Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on March 20, 2021, 12:04:32 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were my kind of notes, and now it is time for you to post until the my kind of cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: VERNAL!
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And now - Dino at the piano.
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Oscar With Love is the music written by Oscar Peterson, played by his friends and fellow pianists on Oscar’s very own Boesendorfer piano. They include everyone from Chick Corea to Michel Legrand.
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And the word of the day is: VERNAL!
I will let DR singdaw do all of the vernal disease jokes.
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And the word of the day is: VERNAL!
I will let DR singdaw do all of the vernal disease jokes.
:))
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Must check out the Oscar album.
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Good morning, all!
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I was so lucky that I got to see Oscar Peterson at Carnegie Hall around 1999. He played with a guitar and bass. I don't remember any drums, but I fell in love with the sound of piano and guitar.
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That Covid test form I had been waiting for arrived around 6:30. It was sent by Dr Glickman's partner Dr Yamany, whose name I have been misspelling as Yumani. I also forgot that I am expecting an Amazon Fresh delivery between 9:00 and 11:00, so I cannot even head out for that damned test until it arrives.
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I slept poorly last night because of this Covid test this morning. I'm still irritated over how the Doctors' office completely hung me out to dry. I would have rather done the Covid test yesterday because of today's delivery.
I'm also concerned that I've heard nothing from the NY Dept of Labor.
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BK, if you are interested in more Offenbach, I recommend these two of his best, both with libretti by the wonderful Meilhac and Halevy, who wrote the libretto for Carmen.
La Belle Helene, Offenbach's deconstruction of Helen of Troy, has several recordings, but the ones with high-powered classical singers like Jessye Norman should be avoided. I like this Accord recording, which I had originally on LP, with Jane Rhodes very much.
La Vie Parisienne was written for a Parisian vaudeville troupe and it's about the closest Offenbach ever got to writing a musical comedy about a wealthy Parisian playboy pretending to be a tour guide and claiming his apartment is an annex of the Grand Hotel as he attempts to seduce a Swedish countess while the count is [planning on an assignation with Metella, a notorious courtesan and former lover of the playboy who wants him back. To round up guests for his annex, the playboy enlists a pretty glove maker, a boot maker, and his aunt's servants, who all pretend to be aristocrats staying at the "hotel". It's quite funny.
There's only one complete recording on EMI and I wish it were better: the sound's very reverberant and the cast could be funnier. Around 1965, the Jean-Louis Barrault-Madeleine Renaud Company added La Vie Parisienne to their repertoire of plays, and there are both a recording and DVD of a French television broadcast of that production. Only the wonderful Suzy Delair as Metella can sing, but the actors are wonderful.
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After Suppe and Die Fledermaus, you might like two operettas by theier contemporary Millocker, who seems to me to be the prime influence on Victor Herbert's theatre music.
The Beggar Student has a wonderful mittel-European score, in which a Polish student revolutionary is released from prison by Colonel Ollendorf to pose as an aristocrat and seduce and humiliate Laura, a count's daughter, for rejecting him. I have three recordings and like them each quite a lot. I recommend Franz Allers' recording.
Gasparone is a an Sicilian scoundrel/bandit who never appears but is blamed for all the mischief going on in an impoverished mayor's attempts to marry his son to a wealthy young countess so she can pay off his debts.
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One last word on La Vie Parisienne: in Dec. 1966 on my first trip to New York, I stopped in the long-vanished French bookstore at Rockefeller Center in search of French imports of Offenbach recordings. They had two of La Vie Parisienne, the Barrault-Renaud cast album and this wonderful Philips recording of excerpts. I purchased both.
Around 1980 there was a spectacular revival of La Vie Parisienne in Paris that generated the second complete recording of the score, the first being the 1970s EMI with Crespin and Mesple. I found this recording at Patelson's Music, and I still do not know why it has never been issued on CD.
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Good morning, friends.
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Always appreciate and learn from your posts, DR elmore3003.
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Here is Ravel's Bolero, played as a stunt by four musicians on one cello. About 3.5 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUeysGoPFTk
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Lots of things happening here at HHW!
GO GO vibes for MR BK.
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I find the whole thing most disgusting.
It is outrageous that someone whose greatest accomplishment is posting something on Facebook can "cancel" a film or book or play....because he is triggered.
Said person usually knows NOTHING about history or context.
It is ridiculous.
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Yes it is indeed the first day of spring, 2021.
