Topic: NOTES IN THE KEY OF B (Read 151311 times)

bk · « **on:** January 05, 2005, 11:58:38 PM »

Well, you've read the notes, you've sung the notes (if you haven't, go back immediately and sing them, each and every paragraph), and you are now ready to post until the singing cows come home. Orchestra, give me an A, even though we're in B.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #1 on:** January 06, 2005, 12:07:30 AM »

At least the topic gives me a chance to recommend the wonderful Katie Meluah's recording of "The Closest Thing To Crazy" (Composer Mike Batt).

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** January 06, 2005, 12:16:48 AM »

I don't hear SINGING. Has Ann caught up?

S. Woody White · « **Reply #3 on:** January 06, 2005, 12:24:07 AM »

You do NOT want to hear me sing. My singing sounds like Jabba the Hutt. Not like Pizza the Hutt, which would at least be an off-key rendition of O Sole Mio, but like Jabba the Hutt. Or like an elephant playing the tuba.

ozderek · « **Reply #4 on:** January 06, 2005, 12:26:21 AM »

I'm singing from Down Under
It's been raining - now there's thunder
Now the line I have to borrow
Is "The sun will come out tomorrow"
Hope all are well and smiling
Gawd, this song is quite beguiling
Well must dash away because
I have to speak to Tomofoz.

Sorry all, but it was the best song I could sing with such short notice.

(A la Dolly Levi....) "Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye"

bk · « **Reply #5 on:** January 06, 2005, 12:28:36 AM »

We need some audio.

Okay, I do believe we have a topic here. I used to wrestle on people's front lawns with my friend when we were in junior high school. I don't really remember why, but we got some rather lovely looks from people.

Ann · « **Reply #6 on:** January 06, 2005, 12:34:00 AM »

was this friend male or female?

bk · « **Reply #7 on:** January 06, 2005, 12:35:28 AM »

Male. The one in Kritzerland.

bk · « **Reply #8 on:** January 06, 2005, 12:38:48 AM »

And what about you, Ann.

Another thing that a friend did in college - this guy named Tommy Lowe (I based a character in my musical Stages on him) used to go with all of us to Norm's. All Tommy wanted to be was an actor who could play cowboys. That's how he spoke, that's how he behaved. Some people at another table were giving us looks, probably because we were loud or something, but they were being really obnoxious about it. They'd finished eating and were about to leave when Tommy got up, sidled over to their table, gave them a mean cowboy look, and picked up what was left of a steak on a plate and put it in his pocket and walked away. The people hied themselves right out of there. Tommy's dream did come true, albeit briefly - he has a key role in The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #9 on:** January 06, 2005, 12:39:57 AM »

Howcum when I go to today's column I'm getting yesterday's column, not today's?

Ann · « **Reply #10 on:** January 06, 2005, 12:40:30 AM »

Ahh. When I was in elementary school my best friend (male) and I used to ride our bikes around the neighborhood pretending they were horses. We got some odd looks too. He gave me a potted flower for my birthday in third grade.

bk · « **Reply #11 on:** January 06, 2005, 12:55:21 AM »

Not sure why, Pogue. It's definitely there. Try refreshing.

bk · « **Reply #12 on:** January 06, 2005, 12:56:31 AM »

Do you still have that potted flower, Ann?

bk · « **Reply #13 on:** January 06, 2005, 12:56:51 AM »

I feel like a potted flower right now.

bk · « **Reply #14 on:** January 06, 2005, 12:57:46 AM »

I keep forgetting that if I feel like it I can just up and carry this here Powerbook anywhere else in the house whilst staying online.

bk · « **Reply #15 on:** January 06, 2005, 01:00:11 AM »

So, I get this Ozzie version of the SE Mary Poppins because someone on that DVD forum said it had a 5.1 theater mix track instead of the US 2.0. Guess what? It doesn't. What planet do these idiots come from when they post this stuff?

ozderek · « **Reply #16 on:** January 06, 2005, 01:03:08 AM »

Quote from: Tomovoz on January 06, 2005, 12:07:30 AM

At least the topic gives me a chance to recommend the wonderful Katie Meluah's recording of "The Closest Thing To Crazy" (Composer Mike Batt).

which brings us to her wonderful rendition of Mike Batt's "Blame It on The Moon"! ... If anybody is able to get a copy of the complete " Blame It On the Moon" suite, (sung by Anna Maria Kaufmann) it is well worth a listen. - A beautiful recording.

bk · « **Reply #17 on:** January 06, 2005, 01:04:39 AM »

