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Title: THE STUPID DAY
Post by: bk on March 29, 2013, 12:11:02 AM
Well, you've read the notes, the notes were stupid, and now it is time for you to post until the stupid cows come home.
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Post by: bk on March 29, 2013, 12:11:35 AM
And the word of the day is: SWIVET!
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Post by: George on March 29, 2013, 12:43:04 AM
From yesterday:

In other news - this is what we're thinking about - Grant really loves it - he normally does the covers - the idea is his, but the execution is Doug Haverty.

(http://i49.tinypic.com/j8nq8h.jpg)

That's a great cover, BK! 

:D
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Post by: FJL on March 29, 2013, 02:50:03 AM
Oh my caught up on yesterday and must apologize for being so non-posting yesterday.

I had a very evil, very sanctimonious almost moustache-twirlingly disturbing email from the evil disturbing lawyer of the even more evil and disturbing Jonathan Frank, who disturbingly remains the beloved video person of long-standing at the otherwise very reputable and respected City center Encores group.  My dealing with the matter in that email took up part of the afternoon, i then needed to write a bit, and we then went to have dinner and see an utterly spectacular show at 54 Below, the stunning cabaret space under Studio 54, which was an escape I needed.  So the evening ended very well, having had a great time and enjoying a great show at 54 below.

But glad to see there was a posting rally here.
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Post by: FJL on March 29, 2013, 03:03:02 AM
BK - i love the cover!
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Post by: FJL on March 29, 2013, 03:05:00 AM
Last night was also the first time we've eaten dinner at 54 Below.  The food is really very good, and you can use it toward your minimum, unlike many places which are drinks-only for that.  nice deal.

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Post by: FJL on March 29, 2013, 03:08:04 AM
Plus - I saw to my surprise for such an elegant place, it's "nice casual" in terms of attire, and people seemed more than perfectly at home in polo shirt and jeans even (mixing with the suits and ties nicely) and no one "called them pisher" (as my mom would say)  for being dressed that way.  That sounds like smart business, just encourages people to drop by after a show without worrying about being all dressed up.
Title: Re: THE STUPID DAY
Post by: Michael on March 29, 2013, 04:11:23 AM
good morning to all
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Post by: Ben on March 29, 2013, 04:17:20 AM
Morning all.

That is all.
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Post by: Ben on March 29, 2013, 04:18:53 AM
I loathe The Office. I work in an office with a mix of smart and nice and stupid and smarmy people. Why would I want to come home and watch the same kind of s**t on television after living through it 5 days a week for the past 21.5 years.
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Post by: Michael on March 29, 2013, 04:24:32 AM
From yesterday:

In other news - this is what we're thinking about - Grant really loves it - he normally does the covers - the idea is his, but the execution is Doug Haverty.

(http://i49.tinypic.com/j8nq8h.jpg)

That's a great cover, BK! 

:D

I didn't know there was a "Music Man" font one can actually buy.

I wonder how many other "musical" fonts are out there for purchase.
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Post by: Michael on March 29, 2013, 04:26:12 AM
Tomorrow is part 2 of season seven including the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who (gets a little confusing). With a new companion the girl who died twice
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Post by: Michael on March 29, 2013, 04:26:56 AM
Tomorrow is part 2 of season seven including the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who (gets a little confusing). With a new companion the girl who died twice

oh forgot

Doctor Who
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 29, 2013, 04:33:50 AM
Good morning, all!

I had a very restless night: I was wide awake around 3:30 while the Rodgers & Hart song "The Pipes of Pansy" ran over and over in my mind. I did dream that I was in London, working at some department store, closing up at midnight, and wandering off with some singers to a recording session.

On the recording front, there has been no word from four of the six baritones I contacted; they're are either working or avoiding me. I hope it's the first.

Today, I am back to Toyland. There's work to be done.

TOD:
  DVD:  OKLAHOMA! (North Carolina), OH, WHAT A LOVELY WAR!, several Netflix
  CD:  Dearest Enemy edits, other Richard Rodgers scores, Guy Haines, Liz Callaway
  VCR: Oy!
Title: Re: THE STUPID DAY
Post by: FJL on March 29, 2013, 04:44:23 AM
Why is this school production being analyzed on this professional level?
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Post by: FJL on March 29, 2013, 04:45:06 AM
I may have missed something on this, though, as to why studnets are being held to this high standard.
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Post by: FJL on March 29, 2013, 04:46:53 AM
I admit I've been away and missed a few days here and there (or more).
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Post by: Ben on March 29, 2013, 04:58:13 AM
Very sad news.

Richard Griffiths (http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/latest-news/article/item179877/actor-griffiths-dies/)

has passed away after complications from heart surgery.
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Post by: Ben on March 29, 2013, 04:59:30 AM
He was phenomenal in The History Boys (both on stage and in the movie).
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Post by: Ginny on March 29, 2013, 05:50:29 AM
Good Friday morning greetings!  We've been downstairs for a light breakfast.  Someone must be trying to catch an elephant in our hotel, because we found a trail of peanuts in the hallway.
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Post by: Kerry on March 29, 2013, 05:50:55 AM
Bruce-- put a sign on the inside of the back door to remind you to run off the alarm before you open it-- that way you can't miss it.
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Post by: Ginny on March 29, 2013, 05:51:14 AM
He was phenomenal in The History Boys (both on stage and in the movie).

