Topic: FIRMWARE (Read 31079 times)

bk · « **on:** April 11, 2008, 12:33:54 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were up to date, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're off admiring their new firmware updates.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** April 11, 2008, 12:34:46 AM »

And the word of the day is: CAESURA!

George · « **Reply #2 on:** April 11, 2008, 12:48:01 AM »

In my DVD player that I just got in the mail yesterday: a live performance of Candide with Kim Criswell as the Old Woman. It's hysterical! It's set in the 1950s/1960s with a Kennedy-like family and Lambert Wilson is Pangloss, et al. All of his spoken dialog is in French, but most of everyone else's dialog is in English and all of the lyrics are sung in English. Very strange concept, but a very good production (in my opinion). Kim Criswell is fabulous, but I think they cut her role a bit as compared to the concert version with Patti LuPone. $:-\$

George · « **Reply #3 on:** April 11, 2008, 12:54:10 AM »

And now, to bed. Good night, Der Brucer and guests.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #4 on:** April 11, 2008, 01:07:55 AM »

Quote from: bk on April 11, 2008, 12:34:46 AM

And the word of the day is: CAESURA!

Tessie Tura's brother?

der Brucer

BrettySpaghetti · « **Reply #5 on:** April 11, 2008, 01:08:37 AM »

Inside my CD player is THE BRAIN FROM PLANET X for the second straight day in a row. I have a pretty good feel for all the songs now...I know which ones I like and which ones I don't.

My DVD player contains a British import: THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN, from the 1970s.

bk · « **Reply #6 on:** April 11, 2008, 01:21:36 AM »

I'm talkin' about my firmware, baby.

singdaw · « **Reply #7 on:** April 11, 2008, 01:25:06 AM »

DR George - a DVR that can burn DVDs!

What a handy thing!

singdaw · « **Reply #8 on:** April 11, 2008, 01:31:33 AM »

Here is my firmware. I only wear it on special occasions.

singdaw · « **Reply #9 on:** April 11, 2008, 01:35:01 AM »

Thanks for the theatre report, DR JoseSPiano!

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #10 on:** April 11, 2008, 01:59:34 AM »

LA TIMES

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Idol Tracker: Johns but not forgotten

This is traditionally the point in the Idol season where early favorites begin to falter. At roughly here in previous years, the Idoldome has been shocked to see Angel of Death Seacrest swoop down without warning on sensations Chris Daughtry, Mandisa and Jennifer Hudson. But the dismissal of Johns, the oldest of the remaining candidates who often seemed to be operating on another plane entirely, seems particularly cruel while perpetual denizens of the bottom three Syesha Mercado and Kristy Lee Cook linger on.

Ulitimately however, Johns dismissal proves, once again, that you can not ignore the youth vote on American Idol. The smoldering performer offered a very grown up appeal that did little to play to the ten year old set, and like Daughtry, Mandisa and Hudson before, the neglect of that critical demographic may be what ultimately cost him his place in the Idoldome.

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #11 on:** April 11, 2008, 02:01:52 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on April 11, 2008, 01:31:33 AM

Here is my firmware. I only wear it on special occasions.

Like on morning walks with Zach?

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #12 on:** April 11, 2008, 02:03:21 AM »

Quote from: bk on April 11, 2008, 01:21:36 AM

I'm talkin' about my firmware, baby.

Careful...your getting to the age when one's firmware turns flabby.

der Brucer

singdaw · « **Reply #13 on:** April 11, 2008, 02:36:17 AM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on April 11, 2008, 02:01:52 AM

Like on morning walks with Zach?

Egg-sactly!

What I can't understand, though, is why everyone keeps whistling at him!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #14 on:** April 11, 2008, 04:36:02 AM »

Friday is a work day. Oh well.

I have no firm ware. I have flab ware.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #15 on:** April 11, 2008, 04:36:35 AM »

TOD:

DVD - House on Haunted Hill, 1958
CD - Kevin Spirtas

singdaw · « **Reply #16 on:** April 11, 2008, 05:04:17 AM »

Good morning, gentlemen - and others!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 11, 2008, 05:04:59 AM »

Good morning.

So far so good although MORE thunderstorms are predicted for today.

Ben · « **Reply #18 on:** April 11, 2008, 05:06:31 AM »

Good morning all.

singdaw · « **Reply #19 on:** April 11, 2008, 05:08:37 AM »

A rose between two thorns...

_{photo: The Happy Time}

Ben · « **Reply #20 on:** April 11, 2008, 05:09:30 AM »

I'm not sure what I'll listen to this morning.

