It's 8:00 Saturday morning. I've had my coffee. I've read the news. I've
read the wreck. My tools are calling my name. My wife and daughters are
still in bed. sighhhh. I need a rooster.
It's 8:10. I've comprised my cut list. My hands shake cause I've just
finished the whole pot of coffee by myself. Wait!! The neighbors dog is
barking...maybe...just maybe...
It's 8:15 The dog woke up my 9 year old. It takes more than that to stir
my 13 yo and my wife. Dammit... 9 yo went back to bed.
I am sure the pleasant whrrrr of a table saw wood bring them to life....
and end yours. :-)
BRuce
mel wrote:
> It's 8:00 Saturday morning. I've had my coffee. I've read the news. I've
> read the wreck. My tools are calling my name. My wife and daughters are
> still in bed. sighhhh. I need a rooster.
>
> It's 8:10. I've comprised my cut list. My hands shake cause I've just
> finished the whole pot of coffee by myself. Wait!! The neighbors dog is
> barking...maybe...just maybe...
>
> It's 8:15 The dog woke up my 9 year old. It takes more than that to stir
> my 13 yo and my wife. Dammit... 9 yo went back to bed.
>
>
>
--
---
BRuce
> "Tubular Bells"
that is the second time this week that that has come up. I didn't think
anyone remembered Mike Oldfield
Bruce
[email protected] wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Nova <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>mel wrote:
>>
>>
>>>It's 8:00 Saturday morning. I've had my coffee. I've read the news. I've
>>>read the wreck. My tools are calling my name. My wife and daughters are
>>>still in bed. sighhhh. I need a rooster.
>>>
>>>It's 8:10. I've comprised my cut list. My hands shake cause I've just
>>>finished the whole pot of coffee by myself. Wait!! The neighbors dog is
>>>barking...maybe...just maybe...
>>>
>>>It's 8:15 The dog woke up my 9 year old. It takes more than that to stir
>>>my 13 yo and my wife. Dammit... 9 yo went back to bed.
>>
>>You gotta learn to relax. Listen to some music... say John Philip Sousa's
>>"Stars and Stripes Forever" played an full volume ought to help.
>
>
> Right idea, wrong implementation.
>
> Saturday's are for *relaxing*.
>
> Time to just sit back and listen to some *good* music.
>
> something like:
>
> Wagner, "Ride of the Valkyeries"
> Bach, "Toccata and Fugue in D-flat Minor"
> Tchaikovsky, "1812 Overture" (with cannons)
>
> Or, to _really_ panic the wimmenfolk, there's
> the Mendelssohn "Wedding March", from Tannheiser.
>
>
> For the less sophisticated,
> The theme from "Jaws", the movie,
> "Tubular Bells",
>
> and there's always 'sound effects' records.
>
>
--
---
BRuce
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:18:44 GMT, "mel"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>It's 8:15 The dog woke up my 9 year old. It takes more than that to stir
>my 13 yo and my wife. Dammit... 9 yo went back to bed.
"Accidentally" setting off a smoke alarm would work well... <G>
Barry
mel wrote:
> It's 8:00 Saturday morning. I've had my coffee. I've read the news. I've
> read the wreck. My tools are calling my name. My wife and daughters are
> still in bed. sighhhh. I need a rooster.
>
> It's 8:10. I've comprised my cut list. My hands shake cause I've just
> finished the whole pot of coffee by myself. Wait!! The neighbors dog is
> barking...maybe...just maybe...
>
> It's 8:15 The dog woke up my 9 year old. It takes more than that to stir
> my 13 yo and my wife. Dammit... 9 yo went back to bed.
You gotta learn to relax. Listen to some music... say John Philip Sousa's
"Stars and Stripes Forever" played an full volume ought to help.
--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
(Remove "SPAM" from email address to reply)
I open the drapes in the living room and feign innocence when the dog barks
at the deer scavenging in the orchard.
They deliver the Times too? Thought they only did the SF Chronicle....
"jo4hn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Just do what my father-in-law always did. He figured that if he was up,
> everybody was up. So, by 7 am he was out bammin' and frammin' his way
> into the new day. Personally, I wait until 8. Gives me time to work
> through a few sections of the LA Times, which the newspaper fairy plunks
> on my driveway at about 5:15.
Mark Jerde wrote:
> BWV 565 is the one "everybody" knows. 538 is the "Dorian."
I'd probably recognize that one too, but 565 is the one I'm thinking of.