We enjoyed him as Harry Potter's Uncle Vernon...
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Post by: Kerry on March 29, 2013, 05:51:39 AM
It's Friday-- good or otherwise.
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Post by: Ginny on March 29, 2013, 05:53:49 AM
In a couple of hours, we'll head north to Ottawa (Ohio, not Canada) to meet great niece Rachel (age 3.5 months) and her family for lunch.
Title: Re: THE STUPID DAY
Post by: ChasSmith on March 29, 2013, 06:26:27 AM
Good morning, all.

Oy!   (Apparently in solidarity with BK's stupid stupid day, I stupidly pulled a muscle in my stupid back yesterday evening, for the second time in this calendar year.  So, I am walking around and sitting and lying down and getting up very very gingerly, as I needs must have this feeling a lot better by Monday which is another all-dayer at the high school.)

More coffee!
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 29, 2013, 06:28:12 AM
Several things I wanted to respond to.  Now what in the stupid hell were they?

I'll go for the coffee, then look back and find them.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 29, 2013, 06:34:27 AM
I cannot wait to hear what the latest "Oriental" score is!  Love that stuff.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 29, 2013, 06:35:10 AM
I'd love to hear BK's own reading of a couple of snippets.
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Post by: Ginny on March 29, 2013, 06:39:39 AM
TOD - We'll be watching basketball tonight.  Michigan and Michigan State both play, but not against each other - yet.  That could happen on April 8, if they each advance to the championship final.  If we want to watch a movie, I brought the LES MIZ DVD and Richard brought his laptop.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 29, 2013, 06:40:42 AM
TOD

CD - BARNUM, B'way and London
DVD - BARNUM  (do you detect a pattern here?) and more Hammer B&Ws
VCR - THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, which I'm happy to find still plays okay whilst I decide which DVD to get
BLU - hmmm...
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 29, 2013, 06:45:36 AM
Oh, I have a dream to report, obviously based on BK's experience with the HELLO, DOLLY! in Washington DC:

I go to see that production, and it's about to begin.  But it's not in Ford's Theatre.  I'm someplace in south Florida on a business trip or something, and this is not the brown DOLLY, but the aqua blue DOLLY.  The conductor starts the proceedings, and they've created an extended, and very bizarre, vamp-like introduction with various antics.  I never do get to see any of it, because I woke before they got through their silly (or stupid) business.  There was also a little more about the Florida venue.
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Post by: Jennifer on March 29, 2013, 06:48:21 AM
BK interesting alarm story. Most of the alarms here are not silent ones. So when you open your door without turning it off the alarm blares. I like the idea of having the alarm on all night. But did you say that you leave your back door unlocked while you jog???
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 29, 2013, 06:52:32 AM
Back gate, not back door.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 29, 2013, 06:53:53 AM
I've just contacted another baritone, Zachary Prince, and we'll see what happens next.

Greetings from Toyland!
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Post by: Jrand74 on March 29, 2013, 06:55:27 AM
DR CHAS SMITH - the Dream-O-Matic 6000 says that your dream indicates that you would like to add more of your own musical style to your playing in the pit, but that you feel duty bound to follow the director's ideas - even if you do not agree.  However, you would rather be involved in a production, than see it from the audience.
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Post by: Jrand74 on March 29, 2013, 06:55:44 AM
Yesterday DR VIXMOM wrote that she helped the Sexton strip!
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Post by: Jrand74 on March 29, 2013, 06:56:04 AM
Good Friday - but then again, aren't they all?
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Post by: Doug R on March 29, 2013, 06:58:16 AM
TOD

Blu-ray - THE SONG OF BERNADETTE

DVD (rental) - SUMMERTIME. Surprisingly, I'd not seen this David Lean film before. I think Lean's main intention must have been to make a travelogue - great photography of Venice but I found the non-plot to be a total bore!
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Post by: Jrand74 on March 29, 2013, 06:58:55 AM
Sad to hear about Richard Griffiths - yes he was most excellent in THE HISTORY BOYS.....and in an episode of Matt LeBlanc's tv series EPISODES. 

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Post by: ChasSmith on March 29, 2013, 06:59:24 AM
I've never seen SUMMERTIME either.
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Post by: Druxy on March 29, 2013, 07:17:06 AM
From yesterday:

In other news - this is what we're thinking about - Grant really loves it - he normally does the covers - the idea is his, but the execution is Doug Haverty.

(http://i49.tinypic.com/j8nq8h.jpg)

That's a great cover, BK! 

:D

Ditto!
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Post by: Druxy on March 29, 2013, 07:17:57 AM
TOD:

LES MISERABLES
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 07:39:16 AM
I loathe The Office. I work in an office with a mix of smart and nice and stupid and smarmy people. Why would I want to come home and watch the same kind of s**t on television after living through it 5 days a week for the past 21.5 years.
Bless you. I've wondered the same thing myself on more than one occasion. And I've only seen the British version, which is hysterically funny but so clammy and close to reality that I can't watch it.
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 07:40:08 AM
TOD

Blu-ray - THE SONG OF BERNADETTE

DVD (rental) - SUMMERTIME. Surprisingly, I'd not seen this David Lean film before. I think Lean's main intention must have been to make a travelogue - great photography of Venice but I found the non-plot to be a total bore!
So you can imagine what the musical version was like.
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 07:41:39 AM
Good morning, all.

