Perhaps then, Dirk Bogarde, a literate actor I liked a lot. Or Fredric Raphael, the writer of Two for the Road and Glittering Prizes. Or...
I think I am over ten. Will have to do a lineup.
Osso, I'm not a huge James Taylor fan either.
Fanny Kemble Butler -
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1569.html
My ex wrote a screenplay about her, never got it produced...sigh.
Hmm, I see Raphael wrote Darling and Kubrick's last film too. Well, ok, he would be good at the table.
osso: Thank you for the link on Fanny Butler! What a story!
Okay, I was just trying to invite good guitar pickers and some folks who could carry a tune without trying to sing twenty-seven notes on each syllable. (Hate that, and it's all Dolly Parton's fault. Ask me.) There wouldn't be a lot of talking amongst my bunch, of course, maybe ten's too many, maybe we'd break up into groups of two or three. That's how I learned so much guitar, sitting and trading songs and chord changes. (I forgotten 90% of all I've learned, by the way, because I don't play anymore. One has to speak a language to retain it.)
I liked Cat Steven's music, I played some of it, Peace Train, Moon Shadow, but I saw an interview with him from a couple of years back where they asked him if he thought it was right to put a fatwa (death sentence) on Salman Rushdie, you could see the conflict in his eyes as he thought his answer over (freedom vs sacredness, art vs the teachings). His answer was that he had not studied enough to be able to answer such a question except to repeat what the issuers of the fatwa had said. I think an artist can't say such a thing and still be an artist, so no, he's not on the list.
When I have my "Discuss the merits of the Progressive vs Conservative philosophies" party there will be more talk and less art.
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Wouldn't it be fun to have the Fugs, the Dead and Leon Russell over at your house?
Yusuf Stevens has recently softened up his radical Islamic beliefs. He apologized for any support that was conveyed from him by the public re: the Rushdie fatwa. He also condemned the acts of 9/11. I thought his music was used very well in Harold and Maude, one of my fave movies of all time, but I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a fan.
As for guitar pickers, Leo Kottke and Joe Pass would be on my top ten...
well, I would like to line up 10 of the most recognized geologists from history to sit around and share ideas about all aspects of the science from a position bounded by history , all the way to a modern synthesis.
Id choose
Nicholas Steno
Charles Dana
Adam Sedgwick
James Hutton
Major John W Powell
John Rogers
Charles Dewey
Richard Bird
Charles Darwin
Isadore Zeits
Marshall Kay
CD Walcott
I would love to sit and watch the whole room burts into pandemonium as the Deweys, Birds, and Rogers explain that the continents move sideways and not just up and down.
I'll make Mississippi Mud Pie for dessert, farmerman.
I hate to admit it, Farmerman, but out of that half-score of names you've psted, I recognize four, maybe five.
Andrew, don't "hate" to admit it, because then I would feel obligated to "hate" to admit it as well - it might just be that we ain't high-falutin' enough to recognize the names and, for that, I feel no apologies are at all appropriate!
Cav, I
loved Cat Stevens before he began supporting fatwahs and moving to Pakistan to join in with all the 'Islamic revelry'. As to his so-called recent revisionist statements, I laugh in your face; yes, in that adorable little clown face! :wink:
; but, I still love you enough to say we want Mississipie Mud Pie as well as a most whipped cream cake, ok? :wink:
Sounds good to me. Methinks Yusuf started thinking "By Allah! I have no career!" and thenceforth issued some retractions to the media. I don't think anyone took them seriously.
Sweetcomplication -- why, I think I'm the high-falutinest high-faluter what ever high-faluted. When higher and higher falutin' is to be done, why, I reckon I'll be the one to do the falutin'. Be that as it may, my edumacation in the field of that there geology has, apparently, been sadly neglected over the years. And for that I am, indeed, heartily sorry. Me cilpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
geology: the science of "gee, what the heck is everyone talking about?"
I did reconize one:
Id Choose - the famous geological Freudian psycologist.
Found it hidden under a mantel of ego
BBB's dinner guests
BumbleBeeBoogie's dinner guests would have to include:
Eric Hoffer
Gore Vidal
Maya Angelou
Vassily Kandinski
K. Boeke and Philip and Phylis Morrison
Sam Sam Burros
Claude Debussey
Julia Child
Buckminster Fuller
Garry Trudeau
Wiley Miller
Lynn Johnston
Dyslexia
Fbaezer
Diane
Blatham
Asherman
and, finally, my two children
Then I would have to own a larger house to accomodate all those fascinating people whose conversations I would enjoy.
---BBB
See, Bumblebee, with that list you are sure to have a fist fight cause Vidal will be dissing everybody and then Anjelou will start a fight with Vasily for the booze and, well , its gonna get ugly, trust me... Ive been to parties like that where people with no congruent interests and big egos all meet.
LOOK PEOPLE< it was my call for guests at my party dammit. Most of those guys (except Darwin) could outdrink and outpiss anybody on a2k, well maybe Frank Apisa and fishin could give em a run. They were not high falutin at all. and if any one wants to call me by that name, well, Ill be outside w aiting for you after this thread is over.
REMEMBER CRAVENS RULE 3---Play Nice.
farmerman wrote:.They were not high falutin at all. and if any one wants to call me by that name, well, Ill be outside w aiting for you after this thread is over.
REMEMBER CRAVENS RULE 3---Play Nice.
To quote a great philosopher, ie MA:
Me cilpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
I was only joking at my own lack of sophistication
:wink: !
sophistication: We are all travelling somewhere exciting with Sofia for our dinner!!
There you go again, Cav: you know that belongs on your neologism thread! Be a good boy, now :wink: ...
