Dinosaur suit-wearing protesters march on Washington to protest Pres. Trump’s plan to slash the budget for national service programs. pic.twitter.com/ozr2mHz8u5
— ABC News (@ABC) August 31, 2017
Thanks for the love @ABC! The #DinosinDC rallied to stop #nationalservice extinction & told Congress to #LetUsServe! https://t.co/KIyAAHPuob pic.twitter.com/cURJ2r1a70
— Service Year (@ServiceYear) August 31, 2017
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We’re gonna be out of town for a few days starting tomorrow. I plan to bring my laptop, but if you don’t see any posts from me, blame the tech gremlins.
What’s on the agenda for the not-official end-of-summer long weekend, as we get into party mode?
Mnemosyne
Is there any sinking feeling quite like looking at your driver’s license to fill out a form and realizing that you were supposed to renew it 6 weeks ago?
Yes, I’m sitting at the DMV right now since I got off work early and they’re open until 5 pm. Thank god the CA DMV has their shit together around here — I probably won’t end up waiting more than 30 minutes even though I didn’t have an appointment.
Humdog
What are they saying in the video? Kinda sounds like “Marco” with “Polo” responses?
SiubhanDuinne
@Anne Laurie: Whatever you do on your long weekend away, I hope it’s relaxing and refreshing for you and your Spousal Unit (to whom I send regards). Post if you can, don’t worry if you can’t, and either way we’ll see you on the far side of Labour Day.
debbie
@Mnemosyne:
You don’t have to retake the test, do you?
eclare
@Mnemosyne: Yikes! Good luck.
Baud
I am laboring this Labor Day. But not too bad.
Baud
@Mnemosyne: Good luck.
geg6
Hope to have a relaxing long weekend. Family reunion was last weekend, a friend is coming to town next weekend, which is also my 40th high school reunion. At work, it’s been nuts. Never had a freshman class and their parents so clueless. I’ve been putting in fifty and sixty hour weeks for over a month now, just to get paperwork and work needing high levels of concentration done because there’s no way to get it done during regular hours because I’ve been so swamped with emails, phone calls and walk-ins. And I haven’t talked about it much but I had a rather John Cole-ish accident while walking Koda the other day and injured, among other things, my left shoulder rather a lot.
MazeDancer
ICYMI, an uplifting and amusing time on Twitter is adults saying:
You can see some of their tweets here.
Certainly, I would happily attend any post big house event with people re-reading their portion. Party afterward would, also, seem appropriate.
trollhattan
@Mnemosyne:
I’m unaccustomed to hearing the DMV has their feces aggregated, so that’s good at least. Now, how many feet in front of an oncoming car must one attenuate their high beams?
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: Can’t you renew your license online, in the Common Wealth, yes we can and I did!
trollhattan
@MazeDancer:
Double Torahs if he gets daddy’s cell. “Make it so.”
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Well congrats! So are we expecting a mini Baud or a mini Baudette?
/lame joke
p.a.
Open Thread so here’s one: what work of art (I’m personally refering to music) hadn’t you accessed for years and then rediscovered in a ” wow I forgot how great this was!” moment. For me at this moment it’s Rod Stewart’s Every Picture Tells a Story.. Not a leading light of the Western cannon I know, but then I have to stand on tiptoe to scrape into middlebrow territory. ?
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
Yikes yikes yikes!!! I suppose we should be glad that it’s not the middle of winter with sub-freezing temperatures and ice-slicked pavement. But still. Hope you can get your shoulder back to normal with alacrity. So sorry.
schrodingers_cat
@geg6: You were naked mopping?
trollhattan
Okay, time to check conditions.
108F and a 135 air quality index. Time for the ride home! I shall change my nym to jerkylung.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@debbie:
I’ve let this happen twice in my life. In Maryland, they made me retake the road test. I don’t remember if they also made me take a written test.
In PA, I let it happen again last fall. Didn’t even realize it till some online form I was filling out complained that my current license was expired, so I opened my wallet to get the new expiration date and WHOOPSY!
Anyway it was pretty easy in PA. Did it online in fact. The only reason I decided to spend the day in the DMV is because I wanted to go ahead and finish the process, meaning get the photo and an actual new license instead of a “camera card” and temporary license. I’ve already forgotten what the routine process is, but it involves waiting a few weeks for stuff to arrive in the mail.
