Larry Curtis Spurlock presents a Blog Collection of: ANECDOTES, LYRICS & MUSIC and COMPOSITION !

BEATLES - In My Life .. by LcS

2010-01-22T18:24:00.034-05:00

Beatles

No Greatest Hits / No Concert Albums

All fresh new music

13 Albums .. over a thousand Live Shows .. 3 Movies

all in 8 years

Please Please Me

Side A (LP)
1. I Saw Her Standing There Lennon/McCartney
2. Misery - Lennon/McCartney
3. Anna (Go To Him) Alexander
4. Chains Goffin/King
5. Boys Dixon/Farrell
6. Ask Me Why Lennon/McCartney

Side B (LP)
1. Please Please Me Lennon/McCartney
2. P.S. I Love You Lennon/McCartney
3. Baby It's You David/Williams/Bacharach
4. Do You Want To Know A Secret Lennon/McCartney
5. A Taste Of Honey Scott/Marlow
7. There's A Place Lennon/McCartney
8. Twist And Shout Medley/Russell

14 songs / 7 original

Released: March 1963 - I was in the 7th Grade when this album was released albeit only in the UK. It wasn't released in the US until after their 2nd LP was released in November, later that year. - - LcS

Their first-ever album, raw and rough and still very rock & roll. Lennon and McCartney begin to flex their writing muscles and had already scored two UK hits when this appeared, but they still relied heavily on the cover material to see them through. Their insecurity about their own abilities seems curious in hindsight since they'd pulled the title song and "I Saw Her Standing There" (with thanks to Little Richard) out of their hats. But they were an unknown quantity, still to launch a million bands and take pop music to places it had never dreamed off. A small step for four men, a giant leap for music. --Chris Nickson

With The Beatles

Side A (LP)
1. It Won't Be Long Lennon/McCartney
2. All I've Got To Do Lennon/McCartney
3. All My Loving Lennon/McCartney
4. Don't Bother Me Harrison
5. Little Child Lennon/McCartney
6. Till There Was You Wilson
7. PleaseMr.Postman Holland
Side B (LP)
8. Roll Over Beethoven Berry
9. Hold Me Tight Lennon/McCartney
10. You Really Got A Hold On Me W. Robinson
11. I Wanna Be Your Man Lennon/McCartney
12. Devil In Her Heart Drapkin
13. Not A Second Time Lennon/McCartney
14. Money Berry/Gordy/Bradford

14 songs / 8 original ... Total: 28/15

Releaded: November 1963 - I was in the 8th Grade. After the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, the following day Wayne Jenkins came into School with this LP. I asked him if I could borrow it and he let me. I listened to it that night at my house and returned it the next day. He and I discussed it over the next few weeks. I remembered almost every song and how it went. Wayneknew all the words. - - LcS
They still had plenty of covers to fill out the running time, but the Lennon-McCartney writing team was gathering steam and beginning to knock out pop classics as if they were pulling them out of thin air. "All My Loving" and "I Wanna Be your Man" come from this record, issued hurriedly to capitalize on English Beatlemania. But even when they were laying into some classic Chuck Berry, by this time the Beatles had acquired a unique sound in the blend of John's and Paul's voices, while George was coming on by leaps and bounds as a guitar player. While not absolutely essential, as a snapshot of a band in a place and time, With the Beatles is good for a smile. --Chris Nickson

A Hard Day's Night

Side A (LP)
1. A Hard Day's Night Lennon/McCartney
2. I Should Have Known Better Lennon/McCartney
3. If I Fell Lennon/McCartney
4. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You Lennon/McCartney
5. And I Love Her Lennon/McCartney
6. Tell Me Why Lennon/McCartney
7. Can't Buy Me Love Lennon/McCartney
Side B (LP)
8. Any Time At All Lennon/McCartney
9. I'll Cry Instead Lennon/McCartney
10. Things We Said Today Lennon/McCartney
11. When I Get Home Lennon/McCartney
12. You Can't Do That Lennon/McCartney
13. I'll Be Back Lennon/McCartney

13 songs / 13 original ... Total: 27/21

Released: July 1964 - Intermediate School had just ended for me. I would be going into High School when September came around. That Summer, I tried to memorize all the words to this LP. - - LcS
Strummmmm! That dramatic guitar chord that kicks of A Hard Day's Night (album, song, movie) still jumps right out at you, slaps you in the face, and jump-starts your heart. And you know what? Both the music and the film are still as crisp and lively as they were in 1964. Of course, only the first seven songs are actually in the movie (and they are the strongest of the bunch, from the rousing rock & roll of the title track and the hit single "Can't Buy Me Love," to the beautiful ballads "If I Fell" and "And I Love Her"). But nobody's going to complain about having songs like "I'll Cry Instead" and "Things We Said Today" in the second half of the record; they sure don't feel like leftovers. Yet another high-point for John, Paul, George, and Ringo--four fab fellows who hit the highest heights imaginable. --Jim Emerson

Beatles For Sale

Side A (LP)
1. No Reply Lennon/McCartney
2. I'm A Loser Lennon/McCartney
3. Baby's In Black Lennon/McCartney
4. Rock And Roll Music Berry
5. I'll Follow The Sun Lennon/McCartney
6. Mr. Moonlight Johnson
7. Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey Lieber/Stoller/Penniman
Side B (LP)
8. Eight Days A Week Lennon/McCartney
9. Words Of Love Holly
10. Honey Don't Perkins
11. Every Little Thing Lennon/McCartney
12. I Don't Want To Spoil The Party Lennon/McCartney
13. What You're Doing Lennon/McCartney
14. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby Perkins

14 songs / 8 original ... Total: 41/29

Released: December 1964 - I used the three dollars that I got for Chrstmas in the 8th Grade to walk up to the Thrifty Store in Herndon to buy this Album. - - LcS
Banged out in a hurry for the 1964 Christmas market, Beatles for Sale sometimes sounds it, loaded with ill-conceived covers and some of John Lennon's most self-loathing lyrics. On the other hand, the people doing the banging-out were the Beatles, whose instincts for what worked musically were so strong that they could basically do no wrong--any record that has "Baby's in Black," "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" and the delectable "Eight Days a Week" on it is only "minor" in the most relative sense. And, though their voices had been frazzled a bit by constant touring, they revved them up for some joyous shouting, and indulged their fondness for American country in subtle, playful ways. --Douglas Wolk

Help

Side A (LP)
1. Help! Lennon/McCartney
2. The Night Before Lennon/McCartney
3. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away Lennon/McCartney
4. I Need You Harrison
5. Another Girl Lennon/McCartney
6. You're Going To Lose That Girl Lennon/McCartney
7. Ticket To Ride Lennon/McCartney
Side B (LP)
8. Act Naturally Morrison/Russell
9. It's Only Love Lennon/McCartney
10. You Like Me Too Much Harrison
11. Tell Me What You See Lennon/McCartney
12. I've Just Seen A Face Lennon/McCartney
13. Yesterday Lennon/McCartney
14. Dizzy Miss Lizzy Williams

14 songs / 12 original ... Total: 55/41

Since the Beatles had filmed the Movie of the same name as well as going on Tour - it took eight months from their last LP until this one. That sounds funny that they could do all that in such a short period of time. - - LcS
How John Lennon's confessional song became the title for a silly James Bond spoof I really don't know. The funny thing is, it works both ways--as a young man's personal statement about learning to open up to others, and as the frantic theme for an exotic espionage chase comedy starring those lovable mop-tops (this time in color). Like A Hard Day's Night, only the first "side" of this album actually contains songs from the movie--the biggest hits being the eponymous cry for assistance and "Ticket to Ride." But part 2 has a few nice tunes as well, like "It's Only Love," "I've Just Seen a Face," and a little ditty called "Yesterday." And I always love it when they do an all-out screamer like "Dizzy Miss Lizzy," which sounds like John's raucous answer to Paul's "Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey" vocal on Beatles for Sale. Of course, it's essential--as are all the Beatles' soundtracks (all the Beatles' albums), with the possible exception of Yellow Submarine. --Jim Emerson

Rubber Soul

Side A (LP)
1. Drive My Car Lennon/McCartney
2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) Lennon/McCartney
3. You Won't See Me Lennon/McCartney
4. Nowhere Man Lennon/McCartney
5. Think For Yourself Harrison
6. The Word Lennon/McCartney
7. Michelle Lennon/McCartney
Side B (LP)
8. What Goes On Lennon/McCartney/Starkey
9. Girl Lennon/McCartney
10. I'm Looking Through You Lennon/McCartney
11. In My Life Lennon/McCartney
12. Wait Lennon/McCartney
13. If I Needed Someone Harrison
14. Run For Your Life Lennon/McCartney

14 songs / 14 original ... Total: 69/55
Released: December 1965 - It only took a short four months for the Fab 4 to churn out another LP. Again, 14 tracks but this time, every song was an original. Amazing ! I was in the 9th Grade and the Beatles had recorded 6 full LPs with 69 tracks of which they had written 55 of them. I guess I assumed that was normal but it was unheard of then, before then .. and since then. When I purchased this Album, Iremember thinking that my fave tune was If I Needed Someone which was a George Harrison penned number. Lennon & McCartney were not the only ones who could write words, music and arrange and sing a hit record. - - LcS

Rank 'em how you like, Rubber Soul is an undeniable pivot point in the Fab Four's varied discography no matter where, or how, you first heard it. The album was softened up in its original 12-song American edition to jibe with the Dylan/Byrds folk-rock sound, as well as squeeze money from the Parlophone catalog. The 14-song U.K. edition--the version now available on compact disc--is a different, more dynamic, and ultimately more accomplished achievement. So many classics: "Drive My Car" and "Nowhere Man" (both omitted from the U.S. edition) merge the early combustible Beatifics to a burgeoning studio consciousness; "The Word" can be read as a pre-psych warning shot; the sitar-laden "Norwegian Wood" and the evocative "Girl" (the latter written on the last night of the sessions) stand as turning points in John Lennon's oeuvre. George finally emerges too, with the McGuinn-ish "If I Needed Someone." --Don Harrison
Released in December 1965 -- and capping a year that had been defined by groundbreaking singles such as Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" -- Rubber Soul finds the Beatles rising to meet the challenge their peers had set. Characteristically, they achieved a new musical sophistication and a greater thematic depth without sacrificing a whit of pop appeal. Producer George Martin described Rubber Soul as "the first album to present a new, growing Beatles to the world," and so it was.

The band's development expressed itself in a variety of overlapping ways. On the U.K. version (the only one available on CD), "Drive My Car" presents a comic character study of a sort that had not previously been in the Beatles' repertoire. More profoundly, however, Dylan's influence suffuses the album, accounting for the tart emotional tone of "Norwegian Wood," "I'm Looking Through You," "You Won't See Me" and "If I Needed Someone." (Dylan would return the compliment the following year, when he offered his own version of "Norwegian Wood" -- titled "4th Time Around" -- on Blonde on Blonde, and consequently made Lennon "Paranoid.") Lennon's "Nowhere Man," which he later acknowledged as a depressed self-portrait, and the beautifully reminiscent "In My Life" both reflect the more serious and personal style of songwriting that Dylan had suddenly made possible.

Musically speaking, George Harrison's sitar on "Norwegian Wood" -- the first time the instrument was used in a pop song -- and Paul McCartney's fuzz bass on "Think for Yourself" document the band's increasing awareness that the studio could be more than a pit stop between tours. From this point on, a fascination with the sonic possibilities of recording would inspire the Beatles' greatest work.

Harrison called Rubber Soul "the best one we made," because "we were suddenly hearing sounds that we weren't able to hear before." And as for why the band's hearing had grown so acute, well, that was another aspect of the times. "There was a lot of experimentation on Rubber Soul," said Ringo Starr, "influenced, I think, by the substances."

Total album sales: 6.5 million

Peak chart position: 1

Revolver

Side A (LP)
1. Taxman Harrison
2. Eleanor Rigby Lennon/McCartney
3. I'm Only Sleeping Lennon/McCartney
4. Love You To Harrison
5. Here, There, And Everywhere Lennon/McCartney
6. Yellow Submarine Lennon/McCartney
7. She Said, She Said Lennon/McCartney
Side B (LP)
8. Good Day Sunshine Lennon/McCartney
9. And Your Bird Can Sing Lennon/McCartney
10. For No One Lennon/McCartney
11. Doctor Robert Lennon/McCartney
12. I Want To Tell You Harrison
13. Got To Get You Into My Life Lennon/McCartney
14. Tomorrow Never Knows Lennon/McCartney

14 songs /14 original ... Total: 83/69

Released: August 1966 - By now, I am in the 11th Grade in High School and have joined a Rock'n'Roll Band. We play many Beatles songs because EVERYBODY wants to hear them. I have bought all the Beatles Albums and many single cut 45s which are actual double cuts due to the fact that their B sides are great songs and find their way into Billboards top 40. - - LcS

Revolver wouldn't remain the Beatles' most ambitious LP for long, but many fans--including this one--remember it as their best. An object lesson in fitting great songwriting into experimental production and genre play, this is also a record whose influence extends far beyond mere they-was-the-greatest cheerleading. Putting McCartney's more traditionally melodic "Here, There and Everywhere" and "For No One" alongside Lennon's direct-hit sneering ("Dr. Robert") and dreamscapes ("I'm Only Sleeping," "Tomorrow Never Knows") and Harrison's peaking wit ("Taxman") was as conceptually brilliant as anything Sgt. Pepper attempted, and more subtly fulfilling. A must. --Rickey Wright

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Side A (LP)
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Lennon/McCartney
2. With A Little Help From My Friends Lennon/McCartney
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Lennon/McCartney
4. Getting Better Lennon/McCartney
5. Fixing A Hole Lennon/McCartney
6. She's Leaving Home Lennon/McCartney
7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! Lennon/McCartney
Side B (LP)
8. Within You, Without You Harrison
9. When I'm Sixty-Four Lennon/McCartney
10. Lovely Rita Lennon/McCartney
11. Good Morning, Good Morning Lennon/McCartney
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) Lennon/McCartney
13. A Day In The Life Lennon/McCartney

13 songs / 13 original ... Total: 96/82

Released: January 1967 - And now it's getting rediculous, every new Album just a few months apart is puting not just 1 or 2 or even 3 good songs on our turntables BUT the whole LP is chock full of classics. Knockouts ! Home Runs ! I bought Sgt. Pepper's the January day that it hit the stores. And I went straight home and played it. Not once - not twice - but all afternoon .. and all evening. I was learning the words but everytime I heard it, I heard something new / something different. Yes, I loved the Beatles music .. but it had become quite obvious that I was in the presence of absolute GREATNESS. And that my childhood youthful puberty was paralleling something that no other generation had experienced. I knew immediately that Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was not only the best LP of all-time, but I began to fear when it would end, the music that these 4 young men (along with George Martin) were laying down on wax. It was obvious that the Beatles were not only the greatest musicmakers of their time but of ALL-TIME ! And this LP may be the best compilation of songs that would ever be recorded. - - LcS
Before Sgt. Pepper, no one seriously thought of rock music as actual art. That all changed in 1967, though, when John, Paul, George and Ringo (with "A Little Help" from their friend, producer George Martin) created an undeniable work of art which remains, after 30-plus years, one of the most influential albums of all time. From Lennon's evocative word/sound pictures (the trippy "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," the carnival-like "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite") and McCartney's music hall-styled "When I'm 64," to Harrison's Eastern-leaning "Within You Without You," and the avant-garde mini-suite, "A Day in the Life," Sgt. Pepper was a milestone for both '60s music and popular culture. --Billy Altman

Magical Mystery Tour

Side A (LP)
1. Magical Mystery Tour Lennon/McCartney
2. The Fool On The Hill Lennon/McCartney
3. Flying Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starr
4. Blue Jay Way Harrison
5. Your Mother Should Know Lennon/McCartney
Side B (LP)
6. I Am The Walrus Lennon/McCartney
7. Hello Goodbye Lennon/McCartney
8. Strawberry Fields Forever Lennon/McCartney
9. Penny Lane Lennon/McCartney
10. Baby You're A Rich Man Lennon/McCartney
11. All You Need Is Love Lennon/McCartney

