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Subject: Stream of Consciousness: a thread that cannot be hijacked


Date: Fri Oct 21 09:43:17 2022
User: outskirts
Message:
Epic fire today. That fire pit is big, and deep. Elements!

Date: Tue Dec 20 18:33:15 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:
In attempting to sort out a certain Christmas carol sung in a rather odd key, I asked Wikipedia about the original key for "Silent Night." What immediately struck me was (typically) not the key but the composer -- Franz Gruber. After a brief, "Wait, wait" moment, I checked out the cast of "Die Hard", the movie set during Christmas but one that stirs debate about whether it's truly a Christmas movie. Anyway, the Alan Rickman plays the head bad guy named, Hans Gruber, forever ending the debate: "Die Hard" is a Christmas movie. (Clearly I am late to this revelation, but ... whatever. https://bleedingcool.com/movies/silent-night-die-hard-hans-gruber/ )

Date: Sat Dec 24 04:29:12 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Isn't the word "modernstonic" just great! It just struck me out of the blue tonight that that's a cool word. I can imagine the discussions in the Hanna-Barbera production meetings about that song, etc. Good times. BTW, when looking for this clip, I saw one for the Flintstones movie. I knew one had been made, but had no idea that the B-52s did the music - or part of it at least.

Link: a story about a "modernstonic" family

Date: Sun Dec 25 00:19:09 2022
User: Klepp
Message:
The Great Gazoo was a favorite character of mine...after visiting the toon's site, I notice he was voiced by Harvey Korman, while I erroneously assumed for years it was actually voiced by Roddy McDowall...

Date: Sun Dec 25 00:27:11 2022
User: redberet
Message:
Modern stone-age family doesn't have the same pizzazz, but it is what it is. Fred wouldn't want it any other way.

Date: Thu Jan 26 07:49:43 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
Scoff at the battery if you'd like, but I aced the (MAT) Miller Analogies Test...albeit decades erstwhile, alas...

Date: Thu Jan 26 08:03:49 2023
User: outskirts
Message:
From the link below, this is TV's "Schneider". After spotting his name in the credits of an "Inspector" cartoon, then I recognized the voice. Harrington worked as a voice actor. He voiced "Ray Palmer/the Atom" on The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure in 1967. From 1965-69, Harrington portrayed the voices of both Inspector Jacques Clouseau and his Spanish Gendarmes sidekick Deux Deux in all of the original 34 animated episodes of The Inspector which were created by Mirisch Films and DePatie-Freleng and released via United Artists. They were later shown as part of the Pink Panther cartoon TV show. Another cartoon voice he did was that of Jon's father on A Garfield Christmas Special

Link: https://voice-actors-from-the-world.fandom.com/wiki/Pat_Harrington_Jr.

Date: Thu Feb 16 10:13:21 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:
RIP Raquel Welsh. Or, as Dick Martin called her , Rackle.

Date: Thu Feb 16 11:54:28 2023
User: mrbuck
Message:
A friend of mine sent me a link about one of her movies, Myra Breckinridge which also starred Mae West and Farah Fawcett. Truly a lineage of American sex symbols. It's also rated as one of the worst movies of all time, which may be why I never saw it. mrbuck

Link: the wiki link

Date: Sat Feb 18 07:45:48 2023
User: outskirts
Message:
Watching an Inspector cartoon right now on metv.. Deux Deux is pronounced "doo doo" ... Always cracks me up bwahahahahaaaaaa timeless 😂 I read extensively as a child because our house was chock full of all kinds of juicy reading material... Myra Breckenridge was memorable.. don't think I ever saw the movie. ❤️ Raquel ✝️

Date: Thu Apr 13 11:58:27 2023
User: redberet
Message:
I go over to the Fox news site every once in a great while to see what the other side reads. I swear it's starting to resemble National Enquirer story for story.

