Topic: STRETCHING IN THE HOME DURING THE HOME STRETCH (Read 1164 times)

The program was an interesting mix of duets mostly from Magic Flute, Cosi Fan Tutti, Barber of Seville, Carmen and more. Two guys did Agony from Into the Woods. And of those singers teamed up with another for a song from The Gondoliers. The finale was Brothers and Sister from Die Fledermaus.

Quote from: John G. on June 20, 2025, 08:00:19 PM

All in all a nice programme.

Very cool! Now that Into the Woods is done, i can start volunteering again!

George · « **Reply #163 on:** June 20, 2025, 10:36:22 PM »

Quote from: bk on June 20, 2025, 08:31:20 PM

Pizza was awful - can't do Marco's anymore.

Darn. That's too bad.

George · « **Reply #164 on:** June 20, 2025, 10:36:41 PM »

Quote from: bk on June 20, 2025, 08:32:17 PM

Then a really important phone call to a person I want to blurb the book - and that worked out.

Very good news!

George · « **Reply #165 on:** June 20, 2025, 10:37:27 PM »

Quote from: bk on June 20, 2025, 08:33:30 PM

I think I'm in the last ten to fifteen pages of the book and I didn't want to do that tonight. I might finish tomorrow but I definitely think I'll finish by Sunday.

That's wonderful!

George · « **Reply #166 on:** June 20, 2025, 10:38:10 PM »

Quote from: John G. on June 20, 2025, 08:56:04 PM

What's your favorite Johnny Cash song?

I was never a Johnny Cash fan.

George · « **Reply #167 on:** June 21, 2025, 12:00:21 AM »

Quote from: John G. on June 20, 2025, 08:57:57 PM

I think mine is Ring of Fire.

Speaking of Ring of Fire, there's a 1961 movie by that name, starring David Janssen that was filmed in Oregon and parts of Washington state.

George · « **Reply #168 on:** June 21, 2025, 12:02:49 AM »

There's a town in the library district that has a festival I think every year and they show the movie and celebrate it, I guess.

George · « **Reply #169 on:** June 21, 2025, 12:04:08 AM »

Anyway, the library branch in that town (I forget which) wanted new copies of the movie for the library system, so when we tried to order it, it wasn't available from most sellers...not even eBay.

George · « **Reply #170 on:** June 21, 2025, 12:04:53 AM »

We found a seller in Canada of all places that had DVD-R copies for sale (they listed on their website that they had the rights to copy the move), so we ordered three copies.

George · « **Reply #171 on:** June 21, 2025, 12:05:58 AM »

When they arrived, we watched it to check on the quality and it turns out that it was essentially just copied from TCM, but it wasn't even a good copy!

George · « **Reply #172 on:** June 21, 2025, 12:06:31 AM »

The movie is only about 90 minutes or so long, but the video on the disc was three hours!

George · « **Reply #173 on:** June 21, 2025, 12:07:19 AM »

After the movie ended, it looks like the guy just kept recording, but it's all black...no sound, no video, just wasted time.

George · « **Reply #174 on:** June 21, 2025, 12:08:05 AM »

We figured that it was the only available way to get the movie to the library, so we sent out once copy with a note in the DVD case explaining why it was so wonky.

George · « **Reply #175 on:** June 21, 2025, 12:09:30 AM »

Not too long after that, I noticed that Turner Classic Movies (TCM) was showing the movie again, so (for myself, initially), I asked my sister's boyfriend if he could record it and make me a DVD (this was before I was able to do that myself...and long before I got rid of cable TV altogether).

George · « **Reply #176 on:** June 21, 2025, 12:11:12 AM »

He was able to capture the TCM stream and found that it was in hi-def, and he made me a Blu-ray of the movie, and it looked great! SO much better than the crappy DVD that we got from Canada.

George · « **Reply #177 on:** June 21, 2025, 12:12:44 AM »

Since that was just recorded from TV, I asked my supervisor at the time if we could just copy my Blu-ray and send that out...and I suggested that Larry (my sister's boyfriend) could also make really good DVD copy and we could make 2-disc combo packs for the library.

George · « **Reply #178 on:** June 21, 2025, 12:13:42 AM »

She said why the heck not, so Larry made three copies each of the Blu-ray discs and the DVDs, and I made up a DVD cover and we sent them out to the library. They were VERY happy!

George · « **Reply #179 on:** June 21, 2025, 12:14:51 AM »

They still have the sets and they're still being used. And since they're not copy-guarded, if anything happens to any of the Blu-rays or DVDs, they can easily make new copies.

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