On that very same DVD site, someone has posted that he's found info that Li'l Abner will be out on DVD in April. Needless to say, if true it's the best DVD news of the year. However, given the track record of this site, I take it with a large urn of salt.

bk · « **Reply #18 on:** January 06, 2005, 01:07:55 AM »

I feel what we have here is a severe case of WUSSBURGERITIS. I'm already starving for Musso and Frank, and yet I will not be eating until seven o'clock in the evening hours.

bk · « **Reply #19 on:** January 06, 2005, 01:08:08 AM »

I am my own frenzy.

ozderek · « **Reply #20 on:** January 06, 2005, 01:08:34 AM »

Quote from: bk on January 06, 2005, 01:00:11 AM

So, I get this Ozzie version of the SE Mary Poppins because someone on that DVD forum said it had a 5.1 theater mix track instead of the US 2.0. Guess what? It doesn't. What planet do these idiots come from when they post this stuff?

hi bk. i have the MARY POPPINS dvd - be advised there were apparently 2 versions released here. The 40th anniversary edition I have has English language in 5.1 ration

bk · « **Reply #21 on:** January 06, 2005, 01:08:40 AM »

Ann, did you sing the notes in your lilting soprano?

Tomovoz · « **Reply #22 on:** January 06, 2005, 01:16:39 AM »

Quote from: ozderek on January 06, 2005, 01:08:34 AM

hi bk. i have the MARY POPPINS dvd - be advised there were apparently 2 versions released here. The 40th anniversary edition I have has English language in 5.1 ration

Was given "Mary Poppins" for My Birthday (Some gift givers are so thoughtful)- just checked. Mine too is as with OZDerek.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #23 on:** January 06, 2005, 01:18:40 AM »

HMV have not done well in Australia. Not good service and not good prices!!

ozderek · « **Reply #24 on:** January 06, 2005, 02:12:45 AM »

i'm with Tomofoz on that one .... there are better (and cheaper) stores in Australia - try www.jbhifi.com : i;m not sure if they post, but they do have the largest selection .. and the best prices.

Noel · « **Reply #25 on:** January 06, 2005, 02:28:35 AM »

I, too, am seeing yesterday's notes where today's should be.

Had this bit of dialogue with my wife:

She: You're just stringing random words together and hoping they make sense.

Me: That's what writers do, honey.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #26 on:** January 06, 2005, 02:49:41 AM »

So where are the professional pics from age 15?

Hmmmmmmmmm......promises to read and then doesn't read.....Hollywood is the not the only place that happens.

DRMS - I also print out and re-write from a hard copy. Marking it up, making corrections, and finding errors I didn't notice on the screen, then go back into the computer.

IE is going away? Surely he meant for MAC's....what would Windows use? ALthough I don't use it anymore, a LOT of people do. Mozilla.org for me!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm......when I was in the third and fourth grade, I lived next to the man who drove the school bus, and so did my cousins Linda and Danny. So we were the first ones on the bus at 6:15 am and the last ones off the bus at 4:30.

In the afternoon, Linda and I would always sit together on the very back seat - then everytime a stop was made, we would move to an empty seat, taking turns. The first one who got to the seat behind the driver was the winner!

Panni · « **Reply #27 on:** January 06, 2005, 03:05:33 AM »

I went to bed early - always a mistake. Because here I am, up at 3 AM. Too early to work - brain's not functionining yet. Caught up on the posts. Now I'll go back to bed and get up at my usual time - 6 - in a bit.

Joey · « **Reply #28 on:** January 06, 2005, 03:29:49 AM »

(Gregorian chant) I read all the notes and the posts so far and bk I must ask. Must we sing each others posts as we read them also? I have sung all the posts so far just to be safe but with your permission I will stop and just sing mine. I was rather suprised as I sang today's notes, I changed styles every paragraph and I amazingly switched to the style you suggested in each paragraph even before I got to the part where you told us the style. (Except for the soaring operatic one.) I was quite suprised and flabbergasted, but like a proffesional I did not let it stop me from singing the notes at hand. Wow this takes longer to sing than to just type and read. I cannot, I cannot, I cannot let myself fall behind today! I would never catch up. Amen.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #29 on:** January 06, 2005, 05:15:46 AM »

Quote from: Tomovoz on January 06, 2005, 01:18:40 AM

HMV have not done well in Australia. Not good service and not good prices!!

I remember that when an HMV opened here in Philly, the joke was that it stood for "Here Money Vanishes".

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