Heavy Plant Music Of Lurve

[kniteracy]

Heavy Plant Music Of Lurve

So while you're out there, sitting in your computer chairs or on your couches with your fancy wi-fi laptops, having a snack or your first or eighth cup of tea (hey, it's Saturday!), and Life Is Good, remember that others are changing the world in their own special ways..

I tell you, while you arebeing complacent and swimming in your couch potato glory, my Giant Robot Man is inventing the new Language of Love.

Because he is so, so, so romantical! Just last week, we were having dinner together (takeaway lamb shish with extra garlic sauce and chips for me, yes!), and he'd already finished his chicken kebab and was feeling all happy to be alive.

"Put your head on my shoulder," he said. At this point, I should remind you that lamb shish is chewy.

I put my head on his shoulder. I was, I'm afraid, still chewing the lamb. See above: lamb shish is chewy.

"Aw, that's so sweet. You sound like a cement mixer," he said lovingly.

I sat up straight. I finished chewing. I looked at him in surprise and shock. "A cement mixer? What a thing to say to your beloved wife!"

"Have you ever," he said seriously, looking at me with those adorable, childlike blue eyes of his, "really listened to a cement mixer?"

You have got to be kidding me. "Um, no," I replied.

He searched for words. "It's nice," he said. "It's much nicer than a drill, for example."

"Nice than a drill."

"Yes. Much nicer than a drill."

"A drill. Is it nicer than a freezer's hum?"

"Oh, yes. It's much, much nicer than the rumble of a car, too."

"How about a bus?"

"Nicer."

"You mean to tell me that you like the noise a cement mixer makes."

"Yes. It's very nice."

"And how would you class a cement mixer? What kind of vehicle is that?"

"Heavy plant."

Is it any wonder that I don't look forward in delighted anticipation to the tiny velvet box that will be under the Christmas tree? No, no; I think the second anniversary is TONKA, isn't it?

Comments

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

*giggles* ah, true love (with added machinery)

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

Awwwww.... That's so sweet!

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

Oh! See... I knew I liked that man!!

You should go to my flick account (newly created) and see the amazing cement mixer covered in christmas lights that I saw. Hee. (I'd have to add you as a friend so if you decide to do this let me know and I'll add you)

Ah my little cement mixer of love!!

The mind boggles.

Or, perhaps, the mind giggles. Give that man a nice squishy hug from me will ya?

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Ideally, of course, you should say WHAT your flickr account was ;)

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

details details!
I'm folkmew but you'll need to let me know so I can add you as a friend.
I didn't want them public (though I suppose I could make the cement mixer public)...

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Unsurprisingly, I'm filkerdave

[catalana.livejournal.com]

*laughing out loud* Oh, that's so funny! In a sweet way. Hey, at least when you get a comment like that you know it must be genuine; nobody would spout out something like that without meaning it. *grin*

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

There is something pleasant about some machine noises. I've had some pretty good improvs going in my head to the sound of a photocopier on a long run.

And filceolaire certainly can't be faulted on taste. I mean...he picked you, didn't he? So he must be right about cement mixers...

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

The last generation of great Xerox analog copiers did a great rhythm track for Tak It Man, Tak It, by Andy M Stewart.

Especially when I was running of personal copies at a work machine--fit in with the meaning of the song nicely

[persis.livejournal.com]

Oh, telynor, you have such a way with words! Morning *giggle*, *laugh* is just what I needed today!

*hug*

[bardling.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Thank you for that laugh...

Hmm... maybe you should get a recording of the sound of a cement mixer, if it's a sound that will make Joe happy and/or destress him... ;)

[little-cinnamon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like one of those "Sounds of nature" ambience CDs you can get, to play before you go to sleep. "20 classic heavy plant sounds recorded in their natural environment, to help you get in touch with your Inner Giant Robot Man". Or something.

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

*L* Awww how romantic! *giggling some more*

[occams_pyramid]

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Or something weird that you'll quote on LJ?

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's excellent.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's lovely! Thank you for the morning giggle :)

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to thank you for a really good guffaw this morning. Fortunately I was not eating or drinking anything when I read this.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Careful, the next step is he starts recording the sounds of the cement mixer, then adding music, and then he's a world famous industrial music star. Then the fun never ends!

[telynor.livejournal.com]

Industrial ... music.

Now there's an oxymoron. ;)

[left-fielder.livejournal.com]

Well, there's a branch of...trance or psy or something, I don't know the terminology at all well, that's called "industrial". Some sort of modern-dj-rock-drony stuff. Probably not what you would consider music, nor I so much. My one nephew living in Atlanta is a goth dj and once explained it all to me. Don't remember so well.

Then again, big electric motors, 200HP or better, can make a droning sound that has a definite and particular note. A three-phase 60Hz four-pole(?) AC motor runs at around 1770 rpm or so, depending on the 'slip' of the individual motor and will, with a relatively constant load, deliver up a musical bassy drone note of pretty constant frequency. Ask your spouse, he can possibly tell you about that.

Heavy machinery is fun

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

I remember years and years back, when I was 18 and doing an apprenticeship in a machine shop, the sound of a lot of milling machines and lathes all working at once was quite something. You've got the background drone of the motors, and then the cutters have their own rhythm. Lathes are a bit whiney, but a mill chugging its way through 1/2 mild steel has a nice beat. Of course, if you set it up to take a rather bigger cut than the safety manual recommends, you get the even slower thud of the mountings lifting off the floor and landing again...

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

::splort::

[guyelfkin.livejournal.com]

Awwww... and I can just *hear8 him saying it too.

Sweet.

Teddy