Busy morning so far. But thankfully not as irritating as yesterday was.
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 07:42:46 AM
TOD:

Car CD: Parade's End

Home CD: 110 in the Shade

DVD: Don't know if I'll have time to watch anything, but I do have Seven Psychopaths. A real Easter treat, I would imagine.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 29, 2013, 07:47:13 AM
When it comes to the Easter holiday, I am so apathetic. Seven Psychopaths sounds like a great Good Friday movie!
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Post by: Ben on March 29, 2013, 07:54:29 AM
We have no plans for Easter. We may go out for dinner at the last moment but no other plans. My sister in Minnesota works for a devoutly Catholic man so they will close early today for Good Friday.
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Post by: Matthew on March 29, 2013, 09:03:27 AM
Happy Good Friday.  You'll find me in church - from last night til about 1:00pm on Sunday. 
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Post by: Matthew on March 29, 2013, 09:05:41 AM
Good Friday services are my favorite of the 4 days.  The music, the ritual... it's pretty great.  Somehow, "Will I" from "Rent" made it into a meditation on one of the Stations of the Cross, as did "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother".... that's how we roll :)
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 09:08:26 AM
I'm not familiar with this site, but it must be a cousin of The Onion. Still, the story is pretty darn funny.


http://newsmakeup.com/lawyers-argue-that-homosexual-couples-are-corporations-scalia-apologizes-for-previous-discrimination/
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 09:15:12 AM
Good Friday services are my favorite of the 4 days.  The music, the ritual... it's pretty great.  Somehow, "Will I" from "Rent" made it into a meditation on one of the Stations of the Cross, as did "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother".... that's how we roll :)
Did anyone notice either interpolation?

I love traditional Good Friday music. Even more than Easter music.
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Post by: MBarnum on March 29, 2013, 09:16:05 AM
The Hofstetter book cover looks wonderful, BK.


One of these days I will gather up and read all of the Hofstetter books. So far I have only read the first one, which I loved.
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Post by: MBarnum on March 29, 2013, 09:18:25 AM
Had a lovely chat with Laurie Mitchell (star of QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE) and she had her hubby Ron are now settled in their new hom in Murrietta, California.

For those in the mid-west, she will be attending the annual Superman celebration held in Metropolis, Illinois in June. She is quite excited! One of my other interviewees has been invited, and will hopefully attend as well.

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Post by: MBarnum on March 29, 2013, 09:19:16 AM
Took a big load of stuff to the Humane Society Thrift store yesterday after my wild time of spring cleaning. Will take another load there today.
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Post by: MBarnum on March 29, 2013, 09:22:12 AM
TOD:

DVR:
From TCM I recorded the 1930 Rogers and Hart musical SPRING IS HERE and  the 1954 western ARROW IN THE DUST (featuring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, and Keith Larsen).


(I have come the conclusion that Sterling Hayden was not much of an actor..or at least he wasn't in this movie)


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Post by: Jrand74 on March 29, 2013, 10:03:04 AM
Well I have completed filing the Horror/Sci Fi collection of disks into notebooks.....about 400 DVD's......  Still several full shelves of other DVD's - but the time is coming.....
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Post by: Jrand74 on March 29, 2013, 10:03:12 AM
The time is nigh!
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 29, 2013, 10:19:52 AM
400?!

Well, considering I have some 2800 titles in my "file" (spread across DVD, BLU and laserdisc), I suppose finding out that 400 of those are horror isn't exactly an improbability.  It's just hard to picture.  And my stuff is all in shelves, arranged by various directors, categories, etc. that are meaningful to me.  So, hard to tell.
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Post by: Jane on March 29, 2013, 10:21:00 AM
Someone must be trying to catch an elephant in our hotel, because we found a trail of peanuts in the hallway.

;D
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Post by: bk on March 29, 2013, 10:24:43 AM
I'm up after a good night's sleep.
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Post by: bk on March 29, 2013, 10:26:31 AM
I leave both back gate and back door unlocked but obviously closed.  I'm not gone that long - that way I don't have keys annoying me in my pocket.  I turned off the alarm.  Prior to any jog the first place I sit is at the computer and I left the TURN OFF ALARM sign right on the keyboard.
Title: Re: THE STUPID DAY
Post by: Jane on March 29, 2013, 10:29:12 AM
Good Friday services are my favorite of the 4 days.  The music, the ritual... it's pretty great.  Somehow, "Will I" from "Rent" made it into a meditation on one of the Stations of the Cross, as did "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother".... that's how we roll :)

I have been to a beautiful Easter service but never to Good Friday.  It is interesting to read how beautiful it is.  The Easter one I went to was filled with beautiful music and in a large, beautiful, Presbyterian church in Los Angeles.  I don't remember the name of it but I do remember a bit of jaw dropping on my part.  We saw our neighbors there who I'm sure were very surprised to see my mother and me there.  It had been my idea to go and I asked my mother to take me.  I was probably around 11 and was thinking of converting to the religion I thought was my mother's.

