HEY Everyone, I'm listening to Miles Davis. From what I've listened to so far It's really mellow. I'm not used to listening to really slow mellow music so this will be interesting. It's totally the kind of music you zone out to which everyone needs once in a while. Anyways if you have been reading the last blog you will know that I have "interesting" visions when I listen to music so that's just what I will do.... Next time because I need to do something else... Yeah. - mADDy
Welcome to the blog! please enjoy the pleasant background music and refreshments you may or may not have provided yourself with! Help yourself to a virtual and invisible chocolate. They are wrapped in cyber-foil, and are all artificial! Yummy! Is your music mostly composed of vocals, instrumental or both? My music is so the opposite of mellow... I like it anyways though!
Hello everybody who cared enough to read this! Yay I have fans! Anyway to answer your question Amelia my music has absolutely know vocals what so ever which eliminates the inappropriate factors that are often stapled to good music. Now for my odd visions: I am listening to the first song SO WHAT. (which is the exact opposite of the one by P!NK so don't go getting those confused.) i picture a young girl who looks about 18. She is in this empty ballet studio. She's dancing very slowly and graceful until the music starts to pick up, now she puts on a jackets and runs down a small flight of stairs. She is out on the street now skipping and running. Sh walks through a park and begins jumping and running on the benches. Then she sees a street-cleaner because it is very late at night. She jumps behind it and follows it by hopping in the puddles it's making. At some point the puddles end and it begins to rain. She pulls an umbrella out of thin air and runs to a brick building. Inside the building that are dripping wet just like she is. They are all dancing and laughing because everyone keeps slipping on the puddles each other are making. She dances for a while and runs home. She steps onto her doorsteps and brushes herself off. Inside you expect to see a house that resembles her personality but when she steps inside there is a huge fancy living room filled with porcelin objects. There is a fancily dressed man sitting there staring at her. This is her father. He scolds her and tells her to go back to her room. (except there are no words) She puts her chin to her chest and looks down. She walks up the first three stairs and when she realizes that her dad is not watching she dances the rest of the way up and slams her bedroom door closed.
I am going to stop here because this comment is annoyingly long, the rest of the song is annoyingly long, and I probably have to eat dinner right about now. Enjoy q : ) (incase you can't tell the smiley has a baseball cap on.)
Oh that is really coo-oool! I love song-space-outs. They rock. And it isn't to long for me, I like them longer. I love the music blog!!! you know, I think I will find out with Mark and Courtney and Lois if we can make Science, SW and LA Blogs. The teacher's can put up all of our homework assigments for us, and we can discuss things! It will be better than instant messaging because we talk about interesting things, we can't be innapropriate and we have to use good grammar and stuff. And the teacher's can evaluate our discussions, because I think discussions are better in type, and the teacher's can't hear good points we make when we are IMing or on the phone or emailing each other. And also, I never seem to get mad at people in text so it is cool. And we could put up pictures and links and stuff so we can say "This website on the economy is so cool!" and everyone can read it and write about it, kind of like delicious except better because everyone can comment on it and discuss it and we never run out of time and the teacher's hear all of the interesting points that we make. And the teacher's can also comment to us if we haven't passed in an assignment or something, and share things with us! It will be super, super, fun, It will improve our grades, it will help us understand and be interested in things, it will give us a better understanding of the subjects... It would just be awesome! You know I think I will bring that up sometime! What do you think? Does this have anything to do with music at all? Sorry. Hey! See this is my point, we can have ideas and stuff and type them up and people can comment on them.
That was ummm... I can't even comment on that. Sorry. Kind of long. I am sorry I just had some idea/vocabulary vomit on your beautiful blog post Maddy.
Hi Maddy, I love your "vision" for So What. I think I'll probably picture that scene next time I listen to the album. Can you hear the trumpet "saying" the words "So What?" in the song? If you don't know what I mean, ask me in class & I'll explain.
Your vision was really cool, it sounds like an actual music video. It kind of reminds me of our David Artuletta videos. I can't wait to hear about your other ones.
I think I'm going to hold off on the visions just for a little while because I want to have other things to write about. I will write them... IN TIME...
My music comes off a little boring but it's actually really good to listen to if you want to be mellow or you're need to focus because not much happens in the songs that i have by him. His songs are REALLY long which probably means he has a lot to express, even though there are no lyrics I think he's trying to say something with the length of his songs like "I'm at a bus stop and I've waited nine minutes in the cold... let me write a song about it... even though there will be no words because A song about waiting for a bus wouldn't sell" (Even though it would.) ; P
Awesome. My dad says that you should email your "Visions" to Baaba Mal because he would love them, and he would probably make a music video out of them and that you should do that as a profession or something. I think that they are awesome too! I honestly think that that is a good idea but somehow I doubt you will actually do that. but come on, how amazingly cool would it be if someone asked you what you do for a profession and you say "I listen to songs and then have visions about them, and people use my song dreams to make awesome music videos!" That would be so much fun, you are super good at it.
Hi Maddy, I was just wondering what instruments are in your music. I think I heard that Miles Davis plays the trumpet. Is it true? I know that there are many different styles of jazz because I learned about it awhile ago, but what style of jazz is Miles Davis? I think Amelia is right, you're really creative when it comes to your visions(not that you're not creative when it comes to anything else)but I really liked your vision for the Miles Davis song. It was really pretty.
The MILES DAVIS album I have is Very Mellow as I have said before. He also plays faster jazz. There are a lot types of Jazz I don't know all them but I will find out. Miles Definitely plays the trumpet, maybe saxophone, I think there are some drums, piano, maybe even triangle. Oh and Bass Guitar... Don't forget the bass guitar. Thank you for the compliments on my vision. I think my visions are weird. Soon I'll write down more but I'm just dipping my toes into the stretch project water. (even though if this was continuing last semesters stretch I would be all the way under water it's a different stretch." Ta ta friends.
Hello Fellow bloggers! So I was doing research on Jazz and I found out some stuff. So I'm going to tell you. Jazz has a forefather, that forefather is the blues. Jazz has been called AMERICA'S CLASSICAL MUSIC along with the blues. I don't know why classical music isn't america's classical music but jazz is a form of classical music. I also found some different jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, and Duke Ellington. I'm still trying to find out more. There is so much aout Jazz I didn't know....
they aren't weird at all! Well, that is a lie. But, honestly, would any of your friends be your friends if they weren't a little weird? How much would life suck if everyone was exactly the same? Weird is AWESOME. And your visions are most extensively AWESOME! You know, we really have to make one of your visions into an actual video! We could do the visuals and everything and it would be so awesome! try to think of one that doesn't involve being in Africa or goats (forget I said that, we will steal Sarah's!!!) And my friend Kristen can do ballet, so we can film her when it is raining, and flood a building somewhere! We could steal her! I will go ask Kristen if she has any objections to being abducted for the production of a music video.
Hi, I have a plan. I will write one vision a week (but I will post other things all throughout whenever) Here is a vision I will write about the song FREDDIE FREELOADER by Miles Davis: There is a man that looks like that guy from BURN NOTICE. He is wearing a plum colored suit and matching fedora hat. He is extremely happy and he is walking through a crowded street with many people dressed in fancy older clothing. He tries to impress the women there by showing off his dance moves. One women in a mauve dress comes over, links arms with him and dances along side of him. Everyone gathers round and watches them. Then the a doppleganger of the man comes over with a women who looks the same as the last one only this man is wearing a bright red suit and matching fedora and the women is wearing a salmon colored dress. They show off their dance moves which are much different then the purple couples but are equaly as good. After they dance the men shake hands and begin having a discussion even though you can't hear them. Then a man in a green suit comes with a women in a minty green dress that looks like the other women's dresses. The green couple dances. They all clap for each other when the dancing is over. Then they all dance down the street together. Then all the men stop. the look across the street and see a man that looks exactly like them only he is wearing an entirely black suit, no hat and he doe not have any one surrounding him. He walks towards them and shows off his moves. They are the best if all of them and he is very cocky about it. This is why he is alone. The women try to gather around him but the three colored men pull them each aside and talk them out of it. The man in the black suit is their future selves if they don't think about others soon. and they need to take care of their loved ones. The colored couples run off leaving the man in the black suit all alone in the streets. The man walks back to where the colored men spotted him and he picks up his brief case and walks away. You zone out and see an entire street filled with people in shades of red, purple, and green clothing walk around and dancing but then you see the one man in the black suit walking and not having any fun. But he doesn't care. That was weird. and long....sorry
Hi everyone reading this comment. I did some research on MILES DAVIS and I found out how he died. He died of a stroke sep. 28 1991 at age 65. He was born May 26 1926. I also found out he grew up in a white neighborhood, and his dad gave him his first trumpet when he was 13 and then he joined his school marching band. To think of someone like MILES starting out in a marching band is kind of funny. He's so accomplished now... (even though he is dead) and he started out small. That's encouraging. He also had three wives. (At different times) His first wife was named Frances Taylor, then his second wife was named Betty Mabry Davis who MILES divorced after she had an affair with Jimmi Hendrix. Then MILES married a woman named Cicely Tyson at Bill Cosby's house. He had four kids, a daughter named Cheryl, a son named Gregory, another son Miles, and his last son named Erin. So one of his sons name was Miles Davis as well. Well this is a lot information and I wouldn't want anyone to have an information overload... so Bye.