11 songs / 11 originals ... Totals: 107/92

Released: 1968 - I was in the middle of my Senior year at Herndon High School when Magical Mystery Tour suddenly appeard on store shelves without any fanfare nor record company hype as so many LPs have. Especially Beatles LPs .. and especially since Sgt. Pepper's. THAT may be why many music aficionados did not immediately jump on this Album's bandwagon singing the praises of it's greatness. Maybe it was because there was a silly Movie that was attached to it as a soundtrack. Maybe it was because Sgt. Pepper's set the bar so freaking incrediblely high. Maybe maybe maybe ... but I didn't care. I saw it for what it was. Truly wonderful and delectable music by one of the tightest little Rock'n'Roll bands to ever record music. Again, every song's written words, music and arrangement was 100 % Beatles. I ask you - go pick out any one of the 11 tracks on MMT and tell me it's not better than any non Beatle song that you have ever heard. This Album is GREAT ! It's only problem was it followed maybe the greatest Album ever recorded. Maybe. - - LcS
The album feels even more like a collection of singles (instead of an actual movie soundtrack) than Help! or A Hard Day's Night, but maybe that's because every song sounds like it could have been a hit single--with the natural exception of the goofy/weird instrumental "Flying." Even George's "Blue Jay Way" paints a vivid sound-portrait in fascinating detail. (I consider Joni Mitchell's "Car on the Hill" from Court and Spark to be a companion piece about sitting in the Hollywood Hills, waiting for somebody to show up.) And although the goofy TV movie may have been mostly Paul's baby, this album features the two 45 rpm masterpieces that sum up the quintessential best of Lennon and McCartney at this stage of their development: Paul's "Penny Lane" and John's "I Am the Walrus." --Jim Emerson

The Beatles (better known as the White Album)

Disc 1, Side A
1. Back In The U.S.S.R. Lennon/McCartney
2. Dear Prudence Lennon/McCartney
3. Glass Onion Lennon/McCartney
4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da Lennon/McCartney
5. Wild Honey Pie Lennon/McCartney
6. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill Lennon/McCartney
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps Harrison
8. Happiness Is A Warm Gun Lennon/McCartney
Disc 1, Side B
9. Martha My Dear Lennon/McCartney
10. I'm So Tired Lennon/McCartney
11. Blackbird Lennon/McCartney
12. Piggies Harrison
13. Rocky Racoon Lennon/McCartney
14. Don't Pass Me By Starkey
15. Why Don't We Do It In The Road? Lennon/McCartney
16. I Will Lennon/McCartney
17. Julia Lennon/McCartney

Disc 2, Side A
1. Birthday Lennon/McCartney
2. Yer Blues Lennon/McCartney
3. Mother Nature's Son Lennon/McCartney
4. Everybody's Got Something To Hide
Except Me and My Monkey Lennon/McCartney
5. Sexy Sadie Lennon/McCartney
6. Helter Skelter Lennon/McCartney
7. Long, Long, Long Harrison

Disc 2, Side B
8. Revolution 1 Lennon/McCartney
9. Honey Pie Lennon/McCartney
10. Savoy Truffle Harrison
11. Cry Baby Cry Lennon/McCartney
12. Revolution 9 Lennon/McCartney
13. Good Night Lennon/McCartney

30 songs / 30 original ... Total: 137/123

Released: November 1968 - I had graduated High School and was living on my own. The Beatles had not recorded an LP for sale in nearly 11 months. By today's or any day's standard, that would be early .. but not for the Fab 4. They had churned out 107 recordings of which 93 were totally original in every way, shape or form .. and all in just over 5 years. No other artist in recorded history had come anywhere near this schedule. Not even close. Nodda. Nope. Nohow, noway. But we are not talking about anybody else. Nobody else is the Beatles. The Beatles are 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th6th7th8th9thblahblahblahblahblah .. and everybody else comes last. 'Nuff said. Now, word had gotten to the Beatles that there was a buzz that Magical Mystery Tour was not .. not .. well, not Sgt. Pepper's. Me = I disagrre as I have already stated .. BUT if abody wants to rate Sgt. Pepper's as the greatest LP of all-time, then be my guest. I shant argue. But don't tell me that Magical Mystery Tour is inferior. I won't hear it. And you know who else won't hear it ? Just 4 guys named JohnPaulGeorgeRingo. When these 4 heard the rumbling that maybe their greatness was fading, what with not being able to record 2 straight greatest Albums of all-time .. well, they didn't get angry the way most mortals do. No ! They went into their new recording studio that they developed and cranked out a 2 LP recording of 30 of the most dynamic songs to ever go on wax. And they sat back and watched the public apologize profusively for even dare to think that the Beatles had burned out. Ladies and gentlemen: the White Album ! With the best Beatle song to date within, George's While My Guitar Gently Weeps .. w/ George's pal, Eric Clapton playing Lead Guitar. - - LcS
Better known as the "White Album," this was meant to be the record that brought them back to earth after three years of studio experimentation. Instead, it took them all over the place, continuing to burst the envelope of pop music. Lennon and McCartney were still at the height of their powers, with Lennon in particular growing into one of rock's towering figures. But even McCartney could still rock, and the amazement on "Helter Skelter" was that he had vocal cords at the end. From Beach Boys knock-offs to reggae and to the unknown ("Revolution #9"), this has it all. Some records have legend written all over them; this is one. --Chris Nickson

Yellow Submarine

Side A (LP)
1. Yellow Submarine Lennon/McCartney
2. Only A Northern Song Harrison
3. All Together Now Lennon/McCartney
4. Hey Bulldog Lennon/McCartney
5. It's All Too Much Harrison
6. All You Need Is Love Lennon/McCartney

Side B (LP)
7. Pepperland Martin
8. Sea of Time & Sea of Holes Martin
9. March of the Meanies Martin
10. Pepperland Laid Waste Martin
11. Yellow Submarine in Pepperland Martin

11 songs / 11 origina ... Total: 148/134

Released: January 1969 - And just 2 months after flipping off everyone with a 30 song, ney, 30 dynamite song LP .. JohnPaulGeorgeRingo were asked if they'd deliver some songs for another Movie; this time a cartoon. They took a look at their cubbyhole and threw out 6 songs capped with the oh so beautiful All You Need Is Love. Told that the Movie would need another song, the Fabulous 4 sent their Producer George Martin a note saying have you got anything ? Martin did and the quota was met. In 72 hours. Not days, not weeks, not months as today's soundtracks take. But over the weekend. Me = I was a month and a half older than I was when the White Album came out. - - LcS
The most dashed-off of the Beatles' records, Yellow Submarine doesn't have much to it: the goofy title track and "All You Need Is Love" are reprised from earlier discs, George Martin's trifle of a score to the animated Submarine feature takes up the second half, and that leaves just four relatively insubstantial new tracks. The Beatles' throwaways are anyone else's classics, though: "Hey Bulldog," the last song Lennon and McCartney wrote in full collaboration, has the instinctive urgency of their best work, Paul's singalong "All Together Now" is awfully cute, and more than one band has dedicated its career to trying to replicate what George's guitars are doing on his dazed, pulsing "It's All Too Much." --Douglas Wolk

Abbey Road

Side A (LP)
1. Come Together Lennon/McCartney
2. Something Harrison
3. Maxwell's Silver Hammer Lennon/McCartney
4. Oh! Darling Lennon/McCartney
5. Octopus's Garden Starkey
6. I Want You (She's So Heavy) Lennon/McCartney
Side B (LP)
7. Here Comes The Sun Harrison
8. Because Lennon/McCartney
9. You Never Give Me Your Money Lennon/McCartney
10. Sun King Lennon/McCartney
11. Mean Mr. Mustard Lennon/McCartney
12. Polythene Pam Lennon/McCartney
13. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window Lennon/McCartney
14. Golden Slumbers Lennon/McCartney
15. Carry That Weight Lennon/McCartney
16. The End Lennon/McCartney
17. Her Majesty Lennon/McCartney

17 songs / 17 originals ... Total: 165/151

Released: September 1969 - And here just 9 months later comes another classic LP. The Beatles star is burning brightly .. but most definitely NOT burning out. This LP contains what many, including Frank Sinatra, agree is the most beautiful song in the Beatles cannon: George Harrison's Something. - - LcS
The Beatles' last days as a band were as productive as any major pop phenomenon that was about to split. After recording the ragged-but-right Let It Be, the group held on for this ambitious effort, an album that was to become their best-selling. Though all four contribute to the first side's writing, John Lennon's hard-rocking, "Come Together" and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" make the strongest impression. A series of song fragments edited together in suite form dominates side two; its portentous, touching, official close ("Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"/"The End") is nicely undercut, in typical Beatles fashion, by Paul McCartney's cheeky "Her Majesty," which follows. --Rickey Wright

The Abbey Road Photo

The Beatles had been wondering what to do for their next LP-cover for some time. All their previous cover shots had been groundbreaking, from the simple (but nevertheless classic) posing on the stairs of EMI house in Manchester square for Please Please Me, through the darkly lit four faces of With The Beatles, the filmstrip style adopted for A Hard Day's Night, the solemn look of Beatles For Sale, the semaphore signs of Help!, the distorted Rubber Soul cover, the award-winning collage of Revolver, the meticulously arranged splendor of Sgt Pepper and the stark contrast of The Beatles (White Album). You can just close your eyes and picture them all, can't you? At one point, what we refer to as Abbey Road was going to be called Everest (after a brand of cigarettes, smoked by the Beatles' engineer, Geoff Emerick), and the Beatles were going to be photographed at the foot of this famous mountain in the Himalayas. In the end, they couldn't be bothered. One of them (probably Paul) said: Hey, why don't we just have our picture taken as we walk across the crossing just outside here and call the LP Abbey Road? All having agreed on this, John contacted a photographer friend of his and Yoko's, Iain MacMillan, and a photo shoot was set up. At 11.35, MacMillan stood on a stepladder and took six photos of the group walking across, while a policeman held up traffic. Some time later, Paul McCartney studied the negatives under a magnifying glass and chose the image (no.5) that is now so familiar. The LP came out, became the world's no. 1 selling LP, Abbey Road became a household word, the cover inspired countless of other hopeful bands to imitate the sleeve, and even EMI's recording studios were instantly renamed.

Let It Be

Side A (LP)
1. Two Of Us Lennon/McCartney
2. Dig A Pony Lennon/McCartney
3. Across The Universe Lennon/McCartney
4. I Me Mine Harrison
5. Dig It Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey
6. Let It Be Lennon/McCartney
7. Maggie Mae Lennon/McCartney
Side B (LP)
8. I've Got A Feeling Lennon/McCartney
9. One After 909 Lennon/McCartney
10. The Long And Winding Road Lennon/McCartney
11. For You Blue Harrison
12. Get Back Lennon/McCartney

12 songs / 12 originals ... Final Total: 177/163

Released: May 1970 - And so it was; in just over 7 years, the Fab 4 gave us 13 of the best LPs in recorded recording history. Without doubt. I was in the US Army when this Album came out. I walked down to the PX one evening after Mess and spent a buck twenty-five on Let It Be. Then, when I got back to my Billet, I had to buy a used 'record player' from one of the Drill Sergeants. Once I had done so, I sat down and listened to the last fresh new Beatles albums. -- LcS

Sloppy in conception, and even sometimes in the playing, Let It Be often gets a bad rap. Unfairly, as it's often as charming, well written, and (oh yeah) rocking as the Beatles' "better" albums; it's also more outright fun than Abbey Road, the masterpiece it followed into the stores. With Lennon and McCartney working together on the perfect "I've Got a Feeling," "Two of Us," and "Dig a Pony," it's hard to believe these guys were about to implode. --Rickey Wright
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MIKE SHANAHAN: New Redskins Head Coach

2010-01-06T15:40:00.007-05:00

Wednesday . January 6, 2010

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Three weeks after Vinny Cerrato's resignation

and the hiring of Bruce Allen

(son of legendary Redskins Head Coach of the 1970s, George Allen)

as General Manager ..

and three days after the firing of Head Coach Jim Zorn :

The Washington Redskins

have hired

former Denver Broncos Head Coach,

Mike Shanahan

as their new Head Coach

and team Vice President

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

SPECIAL MESSAGE

2010-01-02T14:18:00.006-05:00

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Special Message
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Once again, this year
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Larry will take his
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ANECDOTES, LYRICS & MUSIC
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and COMPOSITION
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on temporary hiatus ...
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save for the occasional Breaking News

or Special Message
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Thank you for reading ..
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and thank you for your patience
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in this aperture.

This would be a wonderful time for the readers to

peruse the past entries

and catch up on the many fabulous

stories, songs and admissions.

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Auld Lang Syne

2009-12-31T11:31:00.002-05:00

Thursday December 31, 2009
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repeat performance
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AULD LANG SYNE

Written by:
Robert Burns
in 1788

1
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and old lang syne ?

CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

2
And surely you’ll buy your pint cup !
And surely I’ll buy mine !
And we'll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

Repeat CHORUS

3
We two have run about the slopes,
and picked the daisies fine ;
But we’ve wandered many a weary foot,
since auld lang syne.

Repeat CHORUS

4
We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine† ;
But seas between us broad have roared
since auld lang syne.

Repeat CHORUS

5
And there’s a hand my trusty friend !
And give us a hand o’ thine !
And we’ll take a right good-will draught,
for auld lang syne.

Repeat CHORUS

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NOTE:
As detailed above, auld lang syne literally means "old long since", but a more idiomatic English translation would be something like "long long ago","days of long ago", "in olden days", or even "once upon a time". "For old time's sake" or "to the good old days" may be modern-day expressions, in common use as a toast, that capture the spirit of "for auld lang syne".

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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

5500 Years From Home

2009-12-30T11:38:00.003-05:00

Wednesday December 30, 2009
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5500 Years From Home

In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, .. but have suspended at this time.

I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from

5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.
Today, we peruse the 11th page of Chapter 20 – Page 162 ..

which is the book’s final page.

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Enjoy !

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5500 YEARS FROM HOME

chapter Twenty … page 162

5500 Years From Home

As the hour was about to expire and Fanny prepared to slip back to the Craft, she passed by a woman who could not help but notice Fanny’s 2009 clothing in 1987. She smiled and told her that she liked her outfit. Fanny politely said thank you but kept walking. She did not want to have to answer questions as to where she purchased the clothes. As the woman continued looking at Fanny, she gave the thumbsup sign to Fanny. Fanny was just about to be gone but did notice that the other woman had a tattoo on the back of her hand that said L – a – r – r – y in cursive lettering with the L in Old English style. As Fanny disappeared back to the Craft, she wondered if that was a coincidence or if, somehow, the woman knew Fanny or even Fanny’s mother. Fanny figured that it was just a peculiar coincidence.
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The Craft’s operational procedure was activated, once again and away it sped through the cosmos of chronology. Soon enough, The Craft was back in 2009 with Fanny ready to regain her position within her family. She had only been gone 2 days but was happy to be back.
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The FCO had her ship in working order a bid farewell to Fanny and was gone. <----
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Thom had completed his 50,000 word Sci-Fi Novel in less than a week and submitted it to his employer at AP Publishing. The initial order was for 30,000 copies. The List Price was set at $ 30 per copy and with Thom’s cut at 33 %, his up front take would be $ 300,000.
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Anything beyond 30,000 sales would net Thom 50 % per copy sold.
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And he owed it all to his new best friend and traveling buddy, the Extrinsic Orb Being.

… his new best friend and traveling buddy, the Extrinsic Orb Being. ..

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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

Good King Wenceslas

2009-12-29T13:09:00.002-05:00

The words to the carol Good King Wenceslas were written by John Mason Neale and published in 1853, the music originates in Finland 300 years earlier. This Christmas carol is unusual as there is no reference in the lyrics to the nativity. Good King Wenceslas was the king of Bohemia in the 10th century. Good King Wenceslas was a Catholic and was martyred following his assassination by his brother Boleslaw and his supporters, his Saint's Day is September 28th, and he is the Patron Saint of the Czech Republic. St. Stephen's feast day was celebrated on 26th December which is why this song is sung as a Christmas carol.

