Horsey Songs

astyages said:

November 5, 2012 at 7:23 pm

Riders on the Storm, Horse with no Name and Wild Horses… there’s your top trio right there!

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- algernon1 said:
  
  November 6, 2012 at 10:11 pm
  
  Yet I tossed up whether or not to include Riders on the storm.
  
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  - astyages said:
    
    November 7, 2012 at 8:11 pm
    
    I’m glad you did; I really got into this song in a big way on the Cote d’Azure; Jim Morrison was HUGE in France… this is the most atomospheric of all the DOORS biggies I think; largely the result of the relative simplicity of the melody line and the recording of an actual storm as a backdrop for the keyboard and bass; oh, and the minor pentatonic scale!
    
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sandshoe said:

November 5, 2012 at 5:25 pm

Turf racing is like watching paint dry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr3dBM8Yoi0

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- Therese Trouserzoff said:
  
  November 6, 2012 at 8:19 am
  
  I’m convinced that the massive prize money the nags get for winning is put up entirely by an unholy covern of criminals and women’s clothing and millinery industry folk, who we refer to as “colourful racing identities”. I mean, for pete’s sake – MILLINERY. At what other time do women wear silly hats ? Royal weddings and horse racing carnivals. That’s it.
  
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  - helvityni said:
    
    November 6, 2012 at 11:55 am
    
    I like hats, nice hats that improve your looks. These days no one wears them anymore, unless it’s as a protection from Aussie sun.
    The hats I dislike are those silly hats women wear to races, and as you say to Royal weddings…don’t the women want to look as good as possible on the these special occasions? Why does anyone want to look silly 🙂
    
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  - algernon1 said:
    
    November 6, 2012 at 4:44 pm
    
    Well it was nice seeing a horse give the cup to a horse this afternoon.
    
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  - sandshoe said:
    
    November 6, 2012 at 9:13 pm
    
    Horses like straw hats.
    
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    - algernon1 said:
      
      November 6, 2012 at 10:11 pm
      
      A horse with a brollie??
      
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  - algernon1 said:
    
    November 6, 2012 at 10:14 pm
    
    Most today wouldn’t know one end from the other of a horse. Heard someone on the news today saying they didn’t spend much on an outfit for the day just $400!
    
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sandshoe said:

November 5, 2012 at 1:24 pm

Algy, speakin’ on horses…
Zeus only knows I had no intention when I set off to attend an appointment for minor surgery a few days ago and to see what I would take with me cast an eye over the contents of my blue fold-up plastic book crates that when I moved replaced my magnificent teak side of the road council rubbish collection sideboard…15 Poets:Chaucer to Arnold (OUP 1943). Last time I was in town had to have it from the op shop over the road from the Torrens library . 😉
Fancy I metaphorically tweeted to myself me sitting in a waiting room with a tome like it without a paper bag over my head. In fact the volume’s spine can’t be read from a neighbouring plastic chair as it’s a beautifullest darkest navy blue with barely vital silver fonts (terrible on the back those waiting room chairs in hospitals).
Worry no more I was late for the appointment because I wandered off taking photographs of flowers (must have been the effect of the book choice).

I read the introduction to the Keats’ selection …mmm L. (Louis) Macneice wrote that … mmm the two poetic idols of schoolboys (sic) are Keats and Shelley … mm he recalls a v young master just down from Oxford telling the boys that Keats was the only poet in the world who really mattered … … mmm Chaucer … mmm H.S.Bennet wrote the introduction to Chaucer and it’s gripping because it throws me directly into the subject (Chaucer) … Chaucer slogged learning different styles of poetry (crystal clear) and I begin to read the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.

I notice something. Epiphany. How didn’t I see it before. The word ‘y-ronne’ meaning ‘run’. The racehorse in the stable over the back fence at the neighbour’s in North Queensland. When I was a kid. His name was ‘Y-ronne’ pronounced ”Wye-ron”. His whole name was ‘Y-ronne Grynne’. I made up at the hospital the other day the spelling for ‘Grynne’. Pronounced ‘Grin’.

Thus I passed the time at the hospital challenged. The name of the horse was Run?

Nice name for a horse. 🙂

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- algernon1 said:
  
  November 6, 2012 at 10:12 pm
  
  That’s what they do.
  
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