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Post by complicatedlife on Mar 13, 2007 23:29:50 GMT -5
Usually it's "Property", but lately it's "Shangri-La". That middle section about mortgages being met and other assorted bills coming due hits very close to home. Life's not so happy in your little Shangri-La.
What Kinks song offers the most hope for better things (without choosing "Better Things")?
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Post by luis on Mar 14, 2007 4:39:41 GMT -5
It's probably not the one that gives the MOST hope, but "Out of the wardrove" shows you can make the best of any situation. It does it very humorously also. I love that song.
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Post by noisyroom on Mar 14, 2007 8:18:30 GMT -5
Things Are Gonna Change!!! I love that song! are you seeing signs of Spring where you live?
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Post by HollyH on Mar 14, 2007 11:31:03 GMT -5
Also I find Run Away From Time inspiring. New York City signs of spring: you have to open your windows because the apartment building is still wildly overheated, and now you can't hear anything because of all the traffic noises through the window. There's a longer line at the hot dog cart on our corner. The school kids stuff their down coats into their backpacks when they come home in the afternoon, so they end up staggering under the bulk they're lugging around. The trees are still bare and the ground in Central Park is still brown grass and mud. But everybody's outside playing in it anyway!! Q Do you have a garden? I wish I had a garden
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Post by Wakeup on Mar 14, 2007 12:27:20 GMT -5
Ah, spring emerges in L.A. Carwashes are staffing up, bikini waxeries are going hammer and tongs, and the cost of fuel rises in sync with the ambient temperature. A: No garden Q: You?
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Post by luis on Mar 14, 2007 12:35:32 GMT -5
No I don't. I live in a flat in downtown Madrid, just by Real Madrid football stadium. All cars and cement. I got three kids and a dog; I wish I did.
Same Q
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Post by complicatedlife on Mar 14, 2007 13:36:38 GMT -5
No Garden at home, but I have several houseplants in my office on the window sill.
Nice description of today in NYC, Ms. Holly.
My Kinks song of hope is "Permanent Waves" - no matter how bad things go, the hero of that song is resolved to make his lot a better one.
Next Q - What's your favorite vegetable?
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Post by uncleson on Mar 14, 2007 13:42:04 GMT -5
My Kinks's song of hope is Waterloo Sunset.
Favorite vegetable is corn.
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Post by Wakeup on Mar 14, 2007 13:45:59 GMT -5
A: This one (parental advisory)Q: What's yours?
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Post by nicola6 on Mar 14, 2007 13:52:50 GMT -5
Asparagus
Q: What did your bedroom look like when you were a teenager?
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Post by Rosemary Rose on Mar 14, 2007 15:28:19 GMT -5
It was wallpapered in cut-outs from rocks mags and Car and Driver and Road and Track. (Which is funny because I got my driver's license just last year.
Good Q. Same.
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Post by Wakeup on Mar 14, 2007 15:33:17 GMT -5
A: I was a real wall decorator, too. I guess it came with the times. The coolest posters were real status symbols. Yes, I tossed way too many, including some classic Filmore/Winterland originals. Q: Yours?
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Post by HollyH on Mar 14, 2007 17:48:36 GMT -5
Pale yellow walls and a white canopy bed. Very frilly, very girly, except for the neat stack of LPs on the floor in one corner next to my fold-up record player. But if you opened my closet door, the inside was plastered with pictures of the Beatles. Mostly Paul. And if you opened the bottom lefthand drawer of my white desk...oh, never mind. Same Q (this is a fun one).
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Post by rose on Mar 14, 2007 19:35:50 GMT -5
Had to share with sister 5 yrs younger. Two of everything except the record player. IT WAS MINE! ;D ...my side of the room: Beatles, Boyfriend & KINKS!!! Her side: David Cassidy & Monkees She spent LOTS of time in the living room with the parental units. I spent lots of time reading (British history & novels, Datebook & 16 Mag), writing (Odes to my men), and v-e-r-y q-u-i-e-t-l-y opening (and later closing) our 1st floor bedroom window Same Q.....
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Post by ilesofsmiles on Mar 14, 2007 20:36:21 GMT -5
What Kinks song offers the most hope for better things (without choosing "Better Things")? From the Misfits LP: Get UP! Spring Sprang in the WINDYCITY yesterday, a record 73 degrees. Now it's back in the 40's with snow expected tonight -- typical midwestern cross-over month. I had the attic room of a cape cod.. lots of nooks and odd cornors. It was typical for any teen.. the walls were covered in posters. KinKs, Stones, Who, The Jam, Tom Petty and Rockpile were my favorites. I worked at the local record store in my last 2 years of school so I got a lot of promo posters too. Beanbag chair, gobs of records and books, the Alter of Sound and a lazy old cat. (still miss her!)
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