Xanadu Philodendron

[~ Rocket's Tail ~]

Tori Amos - Datura
To Venus And Back - 1999

get out of my garden

passion vine
taxas sage
indigo spires salvia
confederate jasmine
royal cape plumbago
arica palm
pygmy date palm
snow on the mountain
pink powderpuff datura
crinum lily
st. christopher's lily
silver dollar eucalyptus
white african iris
katie's charm ruella
variegated shell ginger
florida coonite
datura
ming fern
sword fern
dianella
walking iris
chocolate cherries alamanda
awabuki viburnum

is there room in my heart
for you to follow your heart
and not need more blood
from the tip of your star

walking iris
chocolate cherries alamanda
awabuki viburnum
natal plum
black magic ti
mexican bush sage
gumbo limbo
golden shrip
belize shrimp
senna
weeping sabicu
golden shower tree
golden trumpet tree
bird of paridise
come in
variegated shell ginger
datura
ionicera
red velvet costus
**xanadu philodendron**
snow queen hibiscus
frangipani
bleeding heart
persian sheild
cat's whiskers
royal palm
sweet alyssum
petting bamboo
orange jasmine
clitoria blue pea
downy jasmine
atura
frangipani

dividing canaan
piece by piece
o let me see
dividing canaan

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Just for you, Zan!

[~ Rocket's Tail ~]

Haha, every time I hear it now, I think of you

[Xanadu]

~ said:

Haha, every time I hear it now, I think of you

That's so wonderful, RT! Thanks for sharing that.

I'll have to listen to that song, now that you have brought it to my attention. By the way, isn't amazing to know that someone is thinking about you thousands of miles away that you haven't met! It's really incredible. Many of you have changed or affected that way I think about songs, or at the very least, I'll think about you.

RT: "Cause I am a rocket on fire.
Look at me go, with my tail on fire..."

Sto: "And I'll do it for you..."

Sheila: "In my dome of ivory..."

Neo: "I want you as the dream, not the reality..."

Al: "Just one thing in it: me or him, and I love life!"

Adey: "Little light shining..."

And many, many more. These were just the few that lept to mind. Actually got chills for Sto Wednesday while listening to SOS. Some of these are in my top 10 fave songs, others aren't. But I'll think about them from your point of view, and it brings something new to it.

Does this happen to anyone else? Just me? I'll try to think of more.

But, I guess the question is: Have we effected one another at all, or in any way? I think for me the answer is "yes" on many levels...

Even if it's only that RT thinks of me for this Tori Amos song (which is very cool;)), or Sto remembers I like Gabriel, or you catch the film Xanadu on cable. ;D

[Adey]

Yes I can see what you're driving at Xan. I do remember those personal texts and relate them back to the regulars on the Board. Like AT, I now also associate the images with the people too. In fact it's really disconcerting when someone amends their profile and changes them.

I shouldn't say this, but I also have mental images of what the regulars look like - perhaps I'm twisted, but they're not always flattering. Perhaps if I happen to be posting after a half a gallon of beer one Sunday night, I'll share the images.... and reap the whirlwind on the following Monday!

With regards to songs, I think of Xan when I hear Xanadu by Rush, from Farewell to Kings (I think). The price you pay for having a distinctive username I guess..

[brillo69]

Adey said:

With regards to songs, I think of Xan when I hear Xanadu by Rush, from Farewell to Kings (I think). The price you pay for having a distinctive username I guess..

Yes Adey, it is from Farewell to Kings (which reminds me, I really need to buy some Rush. They're a band that I like, but I'm lacking in any material.)

Another song called Xanadu springs to mind at the moment...
'Xanadu' by..... Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mitch and Titch. ;D
There is a Red Dwarf Joke in here that Adey should know about

[Sto]

Xanadu said:

Sto: "And I'll do it for you..."

I couldn't think of anything better to be associated with! What exactly did you mean when you said you got chills for me though?! I have a mental image of you picturing me and shuddering from dread...

Whenever I pass the "G" section at HMV and see Peter I do think of you Zan! And of course I also always think of you in English lessons when we do poetry and I pass "Kubla Khan" in my anthology. I went through a Coleridge phase but actually I haven't read anything by him for a while. I'm currently really into Louis MacNeice: do you know anything by him Zan? I have no idea how famous he is...

[Xanadu]

Sto' said:

I couldn't think of anything better to be associated with! What exactly did you mean when you said you got chills for me though?! I have a mental image of you picturing me and shuddering from dread...

No, no, not chills from dread silly! Chills or tingles about how wonderful it is. Am I the only one that gets tingles/chills/or goosebumps at my favorite parts of anything? Songs or films, whatever?

I get so emotionally moved sometimes, I actually visually shudder, and someone nearby asks if I'm cold or alright. My husband has long since stopped asking, and wavers between thinking its cool and finding it creepy. It's such a great rush, and I love that I can feel that for some of you at your favorite parts... it's like I see how feel about them now.

I'm glad you liked the part I unconsciously selected for you Sto. And, oddly like Sheila, you are like I pictured you, and I think it's a nice picture.

Sto' said:

Whenever I pass the "G" section at HMV and see Peter I do think of you Zan! And of course I also always think of you in English lessons when we do poetry and I pass "Kubla Khan" in my anthology. I went through a Coleridge phase but actually I haven't read anything by him for a while. I'm currently really into Louis MacNeice: do you know anything by him Zan? I have no idea how famous he is...

That's great, since I think most of the people I know would associate me with Gabriel before Kate (that's these people even knowing who she is ). I can't decide which artist is my fave, I have loved Gabriel longer, but I listen to Kate more often and own more, but I listen to Robert Palmer the most? Who knows?

Louis MacNeice..... (accessing.....accessing) ;D I'll have to get back to you on that, having trouble processing that information in the database at the moment. ;D

[Neo Stella]

Xanadu said:

Neo: "I want you as the dream, not the reality..."

Thank you Zan, this does it for me. You certainly have us "understood."

[Sto]

Zan, I get shivery when it's a really amazing line from a song, especially if I relate to it or it touches me, or the music is overpowering. "I'll do it for you..." always does it for me (especailly "I'll be the lily of the valley for you...", don't ask why, it just does) and some of the lines in "Love And Anger" too: "Touch the past and the future"/"Just you wait and see..." are prime examples. But the one that makes me shiver the most is "You're The One": just all of it. Especailly the 'angry' bit ("Just forget it all right!") and the scream, and the "sugar..." which fades the song out at the end. Amazing.

And thanks about the picture

Louis MacNeice - does "Prayer Before Birth" ring a bell? It's my favourite poem, and the last two lines touch me every time I read them:

"Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me.
Otherwise kill me."

He uses some really interesting and strong rhythms, like, with reference to being sent out to fight in war: "My treason engendred by traitors beyond me". Investigate him, I think you'll like!