A Cloak Of Elvenkind – Marcy Playground
Hot For Teacher – Van Halen
Rhiannon – Fleetwood Mac
Magnet & Steel – Walter Egan
I Can’t Go For That – Hall & Oates
I Need Love – Sam Phillips
Hey Jesus – Indigo Girls
Arizona – Mark Lindsay
The Ballad Of John & Yoko – The Beatles
Murder By Numbers – The Police
YAY! Happy happy hour! ::happy dance, off to bed ;p::
Sun Valley Ski Run – Esquivel
The Nearness of You – Norah Jones
Living in the COuntry – Leo Kottke and mike Gordon
Episode of Blonde – Elvis Costello
Cosmopolitans – Erin McKeown
Ring on the Sill – Cowboy Junkies
Fire Island – Fountains of Wayne
Mamo Sinuendo – Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban
Meteora – Linkin Park
All I Wanna Do – Sheryl Crow
Longing In Their Hearts – Bonnie Raitt
Rirongere – Oliver Mtukudzi
Romance – R.E.M.
Thank You Girl – John Hiatt
Key Largo – Dave McKenna
Ruby, My Dear – Thelonious Monk
Different Light – Steve Winwood
She’s Hot To Go – Lyle Lovett
The Danger Zone – Susan Tedeschi
Sleep Keeps Me Awake – Michelle Shocked
Actually, I’ve seen 7 of 10 (I forgot about the time REM was opening up for the Police in the early 80s). All of the ones you guessed, plus Michelle Shocked.
Don’t have that yet, though I have loved them. ‘Your Kiss is on my List’… Mmmmm. I do have Duran Duran on there tho’ 😉 Late to the party, but here goes…
Devil’s Haircut – Beck – Freaking Scientologist…
Bring It On – Seal
Food & Creative Love – Rusted Root
Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire – Joni Mitchell
Everything that Rises Must Converge – Shriekback
Getting Smaller – Nine Inch Nails
Being for the Benefit for Mr. Kite – The Beatles
Jane Says – Jane’s Addiction
Transatlanticism – Death Cab for Cutie
Road to Dead – Paula Cole
iTunes and iPod have been giving me problems on adding new downloaded songs tonight. I am not pleased with them at the moment…
Definite mixed feelings about those two. Really like them, except that I played them so much while I was writing my dissertation, that they always take me back to grad school. Sometimes that’s great, other times not so much.
My day was pretty good, believe it or not. I finally found a shrink I like and I haven’t lied to him yet to make him think better of me. So that’s probably a good thing. When I was little I used to lie in the confessional; a special kind of lie which I believed to be a mortal sin instead of a venial sin. It’s kind of the same when you fib to your therapist.
And I think my itty bitty dose of antidepressant might be working.
That’s excellent news. We’re going to make you stick to the girl scout motto: honesty is the best policy. Wait. The girl scout motto is “be prepared”? whatever. Sounds like a great way to end the week.
Now give us HONEST random 10. ( I often suspect that the others aren’t being honest that these are random.)
I’m too lazy to type all of that. But since I’ve only loaded about 50 songs on my new mp3 player I can safely say it would be heavily weighted toward Rusted Root, the soundtrack from Garden State, and Yo Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone.
I can relate to long and boring. And I had a document that all kinds of freaky formatting in it so I kept screwing it up everytime I tried to insert something. My assistant was ready to kill me I think.
I’m going to a happy hour/wedding shower after work. I don’t know who came up with the concept but I’m sure it will be the best wedding shower I’ve ever attended. NO party games.
Did anyone actually click this link and look at this site? I admit it could be due to the two (or was it three) cosmopolitans I had tonight, but it’s way way tooo busy. How do you find anything on it?
So … I’ll just ask the obvious question. A.M. or P.M. and hope you come back and answer.