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TOD:
I find the whole thing most disgusting.
It is outrageous that someone whose greatest accomplishment is posting something on Facebook can "cancel" a film or book or play....because he is triggered.
Said person usually knows NOTHING about history or context.
It is ridiculous.
I fully agree.
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Amazon Fresh has been delivered. I can prepare to step out.
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Yes it is indeed the first day of spring, 2021.
Huzzah!
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Amazon Fresh has been delivered. I can prepare to step out.
Huzzah!
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Drat. I was logged in all night again.
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Good morning, all.
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TOD:
I find the whole thing most disgusting.
It is outrageous that someone whose greatest accomplishment is posting something on Facebook can "cancel" a film or book or play....because he is triggered.
Said person usually knows NOTHING about history or context.
It is ridiculous.
I fully agree.
Let's make it unanimous.
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Always appreciate and learn from your posts, DR elmore3003.
Seriously.
DR Elmore needs to take us all shopping sometime!
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And the word of the day is: VERNAL!
Always loved his equinox.
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Good morning, all.
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Two!
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TOD:
I find the whole thing most disgusting.
It is outrageous that someone whose greatest accomplishment is posting something on Facebook can "cancel" a film or book or play....because he is triggered.
Said person usually knows NOTHING about history or context.
It is ridiculous.
I fully agree.
Let's make it unanimous.
Add me to the chorus.
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But there’s a different aspect to this, and that is simply that tastes change. Is it cancel culture?
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The story of the Texas Roadhouse CEO gets sadder.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/amp/leadership/kent-taylors-family-says-texas-roadhouse-ceo-took-his-own-life
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If you have to wear a cone, be a superhero.
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It’s interesting that BK was listening to What Makes Sammy Run? last night. I was just finishing up the book. I’m going to have to dig up the cast recording this weekend.
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Good morning!
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It’s interesting that BK was listening to What Makes Sammy Run? last night. I was just finishing up the book. I’m going to have to dig up the cast recording this weekend.
I once worked with a Big-Time Sammy Glick. Disgusting person.
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And I am home! I arrived at the lab around 10:45 and was in a taxi for home by 11:00.
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Good news, DR elmore3003.
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The story of the Texas Roadhouse CEO gets sadder.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/amp/leadership/kent-taylors-family-says-texas-roadhouse-ceo-took-his-own-life
So, so sad.
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If you have to wear a cone, be a superhero.
:)
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Amazon Fresh has been delivered. I can prepare to step out.
This has me envisioning DR Elmore stepping out onto the sidewalk, taking a deep breath of fresh air, twirling his cane, tipping his top hat to passersby, and sniffing a daisy before tucking it into his pocket.
Am I so wrong?
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Well, I’ve gone through several thousand CDs this morning and no Sammy. But I found things I didn’t know I owned. Oy, does my collection need organizing.
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I have finished Shakespeare Wallah. I don't know that I had seen the movie before, yet a few scenes felt very familiar. Wonderful tribute to the theater, kind of like an Indian version of Priestley's Lost Empires.
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Bach and I Offen have words... we do not get along
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Bach and I Offen have words... we do not get along
;D
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Am I so wrong?
You are not.
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And if he is Stepping Out, Liza may be by his side.
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Back from a great walk. It is definitely Spring, although there is still snow in upcoming forecasts.
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"It's a cinch, like choking babies."
Great line from Sammy Glick from one of the short stories that grew into the novel.
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Today would have been our father's 95th birthday!
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{{{DR Jrand70}}}
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Kale salad and pizza for lunch.
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I don't know why it didn't occur to me before, but I just realized that TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT is also a Rod Stewart song.
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I much prefer bk's version.
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Today would have been our father's 95th birthday!
My dad would have been 100 this year.
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DRs Jrand70 and singdaw, thinking of you!
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;D
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Let's SPAM our way forward.
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to THREE.
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Taxes are done. Not a huge windfall, but at least we didn't owe anything. I'll take it.
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Now making butternut squash soup from scratch.
The squash is a-roastin', and there are beans in the Instant Pot.
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Sounds nice.
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The second quote has been received for replacing the air conditioning unit.
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George, YouTube just recommended this Bette Middler special. Have you seen it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Gd4hbVzlw
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“An unedified palate is the irrepressible cloven foot of the upstart."
