Terry Trotter will be doing a solo piano album rather than a trio one. We've picked the "theme" and are now picking the material. We're both very excited about it.I'm looking forward to it. I've enjoyed the others.
They fly so high
Nearly reach the sky,
Then like my dreams
They fade and die.
Hello, my name is Ben and I'm a BBC Junkie (Hello, Ben)
I subscribe to the Cast Recording listserv but that's all. I find most of the newsgroups that I have visted depressingly obsessive and many of them are filled with mean people.
but my absolute favorte site other than HHW is www.brucekimmel.com. There is not a day goes by that I don't take a look at it.
Mssrs. Fuller and Prince will just jump out from behind the table and say, "Hey, give that man a job!"...
;)
DR Jason
Thank you for your explanation of the unions. It is something I always wondered about.
I was confused because I thought you had to already be a member of Equity to get into an Equity show, so I couldn't figure out how you got the membership inthe first place.
From your fingers to God's ears!!
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for an especially excellent day
My iPod is on, and I've just heard all three versions of Love, Look Away from the new Guy Haines album. That was a track I wasn't satisfied with for the longest time, and I kept changing it. In version one, we had a synth oboe playing my vamp lines along with the guitar and piano. I didn't care for that. Then we recorded a soprano sax doing those vamp lines. I still didn't like it. I was beginning to despair, and I was sitting at Vinnie's just trying to get the mix to sound right, when Vinnie's girlfriend showed up. She just happens to be a faboo cellist, and I asked her if she'd lay down a cello part (the other thing I wasn't happy with was that the track seemed to have no low end). We went over the song about six times - with her improvising, and me telling her which bits I liked, and then I hummed her two or three lines for other parts, and we recorded it, and it absolutely transformed both the track and the mix. I was then satisfied.
And the word of the day is: CRANIUM!"Crani-yum!" said the gourmet zombie.
...And as DR Jason alluded to, there is that "catch"... Most of the time, if you want to audition for an Equity show, you already have to be a member of Equity. "Then how do I get my card?" -And that's a discussion for another time....
"Crani-yum!" said the gourmet zombie.
...And as DR Jason alluded to, there is that "catch"... Most of the time, if you want to audition for an Equity show, you already have to be a member of Equity. "Then how do I get my card?" -And that's a discussion for another time....
Matt, Thanks for your review of The Corpse Bride. Is it Vixter appropriate?
I hope you are well out of the way of Ophelia... I heard weather reports this morning of massive floodings on the NC coast lines
Oops (Spoo), and I read DVD Savant's reviews on Thursdays and Saturdays.
Good morning! Yes, it is vixter appropriate and vixmom appropriate as the film has elements that would appeal to kids and adults. I truly think adults would enjoy it more.Thanks! Since a trip to the movies for the three of us now runs about $40 its nice to know in advance if it's worth it ;)!
It's the poor NC coast that's receiving the battering from Ophelia's rain and wind. We haven't had a drop of precipitation all week.I hope you stay safe and Ophelia blows seaward.
As for the private message, the answer is yes. Keep eyes open for it next week.
Since I have no plans away from home today, I should be able to get a fair amount of movie watching done today and tonight.
I would like to finish ROMEO AND JULIET first to get it off the DVR.
POSSIBLE SPOILER:
I don't know if this helps but having been banished for killing Tybalt, Romeo leaves Verona (after his wedding night with Juliet) and awaits word from the Friar who has promised to reunite him with Juliet. Meanwhile, the Friar gives Juliet a sleeping potion that makes her seem dead. She is told she will be interred in the family tomb and that Romeo will come get her by the time she awakens. Next, the funeral ceremony is held amidst much grief, and one of Romeo's friends rushes off to tell Romeo the terrible news, actually passing a monk who is bearing the Veronese Friar's good news to Romeo. Then, Romeo rushes back to Verona, finds Juliet in her deathlike trance, and takes a poison to join her in the afterlife. Juliet awakens, finds Romeo dead, takes his dagger and kills herself. Much town hysteria follows and, one presumes, the feud between the Montagues and Capulets is ended in grief. "For never was there a story or more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo...."
