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by walto
May 18th, 2016, 4:43 pm
Forum: Jazztalk Central
Topic: What Are You Listening To?
Replies: 575
Views: 293682

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...
by walto
November 13th, 2015, 4:03 pm
Forum: The Alley
Topic: Shameless Self-Promotion
Replies: 55
Views: 6613

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...
by walto
September 26th, 2015, 1:50 pm
Forum: R.I.P. (General)
Topic: Yogi Berra Dies at 90
Replies: 1
Views: 5842

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...
by walto
September 14th, 2015, 3:17 am
Forum: Audiophiles
Topic: The Physicist Who's Saving the Music
Replies: 1
Views: 6806

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
by walto
September 13th, 2015, 6:26 am
Forum: The Alley
Topic: Shameless Self-Promotion
Replies: 55
Views: 6613

Re: Shameless Self-Promotion

Sorry I didn't see this earlier, blue. Congrats!......I guess. :thinking:
by walto
July 2nd, 2015, 3:29 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Board Upgrade in Progress
Replies: 22
Views: 15530

Re: Board Upgrade in Progress

And thanks to you too, BN. You da WOMAN!! 8-)
by walto
July 2nd, 2015, 3:01 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Board Upgrade in Progress
Replies: 22
Views: 15530

Re: Board Upgrade in Progress

Thanks, Justin. You da MAN! 8-)
by walto
June 30th, 2015, 3:08 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Board Upgrade in Progress
Replies: 22
Views: 15530

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!? :x
by walto
March 21st, 2015, 3:06 pm
Forum: The Alley
Topic: Bad album covers
Replies: 72
Views: 73508

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?
by walto
March 21st, 2015, 4:53 am
Forum: The Alley
Topic: Questions for Steve(thelil)
Replies: 41
Views: 18218

Re: Questions for Steve(thelil)

Are cobwebs for catching corn or swans?
by walto
March 14th, 2015, 9:30 am
Forum: The Alley
Topic: What TV Shows Are You Watching?
Replies: 325
Views: 73497

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...
by walto
March 11th, 2015, 6:01 pm
Forum: The Alley
Topic: What TV Shows Are You Watching?
Replies: 325
Views: 73497

Re: What TV Shows Are You Watching?

Prolly a little a both. We're, ya know, Bee Ahr.
by walto
March 11th, 2015, 3:02 pm
Forum: The Alley
Topic: What TV Shows Are You Watching?
Replies: 325
Views: 73497

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...
by walto
March 11th, 2015, 2:59 pm
Forum: The Alley
Topic: What TV Shows Are You Watching?
Replies: 325
Views: 73497

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...
by walto
March 11th, 2015, 3:08 am
Forum: The Alley
Topic: NCAA Basketball
Replies: 3
Views: 1652

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...
by walto
March 10th, 2015, 3:08 am
Forum: The Alley
Topic: NCAA Basketball
Replies: 3
Views: 1652

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. ...
by walto
March 5th, 2015, 1:38 pm
Forum: The Alley
Topic: Jon Stewart
Replies: 25
Views: 11596

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.
by walto
March 5th, 2015, 4:06 am
Forum: The Alley
Topic: Jon Stewart
Replies: 25
Views: 11596

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?
by walto
March 2nd, 2015, 6:50 pm
Forum: The Alley
Topic: Retirement
Replies: 86
Views: 31967

Re: Retirement

jwaggs wrote:Pat is around ... give him a day or two.



I meant around HERE (in Mass.).
by walto
March 2nd, 2015, 1:49 pm
Forum: The Alley
Topic: Retirement
Replies: 86
Views: 31967

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...
by walto
March 1st, 2015, 6:11 pm
Forum: The Alley
Topic: Retirement
Replies: 86
Views: 31967

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...
by walto
November 25th, 2014, 3:56 am
Forum: Jazztalk Central
Topic: Favorite Jazz Group Configuration
Replies: 8
Views: 1693

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...
by walto
October 31st, 2014, 1:31 pm
Forum: Jazz News
Topic: DownBeat Announces 2014 Readers Poll Results
Replies: 5
Views: 1549

Re: DownBeat Announces 2014 Readers Poll Results

What is the average age of the winners--70? 80?
by walto
October 24th, 2014, 6:51 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Looks like extremists have come "home" to wreak havoc
Replies: 6
Views: 7888

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 ...
by walto
October 18th, 2014, 7:36 am
Forum: Jazztalk Central
Topic: Jazz Videos
Replies: 322
Views: 316550

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).

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