> I think he did several. My vinyl isn't accessable right now, but IIRC the
> one I really like is recorded at the Tomaskirche (sp?).
I have no idea where my CD is for that matter. I copied almost every CD I
own to my hard drive, and I listen from there. It's just more convenient
that way. I'm not sure where the originals are. In a dusty corner
somewhere I'm sure. This room is a wreck.
(Really. I got a new filing cabinet, and took all the crap out of the old
one, and it has been sitting on the floor for months now. I haven't gotten
around to putting anything into the new cabinet yet. No day has been rainy
enough to motivate me I guess. :)
>> If I ever trip and fall into a well filled with $100 bills, I'm going
>> to build a huge building with a huge organ.
>
> Why build if you could buy? (I know, I know. <g>) With the loss of jobs
There's nothing around here, that's why. If I get filthy stinking rich and
build an organ house, it's going to be within walking distance of home.
(I'd just pay off the house I already "own," and maybe sink some money into
fixing it up right.)
> live there. I like the change of seasons and regular reminders from
> mother nature about how much we humans are really in charge. <g>
I live for spring. The rest of the time I just remind myself that spring
will come again eventually.
I don't mind weather, but I'm a truck driver, so I prefer it when the
weather isn't slippery.
Last year was downright ugly. I was in Charlotte, NC when they got about a
foot of snow. Fuster cluck city.
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
Silvan wrote:
> Mark Jerde wrote:
>
>> BVW 565 or 538? <g> The only really good copy of 565 I have is an
>> old, scratchy vinyl by E. Power Biggs. In all the CD copies I have,
>> *nobody* just plays it straight.
>
> I'm not sure which is which by BWV number on that one, but the one I'm
> thinking of is the one everybody always thinks of when they think
> "pipe organ." Unless they don't know what a pipe organ is.
BWV 565 is the one "everybody" knows. 538 is the "Dorian."
> Anyway, I have a Sony CD of E. Power Biggs playing that and others.
> I'd guess it's a remaster of your old album.
I think he did several. My vinyl isn't accessable right now, but IIRC the
one I really like is recorded at the Tomaskirche (sp?).
> If I ever trip and fall into a well filled with $100 bills, I'm going
> to build a huge building with a huge organ.
Why build if you could buy? (I know, I know. <g>) With the loss of jobs
etc in the rust belt I'll bet there's a church or two standing empty.
Several years ago I was in Buffalo NY for a few days on business. At that
time about 50% of the downtown appeared to be vacant. I could live in that
area -- large enough to have a pro football team, small enough it's possible
to find a parking place at the airport, and non-boring weather. I've lived
5 years in El Paso TX and spent a lot of time in southern California.
Constantly good weather makes a place nice to visit, but I don't want to
live there. I like the change of seasons and regular reminders from mother
nature about how much we humans are really in charge. <g>
-- Mark
Silvan wrote:
> Er. I digressed. I was going to say that the performance on this CD
> is the only one of several recordings of that piece I have which
> doesn't make my teeth hurt. E. Power Biggs wins for interpretation,
> but other versions do get a few points for a better sounding organ
> and a cleaner recording.
Most organists seem to have a real problem with Bach's "The Phantom of the
Opera" piece. I think they're really bothered by the fact it was written by
a very young person, it's easy to play (probably the easiest of the * and
Fugues), but it's incredibly powerful. They look at their own compositional
abilities and realize that if they live to be 275 years old they still won't
be able to do what J.S. did as a teen. So they don't play it. (I went to
weekly lunchtime organ recitals for several years and never ONCE heard that
piece played.) Or if they do play it, many of them mess it up on purpose by
adding all kinds of unwritten embellishments, time changes, and registration
changes. I have one CD where the guy does a good job with the Fantasie &
Fugue in G Minor, which is only about, oh, 10 times harder to play than
"Phantom", (*) but when he plays "Phantom," it should be subtitled, "How
J.S. would have played it he were drunk, people were paying him to add
random embellishments, and three unruly children were randomly pulling out
and pushing in stops." Hideous! Like ketchup on corn flakes. Or boogers
in a moustache. Or chewing on tin foil. Yuck!
Virgil Fox intreprets it well on a CD of his I have.
The original Rollerball soundtrack was a nice, nasty-acid sounding organ,
but unfortunately they only played the Toccata.
-- Mark
(*) In the big pedal part of Phantom there's nothing going on with the
hands. In the fugue of F&F in G Minor, the pedal does much harder stuff
while the hands are still weaving 3 separate parts.
