Good. You're back. Gotta drive up to GA tomorrow. Then Sunday is all mine. Then Monday I am off work restriction and can start pulling some overtime. What is abnormal Bulgaria?
That was an altogether gorgeous song, written by folk singer Ewan MacColl for his bit of fluff, Peggy Seeger. I knew his second wife, Jean Newlove. She was the mother of Kirsty MacColl who was also a brilliant song writer until she was killed.
I guess we're all brilliant in one way or another until we're killed. I like folk music except for Joan Baez. She ruined The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.
Joan Baez was always a bit too screechy for me. I love folk music but predominantly Irish stuff. My house and my head are full of it. Balkan Gypsy music is catching up since I moved over here though.
Watched a doc on the Beatles, or maybe I read it somewhere, fuck my brain, anyway, when they started the band Skiffle, a kind of folk music style thing, was the thing to do and they concentrated on American rock-n-roll instead.
I never liked skiffle. Lonnie Donegan was the man for it in Britain and Ireland. Imagine if the Beatles had stuck with it. I am the Walrus played on a tea chest bass.
I've never heard skiffle. I prefer the original Beatles, before they became a pop music studio band. That being said, Otis Redding was listening the Sgt. Pepper when he wrote Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay.
I like nearly all of the Beatles music but the psychedelic stuff's best and some of the McCartney songs (eg Maxwell's Silver Hammer and Oh bla-di-bla) are a load of old bollocks.
I nearly alwasy go for Revolver and before and if I listen to anything after its the B-side of Abbey Road or the White Album. Hey, whatcha got against Desmond taking a trolley to the market place?
Desmond's a gobshite, and Hey Jude's another that makes me want to drill holes in my own knees because the sound of my screaming would be a better thing to listen to.
The George Harrison stuff was always good. They should have given him a bit more time.
But Desmond bought Molly a golden ring, bruh. There was this abandoned playground with a merry-go-round and in this closet area we found a couple of guys with their knees with drill holes, their eyes without eyes, anyway, Then Beatles Live at the BBC is one of my favorite CDs. George was the Beatle baby, I believe.
The Beatles' 2006 Love album's a strange sort of uninterrupted remix of some of the best of all their stuff à la George Martin. Do you know it? It took me a few listens to be convinced but these days it's a proper cheer-me-up record. By then Mister Martin had realised that chopping three minutes off the end of Hey Jude made the song bearable.
George Harrison was the youngest of them, and the nicest, and Olivia his missus was by far the nicest of all the Beatles' wives and partners. Martin Scorsese's documentary about him called Living in the Material World is well worth a watch if you haven't already seen it.
Thanks, man, forgot. I have The Beatles One: all their number one hits, is that the same thing? George Martin's son conducted the strings for the last Beatles' song. I go to the JSO when I can afford it and can get off my ass, but . . . anyway I think of when I read when George said I'm out and John said Let's get Eric (Clapton), he's just as good and doesn't complain as much.
I’ve got their ‘One’ album which is well worth having but much different to ‘Love’ which is an extremely well done remix of all sorts of their stuff including some early live recordings, some that they sang in German, some album tracks, some bits of hysterical fans screaming, a few very short spoken bits, and so on. There are no breaks between the tracks. They merge beautifully into one.
Another favourite is ‘Let It Be Naked’, which contains all the same tracks as the original ‘Let it Be’ album but with all the Phil Spector overproduction stripped away (which they had all hated, apparently). The Naked version of ‘Across the Universe’ is stunningly good.
George Harrison got Eric Clapton to play lead guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps for the White album because he was sick of all the other Beatles not taking him and his songs seriously. His first solo album ‘All Things Must Pass’ is as good as any of the later Beatles albums, in my opinion. I bought it from the Scene & Heard record shop in Leeds the day it was released and I still have it.
I have Let It Be Naked! I think George wrote most of their hits. I think, though don't ask me for proof. I first heard George's All Things Must Pass on The Beatles Anthology, you know, when they released Free As a Bird and Real Love. The White Album, damn, brother, that has some heavy history without inention, Charles Manson and the Tate-LaBiancai murders. JSO is one of two things and being involved with one is tremendously better than being involved with the other: Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
I get it. My alarm is set for 0430. We got a shit ton of sex offenders here too. The JSO's conductor is Irish. Courtney Lewis. Belfast, I think. Your last two words read Russian. Sleep well.