POSSIBLE SPOILER:
I don't know if this helps but having been banished for killing Tybalt, Romeo leaves Verona (after his wedding night with Juliet) and awaits word from the Friar who has promised to reunite him with Juliet. Meanwhile, the Friar gives Juliet a sleeping potion that makes her seem dead. She is told she will be interred in the family tomb and that Romeo will come get her by the time she awakens. Next, the funeral ceremony is held amidst much grief, and one of Romeo's friends rushes off to tell Romeo the terrible news, actually passing a monk who is bearing the Veronese Friar's good news to Romeo. Then, Romeo rushes back to Verona, finds Juliet in her deathlike trance, and takes a poison to join her in the afterlife. Juliet awakens, finds Romeo dead, takes his dagger and kills herself. Much town hysteria follows and, one presumes, the feud between the Montagues and Capulets is ended in grief. "For never was there a story or more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo...."
Carrot-stick girl just made the most ignorant statement I think I've ever heard - a statement to which I take offense. She got off the phone with one of her southern customers and when she hung up she said, "That woman has to be a racist and a homophobe...she was WAY too nice and she's southern."
Hello from Brasov, Transylvania! Boy, were we happy to leave Bucharest. Crazy drivers, polution, wall-to-wall people, and stray & homeless dogs & cats--the first and last items are problems throughout Romania.
Brasov is a medieval town and, fortunately, we're staying in the "old town" area...otherwise it would be a BIT HELLISH! Interestingly, right in the middle of the old town plaza they're constructing a stage for a Joe Cocker concert next week. Tomorrow we leave for Sibiu and Bran...both towns linked to Vlad the Impaler (aka Dracula).
Craig's girlfriend is very sweet and lovely, too. And they're very cute together--with photos to follow on my return.
NEW YORK (Sept. 15) - A groom spent his wedding night in jail with his father, his brother his father-in-law and seven other members of his wedding party after the group allegedly brawled with another bridal party and police, according to a published report.
Police arrested the groom, Joseph Fortunato Jr., 29, and the ten others after officers were called to break up the melee at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in White Plains, Saturday, according to an article appearing in Thursday's editions of the Daily News.
The altercation reportedly began with a case of mistaken identity. A member of the second wedding party confronted Fortunato's best man, believing him to be a wedding photographer, who had absconded. The best man allegedly responded with force sparking a bench-clearer.
"Everybody's fighting everybody," White Plains police spokesman Martin Gleeson told the Daily News. "And both brides are kind of walking around helpless like, 'This is my wedding? I can't believe this is happening!"'
After police intervened by arresting Fortunato, the other members of his wedding party objected violently, leading to their arrests. The eleven suspects, all from Fortunato's party, were charged with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and first-degree riot, a felony punishable by up to four years in prison.
They were released on bail Sunday.
Police said the melee caused $2,000 of damage to the hotel.
"We believe the event may have been alcohol-driven," Gleeson told the Daily News.
I have to go buy more little envelopes to ship the Kevin CD in. If the orders suddenly come pouring in I'm going to have to find a much cheaper place to get them than Staples. There I'm paying about six bucks for twelve envelopes, which seems ridiculous on the face of it or even on the feet of it.Do you have a COSTCO near yyou? They using sell things like that there quite inexpensively. Our office manager gets the majority of the office supplies there these days.
Why are we so wide? Can anyone see anything that has caused it? If so, point it out to me and I'll fix it.
GOOD HAL PRINCE VIBES for DRJOSE. "Give that man a JOB!!" I could happen!
Look OUT! I'm HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!
Larry, I saw the e-mail from Esche yesterday regarding music cut from the 1993 She Loves Me cast recording (I get one e-mail a day which lists all posts from the previous day in one long read). I could tell from the tone of his post that it was not something to be believed.
TPunk- I checked out Overheardinny so funny!
This was my favorite so far....
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/002501.html
elmore: Esche responded to my version of the story? What did he say? I've bitch-slapped him before and I certainly can do it again. You'd think he'd learn.
..a good number of hotline counselors at GMHC addicted ..
To BK's last post of the evening yesterday:
Ann must be with Jed, wherever the frell HE is!!!
What do these major record-setting events have in common?
•Nine of the ten costliest insurance events in U.S. history
•Six of the seven costliest hurricanes in U.S. history
•Three of the four largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history
•Nine of the top ten natural disasters in U.S. history ranked by FEMA relief costs
•The two largest terrorism events in U.S. history
All of these major catastrophes transpired on the very same day or within 24-hours of U.S. presidents Bush, Clinton and Bush applying pressure on Israel to trade her land for promises of "peace and security," sponsoring major "land for peace" meetings, making major public statements pertaining to Israel's covenant land and/or calling for a Palestinian state.
