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Post by t-bob on Dec 5, 2021 3:52:04 GMT -5
Don,
I enjoyed lived at Bob's House in iJam2016. And I remember chatting all the time in a couple bars in Vinton. Almost 20 years. Gracias.....
I hope you are reading all the thoughts for friendship.
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Post by t-bob on Dec 3, 2021 22:45:52 GMT -5
I have 3 guitars for sale. Next will be amps and electrics. Saving money for a second bathroom, exterior Paint, kitchen floor, and some dual pane windows.I got 100k in the budget. Hoping to get it done for 80k. I enjoyed your house. "Great bones" I'm not sure why you need another bath. Do you always keep the seat open and too dribbling liquid? I guess your wife is pissed off. Darie needs a new bath for her - solo Anyway you sound to be very happy about your new/old house. If you have any money left, you have my number & my address.... or my Zelle application. Just take some of your little quarters and bills and send it to my apartment. Peace
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Post by t-bob on Dec 3, 2021 18:35:35 GMT -5
That's what I waited for the WWII series. The tiny TV black/white. (Dumont with record player)
VICTORY AT SEA
imdb.com
Bringing The Great Second World War Home and into the 1950's Living Rooms to the Veterans and their Families,Who were too Young to Remember its Occurrence.
GLORIFYING not GLAMORIZING World War II.
We've had quite a few documentary series about World War II on the regular Television programming. Without looking up any information in some encyclopedia or film book, it seems that this old memory can recollect most names entirely on it's own.
There was CRUSADE IN EUROPE,which was the title of the war memoirs of one General of the Army and later the 33rd President of the United States of America, Dwight D. Eisenhower. It told the story of the conflict in Europe as viewed by the Supreme Allied Commander.
Then there was a CRUSADE IN THE PACIFIC(subject matter self-explanatory),which I don't remember much about. Newspaper Man/Author, Jim Bishop was the host/navigator of BATTLELINE.
And there was the excellent WINSTON CHURCHILL, THE VALIANT YEARS.* The Series was a co-production of the British Broadcasting Corporation and the American Broadcasting Company. It first aired in 1960-61 season here in The States and boasts of having Richard Burton's speaking the words of Sir Winston.
It is the 1952 NBC Television Network's Production of our subject matter today, this VICTORY AT SEA that wins the cigar, hands down.
To begin with, this had to have taken the production several years of carefully and literally sorting through thousands of hours of film. The movie footage referred to here was the official filmed record taken by members of the Armed Forces of the United States, independent newsreel film, Motion Picture Record of our other Allied Partner Nations,as well as captured Axis pictures from Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan.
Once that was accomplished, the various corresponding film had to be cut and edited into a series of 1/2 hour installments. This was done with great skill, being that there were so many scene changes, whether done abruptly or as a dissolve. The look of ever episode appears as smooth as if it had been a single motion picture project.
The writing of the Spoken Word to accompany this finest of real life film was no less amazing and unique. The highly polished and meaningful eloquence wastes not a word and at times even understates the description of action, rather than exaggerating it. The narration goes to Mr. Ralph Graves, who was a talented Actor of Stage, Film, Radio and Television. He certainly gained a measure of immortality by way of his golden toned voicing of the written episode descriptions.
Lastly, VICTORY AT SEA enjoys the luxury of having an original score, both opening theme and incidental music, penned by Richard Rodgers of Broadway fame.(Rodgers & Hart, Rodgers & Hammerstein) His compositions are intricate, full, variable and even "classic" in the true sense.
The Classical Arrangement was played by the NBC Sympphony Orchestra under the Direction of Robert Russell Bennett and as a soundtrack record/cassette tape/compact disk, it has been continually available and in demand ever since its first release, 55 years ago! And, really small wonder, for it is this musical score that is so mesmerizing to the viewer/listener. It truly puts the frosting on this cake.