I want them to have everything they want. I want Jesus to come and get them now, The World Can’t Wait! I want them to live “away” from me and I don’t want their kids to go to school with my kids anymore. They can have their Walmart and get all of their prescriptions there…..I don’t care! I’ll go to Costco or whatever and I’ll go to the other pharmacy. I’ll move to a blue state and they can have the red states. I don’t care anymore, just tell me that they will finally shut up then and go their own way and leave me the hell alone!
I tell my students over and over – if you are going to hit your head against your computer, don’t use your forehead! Don’t mess up that maneeegeerial frontal lobe . .
Or is it that El Segundo was just a bit too celebratory??
Windy — The Association
In My Life — Judy Collins
I’d Love to Change the World — Ten Years After
I Got A Man — Positive K
Russlan & Ludmilla: Overture (comp. Glinka) — London Symphony Orchestra
Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate of Kiev (comp. Mussorgsky) — Cleveland Orchestra
The Oh of Pleasure — Ray Lynch
Recuerdos de la Alhambra (comp. Tarrega) — Madalyn Blanchett & Terry Muska
Express Yourself — Madonna
The Battle — Harry Gregson-Williams (from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe soundtrack)
Reason I’m frantic? Turns out dad-in-law came home from the hospital today! So I’m rushing around trying to get things together here just in case — mom-in-law said they’d try to get through on their own tonight, but if it’s too much, they’ll call in the cavalry (me). Spouse and I are going over tomorrow anyway, to take cardboard out to recycling and do any other required errands, and I’m planning to cook the “welcome home” dinner tomorrow night, so I want to have my bag packed just in case.
Got to go run and start a batch of laundry…back later…
I have heard the Cleveland Orchestra play many times in their majestic Severence Hall home. We used to go every year for school field trips. I never realized what a treasure they are until I was grown.
There was mourning across Europe. My mom was touring there at the time and thought it was for some national figure. Cleveland was often a contender for best in the world as I understand.
We used to hear them do children’s concerts in the Akron area back in the 50’s and 60’s. My dad was more of a classical enthusiast than I was. In his college & early working years their rehersals were open and he’d go down to listen.
Some years ago we came across a CD of them doing the Moldau. The moment the strings came in I just started sobbing. This would have been recorded after the war, during the cold war. A lot of the players would have been European. It brought back memories of an America I’ll never live to be able to explain.
Dad had a vinyl set of their New World Symphony that I thought was awesome, used to listen to it in the early 70’s. Puget4 and I found a CD of it but I’m sure it couldn’t have been from the same sessions, it definitely wasn’t as polished.
Yup, nothing like a good sound system. My favorite thing about ours is during the Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3 when the organ part comes in the floor actually reverberates.
on my iPod…and just treated myself to a set of Sensenheiser folding headphones (got 4 out of 5 mice in a Macworld review). Lightweight, portable, yet awesome sound. 🙂
Sarah Brightman did a song called, “Anytime, Anywhere” on her album Eden that is loosely based on the Albinoni Adagio.
And I have two different recordings of the “Agnus Dei” (Lamb of God) sung acapella with the tune of the Barber Adagio for Strings. (One version by Cambridge Singers, the other by the Stanford Chorale.) It’s hauntingly beautiful. Oh, and you’re probably aware that the Barber Adagio was used in the movie Platoon.
So much for music trivia…we return you to your normal programming…
The Cleveland Orchestra is definitely top tier, nice post…
Under George Szell, named Music Director in 1946, The Cleveland Orchestra entered a new period of dramatic and sustained growth. Both the number of Orchestra members and the length of the season were increased, international tours were inaugurated, and the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus was established (and Robert Shaw was engaged to direct the group). The expansion to a year-round season was made possible in 1968 with the opening of Blossom Music Center on an 800-acre site south of Cleveland.
One of the greatest conductors of symphony and opera of the twentieth century, George Szell (1897-1970) is best known for his twenty-four-year musical leadership of the Cleveland Orchestra, which he built into one of the great orchestras of the world.
