Topic: MY KINGDOM FOR A MELODY (Read 4466 times)

singdaw · « **Reply #30 on:** August 28, 2021, 07:59:49 AM »

TWO!!!

singdaw · « **Reply #31 on:** August 28, 2021, 08:01:06 AM »

PAGE TURN BLACK CAT DANCE.

Ginny · « **Reply #32 on:** August 28, 2021, 08:57:37 AM »

Saturday morning greetings! Better hit “post” quick or it will be afternoon!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #33 on:** August 28, 2021, 08:59:06 AM »

The laundry is finished. I lost a sock.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #34 on:** August 28, 2021, 09:00:44 AM »

The basement was very warm and very humid. I will lie down with Thatch and Stella for a while before I put things away. The AC and a couple of cool fans can work wonders, I hear.

Ginny · « **Reply #35 on:** August 28, 2021, 09:01:41 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on August 28, 2021, 08:59:06 AM

The laundry is finished. I lost a sock.

I lost one way back when Rob and Mary Linda still lived upstairs and it was found 2 weeks ago when the washer and dryer were pulled away from the wall for our basement work.

Ginny · « **Reply #36 on:** August 28, 2021, 09:11:07 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on August 28, 2021, 04:58:27 AM

That was around 4:00. They immediately put me on an IV of insulin, and I was on IV's until just before midnight. Former DR Jose came up to stay with me and bought his new Smart Phone. To add insult to injury, my idiot doctor never answered his phone to the many calls the ER doctors made to him that night. I still believe the HMO finally sacked the bastard.

Richard and I were in town when this happened and were pleased that a day or 2 later you felt up to dinner at Artie’s:

Jane · « **Reply #37 on:** August 28, 2021, 09:20:55 AM »

DR John, good vibes for a wonderful bidding war on the house.

Jane · « **Reply #38 on:** August 28, 2021, 09:25:51 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on August 28, 2021, 07:24:10 AM

I am still doing Noom. As of this morning, I am down 61 pounds.

Congratulations!

Jane · « **Reply #39 on:** August 28, 2021, 09:26:43 AM »

Quote from: Ginny on August 28, 2021, 09:01:41 AM

Quote from: elmore3003 on August 28, 2021, 08:59:06 AM
The laundry is finished. I lost a sock.

I lost one way back when Rob and Mary Linda still lived upstairs and it was found 2 weeks ago when the washer and dryer were pulled away from the wall for our basement work.

Did you save the sock that wasn't lost?

Ginny · « **Reply #40 on:** August 28, 2021, 09:28:32 AM »

Quote from: Jane on August 28, 2021, 09:26:43 AM

Quote from: Ginny on August 28, 2021, 09:01:41 AM
Quote from: elmore3003 on August 28, 2021, 08:59:06 AM
The laundry is finished. I lost a sock.

I lost one way back when Rob and Mary Linda still lived upstairs and it was found 2 weeks ago when the washer and dryer were pulled away from the wall for our basement work.

Did you save the sock that wasn't lost?

I did, DR Jane, and now I have a pair!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #41 on:** August 28, 2021, 09:30:51 AM »

I'm happy that Pen Farthing and his animals are boarded onto a cargo plane and ready to leave Kabul. I am so sorry that the Taliban would not let his Afghanistan staff leave as well, and I pray to God they will be safe in Kabul.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #42 on:** August 28, 2021, 09:44:44 AM »

I love these photos of Mark Twain and his kittens!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #43 on:** August 28, 2021, 12:40:21 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on August 28, 2021, 09:11:07 AM

Quote from: elmore3003 on August 28, 2021, 04:58:27 AM
That was around 4:00. They immediately put me on an IV of insulin, and I was on IV's until just before midnight. Former DR Jose came up to stay with me and bought his new Smart Phone. To add insult to injury, my idiot doctor never answered his phone to the many calls the ER doctors made to him that night. I still believe the HMO finally sacked the bastard.

