What is one thing you can't do but wish you could?

[More Than A Feeling]

Mine's singing.

[terrya]

1. Play the piano

[Tyler Durden]

20. Play the piano again.

Devastating injury to the right hand at age 12, 6 years of training shot to hell.

Took me almost 2 years to learn how to WRITE again. Never got enough dexterity back to pick up piano again.

Shit.

[Neoma]

35. Ditto to that.

[Nicole]

2. Paint

I would love to be able to paint portraits & landscapes.

[petronius]

3. Shoot daggers out of my eyes

I mean, sure - I can give people dirty looks, and I can throw knives at people, but it just isn't the same...

</obligatory Loungian answer...>

[RetroLounge]

4. Be happy...

RL

[zingaro]

51. The funny thing is

this is exactly what I was going to say, in precisely those words.

Ditto, then?

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

70. Ditto

:hug:

RL

[applegrove]

5. Me too. I'd love to be able to sing.

[MonkeyFunk]

6. Umm....

I'd best not say, but my dog does it all the time. Damn my bad back.

[RiffRandell]

21. I was waiting for this reply.

You never disappoint me.

[MonkeyFunk]

22. you were waiting for someone to say

"Catch a frisbee with my teeth?" :shrug:

[terrya]

43. LOL

That is quite a talent, isn't it?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Sing opera like Kiri te Kanawa.

[Radio_Lady]

37. Ocelot, I have one of her CDs and it's amazing!

Picked it up at a thrift store for $2.99.

I've been playing it this evening.

Is she still actively singing? What a magnificent voice!

I wish I were able to sing well enough just to a church choir -- singing alto, of course.

Thanks for your post.

Radio Lady in Oregon

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

40. Kiri rocks.

See if you can find her performance of Richard Strauss' "Four Last Songs" -- awesome. If you've ever seen the movie "The Year of Living Dangerously," one of them is on the soundtrack. Just beautiful. I don't know if she's still singing; some of this stuff came out in the early '80s.

I can sing well enough for a church choir, which makes it all the more depressing that I can't sing like Kiri.

[Radio_Lady]

42. Ocelot, my favorite story: I have an amateur voice, but I don't mind showing off a bit.

I would do more karaoke if my husband were interested, but he isn't.

In 1993, when my daughter Linda got married, I decided to hire a vocal coach to teach me to sing the song "Linda" from the 1940s. Found the sheet music and put some time into learning it. It's just a little ditty that a fellow named Buddy Clark used to sing. I sang it as a lullaby for her when she was a baby. She always thought I had made the song up!

Anyway, the wedding was a difficult one for us. Two of my stepdaughters were in the wedding party but not talking to their father, my husband. My ex-husband was there with his wife, whom he married two weeks after we divorced -- April 1971 -- and my son came with his girlfriend and wasn't talking to his father. It was not a great situation, so I busied myself trying to sing in the hotel shower the morning of the wedding.

We get to the reception and I have no rehearsal with the small band. Never you mind, I got up to sing "Linda" and held the microphone tightly in my sweaty little hand. It wasn't a great performance because I couldn't find a comfortable key to sing in and had to start over again a couple of times. I wasn't too proud of the performance -- and it was very amateurish and was recorded on videotape for all to see and hear after the event.

The next person to sing was my ex-husband's wife. She took the microphone, and belted out her song -- not sure of the title now -- in a pure and beautiful operatic voice! PS. She also plays the piano and cooks well -- in another life, she might have been my friend because she is so talented.

Now my ex-husband is gone, died from lung cancer complications last December 2006. Her birthday was last week. My daughter keeps in touch with her and I think about her often. The ending was very sad for this talented lady.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

46. That's quite a story -- what a "complicated" wedding...

and I bet your daughter totally appreciated your solo because it was special for her, even if it wasn't as "professional" as the ex's wife's performance.

[Radio_Lady]

61. Talent is a little like money. You will always find people who are better off than you,

and some who are worse off. For example, my husband can barely sing "Jingle Bells" or "Silent Night." Of course, he claims he never sang them because we are Jewish... but c'mon... he knows he's just on the edge of being "musically challenged". We do go to many classical and Broadway musical events and he does seem to enjoy them.

At least I have the ability to appreciate music and sing well enough to stay with the melody. Earlier in my life, I even thought about training to become a symphony conductor! I had a big crush on Leonard Bernstein and watched and listened to him frequently... (didn't know he was a bisexual). But my musical aptitudes are simply not advanced enough. Piano training was terribly difficult for me, although I do think that I might have had better luck with a wind instrument, possibly the clarinet.

My father played the violin -- perhaps "attacked" would be a better word... Although he was quite an amateur, he took lessons for years, and he played on and on whenever he wanted to, whether the "audience" enjoyed it or not!

Mother played the piano when I was younger, but the only piece I remember is the sweet little melody "Fuhr Elise" (Sister Elise) by Beethoven. I hear that melody quite frequently and always think of her.

[1gobluedem]

8. Sing

#2 Play the piano.

[BarenakedLady]

9. Pleading the 5th

Big Brother is watching.

:evilgrin:

[seemunkee]

10. Climb like this guy

[Briarius]

16. Me too!

:D

[YankeyMCC]

11. Retire today and start walking

the Appalachian Trail...the International Section of the AT...the Long Trail...walking through Scotland...Pacific Northwest Trail...Pacific Crest Trail...Walk around Tuscany...California Wine Country...and just keep going...:)

[seemunkee]

15. Thats a lot of walking

And sounds like a worthy goal. I've always wanted to do the Coast-to-Coast trail across Britain

[Ikonoklast]

12. Throw a ninety-seven mile an hour curveball

Left-handed.

