I know a guy that plays Air Bagpipes. At first it just looks like he is in love with himself (like he's hugging himself). But then he starts marching on the spot then around the ro... moreI know a guy that plays Air Bagpipes. At first it just looks like he is in love with himself (like he's hugging himself). But then he starts marching on the spot then around the room while playing his Air Bagpipe. Eventually he reaches grove factor 10 and he starts swiveling his hips like Elvis but he still keeps doing the marching and playing the Air bagpipe. I call him Scotty Presley. Cheers and happy weekend!
If you knew the following was a portion the little known verses to the song, would you continue to stand when it plays:
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the ha... moreIf you knew the following was a portion the little known verses to the song, would you continue to stand when it plays:
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battles confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave.
O're the land of the free and the home of the brave less
He was only 66 years old. I had heard of him, but I don't know his music. What I do know is that he was the US main media, all over the place. So he was really famous.
That's what John Cassavetes said in a Columbo episode. He was definitely bi-polar, that can come with the territory.
Ultimately, Beethoven medicated himself with the only availabl... moreThat's what John Cassavetes said in a Columbo episode. He was definitely bi-polar, that can come with the territory.
Ultimately, Beethoven medicated himself with the only available drug besides opium - alcohol. He literally drank himself to death. And as deafness closed in around him, he withdrew from the world, into himself. He wrote his Eighth Symphony in 1812. Then his creative output dried up. In 1824, he would premier his Choral Symphony. It was as if a piece of this magnitude required a tortuous 12-year gestation. He would also compose his transcendent string quartets. But soon his liver would give out on him, and in early 1827 he died at the age of 56, leaving behind sketches of a tenth symphony the world would never hear.
The authors of Manic Depression and Creativity note a rough correlation between Beethoven's manic phases and his creative bursts. Apparently, winter depressions stopped him in his tracks while summers brought on periods of intense activity. As a friend noted: "He composes, or was unabl... less