Song – Artist – Album
Lonsome Whistle – Little Feat – Hoy-Hoy!
Umlahi – Mediaeval Baebes – Mirabilis
Poor Little Me – Eliza Carthy – Angels & Cigarettes
Cherry – Cale J.J. – Strummin’ On The Porch…..A Beer In Reach
Bird Gets The Worm – Charlie Parker – BIRD – The Savoy Master Takes
I Love Her Still – Pee Wee Crayton – The Real Blues Brothers
Goodbye Baby I’m Still Leaving You (Part 2) – Katie Webster – Katie Webster
C.C. Rider – Jimmy Smith – Dot Com Blues
Jump Jive An’ Wail – The Brian Setzer Orchestra – The Dirty Boogie
Why Worry – Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms
It’s old married couple code. He just messing about with some dialogue from Ionesco’s Bald Soprano that we always liked. Here’s a excerpt:
MR. MARTIN: Nor do I, madam. Since coming to London, I have resided in Bromfield Street, my dear lady.
MRS. MARTIN: How curious that is, how bizarre! I, too, since coming to London, I have resided in Bromfield Street, my dear sir.
MR. MARTIN: How curious that is, well then, well then, perhaps we have seen each other in Bromfield Street, my dear lady.
MRS. MARTIN: How curious that is, how bizarre! It is indeed possible, after all! But I do not recall it, my dear sir.
MR. MARTIN: I reside at No. 19, my dear lady.
MRS. MARTIN: How curious that is. I also reside at No. 19, my dear sir.
MR. MARTIN: Well then, well then, well then, well then, perhaps we have seen each other in that house, dear lady?
MRS. MARTIN: It is indeed possible but I do not recall it, dear sir.
MR. MARTIN: My flat is on the fifth floor, No. 8, my dear lady.
MRS. MARTIN: How curious it is, good Lord, how bizarre! And what a coincidence! I too reside on the fifth floor, in flat No. 8, dear sir!
MR. MARTIN [musing]: How curious it is, how curious it is, how curious it is, and what a coincidence! You know, in my bedroom there is a bed, and it is covered with a green eiderdown. This room, with the bed and the green eiderdown, is at the end of the corridor between the w.c. and the bookcase, dear lady!
MRS. MARTIN: What a coincidence, good Lord, what a coincidence! My bedroom, too, has a bed with a green eiderdown and is at the end of the corridor, between the w.c., dear sir, and the bookcase!
MR. MARTIN: How bizarre, curious, strange! Then, madam, we live in the same room and we sleep in the same bed, dear lady. It is perhaps there that we have met!
MRS. MARTIN: How curious it is and what a coincidence! It is indeed possible that we have met there, and perhaps even last night. But I do not recall it, dear sir!
MR. MARTIN: I have a little girl, my little daughter, she lives with me, dear lady. She is two years old, she’s blonde, she has a white eye and a red eye, she is very pretty, her name is Alice, dear lady.
MRS. MARTIN: What a bizarre coincidence! I, too, have a little girl. She is two years old, has a white eye and a red eye, she is very pretty, and her name is Alice, too, dear sir!
MR. MARTIN : How curious it is and what a coincidence! And bizarre! Perhaps they are the same, dear lady!
MRS. MARTIN: How curious it is! It is indeed possible, dear sir.
MR. MARTIN Then, dear lady, I believe that there can be no doubt about it, we have seen each other before and you are my own wife… Elizabeth, I have found you again!
They were popular around the turn of the century, 20th, circa 1900 -1910. Spring powered rotary players with horns…mine looks like this:
Goog “Edison Cylinder Player” for more that you probably want to know…lousy sound by current standards but a very novel idea…Thomas Alva was quite the inventor…the victrola above is an original Edison from the 1920’s…they’re really very cool.