Hi Everyone. I just have a quick question and then I 'm going to go eat breakfast. Are we having another stretch after this one or is this the last one until next year? Hannah might be the only one who can answer that but I don't really know. ; )
So today in Music class I was looking through my listening examples book and I saw that one of the earlier songs we listened to was "Blue in Green" Which Low and Behold is by Miles Davis! It was really surprising because when I heard that song in music class I was thinking how I don't usually listen to that kind of music and then I completely forgot about it. And Now I'm listening to Miles. Ahhhh good times. : )
To possibly answer your question Maddy, I think we have a stretch project every semester, so this could be the last one. I'm not positive about that, so wait for Hannah to answer. Also do you know what happened to his first wife and his third wife?
I don't know about his first wife. I think he died while he was still married to Cicely. I'm not sure though so I'll find that out. Thanks for the thing about each semester.
Emilie, you're right! This is the final one for the year. I hope you'll keep doing independent stretch projects (no blogging required) on your own through the summer! I do them in my life all year long, in music and in other areas (food, exercise, books . . . )
I LOVE reading this! So much good dialogue, and fascinating visions. Thanks, Maddy & co!
Thanks for the love of my blog. But what do you mean by co? Anyways prepare yourself for another vision. Get comfy and grab a bag of popcorn because here it goes. We begin with the song called ALL BLUES. There is young boy sweep the front of a soda shop. The weather is hot so he is sweating quite a bit. He leans on the broom and wipes his forehead. He looks next door to the neighboring shop and sees another young boy sweeping the barber's shop. Mind you they are both around fifteen. The barber shop boy looks up and begins moving his feet while he sweeps. Soda boy begins doing the same. Soon barber boy steps out on to the side walk and begins to dance around with the broom. Soda boy starts spinning the broom around and doing jazz hands like crazy. They both walk into the middle of the road with their brooms and dance even though it is getting dark. They meet and shake hands (while dancing.) Soon they are dancing synchronized and they are laughing as the air begins to cool and their dance gets slower. As they are dancing a milk truck drives slowly down the road. They both dance to opposite sides of the street and when the truck passes barber shop boy is gone. *poof* Soda boy takes no concern and dances back to the shop's stoop. As he's turning the door knob to the shop he steps back and makes one more sweep then goes back inside. Then we slowly zoom out from the shop. That was the longest vision I have ever made up. Hannah I am sorry I am slowing down your grading progress.
Wow cool Maddy! these are so much fun to read! I feel like I am there and I can actually see them! And by Co. I think Hannah means and abbreviation of company. So I think she means you and the other people who are posting on your blog. WHERE DID BARBERSHOP BOY GO???
I have no idea where barbershop boy is... maybe he will turn up again. But maybe he will realize he is confined to the inside of brain of the rest of eternity. So he might not turn up again.
Hi All, My favorite song off of my album is ALL BLUES. I know that is the last song I blogged about was All blues but I didn't really dissect the song so now I will. In the beginning of the song there's this sound that is similar to a broom. Probably the drum stick that looks like a brush. There's definitely piano, trumpet, maybe saxophone. I really wish there was a way I could imitate musical notes on this blog because the tune is so catchy it gets burned into your skull and all you can think is the tune that I can't repeat. Anyways, Miles Davis plays cool instruments. I've always wanted to play that brushy-drum thing.
OH MY GOSH! I was just on youtube and i heard this REALLY COOL SONG! You probably can tell i like it by my vast use of capital letters. Anyways the song is called Tutu. I know... weird name but the beginning is super cool. Ilove it the beginning of songs are super suspenseful and loud and awesome so that i can be prepared for a full-blast rock out song. Most of Miles' songs aren't like that but this one was cool and... cool. It starts out all... um... musical? and then gets really musical. Ok I'll explain that better. It's a little techno in the beginning and then the trumpets and saxophones come in, and the keyboard. Does anyone else have anything to say on the topic of beginnings of songs? :)
Hi Maddy, I don't mind at ALL reading your long visions! They are super fun. Have you thought about directing music videos? You have great ideas. Yes, by co I mean company. And yes, Amelia, we can blog this summer. I've done that with other students before!
I listen to my music whenever I get the chance. But as we all know life can get very busy. What, with school, homework, clubs, being tired, being lazy. I listen to my music when I do my homework and when I blog. I listen when I blog so I can remember what the heck I'm listening to. It also helps me write about my music and all the little tiny details. I also just plug in some headphones and listen when I need some zone-out time. :)
Alright. Here's another vision thingo. It's to the song BLUE IN GREEN. There is a young women in an empty room with one window. The light is shinning in on her. She is on the floor crying with a picture of a man about her age. She gets up to the window and looks out. There is a large group of people in black walking in a mob like thing. They are all helping to carry a large casket/coffin. But if you look really closely you see a woman just like the one crying. She is wearing an eerie shade of red. She can't help but wipe her face. She is crying but not as much as the first lady. The girl in the empty room watches the mob carry the casket to the cemetery. They begin lowering it in to the ground while one man reads the dead man's will aloud. Everyone cries. The women in the red suit cries as she is handed an envelope. She runs away and sobs. Suddenly we flash back to the woman in the building. She is holding the same envelope. When she opens it there is a knife. Unfortunately the next image is her dead on the floor. The one who was dead was her fiance, he knew he was dying and asked if she would kill herself to be with him. She did and know they are together but the song ends so I can't continue.
This really shows what crazy things we will do for love. <3
Ok so it's been getting easier to listen to my music at different times now. The weird thing is now I listen to my music at the same time that I watch any t.v..... My mom has another Miles Davis album that I'm going to listen to along with my current album. I'm not saying the name of the album right now but all will be reavealed... in time.
Ladies... and Gentleman... WELCOME TO MY BLOG! Well you've probably already been here but that's ok. Here is the last song on this album and then I will switchto a new album. This is also the last vision for this album... This song is called FLAMENCO SKETCHES. We Open with a scruffy looking man on a roof top. He has on a leather jacket and ripped jeans. He's smoking a cigarette very slowly. He looks down on to the street, there is a young couple walking. They are holding hand and laughing. He looks up at the moon and when he looks at his hands he realized he was sub-consiously holding his own hands with the cigarette wedged in between his two fingers. The smoke weaves it's way out into the night air.He takes off his shoes and ties the laces together. Now the shoes are holding "hands". He throws them off the roof and they swing around the telephone wires. Now he stands up in his bare socks. He walks across the roof. He holds the cigarette in-between his lips and looks over the edge of the roof. There the couple is again. Now the man's arm is wrapped around the girls shoulder. The man begins to cry just a bit. One tear rolls off his face and down on to the girls neck. She looks up, sees him, looks like she feels sorry for him, then takes out an umbrella. The man wipes his face and walks to the door back inside. He slams the screen door and the lights go out inside. He is done. Hope you all enjoyed that.
Hi Maddy. I'm turning your question for me to you: have you seen any music videos of Miles Davis? I looked him up on iTunes, and he has only two. So What and Decoy. Have you listened to those songs? I saw the music videos. So What is kinda the opposite of the P!nk song - Miles Davis is playing the trumpet in that one and it looks like he has mascara on and his eyes are all wide and he looks SCARED. The Decoy one's pretty cool.
Wait a second... I thought Decoy was one of your songs... I was just on your page and Amelia was talking about Decoy and Paramore and I am confused now. Whatever. I'll look up Decoy. It's not on my current album. I'm still waiting for my mom to lend me her album of Miles Davis so i can still say current album and mean Kind of Blue. :{ <- Guy with a mustache says goodbye.
So I have a theory about the album title Kind of Blue. Well all the songs on this album are slow and moody except for All Blues. Because there are no lyrics it is a little hard to tell what the emotion of Miles is... because the music could also be considered... romantic? kind of. So the over all mood of Miles very well could be Blue. The mood not the color. Then again there's my crazy mixed up theory that Miles wrote the musical notes of his songs in blue in but when it dried it only looked kind of blue so he thought it was poetic and kept it. Or... The recording studio they used was a shade of turquoise and everyone debated on whether it was green or blue and someone said... "it's a KIND OF BLUE" So it became an inside joke between Miles and the band so they named the album that. Those are my theories that are probably not true because if you have read Mia's blog you would know that my theories are kind of far-fetched and outrageous. Have fun making any sense out of this comment.
I like those theories. They are quite possible at least, if not entirely probable, but then again the less probable a theory is the more fun it is to theorize and the more fun it is to read on a blog. So glad you like your stretch Maddy! (This is a combination of "So... I am glad you like your stretch Maddy." and "I am SO glad that you like your stretch Maddy!")
So I've been thinking... (yes I can think.) What is the difference between jazz and say... rock. Well that may seem crazy to some people but I honestly can't always tell different genres apart. So I looked up some stuff about jazz. Of course one difference is the instruments. In jazz they use trumpets, saxophones, cellos, and bass guitars. But then what separates it from SKA? Of course SKA tends to be about violence and break-ups (in the best way possible. Believe me I love SKA) SKA is a lot faster then Jazz. Jazz is supposed to be inspired by your passion and your feelings. It originated in New Orleans (so says the internet) It's usually a lot more deep than pop and genres like that. (again I'm not dissing pop) Jazz has a quality that makes you feel like it's dark around you and late at night and pop makes me feel awake like it's 2 in the afternoon. I honestly couldn't pick between Jazz and any other genre because I like so many genres and jazz is just another great genre. That's my take on Jazz. Sorry you readers have to face this awfully long comment. ;)
I know I already talked about Blue in green but I am listening to it without spacing out into visionland. The song is actually a lt happier than the vision I depicted for it. It's slow and makes me think a lot more about my vision for Flamenco Sketches. Flamenco... Flamenco... Fun word to say and type. Back to the song. Blue in Green is one of the more short songs on my album. It's about 5...6 minutes long and all the others are 8-9 minutes. It's rather pretty. I'm still waiting for the other album I will be listening to so we'll all have to wait for me to start talking about it. > : ) <- Alien.
