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[Freddie]

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[ChasSmith]

Good morning, all.

[ChasSmith]

Sunday.

A rainy, chilly, overcast, dreary Sunday.

I do not complain. I fully intended to have an indoors day, puttering, working on things, laying low.

[ChasSmith]

I'm in a somewhat similar old-media-conversion quandary.

I've got a dozen MiniDV tapes - anyone remember that technology? - early 2000s? - to convert to MP4s (and/or have transferred to DVDs). Fortunately, I also have the camcorder they were taken on and it works beautifully. But to convert them yourself, you need the right Firewire cable(s) which I might have, but also an adaptor or two to get the signal into Thunderbolt ports on a Mac. Or maybe I even need a whole new Firewire-to-Thunderbolt cable as well as a converter from Thunderbolt 3 to 2 since that's what my older Mac has. Or you can do it on a Windows machine with other adaptor issues, and I think mine's way too old and slow for a process like that. The third option is simply taking them to any number of places that do it for you, but it looks like $20 or more for each tape, adding up to a nearly $300 expenditure all told.

There's no deadline on this, but I'd love to have it done in the foreseeable future, and I've also promised a friend that they can have this MiniDV camcorder for their own projects when I'm done. It's the number of obstacles in the way, and the decisions to be made, that are so frustrating with this stuff.

[elmore3003]

I thought I was fine, and then about 45 minutes ago, I was violently sick. I just finished cleaning up the mess and changing clothes. I need to mop the foyer and bathroom floors . . . later, Henrik, later.

[Donald]

Happy Sunday to everyone!  With the successful return of Mamma Mia to Broadway, I'm taking a look at jukebox musicals on the newest episode of the Broadway Radio Show.  We'll dive into the great debate about the definition of what a jukebox musical is and look at the hits and misses from the past several seasons and what the future holds for this controversial musical genre.

https://www.haineshisway.com/the-broadway-radio-show-2/

[Jrand75]

No DR FREDDIE I shall move on.....after having a key to the front door for more than 40 years, I am not interested in working as an outsider.

[Rodzinski]

Inherent Vice, yeah, one of the last movies I saw in a theater before having kids. I remember little. Something about a dentist? It was labored.

[Rodzinski]

I'm in a somewhat similar old-media-conversion quandary.

I've got a dozen MiniDV tapes - anyone remember that technology? - early 2000s? - to convert to MP4s (and/or have transferred to DVDs). Fortunately, I also have the camcorder they were taken on and it works beautifully. But to convert them yourself, you need the right Firewire cable(s) which I might have, but also an adaptor or two to get the signal into Thunderbolt ports on a Mac. Or maybe I even need a whole new Firewire-to-Thunderbolt cable as well as a converter from Thunderbolt 3 to 2 since that's what my older Mac has. Or you can do it on a Windows machine with other adaptor issues, and I think mine's way too old and slow for a process like that. The third option is simply taking them to any number of places that do it for you, but it looks like $20 or more for each tape, adding up to a nearly $300 expenditure all told.

There's no deadline on this, but I'd love to have it done in the foreseeable future, and I've also promised a friend that they can have this MiniDV camcorder for their own projects when I'm done. It's the number of obstacles in the way, and the decisions to be made, that are so frustrating with this stuff.

For problems like that, I miss Radio Shack.

[Jrand75]

Ah DR CHAS SMITH I meant to mention that SKI PARTY has Deborah Walley & the gals singing "I'll Never Change Him" which had been Annette's only solo in BEACH BLANKET BINGO,

So the powers that be took the song out of BBB leaving Annette with no solo in that movie.

[ChasSmith]

I'm in a somewhat similar old-media-conversion quandary.

I've got a dozen MiniDV tapes - anyone remember that technology? - early 2000s? - to convert to MP4s (and/or have transferred to DVDs). Fortunately, I also have the camcorder they were taken on and it works beautifully. But to convert them yourself, you need the right Firewire cable(s) which I might have, but also an adaptor or two to get the signal into Thunderbolt ports on a Mac. Or maybe I even need a whole new Firewire-to-Thunderbolt cable as well as a converter from Thunderbolt 3 to 2 since that's what my older Mac has. Or you can do it on a Windows machine with other adaptor issues, and I think mine's way too old and slow for a process like that. The third option is simply taking them to any number of places that do it for you, but it looks like $20 or more for each tape, adding up to a nearly $300 expenditure all told.

There's no deadline on this, but I'd love to have it done in the foreseeable future, and I've also promised a friend that they can have this MiniDV camcorder for their own projects when I'm done. It's the number of obstacles in the way, and the decisions to be made, that are so frustrating with this stuff.

For problems like that, I miss Radio Shack.