Good King Wenceslas looked out
On the feast of Stephen
When the snow lay round about
Deep and crisp and even
Brightly shone the moon that night
Though the frost was cruel
When a poor man came in sight
Gath'ring winter fuel

"Hither, page, and stand by me
If thou know'st it, telling
Yonder peasant, who is he?
Where and what his dwelling?"
"Sire, he lives a good league hence
Underneath the mountain
Right against the forest fence
By Saint Agnes' fountain."

"Bring me flesh and bring me wine
Bring me pine logs hither
Thou and I will see him dine
When we bear him thither."
Page and monarch forth they went
Forth they went together
Through the rude wind's wild lament
And the bitter weather

"Sire, the night is darker now
And the wind blows stronger
Fails my heart, I know not how,
I can go no longer."
"Mark my footsteps, my good page
Tread thou in them boldly
Thou shalt find the winter's rage
Freeze thy blood less coldly."

In his master's steps he trod
Where the snow lay dinted
Heat was in the very sod
Which the Saint had printed
Therefore, Christian men, be sure
Wealth or rank possessing
Ye who now will bless the poor
Shall yourselves find blessing

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

can't be happy at christmas

2009-12-28T09:11:00.003-05:00

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larry curtis spurlock

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can’t be happy at christmas

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1

there’s some people i’m told
so sullen and cold
that they can’t be
happy at christmas
when the big day arrives
in most of their lives
they wonder what happened
to their wish list
and they cry because their lives
are so listless

2

there’s a signpost on the road
that exacerbates their load
and they wonder why they feel
such sadness
so they turn left and right
from the day into the night
because they know life comes down
to good and badness
and they sigh feeling trapped
by all the madness

3

how would you feel if you knew
why the sky was so blue
and the clouds were just
water and air
would it make you realize
how the bird flys
or why they are always
in a pair
would you be amazed or still
not really care

4

and everything shall pass
like the drink from the glass
our time on this planet
is so fleeting
but if you don’t understand
the majesty of this plan
perhaps you must arrange
such a meeting
to find out why your heart
is really beating

5

the cornerstone is set
to carry all the debt
that is known as the
building’s foundation
and our lives are the same
because of where we came
is what is known as
the eternal creation
and it’s recorded in time
as the manifestation

6

yes they can wind their lives uptight
and hope with all their might
that they can get across
the narrow isthmus
they can scream – they can shout
they can cry – they can pout
but until they make it
their business
they will continue to swing
and miss much

and still they won’t be
happy at christmas

Felix Navy-Dad

2009-12-25T11:30:00.002-05:00

Friday December 25, 2009
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Felix Navy-Dad
Down Home
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Clyde: Merry Christmas everybody !

Claude: And a Happy New Year !

Roy: Yep. I wanna say a Felix Navy-Dad.

Clyde: What, Roy ?

Claude: Yeah, what’s Felix Navy-Dad ?

Roy: Felix Navy-Dad ! ..In English – that thar is Merry Christmas in Mexican !

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

2009-12-24T10:33:00.007-05:00

Thursday December 24, 2008
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Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

(sometimes with Coming changed to Comin')

is a Christmas song.

It was written by J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie,

and was first sung on Eddie Cantor's radio show in November 1934.

It became an instant hit with orders for 100,000 copies of sheet music the next day and over 400,000 copies sold by Christmas.

You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I'm telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town

He's making a list,
Checking it twice;
Gonna find out who's naughty or nice.
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town

He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake

With little tin horns and little toy drums
Rooty toot toots and rummy tum tums
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town

He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake
Goodness sake

You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I'm telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming
Santa Claus is coming
Santa Claus is coming to town

(Coming to town)
Santa's a busy man he has no time to play
He's got millions of stockings to fill on Christmas day
(Santa Claus is coming to town)
(Coming to town)
(Santa Claus is coming to town)
(Coming to town)

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To watch & listen to Bruce Springstein perform his version ..
please click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0PZwGYKxnI&feature=related

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Here’s a list of Artists who have recorded this classic.

· The Carpenters
· Bianca Ryan
· Destiny's Child
· All 4 One
· Alvin and the Chipmunks
· Vanessa Amorosi
· Gene Autry
· Patricia Barber
· The Beach Boys
· David Benoit
· Tony Bennett
· Michael Bolton
· Boston Pops Orchestra
· Dave Brubeck
· The California Raisins
· Manhattan Transfer
· Mariah Carey
· Gnarkill (Alternative cover)
· Ray Charles
· The Cheetah Girls
· Richard Clayderman
· Rosemary Clooney
· Nat King Cole
· Perry Como
· Ray Conniff Singers
· Bucky Covington
· Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters
· The Crystals
· Neil Diamond
· Tommy Dorsey
· Hilary Duff
· Bill Evans
· Ella Fitzgerald
· Fourplay
· Girl Authority
· Vince Gill
· Natalie Grant
· Larry Groce on the album Disney's Christmas Favourites.
· Hampton String Quartet
· Merle Haggard
· Woody Herman
· Chris Isaak and Stevie Nicks
· Burl Ives
· Alan Jackson
· The Jackson Five
· The Judds
· Peggy Lee
· Lynyrd Skynyrd
· The Manhattan Transfer
· Johnny Mathis
· Jimmy McGriff
· Mitch Miller and the Gang
· Michael Martin Murphy
· The Oak Ridge Boys
· Dolly Parton
· The Partridge Family
· The Pointer Sisters
· Alvino Rey with the King Sisters
· Emma Roberts
· Bootsy's Rubber Band
· Art Paul Schlosser did a parody called IRS is Coming to Town
· Frank Sinatra
· Frank Sinatra (in a duet with Cyndi Lauper)
· Slade
· Sugarcult
· Kate Smith
· Smothers Brothers
· Bruce Springsteen (two versions, one of which is a popular radio version)
· George Strait
· The Supremes
· James Taylor
· The Temptations
· Randy Travis
· Dave Valentin
· Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons
· Lawrence Welk
· Wynonna
· Luis Miguel (sung in Spanish)
· CKY
· B2K
· Aerosmith (Sung on Disney's popular show Lizzie Mcguire)

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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

5500 Years From Home

2009-12-23T14:39:00.003-05:00

Wednesday December 23, 2009
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5500 Years From Home

In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, .. but have suspended at this time.

I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from

5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.
Today, we peruse the 8th page of Chapter 20 – Page 159.
Enjoy !

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5500 YEARS FROM HOME

chapter Twenty … page 159

5500 Years From Home

This time stop finds the ladies witnessing another sailing vessel in the Ocean only this time, their ship has anchored in a harbor. A scouting party appears to have reached shore in several side boats. Again, it appears to be primitive Native Americans welcoming Old World Explorers. The sound production tells of a friendship between the two Worlds. Another feast has been laid about and a prayer of a giving of thanks echoes in the forest. The ladies of the Craft are torn between this being Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 or possibly Plymouth, Massachusetts. The FCO determines that’s it’s too unsafe for an up close and personal exploration by either of them. And so they continue to observe the friendly gathering.
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The location of the Craft is in a thicket that has a plethora of wildlife passing by. After a period of time, there appears to be a hunt taking place with deer escaping the slings and arrows of the hunting party. Soon, a deer has been wounded and leaps into the thicket to lie down and try to recover. But the hunting party is closely following the tracks towards the thicket. Once again, the FCO decides that it’s time to depart in a hurried manner and into the void goes the Craft in a haphazard fashion until it’s gone.
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As the stepping stone jumps continue, they seem to be heading towards a more comforting time nearer to the time and place they left when Fanny was affected by the accidental tug of the fabric of time.
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Additionally, the Craft has cleared it’s bounds and connects with a gravitational pull, hauling it into a phase that imitates a more modern time. The Craft cannot completely cloak it’s view but few of the humanity spies it’s awkward zone. It has injected itself into an unused cubby space. The men that are throughout are dressed peculiarly, once more. And the hairpieces worn give clue to the timeframe. Fanny can clearly make out the presence of one Mr. Benjamin Franklin, inventor and discoverer extraordinaire.

… the Craft has cleared it’s bounds ..

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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

dear santa, leave my baby

2009-12-22T11:30:00.001-05:00

4 14 170 side 1

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larry curtsi spurlock

dear santa, leave my baby

chorus
dear santa
dear santa, leave my baby
dear santa
dear santa, leave my baby here with me

1
you don't have to leave a present
underneath my christmas tree
if my stocking is empty on christmas morn
that's allright with me
dear santa, help me please

repeat chorus

2
we'll be singing all the caroles
and wrapping all the toys
with time that's free - you know we'll be
celebrating christmas joys
dear santa, help me please

repeat chorus

3
i haven't seen her since thanksgiving
when we enjoyed holiday fare
but the wicked witch is such a b!tch
her apple is always there
dear santa, help me please

repeat chorus

Twas The NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

2009-12-18T14:00:00.006-05:00

Friday December 18, 2009
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Twas The

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NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

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Written by:
Clement Clarke Moore
& Henry Livingston

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'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;

And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a long winter's nap,

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,

When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;

"Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! on Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!

To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,

So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

As I drew in my hand, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;

A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

His eyes -- how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;

He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,

And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.

But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

Happy Christmas (War Is Over)

2009-12-17T11:25:00.005-05:00

Thursday December 17, 2008
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Happy Christmas (War Is Over)

Written by: John Lennon

So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear ones
The old and the young

/ D - / Em - / A7 - / D - / G - / Am - / D - / G - /

{Refrain}
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

/ C - / Dm - / Am C / G A7 /

And so this is Christmas (War is over)
For weak and for strong (If you want it)
For rich and the poor ones (War is over)
The road is so long (Now)
And so happy Christmas (War is over)
For black and for white (If you want it)
For yellow and red ones (War is over)
Let's stop all the fight (Now)

{repeat Refrain}

And so this is Christmas (War is over)
And what have we done (If you want it)
Another year over (War is over)
And a new one just begun (Now)
And so happy Christmas (War is over)
I hope you have fun (If you want it)
The near and the dear one (War is over)
The old and the young ………. Now

{repeat Refrain}

War is over if you want it
War is over now

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Listen to this song by clicking here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUCbZhIfQbA

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

5500 Years From Home

2009-12-16T11:17:00.002-05:00

Wednesday December 16, 2009
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5500 Years From Home
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In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, .. but have suspended at this time.
.
I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from

5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.
Today, we peruse the 5th page of Chapter 20 – Page 156.

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Enjoy !

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5500 YEARS FROM HOME

chapter Twenty … page 156

5500 Years From Home

As the family enjoyed Christmas Day, there was an uneasiness hanging over the object in their back yard. After Dinner but before complete darkness had arrived, some Radio personnel had descended upon the Curtis’ property. Fanny, nervously, went outside to confront them. She acted as normally as she could concerning the situation. She told them that her family had seen the bright flash of light pass over their property, the night before and that she thinks it may have been an asteroid or comet that burned up before it could hit the ground. She was asked about the canvas behind the Gardner’s Building and she replied that her husband was growing some tomato plants and covered them from the cold weather. That seemed to placate the snooping reporters and they moved on to the next property down the hill from the Curtis’.
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When the Radio people had left the area and it became dark, Fanny returned to the Craft. She bent down to her knees and, again, began corresponding with the FCO. After Lynnda had been put to bed, Larry and Dhann joined Fanny out by the Craft. Fanny explained to them that the FCO could use it’s mental telepathy and levitate the Craft towards the Gardner’s Building. Larry and Dhann were still skeptical but after seeing the Craft move, they started to have more trust in Fanny’s descriptions. But the Craft moved only a few feet and then stopped. Fanny told the men that the FCO was not as mentally strong as she needed to be and needed some help. She added that she was going to enter the Craft and use her mental capacities to assist the FCO. Larry was against that and besides, there was no door opening and nobody had seen this creature.
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Within an instant, a hatch did indeed open. Fanny asked Dhann to open the Gardner’s Building’s garage type door and for Larry to physically guide the Craft as it hovered, into the Gardner’s Building.
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Fanny climbed into the Craft with the FCO and the hatch closed.

… Larry and Dhann were still skeptical ..
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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

brittny's christmas

2009-12-14T09:59:00.004-05:00

4 14 175 side 2

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larry..curtis..spurlock
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brittny' s christmas
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a
fifteen december - it's getting late
cut down a tree to decorate
this is the day my brittny comes to stay
comes to stay - comes to play
comes to play - comes today
today .. today today today

gonna hang her stocking
waiting for saint nick
put tinsel on the tree that daddy picked
set frosty the snowman way up high
and keep her eyes on the sky

cause
santa claus is coming soon
flying through the sky above
yes old santa's coming soon
bringing lots of toys and love
reigndeer prancing
children dancing
oh what a merry scene
kids are playing
adults sleighing
in a winter wonderland supreme

b
twenty-four december - christmas eve
santa's coming if you believe
this is the day my brittny's
been waiting for - waiting for
wait some more - wait some more
waiting for toys galore
galore, galore galore galore

she's left three cookies
and a glass of milk
dreaming of a scarf made of silk
sleeping now in her bed
with sugar plums dancing in her head

cause
tomorrow santa will have come and gone
leaving treasures before dawn
yes santa claus will have come and gone
reighdeer hoofprints on the lawn
children giggle - puppies wiggle
oh what a joyous day
everyone smiling
all the while and
thank the lord we pray

(repeat a ... repeat b)

mis(s)match.com

2009-12-12T11:44:00.005-05:00

All alone at the end of the of the evening
And the bright lights have faded to blue
I was thinking 'bout a woman who might have
Loved me and I never knew

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You know I've always been a dreamer
(spent my life running 'round)
And it's so hard to change
(can't seem to settle down)

.
But the dreams I've seen lately
Keep on turning out and burning out
And turning out the same
.

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So put me on a highway
And show me a sign
And take it to the limit one more time
.

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You can spend all your time making money
You can spend all your love making time
If it all fell to pieces tomorrow
Would you still be mine?
.
And when you're looking for your freedom
(nobody seems to care)
And you can't find the door
(can't find it anywhere)
When there's nothing to believe in
Still you're coming back, you're running back
You're coming back for more
.

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So put me on a highway
And show me a sign
And take it to the limit one more time
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Take it to the limit
Take it to the limit
Take it to the limit one more time

Take it

to the limit

Take it

to the limit

Take it

to the limit

one more time

Take it

to the limit

take it

to the limit

Come on and take it

to the limit

one more time

Take it

Come on and take it

one more time

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

Do You Hear What I Hear

2009-12-10T09:54:00.003-05:00

Thursday December 10, 2008
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Do You Hear What I Hear

By: Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne
Written in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Said the night wind to the little lamb
Do you see what I see?
'Way up in the sky, little lamb
Do you see what I see?

A star, a star
Dancing in the night
With a tail as big as a kite
With a tail as big as a kite

Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy
Do you hear what I hear?
Ringing thru the sky, shepherd boy
Do you hear what I hear?

A song, a song
High above the tree
With a voice as big as the sea
With a voice as big as the sea

Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king
Do you know what I know?
In your palace warm, mighty king
Do you know what I know?

A Child, a Child
Shivers in the cold
Let us bring Him silver and gold
Let us bring Him silver and gold

Said the king to the people ev'rywhere
Listen to what I say!
Pray for peace, people ev'rywhere
Listen to what I say!

The Child, the Child
Sleeping in the night
He will bring us goodness and light
He will bring us goodness and light

* Blogmeister’s Note:

Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xw_F2dXxig
to hear Perry Como sing this wonderful classic
with beautiful pictures in accompaniment.

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

5500 Years From Home

2009-12-09T11:47:00.002-05:00

Wednesday December 9, 2009
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5500 Years From Home

In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, .. but have suspended at this time.

I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from

5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.
Today, we peruse the 1st page of Chapter 20 – Page 152.

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Enjoy !

