Topic: MISSING ABNER AND THE WEIRD LITTLE DAY (Read 10073 times)

Jane · « **Reply #120 on:** May 28, 2014, 05:05:40 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on May 28, 2014, 04:53:08 PM

Quote from: Jane on May 28, 2014, 04:20:58 PM
...My issue with dropping the land line is that we both can't get on the phone at the same time.

DR Jane, Rob will often call my cell phone or Richard's and ask to be put on speaker when wants to talk to both of us about something. Like when he and Mary Linda became engaged (good) or when his company went out of business and he lost his job (bad).

Speaker phones are hard for the single caller to hear anything. I am ok on my end but not when someone else uses them. I am pushing more to use skype or facebook video but only for the boys, not when friends or a business call comes in.

When the day finally comes that we move I expect we will not get a land line.

George · « **Reply #121 on:** May 28, 2014, 05:55:32 PM »

Quote from: bk on May 28, 2014, 11:34:03 AM

I may have to make a bold decision for Kritzerland soon - as I predicted to every gluttonous label four years ago, if you keep going down your path you are going to kill this for everyone - and so it has come to pass, with every label's sales down (save for the biggest titles) and that includes us. We are struggling and when my big online dealer told me his needs for our latest two titles, I told him that after those I may reassess how I'm doing things. What that means is, that perhaps beginning with our next title I will only make our titles available at Kritzerland exclusively. That will not sit well with my dealers, but at this point I have to think boldly - I have led the way in many ways with the other labels, so much so that one of them regularly and routinely rips off the way we do our press releases and even the way in which I respond to guesses on the film music board - it's funny and sickening all at the same time. Get your own routine, say I.

At the beginning, Kritzerland was unorthodox - I was the first label to stop selling to brick-and-morter stores so that I would never have returns. Guess what? Soon thereafter, all the soundtrack labels save for Varese also stopped. Well, my guess is if I try this new thing and it works for me, that everyone will soon follow suit because none of us can survive with these numbers.

So BK, do your big online dealers want fewer copies than before or more copies?

singdaw · « **Reply #122 on:** May 28, 2014, 05:56:39 PM »

DR John G. - you are so wise and caring! That was the perfect thing to say.

Glad the outcome was favorable. And your parents are now the wiser.

singdaw · « **Reply #123 on:** May 28, 2014, 05:58:28 PM »

The rehearsal went very well - much better than it had a right to. I still have a lot of studying to do, but it will be OK.

I am stepping in for an absent soloist with a choir next week at an outdoor choral festival in a park, hosted by the local NPR station.
Their program happens to be sung in 13 languages.

singdaw · « **Reply #124 on:** May 28, 2014, 06:08:47 PM »

Apropos of nothing -

Remember these??

bk · « **Reply #125 on:** May 28, 2014, 06:14:26 PM »

The online dealers are taking less and less - that's the problem - and if it continues, I just think I'm better off doing exclusive releases on our site alone - make more money that way and just have to educate people that that's the way it's going to be. It's a dangerous gambit but at this point it may be one I'm willing to make.

singdaw · « **Reply #126 on:** May 28, 2014, 06:35:15 PM »

John G. · « **Reply #127 on:** May 28, 2014, 06:42:43 PM »

Quote from: singdaw on May 28, 2014, 05:56:39 PM

DR John G. - you are so wise and caring! That was the perfect thing to say.

Glad the outcome was favorable. And your parents are now the wiser.

Thank you, all. In talking with my sister this evening, it turns out that my nephew told my dad the same thing last night. Hopefully, he will take it to heart.

She had some different ideas on the phone situation, so we'll all likely be discussing that more.

John G. · « **Reply #128 on:** May 28, 2014, 06:44:19 PM »

Watching a really well-shot video of Newsies. Wish the good camera work had been used on a better show.

John G. · « **Reply #129 on:** May 28, 2014, 06:50:08 PM »

I once got to hear Maya Angelou read her work. Packed house here in town at one of the universities. She made everyone feel as if she were reading just to them. She was almost as good a performer as she was a writer.

I read all of her autobiographical books and her cookbook, but not all of her poetry. I think my favorite was "Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas," which was largely about her touring Europe in a production of "Porgy and Bess."

