MoGrubb

Yeah, ok, but if you come to Texas and ask for beans in your chili, they're gonna know you're a foreigner. In my neck of the woods "chili" has always been understood to be meat w/chili(spice/pepper), and "carne" means beans, and "con" means "with." Hence you've got your chili with beans. Live and learn. I best brush up on my Mexican lingo.

Little kids!? Hell, that's amazing!

Congratulations, your dead body is worth $4305! Thrilling.

WTF

You can't have chili con carne without beans. Same as you can't have chili con carne without chili. Reminds me how weird people up North are. When you ask for a burger or hotdog with chili(& mustard and slaw). They give you chili with beans in it. wtf, If I'd asked for chili con carne on my burger, I'd of said chili con carne. But you know, "He's from the South, he don't know beans."

So you don't know any more than I do MG Except, we hear sound before we know what it means.

You know how some foods taste better after they've set overnight? I've learned a shortcut for "aging" chili con carne. Mash up about half or so of the beans with a hand potato masher before adding the other ingredients.

Why not? Well, because we're hard wired for language. We're almost certainly hard wired for music, too, but I can't believe one is more basic than the other. Or that someone who's managed to learn a language is somehow "miswired". Like WD45, I can listen with great enjoyment to people singing in a language I don't understand and, like him, I'm focusing on the sounds and the feeling in the singer's voice, as well as on the rest of the band. But that isn't ALL the vocal music I can listen to with great enjoyment. That condition seems to me to be the result of a conscious decision - analogous to deciding that, even though your right hand isn't disabled, you won't use it for the rest of your life. I think it would be every bit as hard to ignore the language component of music as to avoid using your right hand more or less instinctively - unless you had tied it behind your back. And, if it can't be ignored, how to avoid assessing some as good, some bad and some indifferent? (I think we're hard wired for criticism, too ) MG We get feelings from the musical sounds of words before we differentiate words from those same sounds into intellectual meaning. It may or maynot have anything to do with being "wired" differently. Some musical sounds stimulate the intellect (even without accompanying words).

Strippers!? I hate traveling. Y'all toss back a couple for me.

Twelve O'Clock High between your legs

I'm meeting friends for supper and checking out a delicatessen that's supposed to be exceptionally good. I'm having a Reuben.

I wonder, maybe New Guinea is a dumping ground for radio active experiments(?).

Annie Lennox David Byrne Rickie Lee Jones

Is it really a natural focus or something that's learned? I can't truly believe some people are born like that. MG Why not? Singing has tones, e.g. humming. (IMO) It's more basic than being attracted to language/words. I can listen to a singer and not "hear" a word they say.

Marian Anderson Marian McPartland Charlie Mariano

I reckon she caught the spirit, alright.

I remember the Isis show. It was on while I was still infatuated with TV and watched about anything that was on. The show sucked, but she was quite a looker.

I've read about Herbie's views on singing/singers before. It's not a question/matter of whether the singer's good or not, or whether the lyrics are worth a shit, it's a matter of (natural) focus, the attention is focused on musical tones and rhythm. I like it like that.

would rather listen to vince gill any day than kenny. looks like he keeps his axe in his bag to scare gulls and crows away? Hell, I'd rather listen to a goat bleating.

Manfred Mann Hugh Masekela Hugh Hefner

High Noon between your legs

This is on reason why I want to "talk" with permissive parents in favor of their teens having fun sex, whom say "They're gonna do it anyway...."

Lawrence of Arabia Pete O'Toole Omar Sharif

Welk's infamous announcement, "Take a Train" is usually good for a snicker.

Not mine.