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Post by t-bob on Dec 3, 2021 17:39:09 GMT -5
I liked the reels before the Film on RKO theatre..... early 1950s.... and the rockettes
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Post by t-bob on Dec 3, 2021 17:27:22 GMT -5
I wrote this old Haiku poem and the brief sentence - 2014
Windy rainy day Errands and Volunteering Tangle ornaments
But don’t antagonize the crazy person
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Post by t-bob on Dec 3, 2021 12:23:41 GMT -5
Call ee cummings
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Post by t-bob on Dec 2, 2021 17:44:06 GMT -5
Another remake.... we'll see what happens The first 1957 West Side Story "There was a magical, once-in-a-lifetime quality in that initial collaboration: Leonard Bernstein's heart-piercingly beautiful music, Stephen Sondheim's trenchant yet romantic lyrics, Arthur Laurents's book and Jerome Robbins' classically-inspired choreography" by BBC
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Post by t-bob on Dec 2, 2021 13:39:16 GMT -5
I'm looking forward to this. In the trailer, Cumberbatch had me briefly thinking of Daniel Day Lewis. I might be setting the bar a bit high. I just thought about it for today. It did seem like Daniel Day Lewis. It hadn't any gunfights violence. But there was a lot emotional violence.
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Post by t-bob on Dec 2, 2021 3:08:41 GMT -5
I decided to watch it and it got so bleak, depression. It looks like Montana ..... but it's really New Zealand. I had to do something else with a break and then come back it.
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Post by t-bob on Dec 2, 2021 1:38:01 GMT -5
"Slow-burning psychodrama about two warring brothers on a ranch in 1920s Montana is one of the director’s best
Jane Campion’s first feature film in more than 10 years is a western gothic psychodrama: mysterious, malicious, with a lethal ending that creeps up behind you like a thief. Campion devotees will enjoy the scenes in which a large piano is carried into an uncivilised wilderness; eight philistine cowboys are required to heave this into the ranch-owner’s parlour, the culture totem in the desert. And it is on this that the new lady of the house, played by Kirsten Dunst, attempts to master Strauss’s Radetzky March, while her jeeringly malign new brother-in-law (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) deliberately puts her off by playing it as well on his banjo – thus disconcertingly revealing that for all his rough ways he is actually rather more talented musically than she is. It’s the most menacing five-string banjo picking since Deliverance.
The setting is 1920s Montana, where two brothers run a profitable ranch: charismatic but boorish Phil Burbank (Cumberbatch) and George (Jesse Plemons), who affects a fancier style of clothing and millinery than sweaty Phil and aspires to the high social standing of his elderly parents who evidently staked them in the business. Phil, an instinctive bully, calls his brother “fatso”, encourages his men to mock him, and is obsessed with the fact that George is parasitically reliant on Phil’s tough competence, which he learned from a charismatic rancher called ‘Bronco’ Henry that he once idolised and who taught him the trade. But lonely, dysfunctional Phil is in fact emotionally reliant on his quiet, dignified brother and these grown men share a bedroom in their big house like kids.
So Phil is outraged when George marries a widow from the town: this is Rose (an excellent performance from Dunst), a former cinema piano-player now running a cafe, with a sensitive teenage son called Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who waits tables for which he creates intricate paper flowers, to much sneering homophobic abuse from Phil. And yet Phil is oddly transfixed by Peter’s delicate papery fronds, a visual echo with the strips of rawhide from which he later makes a menacing rope. Once Rose moves into the home, Phil makes it his business to harass and abuse her, as she descends into depression and alcoholism, but then appears to take a strange fatherly interest in Peter himself, offering to teach him to ride and take him out into the remote hills to school him in the rancher ways, just as ‘Bronco’ once apparently did to him.
Campion has adapted a 1967 novel by Thomas Savage, much admired by E Annie Proulx, and she has created something over which an air of tragedy, dysfunction and horror hangs. It is like something from Ibsen, especially in the excruciating scene in which George invites his parents and their political friends over for a formal black-tie dinner, and poor, miserable Rose is psychologically unable to play the piano for them. Occasionally, it is even a little like George Stevens’s Giant from 1956 (and maybe if things had been different the Peter role might have interested James Dean) – but Smit-McPhee brings something inscrutably complex and reserved to his character’s behaviour, an opaque quality which after the big reveal delivers a retrospective mule-kick of significance. The audience has to piece together its meaning after the closing credits, going right back to the opening narrative voiceover.
Campion is great at furnishing her movie with queasy touches: poor Rose stumbles into the kitchen to talk to the cook Mrs Lewis (Geneviève Lemon) and maid Lola (Thomasin McKenzie) and gets regaled with weird gossip and urban myths, including one about a dead woman, whose hair continued to grow after her death, filling the coffin. You can almost feel Rose’s frisson of fear and fellow-feeling, imagining herself to be like this woman right now. The Power of the Dog is a made with artistry and command: it is one of Jane Campion’s best."
