Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on October 05, 2020, 12:05:25 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were seduced and abandoned by Hollywood, and now it is time for you to post until the seductive cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: APPRECIABLE!
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Topic of the Day: I don't remember which movie (on any format) was the first movie that I ever bought. My parents started buying them and I go some of theirs at some point, I'm sure. But I do remember the very first DVD that I ever got. It was Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl (https://www.amazon.com/Jerry-Hermans-Broadway-Hollywood-Bowl/dp/6304558139/). :)
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Off to bed.
Have a good day, all!
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Good morning, all!
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I had a long, meandering dream that I was working with Rob Berman on a workshop of Gershwin's Oh, Kay! Then we were rehearsing in this run-down studio and my Middletown friend David McIntosh showed up while I was trying to keep this spiral-bound collection of Gershwin songs together.
Oh, Kay! was the first show I did at Goodspeed around 1988. Danny Troob was the first person to work on it, and then I was brought on. I don't know the details, but he never showed up for the band rehearsal, so we didn't meet until we worked on a recording of Broadway songs in Chinese around 1995. Danny made it very clear that he was underwhelmed to meet me.
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Producer David Marrick took that Goodspeed version Oh, Kay! to Broadway, and everyone involved at Goodspeed - except for the slimeball choreographer and book adapter - was dumped. The production was a huge flop.
Pity.
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But who's bitter?
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DR Matthew, that was a speedy round of good news. Fantastic!
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DR TCB, Sasha moves in today? I was hoping for more details. How did you find her? You went through a rescue group and not the local shelter?
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I have no real plans today. I have another round of A&T notes to go over, and I want to look over the first chapter again.
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My first video equipment was a VCR, but I have no idea what my first VHS tape was. I only remember that there was a huge video store on Broadway around the corner from The Drama Book Shop, and I rented four videos at a time.
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Good morning, everyone.
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I hope to take a look at bk's second Partridge event video sometime today.
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The only thing I know about Max Richter is his magnum opus, Sleep:
Sleep is an album by composer Max Richter. Release on 9/4/15 as a digital download, and on 12/11/15 as an 8CD/1 Blu-ray set, it is a concept album base around the neuroscience of sleep, hence the piece's length of over 8 hours.
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I hope and pray that Sasha comes home to live with DR TCB today.
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Although I am not sure how that can happen when the shelter is only open on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
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Although I am not sure how that can happen when the shelter is only open on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
That puzzled me, too, but perhaps, since they have to be there every day to feed the rescues, there will be someone there today top hand Sasha over. It may be that they are there every day but only open to the public on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
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DR vixmom, it's good to know that you are alive and well.
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Good morning, all.
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Yes, it’s good to have DR vixmom back and posting.
Interesting about the church. The one up near Poughkeepsie, where they pick their feet, that I occasionally substitute at, had reopened to the congregation in August. Only a dozen or so were attending then, but it’s picked up some since. And rows and seats are marked.
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T.O.D.
I bought a Betamax shortly after they came onto the market.
Fox started releasing films on tape and, as I recall, I bought several right off the bat: PATTON, THE FRENCH CONNECTION...
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The nice thing about the Betamax was that you could record a movie right off the air.
I'd sit and watch a movie; edit out the commercials before they came on.
Much cheaper to do it that way that buy a pre-recorded film.
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On the other hand, the nice thing about a DVD is that they take up about one-third of the space of a video tape.
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Before I moved to Texas, I had over 6000 movies on DVD.
Now I have over 4000.
I watched them all every day.
:D
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Before I moved, BK bought a lot of my DVDs.
Do you still have them?
;)
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In 1979/80 I lived in a friend’s condo while they were traveling, and my first experience with a VCR was their VHS — an early RCA top loader with the piano key controls. I don’t recall us renting then, but their first purchase of a few tapes (at around $80 each!) included a few classics like The African Queen. Even to my eyes then, that and the off-the-air recordings we made looked pretty abysmal.
Back my own apartment after that, I didn’t think about tapes for a couple of years. In 1983, living in Redondo Beach, I was ready to take the plunge, and a surprisingly good salesman at The Federated Group guided me to something of quality, the recently developed Beta HiFi, for optimal sound as well as a somewhat better picture. I dropped something like $1200 on a really good one that wasn’t even Sony, and I loved that machine until the day in 1989 that it was stolen.