Hi Maddy, I just listened to the beginning of Tutu, you got me interested in it, and it was really cool. I hope it's alright that I listened to part of it. Anyways I really liked it.
Hi Maddy! Your vision for "Blue in Green" was very Romeo and Juliet/West Side Story-esque. Blue in Green might be my favorite track on the album. I find it deeply soothing, like a musical massage.
Ah, but Maddy: is it a blue alien, floating in green space? If not, then it is not blue-in-green and therefore irrelevant to the song. I AM SORRY, I AM NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE ANY SENSE WHEN I AM TIRED. Flamenco, flamenco, flamenco, flamenco... Whoah! You are right! That is kind of addictive... What get's really addictive is typing out the lyrics to songs... I do that a lot. The word meiosis is fun too... and irreverence (especially when irreverence, irrelevance, elegance, irresolute, insubstantial, eloquence, irrigation... and all the rest of those words are put together...) Irrelevant irreverence. Irreverent irrelevance... Wheee... And also, I like reading (and writing, as you probably know) the really really long comments. So keep posting long ones, they are cooler in my opinion. And about SKA, I see what you are saying, but I think that it can also be about really deep issues as well... Like "A moment of silence please: for those who never get the chance. They show up to the party but they're never asked to dance. The losers, the liars... the thieves, the cynicists, the pessimists, the ones who don't believe, in nothing..." I mean they use simple similes like a party, or a dance, but it is still about the people who are left out, about whether it is their fault they are left out or not... It is about real stuff. And "Nothing will be broken if your house is made of stone, but you know as I do it will never be a home..." Well, it talks about no one holding your hand on the day you die, and always being watched yet always alone, and not being able to right all the wrongs you have done no matter how hard you try, and knocking on the gates of heaven until your knuckles are bruised and raw standing in a puddle of your own blood... Light, bright, cheerful and fluffy! Whee! Ha-ha... Yeah, not so much. When I listen to streetlight, I feel like I am alone in the dark. Like I am in an alleyway, and like I have screwed everything up (well it is kind of hard not to feel that way, because the lyrics are all telling you just how much you have screwed up your life, and how no one will hold your hand when you die!) and it is all dark and I am scared and alone, except their is this streetlight, that is bright, and it kind of gives you hope, or at least a new perspective on your situation... I do not know what is manifesting in the glow of this streetlight, I haven't thought about that part yet... Manifestation sounds like infestation. Now my alley-way is infested with rats and they are eating the light... Hmm... They have such cold beady eyes! they are chanting! What they heck are they saying? Hahaha... They are saying "Quien aprende la luz?" Streetlight Manifesto did, little rats. The music did, not my fault. Go leave me and Mia alone, we weren't the ones who turned the darned lights on, so quit giving the both of us the same nightmare. the little rats do not keep track of whether or not they give the same nightmare to people over and over again, lazy rats. Why did they eat my streetlight? I am going to bed, because it is twelve-thirty... Yikes, how did that happen???
Wow, As much as that long, long, long comment was probably meaningful and had information that maybe I asked for... I am sorry I can not read that. The letters are all next to each together (as they should be) but honestly it looks like many little inchworms and if I try to make it into words I get "ching bright ching icky rat party." and that has no relevance to my music so I will change back to important things. Switzerland I think it is great that got to hear Tutu. It 's a lot more different than the album I am/was listening to. I still can't tell whether or not I am still on my same album but that's okay... I'll just call it Felix. That way it doesn't have to belong to anybody. Anyway back to Tutu... I haven't listened to that particular song in a while but if I can remember correctly it started with this kind of swirly music which was one of my favorite parts. That is if I am talking about the same song. Well I am glad there is someone who knows kind of what I am talking about when I am talking about that song. Thank you switzerland for being there, and being... kind of blue... buh-doom-cha!
Whoa the Blog looks soooooooooo cool! Last blog I asked random questions and I didn't exactly ask myself them but I will now... If my music was a type of desert it would be a half eaten chocolate cake that was eaten without a fork. (or any utensil for that matter.) Oh and now I can finally read your comment Amelia. That song is really deep and meaningful. And the name Streetlight Manifesto finally makes sense to me. I wonder if Miles' band has a name... hmmmmmmmm. Here's another question for myself... I fmy music was a cloud formation what would it resemble? It would look an awful lot like a piece of toast with a leech protruding off of it. That's because it's so beautiful and nice (like toast...?) and then there's still this lingering essence that Miles was deeply depressed and tried to hide it in his music. (He must not be good at hide & seek) (the game). So the sad part is sucking the happy out of the songs like a leech. Yeah well that was... interesting. Hope you see lots of clouds that look like toast with leeches on them. * :? <- Inquisitive stare man.
I will never, ever eat toast with jelly again. I will think of squashed, pulverized and pureed bloodsucking leaches being spread on my breakfast. EEEEEWWWWWW. Disgusting. Repulsive. I abhor leaches. I detest leaches. I despise leaches.
On the bright side, I like toast, and I like clouds, so that is good. That is so sad that Miles was depressed. i didn't know that. i guess I never bothered to find out... Hmm... I can't tell a whole lot about the individual band members just from listening to the music. I guess the person who writes the lyrics has had a lot of painful experiences, possibly some addiction to substances and definitely some major issues with religion. I mean the name is "Manifesto" which is like a pamphlet argueing a certain case. It is something that is their if people will listen about something, and it is about religion. I LOVE THE NEW COLORS THANK YOU HANNAH THEY ARE AWESOME. And deserts? Streetlight Manifesto is like... Like a chocolate bar that is like super bitter chocolate, except it also has crunchy nuts, and it also has really sweet stuff, and it also has creamy stuff and sour stuff and spicy stuff... And you would think that it would be super weird but the flavors all taste really really good together and it makes just the right combination. As for a cloud? Something anti-religious I guess... I don't know.
Miles actually isn't depressed just sometimes his music is sad and depressING. That's cute what you said about streetlight manifesto being a dessert with nut and all that. From what I've heard of SM I would think it would be a banana split. That's my opinion. Anywho... I think I'm finally about ot get my new album so wish me luck.... not really no one actually has to. Also Amelia I am sorry that I disgusted you with my leech-toast analogy. That's just what popped into my head when I thought of clouds and I realized it fit my music perfectly. Well that's my... post/talking by typing/being. ;)
I GOT MY NEW ALBUM! I listened to all the songs to get a feel of what tempo and feeling the music had and it is a WHOLE BUNCH more peppy/dancey/fun/happy! It's the album BIRTH OF THE COOL. It has a bunch more drums and is not mellow..... at all. YAY!
So glad you like it!!! You didn't gross me out THAT much, it is just... I really, really dislike leeches. Mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas are worse, but I still hate leeches. I have taken vows to not hate any living thing, and I am supposed to love everything that is a live and except it for what it is, but I still kind of hate them. Humans have done a thousand times the damage that these little guys have done, all they do s take minute amounts of our blood, but still... It is that sensation that something is crawling all over you, and you can't stop it... It is something you can't see because it is so small, and yet it will still kill you, because of the sheer numbers of them. And their sole purpose is to kill you. To drink of you blood enough that they are sustained, so that they can reproduce and their offspring will be able to torment you and aid in the completion of your demise... And no one will hear you scream...
And nobody will quench your thirst when the well runs dry. And no one will hold your hand on the day you die...
Sorry. I had a little nightmare there.... Sorry. Glad that you new album is much more fun and joyful to listen to! I am glad that you are appreciating your music.
Hi everyone, I think it maybe time I start writing down my visions for my new Miles CD. If that's ok. So here goes a vision for the song MOVE. We open up with a family getting out of a moving truck. There's the mom who's wearing a yellow dress and an apron. She carries a box full of kitchen implements through the open door of a sky blue house. Then the Dad comes. He's got his shirt tucked in and he's overly happy. He carries in a box full of books through the door. Then comes a little boy in a baseball cap who looks like his name could be junior. He drags in a box of baseballs and bats and gloves and such. Then a little girl in a pink dress comes out of the truck. Her pigtails are bouncing as she tries to carry a box full of dolls into her house. She struggles until her dad comes and carries it. When we finally see the inside of the house oll the furniture is set out perfectly and the family is just putting in the finishing touches. Mom is fixing the kitchen, dad's fixing the living room, The kids are wearing in the new hallway by playing tag and everyone has this smile that looks a little fake. Then Mom walks in to the hallway and still with her fake smile she bolts the door and sets an alarm. Because as we zoom out and the moving truck drives away we see that they're house is surrounded by the jail, a bar, many dark alley ways that are smokey, and a cop is chasing after a robber right in front of their house. Clearly they are a family of optimists. Sorry if that was too long.
