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Watch “Paul Simon ~ “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes”” on YouTube

Classic in my family’s house.

We are from LA originally.

This album taught me what a National Guitar is.

Watch “Joni Mitchell – You Turn Me On I’m A Radio – Live 1974” on YouTube

No rights, just homage

Live version of a song (if memory served) was not her fave.

A little corny? maybe.

Not here.

Just wait til she sings harmony with the guitar lead.

Wild!

A Pretty Beautiful Poem

Conviviality: C17 from Latin convivialis “a feast”

“fit for a feast”

(of an atmosphere or event) friendly, lively, enjoyable

potential. hy/Poten/use

potentiate

potent. pot. Portia (circa Antigone)

portent (n) ; portend (vb)

– portentious

port

porter

Deceit…. disgust

Conceit…. disguise. (dis/g -)

Receipt… ~~despise~~

(- cei/P/t)

DISAMBIGUATION

Pretext: ostensible reason (false) used to justify an action.

Pretense: act of pretending, false ambitions / claim

Pretend: imaginative same / fantasy

Pretension: claim of aspiration to something pretentious

Pretentious: attempting to impress with falsehood

Prevaricate: act or speak in an evasive way

Prima facie: (law) at first sight [ / site / cite]; accepted as so until proven otherwise

The Old English spelling of pretty = prættig, meaning

‘cunning or crafty’ coming as it did from a West Germanic base meaning

‘trick’.

By the Middle Ages, pretty had come to mean ‘clever, skilful, or ingenuious’.

The sense development [ deceitful, cunning, clever, skilful, admirable, pleasing, attractive ] has parallels in adjectives such as nice.

PRETTY

1. attractive in a delicate way, without being truly* (common) * beautiful. *author’s change*

2. used ironically to express displeasure: fairly ; trinket ; (used condescendingly) attractive person.

Pretty is to prevericate in order to increase Prestige?

A pretty face is a prentious face?

Pretty is pretension?

Beauty is.

Is being pretty pretentious? or prestigous?

The pretension of the face being ‘pretty’ was pretentious?

Pretty is prevarication to gain? [Prevaricate and procrastinate have similar but not identical meanings.

Prevaricate means ‘act or speak in an evasive way’.

Procrastinate, on the other hand, means ‘put off doing something’.

Prestigious.

A face being pretty is a pretension.

That’s beautiful, that is, Pretty!

PRESTIGE entered English in the mid 17th century (tricksy, cuz it means the 1600’s) from French, and ultimately derives from the Latin plural noun praestigiae ‘conjuring tricks’.

It took on its modern meaning in the 19th century (the 1800’s) by way of the sense ‘dazzling influence, glamo/u/r’, which at first [only] had a derogatory implication.

Aren’t we beautiful, Pretties?!

Extra Credit: speak the 17 words below aloud. Wild right? They kinda stopped making sense after a while. Lovesome.

Pretty ; Prettify ; Prettifies ; Prettifying

Prettified ; Prettification ; Prettifier ;

Prettier ; Prettiest ; Prettyish. . . . . Prettyboy.

Prettily ; Prettiness ; Prettyish ;

Pretties.

Prettied.

Prettying.

* Knock Knock…Orange… Orange you glad the other (stars) astericks didn’t make you scroll all the effing way down here? Hyuck.

I. All words cited from OED Concise (pic below-citations take forever)

II. All 17 “Pretty” derivations were taken from 3 dictionaries.

Mix tape to the World. Soul Funk. Rev. James Brown. A Maverick.

I did not know about James Brown.

Ha! I believed it was sexy-good-time music: good beat; easy to dance to.

It is.

It is also so much more.

Powerful medicine. I compiled a list of tracks to hike to.

Thought I’d share. Will continue to update as I find more.

It’s all good for productivity.

So take a walk, guys.

or destress and jam this when you carry wood (work).

Because like a ball on the bound,

you’ve got to get down, down, down!

Talking Loud and Saying Nothing. 1972. There It Is.

Blind Man Can See It. extended cut. bonus track. Jungle Groove.

Soul Power. 1971. “12 inch long version”

The Good Foot. Pts I & II.

Mind Power. 1973

Cold Sweat. 1967

Bonus points:

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.

16 June 1972 (released).

8 November 1971 to 4 February 1972 (recorded)

Side 1

2nd track

cheers.

Watch “Joni Mitchell – A Case Of You – Live 1974” on YouTube

what a song is this one. a live version cuz I feel good.

I could drink a case of you, darling and I would still be on my feet.

Genius! What a perfect thing to say.

It sounds like a compliment and then you realize it’s a backhanded compliment.

She can drink a freaking case and still stand? He must not be that strong or intoxicating. Bit of a light weight really.

Of course, maybe she just handles her booze more adeptly than most and can ‘hang’ like a tender tent pulled in tension on tenter hooks takes the dimension of volume whereas before it only had two: length and height.

Watch “James Brown – Mind Power” on YouTube

don’t own rights, paying homoge

The man’s a poetic revolutionary. Just read those lyrics (a smattering taken from my recent listen through) below out loud and tell me it’s not true.

There’s a reason why the American literature scene gets slammed on the international scene (despite having some incredible pens that will get their due in time: horror genre). It’s because most of our pens became musicians or songwriters. They had no choice-they were needed by the norms. Norms hate reading. No one hates music. Why? Cuz it’s got a good beat and it’s easy to dance to.

About the pronunciation and the realization

Vibe, vibrations.

What it is and what it is.

If you can’t work you can’t eat

So you’ve got to have mind power to deal with starvation

Two little fishes, yeah

Dig where I’m coming from

Lay it on me.

Mind power.

What it is what it is

It is what it is

It is what it is

That’s what it is

It is what it is

That’s what it is

Give me some flute!