You've Gotta Love Livin' Baby, Because Dyin's a Pain in the a**: Sinatra Remembered, 15 Years On

Metro ^ | 3/14/2013 | Rob Leigh

[Bratch]

In the Wee Small Hours

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[Vision]

"Inhaling his heady scent of lavender water, Camel cigarettes, and Jack Daniel's, I could do nothing but savour the moment of intoxication, oblivious to the consequences.

The stuff dreams are made of.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

"You've gotta love livin', baby! Because dyin' is a pain in the ass!"

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[elcid1970]

As a matter of fact I did take a music appreciation course at our local technical college. I learned how to greatly appreciate the music of Mozart, Beethoven, & Brahms.

Meanwhile, I still enjoy listening to “tihgnoT ydaL a eb kcuL” and “tfarchctiW”. While reading the Kitty Kelley bio on the Chairman.

;^)

[jobim]

Glad to hear you get out sometimes, away from that turntable
torture chamber for Frankie, and over to the voc tech college.
Maybe it was the blast from the lathe class next door, or the
visual distraction from the all-female live tatoo class across
the hall, that blocked your learning about Brahms' greatly conflicted
personality, ironic and mean to everyone but family and
fellow musicians, but still able to write the emotionally
rich German Requiem, or Mozart's outbursts of inappropriate frivolity
and vulgarity, but detracting not a particle from the spiritual
depth displayed in the Great Mass in C minor, or Beethoven, rude
and proud and uncompromising and withdrawn, but capable of the
tenderness shown in the Symphony No. 6 in F major. It just
occured to me that your backwards fixation is perhaps
s'etterouT emordnyS which the master himself, Mozart, probably
had. Have you ever considered that you might be a genius? If
I were you I'd be looking into that. Maybe someday Kitty will
write another tell-all: "The Fabulous World of Elcid1970: From Political Blogger to......"

[elcid1970]

Heh, heh, the music appreciation class had some good looking chicks; my main effort was in welding school learning stick, TIG, & pressure joint technique.

Backmasking has an extensive Wikipedia entry but I don’t go in for hidden meanings, although somebody took a vid of Hillary conceding the Dem nomination to Obama & when it was reversed her syllables came out like “W-w-w-hite House throne it is mi-i-i-ine!!”

Check out a 1955 sound lab album, “Strange to Your Ears”. The advent of magnetic tape led to experimenting with speed & direction which resulted in Dave Seville & the Chipmunks among other acts.

Yours is the most thought out response to my backwards silliness. More than once some Sinatra fan has said he’ll beat up anyone he hears playing ol’ Blue Eyes reversed. Which is why I never understood Sinatra’s claim that anti-Italian prejudice explained his hot temper. I actually had a co-worker who resembled Tony Soprano and who drew an absolute blank at the word “guinea”. Had no idea what it meant; we went to the Oxford unabridged & nothing in it about Italians.

Then there was Rush Limbaugh making fun of preachers who found satanic lyrics everywhere; he played on the air a Slim Whitman tune backwards & the voice of Beelzebub roared forth, scaring his fans who then burned their Slim albums.

The first backwards spinner was Thomas Edison himself. Before an audience he would record his own voice on the talking machine & then spin the cylinder backwards to gales of laughter. What really freaked people out was to hear their own recorded voices; to this day most folks are appalled by what they really sound like.

But the fierce loyalty of Sinatra fans still amazes me. I bought fifteen albums for $10.00 on eBay. Each one bore the owner’s address label on the cover and on the record label itself.

Yes, it was a New Jersey address.

;^)