So, rentals. My first ones were from a Wherehouse in Torrance, where every tape was $1 per day for up to ten days, the best deal and the simplest rental arrangement ever. First movie was Raiders of the Lost Ark, and I’d keep getting it whenever someone was visiting because it was so enjoyable and it made for an impressive demo tape for those, like my family, who were still new to the whole thing. That opened the floodgates, and I couldn’t begin to recall what all my rentals were over the next couple of years.
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I never bought many tapes, mostly just rented. But in the late 80s I’d acquired my first laserdisc player at Rogersound Labs, and my first purchases at Ken Crane’s in Torrance included the Criterion Magnificent Ambersons and the Met’s Zeffirelli La Boheme. Later, living where I am now, I rented a lot of laserdiscs of all kinds.
I had memberships (remember memberships?) at a number of rental stores in LA, Chicago, and here in CT over the years. My love for film was deepened by the rental market, when one could browse and try out all manner of previously unknown movies.
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I did a lot of off-the-air recording, too, and I regret that I only kept a handful of those tapes.
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That Wherehouse in Torrance was also where I bought my first CD — Sunday in the Park With George. I had just acquired a player (again, on one of those special deals at Rogersound), and though I’d also just bought Sunday on LP, I was excited to find an additional track or two on the CD, and a couple of reviews of that release pushed me over the edge.
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Three hours of sleep - can't sleep, can't get comfortable, dream the same scene over and over and cannot stand this pain anymore. I obviously pulled something or pinched a nerve in my lower back so that it goes right down my leg from there and no matter how I turn or position myself, I can't avoid it. I have too damn much to do to be dealing with this on top of everything else. Sorry for the rant, but I've just about had it.
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When I first started losing my hair, I thought I might have APPRECIABLE.
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Good news from DR MATTHEW who is on the move.
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SASHA come home vibes for DR TCB.
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Accountant and tax vibes for DR JEANNE.
Late on Saturday night I watched a movie from 1956 title UFO. It was on TCM ONDemand.
And DR JEANNE's uncle was listed as the Director of Photography for the Northwest U.S. segments.....Mr Ed. Fitzgerald. I guess he shot the on location interviews that took place up in Washington and Oregon.
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TOD:
In 1985, my first play was produced at a theatre in Indy (where I worked for the next 20 years).....it was a contest and I got $500....and I doubt we sold that many tickets....
Anyway....I got $250 when we opened and the rest at the end of the run.
I decided I wanted to spend the money on something that I would always have and that would remind me I got paid for writing.
So I spent $245 + tax on a Sylvania VCR with a WIRED remote.
I rented a lot of videos from my local place....a Mom & Pop store....and I think the first video I bought was The Perils of Pauline with Betty Hutton....for $2.
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I enjoyed MR BK's appearance on the Partridge Family show.
The director sent a link to the MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM in the park production.....but it was pretty awful.....maybe it was better in person.
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TOO MUCH ME ON THIS PAGE.
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This day is flying by like a glittery gazelle singing Rhinestone Cowboy.
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Sorry about your sleep, bk. That is extremely vexing.
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Monday morning greetings! One of my ladies' groups is meeting this afternoon on Zoom - for the first time ever. Pray for Rosemary's baby...
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Just before 10:00 I took my morning meds and lay down. Two hours later I woke.
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Cool as in temperature day today.
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Feel better vibes for BK! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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I didn't get an email on Saturday telling me that the CAROL rehearsal had changed.
Last night I thought I was in for the cast meeting for a few minutes and then gone.
Turns out last night was a tech rehearsal and we were running the whole show....
During the first part of the discussion, I put up my "green" screen and got ready for a run thru.
Today Mr Poole and I have an hour session with the director to discuss our motivations and tactics......then another rehearsal where I get to do both of my scenes with dialog.....an hour apart.
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And it actually didn't look too bad yesterday.
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Congrats to DR TCB!
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Hugs to DR George.
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Three hours of sleep - can't sleep, can't get comfortable, dream the same scene over and over and cannot stand this pain anymore. I obviously pulled something or pinched a nerve in my lower back so that it goes right down my leg from there and no matter how I turn or position myself, I can't avoid it. I have too damn much to do to be dealing with this on top of everything else. Sorry for the rant, but I've just about had it.