It's amazing how many times something comes up that makes me miss it. Sometimes, depending on the particular need, it makes me wish I could have seen into the future and stockpiled a bunch of their stuff.

[ChasSmith]

Ah DR CHAS SMITH I meant to mention that SKI PARTY has Deborah Walley & the gals singing "I'll Never Change Him" which had been Annette's only solo in BEACH BLANKET BINGO,

So the powers that be took the song out of BBB leaving Annette with no solo in that movie.

Right!

DR Jrand75, I think one of your noble callings is to write the beach party movies bible. Get on that, will you?

Didn't watch one last night. How to Stuff... got rescheduled to tonight, and I look forward to it. I barely remember seeing it.

[ChasSmith]

Haven't seen Inherent Vice. I run hot and cold on PTA's movies.

[Jane]

From DR John:

I finished it this morning. All of her mysteries are 1,000 pages long.

Maybe they just seem that long

The first one was 456 pages.  Then they kept getting longer, 464, 609, 650, 944, and up.  My brother felt the first book was a tad too long and stopped reading after the fourth book.

Did you feel this one was too long or just right?

[Jane]

DR Singdaw.  Your mother's backyard is nice.  I find it hard to imagine a drought in NJ.

[Jane]

IMHO, it is much easier reading long books when you read quickly.

[Jane]

No DR FREDDIE I shall move on.....after having a key to the front door for more than 40 years, I am not interested in working as an outsider.

Understandable.

[Jane]

Ah DR CHAS SMITH I meant to mention that SKI PARTY has Deborah Walley & the gals singing "I'll Never Change Him" which had been Annette's only solo in BEACH BLANKET BINGO,

So the powers that be took the song out of BBB leaving Annette with no solo in that movie.

 

[John G.]

From DR John:

I finished it this morning. All of her mysteries are 1,000 pages long.

Maybe they just seem that long

The first one was 456 pages.  Then they kept getting longer, 464, 609, 650, 944, and up.  My brother felt the first book was a tad too long and stopped reading after the fourth book.

Did you feel this one was too long or just right?

Not too long. I like the way she unravels things and later ties some of them up.

[John G.]

Heavy downpour right now. My feet are wet. Oh, what mixed joy.

[bk]

Finally got three hours of sleep.

[bk]

I remember at least two or three people saying they'd found their Believe CDs. I really need these WAV files now - we have to do this test as soon as possible. I can't get to my copy - it's in a box and I have no idea WHICH box. Whatever is on YouTube is not of sufficient quality.

[Jane]

From DR John:

I finished it this morning. All of her mysteries are 1,000 pages long.

Maybe they just seem that long

The first one was 456 pages.  Then they kept getting longer, 464, 609, 650, 944, and up.  My brother felt the first book was a tad too long and stopped reading after the fourth book.

Did you feel this one was too long or just right?

Not too long. I like the way she unravels things and later ties some of them up.

[Freddie]

Ah DR CHAS SMITH I meant to mention that SKI PARTY has Deborah Walley & the gals singing "I'll Never Change Him" which had been Annette's only solo in BEACH BLANKET BINGO,

So the powers that be took the song out of BBB leaving Annette with no solo in that movie.

Somehow, that reminds me of my childhood surprise when first realizing that "Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?" had a catchy title song, and Doris Day was not singing it.

[Freddie]

From the Times:  The CABARET revival is closing on Broadway with huge losses, even though the same production has been a hit in London.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/theater/cabaret-billy-porter-broadway.html
"With Billy Porter Sidelined by Illness, ‘Cabaret’ Moves Up Closing
The revival will now end its run on Sept. 21, much earlier than previously hoped for."

[elmore3003]

Ann was down to visit and somehow we got on the subject of my first union recording, a set of New York songs for Book-of-the-Month Club. This set has been OP for years along with a set of Sondheim.

BK, are these worth digging up and taking them over?

[Freddie]

From DR John:

I finished it this morning. All of her mysteries are 1,000 pages long.

Maybe they just seem that long

The first one was 456 pages.  Then they kept getting longer, 464, 609, 650, 944, and up.  My brother felt the first book was a tad too long and stopped reading after the fourth book.

Did you feel this one was too long or just right?

Jane, have you been watching the C.B. STRIKE series on HBO?

[George]

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[George]

Can someone who recently pulled out their CD of Believe - make me a set of WAV files and send to me via We Transfer? I need this ASAP. I thought someone had done it, but if they did I can't find it anywhere.

My current computer does not have a disc drive. I think DR George did that?

Sadly, I didn't find my actual CD...yet, anyway.  I had saved the images to my computer and I only have MP3s (320kbps) of the songs, not WAV files.

[George]

I do have WAV files of BK's "Rare Tracks" CD, but that doesn't help.