I realized I wanted to be Jewish & then found out my mother had also chosen to be Jewish & not just because my father was.
Title: Re: THE STUPID DAY
Post by: bk on March 29, 2013, 10:37:04 AM
Why are none of the theater sites even mentioning that Mr. Griffiths just starred in a hit production in London of The Sunshine Boys with Danny DeVito that is supposedly coming to Broadway?
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Post by: bk on March 29, 2013, 10:40:41 AM
Oops, not Broadway - it was coming to the Ahmanson in LA.
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Post by: Jane on March 29, 2013, 10:43:25 AM
Bruce, being familiar with alarms systems I'm chuckling a bit this morning over your "stupidity".  In different houses we have experienced various alarm systems & each one took a bit of getting used to.  Our first experience was with an alarm company that called before sending the police. 

The big surprise was the first time we discovered an alarm system went directly to the police station. Several days after moving in we were surprised to find the police at our door.  We were told 3 strikes and we were out, meaning we would be billed from then on for the police calls.
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Post by: Jane on March 29, 2013, 10:46:22 AM
I leave both back gate and back door unlocked but obviously closed.  I'm not gone that long - that way I don't have keys annoying me in my pocket.  I turned off the alarm.  Prior to any jog the first place I sit is at the computer and I left the TURN OFF ALARM sign right on the keyboard.

You have an alarm, use it ;)  Leave a note on the back door "do not enter, alarm is set".
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 29, 2013, 11:33:18 AM
And I am home. I think the printer problems are over and the two broken sections have been supplanted by the new ones that arrived today. I currently have two potential leading men for the recording, both good; one my choice, one the producer's. We'll see how fallout goes.
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Post by: Jennifer on March 29, 2013, 11:43:56 AM
I leave both back gate and back door unlocked but obviously closed.  I'm not gone that long - that way I don't have keys annoying me in my pocket.  I turned off the alarm.  Prior to any jog the first place I sit is at the computer and I left the TURN OFF ALARM sign right on the keyboard.

Well hopefully your neighborhood is safe enough to do this. I wouldn't do it and would not think that the alarm company would be too happy about it.
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Post by: Jrand74 on March 29, 2013, 12:05:52 PM
400?!

Well, considering I have some 2800 titles in my "file" (spread across DVD, BLU and laserdisc), I suppose finding out that 400 of those are horror isn't exactly an improbability.  It's just hard to picture.  And my stuff is all in shelves, arranged by various directors, categories, etc. that are meaningful to me.  So, hard to tell.

Horror AND Sci Fi.  Mine are on shelves - but they are two rows deep, and even though I tried to keep them in some kind of order, it was not to be. 

It will take another week or so, but all of them should be done.....then....maybe.....or mostly.
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Post by: Jrand74 on March 29, 2013, 12:07:13 PM
Hmmmm I did not know about that production of The Sunshine Boys.
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Post by: bk on March 29, 2013, 12:19:08 PM
Because I am a corner house and face onto two big streets, it would take a lot of chutzpah to attempt anything here - including my neighbors who are always outside.
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Post by: bk on March 29, 2013, 12:19:33 PM
Back from a three-mile jog and must now go pick up tapes.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 29, 2013, 12:26:07 PM
On the leading man front, I am now getting responses from the ones who didn't respond yesterday, and I have to tell them the role may be filled. I hate this.
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Post by: George on March 29, 2013, 12:35:11 PM
On the leading man front, I am now getting responses from the ones who didn't respond yesterday, and I have to tell them the role may be filled. I hate this.

So you don't only send a request to one person, wait for their response, then go to the next, wait for their response, then go to the next? 

I guess that actually would take a lot of time that you probably don't have. :-\

~~~Vibes that it all works out!!~~~
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 12:59:53 PM
On the leading man front, I am now getting responses from the ones who didn't respond yesterday, and I have to tell them the role may be filled. I hate this.
I think TCB was volunteering to help with the overflow.
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 01:00:08 PM
Slow afternoon. I should be writing.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 29, 2013, 01:05:07 PM
On the leading man front, I am now getting responses from the ones who didn't respond yesterday, and I have to tell them the role may be filled. I hate this.

So you don't only send a request to one person, wait for their response, then go to the next, wait for their response, then go to the next? 

I guess that actually would take a lot of time that you probably don't have. :-\

~~~Vibes that it all works out!!~~~

Thanks!  No, on Wednesday, after losing Ben for the role, I didn't want to think about it, and yesterday I sent out seven inquiries, just like a casting notice: five responded so far, and two have not yet. The producer was pushing me to use one of them because he likes him personally - as do I  - but I was concerned about the role's range. Now that I've heard that the actor is interested, I'll go with him, even if I prefer another, to keep peace.

I've still got seven secondary roles to fill that we will overdub in Manhattan, and all of the people I've contacted about the leading role are all I would be happy to use for the other roles, if they'd like to do them.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 29, 2013, 01:05:56 PM
On the leading man front, I am now getting responses from the ones who didn't respond yesterday, and I have to tell them the role may be filled. I hate this.
I think TCB was volunteering to help with the overflow.

He was volunteering to make overtures.
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 01:10:37 PM
On the leading man front, I am now getting responses from the ones who didn't respond yesterday, and I have to tell them the role may be filled. I hate this.
I think TCB was volunteering to help with the overflow.

He was volunteering to make overtures.
Isn't that just like him? As we would say in Kentucky, bless his pea-pickin' little ol' heart.  :D
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 01:33:39 PM
George, is that a musical version of "Reservoir Dogs"?
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Post by: George on March 29, 2013, 01:43:15 PM
George, is that a musical version of "Reservoir Dogs"?

