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Pastimes : G&K Investing for Curmudgeons -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Uncle Frank who wrote (4254)	7/25/2000 5:52:15 PM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22706

thinking for you is like weightlifting for me...strains muscles that are, how shall one say, underdeveloped... btw, reading the Times today I figured out how Merlin was able to finish that musical composition so quickly... A Songwriters Cheat Sheet BILLY JOEL kept a songbook in front of him during a master class at Southampton High School on Saturday. "I've written, like, 200 songs, and you start to forget some lyrics," he said. The songbook, he said, was "kind of like Linus's blanket," there for security. "I'm not going to read the lyrics," he said. "They are just going to be near me." Then he brought out HYUANG-KI JOO, who played some of Mr. Joel's new classical compositions. "He's very helpful to me," Mr. Joel said. "Sometimes I'll write something and he'll go, 'You can't do that, that's Chopin.' I'll say, 'I'm writing Chopin?' " Not when Mr. Joo hears a different composer. "I'm working on something recently and he says, 'You can't do that, that's Ravel,' " Mr. Joel said. "And I say, 'Now I'm writing Ravel. I'm really getting good.' " It turns out that the piano man has a favorite piano at home. "The piano I like to play is the Model B, the seven-foot Steinway, which is a really good piano for consistency," Mr. Joel told CHEVY CHASE. "The other piano is a nine-footer, a concert grand. It's black and it's got keys." ctb/A@BJ--tekgirl'sSpringsteen.com