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[John G.]

Eight!

[ChasSmith]

Still hungry.  I need to let all this food "settle".

It's not settling.

[John G.]

Watched a very disturbing British anti-war film called "King and County" with Dirk Bogard and Tom Courtenay. And just before bed, too. Yay.

[ChasSmith]

Okay, maybe just a few peanut butter filled pretzels...

[bk]

Finished with my viewing - a wonderful Ormandy performance of The Planets.  However, a mystery to be solved.  Where were the damn female chorus - they are nowhere to be seen.

[bk]

This performance of The Planets was fantastic in terms of its sound - sadly the RCA recording from two years earlier is one of those ones where they distant miked it and there's no life to it and all detail is lost in a wash of nothingness.

[bk]

Listening right now to Ormandy do the Ives Symphony 2.  Ives has never been my favorite, but I am enjoying this.

[John G.]

Good night, all.

[bk]

After I finish the Ives I'm going to load in the Stokowski The Planets recorded in stereo in 1957 - for whatever reason, it seems to be the only Planets I've kept on CD, although I suspect I may have another one or two filed under whatever the companion piece is.

[ChasSmith]

Too bad Ormandy didn't record The Planets in the Columbia years.

[Cillaliz]

Is it too late to go?

Uh . . . yes.

LOL!!!

[Cillaliz]

It's a tribute to Elvis night.  Back in 1987, my friends went to the 10th anniversary of his death and pretended to be with a TV station (or something) anyway, the interviewed a bunch of Elvis fanatics.   This will be the first time they've shown the video to anyone and I hear it's really funny.   They are also having a quiz, with fabulous prizes, an Elvis themed coaster (as in what you put your glass on) contest, and will be serving fried banana and peanut butter sandwiches.   I think the guys will love it

I was never a fan of Elvis, but that sounds like a fun evening.

Me either, but it's a really funny creative group of people so no matter the topic or theme, it's fun

[Cillaliz]

Is it too late to go?

Uh . . . yes.

Sorry.  I thought you might have been able to make it.

He said it was for the day before, you must have missed that part

[Cillaliz]

We have just completed a much-needed whirlwind bout of heavy cleaning. I'm a-sweatin' up a storm.

If you want to drive south a few hours you can clean my house!

[Cillaliz]

Singdaw, don;t forget this list of unclaimed funds  https://ouf.osc.state.ny.us/ouf/

just written up in the Times the other day  "On A List and on a List"

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/on-a-list-and-on-a-list-2/

Here they call it The Great Iowa Treasure Hunt.  Same thing though

[Cillaliz]

On Saturday, I traveled south (way south) to the town of Chehalis, WA.  They had on display at their Veteran's Museum, The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall (one of five). They were holding a memorial service on Saturday afternoon, and among the speakers were author J. A. Jance and my cousin, Bonnie Abney.  My cousin and her fiance, Doug Davis who was killed in Vietnam are both characters in J. A. Jance's book, SECOND WATCH.  It was a very emotional service, especially since August 2 was the 48th anniverary of Doug's death.  I was very glad that I could be there for my cousin.

Sounds very moving. Glad you could be there

[George]

Listening to Carl Orff's Carmina Burana courtesy of Mr. Ormandy in 1960 - with Harve Presnell as soloist.  I must admit other than the piece that was used in movie trailers for every film for over a decade, I was very unfamiliar with most of this, and it's quite wonderful.

Not only was it used in umpteen frickin' trailers, it still serves as the model for umpteen frickin' "original" movie scores.  They're all so "original" they even stick to the same key (D minor).  Brain numbing.

I wonder how many Carmina Burana recordings I'm down to.  I know I got rid of a few.  Not Ormandy's, to be sure, for it is a wonderful thing.

They always use "O Fortuna" (the first number) for scary or action movies. 

And, of course, the lyrics have nothing to do with what the movie is about.

[Cillaliz]

I just saw it today.  Lately the site has had various improvements to it.  Because is in red I immediately noticed the "Off".



Above is a sample book I have on hold.  In the top right corner of the book, in a white circle, is a little grey book symbol.  If the book was available to check out the little book would be black.

To the right of the book, under a green options tab, is my hold info:
Auto checkout: Off
[Edit]
You are user 29 out of 36 on the waiting list.

Library copies: 4

Email notification will be sent to:


When you get a chance, please put any book on hold.  I'm curious what you will see.

Looks like a good book!  I'll have to read that one.

[Cillaliz]

Elmore I am very sorry to hear about the burnt bridge

It just means that, if the Man from Philadelphia were to call with future work, I will not take it on.  He's not paying me now, my work on ROBERTA is finished, and I have to find work somewhere. I will. God alone knows what it will be.

Something good is coming up for you, I just feel it....

[Cillaliz]

I bought the first few books in the Little House series, and Wae-Ling has been reading them while we drive to our various field trips. Today I went to the bookstore to get the next couple in the series, and they didn't have them. I was astounded. No Little House books?

I live fairly close to where the books happen.  The first one's are about 1/2 way between Singdaw and I.

[Cillaliz]

She has read the first three: Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, and On the Banks of Plum Creek.

I had to search three or four used book stores before I found all of them. But I'm glad she's liking the books. They are wonderful.

I have them somewhere around here.

[bk]

The Stokowski Planets is not so hot.  Don't know why I liked it at one point or why it would be the only one I kept, except I was very enamored of early stereo stuff at one point.  But there's no oomph there and not enough detail after just watching the DVD, which has amazing sound.  I'll reload the Ormandy RCA and see if I can live with the more distant sound.  Somewhere here I have Herrmann conducting The Planets - that might be interesting. 

Right now, listening to Ormandy doing Rachmaninov Symphony 1 - no one does this composer better.

[Cillaliz]

So, it was a crazy day today.  But, I made it through.  I rescheduled the construction so that's off my plate and I just finished my judicial application so I can file that tomorrow and I can stop thinking about that until I hear about the interview schedule.  The application ended up being 18 pages plus a writing sample.  It's a major undertaking to do it right.  I was much more complete this time than the last one I applied for.  Bottom line is, I'm slowly getting back on track.

[Cillaliz]

there are no appointments tomorrow so I'm going to sleep in and then go to work and get back into going through the files.  I also have a couple that are priority projects. If I can get those done tomorrow I will be very happy.  I did already get the applications filled out for a couple clients coming in on Friday. Now all I'll have to do is review them and make corrections.  It's not easy, but this is doable

[Cillaliz]

Now I'm going to sleep. Since I can sleep in, I'll probably wake up at 6:00am, lol

[bk]

Welcome fifty-three GUESTS.  Reading a whole slew of different topics from all sorts of years.

[bk]

This is the kind of posting day we love.

[bk]

Sluggish getting posts to post.  May have to alert them.

[George]

BK, I just noticed that you're pretty close to a plateau!

[George]

And that I passed a plateau!