I won't say they're pretty, but there is a funky quality to them. Somehow, on the way to the compost pile these daisies got put in a holding pattern here on the porch table. And now to be perfectly honest, since yesterday I've been humming and singing bits and pieces to the Stones song, ya you've got it, "Dead Flowers". Which takes me to my cell and an app that I have on it. SHAZAM. Anyone have it on their phone? It's pretty cool. Just hold it up to any recording coming from the radio, CD player, computer or whatever device is playing music, and it will almost instantly come back with the song title any other pertinent information you might need about the singer or band. It will pick up the melody, lyrics and gets back to you pronto. Even if, if you are in the middle of a long guitar, or drum solo, it can do it. Quite fun and amazing, I think. It even does very obscure, 'deep tracks' off distant albums. But sad to say, it is limited. Yesterday, at a friendly gathering on the back deck, while enjoy a few daiquiris, the subject of SHAZAM came up. I mentioned a dark secret. I had tried singing the lyrics to a song into SHAZAM, and a note came back to me saying: 'cannot identify'. There were howls of laughter from my friends and family! Ok, singing is one thing, but is there an app for playing 'air guitar' to your favorite song? Now the laughter would die away! Right?
Dead Flowers
"Well, when you're sitting there
In your silk upholsted chair
Talking to some rich folks that you know
Well I hope you won't see me
In my ragged company
You know I could never be alone..."
Jagger/Richards
not mine, i'll be chuckling all day.
ReplyDeleteBirdman your app couldn't identify the song because you don't have Mick's moves, an essential part of their music.
ReplyDeleteBut he 'thinks' he has Mick's moves.....doesn't that count?
ReplyDeleteThere's a certain winsomeness about the photo. ¡Adiós, flor pequeñas!
ReplyDeletePerhaps you would have been better off if you'd taken these flowers to the compost pile right away as your better half instructed you to do! Ya think? You'd certainly be singing another tune!
ReplyDeleteNever heard of that app, but now I'm going to have to try it! I will probably not sing to it though.
ReplyDeletetoo funny on the singing. :)
ReplyDeleteVery interesting to know about Shazam even if I don't have app or any mobile phone :)
ReplyDeleteGreat hint for that music!
Léia
No fancy smart phone for me so no apps!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this tip. I have a friend who has this on his cell phone and I've been wanting to get it myself but keep forgetting. I'm going to go do that right now.
ReplyDeleteYour stories are always guaranteed to bring a smile. I'm just imagining someone serenading a vase of dead flowers on the cell phone air guitar! :)
ReplyDeleteI am trying to find my CD just now!
ReplyDeleteI am searching for that app now. Thank for the tip. Like the shot too.
ReplyDeleteThat app is Way Cool. How does it *do* that. . .?!
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty cool, Birdman! And pretty funny, too!
ReplyDeleteSeems like an interesting app and well the app for playing the air guitar, as they say, it is all in the mind :)
ReplyDeleteI do have Shazam on my iPhone, and it is remarkable how it works and how well it works. But, I don't use it as often as I thought I would. I either already know the song, and don't need it, or if it is the kind of song I don't know, how often do I care what it is? It is surprisingly infrequent that I hear a song and say, Hey, that is a great song, I wonder what it is.
ReplyDeleteI got bored with rock and roll somewhere in my 20s but I sure remember this one. Don't forget to put roses on [insert name]'s grave. Like the photo. All things must pass (which could get us off into George Harrison).
ReplyDeleteThis is a great app, but I have to say that I have never tried singing into it!
ReplyDeleteMy son has that application. Pretty cool. There's also a visual one where you scan something you see and the phone finds what it is on the Internet. An antique dealer friend of mine did this with something I had to sell, and she found it...
ReplyDeleteI like this photo of your dead flowers...!
I just might have to look into Shazam, it would save the aggravation of many a 'senior' memory lapse haha!
ReplyDeleteI love the way you seem to adopt dead flowers & stray stones...I just discovered Shazam but it's a big spooky for this low tech girl. Too funny...Proablably someone is out there inventing an air guitar app right now!
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