The Dock Of The Bay

Saturday, December 09, 2006

King of Soul



It was a shame he died when he was only 26, he scarcely enjoyed the success of his most famous song, 'Sittin' on the dock of the bay'.

Otis Redding was a soul singer. Soul is an afro-American music style developed in USA, based on gospel and blues styles, among other ones.

When he was young he won fifteen times in a row a talent show, and they don't allow him to participate anymore. He used to sing Rolling Stones' song 'Satisfaction', and they have always said they like more Otis version rather than theirs.

He had a particular voice, he obviously had black voice (I like them very much), but he had that hoarse voice which made him distinct.

O. Redding became very famous in the sixties, when the soul music was very successful too.

Aretha Franklin was a very famous soul singer in the sixties too. She made of 'Respect' (an Otis' song) a terrible success.
Other black singers as Wilson Pickett or Ray Charles were in fashion. Tina Turner was a soul singer in sixties too.

I like Otis Redding's songs very much, and I like Ray Charles' too.
O. Redding gave off a lot of energy on the scenario, a lot of happiness. I found him very funny when I see videos about him singing in live.

Some of their songs have a lot of rhythm, I think if some of them were played in discos, they would become in fashion again.

Today thirty nine years ago, he got killed in a plane crash.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Miss Pillow's dream

Last night, Miss Pillow began to tell me she has dreamed about me. She told me that I was....

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...I was crossing an immense desert riding on a giant tortoise, 'I hope we don't find Mr. Sandman here, I have enough with one dream!' I said.
'Oh look' I said, there were a microwave, maybe it was pathfinder's, Eduard Punset was in talking about memes, DNA and happiness travellings, I hope he found them. Sky was becoming purple and nice lines appeared, as GOBLIN use to talk about, 'I think I am getting near light velocity' I said, well, it was not so bad, so I would not get so older.
'See you!' I said, Lucy was in the sky, but she didn't have diamonds, never mind, I will have more chances.
Travelling on tortoise seemed ecological, for sure Zorro would like it. We were reaching a heavenly place, wonderful, it seemed made of chewing gum, 'maybe Red Apple and Aire've been here' I said. Any kind of life didn't keep Fibonacci series, DaDarkestAngel would enjoy this quiet and nice place. Noa, the russian cat, was playing under a candy floss tree, Noa was trying to catch SHANTI's lizard (maybe Elton John would write it a rock), Mr. Tortoise smiled.
Landscape was becoming blue and a little cold, Still Acer would enjoy it. Mr. Tortoise needed a rest, so we stopped and bought a waffle with chocolate in Singularity Stall, but the waffle was so heavy and thick light couldn't escape from it! It was like a singularity, so we threw it very far away, we didn't want a big bang on our stomachs. I will not tell the recipe to Pumuky's & CO's ;-)

Someone was getting closer, oh! It was me riding on Mr. Tortoise!! 'Aha ok' I said, we travelled for a while faster than the light, so they actually were our light, I promised not to tell to Einstein, he would tell me off.
'Look!' I said, Marc Chagall was painting mixing red and green colours, and he got a new real colour! 'Great!' I said, the brain didn't have perceptive problems, if Bluephie were here...
Mr. Tortoise and I carried on with our journey, we were reaching a place which seems we were in an enormous cube with geometrical forms, there was a woman who was shouting she's got the relationship between Quantum Theory and Relativity Theory, Stephen Hawking would get very happy if he knew.

This place looked like space-time were curling, I was a little scared, but it was nice Jeff Buckley was singing there, with his telecaster, as he used to do, you couldn't dance 'dansa del ventre' with his songs, but he looked more pleasant than that boy from Prison Break serie ;-P and the travelling became nicer. These strange places seemed to be very peaceful and fairer than ours, Ladybird would love it.

Eventually Mr. Tortoise got tired, so he landed aside a river with high Tide, and there were a Green Dog swimming! I turned myself and there were another river very close, I was between two waters! If Paco de LucĂ­a could help me...

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...but I ended up telling her I had dreamed about me. I will not go out at night with Miss Pillow again, she doesn't suit me.