Topic: TODAY IS THE DAY (Read 72877 times)

Ann · « **Reply #120 on:** January 04, 2005, 12:34:07 PM »

Jane, I'm so very sorry to hear of your loss. Echo could not have asked for a kinder or more loving home, all dogs should be so lucky. I remember well the pain of having to put down a beloved dog, and I wish you and Keith and the boys the best of vibes and comfort during this time.

*MANY HUGS*

Ann · « **Reply #121 on:** January 04, 2005, 12:35:37 PM »

Hmm...I should read all posts before posting...I inadvertently copied MBarnum

elmore3003 · « **Reply #122 on:** January 04, 2005, 12:47:28 PM »

Quote from: Ann on January 04, 2005, 12:35:37 PM

Hmm...I should read all posts before posting...I inadvertently copied MBarnum

If you don't tell him, I won't.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #123 on:** January 04, 2005, 01:00:59 PM »

DR Jane, I'm so sorry. Echo was very fortunate to have you and Keith all these years, and you were fortunate to have her. My thoughts are with you.

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #124 on:** January 04, 2005, 01:04:34 PM »

Jane and Keith,

Echo gave us so much pleasure. Thank you for bringing her into our lives.

Stuart · « **Reply #125 on:** January 04, 2005, 01:11:25 PM »

DR Jane.....my heartfelt condolences to you and yours.

Panni · « **Reply #126 on:** January 04, 2005, 01:16:13 PM »

MAC WATCH 2005 - UPDATE FROM BK

First of all, bk sends his heartfelt condolences to DR Jane and DH Keith.

He is now on his way in his automobile to get a wireless device for his Mac.
Unfortunately, everything has not gone as smoothly as hoped for.
It seems the CD-Rom on the Dell is corrupt. Yes, corrupt! Has this computer got no shame? Because of this shameless corruption, Mr. Mac Man cannot link computers and has to back up the entire computer on Zip discs - which is, of course, time consuming. Once this is done, things should go faster. But it looks like an all-day affair.
Stay tuned for further Mac Watch 2005 updates at this very location.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #127 on:** January 04, 2005, 01:23:22 PM »

Jane, so sorry for your loss...La jolie Femme & I offer you this bit of consolation from the great poet Robinson Jeffers:

THE HOUSE-DOG'S GRAVE
(Haig, an English Bulldog)

I've changed my ways a little; I cannot now
Run with you in the evenings along the shore,
Except in a kind of dream; and you, if you dream a moment,
You see me there.

So leave awhile the paw-marks on the front door
Where I used to scratch to go out or in,
And you'd soon open; leave on the kitchen floor
The marks of my drinking-pan.

I cannot lie by your fire as I used to do
On the warm stone,
Nor at the foot of your bed; no, all the nights through
I lie alone.

But your kind thought has laid me less than six feet
Outside your window where firelight so often plays,
And where you sit to read - and I fear often grieving for me -
Every night your lamplight lies on my place.

You man and woman, live so long it is hard
To think of you ever dying.
A little dog would get tired living so long.
I hope that when you are lying

Under the grround like me your lives will appear
As good and joyful as mine.
No, dears, that's too much hope; you are not so well cared for
As I have been,

And never have known the passionate undivided
Fidelities that I knew.
Your minds are perhaps too active, too many-sided...
But to me you were true.

You were never masters, but friends. I was your friend.
I loved you well, and was loved. Deep love endures
To the end and far past the end. If this is my end,
I am not lonely. I am not afraid. I am still yours.

Robinson Jeffers

Jane · « **Reply #128 on:** January 04, 2005, 01:26:43 PM »

Vixmom, JMK, DtM, & elmore, Derbrucer, Panni, Ginny, Ben, Jennifer, JRand,Jay, Tomovoz, MBarnum, Ann, DRLaura, DiT, Stuart & Bruce thank you and I know.

I treasure every personal message you sent, I’m just not up to responding to them all, especially after reading the Rainbow Bridge and looking at the sweet Angle dog.

Jane · « **Reply #129 on:** January 04, 2005, 01:31:58 PM »

Thank you Charles Pogue and La jolie Femme. At the moment we are picking up the rugs we had all over the house for Echo and boxing leftover food and treats to give to the needy. Your poem makes me glad we saved a few special toys and other keepsakes.

In the spring I will take Echo’s ashes to our favorite hiking place on Mt Ashland.

Panni · « **Reply #130 on:** January 04, 2005, 01:51:33 PM »

The only downside of our animal companions is that they leave us far too soon. On the other hand, they are with us forever. My dogs from my childhood still come to me in dreams, as do all the others throughout the years.
I sometimes give them guest appearances in screenplays. My last dog, Katie, a sweet white Lab I had for 13 years, is featured in the piece I'm writing now.

