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Post by pi on Jun 23, 2016 23:29:32 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 23, 2016 23:31:13 GMT -5
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Post by adamrocks on Jun 23, 2016 23:33:52 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2016 0:01:58 GMT -5
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Post by Craazyforadam on Jun 24, 2016 0:10:12 GMT -5
Are these Adam's thoughts on Brexit and our future respectively?   Sorry, my thoughts have clearly move on, I better go. But these are great pictures of Adam, even though the second one is a bit more serious. |
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Post by willowgarden on Jun 24, 2016 0:30:39 GMT -5
O/T but in the UK Brexit vote -- Leave the EU is winning. The pound has plummeted vs. the US dollar -- down over 11%. Not only does it look like the UK will leave the EU, but England and Wales are voting leave the EU, Scotland is solidly in the remain camp. It is likely that leaving the EU will cause Scotland to demand a new vote on independence, to leave the UK and join the EU -- basically ending the United Kingdom. This affects the U.S. too. Get ready for a bumpy ride in our financial markets. |
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Post by adamrocks on Jun 24, 2016 0:45:23 GMT -5
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Post by kryptoman68 on Jun 24, 2016 2:22:09 GMT -5
My whole family is watching the FB stream and crying: Brian May just played one of the most beautiful Bulgarian songs, and not just a fragment, but nearly the whole thing. It is called "Hubava Si Moia Goro". www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ww-IMMm77EThis song is gorgeous. I just listened to it for the very first time and I was amazed. Can you give me just a little background on it? Is it merely a beloved folk tune, or the national anthem or something close to it? And do you know who the singers are? I was especially intrigued by the female soloist. Would love to learn whatever you can tell me. Ok, here it goes. The text of the song was written by Liuben Karavelov (1834-1879) during the period we call "Bulgarian Renaissance" when the country was still under Ottoman control (that lasted for 500 years until 1878). He was living abroad and wrote this nostalgic poem about the beauty of Bulgarian nature (the title means "Beautiful you are, my forest"). According to Wikipedia, the music was written by Georgy Goranov after the liberation of Bulgaria (he was born in 1882 and died of tuberculosis at the age of 23 having written over 80 songs, many of them very popular at the time). The song is not the national anthem, but 1) it starts with the same interval, so when Brian started playing it, I fully expected the NA to be played; 2) it IS the anthem of the town of Koprivshtiza; 3) the Bulgarian national anthem's lyrics also feature a lot of descriptions of nature, with the first line being "Gorda Stara Planina", or "Proud Old Mountain", where "Stara Planina" is the alias of the Balkan Mountain. For reference, here is the national anthem, which is a lot less sad and significantly more majestic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=COvn9LsiNEMFor the fun of it, here is Eric Adams of the metal band Manowar with a powerful rendition: youtu.be/a9x4TcKvNgAAnd there is the text of Hubava Si Moja Goro in a quick translation: Beautiful you are, my forest, you smell like youth, but you instill in our hearts only sadness and sorrow. Whoever takes one look at you he will mourn forever that he cannot fade away under your shadows. And whoever has the needs to already leave you he can not, while still alive, ever forget you. Your beeches and oaks your thick leaves and the flowers and waters the fat lambs, and peonies, and grasses and your coolness, everything, I say, sometimes falls like a bullet on the heart, which is always ready to cry a bit when it sees something new in nature. When it sees how the spring sends old age away and under cold and under snow life takes hold again. |
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Post by nonchallance on Jun 24, 2016 4:19:29 GMT -5
Must feel very strange for this British band (except Adam obviously), to be welcomed all over Europe, when their own countrymen - and women seems to have decided, that this is a club they want nothing to do with anymore. Somehow I envision that there is a lot of head shaking going on in both the band as well as the crew, at this hour. This whole world seems to have gone utterly bonkers. It is not just here in US. My country, Austria, had a very close call recently and is still debating, Germany has a massive right wing emergence on multiple levels, and so on. And here in the US, the masses are dancing around their own golden calf as well. Wonders off, shaking head and saying a prayer that these nightmares may stop. That these global winds may change, or something. ETA: There we go: I'm not even starting about Poland - we are idiots, that's what we are. And I was thinking that GB has a little more common sense. |
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Post by 3ku1 on Jun 24, 2016 4:56:43 GMT -5
And to top it off Donald HeWhoCannot amed may become president. I was watching Graham Norton. Charlie Sheen was on. Respect to the guy, he has clearly turned his life around. Looks so much better. And he does not endorse HeWhoCannot amed at all. Does no tlike him, and beleives his circus well invade The White House if elected. But has faith their is sensible people in The States, and well do the right thing when it matters.
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