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I wrote a poem instead of creating an image

An old Kenmore stove,
all rusted and unplugged,
left here for the rewilding
deep inside the grove of trees

the discarded metal remains
of someone's kitchen, and
to think of the trouble it took
to cart it here and dump it here

and the memories it contains

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Wrap it up fellas!

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Oddly, the thing that came to my mind when I started to read the prompt (coffee has not yet kicked in, apparently) was Three French Horns, not three french hens. So I sketched three horns and wrote a quick piece for French Horn.

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This the day we often gift our daily newspaper carrier, in thanks for the morning delivery that is often very punctual.

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Our Christmas Eve tradition is that all of my children come home (check!) and then my father drives up, and then we go to Christmas Eve service at our church (where my wife in the choir) and the service ends with everyone in a large circle around the pews, holding a lit candle, as we sing Silent Night together with only candlelight flickering.

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That video of Feliz Navidad by Walk Off The Earth is so amazing. No idea what I could do except to watch it again.

Then the algorithm presents me Brandi Carlisle's exuberant 2025 version of Fairytale Of New York and now I have Shane McaGowan's rasp in my head mixed with her lovely voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnstFOTGJgc

Ok - I can't replicate Walk Off The Earth but here are a variety of remixes of my own holiday song - Gift Of Peace

https://dogtraxwrites.com/music/songs-of-peace-entire-remix-collection/

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Created in the garages of LA’s aerospace and automobile manufacturing workers, and car club mechanics, the hopper is real popular culture, and contrasts with oil baron J. Paul Getty's The Getty Center.
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I was stumped on this prompt. But we had visited The Met in NYC this weekend and I saw they have a whole Open Access project underway. I explored that for a bit and grabbed an image for a gif -- Franklin Seeing Stars

https://www.metmuseum.org/hubs/open-access

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I want this 1955 Maserati Zagato Berlinetta, modified with Harold and Maude’s hearse, to take me to my final resting place.
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@creating Oh, cool, I found a video of the band

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf4w2Pd4cwg

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I had the idea of a car that uses musical instruments as parts but then got sucked down the rabbit hole for the opposite idea -- Car Part Music, a music project by Bill Milbrodt to use car parts as musical instruments -- "exhaustaphone", "tank bass", "doorimba", "tube flute", and "percarsion." But the project's website won't load (might be too old) and reference links are not all that helpful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Milbrodt

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After Van der Graff Generator disbanded, Rotating Decay emerged as the chroniclers of entropic dread. Listen to "Centrifuge the Self", if you dare.
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@creating #tdc5090 #ds106 #dailycreate The photo today is in the recording studio. We see Kilgore Trout’s Sarcophagus and the Quantum Pemmican Complex recording Oceanic Parable Number 13.

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Band: The Time Signature Symphony
Song: Kevin's Off-Kilter Again

Teaser vid ...

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I don't have any ugly sweaters for this day so I cheated a bit -- I kinda wish I had this sweater, actually -- a dog, listening to music

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Serendipity sounds like this?

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Celebrating #blogging4life

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The Isle of Musica was a lost masterpiece of a place, where collaboration fed the souls of Trebles and Basses -- two societies in the north (Treble) and south (Bass) of the island. For generations, the Musicans lived on melody, harmony and creativity. Alas, Machine arrived, and began stealing ideas, slowly winnowing down originality. A pair of Musicans escaped just before the island's collapse, and still work on a composition of musical rebirth.

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Cupcake Flowers

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I took my morning poem and sent it into the N+7 machine, which spit out stanzas of lunacy. Here is one:

N+12

Its lonesome sound
– merely bridge -
made hoof by
the worry of handwritings
on workload

And if I could,
I'd cay that number -
I'd let it float
into the alarm of
a container sleeper