CREEEEEEEEEEEEPY. To be honest, I either thought that the family was ROBOTS, MONSTERS or ALIENS, and that they were going to zip down the side of the house and it was like a spaceship/torture chamber or something. Or I expected the mother to start doing gruesome experiments on the children with the kitchen implements, and the father to start bludgering the kids with the baseball bat... Or, the girl's dolls are really voodoo dolls. Or the dolls steal the kitchen implements and murder the entire family.
Wow... I am in an awfully CHEERFUL and COMPASSIONATE mood today, aren't I? Sorry...
Miranda Rose is typing now... and... SWITCH!
Hi Maddy! That was a really neato vision. I think you have a future in directing music videos, possibly. I really liked how (like Amelia said.. sort of) at first you thought the family was like robots and too perfect to be real, but then you look a little closer and you see that their happiness is a little fake, but then you zoom way out and see that they have it as bad (or worse) as anyone else. It would make a very cool short film, I expect. -Mia
HOW COULD YOU MADELINE. YOU ROB ME OF MY RIGHTS OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH! As a fellow American citizen you should know that it is a PRIVILEGE of our to be able to say what we want, and as American citizens we have this as a RIGHT. IF I WANT TO GO ON A NON-SEQUITOR TIRADE ABOUT ABOUT BLUD-SUCKING LEECHES I HAVE A RIGHT TO DO SO!!! You are an INCREDIBLY DISRESPECTFUL person, to QUESTION MY AUTHORITY TO RANT ABOUT LEECHES.
*In case you are extremely offended now, and hate me for calling you disrespectful, I meant this sarcastically. I do not think it is an outrageous request of you to politely ask me to stop raving on about obscure bloodsucking insects. That is really quite reasonable.
So I find out my dad has some jazz cd's. He starts playing some while we were baking cookies. I could've sworn it was Miles Davis but it wasn't! I was shocked. I suppose a lot of jazz is starting to sound the same. But that's not a bad thing because it's all sounding really cool. My music actually gets stuck in my head now which means I'm really getting used to it. Yay!
Cool! Glad you like Miles, and glad you like the rest of jazz too.
And MADDY! We have a whole blog to ourselves to discuss LEECHES ALL WE WANT!!! I know, EXCITING, right? You must be THRILLED! Don't worry, I won't actually talk about leeches on my blog. Your safe... Well, unless one of our very dear friends is consumed by leeches. then I might talk about leeches on my blog. Let's just cross our fingers and pray that none of our dear friends are consumed by leeches.
Have you ever noticed that once you learn a word, or subject, or hear about a type of music you hear it everywhere? Well now Jazz is popping up everywhere! It's like a pop-up book Oh My god! Because today we're in music class and (i forget who) but they were saying how they wanted to do something jazzish for our spring concert and then there was at my house, I hear stuff that sounds like jazz in stores, and even on itunes it thinks that I'm a total jazz listener (which I am turning into) and it's recommending more jazz! Which is okay because I like jazz now!
I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN! I mean ever since my research on the dollar bill, EVERYTHING has added up to thirteen. Yeah, literally EVERYTHING. I don't think I have looked at the clock ONCE and not found that all the digits add up to thirteen: 12:01, 3:19, 7:42... And now, for some reason, everything has to do with "Staying Gold" and time-traveling unicorns. (Or cereal-box voles.) You are not meant to understand these... But I noticed Charlie suggesting jazz today and I was thinking "Hey, Maddy is listening to Jazz! I wonder if she will suggest that they do a Miles Davis song..."
SO I now have 3 Miles Davis albums, one is Kind of Blue, then there's The Birth of the Cool, and then there's one (excuse the name) Bitches Brew. (sorry) I am listening to a song called Jeru. I don't really know what that is or means but here goes a vision for it. We open with this man who looks like he's going off to work. He has kissed his wife and he's walking down the city streets. He passes the local news stand. Takes a peek at today's headlines and continues on his way. He stops at some girls playing double-dutch on the side walk. This man is extremely happy and joins in with the girl in pigtails and I bright pink dress. This Man has a smile so big it almost hurts to look at. He passes a man with an empty coffee cup and he is begging for money. The man reaches into his pocket and pulls out twenty dollars. He puts it in the cup and tips his hat. He continues walking and makes his way into a large building. He runs up the stairs. He walks down a long hallway smiling. He opens the last door and as soon as he does he pulls out a gun and shoots the man at the desk who's counting money. The man dies. When we look closely we see that the man at the desk is played by the same man with the empty coffee mug. The happy man is still in shooting position... smiling but his face is frozen. When we zoom in and shed some light on his face we see that though he is smiling one single tear is moving slowly down his face. He was hiding his emotions the entire time and not letting anyone know how he truly was feeling. Honestly I don't think a killer plays double-dutch but that's what came to me. I think that reason that's what happened was because the music is really happy and it makes you want to do a really fast version of the swing from ballroom dancing class last year but the at the end it's like this big finally of sad slow music. It's a great song. Though the vision was morbid.
I now have 4 MILES albums. Which means 24 DAVIS songs. Which means I have some work to do. There's this one song on the album BB which was previously mentioned and it is called JOHN MCLAUGHLIN. (Hopefully you all get the awesome part without me having to say it.) Anyway this new album is a lot more upbeat. There's all this electric-y guitar and piano and it's super cool. 8 )
GUESS WHAT I FOUND OUT!!! Miles Davis is was also an artist.]! He taught himself how to draw and paint and stuff and I saw some of it on the Miles Davis website. Here's a link to it if you guys want to see some of it.
http://www.milesdavis.com/art.asp?np=1
It's really pretty. It's mainly painting. You can also find out a lot about him.
So now I have my little family of albums. I have Kind of Blue who is the grandma who is very quiet except when she wants her soup,then we have the Birth of the Cool who is the busy mom who has to keep everyone happy so she can keep her own energy up, then we have the BB twins (because it is a two disc special) and I've only listened to the first disc. Poor neglected # two disc. *cry*
So here goes a vision for ROUGE (if a certain someone who had to wear rouge last year in our play A midsummer's night dream (Thisby) was here I would say "Oh the rouge!" inside joke that everyone get.) So we open up with this woman sitting at this little vanity table powdering her nose and fixing her hair. She's putting on all her make up and rouge. (hence the name) Then we go to a man who is putting on a very nice suit and tie. The women smiles and twirls in her dress that she has put on. The man start winking and and showing off his extremely bright teeth by smiling. He fixes his hair and then puts on a hat. The Women and the man are dressed and we switch between the two shots of them walking down different streets. They finally meet in the street. The women does this cute little wave, the man tips his hat and then they start SCREAMING at each other. Of course you can't tell that they are sreaming but they are exaggerating they words and facial expression and wagging they're arms and fingers at each other. Then they both walk off in a huff. I totally thought they were going to wind up going to the movies tpgether and be all happy but insstead they yelled. Isn't that (er) nice?
Tonight is the last night to blog. *cry* I have really spread my "taste buds" for music. I never thought I would like jazz. I certainly had my stereotypes for it. But now I like it and I have four Miles Davis albums on my ipod.The stretch has helped me a lot in expanding my music interests. It also helps a lot to blog about it. I wish I had enough time to make enough visions for all of the songs but that would probably mean that I would need to write one a day and you would all get annoyed. Including you Hannah. So I bid you all a farewell. It has been great blogging with you all. So i sadly close the doors to this page. I will most likely not respond to your post if you post on here. It would be like you running to the glass doors of my blog. I might respond though so don't shy away. Goodnight! : ) ( :
Everyone just blog a bunch on my blog. And Maddy, I am a lazy person, and I do not have enough time or energy to catch up on ALL the conversation I missed. Especially because I am also "stretching" my Tokio Hotel Music right now, and listening to all the songs I haven't heard yet. Tokio Hotel is just a tiny bit loud and distracting. Just a little bit. And also, to practice my German vocab. I am looking up the lyrics as well.
Okay, I just want to say that I found your blog INCREDIBLY fun to read, Maddy! I love your visions, and I'm impressed by how much Miles Davis exploration you did this semester. Yay you!
HEY Everyone,
ReplyDeleteI'm listening to Miles Davis. From what I've listened to so far It's really mellow. I'm not used to listening to really slow mellow music so this will be interesting. It's totally the kind of music you zone out to which everyone needs once in a while.
Anyways if you have been reading the last blog you will know that I have "interesting" visions when I listen to music so that's just what I will do....
Next time because I need to do something else... Yeah.
- mADDy
Welcome to the blog! please enjoy the pleasant background music and refreshments you may or may not have provided yourself with! Help yourself to a virtual and invisible chocolate. They are wrapped in cyber-foil, and are all artificial! Yummy!
ReplyDeleteIs your music mostly composed of vocals, instrumental or both? My music is so the opposite of mellow... I like it anyways though!
Hello everybody who cared enough to read this!
ReplyDeleteYay I have fans!
Anyway to answer your question Amelia my music has absolutely know vocals what so ever which eliminates the inappropriate factors that are often stapled to good music.
Now for my odd visions:
I am listening to the first song SO WHAT. (which is the exact opposite of the one by P!NK so don't go getting those confused.)
i picture a young girl who looks about 18. She is in this empty ballet studio. She's dancing very slowly and graceful until the music starts to pick up, now she puts on a jackets and runs down a small flight of stairs. She is out on the street now skipping and running.
