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Lit is a world of alts. How many Lit identities have you posted under?

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You and I both, pmann. There is something about a good voice that leaves me breathless. I watched Celine Dion and Shania Twain videos last night until I was a wreck. Seriously, no kidding; I was an emotional wreck.

I hear you. I would've been an emotional wreck had someone made me listen to Celine Dion for any length of time too! My heart would NOT want to go on. (<---- clever Celine Dion reference)
 
So what talent do you bring to the table?

I like to paint and I have some paintings that I liked enough to hang in the house or that I've given to a few people. I don't think it's anything I could make a living doing. I'm terrible at scale and perspective and absolutely horrible at portraits. But I'm good with color and painting soothes me in a way that I haven't really found in anything else.

Except crack, heroin and meth.
 
I hear you. I would've been an emotional wreck had someone made me listen to Celine Dion for any length of time too! My heart would NOT want to go on. (<---- clever Celine Dion reference)

Bwahaha! I bet you secretly have a full Barry Manilow collection hidden somewhere! Copacabana, baby!
 
I have some paintings that I liked enough to hang in the house or that I've given to a few people.

^^^
Let's see those paintings, Van Gogh.

@MindFondler- dude, that Magic Wand thing made me laugh so hard. Hahaha.

I have this recording I posted on the GB some time ago. It's a joke, so don't go taking it all serious like. :mad:

As I said, I'm not a good singer. I'm a much better guitarist and mandolin player than singer. It was recorded on vocaroo, so consider the quality.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1LyWKlIUwkN
 
^^^
Let's see those paintings, Van Gogh.

@MindFondler- dude, that Magic Wand thing made me laugh so hard. Hahaha.

I have this recording I posted on the GB some time ago. It's a joke, so don't go taking it all serious like. :mad:

As I said, I'm not a good singer. I'm a much better guitarist and mandolin player than singer. It was recorded on vocaroo, so consider the quality.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1LyWKlIUwkN
That is AWESOME! It took me a few seconds to identify the song, but I LOL'd for realz when I did. Fantastic. And your voice isn't bad! I mean, you're no Layne Staley, but you've got a pleasant sounding voice. :)

Edit: Here's one of my paintings that's hanging in the upstairs hallway...
https://40.media.tumblr.com/ae4c014a9a367fd1e7ac2136e053fcbc/tumblr_nvgch4AFuJ1try5b4o1_540.jpg
 
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Awe, I thought it was going to be a love song when it first started.

Very nice, pmann. You play well. Play on. Thank you for sharing that! :rose:

Your painting is beautiful, Suzanne. Very, very pretty. :)
 
Edit: Here's one of my paintings that's hanging in the upstairs hallway...
Nice work! :)

Ahhh, yes, beautiful perfectionism. All of the best ones usually are! It's that trying, and tweaking, and tweaking more, messing up, and giving up, and trying again. Next thing you know....POW! Greatness! :)
I lost you after "messing up and giving up". ;)

@MindFondler- dude, that Magic Wand thing made me laugh so hard. Hahaha.
It provoked a similarly strong response from my wife. :D
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Walks out front to check signage on the building. Nope, nothing there indicates an artist's workshop. Walks back in and looks at the posts. Interesting.

- Management
 
Walks out front to check signage on the building. Nope, nothing there indicates an artist's workshop. Walks back in and looks at the posts. Interesting.

- Management

I swear we didn't mean to have fun and enjoy ourselves. :(

I mean it. We never intended to have a good time, Papa Chained.
 
Art major here, so I have a little hidden talent or two up my sleeve.
Disclose my talents and possibly be asked to show my work.
No way, no how. Won't do it.
No funnin from me. :cattail:

Love the painting Suz_anne! :rose:

Sorry Pmann, I can't sing all the great or I'd totally join this band you're gonna start. *wink*
Nice recording by the way. :)
 
Maybe today should be a "whimsical Wednesday" where we won't wallow in woes while writing. We will write what we want, without 'wules.

Nah, but that was kind of fun to write.

The Powerball is over $300million. Quite the sizeable sum of cash, even after taxes. The financial freedom it would bring would be fantastic, but with it would come great responsibility. Shouldn't we be a good Shepard of the money, to allow some personal frivolousness but not to be overly wasteful? To use it to make an impact beyond our personal life?

If you stop to think about how you might live your life after winning, how much of that can you do now? Maybe not to the same scale but don't we carry the same responsibilities without regard to our financial standing?
 
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You are absolutely correct, in my opinion. Responsibility doesn’t really change all that much.

I am a soft touch. It think it’s part of the rescuer mentality Mindfondler mentioned. I am always getting sucked into other people’s whirlpools, emotional and financial. It is a huge failing. :eek:

From that perspective I do tend to spread money around; family, friends, random causes. I like people to be happy. What I don’t do is devote steadily to one or two causes. I think it’s the idea of commitment that throws me. Time particularly, but also agreeing to interact with groups of people on a voluntary basis. :eek:

Still. No excuses. I suck. It’s important to push your own boundaries, I think. I need to get out there and do more….

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On a separate note, Whimsical Wednesday? :eek:

There are times here lately I half suspect you are not the real Chained. Have you been replaced by a pod person?
 
Money is a sensitive subject with me. I've seen the false sense of power and entitlement it creates. I've seen it replace love and happiness. More importantly, I see the pressures of needing something almost to the point that our very survival depends on it. I'm not a big fan of money.

Yes, we absolutely have the responsibility of creating a worthwhile life with or without it. I can do that now. We owe it to ourselves and to others to put our time and energy into creating a life of love, sharing, caring, and a commitment to self actualization. Those are the things, to me, that make an impact. That's how we give to the world. I can't truly be blessed or bless anyone else with those things by winning the lottery. Although, if I had it, I would surely give more, just as I do now with very little. Unfortunately, it's the world we live in and it's a necessity.

A simple, peaceful, love-filled life equals a life of fulfillment for me. Now, if I could just save up enough for a one-way trip to Bali. ;)
 
Unlike Endless, I tend to support only a few causes (none of them being the United Way with their Nazi like tactics). I have a few organizations that get my time and money, rather than a lot. It's the commitment that I like. :)

If I won the lottery, other than luxuries and travel, I doubt I would change my life that much. I like my job, so I don't know that I would just quit. But who knows?

I've lived my life responsibly and made wise investments, so my freedom to do what I like is relatively high. I've got no debts or mortgage payment, so after basic living expenses and investments, I can spend or give as I choose. I certainly don't have he kind of spare cash that the lottery affords. I could only dream of that, unless my modeling career takes off soon. I'm a 32 year old male, so my stock in the modeling industry is about to hit its prime.

Also, unlike Endless, I don't get caught up in people's financial mistakes. I suspect it comes from me being the Tin Man with no heart. I have no problem helping people. But there is nothing that irks me more than hearing people bitch about money when they are out drinking every weekend or going on vacations or buying new cars. Grow. The. Fuck. Up.

The thing that would change the most if I came into a pile of cash (not like that, pervs) would be the number of instruments I own and the number of vacations I take.
 
Money is a sensitive subject with me. I've seen the false sense of power and entitlement it creates. I've seen it replace love and happiness.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But it can buy jet skis. And have you ever seen someone frowning on a jet ski? Nope.
 
Money doesn't buy happiness. But it can buy jet skis. And have you ever seen someone frowning on a jet ski? Nope.

I've gone 80 miles per hour across the water in a jet boat many, many times. I never once frowned except when the motor blew. :D
 
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