Mark Jerde wrote:
> BVW 565 or 538? <g> The only really good copy of 565 I have is an old,
> scratchy vinyl by E. Power Biggs. In all the CD copies I have, *nobody*
> just plays it straight.
I'm not sure which is which by BWV number on that one, but the one I'm
thinking of is the one everybody always thinks of when they think "pipe
organ." Unless they don't know what a pipe organ is.
Anyway, I have a Sony CD of E. Power Biggs playing that and others. I'd
guess it's a remaster of your old album. I've never bothered to learn what
any of the pieces are called for some reason, but I've about worn out the
CD.
This and a bunch of others. I love organ music period, not just Bach,
though Bach, generally, is my favorite composer by far.
If I ever trip and fall into a well filled with $100 bills, I'm going to
build a huge building with a huge organ. I'll let any aspiring organists
play it for free, and encourage any and all to come. I probably won't be
able to do it justice by myself, because I suck with keyboard instruments.
Of course I would get one of the new MIDI ones to try to get around that
somewhat. I could play my compositions on a real organ without any
dexterity at all, and it's not even really cheating, since organs are
basically "digital" instruments anyway.
Er. I digressed. I was going to say that the performance on this CD is the
only one of several recordings of that piece I have which doesn't make my
teeth hurt. E. Power Biggs wins for interpretation, but other versions do
get a few points for a better sounding organ and a cleaner recording.
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
In article <[email protected]>,
Nova <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>mel wrote:
>
>> It's 8:00 Saturday morning. I've had my coffee. I've read the news. I've
>> read the wreck. My tools are calling my name. My wife and daughters are
>> still in bed. sighhhh. I need a rooster.
>>
>> It's 8:10. I've comprised my cut list. My hands shake cause I've just
>> finished the whole pot of coffee by myself. Wait!! The neighbors dog is
>> barking...maybe...just maybe...
>>
>> It's 8:15 The dog woke up my 9 year old. It takes more than that to stir
>> my 13 yo and my wife. Dammit... 9 yo went back to bed.
>
>You gotta learn to relax. Listen to some music... say John Philip Sousa's
>"Stars and Stripes Forever" played an full volume ought to help.
Right idea, wrong implementation.
Saturday's are for *relaxing*.
Time to just sit back and listen to some *good* music.
something like:
Wagner, "Ride of the Valkyeries"
Bach, "Toccata and Fugue in D-flat Minor"
Tchaikovsky, "1812 Overture" (with cannons)
Or, to _really_ panic the wimmenfolk, there's
the Mendelssohn "Wedding March", from Tannheiser.
For the less sophisticated,
The theme from "Jaws", the movie,
"Tubular Bells",
and there's always 'sound effects' records.
Just do what my father-in-law always did. He figured that if he was up,
everybody was up. So, by 7 am he was out bammin' and frammin' his way
into the new day. Personally, I wait until 8. Gives me time to work
through a few sections of the LA Times, which the newspaper fairy plunks
on my driveway at about 5:15.
mahalo,
jo4hn
mel wrote:
> It's 8:00 Saturday morning. I've had my coffee. I've read the news. I've
> read the wreck. My tools are calling my name. My wife and daughters are
> still in bed. sighhhh. I need a rooster.
>
> It's 8:10. I've comprised my cut list. My hands shake cause I've just
> finished the whole pot of coffee by myself. Wait!! The neighbors dog is
> barking...maybe...just maybe...
>
> It's 8:15 The dog woke up my 9 year old. It takes more than that to stir
> my 13 yo and my wife. Dammit... 9 yo went back to bed.
>
>
>
In article <[email protected]>,
Mark Jerde <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>[email protected] wrote:
>
>> Time to just sit back and listen to some *good* music.
>>
>> something like:
>...
>> Bach, "Toccata and Fugue in D-flat Minor"
>
>BVW 565 or 538? <g> The only really good copy of 565 I have is an old,
>scratchy vinyl by E. Power Biggs. In all the CD copies I have, *nobody*
>just plays it straight.
>
> -- Mark, J.S. Bach organ music nut
I like the Biggs rendition, too. It takes one h*ll of a sub-woofer
system, though, to 'adequately' reproduce all the ranks used on the
larger instruments.
P.S.: Q: Why did J.S. have 17 (fact!) children?
A: His organ had no stops!
[email protected] () wrote in news:NZDmb.4459$FI2.4238
@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Nova <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>mel wrote:
>>
>>> It's 8:00 Saturday morning. I've had my coffee. I've read the news.
