Topic: BK IN THE CITY (Read 7560 times)

Danise · « **Reply #120 on:** August 20, 2012, 04:19:15 PM »

Quote from: Ben on August 20, 2012, 12:14:28 PM

Phyllis Diller

passed away at 95 years old.

Sorry to read that.

Danise · « **Reply #121 on:** August 20, 2012, 04:21:30 PM »

Quote from: FJL on August 20, 2012, 12:47:46 PM

Please send vibes that Ann Miner and Mike reynolds of All That Chat decide to reveal the identity of the person they are inexplicably protecting who thought it would be cute to post a taunting lyric saying "I really hope you die" yet claims in another post taht he's a friedn of Skip and mine, yet won't identify himself. It's just extremely creepy, and All that Chat just doesn't get why this is disturbing.

I'm putting the complete post here. The person in another post says "I'm someone you've dined with and consider a friend' but knows I'm upset by this and won't come forward to reassure me, some "friend" that is! that leads me to believe it really is someone menacing who is pulling the wool over ATC's eyes and Ann and Mike just really want to believe it because they want to be hurtful.

Here's the post with the violent lyric. It feels creepy in light of the other incidents such as the "Fred Landu is Dead" newspaper links, and those strange "stalks" on the Times comments.

Brooklyn Boy, you've changed the subject yet again (not that there's anything wrong with that). Before addressing your new topic, I'd like to "like" Chromolume's peeve --

contemporary lyricists (or composer/lyricists like Brown) - again, so many of today's composers are influenced by contemporary pop, and the dense, overwritten lyric style of rap, and what I'd call "rant" songs ("One Week" being a good example) that this is seemingly all they know how to write - so we have these long overwritten marathons by the likes of Brown, Kerrigan/Lowdermilk, Gealt, etc, which tend, to me, all to become "more is less" songs. No one these days trusts the economy of, say, the lyric to a Hammerstein ballad, where often there is ONLY ONE REFRAIN to listen to, digest, and embrace - and in general, that kind of economy of writing can very easily be "less is more" - with the words NOT being sung just as important as the ones that are. But these days, a good number of lyricists feel they need to just vomit out all the subtext and everything else into one huge-ass song. And for me, that's often a tedious, masturbatory, wholly unsatisfying thing to listen to.

-- "They pack their lyrics 'til they're so damn dense, you could put 'em in your yard and you could use 'em for a fence." These songs/writers are extremely popular among performers under a certain age, and that has nothing to do with who is or isn't winning awards. Take for example: the Pasek and Paul song called In Short, which is really anything but. It includes these charming lines:

I wanna stick pins your eyes
I pray you get a rectal rash
I hope your Visa’s declined
Your children are blind
Get broke and have to do porn for cash
Become epileptic and violently shake
Find out that you were conceived by mistake
Fall out of a roller coaster
Take a warm bath with a plugged in toaster
In short
I really hope you die

but the real problem is that the song goes on and on, making the same point, which never develops, all at a thousand words per minute, never giving the ear a chance to rest, devoid of subtext. Listen to it back to back with Hammerstein's The Gentlemen Is a Dope for fun.

There's also Miller & Tyson's Spring Cleaning, Brown's Hopalong Heartbreak, plus countless other epics with countless words and notes. But when Chromolume says no one today is writing with economy, leaving things unsaid - well, it sounds like he's unaware of the better songsmiths of our day, such as the fine and diverse group who've won the Ebb award.

Wow, that IS scary. I don't understand why anyone would shield someone who posted that--if only for your peace of mind.

Danise · « **Reply #122 on:** August 20, 2012, 04:22:49 PM »

Quote from: DakotaCelt on August 20, 2012, 02:00:53 PM

Is anyone familiar with the group Celtic Thunder?

They are an all-male group from Ireland that have nice harmonies.

I think they are great! I love that kind of music.

