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DLizze
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MY favorite to play is the lead tenor sax part in Guys and Dolls. the Havana Scene swings like mad, and has an eight bar section where I get to read letters (chords) instead of written notes. And, unlike Grease or Hairspray, they're NOT in weird thousand sharp "guitar keys"- I freaking HATE a sharp attack. (Who the HELL plays blues changes in E concert, anyway?)
The flute/piccolo book for Into the Woods runs a real close second, though. That show is just such fun to play. And, right from page one, it is a challenge. The first note in a low Bb, 1/2 step below the range of a flute (you get that note by putting the end of a B foot joint up against a wall) with ascending minor thirds, tempo di tear-ass up to a six leger line D# (one and a half steps above the range of the instrument. On my thin wall Armstrong Heritage, finger a high Ab, open the upper trill key, add the right hand first finger, and low B key, and blow like mad. (On a Haynes or a Trevor James, try not opening the trill key, but it will be stuffy and sharp.)
I have never played Les Mis - but will be in the pit for that next Spring. I hope it isn't like Cats - I don't care if I never have to play that show again - 'course, the fact that Toby's ran it from April through June, with eight shows a week, made it become work, even sharing the book with three other musicians. I really don't consider Les Mis or Cats a "musical" though; Les Mis is really an opera, and Cats is more a ballet, with incidental singing.
I think my favorite show over all, to watch or to play is Fiddler On The Roof. All the reed books are great fun to play, and there are some super songs and dances in it.
The flute/piccolo book for Into the Woods runs a real close second, though. That show is just such fun to play. And, right from page one, it is a challenge. The first note in a low Bb, 1/2 step below the range of a flute (you get that note by putting the end of a B foot joint up against a wall) with ascending minor thirds, tempo di tear-ass up to a six leger line D# (one and a half steps above the range of the instrument. On my thin wall Armstrong Heritage, finger a high Ab, open the upper trill key, add the right hand first finger, and low B key, and blow like mad. (On a Haynes or a Trevor James, try not opening the trill key, but it will be stuffy and sharp.)
I have never played Les Mis - but will be in the pit for that next Spring. I hope it isn't like Cats - I don't care if I never have to play that show again - 'course, the fact that Toby's ran it from April through June, with eight shows a week, made it become work, even sharing the book with three other musicians. I really don't consider Les Mis or Cats a "musical" though; Les Mis is really an opera, and Cats is more a ballet, with incidental singing.
I think my favorite show over all, to watch or to play is Fiddler On The Roof. All the reed books are great fun to play, and there are some super songs and dances in it.
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1964 to 1968 E Type Jaguar Convertible.
With a 289 Ford V8 and Ford 5 speed Racing Transmission, of course. The early Jaguar engines and transmissions suck.
The two most reliable vehicles I ever owned (prior to the Mercedes 300SDL) were a '57 Chevy and an '87 Jaguar. When I got rid of them, they both had over 270,000 miles on them. Jag engines and transmissions are very reliable, but you do have to maintain them properly. They are not like "turn key" (read "boring", but powerful) American machines. (The Mercedes, incidentally, is for sale it has 347,000 miles on it, but now needs a transmission overhaul. I just don't have two grand (plus labor to R&R) to put into it.)
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OF the ones I've owned and driven, the Daimler SP 250 was my favorite - I'd buy another in a heartbeat, if they hadn't gotten so stupidly expensive. But if money were no object, I'd own a Rolls Silver Cloud I and a Jaguar XK120 Drophead. I think that is the prettiest and sexiest automobile ever built.
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No, a safety razor, but I do use a badger hair brush and shaving mug soap. Pinaud Clubman products. I prep with a hot moist towel, lather up the brush, then my face, shave both upward and down. Rinse with cold water, then after shave.
OMG! I have a blunderbuss packed away somewhere - I've been using a ladies' many-bladed Soliel for years - like ever since one day when I was out of blades, and borrowed my wife's (with a new blade, thank you very much! LOL) and discovered it cut closer with less going over areas two and three times, than my old Gillette adjustable "safety" razor. I also alternate with a Norelco three head electric. (Here, again, a modernization of my old standby - a mid-1950's Remington - the kind that you had to spin the wheel with your thumbnail to get it started, and turned off by pulling the plug out of it). I use Crabtree and Evelyn Sandalwood flavor mug soap and a good badger hair brush.
I use straight razors for their best modern uses - trimming and shaving woodwind reeds, finish scraping on replacement wheels and pinons for clocks with wooden works, and occasionally for finely chopping herbs in the kitchen.
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Not mine, but my second wife's:
She was much too young to be on Lush, and followed her older brother up Kennison Mountain to the swinging vine. After he and all his friends got tired, she tried it. Got on the vine and swung way,way out over the cliff edge. But then the vine just went back in toward the tree and stopped. She was too short to reach the trunk with her little legs, and just hung there. Finally, her hands got tired, and she fell about thirty feet down to the mountainside, and rolled another fifty feet or so, before she could stop herself. She was banged up, and went crying home with both hands and both knees pretty badly skinned up, and a rip in her new overalls. When she got home, her mother spanked her for ripping her new overalls, because they were supposed to last all Summer. (That had to have been before she got polio. She caught polio the year the Saulk vaccine came out, which was, I think about 1957.)
