Topic: COLONIZING AT THE COLONY (Read 43439 times)

MBarnum · « **Reply #90 on:** June 20, 2008, 08:28:07 AM »

Have fun on your trip, DR FJL!

MBarnum · « **Reply #91 on:** June 20, 2008, 08:29:27 AM »

TOD:

DVD:
Episodes of THE JACK BENNY SHOW

CD:
Gurdas Mann's new CD BOOT POLISHAN

FJL · « **Reply #92 on:** June 20, 2008, 08:46:03 AM »

Signing off until late Saturday night (I think, depending on internet availability and stuff like that).

JMK · « **Reply #93 on:** June 20, 2008, 08:50:57 AM »

I was given a huge gift certificate by one of my choirs (not the one Julie's in--though that choir gave me an equally huge gift card) to an actual brick and mortar independently owned CD store in PDX, so I schlepped the kids over yesterday and brought home a haul, including:

Adrift in Macao
Busker Alley
Beyond the Fringe
Elis Regina 2-fer
Jobim/Bonfa 2-fer
The US release of Sergio's new one (I've had the Japanese release for months)
Freddie Hubbard

And I think there may even be more. The store had a cool little vintage toy section, so the boys got an actual real-to-goodness Gumby (ie?) and some of those vintage cowboy and indian plastic fighting figure sets.

JMK · « **Reply #94 on:** June 20, 2008, 08:51:44 AM »

Right now I am listening to Elis--BK, if you have not heard Elis, you must check her out.

JMK · « **Reply #95 on:** June 20, 2008, 08:52:25 AM »

I just got assigned another massive bunch of boxed sets. Aren't there some MAD MEN fans here? I'll be reviewing Season One--I've never seen the show, it seems a lot of you loved it, right?

Edisaurus · « **Reply #96 on:** June 20, 2008, 08:53:50 AM »

Quote from: FJL on June 20, 2008, 08:46:03 AM

Signing off until late Saturday night (I think, depending on internet availability and stuff like that).

Have a grea trip and enjoy the show, Fred!

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #97 on:** June 20, 2008, 08:55:29 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on June 20, 2008, 08:00:29 AM

It's only good business sense to "pay" the supplier when the supplies have been sold.

Unfortunately, in the real world, overhead usually comes before suppliers - CON-ED hasn't the patience of bk.

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #98 on:** June 20, 2008, 09:01:12 AM »

GADLING

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Passenger lights cigarette, punches flight attendant and diverts flight to Denver

by Grant Martin Jun 18th 2008 @ 11:00PM

We may have a new contender for worst passenger on an aircraft ever, ladies and gentlemen. Sorry Kyla and girls who think they're prettier than the rest of the plane, you may have met your match.

On a Jetblue flight between San Francisco and New York this past Tuesday, Christina Szele just couldn't wait any any longer for a smoke and decided to light up in the cabin. Obviously this has been outlawed on planes for years, so a flight attendant went back to ask her to put it out.

In response to the request, Szele instead verbally abused the flight attendant with racist remarks, provoking futher concern from the crew. After further agitation, several employees decided to restrain her and were able to secure her well enough to apply flexible handcuffs.

Untill she broke out of them. And punched the flight attendant that she was earlier harrasing in the face. Great idea.

Things got so far out of hand that the pilot had to divert the flight into Denver and have the woman removed from the aircraft and arrested. Now she faces 20 years in prison and up to 250,000 in fines.

I think that they should have just thrown her out of the plane with a parachute.

Me...I vote to leave off the parachute.

der Brucer

elmore3003 · « **Reply #99 on:** June 20, 2008, 09:04:16 AM »

I got hung up on Victor Herbert reports and emails. I am now off to 42nd Street NYPL, Rare Books and Manuscripts.

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DERBRUCER · « **Reply #100 on:** June 20, 2008, 09:10:26 AM »

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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WASHINGTON STATE HOME MOVED BY BARGE TO CANADA
Thursday , June 19, 2008
HUNTS POINT, Wash. —
Rolling the waterfront house onto a barge on Lake Washington took just over 20 minutes. The house's maritime trip to British Columbia will take a bit longer.
In an effort to preserve a spectacular home at a bargain price, a Canadian family is moving the 3,360-square-foot, two-story house from its lakeshore location in this suburb east of Seattle to a site near Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.

According to public filings, the former owners bought the home for $9.4 million; but they just wanted the 44,000-square-foot lot.

So they contacted Nickel Brothers House Moving USA Inc., which then listed the home for $335,000, including moving the entire thing.

"This saves 200 tons of waste that would go into a landfill," said Jeff McCord, of Nickel Brothers.

On Tuesday, after weeks of planning and preparations, crews rolled the house onto the barge, and the structure started its slow trip to Canada and its new owners, Tim and Jennifer O'Farrell.

