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First post?
Posted by Emily @ 09/25/2003 07:42 AM PST
First Post Dance!!!
*dance dance dance spin dance dance splits dance spirit fingers*
Posted by Emily @ 09/25/2003 07:43 AM PST
Brasilian jazz is my thing, so, since you mentioned Toots, I highly recommend both of his "Brasil Project" discs as well as his luminous duet disc with the incomparable Elis Regina.
Posted by JMK @ 09/25/2003 07:44 AM PST
um. Emily. Jason and I were wondering now that you have the new handy dandy computer and scanner when we are going to see a picture. We refuse all rights and priveledges of fighting over you until then LOL
Posted by Craig @ 09/25/2003 07:44 AM PST
Okay... okay... enough of the dancing. The only reason that I'm able to have the first post today is because I am *GASP* skipping my first class. I am ashamed and will hang my head thusly.
I don't really know "jazz" performers or cds or well... anything. I like Diana Krall - or at least most of what I've heard of her. Does she count? It's a shame really that I don't "get" jazz, because Montreal's International Jazz Festival is one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) in the world. I mean, I go every year to one of the outdoor shows, but that's less for the music and more for the people watching and the ability to sit in the middle of Sainte-Catherine Street and not be run over. :)
Posted by Emily @ 09/25/2003 07:46 AM PST
First of all I love the Terry Trotter jazz arrangements of show tunes (and I'm not just saying that because BK produced them). In fact, I greatly prefer their PASSION than the OBC.
I love Django Reinhardt and recently found a 4 CD set with over 100 tracks of Django for under $20.
I like most Bruback and I also like Big Band.
And of course Red Nichols and his Five Pennies, particularly when Red's daughter Dorothy (in her pre-Tuesday Weld days) is with him.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 09/25/2003 07:49 AM PST
Craig and Jason Darlings...
The computer is in the mail as we speak. The scanner is somehow connected to one of those "multi-purpose" machines at work and I first have to 1) set it up because somehow I of no techical talent has become the IT person for lack of competition and 2) make sure that I don't inadvertantly fax my picture to 301 Members of Parliament.
Although I'm sure I'd be the hit of Ottawa. Remember the big press conference of the summer in which I played such a huge and influential role? People still talk about it I am sure... :)
Posted by Emily @ 09/25/2003 07:49 AM PST
But seriously Craig.
I'm really a three-hundred pound hairy man named Gord from Vermont who's lookin' for some lovin' on the internet.
Why else wouldn't I send a pic?
:)
Posted by Emily/Gord @ 09/25/2003 07:53 AM PST
Jazz Artists: Oscar Peterson - Especially his "...Plays West Side Story". Chet Baker - And I'm actually more partial to his vocal tracks than his trumpter tracks; "I Fall In Love Too Easily" is a favorite of mine. Miles Davis, but mainly the early stuff when Bill Evans was part of his group. I'm also a fan of the Trotter Trio's "Passion in Jazz" - my favorite of the series. Now if we move on to vocalists...
I shall be attending the impromptu dinner tonight. Consider this my R.S.V.P.-Part 2.
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 09/25/2003 08:09 AM PST
"trumpter" - Hmmm.. I kind of like that. Ah well... Time to keep waking up.
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 09/25/2003 08:10 AM PST
DR Emily -
I just got an e-mail from www.cheaptickets.com. You may want to check out the site - not all the cheap travel sites offer deals originating in Canada, but this one does.
Take a bite out of the Big Apple this fall at these great NYC hotels.
Hotel Pennsylvania from, $130/night
Crowne Plaza Times Square from, $237/night
Days Inn Midtown from, $116/night
WJ Hotel from, $168/night
Surrey Hotel from, $303/night
Posted by Dan-in-Toronto @ 09/25/2003 08:19 AM PST
BK - thanks for the "JC" update. Have a spot in my CD changer just waiting to be filled!
As to jazz:
- Maynard Ferguson "Live at Jimmy's" was one of my first exposures to jazz. Great album that still has not sound its way onto CD (although some of the cuts have appeared on some MF anthologies). Actually got to meet MF about 3 years later when his big band gave a free concert at Roosevelt Field (a big shopping mall on Long Island).
- Kenny Rankin "Silver Morning" What a great jazz vocal album, well mixed and sequenced. You won't hear a better version of "Haven't We Met" or "Blackbird" (in fact, Paul McCartney asked KR to sing it at Sir Paul's induction into the R&R Hall of Fame). Although nothing beats hearing KR live!
Classic jazz:
- Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"
- Benny Goodman's "Concert at Carnegie Hall"
- Al DiMeola, Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin's "Saturday Night in San Francisco"
- anything by Mel Torme
Posted by Phil @ 09/25/2003 08:26 AM PST
Bill Evans at Carnegie Hall.
And the music from a Broadway show called The Connection will have to check for the composer.
And Carman MacRae.
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/25/2003 08:37 AM PST
BK--I'll be there, and will have Dear Reader Jose in tow. Dear Reader Music Guy is probably on the road as we speak, but last night he submitted a post indicating that he'd be there, too. I am quite looking forward to this little event!
Posted by Jay @ 09/25/2003 09:20 AM PST
I don't care for jazz -- a character flaw on my part, I know. So I am afraid I can't contribute to that discussion.