Danise · « **Reply #123 on:** August 20, 2012, 04:23:50 PM »

Well, they managed to clear the air at work. No one told us what it was (and I doubt they ever will) but I do think we have the right to know what we were exposed to.

OK, I'm waiting for the jokes on that one.

FJL · « **Reply #124 on:** August 20, 2012, 04:28:25 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on August 20, 2012, 03:26:27 PM

Today went well. We have two duets to record, "Bye and Bye" and "Here's A Kiss," both with the two romantic leads, and we'll do them tomorrow. We have two sessions to record them, the Overture, Entr'Acte, Bow, and Exit Music and we are finished. I got all teary saying goodbye to the cast and chorus this evening.

DR JohnG, I'm happy your friend is okay. I'm sorry I missed sending her vibes.

DR Dakotacelt, I bought a book on the Book of Kells last year when I was here. I hear thye lines to see the pages the College elects to show the public is long, and I have no patience and too much to do in my brief time here. Still, I might get to it one of these days.

DR FJL, the whole situation is creepy and I think your curiosity and anger are probably delighting whomever this oaf may be. There's someone who claims to be an acquaintance of mine pulling something similar. I want to know who it is so I can give him a tonsillectomy with my bare hands, but I refuse to obsess about this ass. At some point I'll find out and kill the sonofabitch. Until then, I don't need to think about it.

I don't care if the stalker oaf is who's been trailing me since Feb 2011 who goes by "vic" is delighted and is the person who's been identified by ATC in their earlier letter. If the "vic" guy is who I think he is, the lawyer Jeffrey L. Brooks of Brooklyn, , he's certainly reading here, he has a nice job as a lawyer for GMHC, he has significant assets in Brooklyn, and I will in all likelihood do quite well financially in a case against him.

But Ann and Mike seem very sure that this "B_Rabbit" is NOT this "vic" after all, so much so that they've staked quite a lot on it.. B_Rabbit seems to have adopted vic's methodology point for point in a copycat way, but if Ann and Mike are so convinced that they actually called me a liar for saying he's vic, then my immediate concern is to be assured that I'm in no danger from someone who has said "I'm someone you've dined with and consider a friend" - which suggests it's a person I'm around all the time, on a day to day basis, but is taking delight in making me uncomfortable and threatened physically and who's a total nut job

Jeanne · « **Reply #125 on:** August 20, 2012, 04:28:27 PM »

Interesting article about a new opera which deals with veterans' PTSD:

bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19283695

FJL · « **Reply #126 on:** August 20, 2012, 04:30:52 PM »

Thanks to all of you for being here to talk to!

MBarnum · « **Reply #127 on:** August 20, 2012, 04:31:14 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on August 20, 2012, 03:40:36 PM

Quote from: MBarnum on August 20, 2012, 11:40:03 AM
Since I missed DR Vixmom's birthday......

Thank you Mike! You look lovely in this frock!

The turquiose suits my eyes.

MBarnum · « **Reply #128 on:** August 20, 2012, 04:35:45 PM »

The whole incident is very strange, DR FJL. One would think that if the comment and lyrics were perfectly innocent the poster would happily identify themself and explain. Perhaps it is not really someone you "know and have dined with", but the poster is trying to make you paranoid.

MBarnum · « **Reply #129 on:** August 20, 2012, 04:36:58 PM »

TOD:

Forgot about the TOD.

My trip to Japan was particularly special, but it is difficult to decide it if was more special then my trips to NYC or Los Angeles.

Danise · « **Reply #130 on:** August 20, 2012, 04:41:51 PM »

Quote from: MBarnum on August 20, 2012, 04:35:45 PM

The whole incident is very strange, DR FJL. One would think that if the comment and lyrics were perfectly innocent the poster would happily identify themself and explain. Perhaps it is not really someone you "know and have dined with", but the poster is trying to make you paranoid.

I agree.

FJL · « **Reply #131 on:** August 20, 2012, 05:11:31 PM »

What's the line - just because you're paranoid doesn't mean someone's not out to get you.

Or more succinctly: Who says I'm paranoid?

