Topic: ROMANCE ON THE HIGH C'S (Read 22996 times)

Jane · « **Reply #30 on:** February 13, 2005, 08:14:24 AM »

Joey, make sure someone is there to take care of you the first couple of days after your teeth are pulled. And keep a bowl handy incase you get sick.

More motherly advice. Having worn braces for so long you must take extra care of your gums from now on.

Jane · « **Reply #31 on:** February 13, 2005, 08:15:20 AM »

JRand the frozen Hell sign is great!!

Matt H. · « **Reply #32 on:** February 13, 2005, 09:00:10 AM »

Does anyone plan to watch the Grammy Awards tonight? I won't since there is little in the music industry today to interest me, but for anyone who does watch, let us know which cast album wins that competition: WICKED, AVENUE Q, or ASSASSINS?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #33 on:** February 13, 2005, 09:15:00 AM »

Good Morning! Good Afternoon!

WOW! It's amazing just how "day" there is when one gets up before 10:00am... 10:30am... 11:00... or even Noon!!!

I was up and adam at 8:00, and I was working up a sweat downstairs by 8:30. I have to say that I'm really noticing some nice changes in my body after three weeks of this fitness routine. I actually am looking forward to stepping on the scale tomorrow. -I only do it once a week.

The challenge will be keeping up the routine once I'm back home in Richmond this week. The big obstacle will be the less than ideal workout space of my living room. However, if it's nice weather, I may just go ahead and work out in the park. Heck, other people go through their routines outside. To quote a famous brand name: Just Do It!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #34 on:** February 13, 2005, 09:28:31 AM »

Now, after I finished my workout and got all showered up, I decided to go ahead and make this very simple chocolate cake that I've made before. My final baked goods for the run of the show...

How Do You Know When It's Time To Put Away The Spatula?[/i]

This recipe is very easy - I shall post it later. No eggs, no butter. Just mix the dry ingredients in one bowl, the wet in another, then mix them together until it's lump free. Very simple. -The recipe gets it's fat from corn oil.

Well, I wanted to make two cakes, so I doubled the recipe. Which I have done before.

So, I pour the batter into the cake pans, and put the pans in the oven. I start clearing the counter, and then realize that I'm not putting away something. Which means I forgot to take it out the pantry and put it into the batter.

The SUGAR!!!!!

AAAGGGHHH!!!! -And the cake is made with cocoa powder, so sugar would be a good thing..

Luckily, since I had just put them in the oven, I promptly took the cake pans out of the oven, and poured the batter back into the mixing bowl. I stirred in the two cups of sugar, refilled the pans, and replaced them back in the oven. Afterwards, I clean the dishes and the counter and read some of the newspaper.

About 20 minutes later I check on them, and they don't seem to be rising that much. Well, that's normal for this batter. It's just one of those that suddenly goes from a thin paste to a baked goodie.

I decide to recheck my recipe. Well, more precisely, the scribbles I had written down - the "doubled" scribbles. I wrote down 2 cups of water. When I was mixing it up, I thought I had forgot to double the water amount since the batter was looking very thick. So, I added another two cups of water. Then I pulled up the recipe on my computer, and, lo and behold, the original called for 1 cup of water. I had indeed scribbled down the correct "double"! So...

I've been laughing at myself for the past couple of minutes. I'm just gonna let the mixture bake for a while to see what happens. Who knows? Maybe I'll have some sort of chocolate spoon bread?

In any case, I do believe a break from baking is due right now.

At least for today.

-Anybody want some really, really, really, really, REALLY moist chocolate cake?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #35 on:** February 13, 2005, 09:29:14 AM »

So, Topic for Discussion...

What are some of your memorable and/or infamous culinary mishaps?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #36 on:** February 13, 2005, 09:30:24 AM »

OK - Let me check on those chocolate things in the oven. -I'm soooo glad I used disposable foil pans this time! -Someone was looking out for me.

I'll be back right before I head out for the final two shows...

Jrand74 · « **Reply #37 on:** February 13, 2005, 09:31:15 AM »

DR JANE - it made me laugh!

That hobo routine by Lucy and Red was an extended pantomime from one of the Comedy Hours, but I forget the circumstances of how LucyRicard ended up on Red's show.