Sh walks through a park and begins jumping and running on the benches. Then she sees a street-cleaner because it is very late at night. She jumps behind it and follows it by hopping in the puddles it's making. At some point the puddles end and it begins to rain. She pulls an umbrella out of thin air and runs to a brick building. Inside the building that are dripping wet just like she is. They are all dancing and laughing because everyone keeps slipping on the puddles each other are making. She dances for a while and runs home. She steps onto her doorsteps and brushes herself off. Inside you expect to see a house that resembles her personality but when she steps inside there is a huge fancy living room filled with porcelin objects. There is a fancily dressed man sitting there staring at her. This is her father. He scolds her and tells her to go back to her room. (except there are no words)
She puts her chin to her chest and looks down. She walks up the first three stairs and when she realizes that her dad is not watching she dances the rest of the way up and slams her bedroom door closed.
I am going to stop here because this comment is annoyingly long, the rest of the song is annoyingly long, and I probably have to eat dinner right about now.
Enjoy q : ) (incase you can't tell the smiley has a baseball cap on.)
Oh that is really coo-oool! I love song-space-outs. They rock. And it isn't to long for me, I like them longer. I love the music blog!!! you know, I think I will find out with Mark and Courtney and Lois if we can make Science, SW and LA Blogs. The teacher's can put up all of our homework assigments for us, and we can discuss things! It will be better than instant messaging because we talk about interesting things, we can't be innapropriate and we have to use good grammar and stuff. And the teacher's can evaluate our discussions, because I think discussions are better in type, and the teacher's can't hear good points we make when we are IMing or on the phone or emailing each other. And also, I never seem to get mad at people in text so it is cool. And we could put up pictures and links and stuff so we can say "This website on the economy is so cool!" and everyone can read it and write about it, kind of like delicious except better because everyone can comment on it and discuss it and we never run out of time and the teacher's hear all of the interesting points that we make. And the teacher's can also comment to us if we haven't passed in an assignment or something, and share things with us! It will be super, super, fun, It will improve our grades, it will help us understand and be interested in things, it will give us a better understanding of the subjects... It would just be awesome! You know I think I will bring that up sometime! What do you think? Does this have anything to do with music at all? Sorry.
ReplyDeleteHey! See this is my point, we can have ideas and stuff and type them up and people can comment on them.
That was ummm... I can't even comment on that. Sorry. Kind of long. I am sorry I just had some idea/vocabulary vomit on your beautiful blog post Maddy.
ReplyDeleteHi Maddy, I love your "vision" for So What. I think I'll probably picture that scene next time I listen to the album. Can you hear the trumpet "saying" the words "So What?" in the song? If you don't know what I mean, ask me in class & I'll explain.
ReplyDeleteYour vision was really cool, it sounds like an actual music video. It kind of reminds me of our David Artuletta videos. I can't wait to hear about your other ones.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going to hold off on the visions just for a little while because I want to have other things to write about. I will write them... IN TIME...
ReplyDeleteMy music comes off a little boring but it's actually really good to listen to if you want to be mellow or you're need to focus because not much happens in the songs that i have by him.
ReplyDeleteHis songs are REALLY long which probably means he has a lot to express, even though there are no lyrics I think he's trying to say something with the length of his songs like "I'm at a bus stop and I've waited nine minutes in the cold... let me write a song about it... even though there will be no words because A song about waiting for a bus wouldn't sell" (Even though it would.)
; P
Awesome. My dad says that you should email your "Visions" to Baaba Mal because he would love them, and he would probably make a music video out of them and that you should do that as a profession or something. I think that they are awesome too! I honestly think that that is a good idea but somehow I doubt you will actually do that. but come on, how amazingly cool would it be if someone asked you what you do for a profession and you say "I listen to songs and then have visions about them, and people use my song dreams to make awesome music videos!" That would be so much fun, you are super good at it.
ReplyDeleteHi Maddy, I was just wondering what instruments are in your music. I think I heard that Miles Davis plays the trumpet. Is it true? I know that there are many different styles of jazz because I learned about it awhile ago, but what style of jazz is Miles Davis? I think Amelia is right, you're really creative when it comes to your visions(not that you're not creative when it comes to anything else)but I really liked your vision for the Miles Davis song. It was really pretty.
ReplyDeleteThe MILES DAVIS album I have is Very Mellow as I have said before.
ReplyDeleteHe also plays faster jazz. There are a lot types of Jazz I don't know all them but I will find out.
Miles Definitely plays the trumpet, maybe saxophone, I think there are some drums, piano, maybe even triangle. Oh and Bass Guitar... Don't forget the bass guitar.
Thank you for the compliments on my vision. I think my visions are weird. Soon I'll write down more but I'm just dipping my toes into the stretch project water. (even though if this was continuing last semesters stretch I would be all the way under water it's a different stretch."
Ta ta friends.
Hello Fellow bloggers!
ReplyDeleteSo I was doing research on Jazz and I found out some stuff.
So I'm going to tell you. Jazz has a forefather, that forefather is the blues.
Jazz has been called AMERICA'S CLASSICAL MUSIC along with the blues. I don't know why classical music isn't america's classical music but jazz is a form of classical music.
I also found some different jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, and Duke Ellington.
I'm still trying to find out more. There is so much aout Jazz I didn't know....
they aren't weird at all! Well, that is a lie. But, honestly, would any of your friends be your friends if they weren't a little weird? How much would life suck if everyone was exactly the same? Weird is AWESOME. And your visions are most extensively AWESOME! You know, we really have to make one of your visions into an actual video! We could do the visuals and everything and it would be so awesome! try to think of one that doesn't involve being in Africa or goats (forget I said that, we will steal Sarah's!!!) And my friend Kristen can do ballet, so we can film her when it is raining, and flood a building somewhere! We could steal her! I will go ask Kristen if she has any objections to being abducted for the production of a music video.
ReplyDeletePost Script: I will also be asking Kristen if she can conjure umbrellas from thin air. Somehow the outcome of this seems rather inherently dubious.
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteI have a plan.
I will write one vision a week (but I will post other things all throughout whenever)
Here is a vision I will write about the song FREDDIE FREELOADER by Miles Davis:
There is a man that looks like that guy from BURN NOTICE. He is wearing a plum colored suit and matching fedora hat. He is extremely happy and he is walking through a crowded street with many people dressed in fancy older clothing. He tries to impress the women there by showing off his dance moves. One women in a mauve dress comes over, links arms with him and dances along side of him. Everyone gathers round and watches them. Then the a doppleganger of the man comes over with a women who looks the same as the last one only this man is wearing a bright red suit and matching fedora and the women is wearing a salmon colored dress. They show off their dance moves which are much different then the purple couples but are equaly as good. After they dance the men shake hands and begin having a discussion even though you can't hear them. Then a man in a green suit comes with a women in a minty green dress that looks like the other women's dresses. The green couple dances. They all clap for each other when the dancing is over. Then they all dance down the street together. Then all the men stop. the look across the street and see a man that looks exactly like them only he is wearing an entirely black suit, no hat and he doe not have any one surrounding him. He walks towards them and shows off his moves. They are the best if all of them and he is very cocky about it. This is why he is alone. The women try to gather around him but the three colored men pull them each aside and talk them out of it. The man in the black suit is their future selves if they don't think about others soon. and they need to take care of their loved ones. The colored couples run off leaving the man in the black suit all alone in the streets. The man walks back to where the colored men spotted him and he picks up his brief case and walks away. You zone out and see an entire street filled with people in shades of red, purple, and green clothing walk around and dancing but then you see the one man in the black suit walking and not having any fun. But he doesn't care.
That was weird.
and long....sorry
Hi everyone reading this comment.
ReplyDeleteI did some research on MILES DAVIS and I found out how he died. He died of a stroke sep. 28 1991 at age 65. He was born May 26 1926. I also found out he grew up in a white neighborhood, and his dad gave him his first trumpet when he was 13 and then he joined his school marching band. To think of someone like MILES starting out in a marching band is kind of funny. He's so accomplished now... (even though he is dead) and he started out small. That's encouraging. He also had three wives. (At different times) His first wife was named Frances Taylor, then his second wife was named Betty Mabry Davis who MILES divorced after she had an affair with Jimmi Hendrix. Then MILES married a woman named Cicely Tyson at Bill Cosby's house. He had four kids, a daughter named Cheryl, a son named Gregory, another son Miles, and his last son named Erin. So one of his sons name was Miles Davis as well.
Well this is a lot information and I wouldn't want anyone to have an information overload...
so Bye.
Hi Everyone. I just have a quick question and then I 'm going to go eat breakfast.
ReplyDeleteAre we having another stretch after this one or is this the last one until next year? Hannah might be the only one who can answer that but I don't really know.
; )
Maddy, we really need to make these visions into A. A music video B. A novel C. something other than a music video or a novel. They are so awesome!
ReplyDeleteThanks : )
ReplyDeleteSo today in Music class I was looking through my listening examples book and I saw that one of the earlier songs we listened to was "Blue in Green" Which Low and Behold is by Miles Davis! It was really surprising because when I heard that song in music class I was thinking how I don't usually listen to that kind of music and then I completely forgot about it. And Now I'm listening to Miles.
ReplyDeleteAhhhh good times. : )
To possibly answer your question Maddy, I think we have a stretch project every semester, so this could be the last one. I'm not positive about that, so wait for Hannah to answer. Also do you know what happened to his first wife and his third wife?
