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>ahoeltje@best.com writes that rick loop pool walker wrote: >We have, almost entirely stopped singing or whistling as a culture in public. What you mean "WE", Kemo Sabe? I question whether most of the folks tromping around with cel phones attached to their heads compose or perform music... but that's beside my point. Back when car #3 gave up the ghost in LA - and when #4 and 5 did also - I was forced to take the bus to jobs. I don't like the notion of wearing a set of earphones in the parts of LA that I had to go to get to work - not wise in my opinion - and as such I found that my brain filled in for the former car radio quite well. Perhaps better. In a sense I was "listening" to remixes of songs I knew and loved, and composing new material quite a bit as well. And I whistled and hummed when not around people that it'd annoy. Sometimes I sang softly when tromping the blocks upon blocks, working on vocal arrangements, figuring them out, how I wanted them. I'd keep this going when I found something good, so I could get home and still have it in my head. LA Radio as such isn't such a big loss anyway - it's more of a sales medium in any event. And, in the absence of it, I found untold freedom in the brain, to run, play, and compose on my own. And perhaps provide play space for others, with or without instruments. I suspect that such a generalized statement as the above comes from a big city in any event... Though you wouldn't know it to hear the construction workers on the refurbishment project of "12 special flats" next door to our building: at times one or several breaks out in what can only be interpreted as mufti opera, before someone - perhaps a foreman - yells something like "sharrup!" or less-intelligible things at them. It keeps coming back, despite the possible foreman's interdiction. Isn't human creativity like this though? It keeps coming back, despite ANY suppressive efforts. Stephen Goodman http://www.earthlight.net/Studios * The free Loop of the Week! http://www.mp3.com/StephenGoodman * New MP3 Releases! http://StephenGoodman.iuma.com * Even more MP3s!