So, I'm all alone tonight too, does anyone want to just talk?

[Longgrain]

About anything. Art. Music. Writing.

I'm all ears.

[More Than A Feeling]

1. What good books are you reading right now? n/t

[Longgrain]

3. Not reading much lately...

Was reading "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce.

I'm still trying to get back into Shakespeare, but still haven't decided what to read yet. I'm leaning toward "The Merry Wives of Windsor" but haven't decided yet.

[More Than A Feeling]

5. How come? What other things command your free time?

besides DU;-)

[Longgrain]

7. I've been known to paint from time to time.

:D

[More Than A Feeling]

11. Nice. I very much admire artistic people

I would love to cultivate such talents but so far, I haven't had the motivation or the opportunity.

[ralps]

2. Hi there Longgrain. Who are you listening to this evening?

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :shrug:

[Longgrain]

4. Bob Dylan (natch)

Planet Waves right now to be specific...

You?

[ralps]

14. Lately I've been listening to Peter Gabriel. Right now I'm listening to

"Plays Live" The next album of my iTunes library is "Secret World Live.":woohoo: :applause: :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals:

[Huckebein the Raven]

6. What is your favorite genre of music ?

[Longgrain]

10. Country Rock probally...

Tho I also dig Oldies, Bubble Gum, and Jazz/ Blues with an occasional foray into Classical music.

New stuff is weird and foreign to me.

[Sugar Smack]

21. hey im bacx!!!!!!!

we-dani& I weat to beileys' & got hosED!!!!!!!!! dani sends her love. r. I told s her all anout toy and she''s deMANDINDg to meet you soom!!!longrain, I havne't experessed to you taht I really love you anf I LOVE your drawingsgfs too! Keep up thr gooid work!!!

You are learly loved, and don't ever forget taht!!!!!!

huge(:hug:

[Longgrain]

26. There you are, always looking for you my sweet Sugah.

Hope you and Dani had fun...and thanks for your posts in my "Graphic Novel" thread earlier today...

Something there is about you...

[Sugar Smack]

30. HEY_ I was hpoing I'd finf you tonight!

we had fun, and weplsyed pool with some fellows. mmmn. phththt. frankly, my dear, I didny givre a damn. You are SO Welcome with the graphic nonel thread! you are the most. LG. I swear, it really gets to us all the way you enjoy the fner stuuf, we love you for it, lov, e, a classy dame.
:)

[Longgrain]

33. You are sweet, sweet Sugah...Tho

I can tell you've had more than a few tonight...

Do me a favor, and dream of me tonight.

Perhaps you and I walking down a California beach, arm in arm, the sunlight reflecting off your auburn brown hair...

Building a fire in the sand at dusk.

Kissing. Drinking Champaign as the waves roll over us...

I'll be waiting.

[stellanoir]

23. no one

exceeded Gram Parsons in that genre in terms of humility and soul splitting talent.

just loved him.

such a loss.

[democrank]

8. Greetings....

Just cracked open a copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. Ever read it?

[Longgrain]

12. YES! Highly recommended!

His observations between the romantic mind and the classical mind are right on. The simile about the train is perfect!

(I'm Romantic BTW)

[democrank]

15. Book I have says

copies have been sold in twenty-three languages. Amazing.

[Goathead]

9. Hey Longgrain,

Do you live in Boston or outside of the city?

[Longgrain]

16. Nowhere near Boston I'm afraid...

60 miles out west, on the border of Cow Country.

Otherwise, do you think I'd be spending a Saturday night posting on-line?

[Goathead]

19. Are you near Worcester? n/t

[Longgrain]

29. Closer to Worcester than I am to Boston.

Even lived there for a year. So I'm somewhat familiar with the city.

[Droopy]

13. Hey man

I'm all by myself tonuight, too, but I don't mind. I guess I'm a rare type that doesn't feel the need to get out and be social every once in a while, although I am going to the Great Lakes meetup on the 30th to hang out with some of my DU bretheren and sisteren :) I'm also going to a conference for a mental health organization a few days before that because I have a special interest in the topic: schizophrenia. So, are there any things on the schedule later on down the road that you will be doing? I would imagine that a man who is interested in the arts could find stimulating company if he wanted to.