Ouch, those do hurt. Find some stretches online that might help.
Vibes you feel better soon, at least enough to sleep tonight.
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Good afternoon, all.
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Vibes for BK.
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I had a long, meandering dream that I was working with Rob Berman on a workshop of Gershwin's Oh, Kay! Then we were rehearsing in this run-down studio and my Middletown friend David McIntosh showed up while I was trying to keep this spiral-bound collection of Gershwin songs together.
Oh, Kay! was the first show I did at Goodspeed around 1988. Danny Troob was the first person to work on it, and then I was brought on. I don't know the details, but he never showed up for the band rehearsal, so we didn't meet until we worked on a recording of Broadway songs in Chinese around 1995. Danny made it very clear that he was underwhelmed to meet me.
I met Danny in the early 1990s, when he was working on his own musical, All Bets Off with Jamie Donnelly. Loved that score. Got a demo tape of Patti LuPone singing the big song, Take Me Down. I don’t think his career went in the direction he wanted, though he has done plenty of work for the Disney folks.
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My friend Carol sent me a pair of Maui pineapples. Just cut into the first. It’s amazing.
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Why is it always APPRECIABLE, APPRECIABLE, APPRECIABLE!
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Richard Woitach, former pianist and staff conductor at the MET, has died at age 84. His name was one of the most familiar to Saturday afternoon broadcast listeners.
He accompanied Teresa Stratas on "The Unknown Kurt Weill".
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Workmen appear to be taking down a very very large tree on the grounds of the building. If the tree falls the wrong way, it will crash directly into my unit.
I hope they know what they're doing.
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I'm up, I'm up - I got back into bed at seven, found a position that was okay and fell asleep - although up twice after that, it slept through till noon, so that's at least five or six hours.
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I doubt I'll get to what I wanted to today but we'll see.
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Good afternoon!
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Looking forward to hearing more about Sasha!
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Three!
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It's a miracle day, I tell you! Annabelle actually wanted to eat dinner tonight with Thatch and Stella. Usually, by the time I coax her into eating, Stella's eaten Annabelle's dish as well, and she's left hitting up all three dishes for leftovers.
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Thatch has been trying out the cat cave to see how he likes it. Stella and Annabelle seem to love it.
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If you need a smile today...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7KfGLYR2y8
(the original version I found was synced to "Singing in the Rain", but I couldn't find a link)
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The link doesn't work.
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I should have gone poking through the groceries I found outside at 11:45. After I noticed they were still there I discovered ice cream and figured I had better find out who forgot to collect them. On my third try I found the neighbor they belong too. She had not received, or missed, a notification from Fred Meyer that they were delivered.
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That Wherehouse in Torrance was also where I bought my first CD — Sunday in the Park With George. I had just acquired a player (again, on one of those special deals at Rogersound), and though I’d also just bought Sunday on LP, I was excited to find an additional track or two on the CD, and a couple of reviews of that release pushed me over the edge.
My first CD was the James Levine/June Anderson recording of Carmina Burana (https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0173V9YAA/). I bought it in either 1987 or 1988...four years before I owned my own CD player. ;)
Side note: my dad grew up in Torrance. :)
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Three hours of sleep - can't sleep, can't get comfortable, dream the same scene over and over and cannot stand this pain anymore. I obviously pulled something or pinched a nerve in my lower back so that it goes right down my leg from there and no matter how I turn or position myself, I can't avoid it. I have too damn much to do to be dealing with this on top of everything else. Sorry for the rant, but I've just about had it.
Oh, no!
~~~Feel Better Quickly Vibes for BK!!~~~
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Hugs to DR George.
Thanks, Jennifer.
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The link doesn't work.
Fixed it. I hope! :)
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That's a great dog video, Singdaw!
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If you need a smile today...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7KfGLYR2y8
(the original version I found was synced to "Singing in the Rain", but I couldn't find a link)
Beautiful
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I liked the doggie in the rain.
There are some photos from the baby shower but they are on the Evite site and I can't download them.....
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Pain free vibes for MR BK.
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Why do I still believe Trump's Covid-19 infection is a hoax?
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I now feel as though I know Mr. Lamb even better than I know myself....if that's possible.
His life is an open book.....I must say I was pleased that the director had something to do and told me that Fezziwig was 'fine."
