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Title: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: bk on January 12, 2021, 12:04:17 AM

Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of project one beginning, and now it is time for you to post until the project one cows come home.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: bk on January 12, 2021, 12:05:20 AM

And the word of the day is: ARDENT!

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: George on January 12, 2021, 12:38:30 AM

Topic of the Day:  there are just so many that I certainly can't remember them all, but some of the more recent broadcasts that I really like are:

Act One
Akhnaten
Ann (written by and starring Holland Taylor)
Company
Indecent
Julius Caesar from the Donmar
The King and I
The Nance
One Man, Two Guvnors
Satyagraha
Shakespeare Live! From the Royal Shakespeare Company
She Loves Me
Sweeney Todd (twice)

And many more!

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: George on January 12, 2021, 12:49:31 AM

And now, to bed.

Have a good day, all!

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 03:41:19 AM

~~~PROJECT ONE VIBES~~~ for bk and company!

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 03:42:12 AM

DR elmore3003, which recording of The Bartered Bride do you recommend?

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 03:47:34 AM

Good morning, all!

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 03:49:44 AM

I slept solidly for five hours, to wake up to Thatch lying beside me some time after 2:00.  I dreamed I was helping my beloved Judy Kaye who was directing a production of Cole Porter's Jubilee for Encores!

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 03:50:39 AM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Safe Travel Vibes for our DR JohnG!  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: TCB on January 12, 2021, 03:54:49 AM

I fell asleep, and then slept for one hour.  Now I am wide awake.  I am afraid to look in the mirror, I think I may have turned into DR Jane!

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 03:59:11 AM

Quote from: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 03:42:12 AM

DR elmore3003, which recording of The Bartered Bride do you recommend?

I haven't heard a Bartered Bride that I haven't enjoyed, but I prefer it in Czech, its original language. It seems there are more recordings in German, where it's a big favorite.

The last Czech recording with Benacková is quite wonderful and there's also a nice DVD with the same - or mostly same - cast.  This recording was my gift to BK.  I thought that he would like it.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 04:03:12 AM

There are at least two current recordings in German, an EMI with Pilar Lorengar as its leading lady, but I prefer this one because Teresa Stratas can do no wrong.  There's also a nice DVD with the glorious Lucia Popp that's quite good as well.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 04:03:13 AM

Thank you!         :-*

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 04:03:59 AM

I know this opera is a particular favorite of James Levine.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 04:04:18 AM

Who has now fallen from grace.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 04:15:50 AM

The opera is very popular in the UK, where it was performed by the Sadlers Wells Opera for years in a translation by Eric Crozier and Joan Cross.  Peter Pears, the partner of Benjamin Britten, had a huge success as the stuttering, mentally challenged Vasek.

I found on YouTube a complete Australian broadcast of the opera starring Elsie Morrison, one of England's most popular sopranos.  She recorded the principal soprano roles in the EMI Gilbert & Sullivan series, which is how I first discovered her, and sang Ann Truelove in the Sadlers Wells Opera performances of The Rake's Progress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZqL8JtYPJ0&t=3078s

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 04:29:15 AM

BK, after seeing the PBS broadcast of Britten's Paul Bunyan from City Opera, a stunning production staged by Mark Lamos, I sent Kirk Browning a very nasty letter.  I was completely enraged for several reasons:
1.  This is not standard repertoire and needs to be seen in its staging;
2.  The broadcast seemed to indicate Mr Browning was bored with the piece - or hated it - and wanted to play games;

So, we had shots from the flies and backstage crew moving scenery instead of the onstage action. I was ready to kill.  It was as though Browning was thinking, these roller-skating dogs and cats are ridiculous.  This ptoduction was one of the highlights of NYC Opera in its last days, and I attended every performance.  Then, given a chance to preserve it, Browning said fuck it.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 05:01:43 AM

Long before PBS there was NBC Television Opera, which not only presented standard repertoire, but new or unfamiliar works like Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, Prokofiev's War and Peace, Britten's Billy Budd, and Menotti's The Labyrinth.  This series was responsible for the 1951 broadcast, and subsequent performances, of Amahl and the Night Visitors, which I first saw while recuperating from pneumonia around 1955.

Omnibus - was that on CBS? - presented abridged versions of the Met's Die Fledermaus and La Perichole, along with plays - The Apollo of Bellac by Giraudoux, She Stoops to Conquer, Sophocles' , etc. - excerpts from musicals, ballets, Leonard Bernstein conducting Handel's Messiah, etc.

The ones I really looked forward to were Hallmark Hall of Fame broadcasts: Eva le Gallienne's Alice in Wonderland, Julie Harris in Victoria Regina, Roddy McDowell and Lee Remick in The Tempest, Mary Martin in Born Yesterday, Christopher Plummer in Cyrano de Bergerac, the Lunts in Magnificent Yankee, and too many others.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 05:08:56 AM

