MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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I think I found the perfect video that characterize how I use handwriting in conjunction with digital, for those thinking about going back to handwriting. Do it with the MLT notebook. Most of my work is done handwriting in my paper notebook as well as MS One Note to collaborate digitally.
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Hi Jurgen
That Seoul video tour by drone has some wonderful views of the city from the air, and captures it’s beauty and massive size. Whenever I visit there, the busy and fast paced life style always amazes me, it takes some getting use to. There is so much to see and do, I feel like coming from the country when compared to the laid back life style in Vancouver. It’s fun to visit, and spending time there taking in all the pop culture and custom is great. There are endless restaurants, shops, book stores, museums, parks, old historic landmarks, and many unique neighbourhoods with it’s own character. There is an area called Book City, where there are dozens of massive books stores in one area like a city for example. There is another area with a big concentration of antique stores, and then around the many universities there are the university districts where all the music scene and pop culture thrive. Really fun at night to hangout from all the cool fusion restaurants, bars, unique shops etc. Love the neon lights at night, evenings there are a lot of fun…I could spend a few months there and not be bored, but I don’t think I could live there, the hustle and bustle would be too much for me after a while.
That ballad sung by the singer is really nice and tender, and some good guitar playing by the band there. KPOP has really become a phenomenon. I think much like the the western music industry, KPOP is driven by huge corporations, that recruits kids who look nice and can dance and sing on a big scale, and turn them into pop idols if they are lucky, the one in a million. It’s a big machine I think. Then there are many independent musicians and artists that make up the rest of the music scene, that you have to dig deeper to find that write their own music and are very good. I think the general public are also big fans of the music artists, that go back decades, like Psye that I posted a video of who made it big on their own talent and merit.
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Speaking of absolute best of the best, at the public livestream on Sunday, wow, Mona and Lisa were a well tuned mean machine, cranking out those 9 songs with joyful perfection. The harmonies, guitar work, they played it all with amazing beauty and finesse. I was so impressed, top of their form, best of the best bar none!
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Hi Mike
I will take some! 😁 Last week I was looking out my window in the afternoon and it was snowing hard out there. The weather forecast called for a couple cm. I was getting excited, but a couple hours later it stopped and we got barely a cm.
Wow, it sounds like you got a lot. Hope you get to enjoy it and have fun with it more than the shoveling and having to drive in it. I remember younger days when it snowed a lot, and we all listened intently for our school to be called out as one of the ones shut down. Snow days were the best, it was like getting an extra fun day in life.
Love your Avatar. ❤ I love German Shepards, they are so adorable, ours was named Max, miss him much. I like how their ears grow super big when they are puppies, and eventually they grow into them.
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For all the poets here, Jacki, Roger…..
In high school English class, I dreaded poetry. It was like a riddle with the meaning of the poem hidden. I could never figure it out no matter how hard I tried. It was like reading a different language. The teacher had to break it down piece by piece revealing themes, symbolism, irony, metaphor….etc. before I could understand it.
I watched some videos about poetry appreciation in the context of art and music and this thread. After all, some of the greatest song writers are into poetry, ie Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Paul McCartney….., and it falls in line with Toba Beta and Leonard Bernstein’s quotes about art and music that this post kicked off with.
This is what I learned:
“Poetry can take hours or years of contemplation to get to the bottom of it”. I don’t feel so bad now. 😁
“There’s a lot more to a poem than just the meaning of the poem. If reading poetry is all about getting the meaning out of it, all the poetry professors would retire and do something else. Ambiguity is a core part of a poem.”
“Obscurity: There are reasons in nature why the obscure idea, when properly conveyed, should be more affecting than the clear. It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration, and excites our passions.”
“A Poem does not reveal everything. Poetry encourages you to fill in the blank, or supply the text with your own experience, as to achieve a deeper emotional resonance. Great poems encourage to dive into the ambiguity, instead of hunting for that one meaning. Every time you read a poem, it is like you are reading a brand new poem for the first time. We can certainly say that of other different art forms with the same kind of ambiguity. Each time you get in front of a painting, or piece of conceptual art, it’s like you are looking at something new again, with a new frame of interpretation. As you grow, the poem will grow with you, or that piece of art you are looking at is going to grow with you. It’s going to mean different things. You are going to derive different things out of it. “
“It’s always good to re-read a poem again and again, or listen to a piece of favourite music again and again. The first read or listen gives a shallow impression. A poem if it is really good, and contains multitudes of meaning or layers of ambiguity, it will grow with you, it can be a different poem every time you read it.”
There is a line in a poem I heard once recited “Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair”. When I saw MLTs Duo Session video of “Sweet Lorraine” for the first time, and saw Mona’s beautiful curls, I kept hearing that line of poetry in my head. “I am looped in the loops of her hair.” It’s funny how a poem I once heard a long time ago, pops into my head. The affect of good art. I looked up that line, and here is the full poem by Yeats.