The Guardian
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Post by t-bob on Dec 1, 2021 23:31:02 GMT -5
Some password recovery systems ask you to create 3 security questions that you provide answers to. In the event you ask for a password reset they may ask you to verify the answers to the questions. I've seen: What was your first car? ...name of your first grade teacher? ...oldest sibling's first name? ...name of the street you grew up on? ...skip the bullshit, what's your password? I have this 5 security questions in my bank. It keeps me so I don't get any hackers. ... skip the bullshit, what's your password
The last one was security Q - who did you listen rock/roll band
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Post by t-bob on Dec 1, 2021 19:15:19 GMT -5
Maybe it's almost a half butter (I ate a stick butter solo - when I was a kid) and I dislike brussel sprouts (I ate one - loooong time).
My vegetable was asparagus - I can smell that aroma in the bowl.
I've been loving lamb for a long time - ribs, chops, roast, ground.
Also I loved wool and cashmere sweaters - that's a little different story
BAAAAAA - good trails
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Post by t-bob on Dec 1, 2021 13:42:41 GMT -5
I certainly loved it. I never taste any of it. And I'll probably do it another time.
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Post by t-bob on Dec 1, 2021 11:32:13 GMT -5
I didn't know about this one.... my restorative :-)
A family of Mediterranean sauces and soups made with egg and lemon juice mixed with broth. Avgolemono or egg-lemon, is a family of Mediterranean sauces and soups made with egg and lemon juice mixed with broth, heated until they thicken. In Arabic, it is called tarbiya or beida bi-lemoune 'egg with lemon'; and in Turkish terbiye. In Sephardic Jewish cuisine, it is called agristada or salsa blanco, and in Italian cuisine, bagna brusca, brodettato, or brodo brusco. It is also widely used in Balkan cuisine.
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Post by t-bob on Nov 30, 2021 23:37:03 GMT -5
A beautiful repast. Pictures - after & before Rare Lamb Chops, baked potato, asparagus Half pound butter, garlic, mint sauce, jellied mint.
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Post by t-bob on Nov 30, 2021 21:35:44 GMT -5
I went to the Air And Space Museum There was nothing there. I went to another "Space and Air" and also in Huntsville. A assistant visitor/ volunteer was talking so fast and I thought he had marble balls in his mouth. I couldn't hear anything. I needed to have a translator... then I found it was just the dialect Alammmmanda. I couldn't even understand their name. I found out he was Leroy - he had six brothers and they were all Leroys. That explained it...... They were cool stuff like rocket planes and shit.... Von Braun worked nuclucar - a genius
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Post by t-bob on Nov 30, 2021 13:35:10 GMT -5
Figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently used in a humorous situation. Paraprosdokian A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists. Some paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but they also play on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a form of syllepsis. Paraprosdokian A paraprosdokian () is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists such as Groucho Marx.
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Post by t-bob on Nov 29, 2021 14:17:48 GMT -5
There’s Nothing Else Like It
"If you’ve had a Netflix account for a long time, you probably remember the days when Netflix originals really sucked. However, those days are officially a thing of the past and shows like Maid are proof. The new mini-series stars Margaret Qualley as Alex Russell, a young single mother who is doing her best to build a better life for her daughter. Unfortunately, however, she repeatedly encounters obstacles that make it nearly impossible for her to make progress. Through it all, however, she somehow manages to maintain an optimistic outlook on life. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s definitely a look." IMDB.COM
Also check out the Guardian Magazine. ;-)
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Post by t-bob on Nov 29, 2021 12:31:00 GMT -5
my musical monday and another hurdle .... ahem
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Sunday
Nov 28, 2021 12:08:43 GMT -5
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Post by t-bob on Nov 28, 2021 12:08:43 GMT -5
Good morning We move into Chanukah and Christmas now and this will be another strange year - with people more and more frantic and supply chains more and more stretched. I am glad I don’t give holiday presents to one’s another. . Better to sit and watch the leaves fall and listen to them skitter across the pavement when the wind blows than to go shopping.
Also I saw a really cool series MAID in Netflix !! Possibly a review
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