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« Reply #90 on: January 26, 2020, 08:50:11 PM »

Four.
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« Reply #91 on: January 26, 2020, 08:50:25 PM »

I’m outta here.
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« Reply #92 on: January 26, 2020, 08:51:02 PM »

Time to listen to something better, like Bed and Sofa.
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« Reply #93 on: January 26, 2020, 09:10:21 PM »

Where is everyone?

I actually took a shower and went out today.  I went to Panda Express for dinner, and then Costco.  I ended up buying a pair of pants from Costco, just because. 
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« Reply #94 on: January 26, 2020, 09:10:45 PM »

I'm now back home consolidating a bunch of video files that I recorded from my DVR onto my computer for the purposes of potentially making Blu-rays. 
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« Reply #95 on: January 26, 2020, 09:11:13 PM »

I have files on a few different flash drives, so I want to get them all in one place and free up the space on those flash drives. 
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« Reply #96 on: January 26, 2020, 09:11:25 PM »

Since they're all on USB2 drives, they go slow...much faster than USB1 of course, but slower than USB3.
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« Reply #97 on: January 26, 2020, 09:12:02 PM »

The weather was sunny and warm today. High in the 70s.

Here in Tumwater, it's been raining off and on most of the day.
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« Reply #98 on: January 26, 2020, 09:13:35 PM »

The Grammys sure had some wardrobe oddities tonight.

I'm recording it, but I haven't watched it, yet.
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« Reply #99 on: January 26, 2020, 09:13:56 PM »

Billy Porter’s lampshade hat was a hoot.

Can't wait to see that!
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« Reply #100 on: January 26, 2020, 09:14:09 PM »

Gratuitous Post #100! :D
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« Reply #101 on: January 26, 2020, 09:19:20 PM »

Finally I started Anna and the Apocalypse, a British zombie Christmas musical. Very good cast, well photographed and sung. A genuine surprise.

That looks like fun!  I wonder if there's a stage version. ;)
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« Reply #102 on: January 26, 2020, 09:24:49 PM »

Well, there isn't...yet...but there is a novelization. ;D
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« Reply #103 on: January 26, 2020, 09:27:52 PM »

This Wednesday I get to usher for Finding Neverland.
That show may have the worst, at least the blandest, score I’ve ever heard.

Hopefully, seeing it live will improve...something about it.
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« Reply #104 on: January 26, 2020, 09:28:28 PM »

He produced it, fired the first authors, replaced them with dullards and left the world with a giant yawn of a show.

How rude! >:(
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« Reply #105 on: January 26, 2020, 09:29:17 PM »

What’s the dullest musical you’ve ever seen?

I don't know...my standards are pretty low. ::)

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« Reply #106 on: January 26, 2020, 09:30:06 PM »

I don’t care much for It Should Have Been You either.

I liked that CD.  But maybe I just liked the idea of the story.
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« Reply #107 on: January 26, 2020, 09:31:03 PM »

Frankenstein the Musical was so dull I haven’t removed the plastic wrap from the disc.

I saw that live in Seattle before it went to Broadway and had a great time.
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« Reply #108 on: January 26, 2020, 09:31:18 PM »

See post #105, if necessary.
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« Reply #109 on: January 26, 2020, 09:31:45 PM »

Scandalous is right up there.

I did not care for that CD.
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« Reply #110 on: January 26, 2020, 09:32:36 PM »

And Metropolis sucked. Even with the excellent vocals of Judy Kuhn.

That does have one good song, "You Are the Light."  I sang that as part of an AIDS benefit, so it has great sentimental value for me.
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« Reply #111 on: January 26, 2020, 09:32:53 PM »

Time to listen to something better, like Bed and Sofa.

That is a good one...kinda strange, but good.
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« Reply #112 on: January 26, 2020, 09:38:38 PM »

Well, there isn't...yet...but there is a novelization. ;D

Oh, my goodness!  There's also a soundtrack!  I think I need to get this!
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« Reply #113 on: January 26, 2020, 10:16:17 PM »

Where is everyone?

I actually took a shower and went out today.  I went to Panda Express for dinner, and then Costco.  I ended up buying a pair of pants from Costco, just because. 
I have never had good luck finding clothes at Costco.  I did buy a pair of earrings once when they had a special line of jewelry for the day.  They were more fun and casual then the jewelry I normally see there.
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Re: MUSIC AND LAUGHTER
« Reply #114 on: January 26, 2020, 10:21:47 PM »

Tonight we watched Motherless Brooklyn.   Unlike Bruce it kept our interest right from the beginning.   As the story progressed it kept getting better.
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Re: MUSIC AND LAUGHTER
« Reply #115 on: January 26, 2020, 10:27:38 PM »

Where is everyone?

I actually took a shower and went out today.  I went to Panda Express for dinner, and then Costco.  I ended up buying a pair of pants from Costco, just because. 
I have never had good luck finding clothes at Costco.  I did buy a pair of earrings once when they had a special line of jewelry for the day.  They were more fun and casual then the jewelry I normally see there.

I rarely buy clothes from Costco, but I know that for pants, they just have to be the right size and they'll fit.
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Re: MUSIC AND LAUGHTER
« Reply #116 on: January 26, 2020, 10:47:41 PM »

I am very difficult to fit.  I wouldn't buy pants but I have looked at other clothing.
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« Reply #117 on: January 26, 2020, 10:54:33 PM »

Recording was really fun, as it turned out.  We got some blind kids to do it (the show is about a legally blind girl) and I found them wonderful and so positive.  We're going to try and have them come to the show.  The show is a talking play and while the visuals I've made are nice, they'll understand the play just from hearing it.
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« Reply #118 on: January 26, 2020, 10:56:13 PM »

Recording was really fun, as it turned out.  We got some blind kids to do it (the show is about a legally blind girl) and I found them wonderful and so positive.  We're going to try and have them come to the show.  The show is a talking play and while the visuals I've made are nice, they'll understand the play just from hearing it.

That's really cool, BK.  Hope they can go and hope they enjoy it!
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« Reply #119 on: January 26, 2020, 11:02:06 PM »

Doug has been insistent that the girl at either age should be seen using a blind cane and I've been resistant to it.  Most of the scenes are in locations she knows well, so it doesn't make sense.  It finally boiled down to her first scene as an adult on her first day of teaching school.  But as I told him today, he has written the scene in such a way that if she walks in with a cane there's literally no scene to play.  And I think he finally "got" it and saw I was right.  He just wanted the audience to instantly know she's some kind of blind, but they do - you have to trust that the audience is not dumb, plus they'll certainly know it in the first thirty seconds because we find out for sure when a male teacher she goes to talk to discovers it.

And the one other scene is when she goes to visit her old man friend by walking to his house - that, at least made sense, but I tried it and it just doesn't look good.  In fact, I'd say it harms what we're doing.  He wrote a lovely play, a memory play, and so everything is filtered and diffused as she listens to cassettes of herself talking, an aural diary, and we see the scenes as she remembers them.  And my point all along is that nothing should be "real" but "remembered".  So, we have three realistic set pieces - a couch, a teacher's desk, and her bay window where she records.  And I wanted those realistic because they are the touchstones of her life.  Everything else comes out of darkness into the light, and everything is delineated by light.  That's been my take on this from day one and it really works and he loves it.  So, the cane is, thankfully, gone.
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