“W.B. Yeats’s poem “Brown Penny” explores the themes of love and the complexities associated with it:
I whispered, ‘I am too young,’
And then, ‘I am old enough’;
Wherefore I threw a penny
To find out if I might love.
‘Go and love, go and love, young man,
If the lady be young and fair.’
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
I am looped in the loops of her hair.
O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
One cannot begin it too soon.
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Hi Jurgen,
Wow, thanks for all those videos. You are quite familiar with a number of Korean music artists, from the hard rockers to Jaurim. I shamefully am so ignorant of many of the talented Korean artists these days. When you get a chance, you should visit Seoul and uncover the thriving music scene there. The only Korean group I can offer up is The Wonder Girls. Back in 2007 when I visited Korea, they were the biggest rage, and probably put KPOP on the map, as they were the first to gain international popularity outside of Korea on that scale, predating BTS, and the KPOP wave of the 2010s. The main character who sings in the beginning of the video is a Korean legend in music, his name escapes me at the moment, as he wrote many of the biggest KPOP hits for legions of groups from the very beginning to today, and was instrumental in launching the Wonder Girls popularity, as well as Korean music internationally
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Hi Jurgen
I’ve heard people say what makes KPOP really appealing compared to the hip hop/rap music in the US, is that it is very positive. Especially BTS, their songs are all positive and touch upon topics like self-love, mental health, and societal issues. A significant number of their songs convey positive messages that promote themes of self-empowerment, resilience, friendship, and love. My older brother and younger sister are big KPOP fans these days, and my sister especially likes BTS. She knows all the band member names and follow their careers. I can only remember one name, Jung Kook, because he has the same first name as me. 😁 Interestingly now the group is pretty much inactive while they all were called up to mandatory military service for a couple years. I wonder if they will be able to retain their popularity when they return, and have their “Army” of fans waiting for them.
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Hi Phil,
That’s great news! Have an awesome weekend.
Jung
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I think John’s humour and satirical wit and jabberwocky made him who he was and reflects in his music too like in Norwegian Wood and Run For Your Life. Perhaps it gave the Beatles music that extra “spice” to go along with Paul’s beautiful pop music character. Paul is more along the lines of the glass being half full and John more along the lines of seeing the glass half empty outlook, together the Lennon-McCartney song writing partnership struck a perfect chord!
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Hi Bud
I think the storm that missed Seattle hit us in Vancouver square on. Awoke to a blanket of snow this morning and by noon it was 27 cm in my drive way. By about 3 PM, well over 30 cm, up to my knees. I went for a walk, but really needed snow shoes it was so deep. None of the side streets were plowed so no traffic was getting in or out. We haven’t had this much snow in a long time.
You were born in Honolulu, I’d love to go there now. 80F sounds perfect. We visited there in 2014/15 or so, and Waikiki was everything people said about it and more. I don’t blame you for wanting to go back there to live.
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I can see it, all these wonderful pins in the mail, in their cute unique little parcels, working their way across the oceans, mountains, valleys, plains, and forests getting to their well deserving owners. 😊
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Hi Jacki
Thank you for sharing your story. It looks like poetry has been a gift and a big part of your whole life. I love your magic with the words. It looks like you’ve touched a lot of people with your poems, that is so special, and some notable peoples complement. That’s great you got your poetry published in publications and gifted MLT one of your poetry books. I hope you can publish your work even more broadly. When you have a gift like this, it’s a virtue to spread and share it and beautify the world with it, and touch peoples lives with it to make their lives better. ✨
I like what you said comparing a poem to a photo. They say a picture is better than a thousand words, and a poem is exactly like that, by artistically crafting a poem with just a few words, you express endless feelings and emotions.
Thank you for your poem of kindness the other day! Kinshipness. ❤
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Hi Mike
Yeah Shepards are the best dogs. Only thing I wish I could change in them is for them to live 40 years. We don’t have kids, so Max was like our boy, we had him for nearly 9 years before he got sick. We still have his ashes and we talked about going down to the river where he loved to play and setting his ashes free. It’s been too hard, but will do that soon one day.
By they way, this morning I checked the weather forecast and 10 to 20 cm forecasted. What a coincidence. Wow, thanks for sending us the snow, that was quick! 😁
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Hi Phil
Wishing yours will arrive soon. The postal service is always so inconsistent, never seems to be a rhyme or reason for that.
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That’s a really nice video of the Louvre Jurgen. Very relaxing to watch. I can imagine some of those paintings in the main hall being life size would be quite intriguing. In 2019 when I visited Montreal, I spent the whole day in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and really enjoyed it. The Louvre one day for sure.