Reading last night's posts, I see I wasn't the only Hainsies / Kimlet that watched that bizarre program, Performing As on Fox. As a rule, I don't watch any of those shows (Star Search, American Idol), but this was kind of like watching a train wreck, I couldn't turn away. I was glad that the young lady doing Aretha Franklin won the contest, although I thought Frank Sinatra was pretty good, too. I also thought that their one-by-one elimination process was kind of a cruel way to do things, but I suppose it was no worse than subjecting the contestants to Simon Cowell.
Posted by TCB @ 09/25/2003 09:22 AM PST
Additions: the divoon Wes
Montgomery, our very own
Grant Geissman and Terry
Trotter, Art Farmer, and the
incandescent Paul Desmond.
Posted by bk @ 09/25/2003 09:23 AM PST
Just got out of Speech Class--and it is only the beginning of what's going to be a very long day! I wouldn't mind so much, but I got like 5 hours of sleep last night. Do any other DRs ever get insomnia? Any advice to combat it short of sleeping pills would be much appreciated!
I'm kind of weird, I guess, when it comes to jazz. I like some instrumental stuff like Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck, but mostly I like jazz with vocals. Ella, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holliday, Louis Armstrong, Tony Bennett, Carmen MacRae are all great. And as for modern jazz singers, I think Diana Krall is quite cool too. I think she has great phrasing and style, although I prefer the lyricism and vocal quality of Jane Monheit(why Monheit isn't bigger is a mystery to me). I like Harry Connick Jr. and Michael Buble too. And it doesn't hurt that neither of them are exactly eyesores.
Posted by Maya @ 09/25/2003 09:26 AM PST
I'm sure I've enjoyed some jazz at some time in my life. Maybe.
Not my thing, either.
Gimme some Motown and I'm groovin'!
Gimme some Pink Floyd and I'm movin'!
Gimme some Mama Cass and Carol King and Fifth Dimension and Procol Harum and Phoebe Snow.
Gimme some Burt Bachrach and Dionne Warwick.
But you doesn't has to gimme jazz!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/25/2003 09:32 AM PST
Oh dear...how could I forget to mention the late great Susannah McCorkle!
Posted by Maya @ 09/25/2003 09:33 AM PST
And the jazz stylings of Jonathan Edwards.....
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/25/2003 09:37 AM PST
So little time, so much to say.
I will address the Topic of the Day a bit later, but for now let me continue some threads from yesterday.
Individual Oats: Yes indeed, ? and JRand53, the quote is from an episode of the television series Topper. Your virtual sparkling prizes are wending their virtual way to you even as I type.
I only recall this episode from seeing it when it first aired as a wee twig of a sprig of a jig of a fig of a lad. The Individual Oats cereal company is having a contest to complete the phrase "Everyone loves individual oats," and Henrietta is determined to win. The ghosts, of course, make light of this with many hilarious suggestions, including rhymes on "bloats" for example.
Henrietta is pleased as punch when she comes up with her brilliant entry:
Everyone loves Individual Oats.
It's the cereal everyone votes...
For.
For some reason it is important to Topper that his wife win, and so the ghosts go to the IO officed and burn all the other entries so that Mrs. Topper will win by default.
The rhyming jokes have always made me assume SS wrote it, but I have no verification. We should all remember that it was not until many years later that Ralph Kramden followed Henrietta Topper's example and won the Flaky Waky contest.
Heads up! Chin up! For steveg and whoever referred him to the article on R & H lyrics. I read the article, but I was quite confused with the discussion of variations in the words to "There's a Small Hotel". The lyrics that are usually sung today are the following:
Why God? Why today?
I'm all through here, on my way
There's nothing left here that I'll miss
Why send me now a night like this?
</sarcasm>
Show of Hands: Yes, I ordered Jeepers Creepers at the first opportunity and have been camped out at the mailbox with bated breath ever since.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/25/2003 09:50 AM PST
Thanks, WFO. What a wacky show that was. I have never seen the episode in question...and the one I have on tape is somehow about Indians!
There are couple of episodes of series I remember seeing that now seem just so bizarre that maybe I dreamed them, including:
Robby the Robot from FORBIDDEN PLANET on The Gale Storm Show.
Joan Davis with her hand caught in a mannequin leg on I MARRIED JOAN, and another episode when she tries to auction off a moose head and ends up selling all of her furniture.
Nora and Nick Charles discovering that the swimming pools in a health club between the ladies' and men's areas are connected.
And on and on...
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/25/2003 09:59 AM PST
I like Jonathan Edwards too, especially when his beautiful wife Darlene is singing with him.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 09/25/2003 10:00 AM PST
WEL - Darlene's renditions of I'M BLASE, COCKTAILS FOR TWO, and my personal favorite THE CARIOCA should be required listening for ... well, everybody.
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/25/2003 10:02 AM PST
MR BK - Is MBarnum aware of the get together tonight?
Isn't is remarkable in these days of instant communication, that situations arise that there are people you can't get a message to??
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/25/2003 10:27 AM PST
I tend to be more of a fan of vocal than instrumental jazz, though I think anything done by Dave Brubeck or Terry Trotter is pretty damn (as BK would say) faboo. As for the vocalists, Louis, Ella and Billie are the standard. But I have special love for Cleo Laine, Nancy Wilson, Janis Siegel and the rest of Manhattan Transfer, and the "new kids on the block" Jane Monheit and Peter Cincotti.
Posted by Philip Crosby @ 09/25/2003 10:36 AM PST
WFO -- I must have missed something yesterday regarding the R & H site and There's A Small Hotel. Aren't those lyrics from Miss Saigon?