I've
>>> read the wreck. My tools are calling my name. My wife and daughters
are
>>> still in bed. sighhhh. I need a rooster.
>>>
>>> It's 8:10. I've comprised my cut list. My hands shake cause I've
just
>>> finished the whole pot of coffee by myself. Wait!! The neighbors dog
is
>>> barking...maybe...just maybe...
>>>
>>> It's 8:15 The dog woke up my 9 year old. It takes more than that to
stir
>>> my 13 yo and my wife. Dammit... 9 yo went back to bed.
>>
>>You gotta learn to relax. Listen to some music... say John Philip
Sousa's
>>"Stars and Stripes Forever" played an full volume ought to help.
>
> Right idea, wrong implementation.
>
> Saturday's are for *relaxing*.
>
> Time to just sit back and listen to some *good* music.
>
> something like:
>
> Wagner, "Ride of the Valkyeries"
> Bach, "Toccata and Fugue in D-flat Minor"
> Tchaikovsky, "1812 Overture" (with cannons)
>
> Or, to _really_ panic the wimmenfolk, there's
> the Mendelssohn "Wedding March", from Tannheiser.
>
>
> For the less sophisticated,
> The theme from "Jaws", the movie,
> "Tubular Bells",
>
> and there's always 'sound effects' records.
>
>
>
Bah..too obvious. Ravel's Bolero will do it and you have enough time to
really enjoy the torture.
r
--
Nothing beats the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with DLT tapes.
Mark Jerde wrote:
> compositional abilities and realize that if they live to be 275 years old
> they still won't
> be able to do what J.S. did as a teen. So they don't play it. (I went to
Same goes for everybody who came after. Bach and Pink Floyd. If you have
those two, what's the point of anything else. :)
> random embellishments, and three unruly children were randomly pulling out
> and pushing in stops." Hideous! Like ketchup on corn flakes. Or boogers
> in a moustache. Or chewing on tin foil. Yuck!
Are you trying to say you didn't like the interpretation?
> Virgil Fox intreprets it well on a CD of his I have.
Ah, Virgil Fox... I've not heard that name in a long time. I had lots of
albums once. My great grandfather sent me an enormous collection of
records. I had five-volume boxed sets of modern French organ music (Widor
comes to mind in particular), boxed sets of Virgil Fox's "Heavy Classics" I
think, boxed sets of Bach concertos... I had good performances of every
piece of music ever played on a Buggs Bunny cartoon (which is basically
different bits of Rossini and Wagner anyway, with some von Suppe thrown
in...) and all the "usual" stuff like Beethoven's 5th and 9th, Handel's
"Water Music," Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" and such and so forth and so on.
I had a collection that must have been worth into the thousands.
When I moved out, I left them in my closet because I didn't have room for
them in my apartment, and didn't have a record player.
Dad threw them all away when he tossed his record player. "Won't ever be
able to play these again."
Can you BELIEVE that? I was *SO* PISSED OFF!!!!!!
I never paid any attention to what anything was called either, and in some
cases, not even who composed it. I just opened things at random and
re-played my favorites. It took me many, many years to discover what all
of my favorites were, and procure new recordings. In several cases I had
to find people with vinyl, because no performance had ever been released on
CD.
> The original Rollerball soundtrack was a nice, nasty-acid sounding organ,
> but unfortunately they only played the Toccata.
Yup. It's no good without the fugue. A beginning with no end.
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
[email protected] wrote:
> Time to just sit back and listen to some *good* music.
>
> something like:
...
> Bach, "Toccata and Fugue in D-flat Minor"
BVW 565 or 538? <g> The only really good copy of 565 I have is an old,
scratchy vinyl by E. Power Biggs. In all the CD copies I have, *nobody*
just plays it straight.
-- Mark, J.S. Bach organ music nut
In article <1067133838.676021@sj-nntpcache-3>,
BRuce <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>[email protected] wrote:
>
> > "Tubular Bells"
>
>that is the second time this week that that has come up. I didn't think
>anyone remembered Mike Oldfield
>
I have an *absolutely*amazing* storehouse of "useless information" in the
organic filing system. <grin>
People are especially amazed at the ability to recall such stuff, given
my talent for _failing_ to remember to do the *routine* sh*t.
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:18:44 GMT, "mel"
<[email protected]> brought forth from the murky
depths:
>It's 8:00 Saturday morning. I've had my coffee. I've read the news. I've
>read the wreck. My tools are calling my name. My wife and daughters are
>still in bed. sighhhh. I need a rooster.