Nope, just a play adaptation.  The movie is quite non-linear, flashbacks and flashforwards, but Pug (the director and adaptor) had made the show more linear, time-wise.  It still opens with the restaurant scene just before the heist, but then jumps to the beginning and pretty much plays out from that point on.
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Post by: George on March 29, 2013, 01:44:08 PM
Tomorrow is part 2 of season seven including the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who (gets a little confusing). With a new companion the girl who died twice

I'm so excited for this!  And on Sunday is "Doctor Who: Doctors Revisited: The Third Doctor."  This is a series, 3rd of 11, where they feature a biography of each of the actors who've play the Doctor and then show a multi-episode story arc.  Sunday's doctor is Jon Pertwee and the episode is "Spearhead From Space":

Quote
The third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) is featured in the classic 1970 episode "Spearhead From Space." The Doctor battles the Nestene Consciousness, a disembodied alien intelligence out to destroy mankind through the use of plastic replicas.

I'm recording these and making my own DVDs of them. 
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Post by: Jrand74 on March 29, 2013, 01:49:59 PM
She made overtures to a man who never had a friend in this town until she came here....Old Miser Madison....
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Post by: Druxy on March 29, 2013, 02:26:58 PM
Several people, including BK, have suggested that I combine all of my one-person plays into an anthology.  So, that's what I've done.

THE HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS: Ten Plays About Eleven Fabulous People is now available in both paperback and on Kindle.  It contains my plays on Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Carole Lombard, Al Jolson, Errol Flynn, Clara Bow, Orson Welles, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy (a two-person play) and Basil Rathbone.

http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Legends-Eleven-Fabulous-People/dp/1482725673/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364591068&sr=1-1&keywords=the+hollywood+legends

BTW: Thanks, BK, for suggesting the excellent subtitle.
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 02:39:16 PM
Several people, including BK, have suggested that I combine all of my one-person plays into an anthology.  So, that's what I've done.

THE HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS: Ten Plays About Eleven Fabulous People is now available in both paperback and on Kindle.  It contains my plays on Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Carole Lombard, Al Jolson, Errol Flynn, Clara Bow, Orson Welles, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy (a two-person play) and Basil Rathbone.

http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Legends-Eleven-Fabulous-People/dp/1482725673/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364591068&sr=1-1&keywords=the+hollywood+legends

BTW: Thanks, BK, for suggesting the excellent subtitle.