Matt McIrvin
@Mnemosyne: Around here, if you try to drive with an expired license, some cop will probably get you almost immediately–I think that while they drive around, they automatically scan plates and check them against the RMV database.
Once they pulled us over because my wife was driving with a license that had expired that day (her birthday). Let her off with a warning (it’s punishable by a hefty fine and several days in jail), but requested that I take over.
Humdog
@geg6: hurt your shoulder walking? Sounds funnier than it feels, I bet. Got any good pain meds saved up for just such an injury? Hope you find a way to distract from pain and work hassles.
eclare
@geg6: Sorry to hear about the shoulder, how bad is it?
Matt McIrvin
…This last time, I think I avoided this only because a TSA agent at the Orlando airport reminded me that my license was close to expiring.
Major Major Major Major
I don’t suppose anybody knows anybody at the NYC meetup since I don’t see an obvious group and autistic people with social anxiety aren’t great at approaching strangers in dark rooms.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Are you in NYC?
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: yes.
eclare
@Major Major Major Major: Oh gosh, hoping for good word that you all found each other.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: You’re quite the world traveler these days.
Yutsano
@Matt McIrvin: Wait…yours don’t expire on your birthday?
Steeplejack
@Major Major Major Major:
JAFD said he or she was going to be wearing a bright turquoise polo shirt.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: I find cheap flights.
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne:
Didn’t the DMV send you a renewal notice?
Major Major Major Major
@Steeplejack: i looked for that, but the lighting is all yellow, and the one person who might have been wearing one left. Certainly didn’t see any large groups.
Roger Moore
@Major Major Major Major:
Look for a table with a bunch of green balloons. That’s what I’ve used as a recognition symbol at LA area meetups.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
Ooooh, it’s like the end of The Abyss.
Major Major Major Major
@Roger Moore: I didn’t see one of those either. Maybe I’ll psych myself up for another circuit in a bit. Getting late though.
efgoldman
@p.a.:
The 1/2 hour first movement of Mahler 3
Eric S.
After contemplating it off and on I’m trying yoga for the first time this weekend. I purchased an “unlimited pass” for the next 2 weeks at a studio up the street from my condo. I’m signed up for a beginners class tomorrow and Monday.
rikyrah
Aman Batheja
✔
@amanbatheja
Governor of Texas just said he won’t call a special session for Harvey aid. Means state won’t tap $10 billion Rainy Day Fund til 2019. https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/903697816668786688 …
2:17 PM – Sep 1, 2017
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
Oh fuck yeah
Steeplejack
@Major Major Major Major:
Maybe ask the greeter or maitre d’ if anybody has inquired about Balloon Juice, and if anyone does to refer them to you. Also, it may not be a big group; could be only three or four people. I don’t remember what the turnout was supposed to be.
Hope you connect.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: You’re one of those people that raises their lighter at the symphony, aren’t you?
Ruckus
@SiubhanDuinne:
Girl, I like your no nonsense style.
glaukopis
@geg6: did that last year a week before Christmas and one day before the movers arrived to start packing. Ended up with surgery for a torn rotator cuff. Hope your injury is temporary, but if it persists be sure to see a doctor about it.
debbie
@Major Major Major Major:
Just shout “Balloon Juice” and see who turns around.
efgoldman
I’m not doing much this weekend, but daughter and two of her college roommates/best friends, all 36 y.o., two with kids of their own, are flying to Orlando tomorrow and meeting up at Universal for a Harry Potter immersion weekend. No spouses, no kids, no pets.
May their inner Peter Pan always come out.
geg6
No naked mopping. I’m not that stupid. ?
