And the word of the day is: ECOTONE!
Well I know that my NOT FAVORITE Christmas song is "My Favorite Things" which is NOT a Christmas song...NOT!Thank you, thank you, thank you.
It will take place on the second (not the first) Wednesday in January.
Morning, all! Congrats to Bruce on the great show!
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Is it going to come as a big shock to anyone that I don't have too many favorite Christmas songs? Least favorite is easy: I'm with DR Elmore on that "Drummer Boy" abomination (who plays a drum for a BABY? Geez, we're trying to get some sleep here!)...
Besides the sarcastic Christmas songs (Tom Lehrer's "Christmas Carol" and Allen Sherman's "Twelve Days"), I'd have to go with a couple of songs from one of my favorite piano bar personalities, the late D. Jay Bradley, who used to have an annual Christmas-themed cabaret show at Don't Tell Mama's. He wrote "The Colors of Christmas" and "Don't Let Christmas Pass You By," both of which are lovely numbers. Damn, but I miss him...
I'm off to other places!
so we had a meeting until the lights came back
It’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas — thanks to Bruce’s latest Kritzerland at the Gardenia show
We're hoping not. It's taken four shows, but we seem to have found our audience, and we just hope they'll be there - since the weather will probably be fine, I think, at least for the Sondheim show, be okay. I was actually worried about attendance for last night's show - but man, it was incredible. But a week ago, I think we had eight reservations.
DR John G, thank you for the recipe. Have you tried it? I've read conflicting comments regarding egg substitute. We have ground flax in the house I would add.Only in how it affects the flavor. But I like the flavor of flax. If you have whole flaxseed, toast some and sprinkle on top. Makes it a little nuttier.
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White Christmas
Merry Christmas, Darling
We Need A Little Christmas
As much as I love them, I can't call them favorites 'cause they're SO DEPRESSING:
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
I'll Be Home For Christmas
We Three Kings of Orient Are
Tried to Smoke a Rubber Cigar
It Was Loaded
It Exploded
Now We're on Yonder Star
Sorry, Barnum, I just had to do it. No bad will intended.
That was a parody I remember from childhood.
Just wanted to echo Mark and Amy about how good the show was last night. I wish I could have bottled it, to enjoy for the future. It really got me into the holiday mood.
I don't think Craig likes the flavor of the artificial eggs. I'll have to verify that fact.DR John G, thank you for the recipe. Have you tried it? I've read conflicting comments regarding egg substitute. We have ground flax in the house I would add.Only in how it affects the flavor. But I like the flavor of flax. If you have whole flaxseed, toast some and sprinkle on top. Makes it a little nuttier.
I have not tried it in this context.
I don't think Craig likes the flavor of the artificial eggs. I'll have to verify that fact.DR John G, thank you for the recipe. Have you tried it? I've read conflicting comments regarding egg substitute. We have ground flax in the house I would add.Only in how it affects the flavor. But I like the flavor of flax. If you have whole flaxseed, toast some and sprinkle on top. Makes it a little nuttier.
I have not tried it in this context.
The toasted flax must be a bit like the toasted sesame seed we normally use.
We have a brand new bundle of energy in our house. :):)
There will be photos. ;)
I don't think Craig likes the flavor of the artificial eggs. I'll have to verify that fact.DR John G, thank you for the recipe. Have you tried it? I've read conflicting comments regarding egg substitute. We have ground flax in the house I would add.Only in how it affects the flavor. But I like the flavor of flax. If you have whole flaxseed, toast some and sprinkle on top. Makes it a little nuttier.
I have not tried it in this context.
The toasted flax must be a bit like the toasted sesame seed we normally use.
The flax and the water slurry is all you need to replace the egg, so it should taste much better than some Frankenfood egg substitute.
Congrats, bk. on your show last night.
Does anyone know how to get a copy of "A Hollywood Christmas" - I have the Broadway Christmas CD. Amazon has something that is out of print, but I'm not sure it's bk's.
Congrats, bk. on your show last night.
Does anyone know how to get a copy of "A Hollywood Christmas" - I have the Broadway Christmas CD. Amazon has something that is out of print, but I'm not sure it's bk's.
DR Matthew, here's the cover:
Last night's Kritzerland show sounds wonderful and I wish I could have been there - Congratulations, BK!
I don't think Craig likes the flavor of the artificial eggs.
I do realize that most Sondheim is known now, but even on Unsung Sondheim and Sondheim at the Movies and even, to a certain extent, on The Stephen Sondheim Album, there are still songs that are VERY infrequently performed - those are what we'll concentrate on, stuff like Make The Most Of Your Music, Multitudes of Amys, some stuff from Singing Out Loud - there's plenty of great stuff to choose from that meets the Unsung criteria. And I'm sure I'll throw in a couple of the warhorses just to have them.
I don't think Craig likes the flavor of the artificial eggs.
I don't think anyone likes the flavor of artificial eggs.
We have a brand new bundle of energy in our house. :)
There will be photos. ;)
I don't think Craig likes the flavor of the artificial eggs.
