What do you do when mellow?

[Shankara20]

I'm feeling a little mellow today. My laundry is about finished and I just figured out how to scan slides onto my computer so I am going through a box of old family photos and scanning stuff to make copies for my kids. Some old memories are surfacing. I'm doing ok over all, just a little mellow, that's all.

I just pulled out my Van Morrison LP's - (yes vinyl 33 1/3 records) and put the first one on, "Beautiful Vision". As I placed the needle on the edge of the record I realized that I was in a mellow mood.

What do you do when you are feeling mellow?

ps: if you hear me playing my Leonard Cohen music call for help, I'm on the way down instead of up....

 

[catalina_francisco]

Ah, it depends on whether I have a reason for being mellow or if it is just something which happens, at least in part. My latest, and I think one of my best coping mechanisms is making up a few DVD's of those stupid funniest animal videos to slip in the player when the blues hit. It is rare watching animals doing silly and cute stuff won't bring a smile to my dieal and lift my spirits. It may seem small, but I have a great love of nature and animals, so it tends to bring my head back into a place where I can let pleasure back in on some level.

Now what I would also love to know is how you scan slides onto your PC as I also have a heap which I have been wanting to do that with, but so far have not worked out how...please, please, please?!!!

Catalina

 

[neonflux]

I'm feeling a little mellow today. My laundry is about finished and I just figured out how to scan slides onto my computer so I am going through a box of old family photos and scanning stuff to make copies for my kids. Some old memories are surfacing. I'm doing ok over all, just a little mellow, that's all.

I just pulled out my Van Morrison LP's - (yes vinyl 33 1/3 records) and put the first one on, "Beautiful Vision". As I placed the needle on the edge of the record I realized that I was in a mellow mood.

What do you do when you are feeling mellow?

ps: if you hear me playing my Leonard Cohen music call for help, I'm on the way down instead of up....

Leonard Cohen helped me through my temporary break-up with my primary... (that, NIN's Closer and the Betties' Carnival, a satirical look at break-ups with a happy beat). As to what I do when feeling mellow? Don't remember. Wish I did. Work demands... (should be attending to those now instead of posting, LOL.) Lovely question!

 

[Shankara20]

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Now what I would also love to know is how you scan slides onto your PC as I also have a heap which I have been wanting to do that with, but so far have not worked out how...please, please, please?!!!
Catalina

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I have an Epson scanner that is about 2 years old that came with the ability to scan transparencies including slides as well as B&W negatives. It requires a second light source, one located in the lid as well as the scanner bed. It also has little racks that set on the scanner bed to hold the slides in place - it can tell if there are four slides i the rack or just two. I just now found the button to select in the software interface that gives me access to a whole bunch of options to scan these slide - I just now found it because I was not looking before and I resorted to reading the instructions. I suspect each scanner brand and model has it's own features and limitations. Sorry I can't help you more than that

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[FurryFury]

To me mellow is a good thing but it sounds like you are actually talking about being a bit down?

Fury

 

[Shankara20]

Leonard Cohen helped me through my temporary break-up with my primary... (that, NIN's Closer and the Betties' Carnival, a satirical look at break-ups with a happy beat). As to what I do when feeling mellow? Don't remember. Wish I did. Work demands... (should be attending to those now instead of posting, LOL.) Lovely question!

When I put my Leonard music on I know I need to pay attention to my feelings. His stuff grounds me so deep in real honest-to-god-no-fuckin-bull-shit feelings that I can start to work with them. After 25 years I still cannot listen to "Hey, That no way to say goodbye" without tears. Roberta Flack has a take-no-prisoners cover as well.



"I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
yes many loved before us, I know that we are not new,
in city and in forest they smiled like me and you,
but let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie,
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye."

 

[Shankara20]

To me mellow is a good thing but it sounds like you are actually talking about being a bit down?

Fury

well, it might be moving that direction if I don't go change that music I have on....

 

[Ebonyfire]

I'm feeling a little mellow today. My laundry is about finished and I just figured out how to scan slides onto my computer so I am going through a box of old family photos and scanning stuff to make copies for my kids. Some old memories are surfacing. I'm doing ok over all, just a little mellow, that's all.

I just pulled out my Van Morrison LP's - (yes vinyl 33 1/3 records) and put the first one on, "Beautiful Vision". As I placed the needle on the edge of the record I realized that I was in a mellow mood.

What do you do when you are feeling mellow?

ps: if you hear me playing my Leonard Cohen music call for help, I'm on the way down instead of up....