ReplyDeleteI don't know about his first wife. I think he died while he was still married to Cicely. I'm not sure though so I'll find that out.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the thing about each semester.
Emilie, you're right! This is the final one for the year. I hope you'll keep doing independent stretch projects (no blogging required) on your own through the summer! I do them in my life all year long, in music and in other areas (food, exercise, books . . . )
ReplyDeleteI LOVE reading this! So much good dialogue, and fascinating visions. Thanks, Maddy & co!
Thanks for the love of my blog.
ReplyDeleteBut what do you mean by co?
Anyways prepare yourself for another vision. Get comfy and grab a bag of popcorn because here it goes.
We begin with the song called ALL BLUES.
There is young boy sweep the front of a soda shop. The weather is hot so he is sweating quite a bit. He leans on the broom and wipes his forehead. He looks next door to the neighboring shop and sees another young boy sweeping the barber's shop. Mind you they are both around fifteen. The barber shop boy looks up and begins moving his feet while he sweeps. Soda boy begins doing the same. Soon barber boy steps out on to the side walk and begins to dance around with the broom. Soda boy starts spinning the broom around and doing jazz hands like crazy. They both walk into the middle of the road with their brooms and dance even though it is getting dark. They meet and shake hands (while dancing.) Soon they are dancing synchronized and they are laughing as the air begins to cool and their dance gets slower. As they are dancing a milk truck drives slowly down the road. They both dance to opposite sides of the street and when the truck passes barber shop boy is gone. *poof*
Soda boy takes no concern and dances back to the shop's stoop. As he's turning the door knob to the shop he steps back and makes one more sweep then goes back inside. Then we slowly zoom out from the shop.
That was the longest vision I have ever made up.
Hannah I am sorry I am slowing down your grading progress.
Wow cool Maddy! these are so much fun to read! I feel like I am there and I can actually see them! And by Co. I think Hannah means and abbreviation of company. So I think she means you and the other people who are posting on your blog.
ReplyDeleteWHERE DID BARBERSHOP BOY GO???
Can we blog this summer Hannah?
ReplyDeleteI have no idea where barbershop boy is... maybe he will turn up again. But maybe he will realize he is confined to the inside of brain of the rest of eternity. So he might not turn up again.
ReplyDeleteHi All,
ReplyDeleteMy favorite song off of my album is ALL BLUES. I know that is the last song I blogged about was All blues but I didn't really dissect the song so now I will.
In the beginning of the song there's this sound that is similar to a broom. Probably the drum stick that looks like a brush. There's definitely piano, trumpet, maybe saxophone. I really wish there was a way I could imitate musical notes on this blog because the tune is so catchy it gets burned into your skull and all you can think is the tune that I can't repeat.
Anyways,
Miles Davis plays cool instruments. I've always wanted to play that brushy-drum thing.
OH MY GOSH! I was just on youtube and i heard this REALLY COOL SONG! You probably can tell i like it by my vast use of capital letters. Anyways the song is called Tutu. I know... weird name but the beginning is super cool. Ilove it the beginning of songs are super suspenseful and loud and awesome so that i can be prepared for a full-blast rock out song. Most of Miles' songs aren't like that but this one was cool and... cool. It starts out all... um... musical? and then gets really musical. Ok I'll explain that better. It's a little techno in the beginning and then the trumpets and saxophones come in, and the keyboard.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone else have anything to say on the topic of beginnings of songs? :)
Hi Maddy, I don't mind at ALL reading your long visions! They are super fun. Have you thought about directing music videos? You have great ideas. Yes, by co I mean company. And yes, Amelia, we can blog this summer. I've done that with other students before!
ReplyDeleteI listen to my music whenever I get the chance. But as we all know life can get very busy. What, with school, homework, clubs, being tired, being lazy. I listen to my music when I do my homework and when I blog. I listen when I blog so I can remember what the heck I'm listening to. It also helps me write about my music and all the little tiny details.
ReplyDeleteI also just plug in some headphones and listen when I need some zone-out time.
:)
Alright. Here's another vision thingo.
ReplyDeleteIt's to the song BLUE IN GREEN.
There is a young women in an empty room with one window. The light is shinning in on her. She is on the floor crying with a picture of a man about her age. She gets up to the window and looks out. There is a large group of people in black walking in a mob like thing. They are all helping to carry a large casket/coffin. But if you look really closely you see a woman just like the one crying. She is wearing an eerie shade of red. She can't help but wipe her face. She is crying but not as much as the first lady. The girl in the empty room watches the mob carry the casket to the cemetery. They begin lowering it in to the ground while one man reads the dead man's will aloud. Everyone cries. The women in the red suit cries as she is handed an envelope. She runs away and sobs. Suddenly we flash back to the woman in the building. She is holding the same envelope. When she opens it there is a knife. Unfortunately the next image is her dead on the floor. The one who was dead was her fiance, he knew he was dying and asked if she would kill herself to be with him. She did and know they are together but the song ends so I can't continue.
This really shows what crazy things we will do for love. <3
That last icon thingy was a heart just to let you all know.
ReplyDeleteOk so it's been getting easier to listen to my music at different times now. The weird thing is now I listen to my music at the same time that I watch any t.v..... My mom has another Miles Davis album that I'm going to listen to along with my current album. I'm not saying the name of the album right now but all will be reavealed... in time.
ReplyDeleteLadies... and Gentleman... WELCOME TO MY BLOG!
ReplyDeleteWell you've probably already been here but that's ok. Here is the last song on this album and then I will switchto a new album. This is also the last vision for this album...
This song is called FLAMENCO SKETCHES.
We Open with a scruffy looking man on a roof top. He has on a leather jacket and ripped jeans. He's smoking a cigarette very slowly. He looks down on to the street, there is a young couple walking. They are holding hand and laughing. He looks up at the moon and when he looks at his hands he realized he was sub-consiously holding his own hands with the cigarette wedged in between his two fingers. The smoke weaves it's way out into the night air.He takes off his shoes and ties the laces together. Now the shoes are holding "hands". He throws them off the roof and they swing around the telephone wires. Now he stands up in his bare socks. He walks across the roof. He holds the cigarette in-between his lips and looks over the edge of the roof. There the couple is again. Now the man's arm is wrapped around the girls shoulder. The man begins to cry just a bit. One tear rolls off his face and down on to the girls neck. She looks up, sees him, looks like she feels sorry for him, then takes out an umbrella. The man wipes his face and walks to the door back inside. He slams the screen door and the lights go out inside. He is done.
Hope you all enjoyed that.
Sorry that was so long.
ReplyDeleteHi Maddy. I'm turning your question for me to you: have you seen any music videos of Miles Davis? I looked him up on iTunes, and he has only two. So What and Decoy. Have you listened to those songs? I saw the music videos. So What is kinda the opposite of the P!nk song - Miles Davis is playing the trumpet in that one and it looks like he has mascara on and his eyes are all wide and he looks SCARED. The Decoy one's pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteWait a second...
ReplyDeleteI thought Decoy was one of your songs... I was just on your page and Amelia was talking about Decoy and Paramore and I am confused now.
Whatever. I'll look up Decoy. It's not on my current album. I'm still waiting for my mom to lend me her album of Miles Davis so i can still say current album and mean Kind of Blue.
:{ <- Guy with a mustache says goodbye.
So I have a theory about the album title Kind of Blue. Well all the songs on this album are slow and moody except for All Blues. Because there are no lyrics it is a little hard to tell what the emotion of Miles is... because the music could also be considered... romantic? kind of. So the over all mood of Miles very well could be Blue. The mood not the color. Then again there's my crazy mixed up theory that Miles wrote the musical notes of his songs in blue in but when it dried it only looked kind of blue so he thought it was poetic and kept it. Or... The recording studio they used was a shade of turquoise and everyone debated on whether it was green or blue and someone said... "it's a KIND OF BLUE" So it became an inside joke between Miles and the band so they named the album that.
ReplyDeleteThose are my theories that are probably not true because if you have read Mia's blog you would know that my theories are kind of far-fetched and outrageous. Have fun making any sense out of this comment.
I like those theories. They are quite possible at least, if not entirely probable, but then again the less probable a theory is the more fun it is to theorize and the more fun it is to read on a blog. So glad you like your stretch Maddy! (This is a combination of "So... I am glad you like your stretch Maddy." and "I am SO glad that you like your stretch Maddy!")
ReplyDeleteSo I've been thinking... (yes I can think.)
ReplyDeleteWhat is the difference between jazz and say... rock. Well that may seem crazy to some people but I honestly can't always tell different genres apart. So I looked up some stuff about jazz. Of course one difference is the instruments. In jazz they use trumpets, saxophones, cellos, and bass guitars. But then what separates it from SKA? Of course SKA tends to be about violence and break-ups (in the best way possible. Believe me I love SKA) SKA is a lot faster then Jazz.
Jazz is supposed to be inspired by your passion and your feelings. It originated in New Orleans (so says the internet) It's usually a lot more deep than pop and genres like that. (again I'm not dissing pop) Jazz has a quality that makes you feel like it's dark around you and late at night and pop makes me feel awake like it's 2 in the afternoon. I honestly couldn't pick between Jazz and any other genre because I like so many genres and jazz is just another great genre.
That's my take on Jazz.
Sorry you readers have to face this awfully long comment.
