Topic: ZEN AND NOW (Read 23963 times)

bk · « **on:** March 30, 2006, 12:06:24 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, you are feeling very Zen now, and now it is time for you to post until the Zen Cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** March 30, 2006, 12:06:46 AM »

And the word of the day is: HOMOPHONE!

Tomovoz · « **Reply #2 on:** March 30, 2006, 12:31:00 AM »

TOTD: I try Eastern Standard Time (EST) for most of each year. It is most beneficial.

Analysts and therapists NOT. That's what friends and pets are for.

Michael · « **Reply #3 on:** March 30, 2006, 04:31:12 AM »

KIng Kong's music score: They also used portions of Max Steiner's original score.

Michael · « **Reply #4 on:** March 30, 2006, 04:31:40 AM »

Homophone: What some people use to call their friends.

Michael · « **Reply #5 on:** March 30, 2006, 04:32:22 AM »

Good morning Ben and Larry
(Haven't said that in a while)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 30, 2006, 04:41:22 AM »

Good morning, all! I slept quite well last night, and I'm ready to head off to the recording office. I got the new lens for my glasses yesterday, so I no longer see the world through a scuffed lens, and the wounds from my fall 10 days ago are nearly healed. Now, if only some work would come in!

My friend John Wallace, who was probably the best trumpet player alive until his retirement last year, is coming to New York this weekend for Tartan Week, and I hope to spend some time gossiping about the notorious recording project and what's up at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, of which he is now the principal. At some point I'm expecting knighthood for this talented fellow.

DR FJL, is THREEPENNY as bad as I;m hearing? From ther gossip, i sounds totally misconceived, as if the director didn't do a bit of research on Brecht or the piece.

TOD: No Zen, no EST, no way!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 30, 2006, 04:42:12 AM »

Good morning, DR Michael S! Ben, howya been?

Michael · « **Reply #8 on:** March 30, 2006, 04:43:41 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on March 30, 2006, 04:41:22 AM

DR FJL, is THREEPENNY as bad as I;m hearing? From ther gossip, i sounds totally misconceived, as if the director didn't do a bit of research on Brecht or the piece.

Didn't that happen with the last revival with Sting and Maureen McGovern?

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #9 on:** March 30, 2006, 05:12:27 AM »

I probably won't be able to join the festivities following the performance on Friday. My date for the evening would be overwhelmed.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 30, 2006, 05:19:52 AM »

Thanks for the LESTAT precis, DR FJL!!

Lovely puppy DR MATTHEW!

I have to work the next three days....and of course there was a sun eclipse in Aries yesterday so who knows WHAT will happen?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 30, 2006, 05:20:24 AM »

I am taking King Tut to work today, so I may get a photo of him to post tonight....time will tell.

Other than that, I know nothing.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 30, 2006, 05:20:35 AM »

There is someone in the Zen room!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 30, 2006, 05:25:23 AM »

Quote from: Michael S on March 30, 2006, 04:43:41 AM

Didn't that happen with the last revival with Sting and Maureen McGovern?

I saw the Sting/McGovern production, and liked a lot of it. This new one sounds totally misconceived.

FJL · « **Reply #14 on:** March 30, 2006, 05:48:55 AM »

Topic of the day: I did try Phen-Phen (the diet pill phenomenon which proved to be very dangerous) for a brief while. Does that count?

FJL · « **Reply #15 on:** March 30, 2006, 05:57:47 AM »

For me, in this THREEPENNY, the individual performances of the numbers worked quite well, although the normally wonderful Nellie McKay was surprisingly off-pitch in one of her songs (in this version, that song is called The 'No' Song) leading me to believe she needs a key adjustment for that number. It was too early to assess Wallace Shawn's new translation of the book, as the actors are still experimenting with the book scenes - it doesn't bother me that they're charging full price, though, since they're making no secret of the fact that they're in previews. Although I think its overriding point is that in this day and age, it takes a lot more to shock and (if this is the right term) alienate, and Shawn seems intent on shocking us as an audience out of our own complacency and get what he and his director seem to evaluate as the Brecht effect, rather than merely present the Brecht-Weill THREEPENNY OPERA.

Elmore, do you know - do modern revisions have to be done with eprmission of the estates of the writers, or is it in the public domain at this point?

Ben · « **Reply #16 on:** March 30, 2006, 05:57:57 AM »

Morning, all. I've been very busy at work so not much time to post

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #17 on:** March 30, 2006, 06:02:15 AM »

TOD:

About fifteen years ago I went through a period where I immersed myself into the recovery movement and through that discovered and explored various spiritual channels. Meditation, yoga, anger management, sweat lodges, drumming, men's group consoling. I got a lot out of most of my experiences, though there were a few times when I thought, "What the hell have I gotten myself into?" But the best piece of advice I picked up fairly quickly was "Take what you like and leave the rest."

