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[DakotaCelt]

Busy day here today...

I spent the day helping my mother take down christmas decorations, rearrange a closet, some cupboards and drawers.

My younger sister had managed to string 15 sets of lights on the tree and I had the fun of undoing them.. Gheesh!

My mother decided she needed some order and it started with putting somethings in place and putting the christmas stuff away. I am beat! Lots of boxes and moving furniture.

[DakotaCelt]

I do have to say I did get a lot accomplished.

Nice treat tonight was watching the Kennedy Center Honors. I do have to agree with Jose, I think that is the most classical music I have heard in a long time.

The other tributes were nicely done but Smokey looked like he has had too much surgery!

[td]

I only caught the Martin Scorsese segment on the Kennedy Center Honors, but, WOW! what an awesome soprano!

[JMK]

TCB, I've had walking pneumonia, so I know what you're going through.  Get well soon!

BK (and MB), I think Mod Squad Pt. 2 may street earlier than that, as it is already in the queue at DVDTalk, and we don't usually get stuff that early.

We had our first major technical meltdown tonight.  Some wizard in the booth deleted one of the prerecords, and didn't notice until (guess what!!) it was time to play it.  It unfortunately was one of most complex pieces I did, the "gavotte" with changing styles to accompany the various dance moves they did.  They first hit the preceding track (the Act II curtain music, which is basically The Search), realized that was wrong and then they just sat there like so much fish while the actors (most of them kids) and I wondered what was going on.  Then for some inexplicable reason they turned the follow spot on and started madly shining it back and forth all over the place.  At that point I just decided to put us all out of our misery and I played the damn thing live.  

[JoseSPiano]

We had our first major technical meltdown tonight.  Some wizard in the booth deleted one of the prerecords, and didn't notice until (guess what!!) it was time to play it.  It unfortunately was one of most complex pieces I did, the "gavotte" with changing styles to accompany the various dance moves they did.  They first hit the preceding track (the Act II curtain music, which is basically The Search), realized that was wrong and then they just sat there like so much fish while the actors (most of them kids) and I wondered what was going on.  Then for some inexplicable reason they turned the follow spot on and started madly shining it back and forth all over the place.  At that point I just decided to put us all out of our misery and I played the damn thing live.  

LIVE music?  Wow??!?  That must have been weird.

[JoseSPiano]

So...

DR JMK - Do you think they were cueing the people on stage to improvise a chase scene by moving the spotlights back and forth?  Or were they trying to make it look like a discotheque?

Or were they trying to make the audience think that the light people were in the wrong and not the sound department?  

[DakotaCelt]

Get well vibes to TCB

[td]

Dear, dear, DR TCB1 - GET WELL!  Please.

[Adriana Patti]

Here is a picture of the full moon over hollywood. The lit building below the moon is the Griffith Observatory, and the street is Franklin near Cahuenga.

[DERBRUCER]

BK SAYS:  I TOLD YOU SO!

LATIMES

Virgin Megastore to close shop

Another one bites the dust: The Virgin Megastore on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, just down the street from the shuttered Tower Records, will close when its lease is up in January.

The rent is simply too high, Simon Wright, chief executive of Virgin Megastores North America, said Wednesday.

"We're trying to reposition the business," Wright said, "and a lot of our stores are too big for the future, primarily due to the drop in music sales."
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Sales of CDs were down 23% last week from 2006, Billboard reported, as people continue to turn to the Internet for music. Best Buy Co., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other retailers account for at least half of album sales, Mayfield said.
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Amoeba Records, with locations in Hollywood, San Francisco and Berkeley, tells a contrasting story. Amoeba has a broad selection of music, sells used discs and is a young company with good prospects, Mayfield said.

For music lovers, Amoeba will be one of the only places to shop in the neighborhood after the Virgin Megastore closes, said Justin Goldberg, founder and CEO of online music network indie911, whose offices are a few blocks from the Sunset store.

der Brucer

[DakotaCelt]

You're right derBrucer, he did a while back..

[DERBRUCER]

TV GUIDE

Harry Potter wizard Robert "Cedric Diggory" Pattinson has been tapped to star in thirteen director Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight, based on the popular series of books. Pattinson will play the high-school vampire whose blood boils for classmate Kristen Stewart. In other words, he's Angel to her Buffy. — Ben Katner

der Brucer

Planned release Dec 2008 - Vampires for Christmas!

[JMK]

LIVE music?  Wow??!?  That must have been weird.

I play live music (or something approximating it) on every song of every show.   The prerecords are just the "orchestra," so to speak.

[JoseSPiano]

Well...

Goodnight.

[George]

Oh - just the stuff you stole

der Brucer

No...I'm keeping those.

[George]

DR George, I have the same pillow that says "If you want the best seat in the house, you'll have to move the cat"!

It originally belonged to my former housemate, who was Ebonie's former owner.

[bk]

Sadly, it's only the beginning for Virgin Megastores - as I mentioned before, the entire chain is on its way out.  Someone who is pretty in the know told me so and that's when I reported it earlier this year.  I was in Virgin here a few weeks ago and there was literally no one in the store except me and the employees.

[George]

Sadly, it's only the beginning for Virgin Megastores - as I mentioned before, the entire chain is on its way out.  Someone who is pretty in the know told me so and that's when I reported it earlier this year.  I was in Virgin here a few weeks ago and there was literally no one in the store except me and the employees.

To paraphrase Mrs. Meers:  Sad to be all alone in the store.