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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were in the style of the Jewbuki, and now it is time for you to post until the Jewbuki kows kome home.
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And the word of the day is: HYPNAGOGIC!
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First post after BK!
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First post after TCB!
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And now, to bed. 8)
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Thursday morning greetings! Up early to head north of Chicken Bristle Road for my collage class.
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Thank you to DR John G for last night's vibes for my sister. Hope you're feeling better today.
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DR Vixmom, thank you for last night's vibes for my sister. Please accept mine for your young church friend.
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Good morning to all
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Health vibes to all that need them
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TOD
I would do it like the MGM musical The Ziegeld Follies where the late Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue. Dubin looks down from heaven and tells his story cleaned up like a MGM musical. (Even though he was Warner Bros)
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Last night the Vixter and I watched The Martian,
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We quite enjoyed it. Vixter was unfamiliar with the material and was really drawn into the story Vixdad and I listened to the book on tape last January on our drive home from Florida and I thought it was very well done
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Loved Matt Damon as the astronaut
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Thursday morning greetings! Up early to head north of Chicken Bristle Road for my collage class.
Will you be getting collage credit?
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Thank you for the vibes for Alexa... She really is an extraditinary young woman . I ask those that pray to please keep her in your prayers
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And do to work
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What is TCB doing up at this time of the morning?
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Beats me.
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Slept about ninety minutes, woke up, and haven't been able to sleep since. Damn them, damn them all to hell.
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I got up and came in to the big boy computer to find the Airport device blinking yellow. In days of old, I would have freaked out, unplugged, replugged and gone nuts. But I know the deal - it had a firmware update to do - so I went to Utilities opened it and voila I was right, I did the update and all is well.
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I suppose I'll go back to sleep at some point, but the alarm is set for eleven so I don't sleep through half the day.
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Good morning, all!
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Today I am summer-izing my bed. I need to hit the laundry down the street this morning before the heat settles in for the day/
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This morning, while the laundry is washing, I need to look over the formatting of the new orchestra parts for the overture so we can submit this thing to Music Theatre International.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Healthy Vibes to the young friend of DR vixmom! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Good morning, all.
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Coffee!!
First things first, after all.
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I did a put-together meal last night (from the takeout at Stew Leonard's) that was ultimately unsatisfying. Not one of my better efforts. Jewbuki would have been just the ticket.
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DR Elmore, dare I ask (No!!!) if you are using Finale yourself in any way on the Loesser project?
What with my schedule and obligations over the past month, I'm afraid those lovely tutorials were demoted to zero on the priority scale. I'll get back to them soon, since it's become a thing I'm stubbornly determined to say I've accomplished.
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DR Elmore, dare I ask (No!!!) if you are using Finale yourself in any way on the Loesser project?
What with my schedule and obligations over the past month, I'm afraid those lovely tutorials were demoted to zero on the priority scale. I'll get back to them soon, since it's become a thing I'm stubbornly determined to say I've accomplished.
Only for playback and examining scores. I thought we had discussed by Finale incompetence here several times.
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!! 2 !!
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More coffee!
Good thing I remembered to pick some up at the store last night. I would otherwise have had one (1) (count'em) cup left for this morning, and the world would not have fared well had that been the case.
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All hell is breaking loose at the laundromat: I inserted 20 quarters into the washer, which told me I had entered 17 and stopped there. I needed to get the manager who refunded me $5.00 in quarters. Then I went to buy soap and the three quarters jammed in the machine. This could be a loooooooong day at the laundromat. Those mothers need some maintenance.
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DR Elmore, dare I ask (No!!!) if you are using Finale yourself in any way on the Loesser project?
What with my schedule and obligations over the past month, I'm afraid those lovely tutorials were demoted to zero on the priority scale. I'll get back to them soon, since it's become a thing I'm stubbornly determined to say I've accomplished.
Only for playback and examining scores. I thought we had discussed by Finale incompetence here several times.
Oh yes, and that's all I meant.
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We should be reaching 90 degrees today. I ran the air conditioning for a little while yesterday afternoon for its first time this year. By this afternoon I'm sure it will be back to full time. Summer, she is here.