Thomas Hardy in A Pair of Blue Eyes
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I'm up, I'm up - I guess I got seven and a half hours of sleep, all told - fell asleep around three-fifteen, woke up at eight or so, was up until eleven, then slept from eleven to one. I now have to catch up with stuff really quickly so I don't fall behind. No Indiegogo action today, but that's the weekend for you.
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DR ELMORE I always have a can of SPAM in my pantry. Now and then it is the only thing that will satisfy a craving.
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And, for my part, I post oodles of SPAM here at HHW every day!
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The hard part of the afternoon is done.
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DR George have you booked an appointment for a covid vaccination?
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Lord, this computer is behaving poorly. I think maybe I'll just restart it, that usually helps, but I'm getting that horrid spinning wheel too much. Maybe too many things working at the same time.
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Eating food.
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And, for my part, I post oodles of SPAM here at HHW every day!
;D
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Not free, but for anyone interested in Bourne's The Red Shoes it's ten bucks through tomorrow. https://www.centertheatregroup.org/digitalstage/premium-events/matthew-bournes-the-red-shoes/?fbclid=IwAR1VNEDHaU_sz4DqLGvX0eSg7KQLBMlBVuKy7S8GCJJiVeQ2QlgDrOYfBKs
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Can’t tonight, but I’m leaving the tab open to remind me to try to watch it tomorrow.
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75%!!! 76% on the perks page, but I'll take the 75%. 100 bucks should have notched it to 76%, so it's probably just rounding it up on the perks page but not the home page. We're probably like ten bucks away to round up the perks page. Some nice Partridge fan PMd me saying she wanted to donate 100 bucks and asked if I had a PF photo with David - I only had two of those left so I never put those up. So, I put one copy up for her at 100 and she grabbed it. Next week she'll get There's Mel, There's Woody, and You.
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Listened to the McGlinn Kim Criswell Annie Get Your Gun - I didn't care for it when it came out and I didn't care for it now, for many reasons. Now, I'm listening to the really weird Erich Kunzel studio album of The Music Man - I'd forgotten how loathsome this thing is. First mistake, butting an actual train sound under the opening number, clearly not understanding that its the patter that makes that rhythm. And using amateurs instead of actors is always a problem. Can't remember what Timothy Noble or Kathleen Brett are like, but Doc Severinsen as Marcellus??? Why do I have a memory of Frederica von Stade doing a Broadway musical studio cast album? Did she?
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Ah, she did The Sound of Music with Kunzel. I have that somewhere. Telarc was critically acclaimed for their brilliant sound and recording techniques. I used to laugh when reading those idiotic reviews. They list the mics and how they monitored, and the critics and audiophiles just lapped it up. Not me. I knew it was crap then and it's ever worse now, I must say. Listening to Trouble - where's the band? Down the hall, it sounds like.
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Listened to the McGlinn Kim Criswell Annie Get Your Gun - I didn't care for it when it came out and I didn't care for it now, for many reasons. Now, I'm listening to the really weird Erich Kunzel studio album of The Music Man - I'd forgotten how loathsome this thing is. First mistake, butting an actual train sound under the opening number, clearly not understanding that its the patter that makes that rhythm. And using amateurs instead of actors is always a problem. Can't remember what Timothy Noble or Kathleen Brett are like, but Doc Severinsen as Marcellus??? Why do I have a memory of Frederica von Stade doing a Broadway musical studio cast album? Did she?
She was also in McGlinn's Show Boat. Timothy Noble was in Grind.
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77%!!! 78% on the perks page. And finally closing in on 6K - once we hit that, it's only another 1500 to meeting the goal, but then we must cover the fees. And hopefully go over that so we can afford to commentaries.
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Nothing bad, just the day didn't go as expected and I thought I would miss my afternoon walk. Then the sun came out, and since it is Daylight Saving time I headed out. To my shock it was raining.
I came back in and put my rain pants over my regular pants and headed back out. As I walked outside the rain stopped. If only I had waited 5 minutes before heading out to begin with.
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It was a nice walk and I feel better.
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I am glad, DR Jane.
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Yea for the Indiegogo campaign!
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Just a few more.
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Blah, Blah, Blah.
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Piddle, Twiddle, and Resolve.
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Two Grecian Urns.
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At last! FOUR!
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Good night, friends.
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Four!
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And good night, Singdaw!
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Great news on 78%
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I am glad, DR Jane.
Thanks.
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Good night, friends.
Good night.
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78%!!! Good day, as it turns out. Two more percent and we cross 80% and we're now close to getting over the 6K hump.