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5500 YEARS FROM HOME

chapter Twenty … page 152

5500 Years From Home

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Thom picked up the phone and called into his Job at AP Publishing. He explained that he had been abducted and indicated that he had a Publication Piece about it that he would submit as soon as he completed it. Then he hung up. After that he logged on to his PC and set it up to write a SciFi Novel about his excursion.
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When Audrey returned from taking the children to School, Thom explained to her that he was going to write a Sci-Fi Novel based on what he had gone trough over the last 2 weeks. Audrey agreed that she would wait to read his completed work. Both agreed that Audrey would have all the time that she needed to grieve for her mother.
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And so Thom began writing his adventure in the 3rd person:
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He introduced the reading audience to his co protagonist as Fanny.
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--> Larry was Christmas shopping for his daughter, Lynnda. She wanted a Space Station Doll House of the future but it was such a popular item in 2009, Larry was finding it quite difficult to locate. Finally, he did find it and after purchasing it, he was driving to his home in the Shenandoah Valley of the Blue Ridge Mountain range.
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About 5 minutes from his Riverside suburban home, a bright light in the sky flashed over his head and disappeared into the nearby countryside. The proximity of the unidentified bright light caused the electrical components in his pick-up to cut out, stalling the vehicle.
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It took nearly 10 minutes for Larry to be able to restart his engine. Once that he did, he drove the last few miles home. As he pulled into his driveway, he noticed his father, Dhann walking outside the back of the house. Larry’s father and mother, Olivia were visiting Larry and his wife, Fannie and Lynnda for Christmas. Fanny, Olivia and Lynnda were still at the Christmas Eve Services at Church in town.
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Larry had planned to hide the huge Space Station Doll House box in the Gardner’s building that was located between their house and the River. He asked his father for help. Dhann’s face was colorless.

… And so Thom began writing his adventure in the 3rd person: ..
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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

FANTASY ULTIMATE Football League ... week 13

2009-12-08T11:03:00.004-05:00

Tuesday December 8, 2009
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Fantasy Ultimate
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Football League
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2009
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week 13 .. (end of regular Season)
Scores & Final Standings
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FishHead II 99 - Holmes 80
Pat Collins 126 - Sully 72
Will's Thrills 128 - Gray Ghosts 78
Big Doggie 105 - Bossman Jim 96
Team Winner 147 - Zack's ForSkins 100
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PROS Division
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Wills Thrills ... 9 – 4
Big Doggie ... 7 – 6
Bossman Jim ... 6 – 7
Sully ... 5 – 8
Pat Collins ... 4 – 9
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CONS Division
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Team Winner ... 10 – 3
Gray Ghosts ... 7 – 6
FishHead II ... 6 – 7
Zach's ForSkins ... 6 – 7
Holmes' ... 5 - 8
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Boy oh boy .. what a dramatic Regular Season finish !
This week I was playing for my very Playoff life ..

BUT

I still needed help.

In the Pros Division, most everything was final finalized in the

Playoff format before any week 13 games were played.

Will's Thrills had locked up the Division .. and

will receive a Bye in week 14's first round of the Playoffs.

Bossman Jim and (his Cousin) Big Doggie had secured

Playoff berths BUT played against each other to determine

who finished 2nd and who finished 3rd.

Cons Division leader, Team Winner (that's their moniker)

had locked up 1st place and a round 1 Playoff Bye

but went on to crush Zach's ForSkins eliminating Zach

from Playoff contention.

FishHead II (me) played against Holmes' (brothers)

to see who would advance to the Playoffs ..

and who would go home.

Even though I had one of the unluckiest Seasons EVER

(injuries to 4 of my best players)

in Fantasy Football, my sorry ass team won 99-80

advancing to the Playoffs as the Cons Division 3rd seed.

Therefore, .. I will be playing Big Doggie in this week's first round

Playoff game .. while the Gray Ghosts will take on Bossman Jim.

The winner of my game will face Team Winner

(who I just beat two weeks ago) .. in round 2

and the winner of the other first round Playoff game

will take on Will's Thrills in the 2nd round.
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Fantasy Football - you gotta love it !
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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK
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it really doesn't seem like christmas

2009-12-07T15:30:00.003-05:00

2 9 113 away – 9 ; Blog version re-write

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larry curtis spurlock
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it really doesn’t seem like

christmas

it really doesn’t seem like christmas
it doesn’t seem like christmas this year
living in this old lady’s basement
missing out on all the good cheer

is this really christmas
is this the happy holidays
the calendar says december 25th
but my head and my heart are in a daze

i am alone - i am alone
i am all alone
and very, very very stoned

it really doesn’t seem like christmas
christmas has never been this bad
but living with you was so hurtful
i’d rather be lonely than so sad

i’m sitting here listening to blue christmas
elvis is on the radio
it really must be the week before new years
but i can’t feel the ho ho ho

i am alone - i am alone
i am all alone
and very, very very stoned

it really doesn’t seem like christmas
i didn’t even decorate a tree
but life with you was just as empty
oh oh oh lonesome me

i always used to love christmas
entertaing all my many friends
but now they are all over at my old house
and i’m hiding here where the rainbow never ends

i am alone - i am alone
i am all alone
and very, very very stoned

it really doesn’t seem like christmas
i am alone
it really doesn’t seem like christmas
i am alone
it really doesn’t seem like christmas
i am all alone
it really doesn’t seem like christmas
and still i am very very stoned

DOWN HOME - Cookin'

2009-12-04T13:36:00.003-05:00

Friday December 4, 2009
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Cookin’
Down Home

Clyde: Roy, .. I hope you’n appreciate the MicROW-wave uv’n tha’ me’n Claude got fer ya fer Chris’-mas.

Claude: Yeah, boy, Roy. We here-ed you’ins can’t op-ER-ate them thar hot plates, no mo’, at the Home. Mus’ a been cuz’n the farr (fire) !

Roy: Yeah, yeah, yeah .. the farr (fire) !

Clyde: Them thar MicROW-wave uv’ns can shor save you’n time fixn yor food.

Roy: Yeah, yeah, yeah .. I put instin’ rice, rice, rice in thar t’other day.

Clyde: Instin’ rice ? In that’thar MicROW-wave uv’n ?

Claude: Gosh. Wha’ happen’ ?

Roy: Burrrrrrrr, … whent bac’ in time ! … I did ! Uh huh !

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

Silver Bells

2009-12-03T16:33:00.002-05:00

Thursday December 3, 2009
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Silver Bells

Have you ever wondered why there was such an outpouring of wonderful Christmas songs written in America between World War II -- with “I'll be Home for Christmas” -- and the early 1950s -- with “Silver Bells”?
Some people believe it’s what the German’s call Zeitgeist, or the spirit of the times. Christmas Day 2006, What’s in a Song took you on a journey to Beverly Hills, CA, to try to answer this question. We’ll meet Ray Evans who, with his partner Jay Livingston, wrote the Christmas classic, “Silver Bells.” What's in a Song tries to get to the bottom of the creative Christmas spirit of those times and comes up with very little spiritual fodder to help us understand the yuletide inspiration of those days. In fact, Ray Evans, now 91 years old, tells of a funny story of just how “Silver Bells” came to be.*

* “Silver Bells” was first heard in the 1951 Bob Hope comedy,
The Lemon Drop Kid.

City sidewalks, busy sidewalks
Dressed in holiday style
In the air there's a feeling like Christmas
Children laughing, people passing
Meeting smile after smile
And on every street corner you hear

Silver bells, silver bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas day

Strings of street lights
Even stop lights
Blink a bright red and green
As the shoppers rush home with their treasures
Hear the snow crunch
See the kids bunch
This is Santa's big scene
And above all the bustle you hear

Silver bells, silver bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas day

* Blogmeister’s Note:

Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djfgoGAEU4E
to hear John Denver sing this wonderful classic
with accompanying video of Christmas in the city.

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

5500 Years From Home

2009-12-02T10:11:00.003-05:00

Wednesday December 2, 2009
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5500 Years From Home

In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, .. but have suspended at this time.

I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from

5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.
Today, we peruse the 1st page of Chapter 19 – Page 151.

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Enjoy !

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5500 YEARS FROM HOME

chapter Nineteen … page 151

Going Home

As the sun rose in the East on Monday January 12, 2009, Charles had decided that it was time for him to go home. He had packed the night before and the car was warming up in the circular driveway at the Martins. This was, also, the day that the EOB had planned to depart. Charles hugged Thom instead of shaking his hand as always was the case in the past. Then he hugged Cyndi and Corey as the two prepared themselves for School. Then he hugged the EOB and told him that hoped to see him, again, someday. Finally, he walked out to his car with Audrey and they talked for a few minutes and then hugged for a few more minutes. Then he got into his car and he was gone.

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When Audrey returned to the house, she was, still, wiping the tears from her eyes. She kissed Thom and then hugged the EOB, goodbye.
She made sure the kids were ready for School and then, the three boarded her car so that she could drive them to their School. And the they were gone.

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Now, it was just the EOB and Thom as it had been for what seemed like the past eternity. They walked down to the Martin’s barn, over the ridge, behind their house. The EOB levied his Orb down to ground level. He and Thom stood there looking at each other for a while. Visions of their expedition flashed before both of their mental capacities until the EOB phrenically said goodbye. They hugged. Then the EOB boarded his Orb and was gone.

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Thom walked back up to his house with as lonely a feeling as he’s ever had. And he waited for Audrey to return from taking the kids to School.

… and he was gone. ..
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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

Bells Will Be Ringing

2009-11-26T18:26:00.002-05:00

Thursday November 26, 2008
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Bells Will Be Ringing

Written by: Don Henley
Performed by: Eagles

O Bells will be ringing
this sad sad sad news
Oh what a Christmas
to have the blues
My baby's gone
I have no friends
To wish me greetings
once again

O Choirs will be singing
Oo Silent Night
Christmas carols by candle light
Please come home for Christmas
Please come home for Christmas
If not for Christmas by New Years night

Friends and relations
Send salutations
Sure as the stars shine up above
But this is Christmas
Yeah, it's Christmas my dear
It's the time of year to be with the one you love .

So won't you tell me
You'll never more roam
Christmas and the New Year
Will find you home
There`ll be no more sorrow
No grief and pain
And I'll be happy, happy, once again
There be no more sorrow
No grief and pain
It'll be a happy, Christmas, once again

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Watch & Listen by clicking here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT_Xk8_vuhM&feature=related

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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

5500 Years From Home

2009-11-25T10:37:00.003-05:00

Wednesday November 25, 2009
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5500 Years From Home

In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, .. but have suspended at this time.

I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from

5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.
Today, we peruse the 5th page of Chapter 18 – Page 150.

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Enjoy !

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5500 YEARS FROM HOME

chapter Eighteen … page 150

Front To The Past

When Charles inquired about the EOBs last eleven days with Thom, he only replied that it was more exciting for Thom than it was for him.
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Upon returning to the house, the EOB asked Thom if he could watch some TV. The adults found this so interesting that a Being that has seen everything from Christopher Columbus to the year 7508 would want to watch a television set. Thom laughed as he explained to all that the EOB could view everything on every channel by just looking at the set’s one viewing channel. Still, Charles and Audrey found it humorous.
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It was a fact that the EOB could depart for his home at any time but continued his tarriance with the Martins. As a matter of fact, he spent the rest of the week-end there .. mostly watching the television.

… As a matter of fact, he spent the rest of the week-end there ..
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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley

2009-11-19T13:48:00.003-05:00

Thursday November 19, 2008
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Blue Christmas

Words & Music by: Billy Hayes & Jay Johnson
Vocals by: Elvis Presley

I’ll have a blue christmas without you
I’ll be so blue just thinking about you
Decorations of red on a green christmas tree
Wont be the same dear, if youre not here with me

And when those blue snowflakes start falling
Thats when those blue memories start calling
Youll be doin all right, with your Christmas of white
But I’ll have a blue, blue blue blue christmas

(instrumental break)

You’ll be doin all right, with your christmas of white,
But I’ll have a blue, blue christmas

* Blogmeister’s Note:

Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUyuGFoiWJ0
to hear Elvis sing this Live from his 1968
Comeback, TV Special.

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

5500 Years From Home

2009-11-18T12:07:00.003-05:00

Wednesday November 18, 2009
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5500 Years From Home

In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, .. but have suspended at this time.
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I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from

5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.
Today, we peruse the 1st page of Chapter 18 – Page 146.

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Enjoy !

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5500 YEARS FROM HOME

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chapter Eighteen … page 146

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Front To The Past

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Thom surmised that due to Janice’s funeral the previous day, his kids would probably be excused from School and would be at home. So, on this day, Thom walked out of the barn and looked around. He saw no intruders on his property and no cars parked on the roadway as he had earlier, less than two weeks prior. Once he felt safe, he called for the EOB to come on out and the two started to walk up over the ridge towards the house. By the time they got about half way there, Audrey had spotted them and ran out of the house and raced up to Thom and nearly knocked him over hugging him. Her tears were flowing as were Thom’s and she cried out that her mother had died. Thom explained that he knew about it and they hugged tightly for several minutes. Finally, Audrey looked at the EOB and told him that they should have taken her mother to the Doctor as soon as he mentioned it, but .. Then she stopped and began again that with Thom gone .. and she stopped again. Then, she hugged the EOB as well.
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As they turned to walk on up to the house, Audrey explained that Charles and the kids had gone over to the People’s Church to get the house Flowers and bring them back to their house. She guessed that they’d be back, soon. She said that she just did not feel like going.
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Thom asked what the kids had been told about his disappearance. Audrey told him that Cyndi already had an idea that something was amiss because of the way Dusty was subliminally offering information. And if Cyndi knew, then surely, Corey knew. The way it was explained was that it was a family secret that an Astronaut was having trouble and needed their daddy’s help. What made it more improbable was that Janice had passed during that same time. Both of the children are confused that there may be a connection between the two once in a lifetime instances. They don’t know about the EOB being from another time and may be too young to be able to digest it.

… and nearly knocked him over hugging him. ..
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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

FANTASY ULTIMATE Football League ... week 10

2009-11-17T13:29:00.004-05:00

Tuesday November 17, 2009
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Fantasy Ultimate
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Football League
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2009
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week 10
Scores & Standings
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FishHead II 108 - Team Winner 103
Bossman Jim 108 - Sully 81
Will's Thrills 117 - Pat Collins 99
Big Doggie 100 - Holmes' 86
For Skins 110 - Gray Ghosts 71
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PROS Division
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Wills Thrills ... 7 – 3
Bossman Jim ... 6 – 4
Big Doggie ... 5 – 5
Sully ... 4 – 6
Pat Collins ... 2 – 8
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CONS Division
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Team Winner ... 7 – 3
Gray Ghosts ... 6 – 4
For Skins ... 5 – 5
Holmes' ... 4 – 6
FishHead II ... 4 - 6
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Boy oh boy .. what a squeeker !

This week I was playing my Division leader

and the best team in the League ..

Fred & Mark's Team Winner.

They are, also, the highest scoring Team in the League

.. and I am not.

But I did get off to a good start leading 52 - 36 at one point.

Then they got big points out of PHI QB Donovan McNabb

whose Eagles were getting the sh!t knocked out of them by

the San Diego Chargers.

THAT is never a good sign for your opponent's passing game

because they will be throwing the damn ball all over the place

and their opponent will be playing Prevent Defense

allowing tons of yards .. and meaningless TDs, as well.

McNabb threw for over 450 yards

even thiugh they lost.

Neither of us had any MNF players, so ..

going into Sunday night's game, I was losing by

a gazillian freaking points

BUT

I had NE QB & WR Tom Brady & Randy Moss, still

while Fred & Mark had IND RB Joseph Addai.

Brady & Moss really put on a show and before Halftime,

I was only down by 3 points.

Cutting right to the chase, I was winning by 5 points with two plays

left in the game. A Rushing TD is worth 6 points in our League

and Addai got the ball on a Peyton Manning handoff

BUT

was stopped at the 1 yard line (saving my ass)

because Manning threw a TD pass on the last play.

Who cares who won the NFL game - I won my Fantasy game !

108 - 103

Okay, I am tied for last place in my Division

BUT I am only one game out of a Playoff berth

with 3 games to play.