Richard and I were in town when this happened and were pleased that a day or 2 later you felt up to dinner at Artie’s:

How excellent!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #44 on:** August 28, 2021, 12:45:18 PM »

TOD

This is bad, but I don't even know if I've seen any of the films of Albert Brooks. I am, however, happy to say that I have Lost in America here, and it has assumed its position on the watch pile.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #45 on:** August 28, 2021, 12:52:20 PM »

I finally got a chance to sit down with the Tonight's the Night Blu-ray, and I was even happier than expected to see the Outside the Box episodes again. I chose a couple at random, but couldn't stop so I ended up watching them all. Then I had to run out, but I sampled BK's commentary on the last one with Marshall Harvey, and it's excellent. I will soon watch them all straight through again with that track on.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #46 on:** August 28, 2021, 01:03:01 PM »

You may remember that several weeks ago I asked for vibes for my dear friend Peter Foley. The cancer got him, and he died yesterday morning at 8:30. I was lucky to know and love him for twenty years. We met in Spring 2001 at the new Packard Humanities Institute office on East 72nd Street when we were summoned by John McGlinn to explain the project. He worked as one of my music copyists through the PHI days and was indispensable to me during the period 2011-2013 on recording Roberta, Eileen, and Dearest Enemy. He then assisted me on several small projects, the last being the dreadfully inept Carnegie Hall Babes in Toyland concert two or threee years ago. I will miss him.

He was a wonderful husband and father to Kate and Grace, and my heart bleeds for them.

Jane · « **Reply #47 on:** August 28, 2021, 01:04:47 PM »

Quote from: Ginny on August 28, 2021, 09:28:32 AM

Quote from: Jane on August 28, 2021, 09:26:43 AM
Quote from: Ginny on August 28, 2021, 09:01:41 AM
Quote from: elmore3003 on August 28, 2021, 08:59:06 AM
The laundry is finished. I lost a sock.

I lost one way back when Rob and Mary Linda still lived upstairs and it was found 2 weeks ago when the washer and dryer were pulled away from the wall for our basement work.

Did you save the sock that wasn't lost?

I did, DR Jane, and now I have a pair!

Good for you. I do the same thing.

singdaw · « **Reply #48 on:** August 28, 2021, 01:05:28 PM »

I am so sorry, DR elmore3003.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #49 on:** August 28, 2021, 01:11:04 PM »

Very sorry to hear that.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #50 on:** August 28, 2021, 01:37:57 PM »

For DR singdaw:

elmore3003 · « **Reply #51 on:** August 28, 2021, 01:39:34 PM »

Today is Rainbow Bridge Remembrance day for those of us who have lost an animal we loved and miss.

bk · « **Reply #52 on:** August 28, 2021, 02:16:39 PM »

I'm up, I'm up - was up at seven after three hours of sleep, back in bed at nine, so maybe I got seven hours of sleep. I don't think the Hollywood Show will be happening for me today. And now I'm dealing with a musical director who says he now can't do the anniversary show - his main gig is the Magic Castle. He gave them this date that he needed off weeks ago. And they booked him anyway. I told him he had to talk to them and make this right, but he just keeps saying they'll fire him, which they cannot. He's done this before - in fact, I had to rearrange the Group Rep show four times for him. Can't do it for this one, it's way too late in the game to find someone else, and I'm trying to hold in my annoyance right now because if I unleash and go to bad BK land HE will be as unhappy as I am.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #53 on:** August 28, 2021, 02:41:01 PM »

Ugh....MR BK perhaps it is time to call my friend Paul Galloway.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #54 on:** August 28, 2021, 02:41:22 PM »

Congrats to DR singdaw!

Jane · « **Reply #55 on:** August 28, 2021, 03:25:11 PM »

Sorry Bruce.

bk · « **Reply #56 on:** August 28, 2021, 04:52:54 PM »

He's nuts, that's the bottom line. I don't think he's actually picked up the phone to even talk to the guy who schedules him. I've told him to do so three times and he simply hasn't. So, I said that it's up to him to find a replacement for us, to work with him and make sure that when he walks in here for our first rehearsal that he knows exactly what he's doing. This isn't MY fault but that seems not to matter. He thinks he has someone and that person has done one of our shows before but Richard is going to have to lend him the electric piano that transposes easily and teach him how to use it. I'm just furious and it's NOT what I needed. I was seconds away from pulling the plug and just ending the Kritzerland shows - would be a shame, but 114 shows is pretty good for a run.

bk · « **Reply #57 on:** August 28, 2021, 05:20:41 PM »

Die Meistersinger has sung - all four-and-a-half hours plus. I really enjoyed it. So, I've now heard Tristan and Isolde, Meistersinger, and Lohengrin. I'll try one of elmore's suggestions next. I'm not sure I need to hear The Ring cycle.

singdaw · « **Reply #58 on:** August 28, 2021, 06:26:04 PM »

Oy and Vey, bk.

singdaw · « **Reply #59 on:** August 28, 2021, 06:31:50 PM »

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