Posted by TCB @ 09/25/2003 10:40 AM PST
I, too, love the Terry Trotter treatments. But my favorite jazz stuff is vocal, especially The Manhattan Transfer and the individual performers from the group: Alan Paul (only one solo album, but it's fabulous!), Cheryl Bentyne (she's from Seattle!), Janis Siegel (the most prolific soloistically, and her next CD is going to be jazz arrangements of Broadway songs!) and founding member Laurel Massé (she's in the process of releasing her first recording on CD for the first time…I can't wait!). Tim Hauser, who founded the group, hasn't had a solo project, yet, but the group has just released their latest CD called "Couldn't Be Hotter." Click on my name for a review.
Posted by George @ 09/25/2003 10:57 AM PST
JMK, since you like Brasilian jazz, have you heard The Manhattan Transfer's Brasil album? If you have, what do you think of it? It has one of my absolute favorite TMT songs, "Soul Food To Go."
Posted by George @ 09/25/2003 11:01 AM PST
All righty, then, who remembers "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" starring Cary Grant, in one of his funnier, yet oddly unsympathetic, roles, and the every-delightful Myrna Loy getting her house DESPITE her husband.
And who remembers the slogan their maid came up with for a product Blandings was trying to create a PR campaign for?
It's been years and years since I saw it...and I don't remember the product or the slogan...but that it pretty much saved the day, secured the house and made everyone very happy.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/25/2003 11:02 AM PST
Add Jacques Loussier and
Krystof Komeda to my list.
Posted by bk @ 09/25/2003 11:04 AM PST
TCB: That's the funny part! (Oh, a A Thousand Clowns reference!)
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/25/2003 11:17 AM PST
Pulliam:
"If you ain't eating Wham, you ain't eating ham!"
I want my fing prize! Oh, an Assassins reference!
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/25/2003 11:19 AM PST
BAM!
Posted by Emeril @ 09/25/2003 11:21 AM PST
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, and Spam.
Posted by Monty Python @ 09/25/2003 11:25 AM PST
Just to get the Jazz question out-of-the-way ...... I just have to mention the recently departed Nina Simone ... an artist who took my breath away when I first heard her play 'n sing at The Top of the Gate on Bleeker all those years ago.
Now the irony of uncovering this site simply blows me away. I was searching for info on the up coming New Year ... and amazingly this was 4 or 5 on the list.
If I didn't have a laundry list of things to do today I would tell you a little bit about my interesting, yet horrible, life ... but then you don't know me from a hole-in-the-wall so what would it matter to you?
maybe another time ... in the meantime ...
Shana Tova and
Zai Gezunt,
Leslie
Posted by L G Kimmel @ 09/25/2003 11:26 AM PST
WFO: THANKS!
Wham! It was...way before George Michael, too.
As for your "fing" prize, I can only presume you meant to write "finger"....so visualize the "finger" I'm offering you right now!
: )
R
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/25/2003 11:27 AM PST
Bruce! You've spammed my refrigerator!
Posted by Frank Stallone @ 09/25/2003 11:28 AM PST
L G Kimmel -- a long-lost relative? Of BK? Or Jimmy?
Oy!
Welcome to HHW, L G Kimmel. You MUST post very soon and very often. We love sturm und drang, as long as it's not directed at or between any of us, that is!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/25/2003 11:30 AM PST
Ron: Clearly Greymatter doesn't like asterisks. I guess it doesn't take risks, aster or otherwise. (Thin Man plot: Asta Risks his Life)
What I meant was:
I want my f****ing prize!"
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/25/2003 11:34 AM PST
Any Kimmel is okay by me. I
don't believe LG is a relative.
And speaking of Kimmels,
where in tarnation IS my
daughter?
Posted by bk @ 09/25/2003 11:34 AM PST
Welcome, Dear Reader Leslie (aka L G Kimmel!
Posted by Jay @ 09/25/2003 11:35 AM PST
It's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?
Posted by Ominous sounding voice on the television @ 09/25/2003 11:37 AM PST
Welcome, LG!
Dinah Washington.
Posted by Joy @ 09/25/2003 11:39 AM PST
Oh! You want that prize, eh!
Well, I'll bet you won't like it.
The man at the aquarium says he won't take it back.
Arf! Arf!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/25/2003 11:40 AM PST
Mrs Blandings: We got a letter today from the landlord that says we have to move in 30 days.
Mr Blandings: He can't do that. (calls the landlord) You can't make us move in thirty days. We have a lease. Our house won't be ready. You can't do that. We won't move. We absolutely won't move. No. No. (hangs up)
Mrs Blandings: What did he say?
Mr Blandings: We're moving in thirty days.
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/25/2003 11:54 AM PST
Welcome to LG.
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/25/2003 11:54 AM PST
Jennifer -- where are you for our post-BB4 commentary?
Apparently, Jun was really bummed out at the comments the jurors made when they revealed their votes. Even though she won the half million dollars 6 votes to 1 (Nathan is SO stupid), she "complained" that their reactions spoiled her victory for her.
Well, duh!
I thought it very telling that Jun believed everyone else had been as critical and nasty about others as she had been. And it was funny that it was Alison is the one who looked at her and sid, "No, they weren't." Jun looked m-i-s-e-r-a-b-l-e. Of course, with $500,000 in her bank account, she don't need our stinkin' approval of her behavior!!!