We have lots of stuff to watch at home along with Mulberry, A Fine Romance and My Hero (old Britcoms) on Channel 21

Ben · « **Reply #21 on:** April 11, 2008, 05:10:00 AM »

Regarding Gypsy,

Jose, glad to hear I'm not the only one who feels that way.

singdaw · « **Reply #22 on:** April 11, 2008, 05:24:40 AM »

Although what That Way ever did to deserve being felt...

Ginny · « **Reply #23 on:** April 11, 2008, 05:43:34 AM »

Friday morning greetings! Today is an information-waitressing day for me, then I'll have a 3-day weekend

Last night's Poinciana Round Table only had 4 participants, but we had a lively discussion of The Portable Dorothy Parker and many other topics. The refreshments were a hit and we have lots of leftovers.

Ginny · « **Reply #24 on:** April 11, 2008, 05:47:48 AM »

Friday media check:

CD(car) - audiobook - Jacqueline Winspear's Pardonable Lies, narrated by Orlagh Cassidy. I'd read a little over half of the book and received the audio in my swag bag at the dinner in Minneapolis.

DVD - There Will Be Blood

ArnoldMBrockman · « **Reply #25 on:** April 11, 2008, 05:54:42 AM »

Quote from: bk on April 11, 2008, 12:34:46 AM

And the word of the day is: CAESURA!

And The Song Of The Day Is: THERE'S A LULL IN MY LIFE

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #26 on:** April 11, 2008, 06:01:57 AM »

Good Morning!

I'm up, I'm up... And another day without having to play any auditions...

elmore3003 · « **Reply #27 on:** April 11, 2008, 06:08:49 AM »

Good morning, all! It's going to be a nice spring day in Manhattan, and I think that around noon I will walk down to Lincoln Center and play at the NYPL for a while. I have to look at the Act One draft of The Lady Of The Slipper and its lyric sheets to finalize something in my critica report. I also need to confirm on the online newspapers a tin-eared critics comment about Cinderella's Act Two waltz being a tango. Elsie Janis may have been not particularly pretty or a good singer, but I've heard her existing recordings and I know she shouted in rhythm. Here's a shot of Elsie and her mother, Mrs Bierbower who may have been a more monstrous stage mother than Madam Rose. Like the real Rose Hovick, Mrs Bierbower was a big lesbian, but so was Elsie.

DR George, my friend Bill Burden told me at Kim's engagement party that the CANDIDE was being released on commercial DVD. Is this a commercial release you've been viewing? Bill's a great guy and I've known him for several years now. I got him the role of the doctor on the John Yap MOST HAPPY FELLA. Bill's wife beautiful wife Carol was the Dory when I worked on GREENWILLOW for Utah Festival Opera. Bill and Carol met on a production of CANDIDE; she was the Cunegonde.

TOD:
DVD: a lot of BBC Shakespare plays, BECOMING JANE
CD: Susan Egan Live, The Brain from Planet X, Duke Ellington
VCR: something wonderful

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #28 on:** April 11, 2008, 06:13:30 AM »

As for the Topic of the Day...

Well, I had actually meant to listen to a few more things this week, but I seemed to be in not much of a listening mood. -Although, I think seeing two shows this week has to count as some sort of "media". In any case, I did pull a CD off the shelf that I don't think I ever listened to after I bought it. It's the complete songs of Henri Duparc sang by the venerable bass-baritone, José van Dam. It's from the early years of the CD, so the sound, at least to my ears, is a bit too reverberant and "spatial" in some places, but van Dam's artistry comes through loud and clear. His young accompanist, Maciej Pikulski, handles Duparc's more technically difficult and Wagnerian accompaniments with great ease and musicality too.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #29 on:** April 11, 2008, 06:23:56 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on April 11, 2008, 05:08:37 AM

A rose between two thorns...

_{photo: The Happy Time}

Well, the "thorn" on the right is my buddy, Michael Minarik. We actually both grew up in Northern Virginia. It turned out that we went to competing high schools, but our paths never crossed until we were in college and I stared playing for the state and regional SETCs auditions. A couple of times, we almost worked together at Ford's Theatre in DC - only one of us ever ended up getting the gig. A few years ago, we finally got to work on the workshop of a new show. Such a great guy, and he actually made his Broadway debut in the revival of Les Miserables singing on the barricades with his girlfriend. I'm hoping to get down to Signature to see The Happy Time - hopefully, next weekend.

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