"This is a good deal," Jennifer O'Farrell said. "If I were to build this house, it would be a minimum of twice as much."

Crews emptied the Tudor-style house, but kitchen fixtures and the hot tub were left in place. The home was built in 1979 and features leaded windows and hand-carved moldings.

"It's quite a spectacular house," McCord said. He added that a house can be moved and installed on a new lot for about half the cost of building a similar home.
Once on the barge, the house made its way across Lake Washington, then through the Ballard Locks and out through Puget Sound.

By noon Wednesday, the house had crossed the border.

The house should reach its new lot on Thursday, said Boyer Halvorsen, owner of Boyer Towing, the company actually transporting the house.

der Brucer

Edisaurus · « **Reply #101 on:** June 20, 2008, 09:11:20 AM »

DR Elmore (or anyone else):

What are your favorite recordings of THE MIKADO, PENZANCE and PINAFORE? I'm torn between the first recorded versions and the 60's D'Oyly Carter versions...

My favorite radio station has also instroduced me to the recordings of Peter Dawson. I'm in a shopping mood!

Maybe I should call Colon-y and ask if they have E.P.??

bk · « **Reply #102 on:** June 20, 2008, 09:13:43 AM »

I'm up, and will call the Handy Man in forty minutes if I haven't heard from him. Then I'll do the annoying errand and get it over with, then I'm here until I leave for the cast party this evening.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #103 on:** June 20, 2008, 09:36:08 AM »

A Master Musician Kept His Life's Time In the Rhythm of Jazz

Bill Reichenbach was a member of the band that recorded "Jazz Samba," credited with setting "the '60s bossa nova craze in motion." (Family Photo)

WASHINGTON POST

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A Master Musician Kept His Life's Time In the Rhythm of Jazz
By Matt Schudel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 15, 2008; C08

Bill Reichenbach never wanted to do anything except play the drums. When he was 5, he took apart a banjo and started beating out a rhythm on the soundbox.
Through the years, he built a solid reputation as a steady rhythmic anchor at Washington nightclubs and for touring big bands. He was never well known beyond the jazz circuit, but for one golden moment, he unexpectedly found himself at the launch of a new national phenomenon.

In 1961, Washington guitarist Charlie Byrd went on a State Department-sponsored tour of South America, where he and his band -- which did yet not include Reichenbach -- heard a gently infectious music that had come to prominence with the 1959 Brazilian film "Black Orpheus."

"When they got to Brazil and heard the new sound of the bossa nova, Charlie was really taken with it," Joe Byrd, Charlie Byrd's brother and longtime musical collaborator, recalled last week. "It was very lyrical and had all the components he liked."

Charlie Byrd decided to introduce the bossa nova into his repertoire, which was already an eclectic mix of blues, bebop and Bach. The sultry sounds that wafted north from Brazil didn't take root first in New York or Los Angeles or Miami. Instead, they landed in Washington.

Byrd began to hold rehearsals for a recording and asked Reichenbach to join the project as a drummer and percussionist. The other musicians included Byrd's brother (then known as Gene Byrd) on guitar and bass, Keter Betts on bass, Buddy Deppenschmidt on drums and saxophone superstar Stan Getz.

On the cold night of Feb. 13, 1962, the six musicians gathered in a fellowship hall at All Souls Unitarian Church at 16th and Harvard streets NW, where they made musical history. To the surprise of everyone, including the musicians who were there, the album they produced that night, "Jazz Samba," became an instant hit.

Other American musicians had recorded Brazilian music, but it never caught on until "Jazz Samba." Highlighted by Getz's sinuous saxophone and Byrd's understated guitar, the album stayed on the charts for 70 weeks and "set the '60s bossa nova craze in motion," in the words of a 2004 Jazz Times article. To this day, it remains the only jazz album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart.

If "Jazz Samba" introduced North America to the bossa nova, then the distinctive shimmer of its syncopated eight-note rhythm was defined by the drummers, Deppenschmidt and Reichenbach.

"It became the standard for American drummers first learning to play the bossa nova," said Chuck Redd, who spent 19 years playing drums with Byrd. "Bill listened to Brazilian drummers and assimilated it in his own way. He was one of the very first American drummers to grasp that."

Never heard of him or "Jazz Samba - but I bet "somebody" from Portland has.

der Brucer

Jennifer · « **Reply #104 on:** June 20, 2008, 09:48:12 AM »

Quote from: JMK on June 20, 2008, 08:52:25 AM

I just got assigned another massive bunch of boxed sets. Aren't there some MAD MEN fans here? I'll be reviewing Season One--I've never seen the show, it seems a lot of you loved it, right?

DR MattH likes it (among others).

They just started airing it here in canada. And have aired 2 shows.

I watched the first two and had asked others if they were an accurate depiction of the season.

I didn't dislike it. But it's not my usual.