George wrote songs but very few of them were recorded by the Beatles. Lennon and McCartney wrote the bulk of them together in the early days but from the middle to the end they wrote them separately even though they were credited to Lennon-McCarney on the record labels. It's usually easy to spot who wrote what in a Come Together vs Maxwell's Silver Hammer sort of way. George's All Things Must Pass debut solo album (a triple album) had loads of good stuff on it because in his frustration he’d been saving them up. My Sweet Lord was the first single lifted from it and it’s still one of my favourites of all time.
Ringo wrote Don't Pass Me By and Octopus's Garden. Bless 'im!
Лека нощ, pronounced as 'lekka nosht' is Bulgarian for good night. Russian is another of the Slavic languages so they (the noisy neighbours) use a lot of our words, and they stole our beautiful Cyrillic alphabet.
I worked on cargo ships. Fifty years ago from now I'd have been somewhere in the Java Sea. Singapore to Jakarta or Makassar. Or maybe somewhere else out that way.
I like the physical work of being a longshoreman. I like working with my body. Put in almost 12 hrs yesterday, 11 today. But it's a good kind of tired.
Which port do you work at? On the last ship I was on we loaded phosphates in Tampa and Fort Lauderdale. They flew me home from Tampa. The ship left before I did so I had about eighteen hours to kill in the airport. I sat at the same table as the members of the band Styx while I was having my breakfast and had a good chat with them. They were only going to New Orleans.
It's 2026 here and it has been for nearly two hours and the next time we leave the house we have to take a new currency with us because we changed from the lev to the euro at midnight.
Anticipating not a lot of peace tonight. Fireworks and shit. I have a profound aversion to explosions. Either going to take extra pills to make me dead to them or caffenite myself to stay awake pissed all night. Either way I have to work tomorrow.
Got paid double time for working a federal holiday so didn't have to work overtime to get good pay. Yeah, fireworks are bullshit. Not good for the environment or animals. Can't explain the restraint it takes for me not to come out wiith one of my firearms, You like explosives? Have I got an explosive for you.
It was the first day of the euro here today. We tried to spend some in a restaurant but they didn't have any in their till for giving change, so they were only accepting card payments. Everywhere else was closed. Sunny day... I love January.
I've a stack of leva and euro notes at the moment, as have most people here. We're prepared for something to go wrong. I prefer cash anyway because the banks and the government don't.
Part of the joy of going on holiday is having to deal with a different currency to what we've got at home. But now we're using the same money as most of Europe. So we're looking for a country that doesn't use the euro. Serbia, Romania and Turkey are all just a few hours drive away but we've been before. Bulgaria's Finance Minister should have thought of this before he signed on the dotted line.
At work, in the locker room, I always sing to the guy who has the locker beside me when we're taking off our civvies to put on our work clothes. This morning I sang a few lines from Rod Stewart's Do You Think I'm Sexy?
Angus
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Beef
You have the week off. Even come Monday. Come Tuesday . . .
Horseradish
Bulgaria's back to normal today.
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tangy
Good. You're back. Gotta drive up to GA tomorrow. Then Sunday is all mine. Then Monday I am off work restriction and can start pulling some overtime. What is abnormal Bulgaria?
mangy
Thursday was abnormal in Bulgaria. All that glitter and plastic palaver. To real Bulgarians the real Christmas is on 6 January.
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website
I've a Bulgarian lesson first thing in the morning and it's Sunday evening at the moment and I haven't done my homework yet. This is so 1972.
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gossamer
Just for shits and giggles I looked up the top song of 1972: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack.
gossip
That was an altogether gorgeous song, written by folk singer Ewan MacColl for his bit of fluff, Peggy Seeger. I knew his second wife, Jean Newlove. She was the mother of Kirsty MacColl who was also a brilliant song writer until she was killed.