I was very lucky growing up in that my parents were told when I was in early grade school that I had a high IQ - I still have no idea what it was - and my interests, even on my father's lower middle class income, were encouraged.  I realize now that I was my family's Great White Hope: the first in two families to get out of blue collar employment and into a better paying white collar job. Only on occasion did I lose out on a TV broadxast I wanted to watch.

By the time I was in college, my mother's mental health had declined to the point where she didn't care of my brothers stayed in school, were on drugs, alive, or dead.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 05:09:18 AM

And that's more than enough of me this morning.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: TCB on January 12, 2021, 05:30:24 AM

Quote from: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 05:01:43 AM

Long before PBS there was NBC Television Opera, which not only presented standard repertoire, but new or unfamiliar works like Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, Prokofiev's War and Peace, Britten's Billy Budd, and Menotti's The Labyrinth.  This series was responsible for the 1951 broadcast, and subsequent performances, of Amahl and the Night Visitors, which I first saw while recuperating from pneumonia around 1955.

Omnibus - was that on CBS? - presented abridged versions of the Met's Die Fledermaus and La Perichole, along with plays - The Apollo of Bellac by Giraudoux, She Stoops to Conquer, Sophocles' , etc. - excerpts from musicals, ballets, Leonard Bernstein conducting Handel's Messiah, etc.

The ones I really looked forward to were Hallmark Hall of Fame broadcasts: Eva le Gallienne's Alice in Wonderland, Julie Harris in Victoria Regina, Roddy McDowell and Lee Remick in The Tempest, Mary Martin in Born Yesterday, Christopher Plummer in Cyrano de Bergerac, the Lunts in Magnificent Yankee, and too many others.

Oh!  It’s Regina!

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jrand73 on January 12, 2021, 06:14:36 AM

Nicole Kidman is NOT Lucille Ball.

Debra Messing is not even FRED Ball!

I wouldn't mind a REAL biopic.....but when they start reproducing Ball's classic skits - the shortcomings are front and center.

And Javier Bardem is much too old......but then again so is Kidman.....

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jrand73 on January 12, 2021, 06:14:49 AM

And that's enough of that.....as DR ELMORE would say.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jrand73 on January 12, 2021, 06:15:35 AM

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

TOD:

42nd Street on Great Performances

I shall be interested to see other lists.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jrand73 on January 12, 2021, 06:15:56 AM

No more water dripping vibes for DR singdaw.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jrand73 on January 12, 2021, 06:16:05 AM

More pages  vibes for MR BK.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Druxy on January 12, 2021, 07:01:49 AM

I just approved the audio edition of my one-person play, CHRISTOPHER LEE.

The way ACX is these days, it will probably be a month or two before it goes on-line via Amazon.

The actor who plays Lee is Jamie Harris.  He's in London, and is terrific.

Christopher Lee used to be my publicity client, and listening to the audio, it's like listening to my late friend.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: KevinH on January 12, 2021, 07:06:24 AM

Good morning!

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: ChasSmith on January 12, 2021, 07:37:23 AM

Good morning, all.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 07:43:20 AM

DR singdaw, I moved into my first NYC apartment in early December 1979.  As soon as I moved in, we had a nightly leak in our bathroom. Around 3:00AM, waster poured from the ceiling light fixture and left the entire bathroom floor wet.  This happened 3-5 times a week. By 7:00 when I woke, the floor was pretty much dry.  We could get neither the super who seemed always drunk or the landlord to do a thing.  Calls to NYC Housing Authority did nothing.  Finally, my roommate, Melanie, who was stepdaughter to the late Irish actor Jack MacGowran (Tom Jones, The Exorcist), called the Board of Health, told them all the frustrating details and finished with "I'm taking a sample of this water and if it's sewage, I will own your ass." The next day in March or April, as I recall, investigators showed up.  The landlord never forgave.  Melanmie moved out to get married, and I moved to the apartment where I now live in July 1980.

One of my employers at The Drama Book Shop told me, you will have bathroom plumbing problems now in every apartment you ever live in, and she was correct.

I send you vibes you do better than I did!

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Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 07:44:30 AM

At 9:00 I ordered groceries from Fairway and gave them five hours delivery time.  By 10:00 the delivery arrived!  I'm going to make chili today.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 07:45:48 AM

Page 2 Dance!

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: ChasSmith on January 12, 2021, 07:59:32 AM

I'm in complete agreement as to the often poor camera decisions made in opera telecasts.

My first attendance at a movie theater of a MET "Live in HD" performance was around ten years ago, for Berlioz's La damnation de Faust. It was my first time to see it staged, and this one had some interesting original ideas. Well, the ideas were all fine by me, but I was frustrated at the relative lack of shots from the audience perspective. These things are staged, compositionally (in the photographic sense) for the opera house, and t's maddening to have the audience's perspective given such short shrift in favor of claustrophobic close-ups and/or, as DR Elmore said, completely irrelevant images.

I don't know if that one was a product of Kirk Browning or someone else. It just always comes up in my memory as one of the disappointments along these lines.