I live very close to work so I often go home at lunch, walk the dogs and eat in peace. So I was walking Koda in a part of our yard that has a litchi of trees and bushes, when we flushed out a rabbit. Koda usually will start after a rabbit or stray cat but stop when I pull on the leash and say no. And I was doing that when a groundhog decided to rush out next. There was no stopping Koda at that point, not when she puts her whole 90 lbs. into the effort. I just held onto the leash and tried to keep my feet and failed miserably. Tried to grab a branch of a bush, which turned out to be a berry bush full of thorns, tripped over a rock and landed hard enough that I hit the ground with my left shoulder and then my head hard. Almost knocked myself out. But I hung onto that leash! Ended up bleeding, bruised and with my Ann Taylors covered in grass stains and dirt and blood. The shoulder didn’t become apparent until I’d changed clothes and went back to work. It’s been very sore ever since. Can’t really lift my arm very high and this all happened on Tuesday. Hopefully a quiet weekend will allow it to heal.
rikyrah
Richard W. Painter @RWPUSA
This has to be a joke.
DOJ to retry woman who laughed during Sessions’ confirmation hearing
Baud
@geg6: Damn. Except for being dressed, that is Cole-like.
geg6
@geg6:
That should say “lots of” not leechee.
geg6
@Baud:
That was my very first coherent thought.
Eric S.
@Major Major Major Major: Social Anxiety sucks. I was diagnosed with it 9 months ago. I realize now it has been a problem for me for decades. I signed up for yoga for both physical and mental health reasons. I hope you’re able to find the meet-up.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: I’ve done that with the registration on my car, they’d sent the renewal to an old address even after I’d done a change of address twice.
Major Major Major Major
@geg6: yeah, wow, yikes.
Chet Murthy
@efgoldman: Clair de Lune. In college I knew it only b/c Styx based a song (“Ballerina”) on it. But really, that counts for diddly. The real thing ….
Major Major Major Major
@Eric S.: I’m just gonna go.
Architeuthis
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’ll take Mahler 2, myself; the Philharmonia/Klemperer version is probably my favorite recording of anything, ever. I’ve seen the piece performed live, and wound up chatting briefly with the alto soloist in an excellent rock-and-roll dive bar later that evening- classical musicians can party too, I suppose. But yes, the exact same sentiment toward the exact same composer.
I would if I could get away with it. Being ejected by security from the symphony is… While an interesting occurrence, not on my list of things to do.
Eric S.
@Major Major Major Major: I get it. I’m hoping I don’t bail tomorrow morning.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: That sucks, man.
patrick II
@Mnemosyne:
Staying up on election night.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan: It’s cooler here today, but we’ve got a massive smoke plume over the Verdugos.
ETA: Looks like one of my favorite hiking trails may soon be “Up in Smoke”. SAD.
efgoldman
@Architeuthis:
Well, the question was what piece did you come back to. I never went away from Mahler 2, so I couldn’t come back. Klemperer, by the way, is a good ten minutes longer than the next longest version (Bernstein’s late one, I think); I always found it awfully draggy, I’ve heard several live performances, including one in which mrs efg sang.
I was at the Boston premiere of 3, 1959 or ’60. Concertmaster/assistant conductor Richard Burgin led it, because Charles Munch never, ever conducted any Mahler. It’s not common on American orchestra programs, because it’s awfully expensive to put on. Not as much as 8, but notably expensive.
Chet Murthy
@efgoldman:
Prog rock. All of it. Loved Yes/ELP/King Crimson in college. Fell away for … 30yr. Now … shit, that stuff’s great.
HinTN
@Matt McIrvin: As did the TSA agent when we flew recently.
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne:
Yes, when you realize you forgot to renew your passport six weeks ago.
/Not that I’ve been unfortunate enough for this to happen so far.
RandomMonster
Relaxing while preparing for an interview with Apple the day after Labor Day.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
Are you having kittens or puppies?
gene108
@Eric S.:
Take it slow and don’t push your body past its limits. Over doing some poses can lead injury.
Took me a year to get my back loose enough to do some of the bends
divF
It’s 100 degrees here.
We got an email a couple of hours ago from the supercomputer center here in Berkeley that they were incrementally shutting down due to excessive heat load, and probably will continue to do so through much of the weekend.
The center cools its machines by a large evaporative cooling tower next to the building. But when the temperatures high and no wind in sight, it kind of doesn’t work.
HinTN
Also, too, Mr Zappa nailed it:
https://youtu.be/6iofG4BCanQ
Happily Laboring Daze
TenguPhule
@debbie:
Other then everyone because you just shouted?
TenguPhule
@rikyrah:
Nobody is laughing this time.