Are each one of these major record-setting events just a coincidence or awe-inspiring signs that God is actively involved in the affairs of Israel?
In what is being characterized as an unexpected move, the U.S. House of Representatives today approved an amendment to a child-safety bill that adds "sexual orientation" to the federal "hate crimes" statute.
The amendment to the Children's Safety Act – which, among other things, creates a national website for child sex offenders and stipulates that sex felons face up to 20 years in prison for failing to comply with registration requirements – was offered by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., and passed 223-199. Thirty Republicans, 192 Democrats and one Independent voted to add the "sexual orientation" language, while 194 Republicans and five Democrats voted no.
According an Associated Press report, current "hate crimes" law includes stiffer penalties for federal offenses when the attacker is motivated by the actual or perceived race, religion or ethnic background. The Conyers provision adds to that list sexual orientation, gender and disability.
The House has been the chief obstacle in numerous previous attempts to expand federal "hate crimes" law, and Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest homosexual-rights group, told AP today's was an "incredibly historic vote" that could give momentum to similar action in the Senate.
Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America was stunned the vote was taken with virtually no notice.
"We had no notice that this was happening," Knight said in an e-mail announcing the action. "The only positive thing I can say is that this was a recorded vote."
…
The Family Research Council is blasting the action in no small terms.
"Criminalizing thoughts as well as actions, and creating special categories of victims, are contrary to our entire system of laws," said FRC president Tony Perkins. "Furthermore, granting special protections based on one's 'sexual orientation' has repeatedly been rejected by Congress. It is shocking that a bill designed to protect children from sexual predators is now being used to protect the sexual preference of homosexuals.
"The Senate should reject the House's attempt to advance the political agenda of homosexuals at the expense of children."
While investigating the sexual politics of penguins and the hit movie "March of the Penguins," I discovered a startling penguin-related psychosexual development.
Even though the mainstream media have ignored this news, I am compelled to report it here, to you, today:
Roy and Silo, the two famous gay penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo, are no longer a pair. Silo has gone straight.
They broke up after six years together. Once, they were provided a donated egg. They sat on it and hatched it and this was celebrated as some kind of penguin lifestyle choice in the New York Times on Feb. 7, 2004, under the headline "The Love that Dare Not Squeak Its Name."
But that's so over.
These days, Silo has a girlfriend. And Roy? Well, lately he has been observed hanging around a few sexually immature penguins, but he has no real prospects. It seems Roy is a troubled penguin
Isn't it great!? I've gotten a good number of hotline counselors at GMHC addicted to it. In between calls of course, never during.
www.trlib.org (where I work)
Ron, how's your co-worker doing?
Wait till my friends in the Bush admin hear about this!!!!
der Brucer
Dear Diary,
Today I played some callbacks for the current tour of Evita and Hal Prince was in the room this time. And he liked me. He really liked me.
Good Afternoon!:DQuote:
Dear Diary,
Today I played some callbacks for the current tour of Evita and Hal Prince was in the room this time. And he liked me. He really liked me.
Ready for dinner and then the show!
I think I mentioned that he "fired" his heart surgeon last week. He didn't feel confidence in a man whose staff was so staggeringly inept.
He went to Stanford Medical Center on Monday and had some tests. He goes back tomorrow for some more. On Saturday, his case will be evaluated with a group of doctors/surgeons at Stanford to determine what the best treatment will be.
On Monday, one of the surgeons said that his x-rays showed scar tissue, indicating he had previously had a heart attack..maybe two. The doubt cast by that was whether surgery is necessary...something to do with scar tissue not requiring blood flow.
I don't understand it all, but that's where it stands now.
elmore, the thing I despise about that cretin is that he didn't even respond to the content of my post, because, deep down, he knows I'm right. He's upset (and has been since 1993) because Robert Sher is upset that I made the decision to not include the curtain call music. Very few cast albums have ever included the curtain call music, and frankly I found it hurt the emotion of the ending of the album. However, prior to making that decision (which was mine to make), I consulted with the only two people whose opinions mattered to me - Mr. Bock and Mr. Harnick, and they completely agreed with me. That, of course, was the end of the story.
To BK's last post of the evening yesterday:
Ann must be with Jed, wherever the frell HE is!!!