>
>It's 8:10. I've comprised my cut list. My hands shake cause I've just
>finished the whole pot of coffee by myself. Wait!! The neighbors dog is
>barking...maybe...just maybe...
>
>It's 8:15 The dog woke up my 9 year old. It takes more than that to stir
>my 13 yo and my wife. Dammit... 9 yo went back to bed.
Go out to the shop, "accidentally" leaving the door open and
"accidentally" droping something, like a turkey roasting pan
or galv. garbage can lid. Just being noisy in the shop can
wake up the whole house.
Better yet, learn how to use nice, quiet -Neandertools-, mel.
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Morgans wrote:
>> foot of snow. Fuster cluck city.
> You have to understand that situation. They get so little snow, and what
> they do get is almost always gone on it's own, in 2 or 3 hours. They do
> have some snow removal equipment, but not much. Small stockpiles of salt.
<cough> Road graders.
It was an ugly trip, and not the only ugly trip of its kind last winter. I
never went anywhere close to north of the Mason Dixon line, and yet I had
to drive in some form of frozen precipitation pretty much every week from
the first of December to March.
(Virginia does an excellent job of keeping thing as safe as possible in
winter, incidentally.)
I was fine with winter when getting to work meant driving three miles. I
like making snow men and even shovelling my driveway, but bad weather
really makes me fear for my life now. The freight has to go, no matter
what, so I have to get out there and put my ass on the line, risking life
and limb for that all-important load of yuppie furniture.
> Also, the snow there is different. I came from northern Ohio, and used to
> laugh at the southern drivers, until I got stopped on less than a 1%
> grade,
> and almost couldn't get going again. It turns to ice beneath the wheels.
Yup. It sure does, unless it's *really* cold.
> Plus the road construction mess. All those damn northerners moving down
> here overload the roads. <g> They can't build them fast enough!
Got that right. I think there were 12 southerners living in the greater
Atlanta area, but two of them moved to get away from all the damn Yankees.
> Know the difference between a Yankee, and a damn Yankee? The Yankees come
> south to visit. The damn Yankees come and never leave!
Nope. The difference between a Yankee and a damn Yankee is that the Yankees
are a baseball team. ;)
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 01:05:59 -0500, Silvan
<[email protected]> wrote:
>If I ever trip and fall into a well filled with $100 bills, I'm going to
>build a huge building with a huge organ. I'll let any aspiring organists
>play it for free, and encourage any and all to come.
Right up the street from me, Wesleyan University is finishing up a
year-long pipe organ installation on campus. I can't wait to hear it,
the school says it'll be ready for holiday concerts.
A few years back, Yale hosted a week-long, World Championship of Pipe
Organ competition. I was lucky enough to spend several days of
vacation time enjoying the music. The playing was fantastic, and
Woolsey Hall's instrument sounds beautiful. It was sad to see it end!
<G>
Barry
Such is the life of a hubby & dad. Bless you for waiting. Heaven knows they
need there beauty sleep :-)
Ya know...handsaws make a lot less noise.
Have fun!
Joe
--
Be sure to check out Joe's and Betty's webpages...
http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/kb8qlrjoe/index.html
"mel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> It's 8:00 Saturday morning. I've had my coffee. I've read the news.
I've
> read the wreck. My tools are calling my name. My wife and daughters are
> still in bed. sighhhh. I need a rooster.
>
> It's 8:10. I've comprised my cut list. My hands shake cause I've just
> finished the whole pot of coffee by myself. Wait!! The neighbors dog is
> barking...maybe...just maybe...
>
> It's 8:15 The dog woke up my 9 year old. It takes more than that to stir
> my 13 yo and my wife. Dammit... 9 yo went back to bed.
>
>
>
"Silvan" <[email protected]> wrote
I was in Charlotte, NC when they got about a
> foot of snow. Fuster cluck city.
>
> --
> Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan
Chuckle!
You have to understand that situation. They get so little snow, and what
they do get is almost always gone on it's own, in 2 or 3 hours. They do
have some snow removal equipment, but not much. Small stockpiles of salt.
Also, the snow there is different. I came from northern Ohio, and used to
laugh at the southern drivers, until I got stopped on less than a 1% grade,
and almost couldn't get going again. It turns to ice beneath the wheels.
Plus the road construction mess. All those damn northerners moving down
here overload the roads. <g> They can't build them fast enough!
Know the difference between a Yankee, and a damn Yankee? The Yankees come
south to visit. The damn Yankees come and never leave!
--
Jim in NC