Steeplejack
@RandomMonster:
Good luck with that!
TenguPhule
Today a minor miracle apparently took place at the Whitehouse.
Suckabee actually answered two questions from the long long list of questions presented to her by the press. Two whole questions. Sure, they’re probably just lies, but baby steps.
The rest of it was of course pure non-responsive garbage.
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
Especially not the helicopters.
Fair Economist
@Architeuthis: My favorite Mahler symphony changes over time. At various times I’ve been nuts about 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 (yes, 7), and 9. 7 is a permanent earworm of mine even though it’s not currently high on my favorite music list. I like it, but even though there’s a lot of music, Mahler and otherwise, I like more, I still hear the opening of the last movement frequently in my head. It was never my favorite section of that symphony, even – that would be the horn fanfare at the very end of the 1st movement introduction.
efgoldman
@TenguPhule:
Couldn’t believe the judge didn’t throw it out the first time, double can’t believe he’s allowing it to be retried.
kdaug
@geg6: Hold up. You mean Cole is contagious?
O. Felix Culpa
@geg6: Oh dear. Sounds painful. Take good care of yourself and go to the doctor if things don’t improve in the next few days.
efgoldman
@TenguPhule:
He will, of course, not shake a single hand, give a single hug, pat a single back or allow any other kind of physical contact that might, FSM forbid, show some actual human empathy.
Eric S.
@gene108: thanks. I’ll be taking it easy. I’m slowly getting my running legs back under me. My shoulder is slowly healing from surgery in February (I’m cleared for basic yoga.)
I’ve sent too much time hurt the last 24 months. I don’t want to extend that time.
TenguPhule
@efgoldman:
Given his infamous Mysophobia, I highly doubt he gets anywhere near Houston or touches anyone who’s actually been there. I do expect another round of him plugging his campaign merchandise, again.
MomSense
@geg6:
Oh no. I hope you feel much better after a few days of rest.
(((CassandraLeo)))
@HinTN: Zappa has been in regular rotation throughout this administration for me. I’d not listened for a year or two. Probably the greatest musical genius of the latter half of the 20th century, with the possible exception of Miles.
As for works I’ve rediscovered after awhile not listening, for me right now it’s live Grateful Dead. Listening to the Cornell ’77 show right now and I think this version of “Morning Dew” basically sums up my emotional state right now better than any other piece I’ve heard.
TenguPhule
@kdaug:
Who among us has not accidentally gotten themselves trapped on their own roof, wrecked their shoulder while mopping naked or had an unfortunate series of events with a stubborn jar of mustard?
MomSense
@Architeuthis:
Symphony No. 5 for me. Gets me every time.
efgoldman
@TenguPhule:
Maybe he’ll demand an up close and personal view of the chemical fire in Crosby.
Mnemosyne
@debbie:
I was afraid of that, but fortunately not. I just had to fill out the form, get the stinkeye from the clerk who processed it, and get a new photo taken.
Apparently I updated the address on my car registration but not my drivers license, so they sent the renewal form to my old address. Not really sure why it’s two different systems, but I guess it is.
TenguPhule
@efgoldman:
I am depressingly certain he’s going to have a photo op involving a National Guard Vehicle with big wheels.
p.a.
@efgoldman: Just checked out 1st movement Mahler 3 on utube, Zubin Mehta LA Phil. Unsettling… Too long to listen to more right now.
Matt McIrvin
@Yutsano: They do, but not every year, so it’s easy to forget.
p.a.
@efgoldman: 1st time as tragedy, then as farce (it is hoped…)
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne:
County and State. Different systems.
efgoldman
@Mnemosyne:
Here in RI, I can do most transactions (license, registration, vehicle taxes) at AAA, and the nearest office is literally steps from my house.
Mnemosyne
@schrodingers_cat:
You need to have the renewal form in hand in order to renew online, and I didn’t have it.
The DMV system lets you check different branches and see what the wait time is for walk-ins. I decided to drive 25 minutes to wait 35 minutes rather than drive 5 minutes to wait 60 minutes because it’s still 105 outside and you usually have to wait outside for 15 or 20 minutes at a minimum until there’s enough room to safely let more people in.