I meant to mentionlast night that before CORPSE BRIDE began last night, Warners had tacked two trailers onto the front of the feature. One was a forgettable Jennifer Aniston-Shirley MacLaine-Kevin Costner romantic comedy that I don't even recall the title.
The other trailer was for HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE. Need I say that those few minutes were exciting, terrific, exhilarating, wondrous! Can't wait for November!
Jose - Did you invite Mr. Prince to join us on the eating/walking tour Oct. 5? ;)
I have not seen any trailers for that yet. Who is directing it this time around? Iwasn't as happy with the treatment of the last book as I was of the first two.
Who couldn't?!
Three Wilmington area oil refineries that lost power during a citywide outage were still working Wednesday to restore normal levels of gasoline production and prevent a possible spike in oil prices.
The Shell Oil Co., ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy Corp. refineries provide about 16 percent of California's oil production capability.
"We're continuing to work around the clock to get our units up and running," said Andy Perez, a ConocoPhillips spokesman.
Shell spokeswoman Cecilia Moreno said the company's refinery did not shut down completely during Monday's outage but had not been able to produce gasoline since the blackout. The facility was expected to be back to its normal output of 100,000 barrels a day by the weekend.
"We're still working on bringing all our units up in a safe and orderly manner," Moreno said.
Valero hoped to have its plant processing oil at half its normal rate by Wednesday.
As traders learned of the outage, they pushed up the price of wholesale gasoline by about 8 cents a gallon, to about $2.15 on the Los Angeles spot market. By Tuesday, prices dropped to $2.13 a gallon.
If none of the refineries make fuel for three days, California would lose about 8 percent of its weekly gasoline production and about 5.6 percent of its diesel output, said Rob Schlichting, a spokesman for the California Energy Commission.
The reduced supply could raise prices.
I have to go buy more little envelopes to ship the Kevin CD in. If the orders suddenly come pouring in I'm going to have to find a much cheaper place to get them than Staples. There I'm paying about six bucks for twelve envelopes, which seems ridiculous on the face of it or even on the feet of it.'
POSSIBLE SPOILER:
Another girl in our office - carrot-stick's best friend, as a matter of fact - is from Richmond, VA, and is trying her best to be the best little northern liberal she can be. Everyone is a racist homophobic Bush-loving religious prude in her estimation if they're not "fabulously gay" or a drunk or if you live south of Staten Island.
I have not seen any trailers for that yet. Who is directing it this time around? \
As for Prince, he must be older than Noah now. He might not be able to hear very well!
JoseS must play EXTRA loud for him.
Watch the Harry Potter Trailers Here (http://www.dailybreeze.com/business/articles/1854172.html)
The director is Mike Newell (Young Indiana Jones, Four Weddings and a Funeral)
der Brucer
keep my nerves at bay
Hmmm... Methinks you linketh incorrectly, DR DerBrucer.
;)
I have not seen any trailers for that yet. Who is directing it this time around? Iwasn't as happy with the treatment of the last book as I was of the first two.
Methinth you right! Me fixith.
Alas, I did not extend that invitation. He was listing his upcoming projects - including some talk he was giving this afternoon - and I just knew he would not have been able to make it.
;)
Ginny, glad to see the FC Web site there on your list ;D
If you're a Karen Morrow fan click on this link.
...Someone needs to tell them that being liberal-minded and ignorant are not necessarily one in the same.The only homophobe in my family is also the only Democrat. And she teaches college. Go figure. :P
Sorry. I just had to get that off my chest.And a fabulous chest it is, too, judging from your photograph!
I've lived in every part of the country except the Pacific Northwest, and I am always surprised at the amount of wrong ideas people have about places they've never been.
And a nice place to find reading suggestions for the Grandlads -Thanx!
der Brucer
Now, I am addicted too! I thought you counselers were supposed to help people!!!
;D
And I do thnk the world would stop if you didn't say, "Well dear readers..." I don't think we should take that chance.
Hugh Laurie - well known (I would have thought) from his Black Adder appearances.
Wedged between Upper Red Adder and Lower Red Adder.
The questions below are from potential visitors to Australia. They were posted on an Australian Tourism Website and the answers are the actual responses by the website officials, who obviously have a sense of humour, &c., &c., okay, you get the idea.....
Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow? (UK).
A: We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around watching them die.
Q: Will I be able to see kangaroos in the street? (USA)
A: Depends how much you've been drinking.
