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- May 18th, 2016, 4:43 pm
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: What Are You Listening To?
- Replies: 575
- Views: 336067
Re: What Are You Listening To?
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kx9eD-5ML._SS280.jpg I heard a nice version of "Four in One" on the radio this morning. SoundHound informed me it was from this recording. I downloaded the over 8-minute track from Amazon for $0.89. All good, except I can't find the p...
- November 13th, 2015, 4:03 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Shameless Self-Promotion
- Replies: 55
- Views: 8433
Re: Shameless Self-Promotion
I just had a paper called "Tonality, Musical Form and Aesthetic Value" accepted for publication in a future number of Perspectives of New Music. I have an abstract of it here: https://www.academia.edu/18146197/Tonality_Musical_Form_and_Aesthetic_Value It's long, theoretical, and maybe...
- September 26th, 2015, 1:50 pm
- Forum: R.I.P. (General)
- Topic: Yogi Berra Dies at 90
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7661
Re: Yogi Berra Dies at 90
I grew up as a Tigers fan, since when I was a kid in Syracuse, the Chiefs were Detroit's triple A team. And can tell you that nobody made me cry as often as Yogi Berra. What a clutch hitter he was. It's like you COULD NOT GET THAT GUY OUT in the ninth if it mattered. FWIW, Al Kaline, one of...
- September 14th, 2015, 3:17 am
- Forum: Audiophiles
- Topic: The Physicist Who's Saving the Music
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8706
Re: The Physicist Who's Saving the Music
Here's a physicist who MADE some (funny) music (about his profession). And the lead tenor here was Everett Hall, my favorite philosopher and the guy on whom I wrote/edited a book a couple years ago:
https://ww3.haverford.edu/physics/songs ... oberts.htm
https://ww3.haverford.edu/physics/songs ... oberts.htm
- September 13th, 2015, 6:26 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Shameless Self-Promotion
- Replies: 55
- Views: 8433
Re: Shameless Self-Promotion
Sorry I didn't see this earlier, blue. Congrats!......I guess.
- July 2nd, 2015, 3:29 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Board Upgrade in Progress
- Replies: 22
- Views: 18970
Re: Board Upgrade in Progress
And thanks to you too, BN. You da WOMAN!!
- July 2nd, 2015, 3:01 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Board Upgrade in Progress
- Replies: 22
- Views: 18970
Re: Board Upgrade in Progress
Thanks, Justin. You da MAN!
- June 30th, 2015, 3:08 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Board Upgrade in Progress
- Replies: 22
- Views: 18970
Re: Board Upgrade in Progress
Avatar check.
ETA1: something weird across the top left corner, but it's there.
ETA2: Hey, no more courier font!?
ETA1: something weird across the top left corner, but it's there.
ETA2: Hey, no more courier font!?
- March 21st, 2015, 3:06 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Bad album covers
- Replies: 72
- Views: 90603
Re: Bad album covers
Mr. Met wrote:If you're alone with your lady on a Saturday night
If you want to make love
But her muscles are tight.
Just put on this music
By some low candlelight
And get her loosed up
And make it all right.
Can I just get the (explicitly illustrated instruction) booklet?
- March 21st, 2015, 4:53 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Questions for Steve(thelil)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 23120
Re: Questions for Steve(thelil)
Are cobwebs for catching corn or swans?
- March 14th, 2015, 9:30 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What TV Shows Are You Watching?
- Replies: 325
- Views: 88926
Re: What TV Shows Are You Watching?
Regarding House of Card s, .................................edit OTOH, I'm enjoying Better Call Saul" Saul's development of Mike's character was beautiful in this weeks episode. I haven't seen that one yet, but it will be a relief not to have to see Odenkirk in every single scene. That...
- March 11th, 2015, 6:01 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What TV Shows Are You Watching?
- Replies: 325
- Views: 88926
Re: What TV Shows Are You Watching?
Prolly a little a both. We're, ya know, Bee Ahr.
- March 11th, 2015, 3:02 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What TV Shows Are You Watching?
- Replies: 325
- Views: 88926
Re: What TV Shows Are You Watching?