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Good morning, all.
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We should be reaching 90 degrees today. I ran the air conditioning for a little while yesterday afternoon for its first time this year. By this afternoon I'm sure it will be back to full time. Summer, she is here.
I did as well. When it was cold enough to hang meat in the apartment, I turned it off.
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More coffee!
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TOD:
Like your approach, DR Michael. I just wonder if Al would be looking down from above or looking up from below.
I would show Al in one of his late-life drug-induced euphorias and use that as a tie-in to those trippy Busby Berkeley fantasies. It could be like Jelly's Last Jam, where the unsavory character is granted a chance to look over his life in an attempt for achieving some form of redemption, however fictional that might be.
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The cold is still here. Nose runnier than yesterday. Thankfully, I'm working from home today. If it gets to be too much, I can just quit for a while.
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Sending out good vibes for everybody.
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More vibes for Alexa - friend of DR VIXMOM.
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I don't know from Jewbuki - but I have heard of Jewbooty.
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Show ran just over two hours last night. We had some temporary lights, which was helpful in defining the spaces we have to ACT and SING in.
There are some nice things in the show - not enough to move it into the category of a "good" show - but it's not AWFUL. I'm talking about the show not the production...
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Most schools in my area ended yesterday so the streets are full of screaming children....and the stores will be full of them as well.
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TOD:
I guess.....I would have my lead character be a catalyst for everyone around him and have them make changes in their lives when they see what a jerk he is...in the end, they have changed for the better - and he is still a jerk.
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There is a number in the show that is NOT working.....well MORE than one. But one of the assistant directors talked to me about it last night. It wasn't one that I had been asked to work on.
I told her I would think about it.....I looked around on YouTube and it seems that EVERYONE had a problem staging it.
Then.....this morning I woke up with the answer....so perhaps we shall try it tonight.
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I saw my super on the street, and he says he has not officially been sacked since there's been no word from the management. What the hell is our building manager doing by telling people in the building before notifying the employee?
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This afternoon, I am going to host a screening of THE MALTESE FALCON at the Terrazas Branch of the Austin Public Library.
If we don't get rained out, it should be fun.
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I also saw Jason Robards in HUGHIE at the Huntington Hartford.
It was a matinee and I had the feeling that he was "walking through" the performance, but he was still brilliant.
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More vibes for Alexa - friend of DR VIXMOM.
And more vibes.
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There is a number in the show that is NOT working.....well MORE than one. But one of the assistant directors talked to me about it last night. It wasn't one that I had been asked to work on.
I told her I would think about it.....I looked around on YouTube and it seems that EVERYONE had a problem staging it.
Then.....this morning I woke up with the answer....so perhaps we shall try it tonight.
I like answers that come like that.
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TOD:
I think the same solution would apply with a straight play or a musical.
It's no secret that Rex Harrison was disliked by most people who worked with him. So, in my play, SEXY REXY, I made him the butt of the jokes. He was such an outrageous a**hole that you sympathize with the other characters (e.g. Lilli Palmer, Kay Kendall, Rachel Roberts, Carole Landis), all of whom are "ghosts," and laugh AT Harrison.
I had a similar situation with my one-person play, JOLSON, but people go to an Al Jolson play to hear the songs. They "forgive" Jolson's being an a**hole when he sings.
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Had never heard that most people who worked with him disliked Rex Harrison.
Audrey Hepburn adored him from all accounts. I guess he had his idols, too.
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Having my coffee at my desk.
I don't really know what today "feels like". When I woke up, I wanted it to be Saturday.
Then I remembered I have tomorrow off.
Now it's sort of like an obligatory intro to the four-day weekend I have coming up.
Today is a birthday lunch for a co-worker. "I" organized this one. I got the birthday boy to tell me where he would like to be feted. After that, I issued the invites to department co-workers and some outside "adopted" co-workers.
That was last week.
This week I asked for volunteers to transport our "10" (count 'em 10) attendees to the restaurant via a carpool
I had four volunteers, two of whom I challenged to flip a coin because they could each take three other passengers and I had already enough cars for the remaining six passengers.