My new "green screen" was a disaster so back to the drawing board.
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If you need a smile today...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7KfGLYR2y8
(the original version I found was synced to "Singing in the Rain", but I couldn't find a link)
So sweet!
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My first CD, I believe, was Dvorak's wonderful Slavonic Dances. I bought the CD player at a store on 92nd and Broadway, which is now the Petco where I adopted Thatch in 2017. I walked down Broadway with the carton under my arm, walked into a CD store around 85th and Broadway, picked up the CD, walked home, set up the player, and listened to Dvorak.
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Here's where I had brunch on Saturday:
https://nicematinnyc.com
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Here's where I had brunch on Saturday:
https://nicematinnyc.com
Looks lovely! I hope you had fun!
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I think my first VHS tape purchase may have been Ghostbusters
I know our first dvd was Much Ado About Nothing, but it was a Christmas gift along with the dvd player
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Waiting for food. I did get a good bit of work done today. But the tree people were supposed to be here but of course aren't, so now they're coming tomorrow morning at seven-thirty. I'm sure that will be nice and quiet - not. So, I guess I'm in for another not enough sleep day.
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My tree people did their work well; the tree did not fall on me. It turns out they weren't taking the whole tree, just some large branches.
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And I am also waiting for a Chinese food delivery.
bk and I have so much in common today! 8)
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The link doesn't work.
Fixed it. I hope! :)
You did thank you :)
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Why do I still believe Trump's Covid-19 infection is a hoax?
I don't disagree with you.
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Good Evening (!!) Today has been a day. We were all ready to welcome Kindergarten back to campus tomorrow when the county decided to change the cohort number to no more than 20. Originally, we could have as many as we could fit social distanced apart - and kindergarten fit nicely in the gym. Well, not anymore. So, we split them up into 2 classrooms. I worked on the tech so they'll be able to communicate with each other, etc... and taught 3 classes .... so it's been a day. While I'm home now, I still have work to do for tomorrow - and need to be on campus at 7:00am tomorrow (the normal time I'd be getting out of the shower in the morning). I did put the deposit down on the apartment, so I'm set for that.
And these are the days of our lives.
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As I work, I chose to listen to the original cast recording of "Assassins" - subliminal??
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Good Evening (!!) Today has been a day. We were all ready to welcome Kindergarten back to campus tomorrow when the county decided to change the cohort number to no more than 20. Originally, we could have as many as we could fit social distanced apart - and kindergarten fit nicely in the gym. Well, not anymore. So, we split them up into 2 classrooms. I worked on the tech so they'll be able to communicate with each other, etc... and taught 3 classes .... so it's been a day. While I'm home now, I still have work to do for tomorrow - and need to be on campus at 7:00am tomorrow (the normal time I'd be getting out of the shower in the morning). I did put the deposit down on the apartment, so I'm set for that.
And these are the days of our lives.
WOW!
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When you are too distracted to order a gift before a birthday you ask the 6 year old what she wanted and didn't get. I might do this every year from now on. I was a bit surprised she wanted a removed control car. Her mother & I went girlie for this one.
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81r5cf3Cj1L._AC_AA160_.jpg)
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Because it cost less than we expected, and I also doubt it will last long, she will be getting these level two reading books.
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81XclHaebTL._AC_AA160_.jpg)
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91vtkaBWXeL._AC_AA160_.jpg)
One to educated and one just for fun :)
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I just wish we could deliver the gifts in person and gets loads of hugs.
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Casablanca on VHS. We now own it on DVD.
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Casablanca on VHS. We now own it on DVD.
My all-time favorite movie.
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The ladies did pretty well on Zoom today, once the newbies figured out how to mute and unmute themselves. My friend Katie gave a presentation about the 5 national parks in Utah. It remains to be seen if
we'll they'll go back to in-person meetings next month.
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I think my first VHS might have been Top Hat. I did tape a lot of Ingmar Bergman movies that were on TCM. But I didn't buy VHS the way I have accumulated DVDs.
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Watching a Clark Gable movie called Across the Wide Missouri. For some reason, the theme song that keeps playing in the background is Shenandoah.
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Watching a Clark Gable movie called Across the Wide Missouri. For some reason, the theme song that keeps playing in the background is Shenandoah.