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I know I already talked about Blue in green but I am listening to it without spacing out into visionland. The song is actually a lt happier than the vision I depicted for it. It's slow and makes me think a lot more about my vision for Flamenco Sketches. Flamenco... Flamenco... Fun word to say and type. Back to the song. Blue in Green is one of the more short songs on my album. It's about 5...6 minutes long and all the others are 8-9 minutes. It's rather pretty. I'm still waiting for the other album I will be listening to so we'll all have to wait for me to start talking about it.
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Hi Maddy,
ReplyDeleteI just listened to the beginning of Tutu, you got me interested in it, and it was really cool. I hope it's alright that I listened to part of it. Anyways I really liked it.
Hi Maddy! Your vision for "Blue in Green" was very Romeo and Juliet/West Side Story-esque. Blue in Green might be my favorite track on the album. I find it deeply soothing, like a musical massage.
ReplyDeleteAh, but Maddy: is it a blue alien, floating in green space? If not, then it is not blue-in-green and therefore irrelevant to the song. I AM SORRY, I AM NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE ANY SENSE WHEN I AM TIRED.
ReplyDeleteFlamenco, flamenco, flamenco, flamenco...
Whoah! You are right! That is kind of addictive... What get's really addictive is typing out the lyrics to songs... I do that a lot. The word meiosis is fun too... and irreverence (especially when irreverence, irrelevance, elegance, irresolute, insubstantial, eloquence, irrigation... and all the rest of those words are put together...) Irrelevant irreverence. Irreverent irrelevance... Wheee...
And also, I like reading (and writing, as you probably know) the really really long comments. So keep posting long ones, they are cooler in my opinion. And about SKA, I see what you are saying, but I think that it can also be about really deep issues as well... Like "A moment of silence please: for those who never get the chance. They show up to the party but they're never asked to dance. The losers, the liars... the thieves, the cynicists, the pessimists, the ones who don't believe, in nothing..." I mean they use simple similes like a party, or a dance, but it is still about the people who are left out, about whether it is their fault they are left out or not... It is about real stuff. And "Nothing will be broken if your house is made of stone, but you know as I do it will never be a home..." Well, it talks about no one holding your hand on the day you die, and always being watched yet always alone, and not being able to right all the wrongs you have done no matter how hard you try, and knocking on the gates of heaven until your knuckles are bruised and raw standing in a puddle of your own blood... Light, bright, cheerful and fluffy! Whee! Ha-ha... Yeah, not so much. When I listen to streetlight, I feel like I am alone in the dark. Like I am in an alleyway, and like I have screwed everything up (well it is kind of hard not to feel that way, because the lyrics are all telling you just how much you have screwed up your life, and how no one will hold your hand when you die!) and it is all dark and I am scared and alone, except their is this streetlight, that is bright, and it kind of gives you hope, or at least a new perspective on your situation... I do not know what is manifesting in the glow of this streetlight, I haven't thought about that part yet...
Manifestation sounds like infestation. Now my alley-way is infested with rats and they are eating the light... Hmm... They have such cold beady eyes! they are chanting! What they heck are they saying?
Hahaha...
They are saying "Quien aprende la luz?"
Streetlight Manifesto did, little rats. The music did, not my fault. Go leave me and Mia alone, we weren't the ones who turned the darned lights on, so quit giving the both of us the same nightmare.
the little rats do not keep track of whether or not they give the same nightmare to people over and over again, lazy rats.
Why did they eat my streetlight?
I am going to bed, because it is twelve-thirty... Yikes, how did that happen???
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ReplyDeleteTHAT is how it got to be twelve thirty....
Wow,
ReplyDeleteAs much as that long, long, long comment was probably meaningful and had information that maybe I asked for... I am sorry I can not read that. The letters are all next to each together (as they should be) but honestly it looks like many little inchworms and if I try to make it into words I get "ching bright ching icky rat party." and that has no relevance to my music so I will change back to important things. Switzerland I think it is great that got to hear Tutu. It 's a lot more different than the album I am/was listening to. I still can't tell whether or not I am still on my same album but that's okay... I'll just call it Felix. That way it doesn't have to belong to anybody. Anyway back to Tutu... I haven't listened to that particular song in a while but if I can remember correctly it started with this kind of swirly music which was one of my favorite parts. That is if I am talking about the same song. Well I am glad there is someone who knows kind of what I am talking about when I am talking about that song.
Thank you switzerland for being there, and being... kind of blue... buh-doom-cha!
Whoa the Blog looks soooooooooo cool!
ReplyDeleteLast blog I asked random questions and I didn't exactly ask myself them but I will now... If my music was a type of desert it would be a half eaten chocolate cake that was eaten without a fork. (or any utensil for that matter.) Oh and now I can finally read your comment Amelia. That song is really deep and meaningful. And the name Streetlight Manifesto finally makes sense to me. I wonder if Miles' band has a name... hmmmmmmmm. Here's another question for myself... I fmy music was a cloud formation what would it resemble? It would look an awful lot like a piece of toast with a leech protruding off of it. That's because it's so beautiful and nice (like toast...?) and then there's still this lingering essence that Miles was deeply depressed and tried to hide it in his music. (He must not be good at hide & seek) (the game). So the sad part is sucking the happy out of the songs like a leech.
Yeah well that was... interesting. Hope you see lots of clouds that look like toast with leeches on them.
* :? <- Inquisitive stare man.
Uhhhhh..............
ReplyDeleteI will never, ever eat toast with jelly again. I will think of squashed, pulverized and pureed bloodsucking leaches being spread on my breakfast.
EEEEEWWWWWW.
Disgusting.
Repulsive.
I abhor leaches. I detest leaches. I despise leaches.
On the bright side, I like toast, and I like clouds, so that is good.
That is so sad that Miles was depressed. i didn't know that. i guess I never bothered to find out... Hmm... I can't tell a whole lot about the individual band members just from listening to the music. I guess the person who writes the lyrics has had a lot of painful experiences, possibly some addiction to substances and definitely some major issues with religion.
I mean the name is "Manifesto" which is like a pamphlet argueing a certain case. It is something that is their if people will listen about something, and it is about religion.
I LOVE THE NEW COLORS THANK YOU HANNAH THEY ARE AWESOME.
And deserts? Streetlight Manifesto is like... Like a chocolate bar that is like super bitter chocolate, except it also has crunchy nuts, and it also has really sweet stuff, and it also has creamy stuff and sour stuff and spicy stuff... And you would think that it would be super weird but the flavors all taste really really good together and it makes just the right combination.
As for a cloud? Something anti-religious I guess... I don't know.
Miles actually isn't depressed just sometimes his music is sad and depressING. That's cute what you said about streetlight manifesto being a dessert with nut and all that. From what I've heard of SM I would think it would be a banana split. That's my opinion. Anywho... I think I'm finally about ot get my new album so wish me luck.... not really no one actually has to. Also Amelia I am sorry that I disgusted you with my leech-toast analogy. That's just what popped into my head when I thought of clouds and I realized it fit my music perfectly.
ReplyDeleteWell that's my... post/talking by typing/being.
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I GOT MY NEW ALBUM! I listened to all the songs to get a feel of what tempo and feeling the music had and it is a WHOLE BUNCH more peppy/dancey/fun/happy! It's the album BIRTH OF THE COOL. It has a bunch more drums and is not mellow..... at all. YAY!
ReplyDeleteSo glad you like it!!! You didn't gross me out THAT much, it is just... I really, really dislike leeches. Mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas are worse, but I still hate leeches. I have taken vows to not hate any living thing, and I am supposed to love everything that is a live and except it for what it is, but I still kind of hate them. Humans have done a thousand times the damage that these little guys have done, all they do s take minute amounts of our blood, but still...
ReplyDeleteIt is that sensation that something is crawling all over you, and you can't stop it... It is something you can't see because it is so small, and yet it will still kill you, because of the sheer numbers of them. And their sole purpose is to kill you. To drink of you blood enough that they are sustained, so that they can reproduce and their offspring will be able to torment you and aid in the completion of your demise... And no one will hear you scream...
And nobody will quench your thirst when the well runs dry. And no one will hold your hand on the day you die...
Sorry. I had a little nightmare there.... Sorry.
Glad that you new album is much more fun and joyful to listen to! I am glad that you are appreciating your music.
Lets get off the topic of leeches and back to music like we should. (again not to be rude.)
ReplyDeleteHi everyone,
ReplyDeleteI think it maybe time I start writing down my visions for my new Miles CD. If that's ok.
So here goes a vision for the song MOVE.
We open up with a family getting out of a moving truck. There's the mom who's wearing a yellow dress and an apron. She carries a box full of kitchen implements through the open door of a sky blue house. Then the Dad comes. He's got his shirt tucked in and he's overly happy. He carries in a box full of books through the door. Then comes a little boy in a baseball cap who looks like his name could be junior. He drags in a box of baseballs and bats and gloves and such. Then a little girl in a pink dress comes out of the truck. Her pigtails are bouncing as she tries to carry a box full of dolls into her house. She struggles until her dad comes and carries it. When we finally see the inside of the house oll the furniture is set out perfectly and the family is just putting in the finishing touches. Mom is fixing the kitchen, dad's fixing the living room, The kids are wearing in the new hallway by playing tag and everyone has this smile that looks a little fake. Then Mom walks in to the hallway and still with her fake smile she bolts the door and sets an alarm. Because as we zoom out and the moving truck drives away we see that they're house is surrounded by the jail, a bar, many dark alley ways that are smokey, and a cop is chasing after a robber right in front of their house.