The reason I ask is that a cylinder player was a key part of a play I went to last week. About a collector of all kinds of “stuff” including cylinder players. I had never heard of them before and it made me wonder how they worked.
Amazing devices, aren’t they? That’s a lovely one.
I have to agree on the analog sound — it’s quite warm, plenty of body & depth.
I’ve got a number of 78s too — many are over 100 years old now. Thankfully my turntable carries that speed & they’re still listenable.
I don’t believe I’ve ever heard cylinders directly, though I understand pre-acetate vinyl was recorded that way.
oops, when you opened the new cafe I decided I had hit the wall and needed to get into bed with Lies. Nothing like reading about the atrocities the U.S perpetrated against the native americans to give you a fresh perspective. 🙂
Nothing to be sorry about. We just felt bad that someone treated you like that and then it looked like Jim didn’t care because, of course, he has a secret crush on you (but you’ll never get him into any speedos).
It is true, though, that it was only a matter of time before you got over thinking of him as nice. 😉
FRT –
Just Barely Made It Edition
A Cloak Of Elvenkind – Marcy Playground
Hot For Teacher – Van Halen
Rhiannon – Fleetwood Mac
Magnet & Steel – Walter Egan
I Can’t Go For That – Hall & Oates
I Need Love – Sam Phillips
Hey Jesus – Indigo Girls
Arizona – Mark Lindsay
The Ballad Of John & Yoko – The Beatles
Murder By Numbers – The Police
YAY! Happy happy hour! ::happy dance, off to bed ;p::
It’s our Friday thing, Indy-I’m glad you made it!
Here’s mine:
Sun Valley Ski Run – Esquivel
The Nearness of You – Norah Jones
Living in the COuntry – Leo Kottke and mike Gordon
Episode of Blonde – Elvis Costello
Cosmopolitans – Erin McKeown
Ring on the Sill – Cowboy Junkies
Fire Island – Fountains of Wayne
Mamo Sinuendo – Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban
Meteora – Linkin Park
All I Wanna Do – Sheryl Crow
Not-so random five:
Guerilla War – The Positive Force w/Ade Olatunji (from the 1977 album Oracy)
The Sea of Nurnen – Douglass Hammond (from Reflections in the Sea of Nurnen)
A World New – Human Arts Ensemble (from 1973 album Whisper of Dharma)
Exit – Howard Riley (from the album Angle)
Dorian’s Blues in G Minor (pt. 1) – La Monte Young & the Forever Bad Blues Band (from the early 1990s album Just Stompin’)
Longing In Their Hearts – Bonnie Raitt
Rirongere – Oliver Mtukudzi
Romance – R.E.M.
Thank You Girl – John Hiatt
Key Largo – Dave McKenna
Ruby, My Dear – Thelonious Monk
Different Light – Steve Winwood
She’s Hot To Go – Lyle Lovett
The Danger Zone – Susan Tedeschi
Sleep Keeps Me Awake – Michelle Shocked
Do I get points for having seen 6 out of your 10 play live?
My guess for the four you haven’t seen:
Oliver Mtukudzi
Dave McKenna
Thelonious Monk
Michelle Shocked
And since you told me who Erin McKeown last week, I know everybody on your list. A first.
Actually, I’ve seen 7 of 10 (I forgot about the time REM was opening up for the Police in the early 80s). All of the ones you guessed, plus Michelle Shocked.
Should that be all the ones I picked minus Michelle Shocked?
All the ones not listed, plus MS.
ANd I’m impressed that you know all mine this week.
I owe it all to music channels on DirecTv
Sam Phillips…I haven’t heard any of her stuff in awhile! MArtinis and Bikinis was a great CD.
I’ll know that Indy feels better when we go back to the good old days when I didn’t know anybody on her playlists.
please tell me why you have a song on your playlist by the lead singer of Paul Revere and the Raiders. (I’m not freaked, I’m just wildly curious.)
