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July 27, 2025
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An unusually good performance of Gottes Zeit BWV106. No virbrato, you can occasionally hear the theorbo and not just see it, unusually large male singing alto. I don't know why he's not listed as a countertenor but maybe he's listed after the part.
Sid Caesar Grieg Piano Concerto mime.
Sid Caesar Imogene Coca classical percussionists.
Dudley Moore Colonel Bogey March as Beethoven wrote it.
A lot of classical erudition among public performers in the 50s and 60s on public airwaves.
The Big Amish, Nick Kurtz, hit 4 HR’s and had six hits last week. Rookie.
I'm not a fan of Bach on the guitar except for your own private amusement as a guitarist but guys will like Tatyana Ryzhkova BWV 1003.
The problem is that they're difficult on the guitar and you always hear mostly the difficulty. It doesn't bother you if you're playing it but for listening it's no good.
Back when I was taking long overnight international flights, I had one of those big clunky iPods, wiht a 60 GB drive - that was big, back then. I had all of Bach's collected works for the lute, and more - a lot of Sylvius Leopold Weiss, too. I would pull it up, put on the noise-cancelling Bose headphones, and the hours would fly by. Plus, I would arrive feeling reasonably rested. It made a huge difference.
This is hilarious.
These women are clinging to the hope that they woke up on Nov. 6th in an alternate universe where Trump won. If only they could get back to the real universe.
And it's scientific! Many Worlds hypothesis.
You're not a physics-denier, are you?
I always found the Bach lute suites unlistenable, and I played the lute. As far as I know, the top lute players (Julian Bream e.g.) never played them, I assume because they're too unmusical on the lute. The difficulty problem.
Per Original Mike--I get a lot of YT offerings about experiments that suggest (and may 'prove') we are in a simulation. That sort of thing always makes me think of how pleasant it would be to spill a big cup or carafe of hot coffee on a person who tells me that we may be living in a simulation.
rhhardin--the notes list the alto in the Bach as Alex Potter.
Dudley Moore was a genius, and knew his music; the others are clever but he was amazing.
For a long time, I associated the Colonel Bogey March with the Maltomeal commercial and didn't realize it was an actual military march. We sang the Maltomeal lyrics in JROTC. Good times.
We only usually hear the main theme, of course, but the whole piece is great.
I didn't mention the famous movie because I didn't see the thing until I was in my 30s. I ate the war movies up, but I didn't think of Bridge as a war movie, and it bored me so I didn't pay it much mind.
Dave Begley noticed: "The Big Amish, Nick Kurtz, hit 4 HR’s ..."
Did you watch them all? I don't get it? 3 of the pitches were hanging curves over the right side of the plate, all homes hit to the same area of the bleachers (like, within 10 seats left or right.) The other one was a fastball straight into the pocket for an easy dinger.
Now the question is: Are there managers in baseball any more? What manager allows his pitcher to throw the fourth hanging curve to the Amish Butter Churner and still have a job?
The entire league is rigged thanks to sports betting now. They looked at Big Amish's "influencer" number and decided to create some free publicity for a dying sport.
I joined recent aplause for defunding of PBS and NPR - BUT - I'm wondering...
Who's the actual owner of these enterprises? They are a brand and one with valuable name recognition.
Who owns the broadcast licenses?
Who owns the assets (real property and equipment)?
Will these entities pay taxes or will they be "non profit"?
Is government still providing a lot of valuable support to these organizations and why?
Just curious.
FLC
“ Trends early in the 2025 Major League Baseball season indicate a third consecutive annual attendance increase, even as two clubs play in ballparks designed for Spring Training and Minor League Baseball.”
So NKP is a Big Bird Hater who never had a child glued to the TV watching good time television, enjoying every minute while learning provided skills which improved reading, math and communications.
PBS sells memberships, provides series of lectures and seminars headed by learned specialists, and it accepts donations from businesses and individuals. Kids programs and camps get much attention.
Government financing made possible the free programming shown on network TV and broadcast over public radio. Hopefully private operations now providing network programs will band together to keep PBS afloat. Expect PBS Charity to become a big advertiser inorder to supplant government dollars.