I agree with BK about the presentation of the 1982 Hansel and Gretel being an exception, but Mr. Browning (or someone) did indeed mar it in one respect -- the cutting away over that gorgeous overture being played so magnificently, and up to a point captured on video so beautifully, to a primitive and completely uninteresting (to me) "gallery" of costume designs. That will forever infuriate me.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: ChasSmith on January 12, 2021, 08:01:36 AM

That is one HELL of a bathroom story, DR Elmore.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 08:02:40 AM

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Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: ChasSmith on January 12, 2021, 08:15:13 AM

DR Elmore, fellow Stratas aficionado --

I wasn't aware of that CD, but do you also have her MET Bartered Bride on DVD?

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jrand73 on January 12, 2021, 08:22:03 AM

Yes DR DRUXY I enjoyed your performance in WORLD'S FAIR as I always do.

Yes DR TCB Mr. Russell also appears in the movie.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jrand73 on January 12, 2021, 08:23:00 AM

DR TCB I am waiting for the mail - perhaps we shall both be stimulated today....since our chex were supposed to mailed on the same day.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jrand73 on January 12, 2021, 08:24:08 AM

I concur with all posters and MR BK on the frustration of the work of some of the Television Directors of Stage Productions.

I like the term Geography Shot.....

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Ginny on January 12, 2021, 08:28:27 AM

Tuesday morning greetings!  It was brought to my attention during our AAUW meeting last night (on Zoom) that I had not posted the November and December newsletters to our website.  Not sure how I missed that step - twice! - but I've spent some time this morning taking care of it. 

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 08:34:05 AM

Thanks for all the bathroom well wishes.

Management's plans for today are to run water in all of the bathrooms above ours. When it starts pouring here, we'll know where the problem is. At least they're doing something, but it will mean more water and clean up.  And the chance of the ceiling falling in. It's already puckering.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 08:34:56 AM

Cringed (and chuckled) a bit at your amazing story, DR elmore3003.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jrand73 on January 12, 2021, 08:44:21 AM

No stimulation in the mailbox today.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: ChasSmith on January 12, 2021, 08:52:46 AM

I had my own bathroom ceiling adventure in my little Beverly Hills apartment in the late 1970s. It was a small two-story building, and I was on the first floor. One day the gal's bathtub over mine decided to run into my apartment. The leak was right over the bathtub itself, and was the fault of the pipes. The plumbing was fixed the next day, I think, but I do remember it took the stingy landlady considerable time to get someone in to repair my ceiling which was an ugly bulging mess for a while.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: ChasSmith on January 12, 2021, 08:54:14 AM

The Stingy Landlady needs to be the title of something.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 10:16:36 AM

Quote from: ChasSmith on January 12, 2021, 08:15:13 AM

DR Elmore, fellow Stratas aficionado --

I wasn't aware of that CD, but do you also have her MET Bartered Bride on DVD?

I do. I did not like the set design.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 10:29:48 AM

I spent the morning listening to the new Anyone Can Whistle.  I followed the recording with my vocal score (actually, John McGlinn's score, signed by Sondheim and Lansbury), and it is not complete.  There are missing snippets here and there, particularly in the Cookie Chase.  The 6/8 section near the end is out.  This section was one of the cuts Lieberson made in the LP of the Broadway cast - his edits were good - but the CD release of the original cast restored the cuts he made in the ballet, and may be more complete than the new recording.

I actually enjoyed quite a lot of the recording, and the performances have their moments.  I wasn't crazy about Maria Friedman's voice when she began, but I actually liked her monologue and "There Won't Be Trumpets" more than I thought I would, and I liked her title song very much. Julia McKenzie is better than I thought from the track posted on Facebook, but I'm not sure I would have cast John Barrowman; he's fine, but Harry Guardino's rougher voice, particularly in "Everybody Says Don't," makes me want to hear a voice with more heft in the role.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 10:31:57 AM

Thanks for your thoughts, DR elmore3003.  Always illuminating.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 10:32:12 AM

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Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: vixmom on January 12, 2021, 10:52:47 AM

I am a cultural cretin with no knowledge of opera

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 10:53:26 AM

Quote from: TCB on January 12, 2021, 03:54:49 AM

I fell asleep, and then slept for one hour.  Now I am wide awake.  I am afraid to look in the mirror, I think I may have turned into DR Jane!

If so I feel very sorry for you.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 10:56:35 AM

Quote from: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 08:34:05 AM

Thanks for all the bathroom well wishes.

Management's plans for today are to run water in all of the bathrooms above ours. When it starts pouring here, we'll know where the problem is. At least they're doing something, but it will mean more water and clean up.  And the chance of the ceiling falling in. It's already puckering.

CONTINUED VIBES!  MAY THEY FIND THE LEAK WITHOUT YOUR CEILING CAVING IN!

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: George on January 12, 2021, 10:57:47 AM

Quote from: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 03:41:19 AM