Still, I think both Jun and Alison will find their friends and family will be a bit distant for quite some time...out of mortification for the way they behaved and fear of being talked about!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/25/2003 11:55 AM PST
Welcome, LG (Leslie)!
All these years and I never knew until today that f with the asterisks stood for fishing.
Posted by TCB @ 09/25/2003 11:57 AM PST
Lorelei Lee (Monroe) as she sweeps into her stateroom on the ocean liner:
"Why, it's just like a room, isn't it!"
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/25/2003 11:58 AM PST
L G. Kimmel:
You are a Kimmel, and you posted here. That's two points for you. And that means we do indeed want to hear about your "interesting, but horrible life." Everyone's interesting but horrible life is always a Topic of the Day.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/25/2003 12:02 PM PST
Bruce,
The last we all heard from your darling daughter JBakaJK, I believe, Bill Mummy sent her into the corn.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/25/2003 12:03 PM PST
mmmmmmmmm--Mumy
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/25/2003 12:06 PM PST
Mm-mm-mm-ma-ma
Posted by Rose @ 09/25/2003 12:08 PM PST
Thanks, George! How could I forget the TRANSFER!!!
Dorothy (Russell) to Lorelei when the detective puts the film in his pocket: "If between the two of us we can't get that man's pants off, we aren't worthy of the name woman."
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/25/2003 12:08 PM PST
Click on my name for a great review of a BK-produced CD. However try and find the original pressing on V/S with liner notes by BK himself. And if the only version you can find is the reissue, do not buy it direct from the releasing company. Amazon and Footlights should both have it.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 09/25/2003 12:25 PM PST
I didn't write the notes for the
first LIB, Steve Suskin did.
Can't remember if I wrote them
for LIB II or III - did I write them
for IV? I know I did them for
one of them and that one
sounds familiar. I am thrilled
that the label I created
continues to mine profit from
my recordings. It warms my
heart to perfection. The LIB
series (along with the Unsung
series) are proud achivements
for me, and it was actually nice
of Mr. Mandelbaum to mention
me by name, as the label
which I created doesn't really
like people to know I had
anything to do with the
heaven-knows-how-many
albums I produced that they
now own (thanks to my
arranging the sale of my
albums from Varese).
I am already hungry and
looking forward to my dinner at
Musso.
Posted by bk @ 09/25/2003 12:49 PM PST
BK--The Mandelbaum review is indeed wonderful! Congrats, BK! Didn't you produce Das Barbecu too though? I'd like to buy that one!
But alas for me, no more buying til after this Monday when I get my paycheck. I am not in the money right now!
Welcome LG Kimmel!
WFO--wow! I had no idea that Why God Why had such a similar melody to There's a Grand Hotel, but you're totally right! And here I thought it was only Lloyd Webber who was plagiarizing songwriters of the past!
Posted by Maya @ 09/25/2003 12:50 PM PST
I hear you, Mayayayayayayayayaya.
It's bad when the computer charge AND the auto insurance are due on the same week.
Disposable income disappears!
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/25/2003 01:03 PM PST
Maya: "There's a Small Hotel." The Grand Hotel is where people come and people go. But the Small Hotel has a room without windows. (And no Houze Deetecteeves!)
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/25/2003 01:13 PM PST
It has a wishing well, too.
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/25/2003 01:14 PM PST
But The Grand Hotel had Brent Barrett.
Posted by TCB @ 09/25/2003 01:18 PM PST
...and Michael Jeter.
And Brent Barrett.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/25/2003 01:23 PM PST
Ohmigod! I cannot believe I wrote that being the Rodgers and Hart fan that I am!!!
It may help to explain things that I was listening to my Grand Hotel OCR on the way to work, where I am now, and swooning to "Love Can't Happen," lol!
That was one interesting Freudian slip!
Posted by Maya @ 09/25/2003 01:23 PM PST
...and Jane Krokowski.
And Brent Barrett.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/25/2003 01:24 PM PST
Oh! You mean there were other people in that show besides Brent?
Posted by TCB @ 09/25/2003 01:30 PM PST
LOL, TCB! Certainly I had never noticed either!
Posted by Maya @ 09/25/2003 01:31 PM PST
...and Karen Akers.
And Brent Barrett.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/25/2003 01:34 PM PST
...and Liliane Montevecchi.
And Brent Barrett.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/25/2003 01:37 PM PST
WFO--having fun? ;)
I was about to say...don't forget her Montevecchiness!
Posted by Mayayayayaya @ 09/25/2003 01:40 PM PST
Congratulations, bk, on the very positive mention from KM. Just to let you know, when all the unpleasantness happened at you-know-where, I wrote Ken to find out what he knew about your situation, if anything. He had such wonderful things to say about your work.
Now, as for jazz, I really am a Broadway Baby (a Sondheim reference), so I have little to contribute. I do like some of Andre Previn's jazz scores to some films, Duke Ellington's, too, and Cy Coleman's jazz-influenced score for CITY OF ANGELS is quite wonderful. Apart from that, though, I'm lost.
Posted by Matt H. @ 09/25/2003 01:43 PM PST
Mayayayaya I love you very much
Mayayayaya I think you're grand...
Posted by Carmen Miranda @ 09/25/2003 01:46 PM PST
Awwwww!!