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #18 on:** March 30, 2006, 06:08:55 AM »

Good Morning!

Ah, the "joys" of alternate side of the street parking in NYC.

$:-\$

Hey, but at least I'm up.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #19 on:** March 30, 2006, 06:13:56 AM »

As for the Topic of the Day...

The closest things that come to mind are Body-for-Life - which does have a bit of a cultish tinge among some "followers" - and The Four Agreements. However, I find the 4As very simple, and sort of like Universal Common Sense, and they are derived from Toltec wisdom and teachings (via Miguel Ruiz).

Be Impeccable With Your Words
Don't Take Anything Personally
Don't Make Assumptions
Always Do Your Best

...As the song goes... "What's hard is simple, What's natural comes hard."

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #20 on:** March 30, 2006, 06:14:20 AM »

DR Matthew - Cute(!!!) puppy.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #21 on:** March 30, 2006, 06:21:25 AM »

Back to Lestat for a bit...

I think it has been sort of cool - for lack of a better word - that the producers and creative team did take to heart what some of the critics, fans and non-fans said about the show in San Francisco. In fact, they've been very public about it in recent interviews and press coverage. Even Sir Elton John speaks about all the revisions and the need for some new songs in his video interview on Playbill.com - and that interview was taped back in early February. Yes, some of the "publicity" may be geared toward overriding the negative buzz that the show has had to fight coming into New York, but, in the larger scheme, it also demonstrates just how much change any new show goes through from it's first rehearsal to it's first preview to Opening Night... And sometimes beyond Opening Night. -Miss Saigon had four different endings during it's run - musically speaking that is, and Phantom has also been tweaked here and there over the years.

vixmom · « **Reply #22 on:** March 30, 2006, 06:21:39 AM »

Quote from: JRand55 on March 30, 2006, 05:20:35 AM

There is someone in the Zen room!

SCOTTY!! I mean...er.... ah..Dr. Scott

You know this ~~earthling~~... person?

vixmom · « **Reply #23 on:** March 30, 2006, 06:27:41 AM »

I seem to be having a "flashback day"

When I turned on the TV to get the traffic report, I accidently turned on AMC and ended up with Will Success Ruin Rock Hunter, I turned on the car radio and found my station was doing an all 60's/70's mix and discovered that I know all the words to Pleasant Valley Sunday, You've Lost That Loving Feeling, Traces of Love and Good Vibrations

and now JRand has me quoting RHPS...

doo doo doo doo.. doo doo doo dooo

don't change the web browser we have taken control of your computer. Beyond time, beyond space...you're in .......

THE TWILIGHT ZONE!!!!!!!!!

vixmom · « **Reply #24 on:** March 30, 2006, 06:29:50 AM »

Re: Lestat

I am looking forward to seeing it. I was a fan of the first three books (after that it wa a bit like flogging a dead horse I am afraid)

Now to fix the date!

Jennifer · « **Reply #25 on:** March 30, 2006, 06:32:48 AM »

Re: last night's AMERICAN IDOL elimination.

I don't know why, but I was shocked Katharine was in the bottom two. I think it was partly because of how the judges praised her on Tuesday night.

Even though Simon said that on tv she didn't sound as good. I really thought that the fact that all 3 judges raved about her would have meant she would have gotten the most votes, not the least. Wow.

vixmom · « **Reply #26 on:** March 30, 2006, 06:33:05 AM »

Yesterday FJL posted

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the show's content is extremely gay-friendly, and some people in our vicinity were heard to go "ewww" at the sight of two men kissing -

I guess those people must have been HOMOPHONES

vixmom · « **Reply #27 on:** March 30, 2006, 06:35:16 AM »

FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS DEPT

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - American reporter Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped three months ago in a bloody ambush that killed her translator and later appeared in videotapes pleading for help, was released Thursday, telling the world that she was “just happy to be free.”

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Jennifer · « **Reply #28 on:** March 30, 2006, 06:36:24 AM »

Re: something DR Cillaliz said about The amazing race.

It's true things can be taken out of context. Perhaps fran/barry have reason not to like the dentist. I still think though that they (fran and barry) came off really mean when they wouldn't tell them where the task was being held. It's one thing if they were still competing. But they were DONE.

vixmom · « **Reply #29 on:** March 30, 2006, 06:36:40 AM »

A lady went into a butcher shop complaining about some hot dogs she had just bought. "The middle is meat," she exclaimed, "but the ends are sawdust!"

"Well," said the butcher. "These days it's hard to make ends meat."

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