[Longgrain]

17. Hey, I'll be heading for Boston next weekend myself...

Believe me, hanging out with other DUers is the best!

I wish I could do it every night instead of just dreaming about it.

<<<SIGH>>>

[HeeBGBz]

18. Have you ever seen Arlo Guthrie in concert?

I did a few months ago and wish I was listening to him now. His stories as much as his music. This fall he will embark on the Alice's Restaurant 40th Anniversary Massacre Tour.

[Longgrain]

20. Actually I have... tho...

It was at Epcot Center in the middle of Disney World.

It was funny being in "The Happiest Place on Earth" listening to some old hippie singing about "Flying into Los Angelees; Carrying a couple of Kgs..."

[democrank]

22. I think I`d go stark, raving mad

at Disney World.

[HeeBGBz]

27. I think I'm the only one in my family who hasn't been there.

The inner child weeps.

[BlueIris]

24. I'm not alone tonight exactly, but it sure feels like it.

It kind of sucks, for the first time in a while. I've gotten used to being alone, relying on myself for support, for more than one year now. As I've posted before, the last of my long-term friendships died during the election cycle, (those with people who didn't understand what I was "getting so upset over politics" for) and much of my family either didn't vote, or voted for Bush. I'm sitting in front of my two roommates right now, some of the only people on earth who see me every day and feeling just a tad upset that they don't understand or care about my interest in The Cause, the pain I have been in since the election or my own personal struggles. They don't know me at all. It's going to take me a long time to be able to rebuild my social life, I've just realized.

Okay, but about all of you: Longgrain, if you're still undecided about Shakespeare--of course, for plays, I recommend "MacBeth," but perhaps you have already read that or aren't interested in that one--have you ever explored his sonnets? If not, that could be a fun thing for you to do. When I ran out of interest in finishing the plays I had not yet read a few years back, I switched to the sonnets for a bit and discovered a whole new world of untapped Shakespeare joy.

[Longgrain]

31. Thanks for your post BlueIris.

I'm still torn myself between reading, writing, painting, cartooning, and posting in the next Jimmy Jazz thread.

Maybe someday I'll figure out what I'm supposed to be doing.

Until then...here's to us all...:toast:

[madaboutharry]

25. Longgrain, I have the original

Peter Max poster that came with the Bob Dylan Greatest Hits album. Do you have any idea how much it would be worth? I'm just wondering.

[Longgrain]

28. No, put it up on Ebay purhaps?

I got one of those original Simon and Grarfunkle posters that came with the "Bookends" record.

Cuirious myself if it's worth anything.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

32. Hi! Just talk sounds good to me...

So you're listening to Bob Dylan...I'm listening to a mockingbird outside my study window. Many years ago, my husband spent a few minutes for several evenings in a row going outside. There he would whistle a few simple notes. Not too many days later, the mockingbird picked it up and incorporated my husband's melody into his song! It was the damnest thing I ever heard a wild bird do!

I love those birds. To me, it is the sound of spring.

Are you out near Wayland? My older daughter and son-in-law live out there. It is such pretty country. The last time we were visiting, she took us to the deCordoba (spelling?) museum. Fabulous place...

Got to go; time to make dinner. Later, Longgrain!

:hi:

[Longgrain]

34. Good to hear from you Peg, as always.

I'm wishing I was in CA with someone right now myself. :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

35. My dear Longgrain!

I read your thread to Sugar Smack, and I found myself completely enthralled by your magical prose. The power of words indeed. I was so very moved...

:hi:

[Longgrain]

36. You don't know of me and Sugahs P.M.s...

Our magical prose...and drawings...are one of a kind.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

37. You are right, LG...

I don't know about those...but I can guess, judging from what you said publicly tonight...I hope that your souls won't be the only things that meet, dear Longgrain.

[Longgrain]

38. Me too, damn me too...

She is something else.

[hippiechick]

39. Sigh.

Alone. Lonely. But don't want to talk, particularly.
Just would be nice to have some company to snuggle up and watch a movie or listen to some tunes, and just 'be'.

sigh. :(