Gracias, Carmen! :)
Posted by Maya @ 09/25/2003 01:52 PM PST
AH DINK AHM GEDDING A COLD
(JASON AHF DIS AHS YOUR GERMS DAT AH GOD FROM DE INDERNED DEN AH AHM VERY AHNGWY)
:) (ACHOO)
Posted by Em-wee @ 09/25/2003 01:53 PM PST
But it didn't have Brent Barrett initially.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 09/25/2003 01:53 PM PST
Hello fellow DR's. Have just returned from a most sad day at school. One of my best friends in the whole world, with whom I've been friends with for 6 years moved to SC today. It was not at all a fun goodbye, and I'm not in my usual frivolous and cheery mood, sorry.
I like Diana Krall as well, if that counts. I haven't really been bitten by the jazz bug, but I think it's gorgeous music.
Posted by Sarah @ 09/25/2003 01:56 PM PST
But it did have BB (That's Brent Barrett initially.) when I saw it.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/25/2003 01:58 PM PST
*Sends out warm, happy, consolation vibes to Sarah and non-drowsy convalescent vibes to Emily* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Posted by Maya @ 09/25/2003 02:00 PM PST
No, sadly the loss of David Carroll resulted in Brent becoming the Baron.
Posted by TCB @ 09/25/2003 02:10 PM PST
Click on my name for a lovely David Carroll memorial website.
Posted by Maya @ 09/25/2003 02:12 PM PST
Maya -- Why does the caged bird sing?
Posted by TCB @ 09/25/2003 02:12 PM PST
Because it's in a cage? ;)
Posted by Maya (not Angelou) @ 09/25/2003 02:15 PM PST
Oh!
Posted by TCB @ 09/25/2003 02:19 PM PST
It also had the lovely Lynnette
Perry and the lovely Zina
Bethune and it also had Walter
Willison singing "WHY" over
and over again.
Posted by bk @ 09/25/2003 02:19 PM PST
Come on everyone!
No lulls! We must make the lull void and null. The lull apart we must pull. No dull lulls!
Sorry...I'm just a little hyper right now.
Posted by Maya @ 09/25/2003 02:34 PM PST
A further irony of Why God Why stealing Richard Rodgers' famous melody from On Your Toes is that the lyric also describes a small hotel, to a certain extent.
If Lalo Schifrin's Mannix is one of my favorite albums, I wouldn't know what to call it other than jazz. We really like the Swingers soundtrack, especially the jazzier tracks on that.
Much of my life is spent telling singers to avoid jazzing up songs they sing for audition purposes. Guess that makes me an anti-jazz massacre person. Or just an anti-massacre. Whatever that is.
Posted by Noel @ 09/25/2003 02:36 PM PST
It's those doilies that your great-aunt had on her furniture, silly.
Posted by Jay @ 09/25/2003 02:45 PM PST
Sarah -- what part of The Palmetto State did your friend move to?
Did you know that the SC State Bird is the Carolina Wren and that the State Flower is the Yellow Jasmine and that the Palmetto Tree is the state tree?
Did you know that major portions of the southern part of SC grow peaches and that even though Georgia calls itself "The Peach State", South Carolina is The Peach Capital of the World???
Did you know that I am a native South Carolinian? That my mother resides in South Carolina? That I consider it one of the most beautiful places in the world (having seen much of the world during my Navy travels)?
Aren't you feeling a little better about the plight of your friend now, knowing that she's gone to a nice place?
You'll just have to keep Virginia bright and glowing in her mind in your correspondence. And you can share with her some of the things I've told you about South Carolina so that she knows you take an interest!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/25/2003 02:53 PM PST
* whoops, I almost groaned at HHW.
Posted by TCB @ 09/25/2003 02:54 PM PST
About South Carolina?
Posted by Jay @ 09/25/2003 03:00 PM PST
Ron: Your message made me smile, see? ---> :)
I think it's time for another compliment: DR Ron is awesome because...he is funny enough to be entertaining, smart enough to make me admire him, immature enough to make me laugh, and nice enough to post a message like that to (a) make me feel better and (b) teach me something :)
I think I'll have a compliment of the day from now on. Who will be next? Nobody knows...:)
Posted by Sarah @ 09/25/2003 03:08 PM PST
I am not worthy, Your Supreme Swishyness.
Posted by Jay @ 09/25/2003 03:09 PM PST
No Jay, it was your doilies.
Posted by TCB @ 09/25/2003 03:10 PM PST
It is insanely boring today.
Normally I would be starting
two new pieces, doing the
temp voice-overs, etc. But,
because I'm done tomorrow,
I'm not doing the temps
because if they have to be
changed I won't be here to
voice the changes. Also, I
won't be here to see these
pieces through or to help fix
them should they need fixing
(they ALL need fixing). So,
here I sit, twiddling my
thumbs, and I'm quite certain
I'll be doing the same
tomorrow.
Posted by bk @ 09/25/2003 03:19 PM PST
Hello, Doily!
Posted by Gerald Hermanski @ 09/25/2003 03:22 PM PST
Is an antimacassar mascara-proof?
Posted by Heloise Huh? @ 09/25/2003 03:26 PM PST
You should start an office Twister party, and send out for ham chunks and cheese slices. I have a feeling that would be more fun that twiddling your thumbs. Twiddling is a strange word...
Posted by Sarah @ 09/25/2003 03:26 PM PST
I'm thinkin' we might just get to
100 posts - IF WE PUUUUSH.