I don't think anyone likes the flavor of artificial eggs.
LOL!
You should see the reaction on the usual boards - acting as if someone saying they'd LIKE to make a movie immediately translates to he's making the movie. It's a remark - there is no deal, no nothing.True enough. I'd like to make a movie, too, though nobody's printing stories about that.
T.O.D.I agree on "Three Ships," though the melody can be nice when properly played. I especially don't care for the throaty, nouveau folk, Idina Menzel-type recordings of it.
O HOLY NIGHT
CAROL OF THE BELLS
HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
Does anyone really like I SAW THREE SHIPS? I don't even understand it.
How old is Miss Molly?
It rained the entire time Sherlock and I walked. Now it is snowing.
Still mysterious......but I am thinking that a lot of trouble came for the boys for not following Jerry Lewis advice that he got from Lou Costello that HE got from Stan Laurel.....I am thinking.
Oh... Today's semi-random celebrity sighting...He might be going there, too.
Emeril Lagasse was at Eataly. We happened to be browsing the "verdure" at the same time. He's apparently cooking some sort of special meal in town tomorrow. He had quite the shopping list with him.
-Frankly, I was sort of surprised he was not choosing to shop at the Union Square Greenmarket (tomorrow morning) or at the Chelsea Market Supermarket which is where a lot of the grocery shopping for the Food Network takes place. ???
Oh... Today's semi-random celebrity sighting...
Emeril Lagasse was at Eataly. We happened to be browsing the "verdure" at the same time. He's apparently cooking some sort of special meal in town tomorrow. He had quite the shopping list with him.
-Frankly, I was sort of surprised he was not choosing to shop at the Union Square Greenmarket (tomorrow morning) or at the Chelsea Market Supermarket which is where a lot of the grocery shopping for the Food Network takes place. ???
tonight I took my Mom to another specialist for a second opinion -- he held out some hope for improvement
afterwards I treated Mom & Dasd to a dinner at Olive Garden
It was really good!
Time Warner was completely spazzing out and finally went down - it's up now, though. In fact, if it hadn't been I was about to grab the laptop and go over to Panera to write and post the notes. Hopefully, we'll remain working and happy, Time Warner-wise. I might go over to Jerry's and get some chicken soup for dinner. I had chicken tenders and fries for lunch at Doug Haverty's house.
Time Warner was completely spazzing out and finally went down - it's up now, though. In fact, if it hadn't been I was about to grab the laptop and go over to Panera to write and post the notes. Hopefully, we'll remain working and happy, Time Warner-wise. I might go over to Jerry's and get some chicken soup for dinner. I had chicken tenders and fries for lunch at Doug Haverty's house.
About an hour ago, Time-Warner tweeted the following:
"#TimeWarnerCable customers in #SoCal. Engineers are still working to restore Internet service. I regret that I do not have an ETA yet. ^PS"
And it actually looks like their Help Desk is staying open past their usual business hours until the issue is resolved.
There was a cretin on the Film Score Monthly board - one of these odd obsessives that troll boards like that from time to time - this guy's obsession is Lost Horizon - not the Capra, but the Ross Hunter production, the musical. Now, even people who find it a guilty pleasure know it's terrible. I always WANT to like it, but it's terrible, mostly thanks to the ham-fisted and ponderous direction of Charles Jarrott - in fact, I have never seen a Charles Jarrott film that I cared for, but maybe the whole problem rested with Mr. Hunter. Add to that the horrendously bad choreography of Hermes Pan, along with the weirdly performed but somehow somewhat likable songs and you have one of the most critically-reviled box-office disasters ever.He should be forced to listen to Liv Ullmann sing "All the World Is a Circle" (or whatever that horror was called) on replay for 3 months of solitary confinement.
But this guy LOVES IT! This guy thinks it wasn't a box-office disaster overseas (it was), this guy thinks it got rave reviews (he managed to find four to post, none of which were raves, but were decent, which just goes to show you - one of the decent ones was by Arthur Knight, the man who HATED The First Nudie Musical, so that puts everything into perspective) - and because I dared to disagree (nicely) with him (as did others)? He began calling me a bitter soundtrack queen. Then he stated (in response to someone else who hated it) that Mame was a movie for old ladies and homosexuals. That comment rankled a whole slew of people. And then he wouldn't stop - homophobic comments hurled in my direction - I don't mind being called gay or whatever people want to call me, but the moderator was warning him and he still couldn't stop - I finally called him a twit and the moderator asked me not to do it, so I stopped. But he wouldn't and then he called the moderator a queen. That was that. He was banned. I now have his e-mail address, thanks to friends in high places. Unfortunately, but predictably, it's a hotmail address, otherwise I could have some fun :)
I suspect anyone who has to make those kinds of gay-baiting comments and who LOVES Lost Horizon The Musical, well, I somehow think he's one of those self-loathing people like Harold in Boys In The Band. That's my guess, and I'm sticking to it.