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Ugh! What a day! Mixed for Shrek most of the afternoon. Which includes adjusting late entrances and some flat high notes. When I finished what I had planned to do, I text the artistic director (who is also the director of the show) that I put what I did up on the Google Drive for him for rehearsal, but I'm not doing anymore until I see or hear that a contract is coming. I've asked 2 times. This time, I'm stopping until someone fixes this issue.
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Contract vibes, Matthew.
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Finally finished Thieves' Highway. Going to start The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
The remake will be The Loneliness of the Socially Distanced Runner.
(No groans at HHW.)
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Gratuitous post No. 101!
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John Addison's score for The Loneliness ... Runner is a wonderful mix of jazz, hymns, elegies, pop and fun.
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What is this page four malarkey?
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Went and got a chocolate chip muffin for a treat.
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Ate it - it was sweet, this treat, which was neat.
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I've been listening to show music for most of the day. And watched the first third of the Brit movie Robbery, which I know I saw last year at some point but I remember nothing about it.
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Well, no wonder - I just read what I wrote about Robbery - I watched the first third two years ago, apparently kept dozing off and finally shut it off and I obviously never came back to it.
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Listening to Mr. President. I've been hoping for sixty years that at some point I could warm to the score, but it's just so mediocre - I'm not sure it's Irving's fault - it's just a terrible idea for a musical and Irving's doing it by rote - some nice melodies, but so much of it just doesn't land - the opening of the show is terrible - in fact, the only number that truly lands is the only one I liked when I was thirteen - The Secret Service. Lang's orchestrations are working overtime to make something of it, but for naught, I'm afraid.
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Listening to Mr. President. I've been hoping for sixty years that at some point I could warm to the score, but it's just so mediocre - I'm not sure it's Irving's fault - it's just a terrible idea for a musical and Irving's doing it by rote - some nice melodies, but so much of it just doesn't land - the opening of the show is terrible - in fact, the only number that truly lands is the only one I liked when I was thirteen - The Secret Service. Lang's orchestrations are working overtime to make something of it, but for naught, I'm afraid.
The Secret Service makes me nervice.
'Nuff said.
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But I love the women on that recording.
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l was pleasantly surprised by the ending of Loneliness. It was a big British angry young man flashing the middle finger at Man. Made me think of The Longest Yard, only better.
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Good night, all.
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Finally finished Thieves' Highway. Going to start The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
The remake will be The Loneliness of the Socially Distanced Runner.
(No groans at HHW.)
;D
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Has anyone read Manogamy by Sue Miller?
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I am reading it for my March book discussion group.
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I had no interest in reading it when it was chosen.
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My opinion hasn't changed.
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Back to reading.
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Hugs to Jrand!
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Where is everyone tonight?
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Hi, Tom.
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I have just caught up on all of today's posts...finally.
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Here is Ravel's Bolero, played as a stunt by four musicians on one cello. About 3.5 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUeysGoPFTk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUeysGoPFTk)
I saw a link for the this afternoon when I was at my mom's, but didn't get to watch it until now. That was fantastic!
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I went to the ensemble's YouTube page (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJLn2UbNPI3VwJgqoUzMUUw/featured) and that video is from six, count 'em, SIX years ago! And they only have six videos anyway. What's that all about? :o
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The story of the Texas Roadhouse CEO gets sadder.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/amp/leadership/kent-taylors-family-says-texas-roadhouse-ceo-took-his-own-life (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/amp/leadership/kent-taylors-family-says-texas-roadhouse-ceo-took-his-own-life)
Very sad. :(
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If you have to wear a cone, be a superhero.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6443.0;attach=11571)
That's great! :))
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And I am home! I arrived at the lab around 10:45 and was in a taxi for home by 11:00.
Nice!
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Today would have been our father's 95th birthday!
{{{Hugs!!}}}
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Taxes are done. Not a huge windfall, but at least we didn't owe anything. I'll take it.
Ditto. I should be getting mine by Wednesday! ;D
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George, YouTube just recommended this Bette Middler special. Have you seen it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Gd4hbVzlw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Gd4hbVzlw)
I literally just discovered that a couple of days ago! I did a little searching and found a few complete live performances that were obviously filmed with multiple cameras, but aren't available for sale, so I assume were just on TV and people recorded them. :)
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DR George have you booked an appointment for a covid vaccination?
