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« Reply #60 on: February 22, 2005, 01:11:38 AM »
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« Reply #61 on: February 22, 2005, 01:12:23 AM »
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« Reply #62 on: February 22, 2005, 01:12:51 AM »
My job here is done (for the night). ;D
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« Reply #63 on: February 22, 2005, 01:15:32 AM »
I outlasted BK, and I'm three hours ahead of him.

I shall make note of this.
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« Reply #64 on: February 22, 2005, 04:26:15 AM »
Good morning, all!  Today I begin the Act Two proof of THE KING & I, which will be fun.  It's always been one of my favorite scores, and getting a chance to delve into its mechanics has been quite fascinating.

My favorite amusement park ride was always the roller coaster.  I haven't been on one for probably twenty-five years or more, but the ride up the first incline with the anticipation of the drop and then the turn downward is a vivid memory.
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« Reply #65 on: February 22, 2005, 05:07:31 AM »
Yesterday I wrote:
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think David's friend Judd Harris will probably make it through on Wednesday.  The judges comments greatly influence the votes.  Which is why I think David, Travis, and guy #11.

 
 
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Jennifer, I kept waiting for you to finish that last sentence (or did I miss it?).

Sorry I meant I thought those 3 would be bottom 3.
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« Reply #66 on: February 22, 2005, 05:09:55 AM »
MattH wrote this about American Idol:
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I thought Anwar was one of the worst tonight. "Moon River" never sounded so butchered.

The judges are very strange. Often, they are right on the money - saying that Bo outsang Constantine (the two rockers) but that Constantine has more charisma. Absolutely right.

And then they posed the question which will america prefer.  I think charisma will win out here.  That is what the AI fans seem to go for.

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Then, they overpriase Anwar and Mario to the point of lunacy. (Randy did say he wasn't sure about the start of "Moon River," and he was right; it began very, very badly; improved some by the end, but as a whole, I found it very lacking.)

There are certain people like Anwar and Mario who have huge stage presence and huge fan bases already.

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My favorites were Anthony and Joseph.

I think Anthony will be popular.  If you go to the message boards i think it will become pretty clear who will stay (haven't gone yet).  But I don't think joseph will be staying long.

I think it was quite unfair that some of the contestants got huge airtime during the lead-up rounds. And i wonder if any of the ones we haven't seen can overcome this fact.

I really think mario/constantine/anwar/anthony will breeze through the final 6 men.

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Scott reminded me of Ruben. A lumbering, uncharismatic presence with no connection to the audience. No chance. I think he'll be eliminated on Wednesday. I thought Travis had the worst vocals of the night.

I'm not sure, but i think some of the audience will like scott. I don't really care for him.  But he is very different with a nice voice.

I really think the judges comments will play a big part in who is in the bottom 3.
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« Reply #67 on: February 22, 2005, 05:36:07 AM »

MSNBC handicaps last night's American Idol show:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7008897/
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« Reply #68 on: February 22, 2005, 05:37:39 AM »
Page 3 at 8:30 in the morning (EST) wow!
Got to go to work, but will be back later in the day.

Thanks BK for the corrections. So much for reference books with their information!!!
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« Reply #69 on: February 22, 2005, 06:18:01 AM »
Hello all. didn't get on the computer at all Sunday and yesterday.  Busy spending quality time with the family and friends. Working 8 - 6 & having a 30 mile commute in each direction, M - F doesn't leave a heck of a lot of time durimg the week, so we grab it when we can!!

Yesterday, the Vixter, her friend Emily & I went to see "Because of Winn-Dixie". It was very sweet but very slow moving.  The girls kept getting bored.  Both of them have  read the book several times and complained that the book was better.  They said inportnant things in the book were left out and that "the movie makers just completely made stuff up , that didn't happen in the book!!"

I enjoyed it, but my two purist 11 year old critics think the movie makers have some 'splainin' to do!
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« Reply #70 on: February 22, 2005, 06:19:58 AM »
My lumbar region has been giving me some pain the past few days so that I had to sleep on the recliner because the bed hurt my back.  Right now I have a lumbar pillow on my chair at work to try to stop the pain.

Oh it is hard to grow old.... (yet preferable to the alternative)
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« Reply #71 on: February 22, 2005, 06:20:43 AM »
I am going to try and do some catching up!!
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« Reply #72 on: February 22, 2005, 06:55:01 AM »
BK, glad you enjoyed SHALL WE DANCE...such a fun movie...even my "we hate movies with subtitles" friends enjoyed it!

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« Reply #73 on: February 22, 2005, 06:57:39 AM »
Jose, my "Jose day" went fairly well...I cleaned and scrubbed the living room, and rearranged the furniture...but I did not get to the kitchen or the bedroom for cleaning purposes...since the weather was so nice I worked outdoors the rest of the weekend, and now my front and back yard look very nice! Planted a lot of flowers, edged and mowed the lawns, pulled weeds, and got everything ready for spring.

