanks, Sing!
Initially, thing are OK for the M-I-L. She's still in the hospital, but is doing PT, and the F-I-L is also coping better. This has been a big wake-up call for all of us and a good opportunity for my DH to spend some QT with the P's.
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I think she may be going home today! I'm looking at "lift chairs" now...I think something like that would be very helpful.
DR Laura, thanks for posting the orange kitten video. When I had everyone over for Christmas brunch, my mom complained about my not having a tree up. "I had 6 cats and still put up a tree". (Never mind the fact that our house is so small there really isn't a place to put one...) Now I can just say: "See"? Imagine this same thing with a 16 pound cat!
Jell-o!Jell-o, everybody!Jell-o!Jell-o is the shampoo that softens your hair!Wait--that's not right...