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July 1 2006

Dave Matthews Band
Lie In Our Graves
when I step into the light
my arms open wide
when I step into the light
my eyes searching wild
would you not like to be
sitting on top of the world with your legs hanging free
would you not like to be OK, OK, OK
when we’re walking by the water
splish splash me and you taking a bath
when we’re walking by the water
come to my toes to my ankles to my head to my soul
then I’m blown away
when we’re walking by the water
splish splash me and you taking a bath
when we’re walking by the water
come to my toes to my ankles to my head to my soul
then I’m blown away
I can’t believe that we would lie in graves
wondering if we had spent our living days well
I can’t believe that we would lie in graves
wondering what we might of been
I can’t believe that we would lie in graves
wondering if we had spent our living days well
I can’t believe that we would lie in graves
wondering what we might of been
would you not like to be
would you not like to be
I can’t believe that you would not like to be
would you not like to be
ok, ok, ok,
ok, ok, ok,
ok, ok, ok,
ok, ok, ok,
and we dance away
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July 1 2006

AULD LANG SYNE
Words adapated from a traditional song
by Rabbie Burns (1759-96)
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne?
CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We’ll tak a cup of kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!
And surely ye’ll be your pint-stowp,
And surely I’ll be mine,
And we’ll tak a cup o kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!
We twa hae run about the braes,
And pou’d the gowans fine,
But we’ve wander’d monie a weary fit,
Sin auld lang syne.
We twa hae paidl’d in the burn
Frae morning sun till dine,
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
Sin auld lang syne.
And there’s a hand my trusty fiere,
And gie’s a hand o thine,
And we’ll tak a right guid-willie waught,
For auld lang syne
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April 18 2006

It had been awhile since I ventured out from the mainstay 12 - 15 wine related blogs that I keep an eye on every week. I ventured out to http://www.wineblogwatch.arrr.com to make sure I’m checking out wine bloggers with an interesting voice.
I ran across a couple of things of interest. Wino Sapien has an interesting post and excerpt from the book Don Quixote related to wine.
"Leave me alone for that," said Sancho; "never fear but I’ll hit upon the place it came from somehow. What would you say, sir squire, to my having such a great natural instinct in judging wines that you have only to let me smell one and I can tell positively its country, its kind, its flavour and
soundness, the changes it will undergo, and everything that appertains to a wine? But it is no wonder, for I have had in my family, on my father’s side, the two best wine-tasters that have been known
in La Mancha for many a long year, and to prove it I’ll tell you now a thing that happened them."
Check out the the above, a site from Edward, an Aussie.
A guy from my hometown in South Bend, In is doing a really nice job with wine podcasts. You can find Wine for Newbies here.
And, finally, here’s an article on Dr. Richard Vine, the now retired Professor of Enology at Purdue University in Indiana and a wine consultant for American Airlines.
The Fort Worth, Texas-based carrier maintains 15 different wine listsfor passengers in first and business class, specially selected forvarious routes. At any given time, "we have more than 60 wines inservice and another 60 queued," said Richard Vine, who has spent thelast 20 years as American’s wine consultant.
You can find the article here.
Dr. Vine is also heavily engaged in the Indy International Wine Competition, held every summer in late July or early August. You can find info. on this here—the largest wine competition in the country outside of California.
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