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Johnny D - February 21, 2006 - Report this comment

"...my mind is leafed..." ... I love it !!

Adagio - February 21, 2006 - Report this comment

: D Thanks, Johnny.

Paul Robinson - February 21, 2006 - Report this comment

Superb Job! This is some real top notch writing. 5's ~ ~ ~

Adagio - February 21, 2006 - Report this comment

Thanks Paul! Coming from a real fan like you, that means a lot.

alvin rhodes - February 21, 2006 - Report this comment

i sang along by the dark of the loon...only adagio can make a song by tori amos even MORE mysterious...bravo

Adagio - February 21, 2006 - Report this comment

Thanks alvin!

Rick C - February 21, 2006 - Report this comment

Brilliant, Pat! I loved the "balk yourself out of a job" line. 555

Adagio - February 21, 2006 - Report this comment

Thanks Rick.

Larry Hensley - February 21, 2006 - Report this comment

Another nice and funny one. 555s

Red Ant - February 21, 2006 - Report this comment

Excellent job on a none-too-easy OS. "No applause for dream word string"? You get plenty of applause from me on this one.

Adagio - February 22, 2006 - Report this comment

Thanks Larry and Jack!

I really like the OS now. I just need a break from it from listening to it constantly.

Paul Robinson - February 22, 2006 - Report this comment

Yeah, Pat - listening to "Suede" endlessly to determine how to pace your parody is an experience that can "dis-Suede" you from listening to it for at least a couple weeks after you submit your piece...I KNOW from experience...lol...but I do really like the song...

John Jenkins - March 01, 2006 - Report this comment

Very good wordplay about thoughts and tunes that wander in and out of the consciousness (at least, that's what I got out of it).

Adagio - March 02, 2006 - Report this comment

Thanks again Paul and thanks John.

Chris Bodily TM - March 08, 2006 - Report this comment

DKTOS (Isn't it funny how I only know maybe half the songs in the SOTM contest?) Anyway, I really didn't see much humor in your parody. It looks more like a parody of Tori Amos' style rather than her songs. The lines could have been funnier. 333

Adagio - March 08, 2006 - Report this comment

Chris....this type of my parody is meant to be profound, not funny. Where did you get a copy of her lyrics? They're mostly all wrong on the internet. You are, of course, entitled to your opinion about style, BUT I know that the pacing deserves a 5.

Agrimorfee - March 09, 2006 - Report this comment

(SOTM) Trust Adagio to always submit spot-on pacing and profundity. It seems a lot like a Tori song all by itself, doesn't it? Probably makes more sense than the OS, too!

Adagio - March 09, 2006 - Report this comment

Thanks Agri. - I really needed those nice words. : D

Cat - March 09, 2006 - Report this comment

(SOTM) Adagio, I gave you a lower rating for humor since it just doesn't seem appropriate for you, but I think in a way you bring your own quality to the site. I've always seen you as the pensive poet among the rest of us howler monkeys. Creative work.

Max Power - March 09, 2006 - Report this comment

SOTM-good

Adagio - March 09, 2006 - Report this comment

Thanks Cat....I really appreciate it. Btw, I have my own howler monkey moments...lots of them. I never did formally welcome you to the site...so welcome.

Thanks Max

Rex - March 10, 2006 - Report this comment

(SOTM) Creative and surreal.

Peter Andersson a.k.a K1chyd - March 12, 2006 - Report this comment

SOTM - Adagio, have you ever considered to take parts of your parodies and submit them for poetry contests or something like that? While working on your parodies you end up with stuff I think would go down well in such forums (not that I'm an expert, but browsing the internet takes you places you know), stuff like this:

Disembodied souls you can assure
Upward swing as a lark by your tune
But...
And if you keep your absence
Absently up you'll balk yourself right out of a job
Out of my soul...
Subdue I'd get you, subdue I, don't want to

Adagio - March 12, 2006 - Report this comment

Peter.............I've done just that, in fact I still belong to two poetry sites. BUT, ...they of course would let me submit it like that, but then critique in such a way that I would have to, say, take that little verse and COMPLETELY (to me) destroy it because it didn't make sense to them, they wanted everything except my blood type, and I'm not sure they didn't want that too. In essence, it ended up very unpoetical to me. I've read the old poets...they break every rule in the so-called book, make sense when they want to, etc. I discovered that I really liked the people here better and I don't get half as much flak when someone doesn't understand. It seems as if people here are more accepting of ...uh...weird ways and say that's just the way she writes. Plus I frankly didn't like the people over there.....they're too pretentious.