Don’t have that yet, though I have loved them. ‘Your Kiss is on my List’… Mmmmm. I do have Duran Duran on there tho’ 😉 Late to the party, but here goes…
Devil’s Haircut – Beck – Freaking Scientologist…
Bring It On – Seal
Food & Creative Love – Rusted Root
Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire – Joni Mitchell
Everything that Rises Must Converge – Shriekback
Getting Smaller – Nine Inch Nails
Being for the Benefit for Mr. Kite – The Beatles
Jane Says – Jane’s Addiction
Transatlanticism – Death Cab for Cutie
Road to Dead – Paula Cole
iTunes and iPod have been giving me problems on adding new downloaded songs tonight. I am not pleased with them at the moment…
Definite mixed feelings about those two. Really like them, except that I played them so much while I was writing my dissertation, that they always take me back to grad school. Sometimes that’s great, other times not so much.
…wouldn’t it be nice to play music through Booman?
The jukebox is so LOUD tonight.
And how was everyone’s day?
I looked through the window of the last cafe and saw a bunch of you goofing off in the last cafe. I just closed my eyes tightly and walked on by.
My day was pretty good, believe it or not. I finally found a shrink I like and I haven’t lied to him yet to make him think better of me. So that’s probably a good thing. When I was little I used to lie in the confessional; a special kind of lie which I believed to be a mortal sin instead of a venial sin. It’s kind of the same when you fib to your therapist.
And I think my itty bitty dose of antidepressant might be working.
That’s good news (on both counts).
That’s excellent news. We’re going to make you stick to the girl scout motto: honesty is the best policy. Wait. The girl scout motto is “be prepared”? whatever. Sounds like a great way to end the week.
Now give us HONEST random 10. ( I often suspect that the others aren’t being honest that these are random.)
I’m too lazy to type all of that. But since I’ve only loaded about 50 songs on my new mp3 player I can safely say it would be heavily weighted toward Rusted Root, the soundtrack from Garden State, and Yo Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone.
I love the Garden State soundtrack.
I’m glad that you are being honest that you are a slacker. I am a slacker wannabe and I may start using you as my roll model.
I’m flattered (?)
My day was long and boring…I’m ready to write about something other than diabetes now. It’s easy work, but boring.
I can relate to long and boring. And I had a document that all kinds of freaky formatting in it so I kept screwing it up everytime I tried to insert something. My assistant was ready to kill me I think.
I’m going to a happy hour/wedding shower after work. I don’t know who came up with the concept but I’m sure it will be the best wedding shower I’ve ever attended. NO party games.
We did that when my friend got married last year…drinking Arrogant Bastard ale to boot. 🙂
Being the best wedding shower is akin to being the best skin rash.
Uh huh
But a bad wedding shower is better than a good baby shower.
I stopped going to baby showers about 20 years ago. If I can’t find a reasonable sounding excuse, I just buy ’em off with an offer of more money.
to appear on the radio on Monday February 13th.
It will be streamable at TVNewsLies.
that’s exciting — what time?
between 12-2 eastern time.
Kewl!
Very cool! What time?
That’s great!
Today was the day of you may – you may not – at work, so, Booman, of your swim in the media pond:
May you not have a frog on your throat!
May you have an interviewer smarter than a tadpole, and less slimy.
May you persuade all within hearing of the virtue of Pennachio over Casey – if the topics come to that.
May many a fence-sitting listener be enticed to come over to the progressive side of life. . .
try http://www.tvnewslies.org/
Did anyone actually click this link and look at this site? I admit it could be due to the two (or was it three) cosmopolitans I had tonight, but it’s way way tooo busy. How do you find anything on it?
So … I’ll just ask the obvious question. A.M. or P.M. and hope you come back and answer.
Remember to sit up straight and dress in colors that will not interfere with the radio waves.
maybe I should remove all tin-foil from my apartment.
frustration level is rising…
time to log off before I end up like this:
That’s how I felt this afternoon…you have my sympathies.
