PICTURE PERFECT FRIDAY ~ GOBSMACKED

Paul McCartney's Standing Stone  ~ Movement II ~ He Awoke Startled

 

 

Another fun week from the   Picture Perfect Team!   Our host this week is JohnOh   and the word he has chosen is:    GOBSMACKED.

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As with each week our host has picked

a fun word.  Reading the details

of the news from which the word

was heard and chosen,

I was gobstrucked like

the woman being interviewed!

 

"Roughly $17,000.00 a day"

is a very good job if you can find it!!! 

 

Must confess though,

I have streched the rules.

(broken or disregarded are such ugly words)

  (but I did take the picture  ~ well, yes,

of a picture but Paul just wasn't

available for pictures this week! 

You understand, I am sure!)

 

The picture was taken with my Kodak Z740 Digital Camera and the cloud with his thoughts was added in Photobucket!

 

 

 

 

My first thought was the person most likely to be gobsmacked was Paul!!!

I mean, I'm thinking for $17,000.00 a day, he could have gotten himself a good maid, a great cook, a fine nanny, and called an escort service! He would have had money to spare and saved himself so much heartache!!!

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Wishing everyone

a wonderful weekend!!!

If you're going to have any

gobsmacked moments,

may they all be pleasant ones!!!

 

 

* a note about the music (for those that are interested)...

In 1993 McCartney was commissioned by EMI Records to compose a major orchestral work to mark EMI's 100th anniversary in the autumn of 1997. Standing Stone premiered in October 1997 before a capacity audience in the Royal Albert Hall, London.  It was performed by some 300 members of the London Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus, conducted by Lawrence Foster. It was also recorded by the same forces at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London.

The music is full of celebration and victory. At one point we hear the sounds of a ceilidh. An orchestral jig precedes the final hymn of celebration.

McCartney wrote that he wanted everyone to leave feeling happy after a performance of Standing Stone, and feeling that they had understood most of what they had heard. So in conclusion he gives us a fine uplifting love theme, first in the orchestra, then with the choir singing unaccompanied, and then in a full version as a grand finale.

The final message of Standing Stone is that mankind's whole journey is about love. Love is the most natural thing in the world. Love is the oldest secret of the universe. Love is all we seek, and all you need is love.