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Post by t-bob on Jan 21, 2022 19:45:52 GMT -5
I bought a old beat up 1955? Gibson hog LG0 or LG(?) in Yellow Springs OH pawnshop - $5. Somebody had painted it flat black. I made into a seven guitar. I put a little tiny high G string near the normal G. I drilled the tuning - back headstock. If you play it.... it would sound a little bit like a 12....
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Post by t-bob on Jan 21, 2022 12:21:58 GMT -5
I woke up. I woke up. I'm pretty sure it's a good day but I haven't opened the blinds yet. It's been broken for a month anyway. The maintenance man will fix it. Hey I checked it out on the Internet there's some haze - 48 degrees. Fairfax, CA
My hands are still cold..... it might side-effects in my bloodstream - old medicine
And my heater doesn't work very well. It works in the day ... not in the night.....
I'm not sure what I'm going to do........ It'll be something. A little bit food and liquid.
Obviously the music is still on. Dana Cunningham
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Post by t-bob on Jan 19, 2022 22:21:05 GMT -5
I'm in a very rural/suburban area. Fairfix, Northern California. I see right near my apartment in bears, coyotes, bobcats, wolves, salmon, large birds, commies, pinkos, snakes, lawyers, sheep, goats, there's a lot where I live. There's a lot of interesting stories - animals, humanity. There's a lot of Asian restaurants near my neighborhood - I never know eat pork, chicken or cat
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Post by t-bob on Jan 19, 2022 17:42:12 GMT -5
That's why "I put that there because I liked it"........tbob
"Whimsy is as delicate as a butterfly wing. But "The Man in the Hat" sustains a whimsical tone beautifully throughout its brief running time, perhaps because co-writers/directors John-Paul Davidson and Stephen Warbeck add a touch of melancholy to keep it from becoming too cloying or cutesy. Somewhere between a dream and a fable, this is the kind of film viewers could debate for hours, pondering the meaning of the characters who keep reappearing, the mysterious framed photo, the central character who has only two lines of dialogue if you do not include an imitation of car engine noises.
None of the characters have names, only descriptions. Ciarán Hinds plays the title character, with an endless variety of lugubrious facial expressions, and we will just call him Hat. We first see Hat sitting alone at an outdoor cafe, looking gloomy. On the table beside him is a newspaper and a framed photograph of a woman, described later in the film as "beautiful but sad." He is there for hours, and we get the feeling he may be stuck. But five bald men get out of a Citroën Dyane and dump into the river a wrapped and taped up object about the size and shape of a dead body. The Citroën Dyane men spot Hat, who quickly decides he had better be where they are not. As they approach him menacingly, a group of nuns walk between them and by the time they are gone, Hat is, too. He drives off in his Fiat 500, the framed photo on the passenger seat behind him. The Citroën follows him, but he manages to get the Fiat onto a ferry, leaving them behind.
On the ferry is a woman in a red dress, who reappears several times along the way, looking at Hat with, what? Interest? Encouragement? Portent? The rest of the story is Hat's journey, and his mostly-wordless encounters with an assortment of characters along the way. He rescues a dog adrift in a boat and a handsome man dressed all in white stranded by a car that has broken down. He overhears stories, one about a husband who faked his own death with the help of law enforcement, told by the wife, who then took up with his twin brother. Ah, we may think. It's about dualities! That could explain the reappearances of several characters, including The Damp Man (Stephen Dillane) and a couple who are constantly holding up measuring tape to whatever is around them. Not to mention the bald men in the Citroën, who keep pursuing him. Or are they?
Another story Hat overhears is about an old man stuck in the mud, though it may have been a dream. We hear the classic French children's song about the ship that never sails. And we see a comically failed suicide attempt by The Damp Man. There is that framed photo of the woman, which has a surprising use near the end of the film, a chess match at a border checkpoint, and a surprisingly dark speech by a local official at a town festival, including a reference to "the abyss of oblivion." Oh, we may think. It's about grief! But then there is a whimsical solution to the problem of sauce dripped onto a shirt that is reminiscent of Jacques Tati, whose influence is felt throughout the film, with intricate, Rube Goldberg-like bits of comedy and bursts of pure, delightful absurdity.