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scuttle butt
I guess we're all brilliant in one way or another until we're killed. I like folk music except for Joan Baez. She ruined The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.
flibbertigibbet
Joan Baez was always a bit too screechy for me. I love folk music but predominantly Irish stuff. My house and my head are full of it. Balkan Gypsy music is catching up since I moved over here though.
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whatchamacallit
Watched a doc on the Beatles, or maybe I read it somewhere, fuck my brain, anyway, when they started the band Skiffle, a kind of folk music style thing, was the thing to do and they concentrated on American rock-n-roll instead.
sheela na gig
I never liked skiffle. Lonnie Donegan was the man for it in Britain and Ireland. Imagine if the Beatles had stuck with it. I am the Walrus played on a tea chest bass.
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goo goo g'joob
I've never heard skiffle. I prefer the original Beatles, before they became a pop music studio band. That being said, Otis Redding was listening the Sgt. Pepper when he wrote Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay.
crabalocker fishwife
I like nearly all of the Beatles music but the psychedelic stuff's best and some of the McCartney songs (eg Maxwell's Silver Hammer and Oh bla-di-bla) are a load of old bollocks.
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monger
I nearly alwasy go for Revolver and before and if I listen to anything after its the B-side of Abbey Road or the White Album. Hey, whatcha got against Desmond taking a trolley to the market place?
minger
Aye, Revolver's top of the list here too.
Desmond's a gobshite, and Hey Jude's another that makes me want to drill holes in my own knees because the sound of my screaming would be a better thing to listen to.
The George Harrison stuff was always good. They should have given him a bit more time.
Turlough
But Desmond bought Molly a golden ring, bruh. There was this abandoned playground with a merry-go-round and in this closet area we found a couple of guys with their knees with drill holes, their eyes without eyes, anyway, Then Beatles Live at the BBC is one of my favorite CDs. George was the Beatle baby, I believe.
The Beatles' 2006 Love album's a strange sort of uninterrupted remix of some of the best of all their stuff à la George Martin. Do you know it? It took me a few listens to be convinced but these days it's a proper cheer-me-up record. By then Mister Martin had realised that chopping three minutes off the end of Hey Jude made the song bearable.
George Harrison was the youngest of them, and the nicest, and Olivia his missus was by far the nicest of all the Beatles' wives and partners. Martin Scorsese's documentary about him called Living in the Material World is well worth a watch if you haven't already seen it.
You didn't leave a word.
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ugly
Thanks, man, forgot. I have The Beatles One: all their number one hits, is that the same thing? George Martin's son conducted the strings for the last Beatles' song. I go to the JSO when I can afford it and can get off my ass, but . . . anyway I think of when I read when George said I'm out and John said Let's get Eric (Clapton), he's just as good and doesn't complain as much.
grotesque
I’ve got their ‘One’ album which is well worth having but much different to ‘Love’ which is an extremely well done remix of all sorts of their stuff including some early live recordings, some that they sang in German, some album tracks, some bits of hysterical fans screaming, a few very short spoken bits, and so on. There are no breaks between the tracks. They merge beautifully into one.
Another favourite is ‘Let It Be Naked’, which contains all the same tracks as the original ‘Let it Be’ album but with all the Phil Spector overproduction stripped away (which they had all hated, apparently). The Naked version of ‘Across the Universe’ is stunningly good.
George Harrison got Eric Clapton to play lead guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps for the White album because he was sick of all the other Beatles not taking him and his songs seriously. His first solo album ‘All Things Must Pass’ is as good as any of the later Beatles albums, in my opinion. I bought it from the Scene & Heard record shop in Leeds the day it was released and I still have it.
What does JSO mean?
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Extremities
I have Let It Be Naked! I think George wrote most of their hits. I think, though don't ask me for proof. I first heard George's All Things Must Pass on The Beatles Anthology, you know, when they released Free As a Bird and Real Love. The White Album, damn, brother, that has some heavy history without inention, Charles Manson and the Tate-LaBiancai murders. JSO is one of two things and being involved with one is tremendously better than being involved with the other: Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
frostbite
I googled JSO and got Juvenile Sex Offender.
It's 1;30 a.m. here now and there's sleeping to be done. More tomorrow. Лека нощ.