Now it's all settled. I have issued an e-mail telling everyone with whom they are riding.
So organized. So tidy. And so unlike our get-togethers in that everyone knows exactly how they are getting there and with whom, well in advance of the event.
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Health vibes to all that need them
DITTO!
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Loved Matt Damon as the astronaut
So did I, but then I never read the book.
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More vibes for Alexa - friend of DR VIXMOM.
DITTO!
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No Rain vibes for DR DRUXY and Bogie.
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That does sound organized DR RLP! And I am sure everyone appreciated it.
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TOD:
Well, I'm not sure. If I had free reign, I think I might look for a way to have a narrator do commentary to the audience in between the "unpleasant" scenes. Since Dubin, like Larry Hart, was very talented, that talent can be displayed to wonderful effect while the "true-to-life" stuff needs to be lightened with a commentary that suggests various ailments/psychoses that plagued the central character throughout his life.
For pity's sake, though, don't pull the stuffings out of the character. Look at the botch that MGM perpetrated upon Larry Hart's memory in "Words and Music" by making his angst a love sickness for Betty Garrett's character (and she wasn't buying into Hart in any way). So faux tragic.
Very much like the whitewash of Cole Porter by the Warner Brothers. But, I digress...
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Most schools in my area ended yesterday so the streets are full of screaming children....and the stores will be full of them as well.
This seems very early to me. I think of mid-June as the end of school. Craig's district has a number of snow days to add on making the year longer.
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I won $50 on a scratch off lottery ticket that I bought using a $10 winning ticket from last week.
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Most schools in my area ended yesterday so the streets are full of screaming children....and the stores will be full of them as well.
This seems very early to me. I think of mid-June as the end of school. Craig's district has a number of snow days to add on making the year longer.
Jrand lives in an agricultural state. Maybe the schools let out early so's the younguns could start plowin' and plantin'?
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I saw my super on the street, and he says he has not officially been sacked since there's been no word from the management. What the hell is our building manager doing by telling people in the building before notifying the employee?
Hopefully he won'the be sacked and your letter will make a difference.
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DR Ron your place of work really knows how to celebrate.
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I won $50 on a scratch off lottery ticket that I bought using a $10 winning ticket from last week.
Congrats.
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Most schools in my area ended yesterday so the streets are full of screaming children....and the stores will be full of them as well.
This seems very early to me. I think of mid-June as the end of school. Craig's district has a number of snow days to add on making the year longer.
Jrand lives in an agricultural state. Maybe the schools let out early so's the younguns could start plowin' and plantin'?
😁
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That does sound organized DR RLP! And I am sure everyone appreciated it.
Will the celebrations be as grand once Ron retires?
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If a Kabuki restaurant opened in River City, Iowa, and some Jewish folks dined there, would they nickname it JewPoopi?
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Re: BK's comment: "I was picked up by the Pearls".
OUCH!
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That does sound organized DR RLP! And I am sure everyone appreciated it.
Will the celebrations be as grand once Ron retires?
Ron will slink out undetected!!!
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I think my job is done here for the nonce!!!
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TOD:
Well, I'm not sure. If I had free reign, I think I might look for a way to have a narrator do commentary to the audience in between the "unpleasant" scenes. Since Dubin, like Larry Hart, was very talented, that talent can be displayed to wonderful effect while the "true-to-life" stuff needs to be lightened with a commentary that suggests various ailments/psychoses that plagued the central character throughout his life.
For pity's sake, though, don't pull the stuffings out of the character. Look at the botch that MGM perpetrated upon Larry Hart's memory in "Words and Music" by making his angst a love sickness for Betty Garrett's character (and she wasn't buying into Hart in any way). So faux tragic.
Very much like the whitewash of Cole Porter by the Warner Brothers. But, I digress...
When they made WORDS AND MUSIC, there was no way they could show the "real" Larry Hart. Same thing with Cole Porter in NIGHT AND DAY. Of course, years later, Kevin Kline did a more realistic Porter in DE-LOVELY.
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Thanks DR JANE.
I don't think we had to use any snow days this year....maybe one....so our schools didn't have anything to make up. Way back when i was in school back in the 20th Century, we were always out by Memorial Day....the Indy 500 meant that our summer vacation had begun.