Is it about death? Loss? Life? To debate it would be if not unfair, impolite to this gentle story. Much better to just go along for the ride and relish the lush French countryside, the luscious food, the lovely music, and to think of "The Man in the Hat" as in the title of the Baudelaire poem quoted in the film, an "Invitation to Travel."
A writer (clone or chimp) wrote this review.....Roger Ebert.com .....J. Minow
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Post by t-bob on Jan 19, 2022 15:23:38 GMT -5
I recommend Gervais' movie 'Cemetery Junction', and I REALLY recommend the original 'The Office'. I love British humor..... I seen a lot of PBS sitcoms - Laurie, Python, etc. Some of it can be too much.....Benny Hill. It was really funny but I don't think I see second time. There was a lot of humor in the 50s 60s 70s and 80s..... got a little differently in the 2000s - USA's TV
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Post by t-bob on Jan 19, 2022 12:44:18 GMT -5
I just woke up to have some great music.....chopin and more piano
I'm dealing with some language problems. Some of my disorder/aphasia..... another person's language - "wetbrain"
I need to do some food and some liquid
Adios
Enjoy your day.....ditto
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Post by t-bob on Jan 18, 2022 23:04:06 GMT -5
$4.16 ARCO in Mill Valley Marin County CA
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Post by t-bob on Jan 18, 2022 20:04:08 GMT -5
I listened a few songs. Great guitar. Maybe it was just one mic because it was hard to hear the words - an echo? Or it was my tiny iPhone? I said it’s still a good blues pieces.
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Post by t-bob on Jan 18, 2022 18:26:48 GMT -5
BETA PHASE Distribution Covid
There's in a lot of BETA definitions
noun a trial of machinery, software, or other products, in the final stages of its development, carried out by a party unconnected with its development. verb subject (a product) to a beta test. "the system was still being beta-tested for practical music applications"
I also have a beta device - CaptionCall for low hearing or almost DEAF
(beta testing) In health care, assessment of a product (e.g., software) in the manner it will, in fact, be used in clinical practice, so as to discover and remove any difficulties before such product is put onto the general market.
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Post by t-bob on Jan 18, 2022 15:46:01 GMT -5
"That's not what I wrote."
I don't understand what you said (wrote)........?
So send it another differently.
I'm really trying to get better with communication
Almost people really loves JerryS especially in New York and especially Jewish people as well.... it was an assumption
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Post by t-bob on Jan 18, 2022 15:05:50 GMT -5
[...] I guess you don't like the British humor and the culture. I love the Brit humourGo back to Jerry Seinfeld.... ![:D](//storage2.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) You guess wrong.
I never cared for Jerry Seinfeld in the first place, so there's no way I can "go back." It's obvious you don't have a clue about who I really am.
Actually I know who you are. I talked with us in the 2016 ijam a long time. I enjoyed your song. We talked a little bit.... We were talking about your life. .... You do have humor..... also. I know about your life just a little bit. Almost everybody changed just a little bit....... I made a mistake you don't like it Jerry S. OOPS. I didn't like Jerry S either.... Almost people really loves JerryS especially in New York and especially Jewish people as well.... it was an assumption But you didn't like Ricky's pop culture........
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Post by t-bob on Jan 18, 2022 13:55:27 GMT -5
I can't get past Gervais' off-putting personality to appreciate the talent he may have. YMMV. I just don't understand pop culture anymore. Popular culture is the set of practices, beliefs, and objects that embody the most broadly shared meanings of a social system. It includes media objects, entertainment and leisure, fashion and trends, and linguistic conventions, among other things I guess you don't like the British humor and the culture. I love the Brit humourGo back to Jerry Seinfeld.... ![:D](//storage2.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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Post by t-bob on Jan 18, 2022 13:07:37 GMT -5
Just awake. I will play some piano - Chopin. Probably not guitar. I'm kind of tired of this clique/group..... I'm not really here. I'll go find another one group.