I need to pass the Holmes' brothers AND

catch and pass Zach's For Skins (no pun, here).

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My next week's opponent is the 2nd place Gray Ghosts

who I may catch as well

because they are only 2 games ahead of me.

Sh!t, Fred & Mark's 1st place team is only 3 games ahead of me ..

meaning I still have a shot at 1st frickin' place.
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Fantasy Football - you gotta love it !
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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK
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DOWN HOME - Clubbin'

2009-11-13T14:02:00.004-05:00

Friday November 13, 2009
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Clubbin’
Down Home

Clyde: Roy, I hope you appreciate me an’ Claude taking you Clubbin', tonight.

Claude: Yeah, this is a place where you can hear some of what they call alternative music.

Roy: Yeah, yeah, yeah .. I like Music. I hope they play Orange Blossom Special !

Clyde: No, no, Roy. This ain’t no Hillbilly Bar. This here music is different. Got that, Roy ? It’s a little bit different.

Claude: The musicians are a bit off the beaten path.

Roy: Off the beaten path. I, I, I .. got it. Off the beaten path. Off. Yeah, .. OFF !.... : - )

A little bit later .. and after a few beers by the boys … … …

Clyde: Claude, what the heck is Roy doing over there on the other side
of the table ?

Claude: I don’t know. He’s got his arm completely under the table. And it looks like his arm is going back and forth. And real fast, like.

Clyde: And he’s got a silly, goofy look on his face. Good golly, his eyes are rolling back in his head.

Claude: Oh my God, he’s .. he’s .. he’s ....:-o

Clyde: ROY ! STOP THAT ! STOP THAT, RIGHT NOW

Claude: ROY ! You’ve done gone and made a big mistake ! You’ve misunderstood us !

Clyde: Yeah, .. we said we was going to take you to listen to some 'OFF BEAT' music !

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

the WHO .. Tommy / We're Not Gonna Take It

2009-11-12T10:55:00.010-05:00

Thursday November 12, 2009
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the Who

Tommy

04. Tommy

01. Overture
02. It's A Boy
03. 1921
04. Amazing Journey
05. Sparks
06. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)
07. Christmas
08. Cousin Kevin
09. The Acid Queen
10. Underture
11. Do You Think It's Alright
12. Fiddle About
13. Pinball Wizard
14. There's A Doctor
15. Go To The Mirror_
16. Tommy Can You Hear Me
17. Smash The Mirror
18. Sensation
19. Miracle Cure
20. Sally Simpson
21. I'm Free
22. Welcome
23. Tommy's Holiday Camp
24. We're Not Gonna Take It

We’re Not Gonna take It

Tommy:

Welcome to the Camp, I guess you all know why we're here.

My name is Tommy

And I became aware this year

If you want to follow me,

You've got to play pinball.

And put in your earplugs

Put on your eyeshades

You know where to put the caulk

Hey you getting drunk, so sorry!

I've got you sussed.

Hey you smoking Mother Nature!

This is a bust!

Hey hung up old Mr. Normal,

Don't try to gain my trust!

'Cause you ain't gonna follow me any of those ways

Although you think you must

Guests:

We're not gonna take it

Never did and never will

We're not gonna take it

Gonna break it, gonna shake it,let's forget it better still

Tommy:

Now you can't hear me,

your ears are truly sealed.

You can't speak either,

your mouth is filled.

You can't see nothing,

and pinball completes the scene.

Here comes Uncle Ernie to guide you to

Your very own machine.

Guests:

We're not gonna take it

Never did and never will

Don't want no religion

And as far as we can tell

We ain't gonna take you

Never did and never will

We're not gonna take you

We forsake you

Gonna rape you

Let's forget you better still.

Tommy:

See me.

Feel me.

Touch me.

Heal me.

Listening to you,I get the music.

Gazing at you,I get the heat.

Following you,I climb the mountains.

I get excitement at your feet.

Right behind you,I see the millions.

On you,I see the glory.

From you,I get opinions.

From you,I get the story.
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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

5500 Years From Home

2009-11-11T11:07:00.003-05:00

Wednesday November 11, 2009
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5500 Years From Home

In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, .. but have suspended at this time.

I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from

5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.
Today, we peruse the 4th page of Chapter 17 – Page 145.

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Enjoy !

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5500 YEARS FROM HOME

chapter Seventeen … page 145

Janice’s Dirge

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Thom stopped observing the visualization port. He hung his head down and could not escape the emptiness that pervaded his senses. His heart panged for his wife, Audrey, knowing how this tragedy must be tearing her heart out and Thom wasn’t even there to subjugate her angst. Audrey was having to deal with her husband being ripped from her by an Extrinsic Being from 5500 years in the future and her mother’s passing so soon, thereafter. For a while, Thom could not confine his emotions and he wept. The EOB whose people had long since learned to quell their saddened emotional suffering, put his arm around Thom and stood silently by him in a true show of humane comforting.

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Soon, Thom was inert because no predominate time movement can possibly occur without a reasonably lucid human from the 2000s being overcome with fatigue syndrome. The fact that Thom had just experienced the emotional roller coaster of his affairs with Debra and then having his wife’s mother pass away without his consoling presence and after a night of precious little sleep – could only conclude that he rest. For, soon, he’d be home.

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When Thom awakened, he rubbed his eyes and in a childlike angelic intonation, asked ‘are we there, yet’ ? The EOB allowed that they would indeed be at Thom’s home, momentarily. Thom had two questions. What amount of time had passed in Coventry since his disappearance .. and how long had it been since Janice’s requiem ?

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The answers were: it had been 11 days since he was seized and Janice passed 6 days later. She was buried just the day before this one. It was, now, Noon on Friday January 9th, 2009.

.
The EOB has secretly and silently moored the Orb right back in the loft of the Martin’s barn. The hatch opened and Thom crawled out. He offered the EOB an invitation to come into his house and the EOB accepted if the children would be ok. Thom assured him they would.
.

.
… in a childlike angelic intonation, asked ‘are we there, yet’ ? ..
.
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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

baby baby: the princess flower ... like i'm coming home

2009-11-09T13:55:00.002-05:00

Monday November 9, 2009
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from the ‘best of’ collection …

by: larry curtis spurlock

The following Piece is the 16th and final installment of the Play Score

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baby baby: the princess flower

vol. IV forthcoming
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16 baby baby: the princess flower 16
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babay baby baby (188)
flowers
wilder side
watching t.v.
sleeping
what’s going on
land of jam
what am i doing here
green mean team
rain queen
slowing down again
wishing
the cool fool
the plan
sailing
like i’m coming home (203)

*
4 16 203 p
1988

larry curtis spurlock

like i'm coming home

1
well i was tired and i was lonely
and i needed some understanding
my life had no meaning
although filled, it would seem
yes i thought i was so special
that all i'd do was mighty fine
i guess i refused to listen
i must have been living a dream

chorus
now i feel like i'm coming home
oh lord
i feel like I'm coming home
i've been away for so long
i ve been listening to the same old song
my way of thinking was so wrong
my how i have grown
i feel like i'm coming home
oh yes, lord
i feel like i'm coming home

2
all it took was looking
from an angle so different
one that i had never imagined
yet so strong and so free
now i walk into this feeling
that someone is walking with me
a light up above me
where darkness used to be

repeat chorus

3
my life is now filling
my mind is overwhelmed
my soul is trouble free
by a heart that let it flow
of kindness and understanding
unknown just days before
i enjoy this satisfaction
teach me more as i grow

repeat chorus ( 2x )

the WHO .. Tommy / Welcome

2009-11-05T10:45:00.003-05:00

Thursday November 5, 2009
* * .. * * * * * … * * * * * .. * *

the Who

Tommy

04. Tommy

01. Overture
02. It's A Boy
03. 1921
04. Amazing Journey
05. Sparks
06. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)
07. Christmas
08. Cousin Kevin
09. The Acid Queen
10. Underture
11. Do You Think It's Alright
12. Fiddle About
13. Pinball Wizard
14. There's A Doctor
15. Go To The Mirror_
16. Tommy Can You Hear Me
17. Smash The Mirror
18. Sensation
19. Miracle Cure
20. Sally Simpson
21. I'm Free
22. Welcome
23. Tommy's Holiday Camp
24. We're Not Gonna Take It

Welcome

.

.
Tommy:
Come to my house
Be one of the comfortable people.
Come to this house
We're drinking all night
Never sleeping.

Milkman come in!
And you baker,
Little old lady welcome
And you shoe maker

Come to this house!
Into this house.

Come to this house
Be one of us.
Make this your house
Be one of us.

You can help
To collect some more in
Young and old people
Lets get them all in!

Come to this house!
Into this house.

Ask along that man who's wearing a carnation.
Bring every single person
from Victoria Station,
Go into that hospital
and bring nurses and patients,
Everybody go home and fetch their relations!

Come to this house
Be one of the comfortable people.
Lovely bright home
Drinking all night never sleeping.

We need more room
Build an extension
A colourful palace
Spare no expense now

Come to this house
Be one of us
Come into this house
Be one of us

Come to this house
Into this house

Welcome
.
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.

.
LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

5500 Years From Home

2009-11-04T11:16:00.003-05:00

Wednesday November 4, 2009
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5500 Years From Home

In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, .. but have suspended at this time.
.
I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from

5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.
Today, we peruse the 1st page of Chapter 17 – Page 142.
.

Enjoy !

* * * *
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5500 YEARS FROM HOME

chapter Seventeen … page 142

Janice’s Dirge

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As the Orb began it’s final journey with Thom on board, he could not keep his mind focused on what he had been waiting for since the mishap in the truck at his front door. Thom knew he was going home but the year he spent with Debra in College during 1987 was not going to disappear from his mind anytime soon. Again, he questioned the EOB about Debra. Was he sure that she was a Wormhole Wanderer. Her physical characteristics were not as pronounced as his. Why was that ? And why did Debra just disappear after one year. And why would she not allow him to meet and speak with her ? Why did she pick this time to view him ?

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The EOB answered that he had not seen Debra during the previous times that Thom had at the Beach. It wasn’t until that last night that he caught a glimpse of her. She was most definitely a traveler through time. Wormhole Wanderers can immediately identify another one. She was, most likely, from the early 3700s when the infinite knowledge of the cosmos had not enlarged the brains of Terrasphereians causing the swelling of the head. That gradually began in the mid 5500s until it had evolved into what the EOB looked like. Her choice to not speak with Thom may have been because her time traveling period had not perfected the intermingling of past with present persons. Especially when they knew each other. And Debra may have just wanted to watch herself in the past; maybe to have modified some action or incident. Surely, she had no idea that Thom, himself would be there from his future. She may have been puzzled as to how and why he was even there.

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Thom continued questioning the EOB as to why Debra was with him in just 1987 and not more time. The EOB replied with a question to Thom – asking when did they meet and when did he last see her ? Thom examined his memory and concluded that he met Debra at a University of Maryland sponsored Lecture by George Walton Lucas.
.

.
… Wormhole Wanderers can immediately identify another one. ..
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.

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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

baby baby: the princess flower ... sailing

2009-11-02T15:19:00.005-05:00

Monday November 2, 2009
* ... * * * * * * ... * * * * * * ... *

from the ‘best of’ collection …

;
by: larry curtis spurlock

The following Piece is the 15th of 16 in the Play's lyrical Score

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baby baby: the princess flower

vol. IV forthcoming

16 baby baby: the princess flower 16

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babay baby baby (188)
flowers
wilder side
watching t.v.
sleeping
what’s going on
land of jam
what am i doing here
green mean team
rain queen
slowing down again
wishing
the cool fool
the plan
sailing
like i’m coming home (203)

*

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4 16 202 o
1988

larry curtis spurlock
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sailing

chorus
sailing .. sailing
sailing on
sailing on the lost sea
sailing on the lost sea
on the lost sea .. with friends
sailing .. sailing
sailing on
sailing on the lost sea
sailing on the lost sea
on the lost sea .. with no end

1
we are lost and i have been
for so long i can't pretend
to be fine as long as i am here
2
friends are leaving in a boat
we'd like to but we are helplessly afloat
and i know that helicopter is not for me

repeat chorus

3
now my best friend is just a frog
he's staying with me and this dog
guess i m never going to be back home
4
soon we'll fall right off the edge
unless we find ourselves a ledge
i'm not sure which is better left alone

repeat chorus

5
we hug each other and we pray
that somewhere we make it to another day
although right now the point seems moot
6
the time has come i knew it would
when we face up to it as we should
i only wish i had a say

voice wish
say .. did somebody say wish

Hmmmmmm

2009-10-30T10:47:00.006-04:00

Friday October 30, 2009

* .. * * ... * * * * * * * * .. * * .. *

It's all a matter of perspective:

Some folks say today is the first day of the rest of your life ..

.. when in fact - it's the last day of the first part of your life.

It's like seeing the glass half empty ..

when someone trys to tell you that it's half full.

And the biggest faux pas is when you're told that ..

the most important thing is how you play the game -

when it's sooooo freaking obvious that

the most important thing is unequivocally,

whether you win or lose. D'oh ! ... :slaps forhead:

The most cosmic coincidence of all time must be the fact that

our Sun is exactly 400 times larger than our Moon

AND the Moon is exactly 400 times closer to Earth than the Sun is.

It's the only true way that there can be a Total Eclipse ..

and it's the only one in our Universe.

The characters Bert & Ernie from TVs Sesame Street

were named after Bert (the Cop) & Ernie (the Taxi Driver)

on Frank Capri's It's A Wonderful Life

Ants never sleep; it's a fact.

Monopoly is still my favorite board & dice game.

And honestly, how did we survive as a people

before Personal Computers & Cell Phones ?

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

the WHO .. Tommy / Tommy's Holiday Camp

2009-10-29T17:19:00.003-04:00

Thursday October 29, 2009
* … * * * * * * * .. * * * * * * * … *

the Who

Tommy

04. Tommy

01. Overture
02. It's A Boy
03. 1921
04. Amazing Journey
05. Sparks
06. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)
07. Christmas
08. Cousin Kevin
09. The Acid Queen
10. Underture
11. Do You Think It's Alright
12. Fiddle About
13. Pinball Wizard
14. There's A Doctor
15. Go To The Mirror_
16. Tommy Can You Hear Me
17. Smash The Mirror
18. Sensation
19. Miracle Cure
20. Sally Simpson
21. I'm Free
22. Welcome
23. Tommy's Holiday Camp
24. We're Not Gonna Take It

Tommy’s Holiday Camp

Uncle Ernie:

Good morning Campers!

I'm your Uncle Ernie
And I'll welcome you to Tommy's Holiday Camp
The camp with the difference
Nevermind the weather
When you come to Tommy's
The holiday's forever

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

5500 Years From Home

2009-10-28T11:26:00.005-04:00

Wednesday October 28, 2009
* .. * * * * * * * * … * * * * * * * * .. *

5500 Years From Home

In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, .. but have suspended at this time.

I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from

5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.
Today, we peruse the 11th page of Chapter 16 – Page 141.

.
Enjoy !

* * * *

5500 YEARS FROM HOME

chapter Sixteen … page 141

Ocean City

And even though, the Orb was ready to continue on back to Coventry by 6 AM, the next morning, a knock came on the Suite’s door at 6:15 AM. It appeared that Thom’s commotion the night before had alerted a Hotel employee to the possibility that someone was staying in the Penthouse.
.

Thom and the EOB were prepared to blast off, anyway and by the time the employee had secured a key and entered the Penthouse Suite. The Orb was gone.

… Thom’s commotion the night before had alerted a Hotel employee ..
.

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.

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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

FANTASY ULTIMATE Football League

2009-10-27T10:13:00.006-04:00

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.

Tuesday October 27, 2009
* * ...* * * * * * * * * * * * * * ...* *
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.

