Random Thoughts Thread

[Big Blue Sky 127]

This latest hurricane - Hurricane Michael - looks nasty.  All the best if you are in its path & are busy filling sandbags & moving the good furniture upstairs.

[nobodyinparticular 268]

9 hours ago, Big Blue Sky said:

This latest hurricane - Hurricane Michael - looks nasty.  All the best if you are in its path & are busy filling sandbags & moving the good furniture upstairs.

The radio said it might hit my province by this weekend. Unfortunately, the only source I can find online is the Toronto Star, which I refuse to read.

In other thoughts, the longer I'm here the more I feel like I don't really belong here.

[TomFest 334]

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be......it's easy.....All you need is love...

[MaryJanes2ndLastDance 774]

On September 23, 2018 at 7:02 PM, Big Blue Sky said:

Maltese Falcon

Never saw the movie but I'm reading the book.

cheers

[MaryJanes2ndLastDance 774]

On September 21, 2018 at 11:25 AM, nurktwin said:

The more I watch old movies on TCM, the more I think Tom wrote songs about those movies with the movie title as his song title. Example: A Face In The Crowd.

The first time I heard of the movie (with Andy Griffith I think) I thought of the Tom Petty song.

[nobodyinparticular 268]

I got into an altercation with a doorframe. My face hurts now. The doorframe doesn't care, because it is an inanimate object.

[Shelter 893]

4 hours ago, nobodyinparticular said:

I got into an altercation with a doorframe. My face hurts now. The doorframe doesn't care, because it is an inanimate object.

I wouldn't be so sure...

Or, to quote Tom Waits...

The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleep
And the combo went back to new york, the jukebox has to take a leak
And the carpet needs a haircut, and the spotlight looks like a prison break
And the telephone's out of cigarettes, and the balcony is on the make
And the piano has been drinking

 

And the menus are all freezing, and the light man's blind in one eye
And he can't see out of the other
And the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid, and he showed up with his mother
And the piano has been drinking
 

As the bouncer is a sumo wrestler cream-puff Casper milktoast
And the owner is a mental midget with the i.q. of a fence post
Cause the piano has been drinking

 

And you can't find your waitress with a Geiger counter
And she hates you and your friends and you just can't get served without her
And the box-office is drooling, and the bar stools are on fire
And the newspapers were fooling, and the ash-trays have retired
Cause the piano has been drinking.
The piano has been drinking - not me.

[chimera 273]

21 hours ago, MaryJanes2ndLastDance said:

Never saw the movie but I'm reading the book.

I love Dashiell Hammett's novels - I have an omnibus edition of all of them.

[nobodyinparticular 268]

4 hours ago, Shelter said:

I wouldn't be so sure...

Or, to quote Tom Waits...

The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleep
And the combo went back to new york, the jukebox has to take a leak
And the carpet needs a haircut, and the spotlight looks like a prison break
And the telephone's out of cigarettes, and the balcony is on the make
And the piano has been drinking

 

And the menus are all freezing, and the light man's blind in one eye
And he can't see out of the other
And the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid, and he showed up with his mother
And the piano has been drinking
 

As the bouncer is a sumo wrestler cream-puff Casper milktoast
And the owner is a mental midget with the i.q. of a fence post
Cause the piano has been drinking

 

And you can't find your waitress with a Geiger counter
And she hates you and your friends and you just can't get served without her
And the box-office is drooling, and the bar stools are on fire
And the newspapers were fooling, and the ash-trays have retired
Cause the piano has been drinking.
The piano has been drinking - not me.

He clearly needs to find a priest, then, or at least some holy water to sprinkle around his piano.

[Shelter 893]

Yeah well, I'm sure he can't find a priest with a dowsing rod... He does have problems there, no doubt. I think he's spot on, though, when it comes to the sometimes cunning ways of so called "inanimate" objects. But then again, I might need holy water too, or perhaps preferably "unholy" water.. Can't decide who to trust.. Tom Waits or Jim Beam..

[nobodyinparticular 268]

Or some land surveys. Make sure your house isn't atop ancient burial grounds.