Jane · « **Reply #131 on:** January 04, 2005, 01:54:02 PM »

Early this morning Keith wrote this poem for Echo.

Echo

My hands are useless now
My words
Spent shells;
There is recognition
Where there is pending loss

Under the shade of the large, black oak
We sat in the charade
Of a timeless embrace
I cradled you from harm;
Now innocence is gone
A small leaf
Lost in a tempest

Like an ancient morality play
With passions rutted well
I witnessed your decline
My terror;
Silent, watchful, searching, always searching
I was monster, marionette, father
Always father

So what is the point, I ask
The point of the sharp edges and hammer blows?
The alphabet of this world is a riddle
Made sensible, at best, in the small moments

Yesterday, without warning
A tongue-bath rained upon my cheek
And a head sought a familiar hand;
To look at you
There is more, much more
Than pet and personality

This morning, in the early hours
I bend my face into the rivers of your breathing
And whisper emotion and comfort;
Unexpectedly, from behind tired iris and cornea
Diamonds split from your rule
And cut my sight
To the core of speech

Now, my gaze reveals only trees;
You have escaped
The ravager of flesh and bone
To join the companions
Of your wild, weightless youth
In the secret wards of a mountain meadow.

Run free.

January 4th, 2005

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #132 on:** January 04, 2005, 01:54:38 PM »

Good Aftertnoon!

So much to do! So much to do!

I did watch all of FLOWER DRUM SONG.

"I have a wet back."

-Could they get away with a line like that nowadays?

I then proceeded to get a few hours of sleep. I woke up at 11:00, and finished cleaning up in the kitchen - putting away all the dry dishes, silverware, pots and pans. Then I remembered I had to bring some stuff up this week - working on some projects - so I had to gather all that stuff together. Packed the car. Filled the gas tank - only $1.64 per gallon in Richmond! Made a quick run to the grocery store for some brunch, then started the drive back up to Fairfax.

It was 73 degrees when I left Richmond! -I made the drive up in shorts and a t-shirt with the windows down. Good driving weather. Lots of cars on the road this afternoon - the usual idiots, but not accidents or close calls.

I've been taking care of things around my parents' house for the past hour or so, as well as checking on e-mail and phone messages... So...

-I still have to read the rest of today's posts... If not now, then after the show.

Just sayin' HI!

So much to do! So much to do!

<breathe>

Whew!

Laters...

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #133 on:** January 04, 2005, 01:58:10 PM »

DR Jane - My deepest condolences and comforting hugs.

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #134 on:** January 04, 2005, 02:11:41 PM »

I had a meeting this morning, then treated myself to a leisurely lunch at the Coffee Mill, one of DR Panni's favorite haunts in Toronto. I did some work between courses, and also eavesdropped on the conversation at the next table. Three gents were talking books and films. And though one of them was so well known that his picture adorned the restaurant wall, the conversation was not nearly as enjoyable or informed (I was tempted to make a few corrections) as the ones here at HHW, certainly the most excellent site on the Internet.

Jane · « **Reply #135 on:** January 04, 2005, 02:12:57 PM »

Thank you Jose.

Panni · « **Reply #136 on:** January 04, 2005, 02:36:03 PM »

So who was the gent, Dan in TO. George Jonas?

JMK · « **Reply #137 on:** January 04, 2005, 02:36:41 PM »

Jane, not only is Keith a gentleman and a scholar, he is one hell of a poet, too. That is a beautiful piece of writing.

Panni · « **Reply #138 on:** January 04, 2005, 02:39:58 PM »

Just read that tonight on the Hallmark Channel, they're showing a 1989 Perry Mason TV-movie with Raymond Burr, of course, and guests Jerry Orbach and Debbie Reynolds in The Case of the Musical Murder. Sounds like it might be fun.

Michael · « **Reply #139 on:** January 04, 2005, 02:51:15 PM »

DR: So sorry to hear about Echo. I know from where you come. it is never easy to say goodbye to a pet.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #140 on:** January 04, 2005, 03:06:52 PM »

The top ten CD's I play the most...this probably shifts and changes now and again...But here our the albums I come up with the most (in no particular order):

1)PROVIDENCE, the score from the movie by the great, great Miklos Rozsa, my favourite composer.

2)HAINES HIS WAYS...I find Guy Haines a much better singer than that pale imitator Guy Haynes

3) GORDON MACRAE, THE BEST OF THE CAPITAL YEARS...pity, Gordo didn't do more albums like this...a fine I'll Remember April and Indian Summer.

4) JOHNNY HARTMAN, THE VOICE THAT IS!...This album probably gets played more than any other I have...It may be my favourite. Nothing better for a summer sunset, sitting on the balcony with a glass of good wine, gazing out over the canyon.