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No sleep for me - just can't fall asleep and I'm bored of just laying or lying there like so much fish.
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More vibes for vixmom's friend Alexa.
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That does sound organized DR RLP! And I am sure everyone appreciated it.
Will the celebrations be as grand once Ron retires?
Ron will slink out undetected!!!
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Thanks DR JANE.
I don't think we had to use any snow days this year....maybe one....so our schools didn't have anything to make up. Way back when i was in school back in the 20th Century, we were always out by Memorial Day....the Indy 500 meant that our summer vacation had begun.
Out by Memorial day-fun. :)
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This day has a real Friday aspect: little traffic on the Upper West Side, so I'm guessing people are making a really long weekend out of Memorial Day.
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The laundry is finished and the bed made.
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Most schools in my area ended yesterday so the streets are full of screaming children....and the stores will be full of them as well.
This seems very early to me. I think of mid-June as the end of school. Craig's district has a number of snow days to add on making the year longer.
It seems crazy to me too. But lots of places seem to have schools that end in May. Here it is the end of June.
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TOD:
Well, I'm not sure. If I had free reign, I think I might look for a way to have a narrator do commentary to the audience in between the "unpleasant" scenes. Since Dubin, like Larry Hart, was very talented, that talent can be displayed to wonderful effect while the "true-to-life" stuff needs to be lightened with a commentary that suggests various ailments/psychoses that plagued the central character throughout his life.
For pity's sake, though, don't pull the stuffings out of the character. Look at the botch that MGM perpetrated upon Larry Hart's memory in "Words and Music" by making his angst a love sickness for Betty Garrett's character (and she wasn't buying into Hart in any way). So faux tragic.
Very much like the whitewash of Cole Porter by the Warner Brothers. But, I digress...
When they made WORDS AND MUSIC, there was no way they could show the "real" Larry Hart. Same thing with Cole Porter in NIGHT AND DAY. Of course, years later, Kevin Kline did a more realistic Porter in DE-LOVELY.
Except De-Lovely was as fictional as Night and Day. Linda Lee, for example, was much older than Cole and there was never an issue of her having a child.
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Today is the 78th birthday of the great opera star Teresa Stratas!
She played Offenbach's La Perichole several times for the Metropolitan Opera. Here's the 1971 broadcast of Perichole's Act One "Letter song":
https://soundcloud.com/user5614139/la-perichole-letter-song-1971
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Today is the 78th birthday of the great opera star Teresa Stratas!
She played Offenbach's La Perichole several times for the Metropolitan Opera. Here's the 1971 broadcast of Perichole's Act One "Letter song":
https://soundcloud.com/user5614139/la-perichole-letter-song-1971
And an incredible Jenny in Mahagonny!
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Today is the 78th birthday of the great opera star Teresa Stratas!
She played Offenbach's La Perichole several times for the Metropolitan Opera. Here's the 1971 broadcast of Perichole's Act One "Letter song":
https://soundcloud.com/user5614139/la-perichole-letter-song-1971
And an incredible Jenny in Mahagonny!
She was fantastic in RAGS on Broadway, and her Julie on John McGlinn's SHOW BOAT recording makes me cry.
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Our neighbor just returned from Toronto where she was told the second t is silent. Is this true?
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Today is the 78th birthday of the great opera star Teresa Stratas!
She played Offenbach's La Perichole several times for the Metropolitan Opera. Here's the 1971 broadcast of Perichole's Act One "Letter song":
https://soundcloud.com/user5614139/la-perichole-letter-song-1971
And an incredible Jenny in Mahagonny!
She was fantastic in RAGS on Broadway, and her Julie on John McGlinn's SHOW BOAT recording makes me cry.
I love the RAGS recording with Julia Migenes, but I wish Teresa could've been on the recording.
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And since we're so close...
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PAGE FOUR RAGS DANCE!!
(http://www.nycitycenter.org/content/images_2.0/misc/blog-rags2.jpg)
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Healthy Vibes to the young friend of DR vixmom! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~DITTO!!~~~
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Loved Matt Damon as the astronaut
So did I, but then I never read the book.
