Topic: THE STRANGE LITTLE DAY THAT WAS STRANGELY STRANGE (Read 5416 times)

John G. · « **Reply #31 on:** June 28, 2016, 07:50:59 AM »

Thank you for the Crete jokes. I just hope I don't have to be petite to go to Crete or meet on a street in Crete.

Reminds me of a great line from Sheldon Harnick's Medea in Disneyland: "And I'm just the Cretan to do it ..."

ChasSmith · « **Reply #32 on:** June 28, 2016, 07:54:58 AM »

Quote from: John G. on June 28, 2016, 07:45:31 AM

Malik lives in Austin and filmed his latest, Weightless, there with a huge cast including Ryan Gosling, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Patti Smith and plenty of local musicians.

I will see it because it gave my friend Deborah her first two IMDb credits, as a restaurant patron and as a casting assistant. The movie opened in London last Friday, which was her birthday.

I'd certainly see it for all of those reasons, too. Be sure to give us a full report, DR John G.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #33 on:** June 28, 2016, 07:56:14 AM »

Not a good morning here. I fear that my colleagues and I on Moonshine and Mistletoe are being jerked around, and I don't like that.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #34 on:** June 28, 2016, 07:58:35 AM »

VIBES for no jerking around and smooth sailing for DR Elmore and colleagues.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #35 on:** June 28, 2016, 08:01:34 AM »

Well, I've taken a week off from being productive in the music department. I need to go downstairs and change that.

Had a sort of half-arsed dream about the upcoming GYPSY last night. What I actually need to do in that regard is work on the iPad to get my ForScore annotation skills and my pedal page-turning sharpened up. This is going to be my debut playing from the iPad, and it could turn out to be quite the clusterf**k if I'm not fairly practiced at it.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #36 on:** June 28, 2016, 08:04:10 AM »

I want to use the expression (volume) pedal on this one as well, so I'll have four - count 'em - pedals to cope with:

Regular sustain pedal
Volume pedal
Patch switch pedal
AirTurn page-turning pedals (set of two, for forward and backward)

ChasSmith · « **Reply #37 on:** June 28, 2016, 08:09:25 AM »

Whatever happened to the days of playing a regular old piano in a pit?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #38 on:** June 28, 2016, 08:10:27 AM »

Not that that rhetorical question applies to the project at hand, since I'm playing a string reduction. But, you know...

Matthew · « **Reply #39 on:** June 28, 2016, 08:42:02 AM »

Good Morning -

May I take this opportunity to introduced the newest DD in the HHW Canine Department....

Leo (Leopold Pius) - Leo is almost 8 weeks old, and he came to live with me and his big brother DD Ben yesterday. Everyone is adjusting still!!

Matthew · « **Reply #40 on:** June 28, 2016, 08:45:07 AM »

Leo (and Ben) came to Xanadu callbacks with me and slept through the entire thing. It was a long day. The drive to pick up Leo was about 3+hours, and coming home was a little more. Now it's time to start working on a routine.

Other than that, it's business as usual.

Druxy · « **Reply #41 on:** June 28, 2016, 09:00:49 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on June 28, 2016, 07:42:59 AM

Quote from: Druxy on June 28, 2016, 06:11:47 AM
I received my free DVD/Blu-ray copies of the UK release of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES yesterday.

Now, if I only had an all-region player, I could watch my on-camera interview.

Is that a recently done interview, DR Druxy? It's not on the US Blu-ray set from several years ago, is it?

I did it about 3 months ago. They sent a cameraman/interviewer to my home.

Unfortunately, the disc is only available in the UK.

But, they paid me well.

Druxy · « **Reply #42 on:** June 28, 2016, 09:03:05 AM »

Quote from: John G. on June 28, 2016, 07:45:31 AM

Malik lives in Austin and filmed his latest, Weightless, there with a huge cast including Ryan Gosling, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Patti Smith and plenty of local musicians.

I will see it because it gave my friend Deborah her first two IMDb credits, as a restaurant patron and as a casting assistant. The movie opened in London last Friday, which was her birthday.

I didn't know he lived in Austin. We could be neighbors.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #43 on:** June 28, 2016, 09:12:44 AM »

Quote from: Matthew on June 28, 2016, 08:45:07 AM

The drive to pick up Leo was about 3+hours

DD Leo must have come from a very special place.

Looks adorable.

Laura · « **Reply #44 on:** June 28, 2016, 09:35:23 AM »

Good morning.