Jane · « **Reply #130 on:** May 28, 2014, 06:57:05 PM »

Quote from: bk on May 28, 2014, 06:14:26 PM

The online dealers are taking less and less - that's the problem - and if it continues, I just think I'm better off doing exclusive releases on our site alone - make more money that way and just have to educate people that that's the way it's going to be. It's a dangerous gambit but at this point it may be one I'm willing to make.

BEST WISHES WITH IT!!!!!

Jane · « **Reply #131 on:** May 28, 2014, 06:57:53 PM »

Quote from: John G. on May 28, 2014, 06:42:43 PM

Quote from: singdaw on May 28, 2014, 05:56:39 PM
DR John G. - you are so wise and caring! That was the perfect thing to say.

Glad the outcome was favorable. And your parents are now the wiser.

Thank you, all. In talking with my sister this evening, it turns out that my nephew told my dad the same thing last night. Hopefully, he will take it to heart.

She had some different ideas on the phone situation, so we'll all likely be discussing that more.

You parent's obviously have caring, thoughtful children.

George · « **Reply #132 on:** May 28, 2014, 07:07:11 PM »

Quote from: bk on May 28, 2014, 06:14:26 PM

The online dealers are taking less and less - that's the problem - and if it continues, I just think I'm better off doing exclusive releases on our site alone - make more money that way and just have to educate people that that's the way it's going to be. It's a dangerous gambit but at this point it may be one I'm willing to make.

Sounds like you've thought this through and it certainly does make sense.

John G. · « **Reply #133 on:** May 28, 2014, 07:32:41 PM »

Quote from: bk on May 28, 2014, 06:14:26 PM

The online dealers are taking less and less - that's the problem - and if it continues, I just think I'm better off doing exclusive releases on our site alone - make more money that way and just have to educate people that that's the way it's going to be. It's a dangerous gambit but at this point it may be one I'm willing to make.

It's a scary move, but it sounds sensible. I don't know when I last bought a new CD at a store or when I last bought a new CD through any store but amazon. The rest have been direct order from the record label.

Matthew · « **Reply #134 on:** May 28, 2014, 07:43:01 PM »

Happy Birthday, DR ArnoldMBrockman!

John G. · « **Reply #135 on:** May 28, 2014, 08:39:29 PM »

Good night, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #136 on:** May 28, 2014, 08:44:24 PM »

Good night from here, too, for I must be up in six hours to get to the [early] train I want to take into Manhattan.

Get me to the church on time!

vixmom · « **Reply #137 on:** May 28, 2014, 08:44:31 PM »

I would have posted sooner but I was scared away from the computer while catching up

vixmom · « **Reply #138 on:** May 28, 2014, 08:44:50 PM »

I can't like those sipers

vixmom · « **Reply #139 on:** May 28, 2014, 08:45:39 PM »

HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS TO MR BROCKMAN!!!

vixmom · « **Reply #140 on:** May 28, 2014, 08:46:21 PM »

John that was so perfect - I wish you were a member of MY family just so you coudl say nice things to me when I messed up

vixmom · « **Reply #141 on:** May 28, 2014, 08:47:39 PM »

I am really glad that no money was lost I had envisioned him sending a money gram

vixmom · « **Reply #142 on:** May 28, 2014, 08:48:17 PM »

tomorrow night the Vixter and I are going to see Kansas

bk · « **Reply #143 on:** May 28, 2014, 09:01:51 PM »

Finished with my viewing.

vixmom · « **Reply #144 on:** May 28, 2014, 09:21:42 PM »

well its tomorrow here so since I need to be up in less than hours good night!

George · « **Reply #145 on:** May 28, 2014, 10:01:54 PM »

I'm watching Brian Williams' interview with Edward Snowden.

George · « **Reply #146 on:** May 28, 2014, 10:02:09 PM »

Is anyone else watching this?

bk · « **Reply #147 on:** May 28, 2014, 10:09:09 PM »

No, they're all reading books

George · « **Reply #148 on:** May 28, 2014, 10:41:05 PM »

It's a pretty interesting interview. I'd love to see the whole, uncut interview.

bk · « **Reply #149 on:** May 28, 2014, 11:00:40 PM »

I'm sitting here like so much fish.

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