Heh. I’m changing my username to CrabbinGirl.
I want them to have everything they want. I want Jesus to come and get them now, The World Can’t Wait! I want them to live “away” from me and I don’t want their kids to go to school with my kids anymore. They can have their Walmart and get all of their prescriptions there…..I don’t care! I’ll go to Costco or whatever and I’ll go to the other pharmacy. I’ll move to a blue state and they can have the red states. I don’t care anymore, just tell me that they will finally shut up then and go their own way and leave me the hell alone!
I think you need a glass of what I’m having:
I tell my students over and over – if you are going to hit your head against your computer, don’t use your forehead! Don’t mess up that maneeegeerial frontal lobe . .
Or is it that El Segundo was just a bit too celebratory??
Windy — The Association
In My Life — Judy Collins
I’d Love to Change the World — Ten Years After
I Got A Man — Positive K
Russlan & Ludmilla: Overture (comp. Glinka) — London Symphony Orchestra
Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate of Kiev (comp. Mussorgsky) — Cleveland Orchestra
The Oh of Pleasure — Ray Lynch
Recuerdos de la Alhambra (comp. Tarrega) — Madalyn Blanchett & Terry Muska
Express Yourself — Madonna
The Battle — Harry Gregson-Williams (from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe soundtrack)
Reason I’m frantic? Turns out dad-in-law came home from the hospital today! So I’m rushing around trying to get things together here just in case — mom-in-law said they’d try to get through on their own tonight, but if it’s too much, they’ll call in the cavalry (me). Spouse and I are going over tomorrow anyway, to take cardboard out to recycling and do any other required errands, and I’m planning to cook the “welcome home” dinner tomorrow night, so I want to have my bag packed just in case.
Got to go run and start a batch of laundry…back later…
I have heard the Cleveland Orchestra play many times in their majestic Severence Hall home. We used to go every year for school field trips. I never realized what a treasure they are until I was grown.
There was mourning across Europe. My mom was touring there at the time and thought it was for some national figure. Cleveland was often a contender for best in the world as I understand.
We used to hear them do children’s concerts in the Akron area back in the 50’s and 60’s. My dad was more of a classical enthusiast than I was. In his college & early working years their rehersals were open and he’d go down to listen.
Some years ago we came across a CD of them doing the Moldau. The moment the strings came in I just started sobbing. This would have been recorded after the war, during the cold war. A lot of the players would have been European. It brought back memories of an America I’ll never live to be able to explain.
Dad had a vinyl set of their New World Symphony that I thought was awesome, used to listen to it in the early 70’s. Puget4 and I found a CD of it but I’m sure it couldn’t have been from the same sessions, it definitely wasn’t as polished.
I know what you mean by the strings bringing you to tears. There are a couple of adagios that do that to me, one by Mozart and one by Samuel Barber.
Just reading the words adagio and barber starts me tearing up. The other one that does me in is Albinoni’s Adagio in G minor for Organ and Strings.
I love the timelessness of classical music. I wonder if people are going to be listening to Britney Spears or Mariah Carey 300 years from now.
Yuck on that but if the world is very lucky and very good, it will be listening to Sam Cooke.
But I do wonder what the impact of mp3’s will be because I don’t like listening to classical music through mp3 players and little earphones.
But OMG how it sounds on the Bose wave CD player! It absolutely fills the room and surrounds you.
Yup, nothing like a good sound system. My favorite thing about ours is during the Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3 when the organ part comes in the floor actually reverberates.
on my iPod…and just treated myself to a set of Sensenheiser folding headphones (got 4 out of 5 mice in a Macworld review). Lightweight, portable, yet awesome sound. 🙂
A couple of tidbits:
Sarah Brightman did a song called, “Anytime, Anywhere” on her album Eden that is loosely based on the Albinoni Adagio.