I read it. It was very good with lots of detail that drew me in completely.
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I won $50 on a scratch off lottery ticket that I bought using a $10 winning ticket from last week.
Double congrats to you!!
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Thursday morning greetings! Up early to head north of Chicken Bristle Road for my collage class.
Will you be getting collage credit?
I gave it the old collage try, DR TCB! I got home a little after noon, had lunch, and then slept for a couple of hours. Making up for last night's fitful sleep and early wake-up call.
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Most schools in my area ended yesterday so the streets are full of screaming children....and the stores will be full of them as well.
This seems very early to me. I think of mid-June as the end of school. Craig's district has a number of snow days to add on making the year longer.
Jrand lives in an agricultural state. Maybe the schools let out early so's the younguns could start plowin' and plantin'?
It's all about the proficiency testing that education's all about these days. The testing takes place in March, so in order to get in as many school days beforehand they have to start the year early in August. Once the tests are over, nothing productive happens and as soon as the required 180 days are complete - school's out.
Not sayin' it's right, but it's been that way since Rob was in 6th grade or so.
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I remember T. Stratas in the documentary on the recording of a WEST SIDE STORY LP.....I think Kiri was also involved in it.....and that guy who can't speak English well...
Stratas came to each recording session dressed up and looking like a million dollars and did her thing - no muss no fuss.....Bernstein loved her.....
And didn't she played the Old Lady in a production of CANDIDE that was on TV?
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Well anyway....another run thru night....so I must be off....
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Today is the 78th birthday of the great opera star Teresa Stratas!
She played Offenbach's La Perichole several times for the Metropolitan Opera. Here's the 1971 broadcast of Perichole's Act One "Letter song":
https://soundcloud.com/user5614139/la-perichole-letter-song-1971
And an incredible Jenny in Mahagonny!
She was fantastic in RAGS on Broadway, and her Julie on John McGlinn's SHOW BOAT recording makes me cry.
Another reason it's one of the all time great recordings.
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DR Jrand65, are you thinking of Tatiana Troyanos on the WEST SIDE STORY?
It's been ages since I've listened to that, or watched the documentary - which I've recently wanted to see again, now that you mention it.
And I think I still only have it on laserdisc. (Those were the days...)
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I remember T. Stratas in the documentary on the recording of a WEST SIDE STORY LP.....I think Kiri was also involved in it.....and that guy who can't speak English well...
Stratas came to each recording session dressed up and looking like a million dollars and did her thing - no muss no fuss.....Bernstein loved her.....
And didn't she played the Old Lady in a production of CANDIDE that was on TV?
She couldn't be. She isn't on it. You're thinking of Tatiana Troyanos.
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Whoa! Great minds, etc....
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Whoa! Great minds, etc....
LOL!
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TOD:
Well, I'm not sure. If I had free reign, I think I might look for a way to have a narrator do commentary to the audience in between the "unpleasant" scenes. Since Dubin, like Larry Hart, was very talented, that talent can be displayed to wonderful effect while the "true-to-life" stuff needs to be lightened with a commentary that suggests various ailments/psychoses that plagued the central character throughout his life.
For pity's sake, though, don't pull the stuffings out of the character. Look at the botch that MGM perpetrated upon Larry Hart's memory in "Words and Music" by making his angst a love sickness for Betty Garrett's character (and she wasn't buying into Hart in any way). So faux tragic.
Very much like the whitewash of Cole Porter by the Warner Brothers. But, I digress...
When they made WORDS AND MUSIC, there was no way they could show the "real" Larry Hart. Same thing with Cole Porter in NIGHT AND DAY. Of course, years later, Kevin Kline did a more realistic Porter in DE-LOVELY.
Except De-Lovely was as fictional as Night and Day. Linda Lee, for example, was much older than Cole and there was never an issue of her having a child.
Let's just say that it was closer to the truth than NIGHT AND DAY.
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I'm a'wonderin':
Why the blue blazes don't we have a Blu ray of "Diva" yet?
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'oo put out the lights?
(il.e., Where did everybody go?)