~~~PROJECT ONE VIBES~~~ for bk and company!

~~~Ditto!!~~~

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: George on January 12, 2021, 10:58:06 AM

Quote from: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 03:50:39 AM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Safe Travel Vibes for our DR JohnG!  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~Ditto!!~~~

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: George on January 12, 2021, 10:58:40 AM

Quote from: TCB on January 12, 2021, 03:54:49 AM

I fell asleep, and then slept for one hour.  Now I am wide awake.  I am afraid to look in the mirror, I think I may have turned into DR Jane!

~~~Sleep Vibes for Tom!!~~~

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 10:59:46 AM

At least when the neighborhood flooded our guest bedroom & bathroom his wife had the key to our place.  By the time we returned home from Greenland the worst part of the work was over.  We missed the constant sound of heavy duty fans blowing.  People tell me the sound is enough to drive you crazy and impossible to sleep through.

I think the fans ran for a week.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 11:06:11 AM

For those of you who don't remember, my father used to eat lunch at Bruce's father's restaurant at least once a week.  We always went there for lunch when I spent the day with my father at his office. 

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 11:06:25 AM

When I first took drama at Hamilton High my father shared lots of information about Bruce knowing we would meet.  I had fun with that until I told Bruce how I knew.  I was very shy but knowing his father and having a bit of background gave me the courage to walk up and talk to him.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 11:06:40 AM

Fun memories.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 11:06:51 AM

I am mentioning this as my father would have been 107 today if he were alive.  Making it to 90 was pretty good.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: bk on January 12, 2021, 11:22:54 AM

I'm up, I'm up - seven-and-a-half hours of sleep with completely weird dreams.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 11:52:54 AM

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Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 11:53:51 AM

{{{{{DR Jane}}}}}

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Druxy on January 12, 2021, 12:09:12 PM

Quote from: Jrand70 on January 12, 2021, 08:22:03 AM

Yes DR DRUXY I enjoyed your performance in WORLD'S FAIR as I always do.
 ;D

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: George on January 12, 2021, 12:48:51 PM

Quote from: Jrand70 on January 12, 2021, 06:14:36 AM

Nicole Kidman is NOT Lucille Ball.