And I have two different recordings of the “Agnus Dei” (Lamb of God) sung acapella with the tune of the Barber Adagio for Strings. (One version by Cambridge Singers, the other by the Stanford Chorale.) It’s hauntingly beautiful. Oh, and you’re probably aware that the Barber Adagio was used in the movie Platoon.
So much for music trivia…we return you to your normal programming…
or Smetterna (sp?).
It was because they were Szell’s strings. Tight, and authoritative. Utterly unmistakable.
Smetana
Damn, now I want to put on the Barber Adagio and cry my eyes out.
The Cleveland Orchestra is definitely top tier, nice post…
Under George Szell, named Music Director in 1946, The Cleveland Orchestra entered a new period of dramatic and sustained growth. Both the number of Orchestra members and the length of the season were increased, international tours were inaugurated, and the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus was established (and Robert Shaw was engaged to direct the group). The expansion to a year-round season was made possible in 1968 with the opening of Blossom Music Center on an 800-acre site south of Cleveland.
http://www.clevelandorch.com/html/about/OrchestraHistory.asp
A little more on the great George Szell…
One of the greatest conductors of symphony and opera of the twentieth century, George Szell (1897-1970) is best known for his twenty-four-year musical leadership of the Cleveland Orchestra, which he built into one of the great orchestras of the world.
http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/szell/bio.html
The great Pierre Boulez conducted The Cleveland Orchestra too.
All brand new purchases, some unlistened to yet:
and as a bonus, find and download DJ Food’s “history of the 20th century” for some brilliant musicology.
that fall record is a winner.
Song – Artist – Album
Lonsome Whistle – Little Feat – Hoy-Hoy!
Umlahi – Mediaeval Baebes – Mirabilis
Poor Little Me – Eliza Carthy – Angels & Cigarettes
Cherry – Cale J.J. – Strummin’ On The Porch…..A Beer In Reach
Bird Gets The Worm – Charlie Parker – BIRD – The Savoy Master Takes
I Love Her Still – Pee Wee Crayton – The Real Blues Brothers
Goodbye Baby I’m Still Leaving You (Part 2) – Katie Webster – Katie Webster
C.C. Rider – Jimmy Smith – Dot Com Blues
Jump Jive An’ Wail – The Brian Setzer Orchestra – The Dirty Boogie
Why Worry – Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms
I have all those songs on mp3 player too.
What a coincidence, Bobby.
Is this Kewl Kid Kode?
It’s old married couple code. He just messing about with some dialogue from Ionesco’s Bald Soprano that we always liked. Here’s a excerpt:
Huh
I’ve never read Ionesco. Is it all like this?
He’s an absurdist so all his plays are very off the wall but the dialogue works much better acted than it might appear to when read.
That’s wonderful.
Help me out here. I get the “coincidence” but why did he call her Bobby. (Or is that not part of the excerpt and I’m not crazy).
Nope, no Bobby in there.
This looks suspiciously like the F kode foreplay we saw a while back here in the lounge…get a room…:{)
Peace
Okay we’ve got a room, several of them in fact. Now what?
You’ve been married too long. Pretend you just met each other.
If I do that I’ll to ignore him for around a year for his really stupid pickup line.
LOL
Good thing Jim is such a nice guy — anyone else might not have put up with that and given up.
JimF…you gotta work on your “style” points…the lady’s takin’ ya to task.
Peace
Not to worry. Neither of us gets any style points. It’s part of what makes our marriage work.
Of possible interest from today’s NYT Technology section: The iPod Ecosystem.
Apparently, sales of iPod accessories & ‘add-ons’ are forecasted to surpass a billion dollars this year without breaking a sweat.
Meantime, back in the woods ..
Let’s get hip to some mellow sides & groove, kitty-o!
Is this a photo of your past life or an earlier one of the cat’s nine?
🙂
This is her current incarnation, dear.
