Topic: MILES AHEAD (Read 5163 times)

bk · « **on:** March 19, 2021, 12:02:48 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were miles ahead, and now it is time for you to post until the miles ahead cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** March 19, 2021, 12:04:11 AM »

And the word of the day is: GENTEEL!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** March 19, 2021, 12:32:56 AM »

Just got a nice contribution - the Kimmel Collection perk, which took us up to 69%! One thing I remember is the percentage going up goes slower from here to the end, don't know why that is but I remember it from the other campaigns.

George · « **Reply #3 on:** March 19, 2021, 12:52:32 AM »

My dad loved Miles Davis. I'm not a fan of the extreme improvised stuff, but I'm pretty sure that my dad liked most of Miles' music.

singdaw · « **Reply #4 on:** March 19, 2021, 02:56:21 AM »

Good morning, friends.

singdaw · « **Reply #5 on:** March 19, 2021, 02:56:47 AM »

I love a good salad with gonzaga.

singdaw · « **Reply #6 on:** March 19, 2021, 03:02:45 AM »

Sounds like bk had Miles to go before he slept.

singdaw · « **Reply #7 on:** March 19, 2021, 03:23:44 AM »

Indie go go go!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 19, 2021, 04:07:55 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 19, 2021, 04:10:11 AM »

I had a really good night of sleep, but I had a lot of strange dreams, of which I remember only bits. In one, I was in some shop in the West 40s in Manhattan, watching Fred Astaire wrestle another actor. I don't remember what started the conflict.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 19, 2021, 04:12:02 AM »

In another, which took place in the house where I grew up as well as Manhattan, I was on a jury, but we were all sequestered in my parents' home.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 19, 2021, 04:13:54 AM »

I have heard nothing about this biopsy on Monday, so I don't know any of the following:
1. where it's being given
2. a time
3. what prep us required, if any
4. if it's still on

elmore3003 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 19, 2021, 04:14:22 AM »

I've also not yet heard from the NY Dept of Labor about my unemployment.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 19, 2021, 04:34:47 AM »

Last night we watched Sir Peter Hall's 1985 Glyndebourne production of Carmen, with the then-Mrs Peter Hall, Maria Ewing, as Carmen. It remains my favorite production on video. It was clearly not filmed live onstage, because the blocking onstage would be a disaster in the crowd scenes, but the cast is quite good and actually age-appropriate. The standard opéra-comique version is performed with spoken dialogue instead of the recitatives composed by Guiraud after Bizet's death, which I prefer; it provides more information to the audience. It also proves the intention of the writers was to keep the first act rather light, like a musical, and tighten the screws. Up until Don Jose's entrance in Act Two, this could be a musical comedy about a soldier, his hometown girl, and a vamp, but by the end of Act Two, things get darker, and the young man goes to hell, his homrtown girl is deserted, and his sexual obsession for the vam takes over. There's less spoken dialogue in Act Three, and only one brief scene - cut in the standard opera house edition - in Act Four.

Here's her Habanera from the production and you can see this would never work onstage with her moving in and out of the crowd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEe_404iMpU

and the Seguidilla:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMZX5-URqYU

elmore3003 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 19, 2021, 05:34:40 AM »

Kitty cleanup is over and the bed is made. I've got the recyclables to go to the basement and yesterday's mail to pick up. I need to call Suad since I have not yet heard from the NY Dept of Labor.

John G. · « **Reply #15 on:** March 19, 2021, 05:42:46 AM »

Good morning, all.

John G. · « **Reply #16 on:** March 19, 2021, 05:43:05 AM »

I would rather be asleep.

singdaw · « **Reply #17 on:** March 19, 2021, 05:57:36 AM »

Perchance, to dream.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #18 on:** March 19, 2021, 05:57:41 AM »

Good morning, all.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #19 on:** March 19, 2021, 05:58:39 AM »

Finding information vibes for DR ELMORE.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #20 on:** March 19, 2021, 05:59:47 AM »

Seriously!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 19, 2021, 05:59:56 AM »

I was looking for some NCAA games and couldn't find them.....I kept looking on ESPN 1 & 2, the network feeds, and Fox Sports....

I finally found a lot of them.....they are being played on TBS and TNT. This includes the IOWA game Saturday night at 6:30 p.m.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #22 on:** March 19, 2021, 06:02:00 AM »

I appreciate DR Elmore's continuing commentary on Carmen.

I will be watching those excerpts later.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #23 on:** March 19, 2021, 06:05:13 AM »

DR TCB that photo was Debbie Watson & Gil Peterson....stars of The Cool Ones.... Debbie was TV's "Karen" and "Tammy".....Gil was in this movie and a couple of other things.....

Reviews were bad....Roddy McDowell plays a lady killer modeled on Phil Specter.....lots of music including "The Tantrum."

Available for awhile on TCM ONDemand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjCvchFBY0

Jrand73 · « **Reply #24 on:** March 19, 2021, 06:05:24 AM »

Off to get my second shot.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #25 on:** March 19, 2021, 06:10:20 AM »

Connecticut opened the vaccinations up to ages 45-54 starting this morning, and it's a sh*tsh*w because apparently there are several people in that age range living in the state. Who knew? Everything was log-jammed right at 8:00 am with everyone trying to get in through the phone lines and the VAMS database. Kristi will be trying through the day, and likely through the next couple of days, to get herself and Nathan in.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #26 on:** March 19, 2021, 06:15:44 AM »

Here's the English National Opera's Eurotrash version of Acts One and Two of Carmen, pointing up - I guess - its contemporary relevance. Oy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm9RM1fk1jE

It's about this . . . car.

singdaw · « **Reply #27 on:** March 19, 2021, 06:18:41 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on March 19, 2021, 06:02:00 AM

I appreciate DR Elmore's continuing commentary on Carmen.

DITTO!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #28 on:** March 19, 2021, 06:19:34 AM »

Had a crappy night of sleep. I tossed and turned most of the night, because for whatever reasons, none of my usual methods of getting sleepy enough was working. I even tried the TV, my last resort. TCM was playing Breakfast at Tiffany's, which at some point did the job because I woke up hearing them talking about it afterwards. Then Swing Time was on, and I fell asleep a little ways into that. Then, awake again, they were about to start Stagecoach and by then I felt I could say the HELL with it and I turned the TV off and went to sleep --- for maybe two hours. At around 4:45 am I was getting up to pee, then laid there for nearly a hour till I apparently dozed off because the weird dreams, none of which are clear now, commenced. A midday nap would be most welcome. I shall try to take one later.

singdaw · « **Reply #29 on:** March 19, 2021, 06:20:02 AM »

There is still some good in the world!

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