Topic: STUMBLING THROUGH AND SEXTING (Read 4595 times)

bk · « **on:** April 03, 2016, 12:18:50 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes stumbled but did NOT sext, and now it is time for you to post until the stumbling and sexting cows come home - they're off doing Snapchat and sending udder shocking photos.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** April 03, 2016, 12:19:36 AM »

And the word of the day is: ASTERISM!

TCB · « **Reply #2 on:** April 03, 2016, 01:22:42 AM »

Really? First post after BK at 1:20 in the morning?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #3 on:** April 03, 2016, 04:51:15 AM »

Really? First post in the actual morning?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #4 on:** April 03, 2016, 04:51:59 AM »

Good morning, all.

Coffee!

FJL · « **Reply #5 on:** April 03, 2016, 04:52:51 AM »

First post after Chas!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #6 on:** April 03, 2016, 04:55:56 AM »

We got a light dusting. A feathery light dusting. It's mostly on the tree branches, very little on the ground, and none on the driveway or sidewalks. Whew!

But the winds are crazy. And though the sky is quite bright, I could swear I just heard hail hitting the house again. I imagine some of last night's hail is still in evidence on the deck.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #7 on:** April 03, 2016, 04:59:54 AM »

I have but an hour or so to sit on my bloomin' arse, and then I must go out into the world and play several hours of auditions -- whereupon I will have had quite my fill of that for a while.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 03, 2016, 05:02:44 AM »

Good morning, all! I've been our of bed and moving about for 40 minutes or so.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #9 on:** April 03, 2016, 05:07:04 AM »

DR vixmom, I'm happy you got home safely, and I'm happy you enjoyed the show. I guess the contemporary clothing didn't bother you? A lot of the biggest laughs yesterday afternoon came from all the jokes about Congress that are still true today. I do quibble about Abigail's LL Bean look, since I believe - bot do not know for certain - that she was not out plowing and running that farm without indentured servants or fieldhands of some sort. I think I'd like to read her letters to John Adams.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #10 on:** April 03, 2016, 05:12:25 AM »

Sounds like vixmom had a fine seat. Which section/row was that?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 03, 2016, 05:12:32 AM »

I see a new edition of Abigail's letters was published last month with over 100 unpublished ones added, but I think "Dearest Friend" is the one I want.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #12 on:** April 03, 2016, 05:13:30 AM »

If that's the farm in the cover photo, she wasn't running it alone.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 03, 2016, 05:14:00 AM »

More coffee!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #14 on:** April 03, 2016, 05:16:59 AM »

I'd be happy to read that myself.

This also made me want to watch the HBO John Adams mini-series again.

John G. · « **Reply #15 on:** April 03, 2016, 05:17:20 AM »

Good morning, all.

John G. · « **Reply #16 on:** April 03, 2016, 05:17:49 AM »

Allergies are still kicking my butt. And the Benedryl didn't work its usual magic. Ugh.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #17 on:** April 03, 2016, 05:18:03 AM »

Playing auditions is a thankless task, except for the pay, with long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. As with Mitchum in "The Night of the Hunter", one has a L-O-V-E / H-A-T-E relationship with the hapless souls coming in hoping to make it big. We L-O-V-E the ones who set "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" before us, and wish the others, with their poor copies of Sondheim and Jason Robert Brown that have to be sightread, a swift removal from this earth.

John G. · « **Reply #18 on:** April 03, 2016, 05:18:45 AM »

Elmore, did you ever watch the John Adams miniseries with Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti?

John G. · « **Reply #19 on:** April 03, 2016, 05:21:01 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on April 03, 2016, 05:18:03 AM

Playing auditions is a thankless task, except for the pay, with long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. As with Mitchum in "The Night of the Hunter", one has a L-O-V-E / H-A-T-E relationship with the hapless souls coming in hoping to make it big. We L-O-V-E the ones who set "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" before us, and wish the others, with their poor copies of Sondheim and Jason Robert Brown that have to be sightread, a swift removal from this earth.

I've heard another pianist say the same. He played sort of a rumbling vamp and then applied it to four or five JRB songs.

John G. · « **Reply #20 on:** April 03, 2016, 05:25:01 AM »

Show vibes for BK and company!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #21 on:** April 03, 2016, 05:30:11 AM »

Quote from: John G. on April 03, 2016, 05:21:01 AM

Quote from: ChasSmith on April 03, 2016, 05:18:03 AM
Playing auditions is a thankless task, except for the pay, with long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. As with Mitchum in "The Night of the Hunter", one has a L-O-V-E / H-A-T-E relationship with the hapless souls coming in hoping to make it big. We L-O-V-E the ones who set "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" before us, and wish the others, with their poor copies of Sondheim and Jason Robert Brown that have to be sightread, a swift removal from this earth.

I've heard another pianist say the same. He played sort of a rumbling vamp and then applied it to four or five JRB songs.

A little secret I discovered about sightreading JRB: If you have a moment in which to figure out and master the pattern (or gimmick) of accompaniment at the beginning of a song, you can fake your way through the whole damned thing, because what you see there is pretty much what you get.

Sadly, there is no secret that will ease your way through a Sondheim piece you don't know.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #22 on:** April 03, 2016, 05:36:08 AM »

It's weird, though. I played The Last Five Years several years ago, but twice recently someone has brought in a song excerpt from it, and in a few places it was like I'd never seen the son of a bitch before.

KevinH · « **Reply #23 on:** April 03, 2016, 06:10:38 AM »

Good morning. It's only 34 degrees. I wish I had brought my heavier coat!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #24 on:** April 03, 2016, 06:56:23 AM »

Thanks to DR VIXMOM for the 1776 report.....my snail mail address has be PM'd, so now you can find me on Google Earth if you care to....I think my car is in the driveway on the street view.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #25 on:** April 03, 2016, 06:56:48 AM »

Health and show vibes to MR BK & Co.

Continued health vibes to RICHARD!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #26 on:** April 03, 2016, 06:58:14 AM »

Preparing for the auditions - I have to go and set up the room. Because it is not very warm, we'll have to be in the rehearsal center. This means less room for everything. And of course since every teenager brings two friends with her to auditions, seating is limited.....

John G. · « **Reply #27 on:** April 03, 2016, 06:59:50 AM »

The heater just kicked in here. It shouldn't do that two days after it was 90 degrees.

John G. · « **Reply #28 on:** April 03, 2016, 07:00:15 AM »

Audition vibes for JRand.

John G. · « **Reply #29 on:** April 03, 2016, 07:00:24 AM »

Let's move on.

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