Posted by bk @ 09/25/2003 03:27 PM PST
No more plopping though, Jason! You have had enough babies lately ;)
Posted by Maya @ 09/25/2003 03:27 PM PST
If someone you know is a Francophiliac, is it contagious?
Does anyone know if François has to anwer a Francophone while he's at work?
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/25/2003 03:30 PM PST
Sarah -- if you think "twiddling" is a strange word, would you agree that "piddling" is an awful-sounding word?
"Oops! Frou-Frou 'piddled on the carpet!"
It makes me wonder what Sherman Edwards had in mind when he wrote "Piddle, Twiddle and Resolve."
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/25/2003 03:32 PM PST
I do like the word "twaddle," though.
Posted by Jay @ 09/25/2003 03:37 PM PST
When you twiddle your thumbs improperly you "twaddle" them. Of course. :)
Or is twaddle the past tense of twiddle?
"Bk twaddled his thumbs"? or "Bk twiddled his thumbs"?
Posted by Emily @ 09/25/2003 03:48 PM PST
Tiddlywinks is a good one too.
WHY are we talking about this?
Posted by Sarah @ 09/25/2003 03:51 PM PST
Then if "twaddle" is an improper "twiddling" of one's thumbs, then rapid "twiddling" becomes "diddling" (I looked it up, and it means short, rapid movements in its first definition).
Although I'd imagine excessive diffling could lead to twaddling.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/25/2003 03:53 PM PST
What's the muddle in the middle?
That's the puddle where the poodle did the piddle.
Posted by Georges Seurat (channelling the Boatman's dog) @ 09/25/2003 04:10 PM PST
I'm so bored that drool is
actually starting to come out of
my mouth. I took a walk down
the hallway - that was exciting.
I am wearing khaki pants and
a Hawaiian shirt. I have never
worn a Hawaiian shirt before.
I found it in my closet in a box.
Apparently someone gave it to
me some years ago, so I
decided to wear it. I'm wearing
my new sneakers and I look
quite bleached out today. I am
so hungry I could eat a
Combinatation Louis, which I
will be but not until eight
o'clock. I love the Musso
Combination Louis. The
combination is three turns to
the left, stop at 8, one turn to
the right, stop at 23, and then
four turns to the left, stop at 11.
If I change my mind I might
have the Combination Sammy.
Posted by bk @ 09/25/2003 04:11 PM PST
Is the potion with the poison in the chalice from the palace. What's the brew that is true in?
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/25/2003 04:12 PM PST
Come on! Whose got the vessel with the pestle?
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/25/2003 04:28 PM PST
But if Noel is really in need of doilies, perhaps we should transport them all with a doily cart. If they have a fringe, he could have them at the fringe festival.
I am soooo glad that groaning is not allowed here at hainhisway dot com.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/25/2003 04:31 PM PST
I might have the Combination
Benny. I might have the tap
combination - step, kick, kick,
leap, kick, touch, again -
I believe in about one hour I
might try to leave this
establishment and go home.
There I will strip myself of my
Hawaiian shirt and I shall
change into a darker shirt. I'm
bored of having palm trees on
my chest.
Tonight I might have the
Combination Charlie. Then,
when I'm through with it I can
say, "Goodbye, Charlie".
I am hungry. Hungry am I.
Hungry I am. I've only had a
bagel the entire day and I had
it at nine this morning for today
was bagel day.
Posted by bk @ 09/25/2003 04:35 PM PST
But what if Noel, while pushing his doily cart, decides he wants his doilies with the fringe on top?
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/25/2003 04:42 PM PST
I feel there is a lull happening.
I am way too bored for lulls. I
need thrills, excitement, ha
cha cha. That said, I'm
thinking about having the
Combination Miltie tonight.
Posted by bk @ 09/25/2003 05:02 PM PST
Who said I was in need of doilies? I've plenty, and keep them on the fridge, on top.
My grandmother used to stay at the Surrey a few months every year. Also there at the time: Ethel Merman.
One of my musicals played at The William Redfield Theatre on W. 45th. The connection? It was Redfield who sang of how he got to nestle Estle Merman.
Posted by Noel @ 09/25/2003 05:04 PM PST
Redfield did what? I'll pulverize him!
Posted by Ernest Borgnine @ 09/25/2003 05:05 PM PST
Hello!
May I come in?
Posted by Alice @ 09/25/2003 05:06 PM PST
I'm listening to Haines His Way and singing "Chinese Food In Bed" and having a grand time with it if I do say so myself...which I do.
I'm wearing black swishy-ish pants and my chorus teeshirt from way back in seventh grade.
I think Emily has passed her cold on to me as well. Which is annoying because I was sick only about a month ago. I know I'm getting sick because I keep sneezing. I never sneeze. *Achoo*
Posted by Sarah @ 09/25/2003 05:11 PM PST
I'm late. Can't stop now. Do as you like. Oh! I'm late!
Posted by White Rabbit @ 09/25/2003 05:12 PM PST
I've given it a lot of thought, and I'm pretty sure I've come to the correct conclusion:
BK's house is haunted!
That's right. BK's got haints in his house!
Think about it...the recent "dead rat" incident, the "flying dead things" he also had in his house; something dead at his doorstep...and then there was poor overly sensitive Luckie who peed at the drop of hat.
Only Luckie saw the hat drop. It was a haint's hat! Dogs can sense and see things we humans cannot. And I think Luckie's peeing problem was that she was being scared piddleless by the haints in BK's house.