Mnemosyne
@efgoldman:
I didn’t have the renewal form (it went to the wrong address). Without the renewal form, AAA can’t help me.
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne:
That is not normal weather. Just saying.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: We can do registration at the AAA, but not license here in CA.
RandomMonster
@Steeplejack: I sincerely appreciate that!
Mnemosyne
@Matt McIrvin:
I just realized — TSA didn’t even notice when we flew in July! Sheesh ….
Steeplejack
@p.a.:
I had just such a moment this week after my dentist’s appointment. He’s a little bit younger than I am, probably mid- or late 50s, and often we will discuss old music. He said he has been on a Rolling Stones jag lately and has been blown away by their early stuff. (He probably didn’t start listening to them until the mid-’70s, I’m guessing.) I gave him the benefit of some of my blowhard analysis, which I’m sure he appreciated. (But he tapped me for three figures to repair a couple of fillings, so I figure he could suck it up and listen.)
Anyway, a couple of nights ago I got on YouTube to call up “As Tears Go By” and “Sittin’ on a Fence,” and I was blown away to discover that apparently they’ve issued mono remasters of all of the old Stones stuff! Really phenomenally clean sound. There went the whole evening.
And it went a long way toward redeeming the Stones for me. For a long time I have considered them the world’s greatest Rolling Stones cover band, to the detriment of their reputation. To hear that old stuff again in such a pristine form really hit me. I’m going to have to look for the CD set.
The Rolling Stones, “The Last Time” (mono remaster). Links to other songs on the page.
TenguPhule
The FYNYT is reporting that the chemical plant in Houston is back on fire.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@efgoldman: I’ve been reflecting on the fact that many sociopaths learn to mimic the human empathy they are supposed to feel but don’t. But T seems not to have any normal human models to mimic; he doesn’t even seem to know what feelings he’s supposed to be PRETENDING to have.
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
It took forever to get back from Pasadena. They’re rerouting all of the 210’s traffic between the 2 and the 118 onto the 134 because of the fire.
gene108
@efgoldman:
If judges don’t have cases to try, they are out of a job.
They have an incentive to let cases through the door, no matter how silly it looks to us on the outside.
efgoldman
@p.a.:
Don’t know that one, but I imagine the brass playing (and there’s a lot of it) is quite good. The Haitink/Amsterdam Concertbebouw version is beautifully produced, and camera angles highlight all the important parts.
First time I heard it in Boston, the union contract still required an intermission regardless of the requirements of the music, so Burgin started with a three minute cantata by Stravinsky, then intermission, then all of Mahler 3, which the orchestra had never played and the audience had never heard,
divF
@Mnemosyne: I’m reading this trying to figure out if any of these are temperatures. Probably not 2 or 210, but 118 certainly is in play.
TenguPhule
The bad news is that fish are eating lots of plastic. Even worse, they may like it.
Science. Horrifying Science.
TenguPhule
@gene108:
You are aware that the courts nationwide are backlogged across the board with cases already?
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
I seem to remember that it’s two different boxes to check on the online form to change both the DL and any vehicle reg. Have no idea why but it has caused me issues in the past so I became aware of it the last two times I moved and changed everything. They also allow you to change your voter registration at the same time. Easy peasy – if you see all the boxes to check. Miss one and your life gets more difficult.
Mnemosyne
@TenguPhule:
For where I live in So Cal and this time of year, it’s not abnormal. Our hottest month is usually September.
The year we went to Santa Barbara for the weekend and it was 30 degrees hotter than it was in the San Fernando Valley? That was abnormal.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Chet Murthy:
Are you listening to more recent prog bands, or just the classic stuff?
Just One More Canuck
@p.a.: doing a deep dive through youtube, listening to The Band, Richard Manuel in particular
Mnemosyne
@Ruckus:
I must have missed one, because I got my vehicle stuff just fine. Oh well. Hopefully I won’t have a giant shiny spot on my forehead with this photo and the zit on my lip won’t be front and center. I always seem to have some kind of visible skin issue when I get my driver’s license photos taken.
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne:
I am firmly of the belief that triple digits anywhere outside of actual deserts is not normal.