I still like almost few souls. You probably know who you are.....;-)
I'm not sure what to say - I like where I listen here - the forum. I like a few people and few very picky small-minds people.... Some of it's been the pandemic..... A lot of people has been very flexible and then got rigid/strict.
I have to find some other people ..... I'll find some of the old group.
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Post by t-bob on Jan 17, 2022 22:55:28 GMT -5
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Post by t-bob on Jan 17, 2022 15:42:03 GMT -5
I've seen reinforcements.......
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Post by t-bob on Jan 17, 2022 14:29:55 GMT -5
I think I'm stopping working..... I'm not sure. I've stopped some medical. I have side-effects - Zoloft. I only have one relaxing drug. It doesn't get me high or a wreck.
Another California day probably 55° no rain.....
Enjoy your day wherever it is.....
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Post by t-bob on Jan 17, 2022 14:10:00 GMT -5
Sorta figured that post wasn't written by Bob. Didn't have his meandering style. I didn't have the quotes and name...... I didn't find it. There's a reason that I put this because it's a beautiful film - weird and wacky humor - and romance
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Post by t-bob on Jan 17, 2022 11:29:09 GMT -5
My old friend has wrote the thoughtful words. 🤷♂️
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Post by t-bob on Jan 17, 2022 3:43:14 GMT -5
.... a closer look.
Where does your attention go when you are not consciously directly it? What do you think about when you’re waiting for the bus, standing in the grocery line, or lying down to fall asleep at night? What kinds of emotions or moods do you gravitate towards when nothing else is happening? When you notice your heart and mind stuck in some unhelpful loop, ruminating, complaining or grumbling, can you take a step back inside? Consider: what would be most helpful right now? Where can I put my attention that will be uplifting or grounding? Soothing or steadying? Healing or comforting?
This isn't about avoiding or denying the hardships in life, but about exercising more choice over how we use our mind, and what we cultivate in the heart.
When in doubt, here are three places to place your attention that can help nourish your spirit, and cultivate the best in you:
1. Notice beauty: Look and listen for the natural beauty that is present in everyone and the world around us. Linger there and let it in. 2. Practice gratitude: Turn your attention to anything you appreciate or feel grateful for. Give yourself time to let this register. 3. Offer kindness: Aim your heart towards kindness. Silently wishing well to yourself and those around you, reaching for the sincerity of the wish.
*I found this on my edited anonymous library and I think some dude wrote it and I did some of it so there it is....
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Post by t-bob on Jan 17, 2022 1:14:24 GMT -5
Sydneysider Danny Morgan, a simple man who works for a concrete company, is prone to daydreaming to escape his life, those daydreams often of his unique ideas. Of late, those daydreams have been about his and his longtime girlfriend Trudy Dunphy's imminent vacation, a camping trip which Danny has been planning for a year. Eventually learning that Trudy, a real estate agent, lied to get out of the trip to spend time with a famous client, television sportscaster Sandy Upman, is just the latest manifestation that Trudy is drifting away from Danny, who she sees as just a concrete man while she aspires to something or someone more exciting like Sandy. With the vacation now a no-go leaving him with a couple of weeks free with nothing to do but have his mind wander, Danny, with an unexpected windfall of free giant balloons, ponders whether they, filled with helium and tied to a deckchair, would be able to lift him in the deckchair up into the air. Danny's balloon deckchair experiment will have not only a profound effect on him, but that of Glenda Lake of Clarence, she a lonely parking enforcement police officer who has felt lost in life, while Trudy also sees it as another possible restart to her and Danny's relationship in that proverbial fifteen minutes of fame in their lives.
In this charming little comedy from down under, Writer/Director Jeff Balsmeyer takes us inside the lives of 2 people we really like and one ... well maybe not so much. The 3 lead actors are excellent in their roles, especially Rhys Ifan (Notting Hill and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands). Miranda Otto plays the parking cop who brings him back to life, while Justine Clark is tremendous as the glory seeking user that we have all met at least once. The story, while getting started in a very unique manner, settles into a traditional little romantic comedy for awhile. What makes this one a little different is watching the changes in the faces of the three leads. They each experience joy and heartbreak in their own way. This one deserves a look.
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