Not yet. I just got a letter today from Kaiser Permanente saying that I'm eligible, so hopefully I'll be able to soon. :)
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The second quote has been received for replacing the air conditioning unit.
I have read to many theater books. I was expecting you to print the quote.
”His current model is a mess, but my deluxe model at $3,000 should be a smash.”
— Barney, Sucker Furnace and Air
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77%!!! 78% on the perks page. And finally closing in on 6K - once we hit that, it's only another 1500 to meeting the goal, but then we must cover the fees. And hopefully go over that so we can afford to commentaries.
Hoo and Ray!!
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Ugh! What a day! Mixed for Shrek most of the afternoon. Which includes adjusting late entrances and some flat high notes. When I finished what I had planned to do, I text the artistic director (who is also the director of the show) that I put what I did up on the Google Drive for him for rehearsal, but I'm not doing anymore until I see or hear that a contract is coming. I've asked 2 times. This time, I'm stopping until someone fixes this issue.
Good for you, Matthew!
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And, for my part, I post oodles of SPAM here at HHW every day!
Do they make vegan Spam?
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I'm here.
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I'm there.
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I'm everywhere.
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Notes are written and ready to post at midnight.
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I gotta tell you.
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78% - pretty good for a Saturday to go up four percent.
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Has Ginny not been around these here parts for a while?
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Has Ginny not been around these here parts for a while?
I don't think Vixmom has been, either. :-\
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I think a you will enjoy Oscar With Love, BK. My friend, Kelly Green Peterson, who is Oscar’s widow came up with idea and pushed it through to completion. She gave me a copy, which I really liked, and I am not a jazz fan
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Hi, George.
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Hello
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I had my first shot of Pfizer
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My arm is sore and I’m tired
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DR George have you booked an appointment for a covid vaccination?
Not yet. I just got a letter today from Kaiser Permanente saying that I'm eligible, so hopefully I'll be able to soon. :)
What does Kaiser Permanente have to do with you getting the vaccine?
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Of course it is nearly 3 am
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So that could account for the tiredness
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I have not caught up
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DR George have you booked an appointment for a covid vaccination?
Not yet. I just got a letter today from Kaiser Permanente saying that I'm eligible, so hopefully I'll be able to soon. :)
No information on how to book an appointment? I suggest checking their website for more info and looking at other options in your area. We had one neighbor that was able to get an appointment with Kaiser. Two other neighbors had to go elsewhere.
Oh, and there is my friend in Olympia that finally just got her J & J vaccination at Kaiser last week. She was eligible when I was.
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Kelly is planning on releasing some of Oscar’s concerts, which have never been released before.
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I had my first shot of Pfizer
Yay!
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Has Ginny not been around these here parts for a while?
I think Ginny was here yesterday.
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Getting an appointment for a covid vaccination vibes for DR George!
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I just got the OBC recording of CARNIVAL, which I haven’t had in probably 40 years. I love the score.
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I have caught up
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And I am here
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Been clearing out bookshelves for a church collection
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DR George have you booked an appointment for a covid vaccination?
Not yet. I just got a letter today from Kaiser Permanente saying that I'm eligible, so hopefully I'll be able to soon. :)
What does Kaiser Permanente have to do with you getting the vaccine?
Probably nothing specifically, but since I have my medical through Kaiser, they probably offer it.
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And I am here
And I’m still here.
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And I am here
Welcome back, Vixmom!
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It breaks my heart to give away books but I managed to box up about a hundred I know. I won’t ever read again
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So we only have about 1000 left
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Maybe 950....
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I have to keep going through shelves and clearing things out ...we just have too much stuff
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I have to keep going through shelves and clearing things out ...we just have too much stuff
Are you downsizing?
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Ok it’s 3:o5 so I shall take my leave
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Vibes to all
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I listened to several cuts from the Oscar, with Love album - very lovely stuff and I'll be ordering a copy soon.
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I have to keep going through shelves and clearing things out ...we just have too much stuff
Are you downsizing?
We’re just over run with stuff it’s gotten to the point that we just can’t find things we want because there’s too much stuff and too disorganized
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It breaks my heart to give away books but I managed to box up about a hundred I know. I won’t ever read again
I felt the same way when we donated most of our books before moving here.
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And we ended up with boxes and boxes of stuff when Vixdad’s folks passed a couple of years ago...
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I have to keep going through shelves and clearing things out ...we just have too much stuff
You are smart to do this.
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Anyhoo. Good night