I do not think I have been mellow since about 1972.

 

[Betticus]

Ah, it depends on whether I have a reason for being mellow or if it is just something which happens, at least in part. My latest, and I think one of my best coping mechanisms is making up a few DVD's of those stupid funniest animal videos to slip in the player when the blues hit. It is rare watching animals doing silly and cute stuff won't bring a smile to my dieal and lift my spirits. It may seem small, but I have a great love of nature and animals, so it tends to bring my head back into a place where I can let pleasure back in on some level.

Now what I would also love to know is how you scan slides onto your PC as I also have a heap which I have been wanting to do that with, but so far have not worked out how...please, please, please?!!!

Catalina

I have a film scanner that accepts film negative strips and slides. I haven't used it in a couple of years as I've pretty much scanned all of my old film based photos.

 

[Fibble]

well when im on a mellow mood i play my mellow songs in my player or go for a whole body massage..

 

[neonflux]

When I put my Leonard music on I know I need to pay attention to my feelings. His stuff grounds me so deep in real honest-to-god-no-fuckin-bull-shit feelings that I can start to work with them. After 25 years I still cannot listen to "Hey, That no way to say goodbye" without tears. Roberta Flack has a take-no-prisoners cover as well.



"I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
yes many loved before us, I know that we are not new,
in city and in forest they smiled like me and you,
but let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie,
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye."

I am with you.

 

[shy slave]

I don't listen to Leonard Cohen or Lou Reed when feeling mellow as I end up feeling very low and down from listening to it.

 

[St_George]

I confess that my own personal response to most emotions is to turn to narcotics. That is to say, if I am happy I smoke (in celebration); if I am stressed I smoke (to calm down); if I am mellow I smoke (to be more mellow). I also like to listen to Jack Johnson when I am chilling out, or some drum and bass without an MC. Very soothing.

 

[FurryFury]

When I'm mellow I relax and enjoy it.

When I'm down I don't enjoy it. I try to alter my mood by posting fluff or silly things, listening to music that brings me up, watching a movie just because I want to, not because someone else wants to, same for eating out for ME, or reading a book, snuggling with my cat, snacking on "bad" things and so on.

Fury

 

[Shankara20]

I don't listen to Leonard Cohen or Lou Reed when feeling mellow as I end up feeling very low and down from listening to it.

understand....

after two LP's of Van Morrison the other day my mellow stayed a lovely light shade of mellow and did not slide towards L. Cohen's music.

 

[DVS]

I do not think I have been mellow since about 1972.

I quit in '97.

But, when I'm mellow, I"m relaxed and everything is fine. Bills are paid, the house is warm if cold outside and cool, if hot. I've got time to take it easy and do what I want. If someone is with me...I busy my fingers playing with her. It can be a fun, relaxing passtime. If I'm alone, being a musician, I really enjoy keeping my fingers busy playing the piano. Just Ad. Lib. Nothing fancy, but letting my fingers go where they want and my mind follows from there.

It's cool, man...cool.

 

[BeachGurl2]

When I'm in that kind of mellow mood, I stick a couple of burned CD mixes in - melancholy slow songs that I know all the words to - and just lie back and listen, or sometimes sing (although I'd never do that with others around to hear me). Just get fully into the mood and let it overtake me. Then, after I've worked it through, I get up and put in Bare Naked Ladies and start belting them out while dancing around the house.

 

[TNRkitect2b]

When I'm in a mellow mood, all is right with the world.

This is the sort of mood where I can while away an afternoon in the hammock in the shade, with a large pitcher of sweet tea beside me with a fan blowing across it to keep away the flies, some good music playing in the background - nothing too peppy, nor sad, just kind of smooooooth and relaxed. It could be some smooth lounge jazz, some ambient / new age, or simply some six string music - Nothing but a voice and a guitar.

I spend my time reading, going on safari in the clouds in the sky, napping, or if I am lucky, listening to the waves crash onto the sand. If I am extremely lucky, all of this will be done in pleasant company.

 

[Netzach]

Knit, sleep, or masturbate.

Or knit and then masturbate.

Or masturbate and then sleep.


Anything other than intense and insane is not a common occurence.

 

[RJMasters]

Normally play randomly on the guitar. I use to play a lot when I was younger, last year my whole family pitched in and got me a new one to replace the old one that I got rid off many years ago.

Sometimes I can sit and play for hours.

Lately I have found it relaxing just sitting and working my rope through my hands and tying different knots by feel.