We’ll have to send her to Oz so she can get some color in her life — and an up-to-date stereo system.
LOL
She likes this one, though. You’ll never guess what happened immediately after I took the shot (hint: the clarinet turned into a tuba).
Got the picture just in time, huh?
She just plays with ’em — no damage done, just pitch adjustment. It’s actually pretty amusing — & she does bore easily.
She’s mad because she doesn’t have her very own iPod!
Pay no attention to the techies WW…turntables and analog vinyl is the the sweetest sound there is.
I’ve got 2 “modern” TT’s and about 600 albums…also have one of these
with about 200 78’s…funky shit…talk about yer pops and scratches
also have a cylinder player and about 60 cylinders but the spring broke and I haven’t found the time or the $’s to fix it.
Peace
A cylinder player. I just heard about those last week. How do they work?
They were popular around the turn of the century, 20th, circa 1900 -1910. Spring powered rotary players with horns…mine looks like this:
Goog “Edison Cylinder Player” for more that you probably want to know…lousy sound by current standards but a very novel idea…Thomas Alva was quite the inventor…the victrola above is an original Edison from the 1920’s…they’re really very cool.
Peace
The reason I ask is that a cylinder player was a key part of a play I went to last week. About a collector of all kinds of “stuff” including cylinder players. I had never heard of them before and it made me wonder how they worked.
Amazing devices, aren’t they? That’s a lovely one.
I have to agree on the analog sound — it’s quite warm, plenty of body & depth.
I’ve got a number of 78s too — many are over 100 years old now. Thankfully my turntable carries that speed & they’re still listenable.
I don’t believe I’ve ever heard cylinders directly, though I understand pre-acetate vinyl was recorded that way.
Hi all — back from showering with my friends.
Well that came out wrong didn’t it?
Anything fun and exciting going on?
Nothing nearly as exciting as showering with friends, maryb 😉
I’m settling down into horizontal mode, myself.
Not nearly as exciting as if she had been showering with strangers.
There were friends of friends there that I had never met before.
But it was all good clean fun.
As is appropriate for a shower, no doubt 😉
Glad you enjoyed it.
Depends on the stranger, I think 😉
Re http://tvnewslies.org
To the person who said the site was too busy – did you bother to click on any of the menus on the left?
They’re very well organzied, very easy to maneuver.
The site is EXTENSIVE. So much to learn. So little time..
More menus at the top.
Current news pages are easily accessible.
Scroll a bit down for easy access to their most recent editorials… many, many of them.
Not a very bright comment…. ‘too busy,’ – is this about information and resources or your taste in design?
geez
Taste in design. I don’t like to work that hard. And I don’t like all those moving things. And all I wanted to know was:
A.M. or P.M. ?
and geez, didn’t know I was expected to make “bright comments” in the cafe? Who made you the comment police?
I’m thinking of taking back my thought that Jim is nice.
It was only a matter of time.
I’d respond but I don’t want anyone else to accuse me of not making a very “bright” comment.
Jim didn’t realize what the guy was saying. Really.
Come on over to the new cafe and leave this dreck behind.
oops, when you opened the new cafe I decided I had hit the wall and needed to get into bed with Lies. Nothing like reading about the atrocities the U.S perpetrated against the native americans to give you a fresh perspective. 🙂
Sorry
Nothing to be sorry about. We just felt bad that someone treated you like that and then it looked like Jim didn’t care because, of course, he has a secret crush on you (but you’ll never get him into any speedos).
It is true, though, that it was only a matter of time before you got over thinking of him as nice. 😉
I thought the post was a joke. I need to read more carefully.
Night all.
s’OK. Next time I won’t be vague I’ll just say “JIM! How could you give that asshat a four!”
New cafe opened for those of you who lead the exciting, fun-filled, style point laden life that the F’s don’t even dream about.
Olympia, Paris 1971
And Dusty Springfield for a nightcap…and of course this is just for tonight…