* Special * Feature *
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Fantasy Ultimate
.
Football League
.
.
.
2009
...
week 7
Scores & Standings
.
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.
FishHead II 91 - Big Doggie 79
Sully 152 - Holmes' 81
Gray Ghosts 112 - Bossman Jim 108
FreddyMark 134 - Pat Collins 86
For Skins 108 - Wills Thrills 65
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PROS Division
.
Wills Thrills ... 5 – 2
Sully ... 4 – 3
Bossman Jim ... 4 – 3
Big Doggie ... 3 – 4
Pat Collins ... 1 – 6
.
.
CONS Division
.
FreddyMark ... 5 – 2
Gray Ghosts ... 4 – 3
FishHead II ... 3 – 4
Holmes' ... 3 – 4
For Skins ... 2 - 5
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.
.
Well, after scoring 118 points, last week while losing;
this week I stumbled in with just 91 points
BUT
I won !
And that's all that counts.
It was sad to see my opponent, Big Doggie
lose his only chance at victory when on Monday Night,
Redskins TE Chris Cooley went out of the game
with an injury ..
BUT
even worse as a Redskins fan - Cooley has a broken ankle
and will miss the rest of this season. Sad !
But before you shed any tears for the Dog -
keep in mind that I lost one of my RBs on Sunday
when the Jets RB Leon Washington went out of his game
after only one play with a broken leg.
( this NFL Football is a rough game (read: job) )
I, also, lost one of my WRs, Vikings Bernard Berrian
due to injury as well.
I have lost 6 LineUp members to injury DURING games,
this year .. making it tough to win games.
Patriots QB Tom Brady did throw 3 TD passes
along with 300 plus yards
BUT
his teammate and mine, WR Randy Moss
left the game early, as well.
Texans TE Owen Daniels did quite well for me, this week
with over 100 yards Receiving and a TD.
.
My next week's opponent is WRC TV Reporter, Pat Collins.
I have Brady & Moss out on Bye .. so my job will be
doubly more difficult.
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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK
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baby baby: the princess flower ... the plan

2009-10-26T12:17:00.007-04:00

Monday October 26, 2009
* .. * * * * * * … * * * * * * .. *

from the ‘best of’ collection …
.

by: larry curtis spurlock
.
.

baby baby: the princess flower

vol. IV forthcoming
.

.
The following Piece is the 14th of 16 in the Play Score

16 baby baby: the princess flower 16

babay baby baby (188)
flowers
wilder side
watching t.v.
sleeping
what’s going on
land of jam
what am i doing here
green mean team
rain queen
slowing down again
wishing
the cool fool
the plan
sailing
like i’m coming home (203)

*
4 16 201 n
1988

larry curtis spurlock

the plan

1
sizzleache has swallowed mr. giddy
sugar and goody have a tear in their eye
el phont has them all locked up
and freaky fredy has stolen our pup
reignbeau dude has been reassigned
but we have the services of a flying bird
whine and her truck are slipping around
and the rain queen is raining down

chorus a
we need a plan .. need a plan
we need a plan .. need a plan
how are we going to save ourselves
get out of this land
we need a plan .. need a plan
we need a plan .. need a plan
the frog will lead us
we know he can

2
carlost is sent out for a ride
the flower and the rest stay inside
or under an umbrella is a safe place
honi and toni are face to face
the jelly bellies are singing low
the frog and the flower are ready to show

chorus b
we've got a plan .. we've got a plan
we've got a plan .. we've got a plan
going to save ourselves
get out of this land
we've got a plan .. we've got a plan
we've got a plan .. we've got a plan
the frog and the flower
doing all they can

3
they sent the bird to el phont's house
with a package containing a tiny mouse
screaming and stomping to get away
el phont stomps on sizzleache
giddy guy gushes out of the snake
while goody and sugar make their break

chorus c
that's the plan .. the plan
that's the plan .. the plan
the dog is safe .. he also ran
that's the plan .. the plan
that's the plan .. the plan
freaky fredy got busted
when the poop hit the fan

epilogue
what a plan a plan .. what a plan a plan
everyone's happy .. everyone ran
what a plan a plan .. what a plan .. a plan
now they're so tired .. asleep on the sand

DOWN HOME - New York City Trip

2009-10-23T10:24:00.002-04:00

Friday October 23, 2009
* * … * * * * * … * * * * * … * *

New York Trip
.

Down Home
.
.

Clyde: Roy, I hope you appreciate me an’ Claude taking you to New York, this Hollyday Season.

Claude: Yeah, boy .. Roy. New York is the place to be. Why, I tell you –
the only job you need is pickin’ up money right off’un of the street.

Roy: Yeah, yeah, yeah .. I like money. I like money. I don’t like no job, ‘oh !

Clyde: Well, this here Bus will be dropping us’uns off right at Central Park where our Hotel is.

Claude: Yeah, we’uns are almost there, now.

Roy: I don’t wanna work none, if’un I don’t gots to !

Clyde: Here we are boyees. 42nd Street.

Claude: Yeah, let’s get off’un this here Bus. I need to stretch my legs out a bit.

Roy: Uh, uh, uh, .. I don’t like no job.

Clyde: You get off’un’un the Bus, first, Roy.

Claude: Yeah, me an’ Clyde will get our suitcases.

Roy: Okay, okay, okay .. but I don’t like to work none.

As the boys are getting off the Bus … … …

Clyde: Why, look Roy ! There’s a fitty dollar bill laying right by your shoe !

Claude: Good God, Roy .. pick it up – it’s yourn.

Roy: Heck, heck, heck .. heck no. Unt uh, .. I ain’t working my 1st day in New York City !

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

the WHO .. Tommy / I'm Free

2009-10-22T13:57:00.002-04:00

Thursday October 22, 2009
* * ... * * * * * … * * * * * ... * *

the Who

.
Tommy

.
04. Tommy

01. Overture

02. It's A Boy

03. 1921

04. Amazing Journey

05. Sparks

06. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)

07. Christmas

08. Cousin Kevin

09. The Acid Queen

10. Underture

11. Do You Think It's Alright

12. Fiddle About

13. Pinball Wizard

14. There's A Doctor

15. Go To The Mirror_

16. Tommy Can You Hear Me

17. Smash The Mirror

18. Sensation

19. Miracle Cure

20. Sally Simpson

21. I'm Free

22. Welcome

23. Tommy's Holiday Camp

24. We're Not Gonna Take It

I’m Free

Tommy:

I'M FREE-I'm free,

And freedom tastes of reality,

I'm free-I'm free,

AN' I'm waiting for you to follow me.

If I told you what it takes

to reach the highest high,

You'd laugh and say 'nothing's that simple'

But you've been told many times before

Messiahs pointed to the door

And no one had the guts to leave the temple!

I'm free-I'm free

And freedom tastes of reality

I'm free-I'm free

And I'm waiting for you to follow me.

Chorus:

How can we follow?

.
LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

5500 Years From Home

2009-10-21T16:57:00.002-04:00

Wednesday October 21, 2009
* * * ... * * * * * * * * * * * *... * *

5500 Years From Home

In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, .. but have suspended at this time.

I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from

5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.
Today, we peruse the 8th page of Chapter 16 – Page 138.

.
Enjoy !

* * * *

5500 YEARS FROM HOME

chapter Sixteen … page 138

Ocean City

As the evening approached, Thom decided that he would pick up some carry out for Dinner and eat it while remaining at the Hotel. He looked around for a phone but after not finding one, the EOB reiterated what he had explained, earlier and that was just visualize that he had a phone. Thom couldn’t remember every cosmic nuance but was beginning to wonder if he was going to take all these idiosyncrasies with him into his present day. Regardless, Thom visualized calling in a Pizza and sure enough, the Dough Roller answered. For an extra buck, they would deliver. Thom checked his 1964 money collection only to find having exactly enough to pay the Pizza charge and a tip. He would be taking no 1964 money with him back to his present day. Thom gave his address as the Hotel’s but promised to meet the delivery boy by the side door, just off the Boardwalk.

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Thom waited downstairs and after about 45 minutes, the Pizza delivery boy showed up. As Thom was paying him, sure enough, the older lady in the long black dress could be see riding the Boardwalk Tram down the Boardwalk. Thom started to run after the Tram but it was moving along briskly and running with a Pizza wasn’t that easy. Thom remembered the EOBs words about finding out in time and gave up his pursuit. As Thom started back to the Hotel, he looked up towards the Penthouse to see the EOB looking down upon him. He didn’t acknowledge him because there was no reason to call attention to a futuristic being that was squatting in a yet to be completed Hotel Suite.
.

Thom returned to the Room and ate most of his Pizza before retreating to the balcony and watching the vacationers strut along the Boardwalk.

.
The EOBs fascination with the TVs programs via the news channel was continuing as he sat mesmerized.

.
… For an extra buck, they would deliver. …
.
.

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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

baby baby: the princess flower ... the cool fool

2009-10-19T11:48:00.002-04:00

Monday October 19, 2009
* * ... * * * * *.. * * * * * ... * *

from the ‘best of’ collection …
by: larry curtis spurlock

The following lyrical Piece is the 13th of 16 in the Play Score
.

baby baby: the princess flower

vol. IV forthcoming

16 baby baby: the princess flower 16

babay baby baby (188)
flowers
wilder side
watching t.v.
sleeping
what’s going on
land of jam
what am i doing here
green mean team
rain queen
slowing down again
wishing
the cool fool
the plan
sailing
like i’m coming home (203)

*

.
4 16 200 m
1988

larry curtis spurlock

the cool fool

1
i used to think
that you were cool
but now i know you're not
you're nothing more
than a stupid fool
whom i despise a lot
you may have
a lot of fans
following you around

10
but those same people
are in need of something
that they think they've found
time will come
it always does
eyes will open wide
then they will see
what you really are
you'll have no place to hide
so off you'll go

20
to another crowd
professing to be red hot
some will believe
that you really are
but most will see you're not
i'm so glad i have learned
the mistake
of my ways
i was young
and i admit

30
to being trapped in your maze
you prey upon
those who want
something more from life
but all you have
to give to them
is toil, trouble .. and strife
may i take
this time right now
to sing of your demise

40
you are probably
just as confused
and it will be a surprise
i don't want
anything
anymore to do with you
so look around
for someone else
you'll have to find someone new
so take your ego

50
and your tuning fork
i have no use for them
but be very careful
where you go
you may be out on a limb
i guess that's fine
it's better than
paying off your bail
cause someone
may come along

60
to take you off to jail

( repeat first 12 lines)

the WHO .. Tommy / Sally Simpson

2009-10-15T12:40:00.005-04:00

Thursday October 15, 2009
* * ... * * * * * *... * * * * * * ... * *

the Who

.
Tommy

.
04. Tommy

01. Overture

02. It's A Boy

03. 1921

04. Amazing Journey

05. Sparks

06. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)

07. Christmas

08. Cousin Kevin

09. The Acid Queen

10. Underture

11. Do You Think It's Alright

12. Fiddle About

13. Pinball Wizard

14. There's A Doctor

15. Go To The Mirror_

16. Tommy Can You Hear Me

17. Smash The Mirror

18. Sensation

19. Miracle Cure

20. Sally Simpson

21. I'm Free

22. Welcome

23. Tommy's Holiday Camp

24. We're Not Gonna Take It

Sally Simpson

.
Outside the house

Mr. Simpson announced

that Sally couldn't go to the meeting.

He went on cleaning his blue Rolls Royce

and she ran inside weeping.

She got to her room

and tears splashed the picture

of the new Messiah.

She picked up a book of her fathers life

and threw it on the fire!

She knew from the start

Deep down in her heart

That she and Tommy were worlds apart,

But her Mother said never mind your part...Is to be

what you'll be.

...

The theme of the sermon was

come unto me,

Love will find a way,

So Sally decided to ignore her dad,

and sneak out anyway!

She spent all afternoon getting ready,

and decided she'd try to touch him,

Maybe he'd see that

she was free

and talk to her this Sunday.

She knew from the start

Deep down in her heart

That she and Tommy were worlds apart,

But her Mother said never mind

your part...Is to be

what you'll be.

She arrived at six

and the place was swinging

to gospel music by nine.

Group after group appeared on the stage

and Sally just sat there crying.

She bit her nails looking pretty as a picture

right in the very front row

And then a DJ wearing a blazer

with a badge

ran on and said 'here we go!

The crowd went crazy

As Tommy hit the stage!

Little Sally got lost

as the police bossed

The crowd back in a rage!

But soon the atmosphere was cooler

as Tommy gave a lesson.

Sally just had to let him know

she loved him

and leapt up on the rostrum!

She ran cross stage to the spotlit figure

and touched him on the face

Tommy whirled around as a uniformed man,

threw her of the stage.

She knew from the start

Deep down in her heart

That she and Tommy were worlds apart,

But her Mother said never mind your part...Is to be

what you'll be.

Her cheek hit a chair

and blood trickled down,

mingling with her tears,

Tommy carried on preaching

and his voice filled Sally's ear

She caught his eye she had to try

but couldn't see through the lights

Her face was gashed and the ambulance men

had to carry her out that night.

The crowd went crazy

As Tommy left the stage!

Little Sally was lost for the price of a touch

And a gash across her face!

OOoooh.

Sixteen stitches put her right

and her Dad said'don't say I didn't warn yer'.

Sally got married to a rock musicians

she met in California

Tommy always talks about the day

the disciples all went wild!

Sally still carries a scar on her cheek

to remind her of his smile.

She knew from the start

Deep down in her heart

That she and Tommy were worlds apart,

But her Mother said never mind your part...Is to be

what you'll be.

.
LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

5500 Years From Home

2009-10-14T11:03:00.002-04:00

Wednesday October 14, 2009
* * ... * * * * * * ... * * * * * * ... * *

5500 Years From Home

In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, .. but have suspended at this time.

I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from

5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.
Today, we peruse the 4th page of Chapter 16 – Page 134.

.
Enjoy !

* * * *

5500 YEARS FROM HOME

chapter Sixteen … page 134

Ocean City

.

There was the Old Time Picture Shop where families could dress up in historic old clothing and have their photos taken. This made it appear that they were, somehow, from the past. Thom laughed as he strolled by. If these people only knew where he had just been.
.

He walked by the Ice Cream Store where he had bought a Hot Fudge Sundae once and couldn’t eat it all. He browsed the windows of stores selling Sunglasses, Bikinis, Novelty Items and Clothing Stores too numerous to mention. Thom decided that he needed a pair of Shorts to wear while at the Beach and so he stopped in one of the stores and bought a pair, some white socks and a T-shirt with an Ocean City 1987 decal. He put the new things on and carried his other duds in the store bag.
.

Finally, he was at Division Street. This street was named that because it was the first street that you came to upon entering the resort town from the West via the Route 50 pike. There were maybe ten more blocks farther down the Boardwalk, where it ended at the Lighthouse by the Inlet. Basically, it divided the older buildings along the Boardwalk from the more modern ones.
.

Thom located the French Fries kiosk and stood in the long line waiting for his turn. He could not help but notice an older woman starring at him. She was sitting on a bench nearby and her eyes had a puzzled appearance. The woman looked oddly familiar but Thom could not place her. She was wearing a long black dress with a tanked top revealing a beautiful Pearl Necklace. Thom decided that after he purchased his Bucket o’ Fries that he’d approach the woman. Maybe she’d speak to him and he’d figure out how he knew her and from where. The line snaked around behind the tables and chairs that were placed there for people to sit while enjoying their French Fries. After another five minutes or so, Thom received his order and paid. Then, he walked back around to where the elderly woman was seated.

… Finally, he was at Division Street. ..

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

baby baby: the princess flower ... wishing

2009-10-12T17:12:00.002-04:00

Monday October 12, 2009
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from the ‘best of’ collection …
by: larry curtis spurlock

The following lyrical piece is the 12th in the Play score

.
baby baby: the princess flower

vol. IV forthcoming

16 baby baby: the princess flower 16

babay baby baby (188)
flowers
wilder side
watching t.v.
sleeping
what’s going on
land of jam
what am i doing here
green mean team
rain queen
slowing down again
wishing
the cool fool
the plan
sailing
like i’m coming home (203)

*

.
4 16 199 l
1988

larry curtis spurlock

wishing

chorus
wishing - wishing .. wishing
wish – wish .. wishing
wishing - wishing .. wishing
wish wish wish wish wishing wishing .. wishing

1
now i see you in the sky
you've come to me
but i don't know why
i said I didn't need you
i .. could cry - i .. could just cry so i'm

chorus

2
you've added to my life
every day
i .. am a child
out to play
i've said some things
i .. didn't mean to say
so i'm

chorus

3
i hear your voice
it's saying to me
you are so kind
and you didn't have to be
now you're telling me
how to be really free
so i'm just

chorus

4
don't go away
i .. need you
you're the one i need to talk to
i'm so sorry
i've made you blue

chorus ( 3 x )
.