Adagio - March 12, 2006 - Report this comment

And thanks Peter.. ; )

Adagio - March 12, 2006 - Report this comment

Thanks Rex.

Red Ant - March 12, 2006 - Report this comment

(SOTM) See above. I found two recordings for this (both live); the first sounds like Tori is singing in a sewer pipe (her sound person needs to be fired). The second is much better quality but there are some fairly major differences to this. Anyways, what I said before and kudos for varying the "oh..little sister" parts as well.

Paul Robinson - March 12, 2006 - Report this comment

Hey, Red...just an FYI - yeah, Tori's 'live' versions are pretty much NEVER the same as the recorded version. I'll bet the "sewer pipe" sounding one was from one of the "Official Bootleg" disks that Tori authorized a few months ago...I bought a pair of the 6 available...they were interesting....but the recording quality was not particularly good. which is really a shame. The ones I bought were not even close to the quality of her regular CD's. Anyway, on "Suede" it happens that even her written lyrics differ from what she ended up singing on the Studio Recording Pat was working with (From Disk 1 of "To Venus & Back", released in 1999). I can verify that the parody pacing here is spot-on with that recording...which, BTW, is not especially easy to do on that song.

Stuart McArthur - March 13, 2006 - Report this comment

(SOTM) "I'm sure that my mind is leafed With connective lines...." was a nice use of words, Pat - 555

Confission - March 17, 2006 - Report this comment

(SOTM) uhhhm, makes me feel like.. i just hit the random button on livejournal

Adagio - March 17, 2006 - Report this comment

Thanks Jack, Paul, Stu....I like those lines too, Confission....uhmm, what's livejournal? : )

Confission - March 18, 2006 - Report this comment

didn't want to elaborate, but since you asked, it's a site where a bunch of depressed goth-emo wannabe-intellectual teens post horrid poetry which mysteriously and confusingly makes little sense and therefore must be profound

Dumb Ass Kid - March 18, 2006 - Report this comment

[SOTM] DKTOS, and the 30-second sample on Amazon doesn't give me enough to base a vote on. By comparison of OS lyrics, however, this seems spot on (no vote)

Adagio - March 18, 2006 - Report this comment

Dang, Confission! Exactly why I don't go to one of the poetry sites I used to anymore. They're everything you said...and more. Lets hope I don't resemble them that much. Sorry if I do....besides they didn't like my stuff the way it was.....they wanted it more gruesome. So, maybe this doesn't qualify.

Thanks for the read., DAK!

Matthias - March 19, 2006 - Report this comment

(SOTM) GSVP (Great Song Very Poetic).... Amazing display.... 5-5-5

Adagio - March 19, 2006 - Report this comment

Thanks Matthias!!

bobpiecheese - March 23, 2006 - Report this comment

(SOTM) Unfortunaly, I DKTOS and am onkown to the content. Hopefully this doesn't ruin your day, Adagio.

Adagio - March 24, 2006 - Report this comment

bobpiecheese, I wouldn't get upset over that...after all, on amiright it seems to be an obscure song plus most people don't get what these serious ones are about. Don't worry about it, but thanks for he read...you did read? : )

Phil Alexander - March 24, 2006 - Report this comment

You've gone all poetic again, Pat... and I'm glad your gear is always in one place (unless it's first gear, of course ;-) )

Adagio - March 24, 2006 - Report this comment

Thanks Phil (?) What gear would that be?

Kristof Robertson - March 30, 2006 - Report this comment

(SOTM) Adagio strikes again with another off-centre word salad...tasty! Were you a beat poet in the 50's, Pat? :-) Great stuff. 555

Adagio - March 30, 2006 - Report this comment

Kristof, maybe a reincarnation of one. : ) Thanks!

wannabemustangjockey - March 30, 2006 - Report this comment

SOTM - The leaves of my mind must have blown away when I read this; you lost me somewhere...