Q: I want to walk from Perth to Sydney - can I follow the railroad tracks? (Sweden)
A: Sure, it's only three thousand miles, take lots of water.
Q: Is it safe to run around in the bushes in Australia? (Sweden)
A: So it's true what they say about Swedes.
Q: Are there any ATMs (cash machines) in Australia? Can you send me a list of them in Brisbane, Cairns, Townsville and Hervey Bay? (UK)
A: What precisely did your last slave die of?
Q: Can you give me some information about hippo racing in Australia? (USA)
A: A-fri-ca is the big triangle shaped continent south of Europe. Aus-tra-lia is that big island in the middle of the Pacific which does not. oh forget it. Sure, the hippo racing is every tuesday night in Kings Cross. Come naked. (Exegetical apparatus: Kings Cross is the red light/non mainstream/anything goes district in Sydney....)
Q: Which direction is North in Australia? (USA)
A: Face south and then turn 180 degrees. Contact us when you get here and we'll send the rest of the directions.
Q: Can I bring cutlery into Australia? (UK)
A: Why? Just use your fingers like we do.
Q: Can you send me the Vienna Boys' Choir schedule? (USA)
A: Aus-tri-a is that quaint little country bordering Ger-man-y, which is...oh forget it. Sure, the Vienna Boys Choir plays every Tuesday night in Kings Cross, straight after the hippo races. Come naked.
Q: Can I wear high heels in Australia? ( UK)
A: You are a British politician, right?
Q: Are there supermarkets in Sydney and is milk available all year round? (Germany)
A: No, we are a peaceful civilization of vegan hunter/gatherers. Milk is illegal.
Q: Please send a list of all doctors in Australia who can dispense rattlesnake serum. (USA)
A: Rattlesnakes live in A-meri-ca which is where YOU come from. All Australian snakes are perfectly harmless, can be safely handled and make good pets.
Q: I have a question about a famous animal in Australia, but I forget its name. It's a kind of bear and lives in trees. (USA)
A: It's called a Drop Bear. They are so called because they drop out of Gum trees and eat the brains of anyone walking underneath them. You can scare them off by spraying yourself with human urine before you go out walking.
Ahhh, thank you, Ron.
Deleted it but it was already captured for all eternity.
If anyone is in the vibe-sending mood, we could really use some to bring this house business to a close.
NEW YORK - Bridget Jones is untying the knot. Renee Zellweger, who played the lovelorn Brit in "Bridget Jones's Diary," and country music star Kenny Chesney will have their four-month-old marriage annulled, Chesney's publicist, Holly Gleason, and Zellweger's Los Angeles-based publicist Nanci Ryder, confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday.
If you're a Karen Morrow fan click on this link.
http://blip.tv/file/1580
She's performing at the Onna White Memorial. She tells a VERY funny story about rehearsals for I Had a Ball (w/Buddy Hackett and others) and then sings the title song. You need Quick Time on your computer for the clip to play. If you have high speed it will load very quickly, if you're on dial-up it will take some time.
Of course we're more like Peter Allan and Dame Edna.
The list has been around for a long time and I would suggest it is for real.
The replies are indeed what any Australian might well say.
The questions are indeed typical and would not need to be invented.
Remember -
Many Americans think that the crocodile guy is a star and a typical Australian. Of course we're more like Peter Allan and Dame Edna.
Does Dame Edna misspell Peter's name? ::)She never became used to his "stage name". She didn't ever really get over the marriage to that Lisa Monelli girl.
She never became used to his "stage name". She didn't ever really get over the marriage to that Lisa Monelli girl.
...to the very sad ;):Not another annulment of a celebrity short-time marriage! ::)
Okay, I feel like such a moron- I just made this connection. Not that I am a religious viewer of House, but I never realized that the lead actor, Hugh Laurie, is the dad from the Stuart Little movies.
I have an internal IMDB in my head for current film/tv stars and usually make these connections... just ask Rodzinski who has had to sit through countless movies with me rattling off a history of tv shows the actors have guest starred on. :)
Where did you find that? It has been rumored for weeks, but everything I've read (even today) is her insisting that they are very happy together.
The question for BK is, do you type in "Well, Dear Readers" newly each day, or is it set in a template, always there for you?
It is slightly more impressive if you actually have typed it each day for all these years.
"Turn Down Day" was covered here by pop star Normie Rowe who was to eventually become Australia's Jean Valjean. Don't you love such trivia.