Debra Messing is not even FRED Ball!

I wouldn't mind a REAL biopic.....but when they start reproducing Ball's classic skits - the shortcomings are front and center.

And Javier Bardem is much too old......but then again so is Kidman.....

Quote from: Jrand70 on January 12, 2021, 06:15:56 AM

No more water dripping vibes for DR singdaw.

Cheryl Bentyne and Alan Paul of The Manhattan Transfer channeled Lucy and Ricky for their video of Blee Blop Blues (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgLiySJsAfc)! :D

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: George on January 12, 2021, 12:53:42 PM

Quote from: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 10:32:12 AM

 (http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6376.0;attach=11148)
 

:))

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jrand73 on January 12, 2021, 02:04:58 PM

That's a cute video DR GEORGE.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jrand73 on January 12, 2021, 02:05:11 PM

Thanks for sharing the stories DR JANE.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jrand73 on January 12, 2021, 02:05:36 PM

It is now 40 degrees outside of my house.  This is okay with me.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jrand73 on January 12, 2021, 02:05:59 PM

I think The Stingy Landlady was a Kim Novak movie.  :D

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: George on January 12, 2021, 02:14:43 PM

Quote from: Jrand70 on January 12, 2021, 02:04:58 PM

That's a cute video DR GEORGE.

Thanks, Jrand.  I really like it.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 02:32:43 PM

Thanks DR Singdaw, and wishing the same to you.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 02:41:31 PM

Quote from: George on January 12, 2021, 12:48:51 PM

Quote from: Jrand70 on January 12, 2021, 06:14:36 AM

Nicole Kidman is NOT Lucille Ball.

Debra Messing is not even FRED Ball!

I wouldn't mind a REAL biopic.....but when they start reproducing Ball's classic skits - the shortcomings are front and center.

And Javier Bardem is much too old......but then again so is Kidman.....

Quote from: Jrand70 on January 12, 2021, 06:15:56 AM

No more water dripping vibes for DR singdaw.

Cheryl Bentyne and Alan Paul of The Manhattan Transfer channeled Lucy and Ricky for their video of Blee Blop Blues (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgLiySJsAfc)! :D

They nailed Lucy & Ricky. 

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 02:42:20 PM

Quote from: George on January 12, 2021, 02:14:43 PM

Quote from: Jrand70 on January 12, 2021, 02:04:58 PM

That's a cute video DR GEORGE.

Thanks, Jrand.  I really like it.

Of course you did ;)

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Matthew on January 12, 2021, 02:50:51 PM

Quote from: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 11:52:54 AM

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Oy and vey

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 02:58:01 PM

Quote from: Matthew on January 12, 2021, 02:50:51 PM

Quote from: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 11:52:54 AM

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Oy and vey

I don't even get the joke ;D

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 03:06:00 PM

We are ordering Thai food for delivery.

It's what's for dinner.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 03:06:23 PM

As of now I am eleigible for the Covid-19 virus.  I will see if I can book an appointment tomorrow.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 03:07:08 PM

Jane - sing the children's song to yourself.      ;)

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 03:07:26 PM

Good news, DR elmore3003.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 03:10:14 PM

This is fantastic!
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vqew/the-hacker-who-archived-parler-explains-how-she-did-it-and-what-comes-next?fbclid=IwAR1454O16WVZ70EPaE1epRuWVq-t9tBr7t7haxFkt6JX0fY7oyIkxi26OjQ

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 03:13:16 PM

Wonderful.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 03:15:01 PM

DR elmore3003 - was wondering if you can set your FB settings to content viewed only by friends, and if that could prevent malicious friends of friends from reporting you to FB jail.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 03:31:40 PM

Quote from: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 03:07:08 PM

Jane - sing the children's song to yourself.      ;)

I got "clap your hands" and substituted hams?  And didn't get it, or maybe I should just break the rules and groan ;D

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 03:41:44 PM

Quote from: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 03:15:01 PM

DR elmore3003 - was wondering if you can set your FB settings to content viewed only by friends, and if that could prevent malicious friends of friends from reporting you to FB jail.

