Posted in Oh DOOOO Pipe Down !, tagged Big Cats, Blake, Creation, English Literature, God, Growlers, Growling, Poetry, Songs of Experience, The Tyger, Tigers, William Blake on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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A reading of William Blake’s famous poem.
THE TYGER
(from “Songs of Experience”)
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, & [...]
Posted in Oh DOOOO Pipe Down !, tagged 1920s, Childhood, Children's Literature, Children's Poems, Children's Poetry, Christopher Robin, English Accents, English Literature, Family, Fright, Loss, Mice, Milne, Panic, Pets, Poetry, Toddlers, Tots on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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A reading of the poem “Missing” by A.A. Milne
(creator of “Winnie the Pooh)
from his 1924 collection
“When We Were Very Young”.
Missing
Has anybody seen my mouse?
Hasn’t anybody seen my mouse?
I opened his box for half a minute,
Just to make sure he was really in it,
And while I was looking, he jumped outside!
I [...]
Posted in Oh DOOOO Pipe Down !, tagged 1920s, A A Milne, Bears, Childhood, Children's Literature, Christopher Robin, English Literature, Humour, Literacy, Milne, Poem, Poetry, Reading, When We Were Very Young on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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A reading of A.A. Milne (creator of “Winnie the Pooh)’s poem
“Lines and Squares”
from the 1924 collection “
When We Were Very Young”.
Whenever I walk in a London street,
I’m ever so careful to watch my feet;
And I keep in the squares,
And the masses of bears,
Who wait at the corners all ready to eat
The [...]
Posted in Oh DOOOO Pipe Down !, tagged 1920s, A A Milne, Alternapop, Childhood, Children's Literature, Christopher Robin, Churchill, English Literature, Jim Morrison, Milne, Now We Are Six, Odes, Poem, Poetry, Songsmith, The End, Winston Churchill on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Reading of A.A. Milne’s classic poem
(from the 1927 collection “Now We Are Six”)
with Alternapop musical accompaniment
by Microsoft Songsmith.
(Never was so much ODE)
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When I was One,
I had just begun.
When I was Two,
I was nearly new.
When I was Three,
I was hardly Me.
When I was Four,
I was not much more.
When I was [...]
Posted in Oh DOOOO Pipe Down !, tagged English Literature, If, Microsoft Songsmith, Poem, Poetry, Reading, Rex Harrison, Rudyard Kipling, Songsmith, The Animals, Tommy, Voice Over, Voiceover on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If it wasn’t for the widespread mocking of Microsoft Songsmith I mightn’t have found it and wouldn’t have made this recording. If using a lone PC to audioficate, you need to be a One-Take Tommy – oh and forget about “Tommy” (in terms of (the (not very) (musical) (musical) singing). Look, instead, to Rex….and “TALK [...]
Posted in Blogging, tagged Blogging, Blogs, Education, English Literature, National Curriculum, Netscape, Nik Rawlinson, Poems, Poetry on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A million years ago, when I first heard about Blogs, as discussed on the radio (and Thursdays), by Broadband-bandyin’, early adopters Techie-Type Nik Rawlinson and his GameCube-lovin’ pal, I believe the function of such sites was to display a permanent, anywhereable-shareable (non-listing) list of online “Bookmarks/Favorites“.
The web-log, (constricted to “‘blog“) like a ship’s log, was in-keeping (if [...]
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