And if you hadn't seen it, there's this oddness at the very bottom of the comment box from "bosco162" and "Frequent Theatregoer" at the Times site {never happened before in two years of these] this past week - an Ugh with 7 recommends on an Ugh?

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/leaning-toward-the-light-molly-ringwald-talks-about-her-new-novel/

John G. · « **Reply #132 on:** August 20, 2012, 05:32:27 PM »

Restaurant Week continues. Tonight it was wild mushroom soup with arugula, scallops with vegetables and bread pudding with fresh peaches. I am very happy.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #133 on:** August 20, 2012, 05:47:32 PM »

Good Evening!

Well... I managed to get out of bed sometime around 8:15 this morning, and then proceeded to get ready for my day. I was thinking about riding my bike down to Chelsea, but decided to take my (folded) bike with me on the subway. I somehow managed to make it out of the apartment early enough to go to the bank and City Bakery before the auditions.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #134 on:** August 20, 2012, 05:52:16 PM »

The auditions went very well. I am just "behind the table" this week - not playing the piano - and it's been nice to be able to hear and watch everyone. Today we saw the Men, tomorrow we see the Women.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #135 on:** August 20, 2012, 05:54:05 PM »

After the auditions, I biked up from Chelsea to my mail place at Columbus Circle, and then up to DR elmore's 'hood for dinner at Ditch Plains. And then back across the park to here.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #136 on:** August 20, 2012, 05:55:04 PM »

DR FJL - ~~~~~CALM RESOLUTION VIBES TO YOU~~~~~~

Ginny · « **Reply #137 on:** August 20, 2012, 06:05:44 PM »

{{{{{Hugs}}}}} for DR FJL!

John G. · « **Reply #138 on:** August 20, 2012, 06:23:19 PM »

Just watched a lovely French movie called "My Afternoons with Margueritte" in which Gerard Depardieu falls for a 95-year-old. She gives him a dictionary because she's getting too old to travel, in her words, and with a dictionary, you travel from word to word.

Seemed like a fitting comment given the TOD.

FJL · « **Reply #139 on:** August 20, 2012, 06:31:36 PM »

Thanks, all.

Danise · « **Reply #140 on:** August 20, 2012, 06:34:06 PM »

Was just talking with my niece, Marie. I may be going to Pittsburgh to spend Thanksgiving with them. Flights are cheep. $245 round trip. I am going to put in for the time at work tomorrow and if it's approved I will go ahead and book the flight tomorrow night.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #141 on:** August 20, 2012, 06:38:52 PM »

And...

I, apparently, just dozed off for a bit...

John G. · « **Reply #142 on:** August 20, 2012, 06:43:06 PM »

"There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck."

Great line from "The Last Days of Disco."

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #143 on:** August 20, 2012, 07:04:15 PM »

And I, apparently, just dozed off again...

So...

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #144 on:** August 20, 2012, 07:04:43 PM »

I hope BK had a good day of recording and a yummy meal at Joe Allen or Angus.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #145 on:** August 20, 2012, 07:04:50 PM »

And...

Goodnight.

Laura · « **Reply #146 on:** August 20, 2012, 07:35:48 PM »

And..... they have just called me three times in twenty minutes to tell me that the alarm is ringing. Again.

John G. · « **Reply #147 on:** August 20, 2012, 07:57:24 PM »

I'm working too hard to get any work done. I hate Mondays like this.

bk · « **Reply #148 on:** August 20, 2012, 08:09:16 PM »

Back from a VERY long day. The session went very well - a bit slow but it didn't really matter to me - I just let it go and when I had to be tough about the time everyone heard me and buckled down, Winsocki and got it done. The reason one had to be tough about the time was that the musicians were contracted for three three-hour sessions and could not go over that time.

bk · « **Reply #149 on:** August 20, 2012, 08:09:47 PM »

Then I met Alet and Andy for dinner at Angus - it was great but I'll go into more detail in the notes.

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