And if you didn't know, when nonprofits wander into taxible endeavors, they are required to file returns and pay taxes on that income.
@gadfly: "So NKP is a Big Bird Hater who never had a child glued to the TV watching good time television, enjoying every minute while learning provided skills which improved reading, math and communications."
I want data on the social and academic benefits of Sesame Street vs. entertainment cartoons vs. schoolroom instruction. Big Bird and friends may keep very small children entertained, but I found them to be boring and non-educational when I was a child back in the day. I found them to be pathetically simplistic when I got older (i.e., a kid's version of a repetitious Soap Opera).
If a program is produced by weak DEI staff, its quality can only reach the potential of a DEI adult. Once a child can read, watching puppets and people in costumes is vastly inferior for education than actually reading, writing, and completing math problems.
Why is it that all the little Asian children who receive additional classroom teaching do so well in school? Could it be that their parents don't set them down to passively watch Big Bird and Oscar? They execute genuine educational tasks.
Hey Botfly, "Big Bird" is a brand name for Sesame Street, which runs first run episodes on Netflix as of this year, and prior to that on HBO since 2016. If your concern for PBS funding is to protect Sesame Street; that ship sailed (sold out even) a decade ago.
The average IQ of college graduates fell 20 points over a couple decades.
Option 1: They are more liberal.
Option 2: What demographic now dominates colleges? Don't say it out loud...
Option 3: The transfer portal means college athletics is no longer about academics and is simply a trade school for professional sports.
Killing David Mamet
PM Pudge Starmer - with his fat fawn in the headlights persona - has a snowball’s chance in Hell of righting the absolute mess that Great Britain has evolved into.
What a disgusting shitshow the Labour Party puts on every single hour of every single day.
Mamdani is starting to look like America's (or at least New York's) Idi Amin. A thin and neat Idi, but Idi nonetheless.
The point wasn't to kill off NPR or PBS, but to get its hand out of your pocket and off your wallet. Of course, most of the stations will continue operating, and even get some money from local governments (until you stop that), but at least it's out of the federal budget.
John Williams' recordings of the Bach lute suites and other music on guitar have been among my favorites for 50 years. Transcendent, not just impressively virtuosic. Wore out the vinyl, then bought the same recordings on CD. Harking back to the earlier post on AI, digital reproductions (pressings, for lack of a better word) of originally analog recordings are more than "good enough" for me, though my hearing is not what it once was.
Am I the only one who thinks Imogene Coca was hot?
Sporting news about the "Commander in Cheat". While playing at his new Scottish golf course, Trump lost his ball and not surprisingly, his caddy was witniessed dropping another one without a penalty or a determination as to where the new ball should be placed.
“ The point wasn't to kill off NPR or PBS, but to get its hand out of your pocket and off your wallet”
In my opinion NPR/PBS employees got off on its special government approved status and they thought they were cooler than everyone else due to a quasi government status. The funding cut was a massive hit to their huge ego. Now they are not the officially approved government superjuornalists.
"Am I the only one who thinks Imogene Coca was hot?" I don't know, but you're one of a few who will admit it, probably.
What I hear from Bach on guitar is which notes are open strings, when the same note is repeated on a different string with a hand shift, etc., which are all non-musical events. They're perfectly fine if you're doing the playing because you're just noodling around after all, but musically they're faults.
Guitar is most at home with Spanish music (remains musical) e.g. Rodrigo or English lute music Dowland
Lutes are guitars with the G string turned down to F#. In fact I adopted that tuning for my guitar.
Am I the only one who thinks Imogene Coca was hot?
Imogene Coca modest stripper 1949
@Mrs X: "In this case, playwright Mathilde Dratwa gets a fawning profile in The Hollywood Reporter....."
A name straight from an Ayn Rand novel, and a story to match: Fawning reviews for a play that came and went with a single unmemorable performance. Bravissimo.
My Gen X exposure to Imogene Coca was the Brady Bunch episode in which she played the long-lost great aunt who did a lot of name dropping.
Pole dancing was not an option with that overcoat.
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