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I get it. My alarm is set for 0430. We got a shit ton of sex offenders here too. The JSO's conductor is Irish. Courtney Lewis. Belfast, I think. Your last two words read Russian. Sleep well.
Forgot a word -
exposure
Indecent
George wrote songs but very few of them were recorded by the Beatles. Lennon and McCartney wrote the bulk of them together in the early days but from the middle to the end they wrote them separately even though they were credited to Lennon-McCarney on the record labels. It's usually easy to spot who wrote what in a Come Together vs Maxwell's Silver Hammer sort of way. George's All Things Must Pass debut solo album (a triple album) had loads of good stuff on it because in his frustration he’d been saving them up. My Sweet Lord was the first single lifted from it and it’s still one of my favourites of all time.
Ringo wrote Don't Pass Me By and Octopus's Garden. Bless 'im!
Лека нощ, pronounced as 'lekka nosht' is Bulgarian for good night. Russian is another of the Slavic languages so they (the noisy neighbours) use a lot of our words, and they stole our beautiful Cyrillic alphabet.
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Rogue
Waiting for the cargo ship to come in so I can tie it to the dock and start unloading. She's coming along . . .
Vogue
I worked on cargo ships. Fifty years ago from now I'd have been somewhere in the Java Sea. Singapore to Jakarta or Makassar. Or maybe somewhere else out that way.
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fashion
I like the physical work of being a longshoreman. I like working with my body. Put in almost 12 hrs yesterday, 11 today. But it's a good kind of tired.
passion
Which port do you work at? On the last ship I was on we loaded phosphates in Tampa and Fort Lauderdale. They flew me home from Tampa. The ship left before I did so I had about eighteen hours to kill in the airport. I sat at the same table as the members of the band Styx while I was having my breakfast and had a good chat with them. They were only going to New Orleans.
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infatuation
Blount Island. Only worked 10 hrs today because I'll get time and a half for every hour I work tommorow since it's a federal holiday.
flatulence
It's 2026 here and it has been for nearly two hours and the next time we leave the house we have to take a new currency with us because we changed from the lev to the euro at midnight.
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Brussell sprouts
Anticipating not a lot of peace tonight. Fireworks and shit. I have a profound aversion to explosions. Either going to take extra pills to make me dead to them or caffenite myself to stay awake pissed all night. Either way I have to work tomorrow.
Belgium
We've just been out to lunch with some Belgians. I didn't detect flatulence but they're probably well versed at concealing it.
I'm with you on the fireworks front. I just don't get them, and they scare the living shit out of our cats and dogs and they kill the wild birds.
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waffles
Got paid double time for working a federal holiday so didn't have to work overtime to get good pay. Yeah, fireworks are bullshit. Not good for the environment or animals. Can't explain the restraint it takes for me not to come out wiith one of my firearms, You like explosives? Have I got an explosive for you.
politicians
It was the first day of the euro here today. We tried to spend some in a restaurant but they didn't have any in their till for giving change, so they were only accepting card payments. Everywhere else was closed. Sunny day... I love January.
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Rapists
I always keep 20 cash in my wallet.
therapists
I've a stack of leva and euro notes at the moment, as have most people here. We're prepared for something to go wrong. I prefer cash anyway because the banks and the government don't.
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bullshit
I always keep cash and my debit card, one credit card. Fuck knows what place accepts what kind of payment.
mendacity
I always try to keep cash but it never seems to want to stay.
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Liar
My cash disappears all the time . . . WTF?
HOT
steamy
Part of the joy of going on holiday is having to deal with a different currency to what we've got at home. But now we're using the same money as most of Europe. So we're looking for a country that doesn't use the euro. Serbia, Romania and Turkey are all just a few hours drive away but we've been before. Bulgaria's Finance Minister should have thought of this before he signed on the dotted line.
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... ZAP ...
taser
teaser
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striptease
At work, in the locker room, I always sing to the guy who has the locker beside me when we're taking off our civvies to put on our work clothes. This morning I sang a few lines from Rod Stewart's Do You Think I'm Sexy?
Tassles
I’m the same, except I sing Je t'aime… moi non plus that was a huge hit for de Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin in 1969.
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love you twice as much tomorrow
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