Date: Thu Apr 13 15:14:46 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:
It's curious that Fox New is able to carry any viewership at all considering that Rupert Murdoch revealed that nearly all the talking heads said that they constantly lie about important things. But, I guess their viewers would need to watch/read some other source of news to know that.

Date: Thu Apr 13 15:39:26 2023
User: redberet
Message:
Murdoch just might be the original alien baby. That might just well explain the overwhelming influx of pod people.

Date: Fri Apr 14 11:59:20 2023
User: MikeC
Message:
And MSNBC and CNN are paragons of truth . Yea sure . Mike

Date: Fri Apr 14 12:52:31 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:
There are huge differences, Mike. CNN and MSNBC are highly biased to the left and have become unreliable sources of objective information. Fox News, on the other hand, is populated with personalities who knowingly lie to their viewing audience to keep them watching. Murdoch named several of the most popular names on Fox News, and his comments were validated by emails and text messages directly from these people. Some people prefer the lies if the lies fall in their comfort zone, but I refuse to watch ANY televised news nor will I ever visit their online sites. The "what about..." argument is no argument at all.

Date: Fri Apr 14 13:23:52 2023
User: redberet
Message:
I hope they get taken to the cleaners. Journalism is not sensationalism.

Date: Fri Apr 14 17:45:29 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
What is this ***t?

Link: An atrocity...when will it end?

Date: Sat Apr 15 22:14:01 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:
This is how I picture some of the Freecell gang getting around...

Link: Square wheeled bicycle

Date: Sun Apr 16 12:05:20 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
I wish I had those engineering skills.

Date: Mon Apr 17 04:14:35 2023
User: sgmsgmsgm
Message:
I remember a video of a group of engineering students who built a square wheeled bicycle but went one step further and built a track to ride it on. The track was a series of inverted cycloids so that they could ride smoothly.

Date: Mon Apr 17 11:42:58 2023
User: olblue
Message:
Riding on square wheels.

Link: Square wheels.

Date: Mon Apr 17 13:09:53 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:
This time with 4 of them....

Link: Square wheels, take 4

Date: Tue Apr 18 06:37:19 2023
User: sgmsgmsgm
Message:
OK, so it was an inverted Catenary. I stand corrected.

Date: Tue Apr 18 10:50:13 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:
As we've always heard "Don't try (or "need") to re-invent the wheel". 🙃

Date: Tue Apr 18 14:25:36 2023
User: redberet
Message:
Early trapezoid wheel

Date: Tue Apr 18 21:44:00 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
Seems to me if one wanted to screw the staff over after riding the lightning, one would constipate oneself as much as possible days prior, while enjoying great amounts of water and (snuck-in, if need be) ExLax just prior (as very last consumption). I understand steps are taken to ameliorate such yuckiness, but with effort I suspect one could make the clean-up waaaay nastier than normal.

Link: Last Right: Massive 29,000-calorie Death Row Meal

Date: Wed Apr 19 00:07:10 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:
$787 million is more than I have in my underwear drawer. Probably more than Rupert has hidden in his bra. "Telling the truth — the whole truth — is, at times, practically and theoretically impossible as well as morally not required or even wrong." But, it can save you a lot of cash.

Date: Wed Apr 19 01:01:16 2023
User: redberet
Message:
Whatever good name Dominion might have possessed is now prefaced with a dollar sign.

Date: Sat Apr 22 02:01:55 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:
This is pretty cool......

Link: One more cause of bees going away....🧐

Date: Sat Apr 22 10:36:43 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:
That’s the way I eat porcupines.