5)VIC DAMONE: THE COMPLETE COLUMBIA SINGLES COLLECTION...But just disc 2, starting about cut 3...there are few things smoother than this going down...Sinatra may be right when he said Damone had "the best pipes in the business."

6)JUDY KAYE: WHERE, OH WHERE, RARE SONGS OF THE THEATRE. Just a piano and Kaye's pure voice and precise diction. Windflowers is maybe one of my favourite top five songs of all time. It breaks my heart as does I Wish It So.

7)BROOK BENTON: FORTY GREATEST HITS...I have lot of Brook Benton, but this is the most comprehensive, with all his major hits including those two great ones with Dinah Washington, Rockin' Good Way and Baby, You've Got What It Takes...It's got some undistinguished crap on it too, but also some nice surprises like A House Is Not A Home and A Walk On The Wild Side.

BUDDY CLARK: FOR YOU ALONE...One of my favourite baritones. Great versions of Haunted Heart and Rhode Island Is Famous For You.

9) GLENN YARBOROUGH: THE LONELY THINGS...All Rod McKuen Songs. Love Yarborough's distinctive voice and this album, first bought as a record when I was in college, still evokes for me those youthful days of Byronic passion and possibilities; wild yearning and tortured angst.

10) JOHNNY HARTMAN: THIS ONE'S FOR TEDI...if only to hear his brilliantly, heartbreaking rendition of another of my top five songs, THE BALLAD OF THE SAD YOUNG MEN. His rendition made it one of my top five.

There are other albums and artists who gets lots of play here that didn't make the cut. Early Sinatra, Dick Haymes, Leslie "Hutch" Hutchinson, Helen Merrill, Rosemary Clooney, and Bobby Short. More Damone, Benton, Hartman. Rozsa violin concertos and scores, Goldsmith's score to Legend and Steiner, Korngold, Vaugh Williams, Ravel, etc. Like Elmore, my most frequently played musical is probably Boys From Syracuse.

The most frequently played stuff are actually probably compilation tapes I've made of show tunes (movies and stage), standards, rock and roll, and cowboy music.

Panni · « **Reply #141 on:** January 04, 2005, 03:11:51 PM »

***GOOD TOOTH VIBES TO DR JANE***

...who e-mailed the following (and gave me permission to post it)...

"Of all things a piece of my tooth broke off last night close to the gum line, so I have an appointment at 3:00 today with the dentist."

Oy! At least it will take her mind off things. $:-\$

S. Woody White · « **Reply #142 on:** January 04, 2005, 03:12:15 PM »

TOD:
(The "He'll Excoriate Me If I Don't Include His Stuff" stuff...)
Liz Calloway - The Beat Goes On
Brent Barrett - The Kander and Ebb Album
Rebecca Luker - Anything Goes
Randy Graff - Sings Cy Coleman

(OCRs)
A New Brain
Floyd Collins
Wicked

(Other stuff)
Mason Williams - Music
Mike Oldfield - Amarok
Stephen Schwartz - Reluctant Pilgrim
Aaron Copland - Third Symphony

So that's eleven. Sue me.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #143 on:** January 04, 2005, 03:20:44 PM »

Quote from: Jennifer on January 04, 2005, 09:28:01 AM

Btw, did anyone see the Dynasty show the other night? I started watching and thought it was hilarious.

I think they intended it to be tongue in cheek. Too bad they couldn't have done more with it.

ozderek · « **Reply #144 on:** January 04, 2005, 03:26:15 PM »

Hello all. Ozderek here. My first posting ..... (be afraid, be VERY afraid..!) :

my 10 most played (soundtrack) cd's .... (in no particular order)

- Ragtime
- Nine
- Kristina Fran Duvemala
- Parade
- Carousel
- Wicked
- Side Show
- Chang and Eng
- Falsettos
- Angels In America (The HBO soundtrack - "beautiful"!!)

I'm at work at the moment so probably won't get on to post again today. Watch out though... I'll be back!!

Cheers to you all / Derek

Panni · « **Reply #145 on:** January 04, 2005, 03:30:05 PM »

A few more CD's I've been playing frequently of late...

ELLA AND LOUIE
GATE OF DREAMS, Claus Ogerman
CLOUDS, Joni Mitchell
A BROADWAY LOVE STORY, Christiane Noll

S. Woody White · « **Reply #146 on:** January 04, 2005, 03:32:57 PM »

Quote from: JMK on January 04, 2005, 10:36:16 AM

[...("How many Arquettes are there?" Betsy asked in disbelief last night)...

At least twelve.

Ann · « **Reply #147 on:** January 04, 2005, 03:33:59 PM »

Welcome, DR ozderek! How wonderful to have another Aussie in our midst.

Panni · « **Reply #148 on:** January 04, 2005, 03:34:11 PM »

G'day, Ozderek! Welcome!

Panni · « **Reply #149 on:** January 04, 2005, 03:37:51 PM »

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