Smiling Mortician
@RandomMonster: Best of luck to you.
geg6
@TenguPhule:
I believe the shoulder injury was from walking Lily in snow/ice. But maybe the roof, too. It’s hard to keep track.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@divF: Freeways(I-210, CA-134, and CA-118).
frosty
@(((CassandraLeo))): Re: Zappa. Someone brought up the Turtles’ silly lyrics in the thread downstairs. Their lead singers went on to be the Phlorescent Leech and Eddie in one of Zappa’s bands, that did some of my favorite tunes of his. This also explains why a high school friend told me the Turtles were a really raunchy band when she saw them. With Phlo and Eddie in the lead, how could they not be?
kdaug
@TenguPhule: You forgot the stranded vehicle in the farmer’s field and trying to re-locate the shoulder with a doorknob, but yeah, that pretty much covers it.
Question is: Is it contagious?
TenguPhule
@geg6:
No, he also nearly killed himself by mopping naked in the shower.
He got out of the roof thing with no other injuries then his dignity. And having his own mom laugh at him.
TenguPhule
@kdaug:
Possibly. To older men.
My own father nearly got himself killed in a similar incident to Cole’s roof thing, indoors and not balanced well on a ladder. Freaked me the fuck out when I came home and saw the blood stains all over. Fortunately it turned out my mother had rushed him to the hospital and he was very very lucky that it was just surface damage and not a cracked skull.
Gin & Tonic
@frosty: Sure, Live at the Fillmore East. One of the all-time classics.
frosty
@Mnemosyne: I just love how SoCal puts “the” in front of the freeway numbers. Here it’s “95 was backed up so I took the195 to the Beltway to get to 83.”
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
I have that shinny spot, it’s called the top of my fucking head.
You may notice that I’m a little peeved about that. Freaking hair grows everywhere but where you want it to. Gravity does work in mysterious ways.
frosty
@Gin & Tonic: That’s the one. I saw them in ’72 or thereabouts and they basically did the same show.
frosty
@Ruckus:
Everything circles back to Zappa tonight. I don’t know which song it’s from but this lyric has stuck with me forever: “Hair growing out every hole in me.”
Ruckus
@TenguPhule:
I see your problem. All of LA other than the coast and back about 2 miles is desert. Because people have lived here so long and brought in water for so long it just doesn’t look like it.
ETA There is even a desert island in the Channel Island chain off of Ventura. Has no water source other than mist, fog and rain, all the plants are native to deserts. Went there once with a college class, very interesting, a desert island in the middle of the ocean.
HinTN
@TenguPhule: Of course it is. It’s peroxide, FFS. Won’t go out until it’s all gone or diluted.
p.a.
@Steeplejack: After The Last Time, I checked out mono Gimme Shelter, while thinking “They back engineered it to mono??”… but no:
Brit record companies also didn’t include the singles on the albums, meaning US versions were dissimilar sometimes up to the late 60’s.
Mnemosyne
@frosty:
It’s apparently a transplanted tic from the East Coast, but I can’t remember where. It’s a habit now, just like I got used to saying “soda” instead of “pop.”
@Ruckus:
I have a five-head and oily skin. Plus I always seem to get my photo taken when it’s incredibly hot outside.
Two license photos ago, I had an actual fungal infection on my forehead, which showed up in the photo as a giant oily red blotch. So having a lip zit will actually be an improvement over that.
Gin & Tonic
@frosty: Yeah, that band folded about that time. By 1973 he had an almost completely different band, with George Duke, Ruth and Ian Underwood, Napoleon Murphy Brock, etc. That was the band for Apostrophe, with the “Yellow Snow” suite and all that. I saw them at the Orpheum in Boston in the fall of ’73, IIRC.
Someone upthread compared Frank with Miles, which is not too far off the mark, IMO. Both had constantly-changing bands, and a lot of those were like grad school for the musicians working in them.
Gin & Tonic
@frosty: Concentration Moon from the We’re Only In It For The Money album.
Steeplejack (phone)
@p.a.:
I have the Beatles mono boxed set, which is phenomenally good, and I’m hoping there is a similar set with these Stones remasters. Haven’t checked it out yet, though.
Repatriated
@frosty:
California prohibits state and county highways from having the same numerical designation as interstates except when they’re the same road (I-110, the Harbor Freeway, becomes CA-110, the Pasadena Freeway, north of I-10). This means you can refer to any highway just by its number.
Not sure why this phrasing (“the 210”) hasn’t caught on in northern CA though. Different traffic reporters back in the day?
HinTN
@(((CassandraLeo))):
I’ll put him up against Miles. I LOVE Miles, but… You either get Zappa or you don’t.
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
I’ve heard a lot of descriptions of the human body or parts thereof and while most of them are either very sexist or blatantly disgusting, I’ve never heard of a five head before.
Ruckus
@Repatriated:
Having lived in both northern and southern CA I’d have to say that there is a cultural difference between the two. Not as huge as between say AR and MA but still a detectable difference.
HinTN
@Gin & Tonic: I saw Zappa and the band in Atlanta one night and all he did was conduct. He was clearly pissed with the band missing the changes. They were still GOOD. Hung around the stage until Ruth came out to take down her instrument and had a nice chat. Also, too, saw some AMAZING shit one night with Napolean Murphy Brock.
Mnemosyne
@Ruckus:
Really? It’s something we used to say in high school. Some photogenic examples.
HinTN
@(((CassandraLeo))): Booman would agree with you, as will I.
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
Can’t say as I’ve ever heard that. However given that definition, I’d say I’m now a twenty head. My forehead goes back a long ways. As far back as to maybe being an afthead.
A little nautical term for you. Of course in real ships terms the aft head is something entirely different.
RandomMonster
@Smiling Mortician: Thank you so much for the warm wishes…
J R in WV
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
Years ago I got to hear Pink Floyd at Rupp arena in Lexington KY very early in their tour, and then again at OSU stadium very near the end of their tour. Amazing live band, and indoors and outdoors were very different shows in many days. Love the Floyd, from early Saucer Full of Secrets and Dark Side of the Moon up to today’s stuff.
As far as Classical music goes, for me it’s hard to beat the Russian piano concertos, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky and Borodin and, well all those guys from Russia, they could make an orchestra and pianist stand up and shout out loud. They make me cry, sometimes, because I can imagine it on the piano, but I can’t do it myself.
J R in WV
Saw Frank Z in 1971, a summer concert at Ravinia Park north of Chicago, the summer home of the Chicago Symphony. There was a covered amphitheater much like Tanglewood in the Berkshires of Western Mass, and a big grassy wooded park around that, with speakers and lights up in the trees. The amphitheater was reserved seating.
Before the concert, the staff announcer came out, in front of a nearly empty amphitheater, and informed everyone that people jumping into reserved seats would be removed by security. Then the lights dimmed, and everyone jumped into the amphitheater for the show. It was fabulous. As someone said, Frank did a lot of conducting, while playing a lot of lead guitar.
Later on in the summer we got to hear Procol Harum, which the amphitheater was pretty well sold out for, unlike the Zappa show. So we laid on the grass and tripped listening to the music and watching the leaves rustle overhead. Nice. It was a horrible loss for Frank to die so young of prostate cancer, he was a real genius.
We had tix for the Grateful Dead in Chicago at the Aragon Ballroom, but they were busted crossing the border from Canada and couldn’t make the show, so Jethro Tull became the headliners, and did a good show. Ian Anderson was a madman. Amazed to see that the Aragon Ballroom is still in business, it was an antique in the 1970s! You could imagine hearing Les Brown or Harry James, or Jimi Hendrix, any of them.
Mnemosyne
@J R in WV:
I have a distict childhood memory of seeing Earth, Wind and Fire at Ravinia, but I was really young and mostly happy to run around on the lawn.
Locally, the Aragon was better known as the Aragon Brawlroom. Some of my brothers saw concerts there but I never did because of its reputation and because I have always been short.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: In my day, the Brawlroom was awesome.
Jim Parish
@Repatriated: As a historical note: when I lived in SoCal, up until 1978, the “the” was not used. It was definitely in use in San Diego by around 2000. I believe it originated in Los Angeles, and spread north, to about Santa Barbara, and south to San Diego via KNX. (KNX uses more power and hence has greater range than it usually allowed; as I understand it, it was one of a handful of stations that were grandfathered when the power limits were imposed. It can easily be tuned in anywhere between SB and SD.)