Date: Sat Apr 22 12:12:16 2023
User: outskirts
Message:
Random memory: had a gf who loved to flash road workers (prisoners) as we drove by, and throw them joints. Oh, she was the bride in that other memory. Happy Earth Day

Date: Sun May 7 10:18:02 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:
This post probably belongs in one of the music threads, maybe "Interesting New Music," but the music itself is not all that interesting to me. The surrounding story and the musical process is fascinating. Some of you may be aware of the Ed Sheeran civil legal case in which he was sued by the family/estate of Marvin Gaye claiming the Sheeran lifted content of "Thinking Out Loud" from Gaye's "Let's Get It On". Sheeran and his lawyers demonstrated that the similarities between the songs was limited to a four chord progression that had been used in pop music long before Gaye's "Let's Get It On." The argument convinced the jury who dismissed the $100 million claim. The plaintiff's had won an earlier case for $5 million against another artist. A link to the story is below. If you are unaware of Ed Sheeran (and I only know him through my kids and their partners), he is a wildly popular British performer. Sales of his music set a lot of records. I saw Sheeran perform after an F1 race last year. I took my son and grandson to the race (they are F1 fanatics; I am not), and we spent the day baking in the sun watching noisy blurs of expensive cars blow past us. The estimated attendance that day was about 200,000. After the race, roughly 2/3 of the crowd slowly migrated to the performance venue to watch Sheeran. My son was adamant about seeing him simply because he is a true phenomenon. So we did. During the concert, I recognized a couple of his songs (they get played at weddings a lot) but I was most fascinated by his performance. He is the king the electronic loops. He was alone on stage with a guitar, and maybe some electronic gear (we were 100 yards away, so we relied on the gigantic video screens to watch). He explained to the crowd that he was often accused by uninitiated concert attendees that he does not lip sync or use prerecorded music for his performance. As he begins each song, he takes about 30 second to set up a series loops (vocal, guitar, some electronic stuff) that he builds into the full sound; he brings them in and fades them out as he sings. The dude is really, really talented, and his song productions on stage are incredible considering is up there alone. But, this approach is not for everyone. His concerts are "musical entertainment" and a huge departure from raw, stripped down acoustic performances.

Link: Sheeran wins lawsuit

Date: Mon May 8 04:15:09 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:
I have seen multiple talented performers do that back thru the years in the past, to good effect - it just takes so long to 'set them up'. But at least it's not overdubbing from prerecorded. I would have to go back thru my concert list to see if I can remember which ones have done that. Seems like Tim Weisberg did that, but don't quote me. I've probably seen it done maybe 7-10(??) times. Wouldn't want to see the Dead, Stones, Buddy Guy, (or any bluegrass or old-time band), etc. do it, but at least it's 'legitimate'. At least imho. Doc "wouldn'tna done it thataway". LOL. I remember the first time I saw Kansas. It seemed like just too much music to be coming directly from the guys on stage - but it wasn't. And there have been other examples of that, of course. As most know, these lawsuits come up every few(?) years, and in my experience, it's really hard to tell sometimes. The fact that they could show earlier extensive use of the chord progression obviously was key. When these suits come up, I'm often reminded of whoever it was that said "everything worth inventing already has been" (paraphrased, from about 100 (more or less) years ago), as just how many 4-chord progressions can physically exist? And yet musicians continually churn out new, innovative stuff (not counting electronica). Another old saw is that "there's nothing new under the sun" (King Solomon??) - which may seem that way at times, but in music it's definitely not true. One (to some extent) friend of mine who does this live in his shows in Keith Kenny. He mostly plays small-ish places, but sometimes will open for someone bigger. Travels virtually non-stop. This is just one video I quickly picked at random. (I suspect there are more interesting ones. Likely ones showing him laying down the loops.) He may set up as many as 3 or 4 loops, before filling in the rest of the stuff live. He's *very* entertaining, and could give James Brown a run for "hardest working man in show business". And yet his persona is calm, warm, and extremely friendly off-stage. He'll send out non-intrusive emails to you telling you when he's gonna be in your area if you want. Worthwhile if he's in your neighborhood. REALLY nice, intelligent guy. This is (obviously) a cover, but he does a fair amount of originals, too. Depending on one's "selection" criteria............maybe worth traveling 20-30-50 miles for (to a nice listening room-type venue), but maybe not 100. (And I *hate* putting something like that, but I think you all know what I mean. Gotta draw the line somewhere.) Should be very inexpensive - or at last knowledge, he was.