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I don't know, but I could use some Jewbuki right about now.
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I need more watercress!
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I need sleep.
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Had a cup of soup, a sandwich and a few fries. Picked up some packages. Got a letter from Bank of America saying one of the charges I disputed, one that had been going on for over three years monthly, had been found to be real and they were going to undo the credit for that - I called immediately and the result of that call was absolutely amazing and will be the subject of the notes. It's quite a tale and one that will both outrage you and surprise you and BofA continued and continues to handle all of this professionally and beautifully.
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Our neighbor just returned from Toronto where she was told the second t is silent. Is this true?
Everyone I know says the second "t". But i think there are people who say it Tor on no.
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Good evening!
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Well, I'm leaving work and will see if there's time to get an oil change for my car. I also need to get gas, but the local Jiffy Lube closes at 7:00 pm. I don't know if they have a cut-off of when one can get there before they don't let anyone in. We'll see.
Until later.
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Today is the 78th birthday of the great opera star Teresa Stratas!
She played Offenbach's La Perichole several times for the Metropolitan Opera. Here's the 1971 broadcast of Perichole's Act One "Letter song":
https://soundcloud.com/user5614139/la-perichole-letter-song-1971
And an incredible Jenny in Mahagonny!
She was fantastic in RAGS on Broadway, and her Julie on John McGlinn's SHOW BOAT recording makes me cry.
I love the RAGS recording with Julia Migenes, but I wish Teresa could've been on the recording.
Saw a bootleg of Stratas in Rags. She was heartbreaking. But her Mahagonny was a pivotal moment of my childhood. Would love to see that production again. I have the Patti LuPone-Audra MacDonald version, but I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it. Somehow I don't think it'll be the same.
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Found a VAI disc of John Raitt on the Bell Telephone Hour. It's really fun. I get to hear him sing some songs like "Lucky to Be Me" from "On the Town" that are perfect for his voice.
He also joins Rise Stevens for a sweet version of Toyland.
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Our neighbor just returned from Toronto where she was told the second t is silent. Is this true?
Everyone I know says the second "t". But i think there are people who say it Tor on no.
Like "Bal'more," which is more like "Bal'mer."
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I bought a bottle of Nyquil. It's going to be a party at the Griffin household tonight.
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Hi, Vixmom!
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You know what - let me just say this real loud: We have been on this page since eleven o'clock this MORNING. Someone explain to me what's going on because I am beginning to be VERY unhappy about this. No Singdaw, Cilla's never around, George has literally been working on shows every night for the last three years, well, you know -
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Let's move on, shall we?
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Page five!
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Nyquil time!
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Good night, all.
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Good evening and good night. I've been out all day. A very nice day.
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Vixdad and I are trying to ma I I've. Our face time with the Vixter since she wil heading south in a month
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Tonight we went. To California pizza kitchen and played ziggurats and ate together
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And laughed and laughed
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Good evening!
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And my heart is breaking
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Didn't we just bring our little bundle home from the hospital?
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Vixmom, prayers for your dear Alexa!
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I'm recording "Sisters" on TCM, starring Margot Kidder and Margot Kidder (she plays identical twins).
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You and Vixdad will now have more reasons to go to Florida.
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Where did 23 years go?
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I hadn't heard of it before, and I didn't know that Bernard Herrmann wrote the score.
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Can I have a do over please?
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We made it to page five.
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Thank you for the vibes for Alexa. I hear she is home and resting comfortably
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Soon to be page six.
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{{{Vixmom}}}
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Today was a nothing day.
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I did nothing. I accomplished nothing.............
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I went and bought Nicky lots of kitty cookies.
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I bought myself Chinese food for dinner.
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I got my oil changed and filled up my gas tank.
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I gave Nicky some cookies.
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I ate my Chinese dinner.
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I guess I accomplished quite a lot today.
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We are getting there.
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One more post.
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Six!
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Come on in, the water's fine!
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I guess I have driven George and Vixmom away.
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Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
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I guess I have driven George and Vixmom away.
Nope. Just had to feed myself.
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I'm now fed. :)
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'Tis a mystery!
;)
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I have completed my evening ablutions.