What do people think of her? I think ACTOR is a remarkable album. Her gorgeous, motherly voice is immediately appealing, and it just gets better with subsequent listens. The instrumentation is rich and varied, but is never cluttered or excessive, and even on the distortion-heavy tracks, the melody rings clear as a bell (sorry). 'LAUGHING WITH A MOUTH OF BLOOD' is my current favourite (and a great title).

Not too familiar with MARRY ME, but it sounds good - but not as good - on first listen.

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I'm not mad on this one. I think it's technically competent, but it's a very prosaic image. I wanted it to be more... expressive, but I lost confidence.

I do like the nose, though.

full res here: http://retinend.deviantart.com/art/Anna-P-2009-124700600

An abstract piece - 30x30inches




click for a higher resolution: http://retinend.deviantart.com/art/The-Spark-of-Life-2009-122285392

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I think it would be a good name for an album.

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I thought this was interesting. It really is like not being able to understand your own language.

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this one is just shite/ probably the equivalent of shitty french accents which pass for convincing in British sitcoms

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this is shit as well. interesting how they're cracking up, thinking it's very authentic.

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hmm... better but still not much good to my ears.

conclusion? either the phonetics of the english language are harder to approximate than the more distinct european accents... or they're not more distinct at all, and what sounds convincing to you would sound unrecognisable to johnny foreigner.

'Still Life with Ukulele'. Oil on Canvas, 40x30cm




'Self Portrait Aged 17'. Oil on Canvas, 40x30cm

For this one I painted straight from the tube to the canvas.

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Sorry for hogging space on this board for my own selfish ends, but this has been bugging me:

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What is the time signature of repetitve, 'BA da da da da da da da BA da da da da da da da', piano part? I think songs which have this kind of musical spine are always good, and I want to have the right term to describe them.

Posts artists you like, who belong to a genre you know fuck all about. The layman's guide to music.

Jazz - Miles Davis

Even though I'm an ignoramus when it comes to this genre, I genuinely like Miles Davis, though I've never had the balls to buy another real jazz album. I love how you can just put it on and let it melt into your brain, it transforms your mood - especially if you don't fully focus on listening, and just go about your daily routine. It makes me feel immediately meditative and relaxed. Great stuff. I like 'In a Silent Way', but 'Kind of Blue' just beats it.

Classical - Johannes Brahms

I know the basics of classical music from having a Music GCSE, but it's only very recently that I've tried to listen to them without it being to pick up the characteristics I could recognise in an exam. I'm still very ignorant about classical music, and I only own the big names - Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Sibelius etc, but my favourite, based on first impression more than anything, is Brahms - I always prefered the big, romantic sound to the piddly little mozart tunes, and the strings really sound on edge, just on the right side of grating, in his tunes. Like with Davis, I can just put it on in the background and let it sink in as I clean up or write this post. It's a lot different to trying to digest a pop/rock album; you can just appreciate the mood and, every now and again, stop to really listen closely.

QuoteI didn't want to disclose my real user name for this, so am writing this as a guest.

My son is 19 and though I have not seen him nude since he was a boy, I had seen him by accident about 6 months ago, when he had somehow ended up falling asleep naked in his room after a shower with his door wide open. He was on his back and erect in his sleep. I noticed his hard-on had a severe curve upward. It was bent very sharply like curling up bacwards. I had never seen anything like that on any man. It is about 7" long approximately and is bent more toward the tip in a definite shape of a letter "j", or a hook to attempt to describe it to you.

I was so shocked that I panicked, and woke him up right then and there. Thinking back, it was not very tactful, but I could not wait to try to get at what appeared to be a real problem. It all made sense, how he would not shower at gym class, and didn't date, despite being a very well built and handsome boy into sports always. I had always wondered if might be gay, though he denied it always. He awoke surprised and shy that he was naked, but I moved his hands from his erect penis, and asked him what was the matter.

We sat and talked after locking his bedroom door. He told me it had started when he was like 12 and got worse, and as I examined it more closely and attempted to straighten it out, it would straighten only very slightly before it would hurt him to force it any further. It being erect, it was very hard and stiff. We allowed it to subside by him putting on his robe a while, and was a considerably more normal in the soft state, yet still tending to be curved upwars slightly.

I could straighten it easily while soft, but it would bend back up like rubber. As he became erect again it curled up before my eyes into the "j" hook shape.