Looks great.
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Post by: KevinH on March 29, 2013, 03:48:05 PM
Good evening!
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Post by: Cillaliz on March 29, 2013, 03:57:03 PM
Good evening.  We had a very busy and good March, so I decided to close at noon today. I didn't go to Good Friday services, I rendered unto Caesar and did my taxes.  It's the one time of the year I'm really happy my take home is less than half of my old take home pay.   I'm 1000% happier, so it's not a big deal.  Luckily we had a good March so I had the cash on hand to pay taxes and put some in my IRA.   I'm glad that's over. 
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Post by: Jane on March 29, 2013, 03:57:12 PM
On the leading man front, I am now getting responses from the ones who didn't respond yesterday, and I have to tell them the role may be filled. I hate this.

~~~Vibes that it all works out!!~~~

DITTO!!!
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Post by: Cillaliz on March 29, 2013, 03:58:06 PM
Time to go meet Paul for Mexican food and beer.   Maybe a margarita is a better idea....hmmmm......
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Post by: Cillaliz on March 29, 2013, 03:58:39 PM
It was a beautiful day here.  Even though I was inside at the computer, it was all good. 
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Post by: Cillaliz on March 29, 2013, 03:58:49 PM
Page 4..
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Post by: Jane on March 29, 2013, 04:01:22 PM
Good evening.  We had a very busy and good March, so I decided to close at noon today. I didn't go to Good Friday services, I rendered unto Caesar and did my taxes.  It's the one time of the year I'm really happy my take home is less than half of my old take home pay.   I'm 1000% happier, so it's not a big deal.  Luckily we had a good March so I had the cash on hand to pay taxes and put some in my IRA.   I'm glad that's over. 

I admire that you have based your work around what you enjoy doing and not the pay check.
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Post by: Cillaliz on March 29, 2013, 04:01:42 PM
My best alarm story is when my dad went into my place at the lake to get something for me and forgot to take the code for the alarm with him.   He tried to call me for the code, but I wasn't in, so when I got to my office to listen to my messages, there was one that was my dad with the siren blaring in the background and he was shouting at the alarm company coming over the speaker saying "I'm her father!!! I'm her father!!!"   I later heard from my friend who was on the contact list that she got a call about a burglar named Gordon who claimed to be my father.  It cracked me up to hear it. 
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Post by: Cillaliz on March 29, 2013, 04:02:03 PM
Good evening.  We had a very busy and good March, so I decided to close at noon today. I didn't go to Good Friday services, I rendered unto Caesar and did my taxes.  It's the one time of the year I'm really happy my take home is less than half of my old take home pay.   I'm 1000% happier, so it's not a big deal.  Luckily we had a good March so I had the cash on hand to pay taxes and put some in my IRA.   I'm glad that's over. 

I admire that you have based your work around what you enjoy doing and not the pay check.

I tried that....wasn't happy.  Life's too short
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Post by: Cillaliz on March 29, 2013, 04:02:23 PM
Time to go meet Paul for Mexican food and either beer or margaritas
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Post by: Jane on March 29, 2013, 04:04:12 PM
Several people, including BK, have suggested that I combine all of my one-person plays into an anthology.  So, that's what I've done.

THE HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS: Ten Plays About Eleven Fabulous People is now available in both paperback and on Kindle.  It contains my plays on Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Carole Lombard, Al Jolson, Errol Flynn, Clara Bow, Orson Welles, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy (a two-person play) and Basil Rathbone.

http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Legends-Eleven-Fabulous-People/dp/1482725673/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364591068&sr=1-1&keywords=the+hollywood+legends

BTW: Thanks, BK, for suggesting the excellent subtitle.

It is an excellent subtitle. :)

Wishing you much success with the new book.
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Post by: Jane on March 29, 2013, 04:05:16 PM
I later heard from my friend who was on the contact list that she got a call about a burglar named Gordon who claimed to be my father.  It cracked me up to hear it. 

;D
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Post by: Jane on March 29, 2013, 04:06:02 PM
Good evening.  We had a very busy and good March, so I decided to close at noon today. I didn't go to Good Friday services, I rendered unto Caesar and did my taxes.  It's the one time of the year I'm really happy my take home is less than half of my old take home pay.   I'm 1000% happier, so it's not a big deal.  Luckily we had a good March so I had the cash on hand to pay taxes and put some in my IRA.   I'm glad that's over. 

I admire that you have based your work around what you enjoy doing and not the pay check.

I tried that....wasn't happy.  Life's too short

Too many people would not have had the courage to make the changes you did.
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Post by: Jane on March 29, 2013, 04:14:05 PM
I love the face on this cat.
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/579028_10151301697540950_1041362968_n.jpg)
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Post by: George on March 29, 2013, 04:27:28 PM
That is one cute cat, Jane!
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Post by: Ginny on March 29, 2013, 04:31:57 PM
We are in for the evening after a delightful day.  We met our great niece Rachel, who is the sweetest baby.  Her brothers, ages 8 and 5, are crazy about her.  Came back to the hotel and I read, then slept, until it was time  to go to church for Evening Prayer and Stations of the Cross.  Afterwards, we picked up tuna sandwiches at Subway and came back to the hotel for Mee-chigan basketball -  Go, Blue!
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Post by: Jennifer on March 29, 2013, 04:32:43 PM
The library has the dvd of LES MIS waiting for me. Can't wait to see this!
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Post by: Jennifer on March 29, 2013, 04:33:26 PM
Also I really want to go see the movie THE HOST. I was thinking of this Tuesday. But now I think it will have to be next Tuesday. I'm curious to see what others who have read the book think.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 29, 2013, 04:38:19 PM
Time to go meet Paul for Mexican food and either beer or margaritas

All three sound great!
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 04:42:12 PM
Time to go meet Paul for Mexican food and either beer or margaritas

All three sound great!
Exactly.
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 04:42:24 PM
Except I'm headed off to services in a few.
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Post by: Laura on March 29, 2013, 05:04:53 PM
I had a great day hiking. I am so tired that I am ready to go to bed. It is 5:07 p.m. here.
