Comments on: My Favorite Things (Part Two) http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/my-favorite-things-part-two/ Frank commentary from a retired call girl Wed, 22 May 2013 10:46:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: aspasialibertine http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/my-favorite-things-part-two/#comment-16918 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:34:39 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=6807#comment-16918 I’ll chime in on my love of Loreena McKennitt also. Going off what you said about her style versus Enya’s, Loreena strikes me as more folksy as opposed to Enya’s ethereal qualities.

When i was on the swim team in high school, we’d listen to Book of Secrets before and after practice.

]]> By: Sailor Barsoom http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/my-favorite-things-part-two/#comment-16655 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:04:49 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=6807#comment-16655 I know of Yoko Kanno because of her version of “Country Road,” from Studio Ghibli’s Whisper of the Heart. I’d put up a YouTube link, but every time somebody puts it up, it gets muted. Just listened to “Rise,” and those are two very different songs! Both good, though. I’ll have to check out more of her stuff.

When I saw Clannad, I immediately thought of “Dango Daikazoku,” of which I have five versions.* But this is something else entirely, and it’s good.

* A note about that last version of “Dango Daikazoku:” my version is a bit more choral, without the childlike voice, but I couldn’t find that recording on YouTube.

]]> By: Maggie McNeill http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/my-favorite-things-part-two/#comment-16627 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:23:34 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=6807#comment-16627 I’m a big believer in playing to one’s strengths, and finding one’s niche is as much the way to success in economics as it is in evolution. :-)

]]> By: Comixchik http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/my-favorite-things-part-two/#comment-16625 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:12:47 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=6807#comment-16625 Well, that’s cool. I don’t have much formal education to play up, and was billed more as the “Queen of Extreme” and other such silly rubbish. Even in as large a city as I last worked in, there were lots of GFE women, and only a few PSE’s, so I worked that angle as best I could. As I said, never got taken out much anywhere, but that’s all right. I found as I got older, into my 40′s, my “specialty” worked even better for me.

]]> By: Maggie McNeill http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/my-favorite-things-part-two/#comment-16612 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:56:44 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=6807#comment-16612 Oh, I was definitely the GFE type, and I especially played up my education so I got lots of clients who took me places like that. I used to bill myself as “the thinking man’s companion”.

]]> By: Comixchik http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/my-favorite-things-part-two/#comment-16600 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:46:25 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=6807#comment-16600 Really, wow. Can’t say any client ever took me there, but then, that really wasn’t the kind of public image I cultivated. Very few of my clients ever took me anywhere save taking me on the bed, the table, against the wall, bent over a stool, a staircase, etc.

]]> By: Maggie McNeill http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/my-favorite-things-part-two/#comment-16561 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:42:08 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=6807#comment-16561

Was the symphony one of the places a client might take you?

Yes indeedy! I have especially fond memories of one such occasion.

]]> By: MikeS http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/my-favorite-things-part-two/#comment-16560 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:25:51 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=6807#comment-16560

I’m going to limit myself to popular music here, but since I’m sure some of you would like to know my favorite composers are Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Holst, Shostakovich and Vivaldi (though the first two stand out above the others).

Was the symphony one of the places a client might take you? It’s always been one of favorites for a date.

The Beatles have sort of threaded their way into my life. When I was in my early-teens, they became very popular among my friends. And then I had a college roommate who was a devotee and really got me into them. The musical progression over their career — from “I Want to Hold Your Hand” to “Abby Road” is simply astonishing.

]]> By: C. S. P. Schofield http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/my-favorite-things-part-two/#comment-16550 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:26:08 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=6807#comment-16550 Comixchick,

I’ve heard Stan Roger’s version, and it’s decent. It’s just that Clam Chowder specializes in five part harmony, and are very good at it.

]]> By: Comixchik http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/my-favorite-things-part-two/#comment-16533 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:45:25 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=6807#comment-16533 Some of my favorites:

Jethro Tull. (Far and above my favorite band, ever)
Steeleye Span (And Maddy Prior on her own, too)
Janis Joplin
Indigo Girls
Lilly Allen
Beautiful South
Joan Jett (Her song “Do you wanna touch” was my stripper song)
Grateful Dead
Al Stewart
Jonathan Coulton
David Bowie
Ute Lemper
Mary McCaslin
Neil Young

By the way, C.S.P., Stan Rogers did a rousing version of :Witch of the Westmerelands).

I was at this Jonathan Coulton performance, in Manchester, a few years ago:

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