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Points: 37232 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2012 at 13:42
Originally posted by Mellotron Storm Mellotron Storm wrote:

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I have all but the Gila and like all of those but went with Unrest.

Thankyou sir, hope you didn't get too shook up with the earthquake out there this weekend.


Nary a shake, rattle, or roll to be felt by me.

Sad news regarding the hurricane out East.  I think I'll play some Weather Report.
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2012 at 13:55
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Originally posted by Mellotron Storm Mellotron Storm wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I have all but the Gila and like all of those but went with Unrest.

Thankyou sir, hope you didn't get too shook up with the earthquake out there this weekend.


Nary a shake, rattle, or roll to be felt by me.

Sad news regarding the hurricane out East.  I think I'll play some Weather Report.


I Sing the Body Electric? 
(Just out of curiosity, is that a phrase or something? A meaningful line of some sort? I've come across it elsewhere, most notably in Alan Parker's brilliant movie Fame, where they too sing a song with the same name. Ron Howard on lead vocalsCool) 
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Points: 37232 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2012 at 14:05
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Originally posted by Mellotron Storm Mellotron Storm wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I have all but the Gila and like all of those but went with Unrest.

Thankyou sir, hope you didn't get too shook up with the earthquake out there this weekend.


Nary a shake, rattle, or roll to be felt by me.

Sad news regarding the hurricane out East.  I think I'll play some Weather Report.


I Sing the Body Electric? 
(Just out of curiosity, is that a phrase or something? A meaningful line of some sort? I've come across it elsewhere, most notably in Alan Parker's brilliant movie Fame, where they too sing a song with the same name. Ron Howard on lead vocalsCool) 


Yep, I Sing the Body Electric, one of my favourite albums in PA, and I know that a lot of people having been having electrical outages due to the bad weather.  As for the song, "Shake, Rattle and Roll", it's from 1954, and made really famous with Bill Haley and his Comets' rendition of it.  As for Fame: That's the same film as "I'm gonna live forever... blah, blah, blah... Fame", I guess.  Haven't seen it since I was a kid.


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I Sing the Body Electric was a book of short stories by Ray Bradbury, and I think that's the first appearance of the phrase, but I'm not sure what the significance is.
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I think I misunderstood.  I thought you meant "Shake, rattle and Roll"".  Yes, I sing the Body Electric was a Ray Bradbury story (I've read it), and have a collection of his stories with that title,, and he wrote a teleplay for it in the 60s for the Twilight Zone.
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Ok, thanks you guys.

I guess it just means singing one's body into a state of delightful delirium - or something to that effect?
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Points: 37232 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2012 at 14:52
Sorry, this is not my day.  Rad Bradbury got the title (think robots in his case) from a Walt Whitman poem called I Sing the Body Electric.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174740
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Sorry, this is not my day.  Rad Bradbury got the title (think robots in his case) from a Walt Whitman poem called I Sing the Body Electric.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174740


Sweet. I find that fascinating. Went through a Walt Whitman phase after watching Dead Poet Society some 15 years ago. Maybe a lame starting point, but I learned a lot - and the feeling of reading those poems, I'll never forget.
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BUT WAIT!  Walt Whitman got it from Alexander the Great, who happened to mutter it prior to the Treaty of Verduhn.

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You are out of control dude!!!


I love it....
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