If I could play an instrument, boy, that would be great. George and I have similar dreams. R.T. I think that is all of our real dreams. Except those who want to paint.
I'll take the power to change their minds but clouding will work. I took a carpentry class once but when I couldn't master the miter box the instructor said maybe I was aiming too high.
Growing up, I always wanted to be an architect, though it really was to be a designer of homes, not commercial structures. I so did want to go to to Taliesin West to study. The math required for the structural engineering part of that killed the hopes.
The other dream would to have been a professional nature / wildlife photographer.
I am pretty happy too but I would still like to score a movie, or be an abstract artist, or build a house, or be an architect or write a great novel or cloud people's minds. Anything really.
I've always admired people who can play several instruments, especially those who can play by ear. Sadly, I have almsot no musical talent (I played sax, badly, for a couple of years as a kid). My top choices would be (surprise!) banjo and piano.
George, I think I'd be good at the old time rock & roll too - I could alternate hours with Cap'n Bob as we both know a lot of trivia - but I don't have that real radio voice. Pick the music, yes, but I'd need someone else to be my stunt voice.
I would love to be an opera singer. Many years ago, for my first Mother's Day, my husband, knowing my secret wish, gave me a certificate for private lessons with a voice coach. It was a lot of fun (the coach started off by saying that I had "mezzo-soprano cheekbones" and, sure 'nuff, when he tested my range, that was what I was), but I'll never be able to sing professionally--although, after a couple of drinks, I've been known the belt out "Stormy Weather"!
Isn't it interesting that not a single one of us said anything to do with computers or technology, excepting the radio DJ people, and radio is pretty old tech. I guess it no one's secret dream to design a new killer app for the smart phone.
Not smart enough to mess with smart phones. And it's fairly recently that I finally realized what "aps" were. I thought they were saying "abs." So that's where I am.
Win Friends And Influence People...oh, that was already covered in Cloud [People's] Minds.
I know someone who is creating the equivalent of aps. I think he'd really like the opportunity to hone his extant skills in music and visual art. He is improbably happy about the small details of a bathroom remodel, since that's as close to honing his skills as he can afford to indulge at the moment, with a work schedule rather like my own.
My own voice, perhaps given my ancestry unsurprisingly, is best suited to bluegrass and gospel. My ear when I was a bad trombonist was my greatest skill...I certainly was a poor sight-reader.
Check out my review of Please Give on Crimespree Cinema.
If I could just pick old Rock & Roll songs like PIRATE RADIO did, I think I might be able to bring it off.
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ReplyDeletePolitician (yes, really).
Think tank researcher.
Writer.
I would write the great English-language novel that would bump ULYSSES off of so many of those "best novel" lists.
ReplyDeleteWell, having thought about that idea a bit more, how hard could it really be to do so? Sorry, Jimmy Joyce, for being so disrespectful.
If I could play an instrument, boy, that would be great.
ReplyDeleteGeorge and I have similar dreams.
R.T. I think that is all of our real dreams. Except those who want to paint.
I would like to have the skills necessary to build a house.
ReplyDeleteI would like to have the skills to maintain a house. Or any part of the house. Being able to fix anything at all would be swell.
ReplyDeleteCarpentry. I always have ideas for furniture, but can never find what I want.
ReplyDeleteGreat singer/guitarist. I'd also like the power to cloud men's--and women's--minds.
ReplyDeleteI'll take the power to change their minds but clouding will work.
ReplyDeleteI took a carpentry class once but when I couldn't master the miter box the instructor said maybe I was aiming too high.
Talk radio
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astronomy
Fix things.
ReplyDeleteBut, to be honest, I'm remarkably happy.
OK, I'd like to sing. But playing harp and guitar are acceptable substitutes.I can live with this.
Really. Remarkably happy.
Growing up, I always wanted to be an architect, though it really was to be a designer of homes, not commercial structures. I so did want to go to to Taliesin West to study. The math required for the structural engineering part of that killed the hopes.
ReplyDeleteThe other dream would to have been a professional nature / wildlife photographer.
I am pretty happy too but I would still like to score a movie, or be an abstract artist, or build a house, or be an architect or write a great novel or cloud people's minds.
ReplyDeleteAnything really.
I've always admired people who can play several instruments, especially those who can play by ear. Sadly, I have almsot no musical talent (I played sax, badly, for a couple of years as a kid). My top choices would be (surprise!) banjo and piano.
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George, I think I'd be good at the old time rock & roll too - I could alternate hours with Cap'n Bob as we both know a lot of trivia - but I don't have that real radio voice. Pick the music, yes, but I'd need someone else to be my stunt voice.
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Our family is particularly bereft of musical talent. I would love to play the piano.
ReplyDeleteI would love to be an opera singer. Many years ago, for my first Mother's Day, my husband, knowing my secret wish, gave me a certificate for private lessons with a voice coach. It was a lot of fun (the coach started off by saying that I had "mezzo-soprano cheekbones" and, sure 'nuff, when he tested my range, that was what I was), but I'll never be able to sing professionally--although, after a couple of drinks, I've been known the belt out "Stormy Weather"!
ReplyDeleteOh, you got close to it, Deb. I like to sing New York, New York in the shower. My son actually taped it once and that was almost enough to stop me.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it interesting that not a single one of us said anything to do with computers or technology, excepting the radio DJ people, and radio is pretty old tech. I guess it no one's secret dream to design a new killer app for the smart phone.
ReplyDeleteNot smart enough to mess with smart phones. And it's fairly recently that I finally realized what "aps" were. I thought they were saying "abs." So that's where I am.
ReplyDeleteI've made up a soundtrack for my own movie. I think I'd like that better than directing the movie itself.
ReplyDeleteWin Friends And Influence People...oh, that was already covered in Cloud [People's] Minds.
ReplyDeleteI know someone who is creating the equivalent of aps. I think he'd really like the opportunity to hone his extant skills in music and visual art. He is improbably happy about the small details of a bathroom remodel, since that's as close to honing his skills as he can afford to indulge at the moment, with a work schedule rather like my own.
My own voice, perhaps given my ancestry unsurprisingly, is best suited to bluegrass and gospel. My ear when I was a bad trombonist was my greatest skill...I certainly was a poor sight-reader.
ReplyDeleteMusic-I can carry a tune but not the tune anyone likes-Broadway fare.
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