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Post by: Jane on March 29, 2013, 05:15:00 PM
That is one cute cat, Jane!

Glad you agree.
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Post by: Jane on March 29, 2013, 05:18:09 PM
I accompanied Keith to Home Depot today.  While there I kept wondering why I felt he needed my company. 

On the way home we stopped at the Redbox and picked up a Blue-ray disc of LINCOLN. :)
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Post by: Ginny on March 29, 2013, 05:56:00 PM
Time to go meet Paul for Mexican food and either beer or margaritas

All three sound great!

Yes, indeedy!
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Post by: Jane on March 29, 2013, 06:17:50 PM
Post deleted.  I found the missing link & the answer to my question.
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Post by: bk on March 29, 2013, 06:20:36 PM
I gotta tell you.
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Post by: bk on March 29, 2013, 06:21:30 PM
Picked up tapes, which I don't think are what I need, had two tuna sandwiches, and watched a motion picture I had to watch for purposes other than enjoyment although it was extremely enjoyable.  Then I conked out for an hour.
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Post by: TCB on March 29, 2013, 06:21:53 PM
I loathe The Office. I work in an office with a mix of smart and nice and stupid and smarmy people. Why would I want to come home and watch the same kind of s**t on television after living through it 5 days a week for the past 21.5 years.

Has anyone else noticed how feiasty DR Ben has become?
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Post by: TCB on March 29, 2013, 06:22:31 PM
Have we heard from Ron lately?
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Post by: TCB on March 29, 2013, 06:31:17 PM
TOD

CD - BARNUM, B'way and London
DVD - BARNUM  (do you detect a pattern here?) and more Hammer B&Ws
VCR - THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, which I'm happy to find still plays okay whilst I decide which DVD to get
BLU - hmmm...


Chas, I assume the BARNUM DVD is the Michael Crawford production.  Is that correct?  JIm Dale seemed to live and breathe the role on Broadway.  He and some woman named Glenn who played his wife.
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Post by: TCB on March 29, 2013, 06:42:40 PM
Michigan!


Wow!
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 29, 2013, 06:43:01 PM
TOD

CD - BARNUM, B'way and London
DVD - BARNUM  (do you detect a pattern here?) and more Hammer B&Ws
VCR - THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, which I'm happy to find still plays okay whilst I decide which DVD to get
BLU - hmmm...


Chas, I assume the BARNUM DVD is the Michael Crawford production.  Is that correct?  JIm Dale seemed to live and breath the role on Broadway.  He and some woman named Glenn who played his wife.

Yes, the Michael Crawford.  Is there any video of Jim Dale?  I haven't begun snooping around for anything yet.
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Post by: TCB on March 29, 2013, 06:45:49 PM


(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u271/actr2000/Whatsthis_zps8a548935.jpg)
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 29, 2013, 06:46:50 PM
Back from running hither and yon most of the day.  As it turned out, the hither was much more interesting and productive than the yon.  But I got a GREAT Shake Shack cheeseburger out of heading in the direction of the yon, so it wasn't a total waste.
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Post by: Jane on March 29, 2013, 06:46:53 PM
Michigan!


Wow!

My brother & niece will be happy. 
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Post by: TCB on March 29, 2013, 06:46:59 PM
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Post by: George on March 29, 2013, 06:50:35 PM


(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u271/actr2000/Whatsthis_zps8a548935.jpg)

:o
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Post by: George on March 29, 2013, 06:52:24 PM
And on that note (pick a note...any note), I'm off to see a local production of Oliver!  I'm sure that it'll be very good.

Be back later!
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 06:58:04 PM
My thoughts exactly, George.
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 06:59:01 PM
Didn't go for the margarita. Am enjoying a nice gin and vermouth, however. Hopefully, it will make writing a little easier.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 29, 2013, 07:02:20 PM


(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u271/actr2000/Whatsthis_zps8a548935.jpg)

:o

I don't even wanna know!
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 29, 2013, 07:02:55 PM
And on that, I'm taking my Jane Austen biography to bed.
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Post by: Cillaliz on March 29, 2013, 07:07:04 PM
Good evening.  We had a very busy and good March, so I decided to close at noon today. I didn't go to Good Friday services, I rendered unto Caesar and did my taxes.  It's the one time of the year I'm really happy my take home is less than half of my old take home pay.   I'm 1000% happier, so it's not a big deal.  Luckily we had a good March so I had the cash on hand to pay taxes and put some in my IRA.   I'm glad that's over. 

I admire that you have based your work around what you enjoy doing and not the pay check.

I tried that....wasn't happy.  Life's too short

Too many people would not have had the courage to make the changes you did.

Thanks. I've been lucky that the changes I've made have worked out.  I'm just way to independent not to change. 
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Post by: Cillaliz on March 29, 2013, 07:07:18 PM
I love the face on this cat.
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/579028_10151301697540950_1041362968_n.jpg)

Cool!
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Post by: Cillaliz on March 29, 2013, 07:08:26 PM
Time to go meet Paul for Mexican food and either beer or margaritas

All three sound great!

I had a chicken chimichanga and a strawberry margarita.  It was very yummy.   
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Post by: Jane on March 29, 2013, 07:12:44 PM
Good evening.  We had a very busy and good March, so I decided to close at noon today. I didn't go to Good Friday services, I rendered unto Caesar and did my taxes.  It's the one time of the year I'm really happy my take home is less than half of my old take home pay.   I'm 1000% happier, so it's not a big deal.  Luckily we had a good March so I had the cash on hand to pay taxes and put some in my IRA.   I'm glad that's over. 

I admire that you have based your work around what you enjoy doing and not the pay check.

I tried that....wasn't happy.  Life's too short

Too many people would not have had the courage to make the changes you did.

Thanks. I've been lucky that the changes I've made have worked out.  I'm just way to independent not to change. 

Lucky, talented and a hard worker.
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Post by: Jane on March 29, 2013, 07:14:18 PM
'night
Title: Re: THE STUPID DAY
Post by: TCB on March 29, 2013, 07:50:07 PM
vixmom, why aren't you at church?
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Post by: TCB on March 29, 2013, 07:51:06 PM
Oh, I guess it is almost 11:00
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Post by: TCB on March 29, 2013, 07:52:39 PM