Laura · « **Reply #45 on:** June 28, 2016, 09:35:32 AM »

Leo is a very cute puppy.

John G. · « **Reply #46 on:** June 28, 2016, 10:00:30 AM »

Leo is precious.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #47 on:** June 28, 2016, 10:05:56 AM »

Quote from: Matthew on June 28, 2016, 08:42:02 AM

Good Morning -

May I take this opportunity to introduced the newest DD in the HHW Canine Department....

Leo (Leopold Pius) - Leo is almost 8 weeks old, and he came to live with me and his big brother DD Ben yesterday. Everyone is adjusting still!!

He's cute!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #48 on:** June 28, 2016, 10:40:37 AM »

Word has it the filmed-on-stage Stop the World, I Want to Get Off has been announced for a July release on Blu-ray by the Warner Archive.

bk · « **Reply #49 on:** June 28, 2016, 11:09:47 AM »

I'm up, I'm up - I do think I managed to get eight actual hours of sleep.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #50 on:** June 28, 2016, 11:20:13 AM »

That Leo is some cute doggie!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #51 on:** June 28, 2016, 11:22:30 AM »

I have all I can do to handle three pedals when I "play" DR CHAS SMITH....it is quite entertaining to watch I am sure.....which is why I rarely play....in public.

BTW thanks for asking.....I will be assaying the leading role of NY representative Lewis Morris....courteously..... There are a limited number of microphones, and my opinion is that I will be performing without one.

I will just have to sing louder.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #52 on:** June 28, 2016, 11:23:12 AM »

I am assembling my pre show music for ON GOLDEN POND and I am not sure what to use......I shall continue to listen and think.....

bk · « **Reply #53 on:** June 28, 2016, 11:28:15 AM »

I'm so angry right now I could explode. I'm so careful about these spoof e-mails and even though some are convincing I haven't fallen for one of them in over a decade. This morning, going through my e-mails I have one saying someone tried to log in to iTunes ordering a book and if it wasn't me to click the link. Now, I'd JUST gotten one of these yesterday because I'd logged in via my iPad and they always alert you when that happens from a device you haven't used.

So, like a complete moron I ignored everything they always tell you and clicked through, where I was presented with an absolutely authentic looking Apple page to enter all my info. And like an even bigger moron, and because I'm still groggy, I actually start to do it, starting with my iTunes user name and password. I get as far as social security number when my brain finally clicked in and I stopped instantly, erased everything else and got the hell out of there - I was literally about fifteen seconds from pressing the send button. I instantly cleared my cache and my history, and am hoping that the page itself contained nothing harmful, but I don't know how to tell that. But unless they were on the page with me because I clicked it, and they were following along, they didn't get the social, but did get the address, date of birth, etc. I'm changing my Apple ID password right now.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #54 on:** June 28, 2016, 12:15:37 PM »

Dick VERMEIL was once the head football coach for the Philadelphia Eagles.

George · « **Reply #55 on:** June 28, 2016, 12:16:27 PM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on June 28, 2016, 05:12:08 AM

Well, I have to get out of here soon to go to my consultation for everybody's favorite procedure:
a colonoscopy later this summer. I'm late on this one due to having such a horrible insurance coverage prior to jumping aboard Medicare and a supplemental plan.

I have to get one also. I have just been procrastinating on the scheduling of it.

George · « **Reply #56 on:** June 28, 2016, 12:23:56 PM »

Quote from: Druxy on June 28, 2016, 06:11:47 AM

I received my free DVD/Blu-ray copies of the UK release of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES yesterday.

Now, if I only had an all-region player, I could watch my on-camera interview.

Druxy, they're getting cheaper and cheaper.

George · « **Reply #57 on:** June 28, 2016, 12:24:04 PM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on June 28, 2016, 07:58:35 AM

VIBES for no jerking around and smooth sailing for DR Elmore and colleagues.

~~~Ditto!!~~~

George · « **Reply #58 on:** June 28, 2016, 12:24:22 PM »

Quote from: Matthew on June 28, 2016, 08:42:02 AM

Good Morning -

May I take this opportunity to introduced the newest DD in the HHW Canine Department....

Leo (Leopold Pius) - Leo is almost 8 weeks old, and he came to live with me and his big brother DD Ben yesterday. Everyone is adjusting still!!

So cute!

George · « **Reply #59 on:** June 28, 2016, 12:24:37 PM »

And since we're so close...

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