What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
- TheGreenGoblin
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
- TheGreenGoblin
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
- TheGreenGoblin
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
This is a cracking album...
Still brilliant after all these years..
Still brilliant after all these years..
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
- Rwy in Sight
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
Most of you might have seen the movie. The composer died the other day and the special tv and radio shows did remind me of this very characteristic piece
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
- TheGreenGoblin
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
Are you also, a Nikos Kazantakis fan RiS?Rwy in Sight wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 4:57 pmMost of you might have seen the movie. The composer died the other day and the special tv and radio shows did remind me of this very characteristic piece
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
- Rwy in Sight
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
Yes at least for Zorbas. I still have some serious reading of Kazantzakis works to do.
- TheGreenGoblin
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
- TheGreenGoblin
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
- TheGreenGoblin
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
- TheGreenGoblin
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
Vewwy joowish
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
More in the Jewish tradition...
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
- TheGreenGoblin
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
All brought to mind by the health thread and the stuff about heat stroke...
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
- Undried Plum
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
I learned today that an old friend died last night.
We'd been friends since Oman in the early 1970s. When he was invalided out of his Regiment due to combat injuries he was fit to carry out normal infantry duties, but not quite agile enough for the rather specialised form of soldiering to which he had become accustomed. He left with a gratuity and a bit of a pension but he wasn't the retiring sortta guy. He asked me if he might get into the offshore game in some way. I got him him a well paid job as a general dogsbody with a major worldwide diving/survey outfit, knowing that his extraordinary personal and physical qualities would shine through. He very rapidly progressed through the ranks to Survey Assistant to Assistant Surveyor to Survey Technician. In his last Regiment he'd been a Signals specialist, so the electronic stuff was second nature for him.
We worked together in all sorts of grotty places such as Egypt, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Iran, Peterhead and Cabinda.
In the Eastern Desert he very literally saved my life. It was at a trigpoint called D-254. I was doing a network calibration for a Motorola MiniRanger terrestrial nav system. I was pacing up and down fretfully while the crew at the other end of the baseline struggled to get to the trigpoint I do that. I pace up and down and around, apparently mindlessly, while I'm engossed deep in thought, as I'd do normally while trying to solve a complicated logistical problem. Suddenly he yelled "FREEZE!".
I knew him well enough to know that he doesn't piss about, so I instantly froze.
I looked down and saw that one pace in front of my left foot was a land mine. It was the food-tin sized variety. Not a toe-popper. This thing was designed to destroy a jeep as much as any infantryman who might step on it.
We surveyed the **** outta da ting. Not difficult as it was only 30m from a well-surveyed trig point. Together with photographs from umpteen angles and distances, I filed a Report with the Gyppo authorities so they could remove it.
A decade or so later, I heard that a young Canadian Surveyor had been killed by a landmine at D-254. Dunno whether it was the same one, though I have reasons to suspect that it was. He, poor sod, didn't have Dave B to save him. I did.
I'm alive because of Dave B and because of my respect for him.
Now, Dave B is dead.
It's entirely understandable that my reading glasses are getting a wee bit foggy as I write this. I'm sitting by the pond, in the shelter where I normally sit. I have a powerful Sonos hifi with the soundbar in the front rafter of the open ridge-roof of the shelter and the back speakers where they should be. No grumpy old expat farts downriver or upriver to bitch about the thumpy or boomy type music being cranked up on these rare occasions.
Here's some of the repertoire I'm listening to, while I write a eulogy to a rather special force.
Crank up the volume to several levels below which might make yer ears bleed. Then try to imagine Dave B. He was a force. A special one.
These are not visual videos, so ignore the visuals. Just listen to the music, and reflect.
He protected me and my then Survey Tech, to an extraordinary extent.
This one will mean so much more to Dave B from any message from anyone but me. He was there, when my real adulthood and maturity started. In Oman.
I grew up there. He didn't need to, but I did. He helped me along.
It's almost a story, in music.
I've read it, but I'm ever so poor at telling it.
We'd been friends since Oman in the early 1970s. When he was invalided out of his Regiment due to combat injuries he was fit to carry out normal infantry duties, but not quite agile enough for the rather specialised form of soldiering to which he had become accustomed. He left with a gratuity and a bit of a pension but he wasn't the retiring sortta guy. He asked me if he might get into the offshore game in some way. I got him him a well paid job as a general dogsbody with a major worldwide diving/survey outfit, knowing that his extraordinary personal and physical qualities would shine through. He very rapidly progressed through the ranks to Survey Assistant to Assistant Surveyor to Survey Technician. In his last Regiment he'd been a Signals specialist, so the electronic stuff was second nature for him.
We worked together in all sorts of grotty places such as Egypt, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Iran, Peterhead and Cabinda.
In the Eastern Desert he very literally saved my life. It was at a trigpoint called D-254. I was doing a network calibration for a Motorola MiniRanger terrestrial nav system. I was pacing up and down fretfully while the crew at the other end of the baseline struggled to get to the trigpoint I do that. I pace up and down and around, apparently mindlessly, while I'm engossed deep in thought, as I'd do normally while trying to solve a complicated logistical problem. Suddenly he yelled "FREEZE!".
I knew him well enough to know that he doesn't piss about, so I instantly froze.
I looked down and saw that one pace in front of my left foot was a land mine. It was the food-tin sized variety. Not a toe-popper. This thing was designed to destroy a jeep as much as any infantryman who might step on it.
We surveyed the **** outta da ting. Not difficult as it was only 30m from a well-surveyed trig point. Together with photographs from umpteen angles and distances, I filed a Report with the Gyppo authorities so they could remove it.
A decade or so later, I heard that a young Canadian Surveyor had been killed by a landmine at D-254. Dunno whether it was the same one, though I have reasons to suspect that it was. He, poor sod, didn't have Dave B to save him. I did.
I'm alive because of Dave B and because of my respect for him.
Now, Dave B is dead.
It's entirely understandable that my reading glasses are getting a wee bit foggy as I write this. I'm sitting by the pond, in the shelter where I normally sit. I have a powerful Sonos hifi with the soundbar in the front rafter of the open ridge-roof of the shelter and the back speakers where they should be. No grumpy old expat farts downriver or upriver to bitch about the thumpy or boomy type music being cranked up on these rare occasions.
Here's some of the repertoire I'm listening to, while I write a eulogy to a rather special force.
Crank up the volume to several levels below which might make yer ears bleed. Then try to imagine Dave B. He was a force. A special one.
These are not visual videos, so ignore the visuals. Just listen to the music, and reflect.
He protected me and my then Survey Tech, to an extraordinary extent.
This one will mean so much more to Dave B from any message from anyone but me. He was there, when my real adulthood and maturity started. In Oman.
I grew up there. He didn't need to, but I did. He helped me along.
It's almost a story, in music.
I've read it, but I'm ever so poor at telling it.
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
Dr Who meets a metal Lord...
And here is another Lord...
And here is another Lord...
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
- TheGreenGoblin
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Re: What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?
Hans Zimmer is a truly an evocative composer...
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
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