I still like Donny, too. I like Marie and all the others as well. I lived in Utah, close to where the Osmonds did, when I was in Junior High. My parents took us to see them once, and mom made me this cute little purple hot-pants outfit to wear for the occasion. I remember going into Ogden and picking out the pattern and the material. We were all so excited. I'll never forget it.

Okay, I have just one more (the guys started it SS) and I refrained yesterday because his name can never be mentioned on this thread so I won't say it....but two songs he did live at Red Rocks "All Along the Watch Tower" and "Jimmy Thing" - Oh my God!! Goosebumps, each and every time.

A piece of music done with such passion can make my heart soar. Where hearing it makes you feel like you've died and gone to heaven. That's what music does to me, or a big sincere smile, or a voice that resonates with love, conviction and passion. I don't know, it's not about lust, it's about for a moment being taken outside of yourself and really feeling that gratitude or appreciation.

There was a young female artist down in Savannah (big art school there) that had painted the most beautiful pictures you can ever imagine. When you looked at her paintings you really thought you were there, in the most incredible places that she painted, entirely from her imagination. I don't know how she did it, anymore than I know how musicians, or writers or actors do it. It's got to come through them from somewhere else.

Because I think if it came from them, it could just have easily come from any of us. I know that I love music more than the average guy, but I can't play the piano without sheet music and a great deal of labor and practice. And then even still, it's not the same as what they can do.

99 on Get Smart, the more I watch the old episodes the more I love her character. Smart, strong and willing to overlook how incompetant her man is LOL

David Cassidy was a crush for me way back when. Funny story, my sister a few years ago saw Donny in "Joseph and the technicolor Dreamcoat" and she said all the middle aged women were screaming "Donny"!

Faith, it wasn't me, I swear. It was TT.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!

My female role model when I was a kid was Madam Curie. I was big into ready biographies and autobiographies. Too bad I am lousy at math! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

One of the largest impact basins on Venus was named after Marie Curie. [edit: looks like it wasn't accepted. There is a "Marie" crater, but it's not the one I remembered. Venus craters were given female first names only.]

Also, the "engineering model" of the Sojourner rover that flew 2 Mars in 1997 was(is) named Marie Curie. We were going 2 fly it on the 2001 lander, but that mission was canceled and subsequently "reborn" as the Phoenix lander with a different payload. Phoenix will reach Mars next spring.

-ol' 2long

very cool

I've got the Joseph/Donny thing on DVD. It's great for a singalong. The twins LOVE it.

My daughter was heavily in2 New Kids on the Block.

I can't remember anything they did that didn't make me want 2 york my lunch.

And now that she's 28, neither can my daughter!

-ol' 2long

Marie Curie was the first woman whose work won Nobel prizes in 2 different fields.

Her daughter, an author, died recently.

More about Marie Curie's daughter

Too cold to be without the campfire.

Hey 2long, I understand there will be a pretty unique relationship for Mars and the Moon (a full Yule Moon) on the 23rd and 24th. They are going to hang out together all night.

And Mars will be only 55 million miles from earth on the 24th.

New addition to phrases only a nerd could use:

"only 55 million miles"

GC

JosieJones - if you read this, did you get my music recommendation from Bob Pure's "Zeppelin Rules" thread?

Yes, I did. I listened to the samples on Amazon and ordered it. It has a song on there about my town...of course I got it! I wonder why nobody around here has it. wierd. Oh and there is a song on there about the town my DD is living in with her Dad. I haven't been able to listen to the whole songs yet, though. So am really looking forward to getting it.

Oh, and that reminds me I have to go find Krusht about that Plant/Kraus CD, I read he got it as a gift.

I can't stand the first song on that CD for even three seconds but oh my gosh the second one gives me chills. Alison has got to have the most beautifully angelic voice in the world.

And then that one called "Through the Night, Through the Morning' Wow. It would dig down, find and purge the tears of the most driest eyes.

The last song, "The Long Journey Home" really made me cry because it is a funeral song, and it is the only Blue Grass song on the CD, but man oh man, is it pretty.

Thanks Gray, for the suggestion of the Great Lakes State CD. And thanks for bumping this thread Chrisner, it was almost like seeing a lanturn in the window through the snow at the end of long & lonely journey... Well no, that's kind of melodramatic and stretching it <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />, but the campfire feels good, still.

I lived In Ypsi for a year while I was in grad school (Ann Arbor the rest of the time), so I feel included. Golly, that was a thousand years ago already.

I keep winding "Romulus" (track 9) back to the start.

GC

I didn't know you went to U of M. My brother got his doctorate there, and my niece her Masters. Big school. My brother flies in as a guest teacher every once in awhile.

Where I went to school, we actually had teachers in the classroom with us. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Ypsi, gross!

I'm looking forward to getting the CD. I want my DD to give one to her Dad as a gift. He'll be tickled pink.

Ypsi, gross!

I lived downtown. They'd just shut down some mental hospital and the streets were full of crackheads and the mentally ill. Really though it wasn't so bad. Fun in a way. Things were improving in the SE in those days... though I remember thinking Inkster was awful nasty.

Kind of like the boards recently...

Okay, sorry. That was harsh.

I just got through my company's annual antique car show. Got 2 load up my laptop with some unfinished work and get the Model A put 2 bed before it rains, or gets dark.

=ol' 2long

I love campfires, especially this one.
Thanks to all of you for helping make 2007 a good year for me.

Greetings to everyone, I hope you have a good 2008. May your hearts be healed of all that ails them. May your minds be clear and calm, and your lives be enriched.

SS

PS - And thanks 2long for the burma shave jingle - I have always loved them.

Pass the marshmallows.