Old Yeller

2009-10-09T10:25:00.003-04:00

Friday October 9, 2009
** ********* ********* **

Grandpa, why did they shoot
.

Old Yeller

When I was a young little boy, I spent a few days with my Grandma & Grandpa.

My Grandpa took me to see the Movie, Old Yeller.
It was a cool movie but at the end, when they shot Old Yeller, I cried, of course.
As we were leaving the Theatre, I asked Grandpa why they had to shoot him. My Grandpa put his hand on my shoulder, as to comfort me .. and told me that it was because the dog killed some chickens.
It never really seemed quite right .. but that’s how it was.
.
Several months passed and my Family went to have a Sunday Dinner with those Grandparents. Several of my Uncles and Aunts and their Families were there, as well.
That morning, my Grandma picked some Ears of Corn from their Garden and killed several Chickens and plucked them, preparing for the large Meal.
.
That afternoon, after everyone had eaten their fill, the Family retired to the back Porch where they sat and talked. My Grandpa, who was a Hunter took out his old Shotgun and began cleaning it.

.
The story that my Family tells goes like this:
I approached my Grandpa and with tears in my eyes, asked him if he was going to shoot Grandma. When he assured me that he wasn’t going to shoot her – he asked why on Earth I asked that question.
My simple child-like answer was,
“ Well, .. because she killed some Chickens ! “

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

you open my eyes

2009-10-08T16:35:00.009-04:00

.
i could not be
what i wanted to be
back then
and i guess i never will
.
i could almost see
what i wanted to be
at ten
and i'm looking for it still
.
.
.
come to me
you can see right through me
i'm a child in a man's disguise
.
.
..
.
.

the WHO .. Tommy / Sensation

2009-10-08T12:24:00.002-04:00

Thursday October 8, 2009
* * ... * * * * * * * * * * *... * *

the Who

.
Tommy

04. Tommy

01. Overture

02. It's A Boy

03. 1921

04. Amazing Journey

05. Sparks

06. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)

07. Christmas

08. Cousin Kevin

09. The Acid Queen

10. Underture

11. Do You Think It's Alright

12. Fiddle About

13. Pinball Wizard

14. There's A Doctor

15. Go To The Mirror_

16. Tommy Can You Hear Me

17. Smash The Mirror

18. Sensation

19. Miracle Cure

20. Sally Simpson

21. I'm Free

22. Welcome

23. Tommy's Holiday Camp

24. We're Not Gonna Take It

Sensation

Tommy:

I overwhelm as I approach you

Make your lungs hold breath inside!

Lovers break caresses for me

Love enhanced when I've gone by.

You'll feel me coming,

A new vibration

From afar you'll see me

I'm a sensation.

They worship me and all I touch

Hazy eyed they catch my glance,

Pleasant shudders shake their senses

My warm momentum throws their stance.

You'll feel me coming

A new vibration

From afar you'll see me

I'm a sensation.

I leave a trail of rooted people

Mesmerised by just the sight,

The few I touch are now disciples

Love as One

I Am the Light...

Soon you'll see me can't you feel me

I'm coming...

Send your troubles dancing

he knows the answer

I'm coming...

I'm a sensation.

.

.
LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

5500 Years From Home

2009-10-07T11:47:00.003-04:00

Wednesday October 7, 2009
* * .. * * * * * * * .. * * * * * * * .. * *

5500 Years From Home

.

In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, .. but have suspended at this time.

I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from

5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.
Today, we peruse the 1st page of Chapter 16 – Page 131.

.
Enjoy !

* * .. * *

5500 YEARS FROM HOME

chapter Sixteen … page 131

Ocean City

.

As the orb ascended into it’s navigational transport jaunt aimed at 2008 with but just one final stepping stone remaining, the EOB explained to Thom that their next layover and last one prior to Thom’s homecoming would be somewhere towards the equidistant medial span of past and future. And that with it being the last one that Thom would have to endur, it would require a all-inclusive day or two interlude for retooling the cosmognal empyreans. Also, the Orb had an unelevated measure of alkali chloride that would require replenishment. Beneficially, in the form of misty molecules.

.
Thom took this to represent a two day intermission around 1987-’88 in a humid region near a body of salt water. So be it.

.
The craft was, now, operating in the manner for which it was designed. Once 2008 was realized, the EOB would traverse the remaining 5500 years in an astrological deciduous heartbeat. So, both men were serene and peacefully overjoyed. So much so that torpidity engulfed them both. Both relaxed in lethargic repose.

.
The Orb was hastened by an absolute time transition. There was no parallel dimension crossed. There was no need for backtracking in order to fit in with all the history of the future. Everything was ornate.
.

As the Orb zeroed in on a capable position to station itself, a construction site at a nearby resort town was pre chosen. The reasoning behind such a destination was decidedly appropriate. It would, not only, allow Thom to come and go over the 36 hour lair, it would present the now healthy EOB a chance to view a laid back vacationland of his past descendants with altimetry and privacy. The spot was the 5th floor penthouse of a partially built Hotel on the Atlantic Ocean. The Independence Day weekend break for the construction workers provided both men with the extravagant Beachfront view and bounteous amenities befitting timeless royalty.

.

… Both relaxed in lethargic repose. ..

.

.
LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

FANTASY ULTIMATE Football League ... week 4

2009-10-06T12:29:00.004-04:00

Tuesday October 6, 2009

* * ...* * * * * * * * * * * * * * ...* *
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.
Special * Feature
.

.
Fantasy Ultimate
.
Football League

.
.

2009...week 4
Scores & Standings

FishHead II 110 - ForSkins 60

Big Doggie 137 - Sully 84

William 99 - Bossman Jim 94

Pat Collins 110 - Gray Ghosts 74

FreddyMark 84 - Holmes' 83

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PROS Division

William ... 4 – 0

Big Doggie ... 2 – 2

Sully ... 2 – 2

Bossman Jim ... 2 – 2

Pat Collins ... 1 – 3

.
CONS Division

FreddyMark ... 3 – 1

FishHead II ... 2 – 2

Gray Ghosts ... 1 – 1

Holmes' ... 1 – 1
ForSkins ... 0 - 2

Well, NE QB Tom Brady & NE WR Randy Moss did team up for a TD

BUT

they still are not performing up to 1st & 2nd round Draft Picks' status.

But I'll take it .. as long as MIA RB Ronnie Brown continues to put up

decent numbers .. and he is.

Plus, his MIA RunningMate Ricky Williams is doing quite well, also.

I may have to play BOTH of them, together, soon.

DET RB Kevin Smith isn't accumulating large chunks of yardage

BUT

he did find the End Zone twice, this week, vs. a tough Bears Defense on the road.

Diminutive SD RB Darren Sproles let me down this week with only 1 reception

for 16 yards due in large part to the Steelers suffocating Defense

and the fact that LT2 is back in the LineUp.

MIN WR Bernard Berrian hauled in a 31 yard TD from Brett Favre

on Monday Night making up for TEN WR Justin Gage sucking so badly.

HOU TE Owen Daniels isn't setting the world on fire but is a fine TE

for Fantasy purposes..

The NYG D/ST is tops in the League and helping me greatly as is their

K Lawrence Tynes .. although he has missed 2 relatively easy FGA

in the last 2 weeks.
.
Next week my FishHeads II team takes on
Division rival Josh Rideout's Gray Ghosts team.

Teams on BYE during this 5th week will be the Bears, Packers,

Saints and Chargers. All I'll lose is Darren Sproles from my Roster ..

but I was going to sit him, anyway .. and re-install

PIT RB Fast Willie Parker (who isn't so fast anymore)

into my LineUp.
.
.

.
LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

baby baby: the princess flower ... slowing down again

2009-10-05T09:23:00.006-04:00

Monday October 5, 2009
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from the ‘best of’ collection …

.
by: larry curtis spurlock

The following is the 11th lyrical piece in the Play score …

baby baby: the princess flower

vol. IV forthcoming

16 baby baby: the princess flower 16

babay baby baby (188)
flowers
wilder side
watching t.v.
sleeping
what’s going on
land of jam
what am i doing here
green mean team
rain queen
slowing down again
wishing
the cool fool
the plan
sailing
like i’m coming home (203)

*
.

4 16 198 k
1988

larry curtis spurlock

slowing down again

chorus
slowing down .. it's slowing down
it's slowing down .. again
slowing down again .. my friends
it's not the end .. it's just slowing down again

1
tell me why
you're going to see a friend
i'll be alone
everyone .. is trying to pretend

chorus ( repeats )

2
nothing's wrong
it's all going to end
but i'm still here
my heart .. is on the mend

chorus ( repeats )

3
i guess i'll never know
why i'm trying to defend
my own style
i'll be here .. til the very end

chorus (repeats)

4
it's all calm
just a slight wind
but blowing warmly
it’s .. coming round the bend

chorus ( repeats 3 x )

DOWN HOME - G.E.D. Test

2009-10-02T10:14:00.004-04:00

Friday October 2, 2009
** **************** **

Studyin’ for Roy’s GED Test
.

Down Home

Clyde: Roy, I hope you apprec-E-ATE me and Claude a helpin’ you study for yer GED test.

Claude: Yeah, boy, Roy. We’ins are a learnin’ def-E-nitions.

Roy: Doh’kay.

Clyde: We’ll give you a wurd and you tell us what that wurd is.

Claude: First wurd, Roy .. is: bard. Use it in a sentence.

Roy: Ok. My brother done bard my pick up truck.

Clyde: Next wurd, Roy .. is earl.

Roy: I shore hope my brother puts a quart of earl in my truck.

Claude: Next wurd, Roy .. is far.

Roy: If’n my brother doesn’t – I betcha that thang catches far and burns up.

Clyde: Next wurd, Roy .. is ranch.

Roy: I done lost my 7/8 inch ranch and can’t get the bolt a loose.

Claude: Next wurd, Roy .. is tar.

Roy: He ain’t got nufin to worry about, I changed the flat tar.

Clyde: Wellll, .. that’s ‘bout it. Five outta five.

Claude: Strait A’s.

Roy: Let’s go drinkin’! Drinkin’.

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

the WHO .. Tommy / Smash The Mirror

2009-10-01T15:18:00.004-04:00

Thursday October 1, 2009
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

the Who
.

Tommy

.
04. Tommy

01. Overture

02. It's A Boy

03. 1921

04. Amazing Journey

05. Sparks

06. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)

07. Christmas

08. Cousin Kevin

09. The Acid Queen

10. Underture

11. Do You Think It's Alright

12. Fiddle About

13. Pinball Wizard

14. There's A Doctor

15. Go To The Mirror_

16. Tommy Can You Hear Me

17. Smash The Mirror

18. Sensation

19. Miracle Cure

20. Sally Simpson

21. I'm Free

22. Welcome

23. Tommy's Holiday Camp

24. We're Not Gonna Take It

Smash The Mirror

Mother:

You don't answer my call

With even a nod or a wink

But you gaze at your own reflection!

You don't seem to see me

But I think you can see yourself.

How can the mirror affect you?

Can you hear me

Or do I surmise?

That you fear me can you feel my temper

Rise

RISE
RISE
RISE

RISE

RISE.

Do you hear or fear or

Do I smash the mirror.

Do you hear of fear or

Do I smash the mirror?

SMASH!

.
.

.
LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

5500 Years From Home

2009-09-30T12:02:00.002-04:00

Wednesday September 30, 2009
* * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * *

5500 Years From Home

In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, .. but have suspended at this time.

I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from

5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.
Today, we peruse the 6th page of Chapter 15 – Page 130.

.
Enjoy !

* * * * * * * *

5500 YEARS FROM HOME

chapter Fourteen … page 130
.

Clark Repaid

Just maybe, Thom’s advice on his earlier visit at Milford Hospital was the impetus that his father needed to protect his own health. It was a strange occurrence how that worked out. Strange indeed.
.

Thom walked slowly back towards where the Orb was waiting for him. He was truly soaking the ambiance and in seeing his old town. Something that would not have happened had it not been for the EOBs accident in Coventry and the mistaken departure with Thom aboard. But, then again, the EOB would not have had the luxury of having Thom explore each destination to determine the locale and time period.

.
As Thom passed by the local landmarks walking down main Street, he was reminded of Jimmy Stewart in It’s A Wonderful Life saying hello Emporium, hello old Savings & Loan, hello Bistro; while Thom was saying goodbye Movie Theatre, goodbye Hahn’s Shoe store, goodbye old man Clark’s and Clark’s Drugstore.

.
By the time that Thom reached the Hospital’s wooded area, the Police cars that had previously followed him, were not anywhere in sight. Thom stood in the parking lot where his first Jump landed him and watching his parents carry him as a young infant to the car where the picture was taken that Thom remembered seeing for most of his life.

.
Then, sadly Thom walked to the other side of the parking lot and into the wooded underbrush to where the Orb was partially hidden. He walked up the front section that was facing the nearby creek. The hatch opened, Thom climbed in and it closed, behind him. And within an instant, they were gone.
.

..
… goodbye Movie Theatre, goodbye Hahn’s Shoe store, goodbye … Clark’s Drugstore. ...

.

.
LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

baby baby: the princess flower ... rain queen

2009-09-28T10:13:00.003-04:00

Monday September 28, 2009
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from the ‘best of’ collection …
by: larry curtis spurlock

baby baby: the princess flower

vol. IV forthcoming

The following is the 10th lyrical piece in the Play score …

16 baby baby: the princess flower 16

.

babay baby baby (188)
flowers
wilder side
watching t.v.
sleeping
what’s going on
land of jam
what am i doing here
green mean team
rain queen
slowing down again
wishing
the cool fool
the plan
sailing
like i’m coming home (203)

*
4 16 197 j
1988

larry curtis spurlock

rain queen

1
she's the rain queen
raining down .. pouring down
down down down .. but not on me
not on me

2
she's a rainmaker
raining down .. pouring down
down down down .. but not on me
as you can see

3
she's the water works
raining down .. pouring down
down down down .. but not on me
as it should be

4
( repeat verse 1 )

( extended storm noises – out )
.

TWO COWS

2009-09-25T10:02:00.005-04:00

Friday September 25, 2009
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TWO COWS ..

.
as explained by Politicians and Corporations

A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT:
You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your neighbor.

A SOCIALIST:
You have two cows. The government takes one .. and gives it to your neighbor.

AN AMERICAN REPUBLICAN:
You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So freaking what !

AN AMERICAN DEMOCRAT:
You have two cows. Your neighbor doesn’t have a cow. You feel guilty for owning a cow. You vote people into office .. who tax your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the taxes. The people you voted for then take the tax money and buy a cow .. and give it to your neighbor fo free. Now, you feel righteous.

A COMMUNIST:
You have two cows. The government seizes both of them - and provides you with milk.

A FASCIST:
You have two cows. The government seizes both and sells you the milk. You join the underground .. and start a campaign of sabotage.

DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE:
You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow .. which was a gift from your government.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE:
You have two cows. You sell one - buy a bull .. and build a herd of cows.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE:
You have two cows. The government takes them both - shoots one .. milks the other .. and pays you for the milk - then pours the milk down the drain.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are shocked when the cow drops dead.

A FRENCH CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon images called Cowkimon .. and market them World-Wide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month .. and milk themselves.

A BRITISH CORPORATION:
You have two cows. They are mad. They die. Pass the shepherd's pie, please.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows .. and open another bottle of vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION:
You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.

A BRAZILIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You enter into a partnership with an American corporation. Soon you have 1000 cows .. and the American corporation declares bankruptcy.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You worship both of them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them.You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported on them.