[Xipe Totec]

13. turn back the clock

to do things right this time.

go back and unspeak every insult spoken,

un-hit every blow landed,

salve every injury given,

express every love unspoken,

comfort every heart broken.

[Joe Fields]

14. run for public office. even at my age, there's still a little

"Mr. Smith" in me.

[MichiganVote]

17. Oh yeah...opera, dream big, that's the thing.

[marlakay]

18. Draw

Sing, play piano, speak 3 other languages

[MorningGlow]

19. Friggin' make money

Me an' money, we're like oil and water, no matter what I do. :( Sing? Meh--no problem. Be able to pay bills without breaking out in a cold sweat? Apparently NEVER!
:rofl:

[femmocrat]

23. Same here... sing.

I love music, but cannot sing a note. I would love to belt out a great torch song.

[LaraMN]

24. Swallow.

Shut up pervs. My throat hurts.
:P

[Deja Q]

25. I'll plead the 5th to this one...

:blush:

[Roon]

26. Go back to being 13-years-old

with the knowledge that I have right now. Man, that would be sweet!

[Evoman]

27. Parkour..flips...martial arts.

I wish I had that kind of control over my body. I have learned to control my mind, but my body control sucks. I'm getting pretty damn strong, since I work out quite a bit, but I want that dexterity.

I wish my parents had thrown me in gymnastics or martial arts.

[Forkboy]

28. Be with someone I know who is really cool.

[TOhioLiberal]

29. I'd tell ya...

...but it'd drag down the thread...:(

[wildhorses]

30. if i could turn back time

if i could find a way
i would take back
all those words
that hurt you
and you'd
STAY

[GCP]

31. Stick 2 fingers in my mouth and whistle REALLY loud

If anyone knows how, let me in on the secret?

[Heidi]

34. Same here.

My goddaughters taught me to whistle through my teeth, but they gave up on teaching me to finger whistle. x(

[RedCappedBandit]

32. Get a GF!

:rofl:

..Turn into a cat at will!

:)

[Kali]

33. Lose some weight?

:cry: :grr:

edit lose weight so clothes are loose :crazy:

[RevCheesehead]

36. Fly.

Actually, more like hovering than flying. I dream about it all the time.

[Broken_Hero]

38. Ditto on flying, :)

I'll save tons of money on gas, and help the environment!.....:D

[njdemocrat106]

39. Whistle

I also wish I could play the piano (I can play "Frère Jacques", but that's it).

[GenDem]

41. Singing is mine, also

I'm not tone deaf, but I can't carry a tune in a bushel basket to save my life. I enjoy all kinds of music and have always felt like belting out a soulful ballad with all the passion of Billie Holiday -- but alas, I just can't sing.

[southlandshari]

44. Yes

There are times I wish I could respond in kind to angry, jealous and dishonest people. I'm human and it isn't easy to take the high road all the time.

I would love to let my inner redneck out every now and then, but I can't. Because no one has to live with the consequences of that but me, and I'm not willing to compromise like that.

But it's tempting.

:D

[KayLaw]

45. Take my son to Disneyland.

He's 15 and has autism. Going to Disneyland is his dream but so expensive. Don't feel too sorry for him, though, we live near Disney World and take him frequently. To him, though, Disneyland is Heaven.

[Generic Brad]

47. Read minds

'nuff said.

[u4ic]

48. Play an instrument

I'll add, though, can't do yet...

Go back in time is another. Won't ever be able to do that...

[Left Is Write]

49. Sing well, play bass guitar, drive a manual transmission.

[cloudbase]

50. Play the cello. n/t

[Bullwinkle925]

52. Me too - singing - on key and in tune.

dammit all.

[LibDemAlways]

53. Another vote for "singing." My family considers my

singing voice a form of torture. I am so envious of people who can carry a tune and stay on key. That is a gift.

[Bullwinkle925]

54. Well - actually thought of another one but that would entail having the

Secret Service come to my door. Shucks.

[Ariana Celeste]

55. Rap.

Seriously. I think it would be funny as hell.

[QMPMom]

56. Lose weight and *keep it off*. Play the guitar. Write a best selling novel.

[Guava Jelly]

57. Travel to where some of my good DU friends are

and meet them irl

[bigwillq]

58. Sing, for me too!

:)

[NewWaveChick1981]

59. Mine's singing too.

:hi: My entire family is tone-deaf, and I know I come by this honestly. :P I love music, but I can't sing and I can't play an instrument. It's not from lack of trying either. I'm just not musically talented.

[leeroysphitz]

60. Talk good.

[steelemagnolia]

62. I've have two

I wish I could play the piano and I wish I could paint.

[Rhythm]

63. Play an instrument OTHER THAN the trombone...

I'd love to be able to play the piano, or the guitar...

But no... i'm not coordinated enough for much beyond a slide. *L*

[Bzzzz]

64. Playing the fiddle. n/t

[philosophie_en_rose]

65. Dance

I am not a graceful swan.

[SKKY]

66. Understand the Right-wing mentality...

...I really would like to understand why Ann Coulter thinks like she does. Or why Hannity thinks the way he does. But, I just can't, and I think understanding why they think the way they do would make me a much better Democrat.

[unpossibles]

67. fly

without an airplane.

[SPKrazy]

68. Free my inner

bohemian

and go on a rampage of sorts.

sort of kidding, sort of not!

:D

[bertha katzenengel]

69. PLAY BALL! But one hundred pounds and four ankle surgeries later . . .

I have lost even my mediocre ability on the field. Too bad they don't say, "my GOD, what an awesome instinct for the game!" They say only, "my GOD, what an awesome ballplayer!"

But I'm a great coach. You know the old adage.