(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u271/actr2000/Whatsthis_zps8a548935.jpg)

:o

I don't even wanna know!


You perverts, it is a photo of a puppy!
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Post by: bk on March 29, 2013, 08:01:18 PM
Yes, where in tarnation IS Ron Pulliam. 
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Post by: Cillaliz on March 29, 2013, 08:01:37 PM
Good evening.  We had a very busy and good March, so I decided to close at noon today. I didn't go to Good Friday services, I rendered unto Caesar and did my taxes.  It's the one time of the year I'm really happy my take home is less than half of my old take home pay.   I'm 1000% happier, so it's not a big deal.  Luckily we had a good March so I had the cash on hand to pay taxes and put some in my IRA.   I'm glad that's over. 

I admire that you have based your work around what you enjoy doing and not the pay check.

I tried that....wasn't happy.  Life's too short

Too many people would not have had the courage to make the changes you did.

Thanks. I've been lucky that the changes I've made have worked out.  I'm just way to independent not to change. 

Lucky, talented and a hard worker.

Ah, thanks Jane.  As many here can attest, you have to be willing to work hard if you want to work for yourself
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Post by: bk on March 29, 2013, 08:01:54 PM
This is a night of work - preparing track titles for three projects, starting on the liner notes for all three, at long last.  Had some fruit.
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Post by: Cillaliz on March 29, 2013, 08:02:06 PM


(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u271/actr2000/Whatsthis_zps8a548935.jpg)

:o

I don't even wanna know!


You perverts, it is a photo of a puppy!

I was going to say "What a dog!"
Title: Re: THE STUPID DAY
Post by: TCB on March 29, 2013, 08:13:26 PM
We have no plans for Easter. We may go out for dinner at the last moment but no other plans. My sister in Minnesota works for a devoutly Catholic man so they will close early today for Good Friday.


Even though it was in the early 80's, the people on the London tour that I escorted were shocked that most of London closed down from Good Friday until Sunday.
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Post by: TCB on March 29, 2013, 08:21:13 PM
400?!

Well, considering I have some 2800 titles in my "file" (spread across DVD, BLU and laserdisc), I suppose finding out that 400 of those are horror isn't exactly an improbability.  It's just hard to picture.  And my stuff is all in shelves, arranged by various directors, categories, etc. that are meaningful to me.  So, hard to tell.
And I thought I was anal!
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Post by: TCB on March 29, 2013, 08:31:24 PM
Good Friday services are my favorite of the 4 days.  The music, the ritual... it's pretty great.  Somehow, "Will I" from "Rent" made it into a meditation on one of the Stations of the Cross, as did "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother".... that's how we roll :)

I have been to a beautiful Easter service but never to Good Friday.  It is interesting to read how beautiful it is.  The Easter one I went to was filled with beautiful music and in a large, beautiful, Presbyterian church in Los Angeles.  I don't remember the name of it but I do remember a bit of jaw dropping on my part.  We saw our neighbors there who I'm sure were very surprised to see my mother and me there.  It had been my idea to go and I asked my mother to take me.  I was probably around 11 and was thinking of converting to the religion I thought was my mother's.

I realized I wanted to be Jewish & then found out my mother had also chosen to be Jewish & not just because my father was.



Considering you could have been a crazy Presbyterian, I guess we should be glad that you are Jewish!
Title: Re: THE STUPID DAY
Post by: TCB on March 29, 2013, 08:33:45 PM
Why are none of the theater sites even mentioning that Mr. Griffiths just starred in a hit production in London of The Sunshine Boys with Danny DeVito that is supposedly coming to Broadway?

Because Mr. Griffiths will no longer be connected to the project.
Title: Re: THE STUPID DAY
Post by: TCB on March 29, 2013, 08:38:58 PM
On the leading man front, I am now getting responses from the ones who didn't respond yesterday, and I have to tell them the role may be filled. I hate this.
I think TCB was volunteering to help with the overflow.



My, you do know how to turn a phrase.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 29, 2013, 08:45:27 PM
When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 29, 2013, 08:45:38 PM
Or so I've heard.
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 08:46:01 PM
On the leading man front, I am now getting responses from the ones who didn't respond yesterday, and I have to tell them the role may be filled. I hate this.
I think TCB was volunteering to help with the overflow.



My, you do know how to turn a phrase.
Thank you, kind sir.
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Post by: John G. on March 29, 2013, 08:46:26 PM
Story finished. Now on to the paper. I wish it would finish itself.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 29, 2013, 08:56:52 PM
I'm afraid it won't even take us to PAGE SIX by itself.
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Post by: TCB on March 29, 2013, 08:58:30 PM
TOD

CD - BARNUM, B'way and London
DVD - BARNUM  (do you detect a pattern here?) and more Hammer B&Ws
VCR - THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, which I'm happy to find still plays okay whilst I decide which DVD to get
BLU - hmmm...


Chas, I assume the BARNUM DVD is the Michael Crawford production.  Is that correct?  JIm Dale seemed to live and breath the role on Broadway.  He and some woman named Glenn who played his wife.

Yes, the Michael Crawford.  Is there any video of Jim Dale?  I haven't begun snooping around for anything yet.

I wish.
Title: Re: THE STUPID DAY
Post by: TCB on March 29, 2013, 09:00:13 PM
I accompanied Keith to Home Depot today.  While there I kept wondering why I felt he needed my company. 

On the way home we stopped at the Redbox and picked up a Blue-ray disc of LINCOLN. :)


In case Keith couldn't remember the name of the movie?
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Post by: bk on March 29, 2013, 09:00:25 PM
Working and listening to music.  I've done the track lists for three projects now, so that's out of the way.  Prepped to begin notes, but won't start that until tomorrow, as I've got the day to myself and Sunday, too, unless some Easter Bunny shows up to help celebrate Easter.
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Post by: Matthew on March 29, 2013, 10:15:08 PM
Good Friday services are my favorite of the 4 days.  The music, the ritual... it's pretty great.  Somehow, "Will I" from "Rent" made it into a meditation on one of the Stations of the Cross, as did "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother".... that's how we roll :)
Did anyone notice either interpolation?

I love traditional Good Friday music. Even more than Easter music.

I'm not sure anyone noticed, but as far as I know, no one complained.  I work at an "order" Parish and it is staffed by Capuchin Franciscans, and the Provincial pulled me aside and told me how much he enjoyed all the music today.  It was good to hear.

After the Good Friday service, I went for a hike, and that was just what I needed, total bliss.