Speaking of spring it will be sunny and 63 degrees here today! Wow!
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« Reply #74 on: February 22, 2005, 06:58:23 AM »
My car has LUMBAR support on both front seats.
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Re:IT'S NOT OVER UNTIL THE FAT LADY SINGS
« Reply #75 on: February 22, 2005, 07:09:30 AM »
Have always loved roller coasters from the Wild Mouse at Myrtle Beach to the Cyclone at Coney Island. Modern roller coasters are terrific fun too. I love Space Mountain and that upside down coaster at Busch Gardens.

But the ride that mesmerized me as a kid was the Peter Pan ride at Disneyland. Oh, as we soared over London and then came into view of Never Never Land, I really can't describe in words the thrill that I experienced as a 12 year old in that ride! When we went to Disney World three years ago, I knew it wouldn't be the same, and it wasn't, but it still was a nostalgic memory of that magic moment back in the 1960s when I first got on that ship and sailed away (Noel Coward reference).
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« Reply #76 on: February 22, 2005, 07:19:16 AM »
Reading the summaries of others' reactions to the AMERICAN IDOL singers is always frustrating for me. I hear things others don't hear, and they hear things that didn't register with me.

I'm at something of a disadvantage because not being into most pop music, many of these songs are unknown to me. I'm hearing them for either the first time or for the only times when others have performed them on IDOL in the past.

Yes, those rabid fans who line up behind the guys do keep some less talented folks around longer than they should be while more deserving singers get axed. Jon Peter Lewis and John Stephens from last year were both around a lot longer than their singing qualified them to be.

This is so different from previous years of IDOL since there will be no wild card round this year. But I'm not sure I like this male/female division. I say, if the 12 men are more talented than the twelve women, it should be an all male show. (That would never happen), but last year, there were far more talented women than men and people who complained there were too many women were people-watching and not going by singing talent. I want to hear the best 12 singers in the finals, and I don't care whether the majority are male or female. That shouldn't matter at all.
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« Reply #77 on: February 22, 2005, 07:21:56 AM »
Judging from what we heard in the audition rounds, I think the women tonight will be far more prone to embellish the melodies with melisma than the men did last night, and for that reason, I'm very wary of tonight's show. I hope we'll get some pure singing, but I'm not confident of that.
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« Reply #78 on: February 22, 2005, 07:30:00 AM »
TOD:  I have always been partial to Space Mountain.  So much fun!  There is also a roller-coaster in Santa Rosa (it is Santa Rosa, isn't it?...the one right by the water), which was fun, and also had a terrific view.  Ironically, even though Brooklyn born and bred, I have never been on the Cyclone, though I know my brother, DR Jay, has, several times.  There happens to be a coaster called the Jack Rabbit here in Rochester in an old, family-run amusement park, that is kind of neat.  As you come hurtling down the last "big" drop, you think you are going to crash into the ground.  You sort of do, in fact, because the tracks are laid in a pit that is carved out of the ground.  The first time I saw that, I thought I would lay an egg.

I also like flume rides (especially Splash Mountain, going from "Place" to "Place," thinking nothing "treacherous" would happen....which it does, and then that lovely, lit-up showboat....).  With absolutely no sarcasm, I will also say that I love "It's a Small World."  It's not a thrilling ride, or a challenging ride, but I love it for its sheer campiness.  I have also been known not to pass up a tilt-a-whirl.  But I can ALWAYS resist teacups, or anything similar.  Nauseating, in a word.

And thanks, DR Jose, for your comments yesterday.
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« Reply #79 on: February 22, 2005, 07:55:38 AM »
TOD: My new favorite ride is MissionSpace at EPCOT, we rode this in previews before the ride was officially opened, a couple of years ago. (July 2003 I believe....)  

There are also some slides at "Splish Splash", a water park on here on Long Island that I quite enjoy now

Growing up on Long Island, we had (well still have actually) a local amusment park, Adventureland, which has a fun rollercoaster, in fact its the one that Alan Alda and Michael Caine are riding on in "Sweet Liberty". Some of my friends filmed a student film on this rollercoaster several years before "Sweet Liberty" ws filmed and they have always maintained that they had stolen thier idea!

