Topic: FIGHTING VAINLY THE OLD ENNUI (Read 22113 times)

vixmom · « **Reply #90 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:31:26 PM »

Quote from: Matt H. on April 18, 2005, 01:13:51 PM

I liked the Smothers Brothers enormously as a comedy/music act. I have several of the albums they made in the 1960s, and they are still hilarious. They were also singers with nice voices and wonderful blend.

Oh my goodness! I forgot the Smothers Brothers . When I was the Vixter's age I had their record "The Smothers Brothers sing Aesop's Fables" I played that thing to death....

vixmom · « **Reply #91 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:32:19 PM »

Page four...

I feel like dancin''''

S. Woody White · « **Reply #92 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:32:36 PM »

Quote from: Matt H. on April 18, 2005, 01:10:20 PM

Enjoyed DEADWOOD quite a bit today. ...
Calamity Jane has certainly been given short shrift this season.

Maybe she's been busy rehearsing "Secret Love"?

vixmom · « **Reply #93 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:32:57 PM »

That's really more of cheer than a dance isn't it?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #94 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:34:38 PM »

OH...

And it's absolutely beautiful day here in Richmond. We just hit the 80 degree mark!

Of course, the mold and pollen counts are through the roof again today. When I headed out to my car earlier, it had the that yellow-green paint-pollen job by nature. But still a gorgeous day.

...And while driving through the Fan today, I actually started to "miss" Richmond. All the houses, the canopies of trees, etc.

And the sense that I'm really leaving this city started to sink in. Not really a good thing, not really a bad thing. Just not a thing I had felt up until now.

"Start spreading the news..."

Jane · « **Reply #95 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:35:56 PM »

Thanks Ron, JRand and Jose. I will ask Keith if he wants to send it to Parade.

vixmom · « **Reply #96 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:36:23 PM »

I know its not media check day

BUT

I would like to share with all and sundried that I have just placed into my CD player 'aqabala" and am listeningt t the track "Wasn't it Spring Yesterday?" and I am very much enjoying it .

Thank you DR JMK!!!!

Jane · « **Reply #97 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:37:06 PM »

The floor guys are here again and smell of the stain is burning my eyes and nose. This is the third attempt to match the existing floor with the new one.

vixmom · « **Reply #98 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:38:45 PM »

Gosh@!! YThat remoinds me... I owe dear reader George a Fairport Convention CD... I must get that together for you George... sorry for the delay

Dr Danise.. if you like Ren Fairs, you may enjoy some Fairport Convention and some of my Brobdinagian Bards music.... would you care for a sampler of same?

S. Woody White · « **Reply #99 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:39:23 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on April 18, 2005, 01:34:38 PM

And the sense that I'm really leaving this city started to sink in. Not really a good thing, not really a bad thing. Just not a thing I had felt up until now.

I still miss the jacaranda trees. But I've discovered forsythia. That's what moving is like.

vixmom · « **Reply #100 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:40:29 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on April 18, 2005, 01:34:38 PM

And the sense that I'm really leaving this city started to sink in. Not really a good thing, not really a bad thing. Just not a thing I had felt up until now.

"Start spreading the news..."

Richmond's loss is New York's gain... I have not caught up withth eweekends posts yet so I do not know, did you find a place to live yet?

Jane · « **Reply #101 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:42:18 PM »

This morning when I looked out my window, aside from the usual assortment of birds, I saw a pair of Canadian Geese and a pair of Mallards. We think the Mallards have a nest. Later I had difficulty driving down the driveway which had turned into a turkey crossing, two males and two females. Six hours later and they are still there.

vixmom · « **Reply #102 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:42:34 PM »

Quote from: Jane on April 18, 2005, 01:37:06 PM

The floor guys are here again and smell of the stain is burning my eyes and nose. This is the third attempt to match the existing floor with the new one.

Throw rugs!!!

seriously though... hope that they get it right this time and sending you

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]~~~~Fresh Air Vibes~~~~~[/move]

Matt H. · « **Reply #103 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:44:15 PM »

Yep, I had the Aesop Fable/Smothers LP and enjoyed it even as a teenager. I still have it and several other Smothers LPs here. Makes me want to break one of them out and have a few laughs. Maybe I will at some point this week.

vixmom · « **Reply #104 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:47:13 PM »

Quote from: S. Woody White on April 18, 2005, 01:39:23 PM

I still miss the jacaranda trees. But I've discovered forsythia. That's what moving is like.

What is a jacaranda tree? When I was little my folk's had a row of fortsythia bushs well trees really that lined one side of the driveway. They would get so heavy with their yellow blooms in the spring that they would bend over and there wopuld be a little place wer I would crawl underneath and sit and play with my dolls. I called it my sunshine clubhouse because the flowers made me thingof sunshine. I can vividly recall the joy of sitting in my "secret" clubhouse . I couldn't have been more than 5 or 6 at the time.