Well...it's a theory!
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 09/25/2003 05:15 PM PST
And don't forget that I've
worked with Guy Haints.
Posted by bk @ 09/25/2003 05:24 PM PST
Give me an L. Give me a U.
Give me an L. Give me an L.
Put 'em together and they spell
a fershluganah LULL
Posted by bk @ 09/25/2003 05:45 PM PST
Guy Haints, eh BK?...Is he that sexy new latin singer?
Can someone explain the origin of "fershluganah" for me?
Posted by Sarah @ 09/25/2003 05:50 PM PST
Certainly I can't take credit for
fershluganah. I first read the
word as a wee sprig of a twig
of a lad of a tad of a youth in
MAD Magazine.
Swishy, are you joining us at
Musso and Frank in your
swishy pants. Perhaps I shall
wear MY swishy pants. Oh,
wait, Musso isn't in WEST
Hollywood.
Posted by bk @ 09/25/2003 05:57 PM PST
Does anyone know if Brent Barrett was ever in GRAND HOTEL?
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/25/2003 06:17 PM PST
Jazzz:
Ella, Benny Goodman, Fats Waller, (they did some great early jazz) Peggy Lee, Teddi King,Art Tatum, Diana Krall, Carmen MacRae, Chet Baker, and I love jazz guitar. Dave Brubeck too. And this doesn't even begin to get into New orleans jazz.
Posted by Kerry @ 09/25/2003 06:46 PM PST
You are kidding aren't you Jrand?
Posted by TCB @ 09/25/2003 07:02 PM PST
I'm home, watching Extreme Makeovers, which I have found oddly fascinating and even touching, and I'm afraid I have bad news. I have a mouse in the house. Oh, yes, Dear Readers...I have an uninvited guest. Its a cute mouse, and I hate to kill it, but I'm afraid that that will be its end. I'm more afraid, however, of actually having to remove it from my apartment alive if it were stuck to one of those glue traps. I think that's almost meaner than just snapping it in two, because even though the mouse is alive on the glue trap, you can't really ever get them OFF the glue trap, so they just lay there like so much fish, starving. I don't want that. So, I shall buy the spring-loaded traps and bait it with peanut butter and see what happens. Why peanut butter, you ask? Well, because that's what my dad told me to use. He says they love it more than cheese, and he should know! He has worked in several food manufacturing plants and in food plants they know from killing rodents. Oh, do they ever. So, I shall hie myself to the local bodega and pick up a few traps and see what happens. Wish me luck.
Posted by Jason @ 09/25/2003 07:04 PM PST
Back from Macbeth rehearsals, where I actually got to read my part. Yippee!
Jason--that poor little mousie! Any chance of buying a cage and keeping it as a pet?
Noel--did your grandma actually get to meet Merman?
Posted by Maya @ 09/25/2003 07:10 PM PST
Okay Ron I'll give my final thoughts on BB4 now that it's over.
Here is what you wrote:
Apparently, Jun was really bummed out at the comments the jurors made when they revealed their votes. Even though she won the half million dollars 6 votes to 1 (Nathan is SO stupid), she "complained" that their reactions spoiled her victory for her.
Well I think the jurors should have been nicer. Normally they would not have gotten to view all of the tapes. And since they were allowed (before they voted), I think they should give the girls a chance to explain before being such poor sports. They were not happy.
Well, duh!
I thought it very telling that Jun believed everyone else had been as critical and nasty about others as she had been. And it was funny that it was Alison is the one who looked at her and sid, "No, they weren't." Jun looked m-i-s-e-r-a-b-l-e. Of course, with $500,000 in her bank account, she don't need our stinkin' approval of her behavior!!!
How ironic that Ally said that. Is she crazy? Doesn't she rememeber all the hateful things she's said? I was laughing when she said that. Ah hello, hyprocrite. You called Robert's daughter a b*tch, among countless other things.
Still, I think both Jun and Alison will find their friends and family will be a bit distant for quite some time...out of mortification for the way they behaved and fear of being talked about!
I actually had tears in my eyes when Bob showed up. I felt for Jun, since I've been going through something similar.
It's a shame that we didn't get to see the jurors confront ally and jun after watching the tapes. I'd love to know if their votes would have changed.
The one thing I really did like this year, was having the jurors watch the tapes and confront each other. It was just too bad they couldn't have included jun and ally. It would have been cool if they had let them do this (even if the girls couldn't see them).
Posted by Jennifer @ 09/25/2003 07:11 PM PST
LUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLL
Where is everybody? I keep checking the site every fifteen minutes or so, and no new messages for the past hour and 25 minutes!
Ah well...I'm off to watch Follies in Concert!
Posted by Maya @ 09/25/2003 08:36 PM PST
Well, Maya, I guess everyone but you and me is at Musso and Frank's.
And now I'm off to bed, it being 24:32 here.
Nighty night.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/25/2003 09:31 PM PST
Our adventures with Bonnie and Clyde continue. I'm definately going to write the entire story for everyone when we know enough about what is going to happen, possibly with an actual ending...I don't know about everyone else, but I dislike stories that just leave the reader hanging, except for some television series, and even then when they get cancelled (not the ending we want for Bonnie or Clyde, I assure you all)...
When it comes to jazz, has anyone out there heard of a team called Flim and the BBs? An interesting quartet, working almost entirely on CD rather than in live performance. It turned out that three of the four had fathers who also played jazz, and formed their own trio after being introduced by their sons. (The trio, of course, called themselves The Dads.)