The problem is, I think it's someone on my friends' list.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Matthew on January 12, 2021, 04:01:57 PM

Quote from: Jane on January 12, 2021, 02:58:01 PM

Quote from: Matthew on January 12, 2021, 02:50:51 PM

Quote from: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 11:52:54 AM

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Oy and vey

I don't even get the joke ;D

If you're happy and you know it, clamp your ham!

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 04:51:49 PM

Quote from: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 03:41:44 PM

Quote from: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 03:15:01 PM

DR elmore3003 - was wondering if you can set your FB settings to content viewed only by friends, and if that could prevent malicious friends of friends from reporting you to FB jail.

The problem is, I think it's someone on my friends' list.

I guess you blocked the wrong friend.

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 04:52:34 PM

Quote from: Matthew on January 12, 2021, 04:01:57 PM

Quote from: Jane on January 12, 2021, 02:58:01 PM

Quote from: Matthew on January 12, 2021, 02:50:51 PM

Quote from: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 11:52:54 AM

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Oy and vey

I don't even get the joke ;D

If you're happy and you know it, clamp your ham!

I couldn't believe that was actually the "joke"   ::) ;D

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Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 05:38:36 PM

I hurt my foot and have had a cold pack on it.  I am getting off of the computer so I can elevate it.

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Post by: bk on January 12, 2021, 06:04:42 PM

Just wrapped the first day's filming. Got more done than we planned and boy did it go quickly. Really good performances. I did two takes of everything except one section, which was perfect.  Eric is going to film a batch of his songs tonight, too. We really should wrap the dialogue stuff tomorrow. Can't imagine why that would go into Thursday, unless I need a pick-up or something after watching the stuff. I'll explain in detail how we did this after it airs. I think we're gonna do a Zoom party Q&A after the premiere.

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Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 06:32:18 PM

What wonderful news, bk!

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Post by: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 06:33:33 PM

We have been enjoying the new episodes of All Creatures Great and Small on PBS.

I guess they're remakes?  I'm not sure; I've never seen the originals.

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Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 06:39:18 PM

We watched the first episode and loved it.  Yes remakes, yet different.

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Post by: George on January 12, 2021, 06:40:40 PM

Quote from: elmore3003 on January 12, 2021, 03:06:23 PM

As of now I am eleigible for the Covid-19 virus.  I will see if I can book an appointment tomorrow.

No!  Don't do it, Larry! :o Wait until you can get the vaccine before you choose to get the virus!!

;)

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Post by: Jeanne on January 12, 2021, 09:05:32 PM

Hello, everyone.

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Post by: Jeanne on January 12, 2021, 09:06:43 PM

Glad to hear that Project One filming is going so smoothly. I'm looking forward to Projects One and Two and the New Book.

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Post by: Jeanne on January 12, 2021, 09:08:22 PM

Bathroom repair vibes to singdaw and his hubby!

I am appalled at both singdaw's story and Elmore's. Such apathetic landlords!

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Post by: Jeanne on January 12, 2021, 09:12:22 PM

I continue to feel like I'm caught in a mega Mercury retrograde vortex. all sorts of crap comes out of nowhere. Today I was finally able to speak to an accounting supervisor at a company whose computer system had a major crash recently and it screwed up all their billing. My previous calls were never returned. I think we have it resolved now. What bugs me is the amount of time and aggravation these things require.

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Post by: Jeanne on January 12, 2021, 09:14:12 PM

I find the political news more unsettling than Covid.

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Post by: Jeanne on January 12, 2021, 09:15:12 PM

Quote from: Jane on January 12, 2021, 06:39:18 PM

We watched the first episode and loved it.  Yes remakes, yet different.

I didn't see the need for a remake, but maybe I'll give it a try.

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Post by: Jeanne on January 12, 2021, 09:16:15 PM

Vibes to all.

TTFN.

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Post by: John G. on January 12, 2021, 09:57:33 PM

I’m home. Too tired to catch up tonight.

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Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 10:17:47 PM

Quote from: Jeanne on January 12, 2021, 09:15:12 PM

Quote from: Jane on January 12, 2021, 06:39:18 PM

We watched the first episode and loved it.  Yes remakes, yet different.

I didn't see the need for a remake, but maybe I'll give it a try.

That is what I thought until I watched it.