DR WFO is right in that none of the "Lucy" sites give a music credit. But I just looked i"The Lucy Book" by Geoffrey Mark Fidelman credits the song 'Poor Everybody Else' to Arthur Hamilton.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #38 on:** February 13, 2005, 09:35:18 AM »

Ah the sketch was called "Dining at the Waldorf" and Lucy Ricardo ended up on the show because it was being broadcast from Alaska - the new 49th state and the actress who was supposed to be on Red's live show, was unable to get to Nome.

The Ricardos and Mertzes were in Alaska because they had bought stock in a "gold mine" and were checking on it.

Makes sense to me.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #39 on:** February 13, 2005, 09:35:53 AM »

Hmmm....

I just checked the cakes and they seem to be doing fine. Of course, now they've been in the oven for double the amount of the original cooking time, but still...

I may just bring them to the theatre, and see what happens. I will warn everyone that the flavor may be a little different than last time.

The wonders of evaporation!

OK - Time to get dressed...

Jrand74 · « **Reply #40 on:** February 13, 2005, 09:36:22 AM »

Well DRJOSE - my most terrible kitchen mishap was the time I put Liquid Dishwashing liquid in the Dishwasher!

DON'T EVER DO THAT!!!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #41 on:** February 13, 2005, 09:37:30 AM »

OH! Here's the recipe - The joys of cut and paste!

AMAZON CAKE
Adapted from ''Cafe Beaujolais'' by Margaret Fox and John S. Bear (Ten Speed Press, 1984)
Time: 40 minutes

1 1/2 cups flour
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons corn oil
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
Confectioners' sugar.

Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking soda, sugar and salt. In a separate bowl, whisk together the oil, vanilla and vinegar with 1 cup cold water. Whisk in the dry ingredients, blending until completely lump-free. Pour into a greased 9-inch round cake pan. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until the top springs back when pressed gently. Cool before removing from the pan and dusting with confectioners' sugar, or frosting if desired.

Yield: 6 to 8 servings.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #42 on:** February 13, 2005, 09:42:45 AM »

OK - I'm dressed...

How do you know when it truly is the last day of the show?[/b]

I went to get a pair of my black dress socks. And there's just one pair left.

Happiness...

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #43 on:** February 13, 2005, 09:44:03 AM »

Quote from: JRand54 on February 13, 2005, 09:36:22 AM

Well DRJOSE - my most terrible kitchen mishap was the time I put Liquid Dishwashing liquid in the Dishwasher!

DON'T EVER DO THAT!!!

Been there. Done that. When I was about 10-11 years old...

"But I just wanted to help out washing the dishes..."

<parents shaking their heads back and forth>

$:-\$

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #44 on:** February 13, 2005, 09:45:44 AM »

OK - I must get head down to the kitchen and decide whether or not to take the experiments into the theatre.

Two shows. Two final shows. One closing night cast party. Oh, and we're having barbecue from Dixie Bones, and Pizza!

-Good thing I worked out this morning!

I'll be back...

Laters...

Kerry · « **Reply #45 on:** February 13, 2005, 09:49:06 AM »

I want to be ready for tomorrow, so I'm practicing my pucker.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #46 on:** February 13, 2005, 10:04:15 AM »

Quote from: William F. Orr on February 13, 2005, 04:02:07 AM

...And, My Dear DR Swoody, what were you doing up at three o'clock in the morning?

I was going to bed. I'm up again now.

Pretty soon Fletcher will start pesting me to take him for a walk. Which means for a run. His new trick is to take a leash down off of the entryway table and dump it on the floor, as a hint. If that doesn't work, he takes ALL of the leashes and dumps them on the floor. This, of course, gets everyone else excited, but I refuse to take more than two at a time, and Fletcher is a handful all on his own.

bk · « **Reply #47 on:** February 13, 2005, 10:08:48 AM »

I'm up, I'm up.

My favorite culinary disaster occurred during the making of my stroganoff. It was around 1974 or so - I was seasoning the meat during that portion of the cooking process (meat, onions and mushrooms all sauteeing). The top of the pepper shaker came off and I dumped so much pepper in there it was unbelievable. Nothing to be done except try to scoop it out, but that was one pepperfied batch of stroganoff. People ate it and were kind, but it was NOT good.

Poor Everybody Else was indeed a song from Seesaw, but not the same song as the Lucy/Red Poor Everybody Else - completely different music and lyrics to the former. However, the Lucy/Red Poor Everybody Else SOUNDS like Cy and Carolyn, who'd just written Wildcat for Lucy.

bk · « **Reply #48 on:** February 13, 2005, 10:09:23 AM »

Is this a slow news day here at haineshisway.com?

bk · « **Reply #49 on:** February 13, 2005, 10:09:41 AM »

Oh, and one more thing - BOMBASTIC!