She was much too young to be on Lush, and followed her older brother up Kennison Mountain to the swinging vine. After he and all his friends got tired, she tried it. Got on the vine and swung way,way out over the cliff edge. But then the vine just went back in toward the tree and stopped. She was too short to reach the trunk with her little legs, and just hung there. Finally, her hands got tired, and she fell about thirty feet down to the mountainside, and rolled another fifty feet or so, before she could stop herself. She was banged up, and went crying home with both hands and both knees pretty badly skinned up, and a rip in her new overalls. When she got home, her mother spanked her for ripping her new overalls, because they were supposed to last all Summer. (That had to have been before she got polio. She caught polio the year the Saulk vaccine came out, which was, I think about 1957.)
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That's what I was thinking. I have never actually eaten at Panera Bread but I never thought of it as fast food place. Not all chain restaurants are fast food!
My definition of "fast food" excludes any place where you have to stay there to eat. That's why Rosa's place, in Hamilton doesn't count, even though it's the best Mexican Restaurant in Baltimore.
I did forget to mention that when I am in downtown Baltimore City, I like to eat at The Doghouse, across from the City Prison. Ever since Pollack Johnnies went out of business, the Doghouse has had the best polish and kosher dogs anywhere in or around Baltimore.
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People who complain about a free service and a place to express themselves. If you're not a gold member, maybe you, and who ever else has issues with the problems the site is dealing with because it's grown so damn fast, should sign up for one. The owner does not spend your money on fancy lattes or vintage wine or 3 hour lunches with the girls. It, and much more, is put back into the site to keep up with it's ever increasing demands. So lets just chill a little. Sit back with a coke and a smile, and show some appreciation for the hard work that is done by the owners and site admin. There are heaps if other interective sites just like this if this is not up to par. Hang on, no there isn't...not free ones anyway..
HEAR! HEAR!
All the people who make this site run are doing their best, which, I might add, is damned good.
Oh, and another thing. I freakin' HATE text speech. If you are too lazy to write out the words, what the Hell are you doing on a writer's site?
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Depends on where I am. In Richwood WVA, the ONLY fast food is Dairy Queen. Better to take a few more minutes, and go to Suzy's. She makes a darned good pecan pie.
Around here, I avoid "fast food joints", though I have been known to stop in at Taco Bell occasionally. Usually, if I want something quick, I'll go to WAWA and get one of their wraps.
Around here, I avoid "fast food joints", though I have been known to stop in at Taco Bell occasionally. Usually, if I want something quick, I'll go to WAWA and get one of their wraps.
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Mazza and Naughtynurse pretty much nailed it (no pun intended) but I'd add: and friendly. If it isn't friendly, there's no afterglow. Oh, and I'd change all the pronouns in Mazza's post to demale gender - I'm pretty much hetero.
And to be honest, I have to say I don't even need the orgasm to feel like it was really good, if all the rest is there. (Shit! I must be getting old! LOL)
And to be honest, I have to say I don't even need the orgasm to feel like it was really good, if all the rest is there. (Shit! I must be getting old! LOL)
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I just went to my stories list, and looked at all the titles. Story titles tend to be either a "catch line" from the story, or a name or phrase that closely relates to the story. Poem titles tend to be a line from the poem, or a part of a line that I think conveys the central theme. OF course, there are exceptions. "Minuet In G" for example, tells the reader absolutely nothing about the bdsm, mystery or twists to follow. Similarly, "Tennessee" isn't even mentioned in the poem, although the photo was taken in Tennessee, on the road between Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg.
In general though, I try to remember the title is the first impression a reader will get, and we all know the adage about first impressions.
In general though, I try to remember the title is the first impression a reader will get, and we all know the adage about first impressions.
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fuck the story mods. i'm an artist. they should bow down to me and be grateful they get to read my work. they are insignificant little pisants compared to me and entirely beneath my notice. why should i thank them? they should thank me!
Yes, and oh my God, didn't we though?
Now that I am no longer a mod, I feel it is my duty to hassle them as much as possible. Especially Steph, that little weasel.
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Here's another great one from "Orchestra Wives" for Highwayman.
Incidentally, my friend Ken Watkins, who played with the Beneke organization for about ten years told me that Tex said they recorded all their movie sound takes in a studio, and "faked" playing while shooting the films. Tex also said the Nicholas brothers did their dance routines in one take; they were that good.
@ LauraLee - I love, Love, LOVE Janis' version of that, and of Summertime. They are quintessential Joplin.
Incidentally, my friend Ken Watkins, who played with the Beneke organization for about ten years told me that Tex said they recorded all their movie sound takes in a studio, and "faked" playing while shooting the films. Tex also said the Nicholas brothers did their dance routines in one take; they were that good.
@ LauraLee - I love, Love, LOVE Janis' version of that, and of Summertime. They are quintessential Joplin.
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Mine is, like Sprite, getting too easily distracted... I procrastinate, I float off and do other things...
I have like a gazillion unfinished stories - I will get back to them, eventually...
I need focus and self-discipline...
Ditto, and - oh, look! There goes a bunny rabbit!
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Shot this one with a Canon A580 in "automatic" mode. Cropped it to make the moth fill the frame, and increased the color saturation, but that was all I did to it.
Same camera and setting, except I turned off the flash, so that the aquarium glass wouldn't wreck the lighting. All I did with this one was flip it so that the jellyfish was upright - it was swimming upside down.
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I watched about twelve of these regularly. I am disappointed the list does not include Red Dwarf, The L Word, Waiting For God, Keeping Up Appearances, Are You Being Served?, and several other equally well-written British Television shows. I am also disappointed that Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca or George Goebel aren't on the list, but I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners are.