Fou Anglais

First of all thank you all for the lovely thoughts. Doing better in the health and general well being department.

Blogging will resume in a more dedicated manner. Been very busy with rehearsals for a gig. Doing back up vocals for another band. Totally new experience for me and its harder than it seems. I'm so used to singing the main melodies that its hard work to provide the necessary oohs and aahs and in the case of Angelique Kidjo's version of Voodoo Chile, phonetically noted Yoruban. Very interesting experience and the music i'm backing is a real change from usual fare. Some Steely dan, Stevie Ray vaughn, Morcheeba, Simply Red and Cream in that mix.

My dictionary.com word of the day was Carmilla. What a beautiful sounding word! A flower maybe? Or one who grinds automobiles into flour? well there's none of that flower/flour niceness, turns out it means a cabal. One with rat-like undertones at that. While on the subject of words and meanings also learned Assassin comes from the word Hassassin or Hashish User. According to the site:

Word History: At first glance, one would be hard-pressed to find a link between pleasure and the acts of assassins. Such was not the case, however, with those who gave us the word assassin. They were members of a secret Islamic order originating in the 11th century who believed it was a religious duty to harass and murder their enemies. The most important members of the order were those who actually did the killing. Having been promised paradise in return for dying in action, the killers, it is said, were made to yearn for paradise by being given a life of pleasure that included the use of hashish. From this came the name for the secret order as a whole, an, “hashish users.” After passing through French or Italian, the word came into English and is recorded in 1603 with reference to the Muslim Assassins.

Okay school's out. If i had my way i'd strip it down. Since the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth?