Let your imagination run free

Don't Be Afraid!

All people can write a little poem...or one line that helps everyone feel like settling in and creating something. We'd like something postiive and uplifting as well as welcoming and
comfortable without being too mushy. Hahaha! that's alot, isn't it? Well, let's get started,
lets' boogie, let's blow the roof off, let's have fun. What's your line? What's the tune you
whistle?

Bright

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Permalink Reply by Lisa on January 17, 2008 at 5:40pm: Bright,

Thanks... wasnt sure if what I wrote was completely off-track but had an urge (haaa). Its before and after a depression I get these little bursts, which I enjoy.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bright Spenser on January 17, 2008 at 10:33pm: Hi, Richard! glad you made it. On to the subject at hand...humor, I like humor, but it would have to be pretty good, as some stuff is
only funny once. :) As for the Monty Python aural antics, I think that goes better for an all guy site. Farts are funny though.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Richard Burton on January 17, 2008 at 10:48pm: Hello Bright

Well I was sort of thinking of some kind of "aural soup" - Lisa said that creativity comes for her in "little bursts" - for others a surge or wave.

I like those Beatles recordings like "I am the Walrus" where the whole thing suddenly switches to a radio play, cut with snippets of the BBC radio singers. I don't like anything that is too pompous.

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Permalink Reply by Mandy Lawrence on January 17, 2008 at 11:01pm: Oh gosh....need some sobriety here...as in I think that it could easily become hotch potchy and have no cohesion.

that was the sensible bit.

What I can't be doing with is Band Aid type stuff. But there does need to be a running thread...or something to link to and relevant to the ethos of the cafe. Reference Jill for that bit.

Have different ideas running about (all drivvle) at moment. but something linked to newness....a separateness to organisational identity is where I am at. Not Like the French Revolution anthem but maybe in a more similar moral vibe than unity in suits.

That is it...deffo lost it now. Will leave you lot to it for a while..cos I am in danger of taking this far too seriously and all it should be is a very catchy little ditty which when listened to doesn't make people want to reach for the sick bucket.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Richard Burton on January 17, 2008 at 10:06pm: Hello Group

Can we do something with a bit of humour?

Sort of pythonesque with farting noises and such like?

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Permalink Reply by Mandy Lawrence on January 17, 2008 at 10:20pm: Ha! Ha!

You don't know how tempted to say "I am in" I am....but I am trying to be a good girl on here.

Don't count on it lasting though.

There's a lot of hot air
inside a bipolar bear
If it escapes, my dear
it's asphyxiation I fear

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Permalink Reply by Jill on January 17, 2008 at 11:15pm: Well we do have some funny stuff on Creative Cafe. There are Richard Spasoffs comedy videos and the Messing Around group and a joke from Phil Lancasters page that I put up. Plus members are often writing some funny comments. So I guess some funny stuff in the song would reflect some of what the Cafe is like but not all of it.
At the moment all that comes into my head when I am trying to think of funny songs is that thing which just keeps repeating
'I know a song that will get on your nerves' over and over again!
Which somehow leads me to ask are we going to have verses and then a chorus in this song and how many lines altogether are we thinking of aiming at? I still have a lot of questions rather than any contributions for the song lyrics!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bright Spenser on January 18, 2008 at 1:44am: My original idea was to have a short melody that would act as a trigger to creativity. Somethingclassical and happy.
Anything at all can be used as a trigger, but it must be the same each time you set out to create. I wasn't thinking words.
Words mean different things to different people. Music is more universal.

Then after you settle on something, see if works well over a few weeks, and keep it until it doesn't work anymore. Turn it inside out or
get another one. It should be dealt with as if it was the inspiring little ditty that we hope it to be.

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Permalink Reply by Jill on January 18, 2008 at 9:34am: Hi Bright

Oh I see so the lyrics come after the melody rather than before! Well do you have any suggestions for melodies we could have as a trigger? I am not clued up on classical except for that Young persons guide to the Orchestra one which was played to me a lot as a child and a few others that are popular in adverts! I know the Beatles did go on to having whole orchestras in their records and since then so have groups like Queen.
Yes an inspiring little ditty. Well it's early days yet. I am sure we will get there in the end!
Bye for Now
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Permalink Reply by Angela on January 18, 2008 at 10:36am: Its interesting reading through this dicussion, there are actually a lot of words & phrases that can be used in the lyrics here I am sure.
I like the idea of funny but not too Pythonesque, thats just my preference.
How about something that sounds dramatic & classical, that has a lot of lyrics in it that you could associate with Creative cafe & yet makes no real sense? I was thinking of something like Queens Bohemian Rhapsody . You could throw some Pythonesque type lyrics in there too...........

Just some ideas rambling around in my head after reading all the comments here .

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Permalink Reply by Richard Burton on January 18, 2008 at 10:15pm: Well, I kinda like the cafe society idea.

Problem is, all I can think of is the maddening jingle from "Allo Allo", aligned with daft Creative Cafe lyrics.

But is that so wrong?

How about something that's like symbolic of a door opening?

Theme music appears at the beginning of TV shows that acts as an entre for what comes next.

If this theme song is going to be an entre for the cafe, it needs to be welcoming, (come on in), and then go on to say, here you are , open up your mind....Anything goes....

"Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream..."

Just thinking aloud

Richard Burton.

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Permalink Reply by Jill on January 18, 2008 at 10:51pm: That sounds nice Richard. It sounds like a Beatles lyric...

I think of the song as an entre to the cafe and an expression of being in the Cafe, which ideally is similar to what I take Cafe society to have been, which was interesting gatherings of interesting people who were very creative. Plus in those days this experience was limited to rich people but now the experience in Creative Cafe is much more egalitarian and open to all. I would like the song to have something in it at least about challenging inequality. Apart from that if there were verses and a chorus as I asked earlier then the verses could reflect different aspects of Creative Cafe like 1) Arty 2) Funny 3) Sociable or/etc and then the chorus which is repeated through the song would be a welcoming, sing along to thing linking the verses together.

Anyway as far as the recording is concerned when we ever get to that stage each person contributing will be able to record their own singing/playing part on something like audacity and windows media player. Then we need someone who can mix the tunes and singing up. The meber who might have been able to do this has left at the moment and I asked Richard Spasoff but he said he is more able to do comedy skits/videos. He could advise us on some stuff like doing recordings maybe.
How about you Richard? How are you up on song mixing at the moment?!

I am sure we will find a way when the time comes...

Hope everyone is having a good Friday.

Bye for Now
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