Regarding House of Card s, I'm embarrassed to say we bailed after the first couple of episodes of the second season. The two characters we found most interesting had been killed off and the plots were getting too complicated for us boahdaline retahds. OTOH, I'm enjoying Better Call Saul&quo...
- March 11th, 2015, 2:59 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What TV Shows Are You Watching?
- Replies: 325
- Views: 88926
Re: What TV Shows Are You Watching?
After being disappointed with the first two episodes of "Kimmy Schmidt" (and complaining both about how derivative it is of Mork and Mindy, Hazel, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres , etc. and how two of the main characters are just reprising their roles from the last series they we...
- March 11th, 2015, 3:08 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: NCAA Basketball
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2406
Re: NCAA Basketball
I don't agree with you: I think they've been playing to the level of their fairly pedestrian competition and also have improved as the year has gone on. But we'll see: if they DO lose in the SEC tournament, which of course is possible, they'll still be a 1-seed and I'll still wa...
- March 10th, 2015, 3:08 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: NCAA Basketball
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2406
Re: NCAA Basketball
I hope either Wisconsin, Virginia or Duke gets a shot at Kentucky before this thing is over. (I finally saw the Zags last night and don't think they'd be much competition). We really won't know how good Kentucky is if they get through this entire season without playing anybody. ...
- March 5th, 2015, 1:38 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Jon Stewart
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15008
Re: Jon Stewart
pig pen wrote:If journalists can't tell the difference between journalism and comedy I'm not sure how that's Jon Stewart's fault.
I guess I agree with that. Stewart has always insisted that he isn't a journalist, anyhow.
- March 5th, 2015, 4:06 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Jon Stewart
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15008
Re: Jon Stewart
Jeff, am I correct that (based on one of your Brian Williams posts) that you would consider "gnashing" more appropriate if Maher were leaving the air?
- March 2nd, 2015, 6:50 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Retirement
- Replies: 86
- Views: 38120
Re: Retirement
jwaggs wrote:Pat is around ... give him a day or two.
I meant around HERE (in Mass.).
- March 2nd, 2015, 1:49 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Retirement
- Replies: 86
- Views: 38120
Re: Retirement
It's karma, obviously. The day after I write the post above, the following article appears on the front page of the Boston Globe: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/01/state-layoffs-loom-early-retirement-plan-falls-short-official-says/9My4pQCjphdD3WZWJOhx0H/story.html So, the state is lik...
- March 1st, 2015, 6:11 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Retirement
- Replies: 86
- Views: 38120
Re: Retirement
I'm planning to quit my bureaucrat gig on April Fool's day, 2017, the day our last tuition check is due for our oldest daughter. My original plan was to move my bed next to the fridge so I could lie down all day and just have to reach up to get some pasta while I watch tv. You know, I might...
- November 25th, 2014, 3:56 am
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: Favorite Jazz Group Configuration
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2465
Re: Favorite Jazz Group Configuration
That's a great question, Ron. I like a lot of counterpoint, myself--or to put it less stodgily, a lot of business. So an alto or soprano and tenor are good. I want percussion, but it need not always be restricted to traps--nice having mallet instruments around too. Keyboards are nice but the da...
- October 31st, 2014, 1:31 pm
- Forum: Jazz News
- Topic: DownBeat Announces 2014 Readers Poll Results
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2268
Re: DownBeat Announces 2014 Readers Poll Results
What is the average age of the winners--70? 80?
- October 24th, 2014, 6:51 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Looks like extremists have come "home" to wreak havoc
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10440
Re: Looks like extremists have come "home" to wreak havoc
I heard today that the guy used a Winchester rifle--sounds like something that an antique collector might have. I guess really nasty weaponry isn't so easily available in Canada. Here it would have been an AK-47 probably--or maybe a pressure cooker. Which reminds me. Who'd have the guts to ...
- October 18th, 2014, 7:36 am
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: Jazz Videos
- Replies: 322
- Views: 345632
Re: Jazz Videos
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=780464828680828
Not soundcloud, vimeo or youtube, but a vid of one of my brother Dick's bands. He plays the second keyboard solo (on a moog).
Not soundcloud, vimeo or youtube, but a vid of one of my brother Dick's bands. He plays the second keyboard solo (on a moog).