Now the doctors all said he is find and it's normal as far as being a medical issue. They said they could operate to attempt to fix it, but the cost was out of my reach. I am a single parent. So we took trying our own methods, in which I would tel him to strok it straight whenever he thought about it, and while masturbating to attempt to work the curle out a little more each time.

I had taken a little massage therapy classes in the past, and I even work on it for and hour or so, 3 days of every week in the evening. It was embarassing for us both in the beginning and I know it still it is, and even more so that he ejaculates everytime during the massage :oops: , but it turned out to make massaging it in the post-ejaculation, semi-soft, state really effective because then I can massage it and straighten it. It curls back in my hands and I massage it straight it over and over again, until he becomes erect again and semi hard again after ejaculation, three times in a row, usually over a span of an hour to an hour and a half.

I has given good results, as I would say he is 50 percent improved. I continue to treat him 3 days a week.

I am here to ask anyone with information on this condition for advice and/or tips technics on how we can further correct this.

Thank you all in advance.

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Best troll I've ever read.

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I have just started a group. Please join this group or the group will be deleted! I need at least 2 more members.

Thanks.

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I really like oils. You have such freedom when compared to acrylics. So much more subtlety is achievable, too.

I know there are many British Chris Morris fans here, so I thought I'd share these with you. If you're an American edit: or Dutch who doesn't know who he is, please don't tell me.

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Quote from: meYou might not be aware, but Chris Morris had a long career in radio before he became the most brilliant and respected comic of the 90's. These shows have been available at cookdandbombd.co.uk for years, but in an unedited form. For the past 5 months, on and off, I've been editing the 70 or so shows in circulation: 4 (+ a compilation) of Radio Bristol 'No Known Cure' shows, 21 Greater London Radio shows and all 24 Radio 1 Music shows. I also have edits of all 3 series' of Blue Jam, made by a good chap called Lipsink, although the music is very good and I encourage you to download the full versions at cookdandbombd.

So here you go. It's at storagevault so you might have to register. Life isn't fair.

http://www.storagevault.toucan.com/349893-54134099 GLR, Radio 1 and NKC shows (edited)
http://www.storagevault.toucan.com/9001905-346882575 Blue Jam Series 1-3 (edited)

You might be nonplussed at the fact that the folders appear to be missing shows, for example GLR shows 11, 12 and 18 are missing. This is because they exist, but are not in circulation yet. They might not ever be released, but in case they are, I've left these spots available. Rename them if it irks you.

Tell me what you think.

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I find his work an absolute minefield. I got into his work through his most accessible and well known albums; Hot Rats, Joe's Garage and Overnite Sensation, which I really liked, and so a few months ago I downloaded about 4gb worth of his albums. I've tried to listen to them all, properly, at least once each, but, for the vast majority of his output, listening to an album of his is an interminable, unpleasant and intensely boring experience.

'Hot Rats' is pretty much the perfect example of an instrumental rock album, in my ears, but this level of discipline and thoughtfulness seems to be a rare thing in his work. The amount of in-joking and infuriatingly overlong guitar solos makes me believe that he had little or no regard for his fans. I have no problem with his style of singing, but the way he insists on adopting that insincere, sardonic voice strikes me as kind of limiting. For example, when Neil Young includes solos of a similar lengthiness, it feels like an extension of the mood and emotion of the song, and they're usually as emotive and memorable as his lyrics and vocals, but Zappa's, because they're not an expression of any emotion or sincerity, feels technical and arbitrary. I have no idea why he fills so many of his albums with that glib doo-wop style of song, either. If it's irony, the joke wears thin pretty fast.

I'd like to hear what I'm overlooking and why he is a genius, though. My reactionary opinion is that, if he were more fastidious, and had released one album a year instead of 9, he could have done his immense talents justice, rather than spreading them thinly on a bed of chaff. Just my opinion, though. Please tell me why I'm wrong.

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^sister titty slap 0:22

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My last ukulele video (Brown Eyed Girl) was generously received last time. Here's the sequel: Todd Rundgren's 'I Saw the Light' (with harmonies, overdubs and a ukulele solo).

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a bit off-sync in parts

my voice goes weird on "only you" and "never knew"

Finished a 6 lesson Life Drawing class.

I'm still stuck in 2006 (or whenever): Flash 8. Change scares me and the Adobe 'look' is a little mac-like for me. The logo's rubbish, too.

just wonderin'