I drove past the house a few years ago (we moved out of there in 1966) and was terribly dismayed to see that the owners had ripped all the bushes out to widen the driveway.... $:-\$

vixmom · « **Reply #105 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:50:24 PM »

Quote from: Matt H. on April 18, 2005, 01:44:15 PM

Yep, I had the Aesop Fable/Smothers LP and enjoyed it even as a teenager. I still have it and several other Smothers LPs here. Makes me want to break one of them out and have a few laughs. Maybe I will at some point this week.

"
Aesop... that's a funny name... he told the people little stories in a most amusing way and each little story had a lesson that's still rings true today....."

It's got to be a least 35 years (yikes!!

) since I 've played that.. I wonder how closse I came to the actual words? Let me know if you find your copy MattH!!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #106 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:52:16 PM »

Bad news. Musical guru of Annette Funicello (and many others) has passed away.

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050418/APN/504180654&cachetime=3&template=dateline

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #107 on:** April 18, 2005, 01:59:06 PM »

Jane, no need to make the photo smaller; it looks great!

Wanda Sykes is one of those people that I just find monumentally unfunny. America seems to agree...every show they give her seems to quickly die.

Jane · « **Reply #108 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:04:37 PM »

Thanks CP.

Jane · « **Reply #109 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:07:18 PM »

JRand had Annette and Salvador Camarata stayed in touch? He appeared to have a good, long life.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #110 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:10:41 PM »

Hmmm.... I guess I could finally unpack my bags since I've been home for a week...

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #111 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:15:16 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on April 18, 2005, 01:59:06 PM

Wanda Sykes is one of those people that I just find monumentally unfunny. America seems to agree...every show they give her seems to quickly die.

Actually, Wanda is very popular on the stand-up circuit. She appeals to a wide audience that loves that sassy, slap-in-the-face routine she is best at. Her failure to latch onto a sitcom America wants to watch is a fault of those who fail to find the proper formula for her brand of comedy.

America "loves" Mary Tyler Moore, but her attempts at making another sitcom post "Mary Tyler Moore Show" all failed miserably. It's not a reflection of America's attitude towards Mary...it's that the shows are deadly dull, unfunny, and worst of all, boringly written.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #112 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:21:52 PM »

Not being a habitue' of the stand-up circuit, I can only judge by what I've seen of Wanda's stand-up on the telly. Just sort of leaves me cold.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #113 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:23:20 PM »

Quote from: Charles Pogue on April 18, 2005, 01:59:06 PM

Wanda Sykes is one of those people that I just find monumentally unfunny. America seems to agree...every show they give her seems to quickly die.

Like DR Ron Pulliam basically stated... When Wanda Sykes is "on" and doing her own thing, she can be riotously funny. But when she's doing someone else's stuff - a writer (no offense intended DR Pogue) - she can be painfully unfunny.

-but that basically applies to any comic.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #114 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:26:09 PM »

DR JANE - I don't know if they kept in touch, I am assuming they did. Camarata (as he is billed on most of the Disneyland/Vista recordings) came in and worked with the producers of THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, Disney's last gasp attempt to make money out of Annette's recordings in a two-CD or cassette set released in 1993.

The credits may be of interest to MR BK:

Produced by: Michael Leon and Randy Thornton
Executive Producer: Harold J. Kleiner
All music originally produced by: Tutti Camarata
Digitally remixed and mastered by Bruce Botnick at Pacific Ocean Post, Santa Monica, CA.
An original 3-track tape machine, critical to the restoration of many of the songs on this album was bult by Steve Hazelton expressly for this project.

Robert and Richard Sherman also worked with the producers.

Annette always gave ALL the credit for success on records to Tutti.

Annette in the studio with Camarata recording DanceAnnette!

bk · « **Reply #115 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:29:04 PM »

Yes, barratry is a plague in this country. The question is, is it illegal in this country - that's what barratry means - the criminal offense of filiing frivolous lawsuits.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #116 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:30:40 PM »

Jacarandas are a tree (or bush, sometimes) with emerald green foliage. Twice a year, it blooms with the most gorgeous lilac blue blossoms, which can be quite messy if you park your car underneath one of them. The spring bloom is lovely, before the foliage has grown in, but in the fall it looks like lilac clouds floating in the green, and is spectacular.

Since they are frost sensitive, we won't be seeing them here in Delaware. But when they're in bloom in Los Angeles...WOW!

I've little doubt that Tomovoz knows about them, as well.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #117 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:32:43 PM »

Barratry...you mean, like pointing a finger at Wendy's for their chili?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #118 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:35:11 PM »

Too bad it isn't MR BK. I have never heard of a prosecution for it.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #119 on:** April 18, 2005, 02:36:20 PM »

DR SWW what a lovely photograph of Jacarandas!

We have a couple of lovely lilac bushes that the bees love that are nearly that color.

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