The flume ride at Six Flags Great Adventure
 of New Jersey was always fun,

and the Popeye Raft Ride and the Dudley DoRight Flume ride at Islands of Adventure at Universal Orlando are also favorites

The family  of Mann (DH, the Vixter & myself) are actually big fans of the Teacups and ours is always the spinningest teacup there

I rode "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" many times before it was dismantled to make room for Ariel's Grotto, and while I still consider the dismantling of the ride as sacrilege, I must admit, it really was a little on the lame side.....
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« Reply #80 on: February 22, 2005, 08:14:37 AM »
DR Jane... Sorry when I was typing the other night my fingers went a walking without first connecting to the brain... the message about sorry to hear you were under the weather and the query as to whether you needed a bagel refill were meant for you, although I typed Ann instead of Jane....

although Dear Ann, be sure I am continuing to wish you better health, a wonderful job opportunity  and will be happy to supply to you with bagels should you so desire!!
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« Reply #81 on: February 22, 2005, 08:16:17 AM »
Re:  Joan Crawford Megamix.  That has been all the talk on the Yahoo Joan Crawford group for the past few weeks.  Why, you ask, would I be a member of that group?  Because I noticed a month or so ago that I was getting tons of hits on my FF article from said group, so I joined to find out--turns out they had been discussing FF behind my back, can you imagine?  :)  You probably could have guessed that.

TOD:  Salt Lake City has its own pretty wonderful amusement park, called Lagoon.  My favorite attraction there was the decidedly low-tech "Tilt Room," which was exactly what you might think:  a severely tilted room that you had to walk through.  I still remember the walls were carpeted so that when you bumped into them it didn't hurt.  I can tell you what my least favorite ride of all time was:  Mission:Space at Walt Disney World.  Oy.  I have never been so sick in my life.  It took me literally three hours after that ride to be able to function normally again.  Betsy and I had been worried about the kids' reactions to it (there are warning signs a-plenty before you board), but of course they jumped right off and wanted to do it again whilst I could barely move from nausea.  I'm too old for that sort of thing, I guess.

And speaking of TOD.  Has it occurred to anyone that if our word of the day were "Verklarung" we could have a mini-Strauss fest and have Tod und Verklarung?  Sorry.
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« Reply #82 on: February 22, 2005, 08:17:17 AM »
Still catching up on the past three days posts.....

Happy belated birthday to Matthew!!

DR Joey...you and your family are in my prayers
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« Reply #83 on: February 22, 2005, 08:17:55 AM »
You are tetched, Vixmom, tetched.  :)
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« Reply #84 on: February 22, 2005, 08:20:29 AM »
Quote from: JMK on February 22, 2005, 08:16:17 AM

.  I can tell you what my least favorite ride of all time was:  Mission:Space at Walt Disney World.  Oy.  I have never been so sick in my life.  It took me literally three hours after that ride to be able to function normally again.  Betsy and I had been worried about the kids' reactions to it (there are warning signs a-plenty before you board), but of course they jumped right off and wanted to do it again whilst I could barely move from nausea.  I'm too old for that sort of thing, I guess.


DH had pretty much the same reaction as you, he actually said he thought he was going to have a heart attack, I on the other hand loved it!!
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« Reply #85 on: February 22, 2005, 08:21:32 AM »
Quote from: JMK on February 22, 2005, 08:17:55 AM
You are tetched, Vixmom, tetched.  :)
because I loved Mission Space.. or just generally?  :D
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« Reply #86 on: February 22, 2005, 08:21:46 AM »
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TOD: My new favorite ride is MissionSpace at EPCOT, we rode this in previews before the ride was officially opened, a couple of years ago. (July 2003 I believe....)  

Oy.  I do not care for this; care for this I do not.  Not this, or any other "simulator" ride.  I find them more nausea-inducing than the teacups.  We even tried the "kiddie" version at Universal a few years ago....I forget what it was called, but I think it was a "Flintsones Meets the Jetsons" type thing.  Even that was not good......

Oy.

So, you may have my place in line, Vixmom!
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« Reply #87 on: February 22, 2005, 08:24:35 AM »
There was actually a passle of us 40-somethings literally lying on the floor in that jungle-gym play area when you come out of the ride, all of us moaning.  I think most, if not all, of us were guys.  Maybe it's a gender thing.  It was easily the sickest I've ever been after a ride.  Even after lying down in that play area for a good half hour, I could barely move and I lay down again on a bench in the Imaginarium while Betsy took the kids around that place.  Unbelievable.
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« Reply #88 on: February 22, 2005, 08:24:36 AM »
I also loved a ride that would show up when ever one of the traveling carnivals came around (and which is now one of the Vixter's favorites as well) it would be advertised under different names, but basically  would be the same ride,  you would stand against a padded wall in a giant wheel and it would spin veru fast so that the centrifigual force would plaster you against the wall and then it would spin sidewides and upside down, ...
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« Reply #89 on: February 22, 2005, 08:26:11 AM »
I'm just looking back here on all my favorites and it seems they all involve spinning around very fast... wonder if that makes me a dizzy blonde?
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