Link: Keith Kenny puts down layers

Date: Mon May 8 09:10:18 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:
I will keep an eye out for Keith Kenny. In that video you posted, he was playing in my favorite style and size of venue. The first person I saw do the "one person show" approach to a concert was KT Tunstall. Her setting up the songs was a bit distracting, not unlike tuning an instrument between every number. It sounded great eventually. Sheeran did a deliberate demo for the audience, but the rest of the time he simply integrated the loop creation into the playing of the song. Seamless. I am NOT a fan of pre-recorded instruments or voices just showing up. Caroline Polachek did that a bit. Clairo had an important piano bridge emerge out of nowhere during a live performance of one of her songs; she recently announced that she has learned to play keyboards and will now be touring with one. There is an entire indie genre dedicate to building loops in every song: shoegaze. So named because the artists (usually on guitar) spend much of their time staring at their feet as they create, bring in, fade out, and erase dozens of loops. I saw an opener for a big name do that. Meh. Of course, there are the rare talents who can sit in a chair playing one guitar and make it sound like two. No pedals required.

Date: Mon May 8 13:30:20 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:
"Shoegaze". 🤣🙄 Hadn't heard that but dearly love it! 🥸👞👞

Date: Tue May 9 07:30:08 2023
User: mrbuck
Message:
Buzz, Robert Johnson is often recognized as the first person to be able to play guitar in that fashion. There are probably others before him but he may have been the first to be recorded playing that way, hence the distinction. I remember hearing him play like that on his album The Complete Recordings and was blown away. It's sad that he acquired that skill from the Devil at the Crossroads. mrbuck

Date: Tue May 9 13:38:24 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:
This guy seems to play okay.

Link: Sonny flying solo

Date: Tue May 9 22:46:55 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:
This is passable.

Link: Leo, “Sleepwalk - Jack Fig”

Date: Wed May 10 03:38:05 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Leo's Bob Dylan story.

Link: Who?

Date: Thu May 11 02:14:25 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
How does it make any sense to keep top offensive players on the ice with two minutes remaining in the game and a THREE goal lead? Dreiseitel getting slashed there late could have been awful for EDM. A three goal lead with under five minutes remaining begs for a line of good defenders to close out the game, no? Keeping your offensive weapons healthy for next game? Or are these hockey coaches just that fugging stupid?

Date: Sun May 14 01:24:25 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
The New York Jets will go 8-9 this season (albeit have fun doing so). (Rodgers' mobility is nothing at all like it was back in glory days (SBXLV), and the arm is NOWHERE NEAR as accurate). I predict a QBR<85 for him this coming season (very possibly not at all >Love's).

Date: Sun May 14 10:09:11 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:
I see the Jets as a 7-10 team. Their conference schedule is brutal. Rodgers will spend the season nursing injuries and questioning his decisions.

Date: Tue May 16 23:54:57 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
I wish I were back at the U.

Link: Uh-oh

Date: Wed May 17 18:16:34 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
Lack of order forces these types of responses.

Link: B.G

Date: Sat May 20 05:42:47 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:
One *more*(?) step further(?) with the bicycle wheels? So now why not a pentagon, hexagon, etc.?

Link: No, not really a "tricycle"

Date: Sat May 20 06:35:14 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:
Or increase the number of sides to the upper limit…

Date: Sat May 20 10:40:53 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Sounds, mathematically, like "circling the square". 😉

Date: Tue May 30 08:24:41 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
WHOA! This Natalia Grace individual sounds exceedingly interesting (thankfully viewed solely vicariously).

Date: Thu Jun 1 15:54:54 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Who knew?

Link: swearing is a sign of intelligence??

Date: Fri Jun 2 04:36:31 2023
User: Klepp
Message:
I'm [expletive] eagerly awaiting the Iran nuclear program's accidental self-detonation...hopefully a gas for all to see online, soon.


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