Posted by S. Woody White @ 09/25/2003 09:41 PM PST
I'll be writing in more detail, but the dinner at Musso and Frank was splendidly splendid - we had a most fantastic evening filled with good food, good folks and good conversation, with much laughter. Dear readers MusicGuy, Jose, Jay and I were eventually joined by our very own Nick Redman and his lovely lovely LOVELY (that is three lovelys) friend Julie Kirgo. I iz stuffed right now, Louised out, and I must go sit on the couch before I explode shrimp bits all over my Dell laptop.
Posted by bk @ 09/25/2003 11:10 PM PST
I must concur with Dear BK that dinner was most splendid. I shall say not a word more, as it would be most unseemly for to steal any thunder from his notes for tomorrow.
Posted by Jay @ 09/26/2003 12:31 AM PST
Yes, I was.
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/26/2003 03:25 AM PST
I feel like I'm not out of bed yet. Woh ohohoh ohohoh. I left my Joey still sleeping. Woh ohohoh ohohoh.
As usual, up at 4:45, two cups of coffee, make a second pot, shower, dress, garbage can into the garage, onto the parkway, at work by 7:00. The campus deli opens at 7:30, so here am I catching up on my spam.
Jazz: I don't think anyone has yet mentioned Diane Shur or Bruce's close personal friend Lea Delaria. Her "Play It Cool" album has terrific jazz versions of show tunes. Per example:
1. Ballad of Sweeney Todd
2. Cool
3. I've Got Your Number
4. With Every Breath I Take
5. All That Jazz
6. Life Has Been Good to Me
7. Welcome to My Party
8. Lowdown-Down
9. Once in a Lifetime
10. Losing My Mind
11. Straight to the Top
My Joe is the jazz person in our family, but a lot of his collection runs to "fusion" and more electronic type jazz, which I find wearing on my ears after a while.
My favorite album of his has always been a jazz sampler from Gemini-Taurus records in Oslo which features all Norwegian artists. People with names like Laila Dalseth, Bjørn Johansen, and Bjarne Nerem, all playing and singing traditional acoustical jazz, Cole Porter, Gershwin, sung in English.
So for his last birthday, I decided to buy him some of the featured albums. First I found their web site and checked the prices ordering from Norway. I found amazon doesn't carry their albums. But Barnes and Noble does, and cheaper than direct from the company (Although the company does carry something called "LPs"! What are those?)
So I bought him about five of them, and now I get to hear much more acoustical than before. And not to forget Cleo Lane.
Especially her "Woman to Woman" album. And her album of settings from Shakespeare, one of which (by her husband John Dankworth) is simply a list of every play and poem the bard wrote.
And her album with the "Velvet Fog" himself, Mel Torme, containing a personalized version of "I'm Nothing without You" (from City of Angels, doncha know) with e.g.the lyric, "How much is a bank worth? A Dankworth is worth so much more."
Oh, oh! The deli's open. Time for my egg sandwich and bagel.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 09/26/2003 04:54 AM PST
I just ordered the MAME soundtrack - now on CD.
Be afraid...be very afraid.
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/26/2003 05:28 AM PST
DR Ron, I'm originally from SC myself and lived there for 29 years. If you ever want to talk Palmetto State, just get in touch.
Posted by Matt H. @ 09/26/2003 06:00 AM PST
LP'S?
DR WFO - I think that is something you use instead of charcoal when you use das barbecu.
Posted by Jrand53 @ 09/26/2003 06:27 AM PST
Robert Palmer died of a heart attack in Paris.
His songs included SIMPLY IRRESISTABLE and ADDICTED TO LOVE.
Posted by MTV news at Ten to the Hour @ 09/26/2003 06:30 AM PST
Good morning! I can't believe I'm actually up and about already. But since I have a prep meeting for the soon-to-be-happening wrap-up sessions at 9:00, and I'm supposed to be breakfasting with my brother at 8:00... I just wanted to post now since I'm not sure when I'll be able to log back on later today due to the day's schedule.
*Of course, everyone reads the late/early posts! Right?!? Right.
Dinner at Musso & Frank was indeed splendid. It was a true pleasure meeting DR Jay - and many, many thanks for playing chauffeur and impromptu tour guide - meeting DR Nick Redman and FoDR (Friend of Dear Reader) Julia; seeing DR MusicGuy again, and, of course, having the opportunity once again to be in the company of our own esteemed, svelte and guapo BK.
We supped... And supped... And partook of various and sundried beverages - one DR even had a "big boy drink"! And then came dessert! I had the house dessert, the Musso-Frank Torten - which was like an oversized Napoleon with lots of whipped cream, pastry cream, mille feuille, and strawberries. YUM! -I know, I know, I should be in the gym right now...
Well, I must get my own buttcheeks in gear... See you all tonight!
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 09/26/2003 07:07 AM PST
OH! And there is some photographic proof of the evening. Once I'm back home next week, I shall send a copy to DR Craig so that it can get posted on this here most popular site on the internet. *Oh, and I guess I should also send the one of myself and DR Tom and Colin from when I was in Oz...
And, apparently, Guy Haines was there, but DR Jay and I were running a few minutes late due to the LA traffic, and just missed him. Ah, well... maybe next time. (Ah, a Kander & Ebb reference - more or less.)
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 09/26/2003 07:11 AM PST