S. Woody White · « **Reply #50 on:** February 13, 2005, 10:12:45 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. on February 13, 2005, 09:00:10 AM

Does anyone plan to watch the Grammy Awards tonight? I won't since there is little in the music industry today to interest me, but for anyone who does watch, let us know which cast album wins that competition: WICKED, AVENUE Q, or ASSASSINS?

Of course, it could instead go to The Boy From Oz or Wonderful Town.

We've four of the five discs in our collection. I'm rooting for Wicked myself, and Schwartz could win it just on his reputation alone. That happens a lot with the "minor" catagories, I've noticed.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #51 on:** February 13, 2005, 10:13:44 AM »

Quote from: bk on February 13, 2005, 10:09:23 AM

Is this a slow news day here at haineshisway.com?

Yes.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #52 on:** February 13, 2005, 10:23:36 AM »

Dang, the one person I could ask about that song, a true-blue Lucy fan (who once named two of his daschunds Fred and Ethel) (no, really!) is too danged busy with politics right now, and wouldn't be able to spare the time to look it up. He probably has the original show on tape.

Damn politics. Damn politics all to...wait a sec, that's already happened, hasn't it???!!!

bk · « **Reply #53 on:** February 13, 2005, 10:28:24 AM »

Well, an industrious person could go to ascap.com and do a search.

TCB · « **Reply #54 on:** February 13, 2005, 10:30:30 AM »

Unfortunately, judging from this morning’s news reports, it would appear that BASTIC is a city in Iran on which George Bush has set his sites.

Mark me down as one who would pay top dollar to see Tim Curry and Mandy Patinkin in “anything” together.

bk · « **Reply #55 on:** February 13, 2005, 10:31:50 AM »

Wicked is the only one of the nominated albums that briefly made the Billboard charts. And the people voting no nothing about cast albums or Broadway - the votes go to shows that have high visibility or a rock producer attached (i.e. Smokey Joe's, Riverdance, etc.). Wicked has the might of Universal behind it, Boy from Oz has a star performance behind it, Avenue Q has nothing behind it except its Tony win, Wonderful Town doesn't even have to show up at the ceremony, and Assassins can do the same.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #56 on:** February 13, 2005, 10:32:14 AM »

Who is Arthur Hamilton - and why is he saying these things about me?

Wonder if Cy wrote it - and they gave the credit to Arthur Hamilton, or if there is such a person?

Jrand74 · « **Reply #57 on:** February 13, 2005, 10:34:44 AM »

Oh my....yes Arthur Hamilton is the son of Jack Stern. He wrote "Poor Ev'rybody Else" among other songs for tv and movies. He also wrote "Cry Me a River" and "Sing a Rainbow."

Interesting.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #58 on:** February 13, 2005, 10:42:24 AM »

Wow - he is a current member of the ASCAP Board of Review Writer's Panel.

Hmmmmmmm....interesting letter to Congress from Marilyn Bergman (better than some of her lyrics) about the rights of songwriters vs. performing artists on digital recordings.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #59 on:** February 13, 2005, 10:43:30 AM »

Quote from: JRand54 on February 13, 2005, 10:32:14 AM

Who is Arthur Hamilton - and why is he saying these things about me?

Wonder if Cy wrote it - and they gave the credit to Arthur Hamilton, or if there is such a person?

Checking on Arthur Hamilton over at IMDB, there was indeed such a person. His bio reads:

Songwriter ("Cry Me a River"), composer, author and publisher, the son of Jack Stern. His songs were recorded by such popular singers as Peggy King and Julie London. Besides his film and television work, he wrote the stage score for "What a Day", and what today is considered to be the first live television musical, for KTTV in 1949. He wrote for a music-publishing company for two years, and became a music publisher himself in 1958. Joining ASCAP in 1955, his other popular-song compositions include "Poor Ev'rybody Else", "Zero Hour", "He Needs Me", "Sing a Rainbow", "Just Go", "Them There Days", "The Trouble With Me is Men", "That Means I Love You", "Our Ship Is Coming In", "Bayamo", "Wherever I Am, I'm Home", "Any Questions?", "Lady Blue", "Bouquet of Blues", "Wherever You Are It's Spring", "Littleboy Heart", and "Sudden Love".

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