I mentioned there was a ton of smoking (basically every character all the time), cheating and i forget what else i said.

I'm curious if it's a more male oriented show, cause i think my dad menitoned he loved the first two shows.

Jennifer · « **Reply #105 on:** June 20, 2008, 09:59:07 AM »

I am very much looking forward to the Daytime Emmys tonight.

Hopefully some of my favorites will win.

JMK · « **Reply #106 on:** June 20, 2008, 09:59:41 AM »

Reichenbach was good, but the native Brasilians hated the American drummers--the thing about Bossa Nova is it doesn't have even eighths, though Americans try to play it that way. If you listen to the best Brasilian drummers (and there are a ton of them), they play with the time so magically it's almost like it's super putty, or something similar. That's why the first Brasilians to hit it big in America (Mendes and Wanderley) tended to use Brasilian drummers, like my late friend Claudio Slon, or Rubens Bassini or Dom Um Romao......

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #107 on:** June 20, 2008, 10:05:24 AM »

DR singdaw:

It's a brand new world
That you enter when you say
I do! I do!

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #108 on:** June 20, 2008, 10:21:44 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on June 20, 2008, 10:05:24 AM

DR singdaw:

It's a brand new world
That you enter when you say
I do! I do!

Singdaw as Flaming Agnes - film at 11!

der Brucer

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #109 on:** June 20, 2008, 10:44:38 AM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on June 20, 2008, 10:21:44 AM

Singdaw as Flaming Agnes - film at 11!

der Brucer

That has a resonance!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #110 on:** June 20, 2008, 10:45:44 AM »

I'm awf'ly glad it's Friday.

Awf'ly glad.

Just...awf'ly!

George · « **Reply #111 on:** June 20, 2008, 10:48:46 AM »

Quote from: JRand57 on June 20, 2008, 05:03:22 AM

CD - In the Heights which arrived yesterday, haven't really listened to it, but I will on Sunday.

I ordered In the Heights directly from Ghostlight in a deal with Passing Strange (save $5 and no shipping). I didn't realize that PS won't be released until mid-July, so I have to wait to listen to ITH. $:-\$

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #112 on:** June 20, 2008, 10:50:25 AM »

Quelle Fromage!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #113 on:** June 20, 2008, 10:51:37 AM »

Speaking of fromage where has DR stringcheese been?

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #114 on:** June 20, 2008, 10:52:40 AM »

Cheer up bk - things will get better -but not yet!

LATIMES

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HOT SPELL WON'T BREAK
Southland heat that caused one death is forecast to continue.
By Carla Rivera and Molly Hennessy-Fiske
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

June 20, 2008

Unseasonably warm weather and low humidity tightened its grip on Southern California on Thursday, breaking temperature records and prompting the highest June energy demand on record in Los Angeles.

And the worst is yet to come: The blistering heat is expected to peak today, with triple-digit temperatures, continued dry conditions and little relief until late into the weekend. The heat index posed a danger to human and animal life, authorities said. At least one heat-related death, of a woman in San Bernardino County, was reported.

The National Weather Service issued an excessive heat warning for temperatures of 105 degrees and above for most Los Angeles County valleys and mountains and Ventura County mountains for today. In addition, the relative humidity in most valley areas was forecast to be only 10% to 15% and in single digits in the deserts.

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A temperature record was set Thursday in Woodland Hills at 109 degrees, and Oxnard tied its record of 88.

der Brucer

Matthew · « **Reply #115 on:** June 20, 2008, 10:56:40 AM »

I'm watching The Best of the Electric Company, Vol 2, too too fun (speaking of Rita)

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #116 on:** June 20, 2008, 10:57:18 AM »

Yes, most of California is over here sizzling today.

National Weather Bureau has issued a heat advisory for the Bay Area, as well. And it's a "spare the air" day, too.

Baking in smog is what we are.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #117 on:** June 20, 2008, 10:59:12 AM »

Quote from: Jennifer on June 20, 2008, 09:59:07 AM

I am very much looking forward to the Daytime Emmys tonight.

Hopefully some of my favorites will win.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #118 on:** June 20, 2008, 11:02:26 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on June 20, 2008, 10:51:37 AM

Speaking of fromage where has DR stringcheese been?

Off and away, cutting same.

der Brucer

Matthew · « **Reply #119 on:** June 20, 2008, 11:08:43 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on June 20, 2008, 10:57:18 AM

Yes, most of California is over here sizzling today.

National Weather Bureau has issued a heat advisory for the Bay Area, as well. And it's a "spare the air" day, too.

Baking in smog is what we are.

DR Ron, I'm worried that summer has arrived WAY too early for the Bay Area this year and we'll be in for a long hot one this summer. Last summer, we barely turned our A/C on, this year, we've used it more than last year already. Oy

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FJL