Clearly they are a family of optimists.
Sorry if that was too long.
CREEEEEEEEEEEEPY.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I either thought that the family was ROBOTS, MONSTERS or ALIENS, and that they were going to zip down the side of the house and it was like a spaceship/torture chamber or something.
Or I expected the mother to start doing gruesome experiments on the children with the kitchen implements, and the father to start bludgering the kids with the baseball bat...
Or, the girl's dolls are really voodoo dolls.
Or the dolls steal the kitchen implements and murder the entire family.
Wow... I am in an awfully CHEERFUL and COMPASSIONATE mood today, aren't I? Sorry...
Miranda Rose is typing now... and... SWITCH!
Hi Maddy! That was a really neato vision. I think you have a future in directing music videos, possibly. I really liked how (like Amelia said.. sort of) at first you thought the family was like robots and too perfect to be real, but then you look a little closer and you see that their happiness is a little fake, but then you zoom way out and see that they have it as bad (or worse) as anyone else. It would make a very cool short film, I expect.
-Mia
Thanks. There is this thing where i could send in a an idea for a music video to a contest but it would also be a commercial for ford cars.
ReplyDeleteAlso that vision probably came to me because the family was moving and then= song was called MOVE.
ReplyDeleteHOW COULD YOU MADELINE.
ReplyDeleteYOU ROB ME OF MY RIGHTS OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH!
As a fellow American citizen you should know that it is a PRIVILEGE of our to be able to say what we want, and as American citizens we have this as a RIGHT.
IF I WANT TO GO ON A NON-SEQUITOR TIRADE ABOUT ABOUT BLUD-SUCKING LEECHES I HAVE A RIGHT TO DO SO!!!
You are an INCREDIBLY DISRESPECTFUL person, to QUESTION MY AUTHORITY TO RANT ABOUT LEECHES.
*In case you are extremely offended now, and hate me for calling you disrespectful, I meant this sarcastically. I do not think it is an outrageous request of you to politely ask me to stop raving on about obscure bloodsucking insects. That is really quite reasonable.
I'm not mad... why would I be? That was too outrageous of a rant to be real. I just think we should stick to music discussion. That's all.
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So I find out my dad has some jazz cd's. He starts playing some while we were baking cookies. I could've sworn it was Miles Davis but it wasn't! I was shocked. I suppose a lot of jazz is starting to sound the same. But that's not a bad thing because it's all sounding really cool. My music actually gets stuck in my head now which means I'm really getting used to it.
ReplyDeleteYay!
Cool! Glad you like Miles, and glad you like the rest of jazz too.
ReplyDeleteAnd MADDY! We have a whole blog to ourselves to discuss LEECHES ALL WE WANT!!!
I know, EXCITING, right?
You must be THRILLED!
Don't worry, I won't actually talk about leeches on my blog. Your safe...
Well, unless one of our very dear friends is consumed by leeches. then I might talk about leeches on my blog.
Let's just cross our fingers and pray that none of our dear friends are consumed by leeches.
Have you ever noticed that once you learn a word, or subject, or hear about a type of music you hear it everywhere? Well now Jazz is popping up everywhere! It's like a pop-up book Oh My god!
ReplyDeleteBecause today we're in music class and (i forget who) but they were saying how they wanted to do something jazzish for our spring concert and then there was at my house, I hear stuff that sounds like jazz in stores, and even on itunes it thinks that I'm a total jazz listener (which I am turning into) and it's recommending more jazz! Which is okay because I like jazz now!
I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN!
ReplyDeleteI mean ever since my research on the dollar bill, EVERYTHING has added up to thirteen.
Yeah, literally EVERYTHING.
I don't think I have looked at the clock ONCE and not found that all the digits add up to thirteen: 12:01, 3:19, 7:42...
And now, for some reason, everything has to do with "Staying Gold" and time-traveling unicorns. (Or cereal-box voles.)
You are not meant to understand these...
But I noticed Charlie suggesting jazz today and I was thinking "Hey, Maddy is listening to Jazz! I wonder if she will suggest that they do a Miles Davis song..."
It was Charlie?!.. I thought it was someone else.
ReplyDeleteSo I've gotten yet another Miles Davis Album...
ReplyDeleteI haven't listened to it yet but the album artwork is gorgeous.
SO I now have 3 Miles Davis albums, one is Kind of Blue, then there's The Birth of the Cool, and then there's one (excuse the name) Bitches Brew. (sorry) I am listening to a song called Jeru. I don't really know what that is or means but here goes a vision for it.
ReplyDeleteWe open with this man who looks like he's going off to work. He has kissed his wife and he's walking down the city streets. He passes the local news stand. Takes a peek at today's headlines and continues on his way. He stops at some girls playing double-dutch on the side walk. This man is extremely happy and joins in with the girl in pigtails and I bright pink dress. This Man has a smile so big it almost hurts to look at. He passes a man with an empty coffee cup and he is begging for money. The man reaches into his pocket and pulls out twenty dollars. He puts it in the cup and tips his hat. He continues walking and makes his way into a large building. He runs up the stairs. He walks down a long hallway smiling. He opens the last door and as soon as he does he pulls out a gun and shoots the man at the desk who's counting money. The man dies. When we look closely we see that the man at the desk is played by the same man with the empty coffee mug. The happy man is still in shooting position... smiling but his face is frozen. When we zoom in and shed some light on his face we see that though he is smiling one single tear is moving slowly down his face.
He was hiding his emotions the entire time and not letting anyone know how he truly was feeling. Honestly I don't think a killer plays double-dutch but that's what came to me. I think that reason that's what happened was because the music is really happy and it makes you want to do a really fast version of the swing from ballroom dancing class last year but the at the end it's like this big finally of sad slow music. It's a great song. Though the vision was morbid.
I now have 4 MILES albums. Which means 24 DAVIS songs. Which means I have some work to do.
ReplyDeleteThere's this one song on the album BB which was previously mentioned and it is called JOHN MCLAUGHLIN. (Hopefully you all get the awesome part without me having to say it.)
Anyway this new album is a lot more upbeat. There's all this electric-y guitar and piano and it's super cool.
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Is Miles Davis jazz? From what I have listened to jazz it is very calming and relaxing a genre of music that helps relive stress.
ReplyDeleteYes it most definitely is calming. Or at least Kind of Blue is. BB is a little more dance-ish.
ReplyDeleteGUESS WHAT I FOUND OUT!!!
ReplyDeleteMiles Davis is was also an artist.]! He taught himself how to draw and paint and stuff and I saw some of it on the Miles Davis website.
Here's a link to it if you guys want to see some of it.
http://www.milesdavis.com/art.asp?np=1
It's really pretty. It's mainly painting. You can also find out a lot about him.
So now I have my little family of albums. I have Kind of Blue who is the grandma who is very quiet except when she wants her soup,then we have the Birth of the Cool who is the busy mom who has to keep everyone happy so she can keep her own energy up, then we have the BB twins (because it is a two disc special) and I've only listened to the first disc. Poor neglected # two disc. *cry*
ReplyDeleteSo here goes a vision for ROUGE (if a certain someone who had to wear rouge last year in our play A midsummer's night dream (Thisby) was here I would say "Oh the rouge!" inside joke that everyone get.)
ReplyDeleteSo we open up with this woman sitting at this little vanity table powdering her nose and fixing her hair. She's putting on all her make up and rouge. (hence the name) Then we go to a man who is putting on a very nice suit and tie. The women smiles and twirls in her dress that she has put on. The man start winking and and showing off his extremely bright teeth by smiling. He fixes his hair and then puts on a hat. The Women and the man are dressed and we switch between the two shots of them walking down different streets. They finally meet in the street. The women does this cute little wave, the man tips his hat and then they start SCREAMING at each other. Of course you can't tell that they are sreaming but they are exaggerating they words and facial expression and wagging they're arms and fingers at each other. Then they both walk off in a huff. I totally thought they were going to wind up going to the movies tpgether and be all happy but insstead they yelled. Isn't that (er) nice?
Tonight is the last night to blog.
ReplyDelete*cry*
I have really spread my "taste buds" for music.
I never thought I would like jazz. I certainly had my stereotypes for it. But now I like it and I have four Miles Davis albums on my ipod.The stretch has helped me a lot in expanding my music interests. It also helps a lot to blog about it. I wish I had enough time to make enough visions for all of the songs but that would probably mean that I would need to write one a day and you would all get annoyed. Including you Hannah. So I bid you all a farewell. It has been great blogging with you all. So i sadly close the doors to this page. I will most likely not respond to your post if you post on here. It would be like you running to the glass doors of my blog. I might respond though so don't shy away.
Goodnight!
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Everyone just blog a bunch on my blog.
ReplyDeleteAnd Maddy, I am a lazy person, and I do not have enough time or energy to catch up on ALL the conversation I missed. Especially because I am also "stretching" my Tokio Hotel Music right now, and listening to all the songs I haven't heard yet. Tokio Hotel is just a tiny bit loud and distracting. Just a little bit. And also, to practice my German vocab. I am looking up the lyrics as well.
that's nice.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I just want to say that I found your blog INCREDIBLY fun to read, Maddy! I love your visions, and I'm impressed by how much Miles Davis exploration you did this semester. Yay you!
ReplyDeleteThank you.
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