Imagine that! :)
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Garrison Keillor once did a funny piece about how no choir is ever allowed to sing "Shenandoah" again.
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Books are such a wonderful gift, DR Jane.
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Books are such a wonderful gift, DR Jane.
Yes, they are. My sister still tells me about books I gave my nephew when he was young. One was based on Gogol's The Nose. It meant a lot to him. The other nephew sadly has never enjoyed reading.
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Here's where I had brunch on Saturday:
https://nicematinnyc.com
Looks lovely. I'd like to go there with you and Richard - someday.
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It was a long, long day at work.
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And tomorrow should be no shorter.
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So, I'm off to bed.
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Good night, all.
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This has certainly been a productive day and evening, so that's good - leaves me no time to be irritated with what condition my condition is in. I just wish the stupid tree people had come today when they were supposed to. I really need a good night's sleep and I don't know how that can happen with these loud people out there at 7:30
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Casablanca on VHS. We now own it on DVD.
My all-time favorite movie.
We own very few home movies but had to have this one.
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The ladies did pretty well on Zoom today, once the newbies figured out how to mute and unmute themselves. My friend Katie gave a presentation about the 5 national parks in Utah. It remains to be seen if we'll they'll go back to in-person meetings next month.
I doubt it.
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Books are such a wonderful gift, DR Jane.
Thanks. I agree. I received so few as a child they were a big treat.
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Books are such a wonderful gift, DR Jane.
Yes, they are. My sister still tells me about books I gave my nephew when he was young. One was based on Gogol's The Nose. It meant a lot to him. The other nephew sadly has never enjoyed reading.
I can't recall our children receiving books as gifts from other people. Of course I bought then any books they wanted.
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I also read most of the books I purchased for them.
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Sasha will be moving home on Wednesday afternoon.
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That Wherehouse in Torrance was also where I bought my first CD — Sunday in the Park With George. I had just acquired a player (again, on one of those special deals at Rogersound), and though I’d also just bought Sunday on LP, I was excited to find an additional track or two on the CD, and a couple of reviews of that release pushed me over the edge.
My first CD was the James Levine/June Anderson recording of Carmina Burana (https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0173V9YAA/). I bought it in either 1987 or 1988...four years before I owned my own CD player. ;)
Side note: my dad grew up in Torrance. :)
That was the first movie you purchased?
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Well, this is a horse of a different color
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Me o’ my! Pag4.
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Not good.
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We need singdaw to go on extended medical leave so he will have more time to post.
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This working crap, is really effecting our post totals.
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One more post.
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Page 5
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On to page six (YEAH).
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Tonight was AMERICAN NINJA WARRIORS.
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Last year they filmed some of the events in the Tacoma Dome.
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Unfortunately, I didn’t find out until the tickets were completely sold out.
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Hi, Tom.
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Casablanca on VHS. We now own it on DVD.
My all-time favorite movie.
We own very few home movies but had to have this one.
Casablanca was one of my dad's all-time favorites! I actually bought the Blu-ray Two-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EL6EH2/). ;D
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The other night I watched MY FAVORITE MARTIAN.
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No, not the sixties comedy series, but the fairly new Walt Disney remake.
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It stars Jeff Daniels and Christopher Lloyd.
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I felt like I was back in my youth sitting through one of Disney’s silly comedies like THE SHAGGY DOG or SON OF FLUBBER.
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Unfortunately, I didn’t find out until the tickets were completely sold out.
That's too bad. :-\
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It was cute,, except they had to give Ray Walston a cameo appearance.
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That Wherehouse in Torrance was also where I bought my first CD — Sunday in the Park With George. I had just acquired a player (again, on one of those special deals at Rogersound), and though I’d also just bought Sunday on LP, I was excited to find an additional track or two on the CD, and a couple of reviews of that release pushed me over the edge.
My first CD was the James Levine/June Anderson recording of Carmina Burana (https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0173V9YAA/). I bought it in either 1987 or 1988...four years before I owned my own CD player. ;)
Side note: my dad grew up in Torrance. :)
That was the first movie you purchased?
No, this post was a follow-up to a previous post where I posted that I don't remember the actual first movie that I bought, but my first DVD was Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl. Since ChasSmith posted about his first CD, I posted about my first CD. :)
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Okay.
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Hi, George.
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Why I oughta...
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Good night.
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Good night, Tom.