AN ISRAELI CORPORATION:
There are these two Jewish cows ..right ? They open a milk factory, an ice cream store, and then sell the movie rights. They send their calves to Harvard to become Doctors. So, who needs people ?

AN ARKANSAS CORPORATION:
You have two cows. That one on the left is really cute.

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK
.

the WHO .. Tommy / Tommy Can You Hear Me

2009-09-24T12:36:00.003-04:00

Thursday September 24, 2009
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

the Who
.

Tommy
.

.
04. Tommy

01. Overture

02. It's A Boy

03. 1921

04. Amazing Journey

05. Sparks

06. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)

07. Christmas

08. Cousin Kevin

09. The Acid Queen

10. Underture

11. Do You Think It's Alright

12. Fiddle About

13. Pinball Wizard

14. There's A Doctor

15. Go To The Mirror_

16. Tommy Can You Hear Me

17. Smash The Mirror

18. Sensation

19. Miracle Cure

20. Sally Simpson

21. I'm Free

22. Welcome

23. Tommy's Holiday Camp

24. We're Not Gonna Take It

Tommy Can You Hear Me

Tommy can you hear me ?

Can you feel me near you ?

Tommy can you see me ?

Can I help to cheer you ?

Oh Tommy

Tommy

(repeat 4 x ...)

Tommy

.
.
.
.

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

5500 Years From Home

2009-09-23T13:48:00.002-04:00

Wednesday September 23, 2009
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

5500 Years From Home

In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, .. but have suspended at this time.

I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from

5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.
Today, we peruse the 4th page of Chapter 15 – Page 128.

.
Enjoy !

.
* * * *

5500 YEARS FROM HOME

chapter Fourteen … page 128
.

Clark Repaid

After daydreaming for far longer than he had planned, Thom headed back over to the Oxford Road area of Milford. By the time that he encountered the dead end circle, he could hear the sound of the lawnmower as his earlier self was mowing Ms. Stinson’s grass. Soon enough, Thom saw the Police Cruiser coming up the Road. He knew that with the snafu ironed out at Clark’s Drugstore, that the authorities were not looking for him but with him mowing Ms. Stinson’s grass in the exact same clothes that stood out, being 42 years from the future, Thom ducked down behind some bushes and scrubs. As the Cruiser made the turn at the circle and slowly drove back down to the front of Ms. Stinson’s house, Thom waited for them to knock at Ms. Stinson’s door and for them to retreat to the rear of her home.

.
Then, Thom raced back down there just as his previous self was running away from her front yard. Thom had left the mower running, earlier, although he had completed the mowing operation. Once he reached Ms. Stinson’s house, he saw Ms. Stinson, his father and the two Policemen enter his family’s house’s side door. Thom shut off the mower and pushed it to the back of the house where he had seen a garden hose and began to wash the mower’s undercarriage out. Then, he returned the mower to the shed in his family’s back yard.
The task was done and he, now, could leave with a clear conscious.

.
By then, Ms. Stinson came out of Thom’s family house and met with Thom at her back porch. She apologized to Thom for her absence and asked him inside so that she could pay him. Once inside, she told Thom that the Police knew the Martin’s, next door and had come to see their new born baby. She then, took a pot of coffee off the stove and poured herself and Thom a cup. Still, mistakenly thinking Thom was her new Gardner, she allowed that he (Thom) took sugar and cream in his coffee and added it as she spoke.

.
… as his previous self was running away ..

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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

FANTASY ULTIMATE Football League

2009-09-22T12:36:00.010-04:00

Tuesday September 22, 2009
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Fantasy Ultimate

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2009
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week 2

Scores & Standings
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FishHead II 103 - Holmes' 092
Gray Ghosts 110 - FreddyMark 084
Bossman Jim - 109 Sully 089
William 096 - Pat Collins 071
ForSkins 144 - Big Doggie 115
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PROS Division
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William ... 2 – 0
Sully ... 1 – 1
Big Doggie ... 1 – 1
Bossman Jim ... 1 – 1
Pat Collins ... 0 – 2
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CONS Division
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Gray Ghosts ... 2 – 0
ForSkins ... 1 – 1
FreddyMark ... 1 – 1
FishHead II ... 1 – 1

Holmes' ... 0 - 2
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Thank you, MIA RB Ronnie Brown !

My third round Fantasy Draft pick.

I passed on several more lucrative RBs when I drafted

the Brady / Moss combo.

This week Brady & Moss fizzled but Brown picked me up, fantastically.

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Brown ran the Dolphins Wildcat offense to perfection

on Monday Night Football

scoring 2 TDs and running for 136 yards on 24 carries;

many of them coming from the shotgun position.

The Dolphins lost to the Indianapolis Colts 27-23

after holding the ball, offensively for more than 3/4 of the game.

But who cares - this Fantasy Football .. and I got what I came for.

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My FishHeads II team entered Monday Night's game trailing

the Holmes' brothers team, 92 - 78.

To win the contest, I need Brown to accumulate 15 Fantasy points for me.

That would basically be 90 total yards and a TD or 150 total yards, alone.

And he excedded that propelling me to my first victory of the season.

Next week my FishHeads II team takes on

the non Division 1-1 Sully team.

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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK
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baby baby: the princess flower ... green mean team

2009-09-21T16:20:00.007-04:00

Tuesday September 22, 2009
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from the ‘best of’ collection …
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by: larry curtis spurlock
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The following is the 9th lyrical piece in the Play score …

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baby baby: the princess flower

vol. IV forthcoming

16 baby baby: the princess flower 16

babay baby baby (188)
flowers
wilder side
watching t.v.
sleeping
what’s going on
land of jam
what am i doing here
green mean team
rain queen
slowing down again
wishing
the cool fool
the plan
sailing
like i’m coming home (203)

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1988

larry curtis spurlock

green mean team

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she's a mean old witch
she always whines
she drives the ditch
she drinks wine
whine wine
ooh ah wee .. ooh ah wee .. eeeeee

2
and that old pick up
beaten raw
just an insane truck
with a broken jaw
oooga ga .. oooga ga
ooh ah wee .. ooh ah wee .. eeeeee

3
they have a job and
they keep a log
to rid jam land
of the girl and dog
little girl and her dog
waah waah .. wahp wahp .. ooh ah wee .. eeeee

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is someone chasing them
from 28 thousand
it's reiqnbeau dude
and he's a rousing
through the housing
waah waah .. wahp wahp .. ooh ah wee .. eeeeee

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so the three so mean
are on the run
they dress in green
and carry guns
they're the ones
ooh ah wee .. eeeeee .. eeeeee

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so it's a circle race
between the three
face to face to face
them to you to me
one two three
ooh ah wee .. eeeeee .. eeeeee .. ooh ah wee .. eeeee

(10 x - out)

DR. LIVINGOOD

2009-09-18T12:09:00.002-04:00

September 18, 2009
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An interesting anecdote of:

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DR. LIVINGOOD

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Yes, that’s his real name.
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Dr. J.K. Livingood of Herndon, Virginia was always in a jovial mood and cussed without thought. THAT is how I knew he was a good Doctor – my Mother hated people cussing but always took me to him, regardless.

Dr. Livingood came to Herndon right out of Med School in 1958. He was a bachelor and drove a 1958, dark blue, Thunderbird, convertible.

I don’t remember my very 1st visit to the good Doctor but my parents took me to him for various ailments during my childhood. I was taken to him when I was hit by a pitched ball and knocked groggy in Little League in 1960. The next year, I was taken to him when I fell from the back of a station wagon vehicle at DayCamp and knocked unconscious as my head banged off the concrete curb. I even went to him on my own when I feared that I had some type VD as a teenager. (it was just wear & tear .. if you know what I mean) :lol:
Many times I found myself in his care when I succumbed to the Flu or Poision Ivy infections.
It seemed that the first thing that I was always asked to do was to go hehind the curtain and pee in a bottle.

On one occasion when I was about 22 years old, I went to see him. I don’t recall what the ailment was that I had. Regardless, his Receptionist/Nurse, Mrs. Hunter, took me back to his Office/Examining Room and he immediately summoned me to the curtain and handed me the little bottle to pee in. I did. When I returned, the Doctor dipped a piece of litmus paper into the urine (as he always did). Without looking at me, he remarked that I had been eating Pistachio Nuts, hadn’t I ?
I. Was. Amazed ! Flabergasted, I was. Astonished.
I looked at him and told him that I was dumbfounded that medical advances had been made to the point where a Doctor could dip a piece of litmus paper into someone’s urine and immediately conclude that person had been eating Pistachio Nuts. I couldn’t halt my bewilderment.
I continued. Praising him for his ability to analyze this medical breakthrough. I sat there shaking my head trying to come to grips with the advancements being made in the medical community. This was truly a fascinating development.

Finally, Dr. Livingood looked up at me and nonchalantly told me that he could see the red dye stains on my fingers, from commercial Pistachio Nuts.

:GildaRadner: Never mind. :GildaRadner:

:LOL:
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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

the WHO .. Tommy / Go To The Mirror Boy

2009-09-17T10:39:00.008-04:00

Thursday September 17, 2009
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the Who

Tommy

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04. Tommy

01. Overture

02. It's A Boy

03. 1921

04. Amazing Journey

05. Sparks

06. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)

07. Christmas

08. Cousin Kevin

09. The Acid Queen

10. Underture

11. Do You Think It's Alright

12. Fiddle About

13. Pinball Wizard

14. There's A Doctor

15. Go To The Mirror

16. Tommy Can You Hear Me

17. Smash The Mirror

18. Sensation

19. Miracle Cure

20. Sally Simpson

21. I'm Free

22. Welcome

23. Tommy's Holiday Camp

24. We're Not Gonna Take It

Go To The Mirror

Doctor:

He seems to be completely unreceptive.

The tests I gave him show no sense at all.

His eyes react to light the dials detect it.

He hears but cannot answer to your call.

Tommy:

See me, feel me, touch me, heal me.

Doctor:

There is no chance no untried operation.

All hope lies with him and none with me.

Imagine though the shock from isolation.

When he suddenly can hear and speak and see.

Tommy:

See me, feel me, touch me, heal me.

Doctor:

His eyes can hearhis ears can see his lips speak

All the time the needles flick and rock.

No machine can give the kind of stimulation,

Needed to remove his inner block.

Go to the mirror boy!

Father:

I often wonder what he's feeling.

Has he ever heard a word I've said?

Look at him now in the mirror dreaming

What is happening in his head?

Tommy:

Listening to you

I get the music.

Gazing at you

I get the heat

Following you

I climb the mountain

I get excitement at your feet!

Right behind you

I see the millions

On you

I see the glory.

From you

I get the opinions

From you I get the story.

Father:

What is happening in his head

Ooooh I wish I knew,

I wish I knew.

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

5500 Years From Home

2009-09-16T10:15:00.003-04:00

Wednesday September 16, 2009
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5500 Years From Home

In addition to the 250 plus Lyrical Pieces that I have written and received Copyright Protection from the Library Of Congress - I have, also, written a Novel (copyrighted but not Published) entitled 5500 Years From Home. I am currently working on a 2nd Book entitled The Island that I am about 1/2 the way towards completion, .. but have suspended at this time.

I have decided to, occasionally, post excerpts from

5500 Years From Home in this Blog space.
Today, we peruse the 1st page of Chapter 15 – Page 125.

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Enjoy !

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5500 YEARS FROM HOME

chapter Fourteen … page 125

Clark Repaid

The EOB suggested to Thom that the stopover in Milford would probably only require an hour at most for the Orb’s recovering vacillating vent to remedy and re-modify itself for the next stepping stone Jump. It appeared that other than the needed stepping stones, the EOB was back in control of his ship. The gauges were responding to his mental manipulations although Thom, still, could not decipher their informational meanings. Regardless, the reverse time schedule had been rectified and both passengers were glad that there would be no dinosaur battles to contend with.

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Thom was relieved although the possibility of spending some time in Israel in ’01 BC would have been overwhelmingly breathtaking. And who would not want to witness as the Pyramids were being constructed in ancient Egypt around 5000 BC or the Roman Coliseum in ’70 AD. There were other historical feats that would fill one’s imagination with creative acknowledgement such as the Callicrates’ Iktinos erecting the Parthenon and one of the greatest mysteries of all time, the construction of Stonehenge in approximately 2500 BC.

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But these mysteries would have to remain just that because Thom had lived through many other moments of history that would fill a lifetime of rumination and stupefaction. Yes, there are many mysteries of the World that lay about without understanding nor proof of inauguration but Thom had experienced other more recent historical scopes that no one, to his knowledge had ever vetted save for the possibilities of one Mr. Herbert George Wells or even Mr. Jules Gabriel Verne.

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Still, all that is just conjuncture but what is real and now is Thom redressing himself in his 2008 clothing and carrying with him some of his 1964 currency and righting a wrong that he, himself had created.

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With that said, the Orb’s postern opened and Thom climbed out.

… one Mr. Herbert George Wells or even Mr. Jules Gabriel Verne. ..

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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

FANTASY ULTIMATE Football League

2009-09-15T14:16:00.005-04:00

Tuesday September 15, 2009

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Fantasy Ultimate Football League

2009

week 1
Scores & Standings

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FreddyMark 113 FishHead II 088

Gray Ghosts 089 ForSkins 082

Sully 123 Pat Collins 085

Big Doggie 079 Bossman Jim 071

William 132 Holmes' 100

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PROS Division

William ... 1 – 0

Sully ... 1 – 0

Big Doggie ... 1 – 0

Pat Collins ... 0 – 1

Bossman Jim ... 0 – 1

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CONS Division

FreddyMark ... 1 – 0

Gray Ghosts ... 1 – 0

Holmes' ... 0 – 1

FishHead II ... 0 – 1
ForSkins ... 0 - 1

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Firstly, let me welcome our newest franchise to the F U League;

his name is Pat Collins and he is a special assignment field on air reporter

for Washington D.C. NBC affiliate WRC channel 4.

Perhaps you have seen him. His schtick (among others) is carrying around a wooden ruler

during local snowfalls and measuring the depth of the snow.

So, welcome Pat.

Secondly, I'll get right to my game, this week:

as you can see (above) I lost 113 - 88. That's a 25 point margin ..

BUT I had 2 of my WRs injured and scoring zero points each.

WHILE on my bench sat 2 other WRs with 26 points.

'Nuff said !

And so this year begins as last year ended (for me)

with just another hard luck story.

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LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

baby baby: the princess flower ... what am i doing here

2009-09-14T12:08:00.004-04:00

Monday September 14, 2009
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from the ‘best of’ collection …
by: larry curtis spurlock

baby baby: the princess flower

vol. IV forthcoming

16 baby baby: the princess flower 16

babay baby baby (188)
flowers
wilder side
watching t.v.
sleeping
what’s going on
land of jam
what am i doing here
green mean team
rain queen
slowing down again
wishing
the cool fool
the plan
sailing
like i’m coming home (203)

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larry curtis spurlock

what am i doing here

what am i doing here
in a place that needs rearranging
what am i doing here
where am i tonight
where am i

why
and where are you
i'd rather be .. i'd rather be
with you two
maybe now i
will try to be thankful
and try not to be so prankful
i feel it but can't touch it right now
where am i

why am i away from you
i want to cry .. i want to cry
cause my heart is .. so blue
maybe now i
will see things much clearer
can honestly look in the mirror
and come face to face with myself

what am i doing here
in a place that needs rearranging
what am i doing here
how's the weather
back home
i wish we were together
back home
it would be much better
much better .. much better .. much better
i love you - i love you forever
forever .. forever .. forever

what am i doing here
in a place that needs rearranging
what am i doing here
where am i tonight

DOWN HOME - The Lottery

2009-09-11T11:14:00.003-04:00

Friday September 11, 2009
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The Lottery
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Down Home

Claude: Hey Roy. I HEAR-ed you done went and won 100 bucks in the State Lottery.

Roy: Yep ! I did.

Clyde: What did you do wif’n the money, Roy ?

Roy: I spent it on .. Wine .. Women .. an’ Song.

Claude: What did you do with the rest of’n the money thar Roy ?

Roy: Oh, I went’n wasted it. :-o

LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK