Creation
Sometimes you just have to let things flow… maybe Todd’s Gram kicks over a week after he gets there. Maybe Randie falls in love and follows OT to Idaho… Maybe… NOT.
Regardless… let’s rock’n’roll, artist-types!
Sometimes you just have to let things flow… maybe Todd’s Gram kicks over a week after he gets there. Maybe Randie falls in love and follows OT to Idaho… Maybe… NOT.
Regardless… let’s rock’n’roll, artist-types!
Ha! “Unbunch’em” I love Squishes expressions.
I think Ryan’s jumping the gun a little in the worry department. If nothing else, they just met. I sincerely doubt they have any level of commitment after a single evening….. in spite of Squish’s hopes.
And speaking of “following”, look what happened with Ryan and his “migration” to England, and subsequent migration back. Maybe somewhere deep inside not only RyeBread, but Randie, learned something from that experience…
Hmmm… a trip to Idaho for Randie would be an interesting mirror of when Ryan went to England.
Gramy… Squish is pretty punk rock… which means you don’t mince words.
Lady Jenn… I think what’s clear here is that Ryan cares for Randie’s well-being… and sometimes that manifests itself as worry. I think his level of expectation is high… and he’s projecting into the future long before he really ought to. Us creatifs have vivid imaginations.
Rich… Glad you brought that up.
Pete… yes, it would… So Idaho would be Randie’s England? Hmmm… I’m not sure that’s a proper and even correlation. I suppose it IS what she could afford… or maybe even not.
Yes, the cycle with Emily (had to let that percolate a bit for that name to come up in memory without having to refer back to the actual strip) was definitely revealing in terms of Ryan’s gut feelings. Too bad he didn’t have more of a startling revelation that he did. Maybe once Randie has a similar experience they’ll put the two together (is that a real double entendre I just made?)
Think I’ll go out to Alberta
Weather’s good there in the fall
I got some friends that I could go to working for
Still, I wish you’d change your mind
If I ask you one more time
But we’ve been through this a hundred times or more
Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All those things that don’t change, come what may
But the good times are all gone
And I’m bound for moving on
I’ll look for you if I’m ever back this way
If I get there before the snow flies
And if things are looking good
You could meet me if I send you down the fare
But by then it would be winter
Nothing much for you to do
And those winds sure do blow cold way out there
Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All those things that don’t change, come what may
But the good times are all gone
So I’m bound for moving on
I’ll look for you if I’m ever back this way
Still, I wish you’d change your mind
If I ask you one more time
But we’ve been through that a hundred times or more
Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All those things that don’t change, come what may
But the good times they’re all gone
So I’m bound for moving on
I’ll look for you if I’m ever back this way
I’ll look for you if I’m ever back this way….
The Auld Grump
Ah, Chad and Jeremy!
Do it every time!
Rich… Love makes you do things you probably wouldn’t do otherwise. Ryan was in love… he didn’t want to lose Emily, the girl he saw as a potential spouse… it was good that he went with her to London… he learned a lot about her… and himself. Randie realized she could live without Ryan… financially.
Grump/Leo… is that Chad & Jeremy?
I hate the line “but the good times they’re all gone” … it implies that there are no more good times to be had… *&&%% that… let there be more good times! (I guess it means ‘their good times’)
They’ll create a masterpiece…of sorts
“Four Strong Winds” is from their Second Album Titled “Chad & Jeremy Their Second Album” released in 1965.
On the CD release The Compliation is titled “Chad & Jeremy Sing For You / Their Second Album” There’s a Video of it on YouTube if you want to give it a quick listen.
It’s a rather sad and melancholy song but lovely nonetheless.
@Leo – I was thinking of the Ian and Sylvia version (1964) – the song was a staple of folk music in the sixties, with versions by The Kingston Trio, The Chad Mitchell Trio, Don Denver, and even Johnny Cash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjfTDPhMdTk&feature=kp
@Brig, yeah – it is about a relationship that is ending, bittersweet, there had been good times, but times and people have changed… It is not that there will never be any more good times, just that the good times are no longer shared.
Maybe Five Hundred Miles is closer for you…
If you miss the train I’m on, you will know that I am gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
Hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
Lord I’m one, Lord I’m two, Lord I’m three, Lord I’m four
Lord I’m five hundred miles from home
away from home,away from home,away from home,away from home
Lord I’m five hundred miles away from home
Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name
Lord I can’t go a-home this a-way
This a-away, this a-way, this a-way, this a-way
Lord I can’t go a-home this a-way
If you miss the train I’m on, you will know that I am gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stwt_ew6Bac
Still sad, but circumstances, not feelings, have changed. A yearning to go home, but not in their current state.
The Auld Grump
I’m a bit slow, but it just hit me on this strip: wow! Over the last month or so the art is getting really, really good. You’ve always had a fantastic talent with comic art, but the little color flourishes(I’m sure there’s a better art term for that) add a life and spark to both the characters and the background that’s classical. Great lighting and background details as well. Really great use of limited space; nice, nice!
Jack… how can we be certain? Maybe they’ll wind up repainting over it… like that Picasso painting they recently found UNDER another one of his paintings (Blue Bather).
Leo… “Chad and Jeremy Sing For You”… hee hee…. this title makes me giggle. Can you see somebody in today’s music world using a title like that? “Kayne West Sings For You”
Grump…. sniff-sniff… I’m all teared up… this is SAD music, you guys… sniff-sniff…. let’s sing the Partridge Family theme song and cheer up…yah?
bscruffy (HI!)… oh, Garsh… thanks, b… I really do try to put out a quality product. Having put out the new book (Down But not OUt), and comparing it to “Welcome to the Neighborhood”… you can really SEE the blatant difference and evolving style.