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Post by: vixmom on January 12, 2021, 10:35:32 PM

Quote from: Jane on January 12, 2021, 02:58:01 PM

Quote from: Matthew on January 12, 2021, 02:50:51 PM

Quote from: singdaw on January 12, 2021, 11:52:54 AM

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Oy and vey

I don't even get the joke ;D

If you’re happy and you know it clamp your ham

Title: Re: PROJECT ONE BEGINS
Post by: bk on January 12, 2021, 10:42:11 PM

Have been writing most of the evening - fourteen pages so far, so maybe another couple after I post the notes.

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Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 10:48:20 PM

I just read some good news.  Yesterday I left a voice mail and sent an email to my Republican representative in the House expressing my opinion on how she should vote.

I just read Herrera Beutler will be voting to impeach, something she did not do last time.

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Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 10:56:10 PM

Bryan said the cases of covid at his hospital have dropped.  I hope they continue dropping.

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Post by: Jane on January 12, 2021, 10:56:39 PM

He also got his second vaccination :)

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Post by: George on January 12, 2021, 11:36:48 PM

Quote from: Jane on January 12, 2021, 10:48:20 PM

I just read some good news.  Yesterday I left a voice mail and sent an email to my Republican representative in the House expressing my opinion on how she should vote.

I just read Herrera Beutler will be voting to impeach, something she did not do last time.

I just saw the headline for that!  Good for her!

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Post by: George on January 12, 2021, 11:37:12 PM

Quote from: Jane on January 12, 2021, 10:56:10 PM

Bryan said the cases of covid at his hospital have dropped.  I hope they continue dropping.

That's also some good news!

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Post by: George on January 12, 2021, 11:37:51 PM

Jane, what's the weather like where you are?  It's VERY windy and REALLY raining hard here in Tumwater! :o

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Post by: George on January 12, 2021, 11:38:09 PM

Gratuitous Post #111!

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Post by: George on January 12, 2021, 11:43:37 PM

My lights have been dimming a bit...not really blinking, though. :-\

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Post by: George on January 12, 2021, 11:48:02 PM

Wow!  All of a sudden, things just quickly settled down, weather-wise.

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Post by: TCB on January 12, 2021, 11:53:36 PM

Still page 4?

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Post by: TCB on January 12, 2021, 11:54:15 PM

Page 4? Still?

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Post by: TCB on January 12, 2021, 11:55:17 PM

This is not good.

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Post by: TCB on January 12, 2021, 11:55:50 PM

Is Tuesday a bad day?

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Post by: TCB on January 12, 2021, 11:57:04 PM

Where is everybody tonight?

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Post by: TCB on January 12, 2021, 11:57:18 PM

One more post.

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Post by: bk on January 13, 2021, 12:03:03 AM

No, this is NOT good. George disappears and here we are.

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Post by: bk on January 13, 2021, 12:03:20 AM

No, this is NOT good. George disappears and here we are.

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Post by: bk on January 13, 2021, 12:03:43 AM

This is most unseemly and I'll just leave this day up until things change.

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Post by: TCB on January 13, 2021, 12:03:49 AM

Thanks for sending me the wind storm, George!

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Post by: George on January 13, 2021, 12:04:20 AM

I haven't disappeared! 

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Post by: George on January 13, 2021, 12:04:27 AM

I've been here the whole time!

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Post by: George on January 13, 2021, 12:04:43 AM

Quote from: TCB on January 13, 2021, 12:03:49 AM

Thanks for sending me the wind storm, George!

MY pleasure!! ;)

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Post by: George on January 13, 2021, 12:05:17 AM

I was copying a Blu-ray disc and needed to finish it and get it ready. :)

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Post by: George on January 13, 2021, 12:05:42 AM

And playing solitaire on my tablet. ::)

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Post by: George on January 13, 2021, 12:05:59 AM

;D

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Post by: George on January 13, 2021, 12:06:29 AM

And now, it's done.

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Post by: George on January 13, 2021, 12:10:51 AM

Next, I want to create a new Blu-ray disc, but I'll need to watch it to see where chapter breaks should go. 

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Post by: George on January 13, 2021, 12:11:06 AM

I think it's all singing and very little, if any, spoken dialogue...one of them jukebox musicals made from a composer's catalog of existing songs.

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Post by: George on January 13, 2021, 12:11:52 AM

I shan't say the title because...SHHHH...it hasn't been legitimately released. ::)