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8188. Ms. No - 4/25/2006 11:03:29 PM

Oooh! It sounds awesome. I wish I was going to be able to see that production.

8189. Adam Selene - 5/8/2006 3:08:02 AM

Well - I just bought my tickets to 3p opera. $90 each, for 5th row balcony. (whew..add that to Amtrak and it's getting pricy!!)

You can find review summaries and links from the Nellie fan site.

8190. wabbit - 5/10/2006 5:24:26 PM

YouTube has got some fun videos:

Evolution of Dance

It runs six minutes and is work safe, if you aren't eating or drinking anything.

8191. anomie - 5/10/2006 11:46:41 PM

Very cool, Wabbit. There's another one with robot dancing that's hilarious. It's only a minute or so long. I'll try to dig it up.

8192. anomie - 5/11/2006 12:22:10 AM

Fabchannel.com

Here's an interesting web site to check out for free concert videos and music. The sound seems pretty good but I'm on a cheap laptop.

The Amsterdam music website Fabchannel.com has received the Webby Award in the category music.

Webby Awards are for websites what Oscars are for movies. Fabchannel broadcasts pop concerts which were given in the Amsterdam theatres Paradiso and the Melkweg on the internet.
According to the manager of Fabchannel, Mr Justin Kniest, it is the biggest concert archive on the internet.

8193. anomie - 5/11/2006 12:24:14 AM

Last three paragraphs above should be in quotes...from the A-dam news site.

8194. Ulgine Barrows - 5/13/2006 4:32:01 AM

meh

8195. DanDillon - 5/15/2006 8:23:06 PM

Yet another fine reason for this forum's name... from Wiktionary

mote (verb)

1. to embarass or patronize either with or without malice, especially in a case of situational irony; short for demote;

"And as Elizabeth tripped Frank — causing him to drop his soda — Andrew, who was looking on happily, shouted, 'Moted!'"

8196. wonkers2 - 5/15/2006 11:42:53 PM

Welcome back, Mr. Dillon. Long time no see.

8197. wonkers2 - 5/15/2006 11:43:07 PM

Stick around!

8198. arkymalarky - 5/16/2006 2:22:47 AM

I second Wonk! How are the children doing?

8199. DanDillon - 5/17/2006 9:45:47 PM

We're all well. Thanks for asking. How's life in your neck o' the woods?

8200. arkymalarky - 5/17/2006 11:01:25 PM

Very good. School's out in two weeks and the kid's home cleaning my house (remuneration is generous--a tank of gas).

8201. alistairconnor - 5/18/2006 10:46:40 AM

Moted! I like it...

French translation (courtesy of the daughters) :

Cassssssééééééééééééé!

(Cassé, broken)

8202. wonkers2 - 5/19/2006 2:02:07 PM

Interesting obituary.R.I.P. Peter Viereck.

8203. wonkers2 - 5/19/2006 2:28:25 PM

"God is like Kilroy; He,too, sees it all;
That's how he knows of every sparrow's fall;
That's why we prayed each time the tightropes cracked
On which our loveliest clowns contrived their act.
The G. I. Faustus who was
everywhere
Strolled home again. "What was it like outside?"
Asked Can't, with his good neighbors Ought and But
and pale Perhaps and grave-eyed Better Not;
For 'Kilroy' means: the world is very wide.
He was there, he was there, he was there!

And in the suburbs Can't sat down and cried."

Final stanza of Peter Viereck's "Kilroy Was Here"

8204. wonkers2 - 5/19/2006 2:51:57 PM

From Poetry Magazine:

"Schlessinger, recalling that Viereck, amazingly enough was the great-grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm I, through the Kaiser's mistress, the actress Edwina Viereck, calls him a 'romantic classicist, a poetic constitutionalist, an immoderate moderate, a Bohemian who argues for propriety and restraint.' Viereck himself put it this way: 'Progress is achieved in zig zags, by constant readiness to readjust to reality. A straight line is th longest distance between two points and the bloodiest.'"

8205. wonkers2 - 5/25/2006 1:11:21 PM

The Feds in My Head

8206. jexster - 5/26/2006 7:33:13 PM

For the ages...

check out #2 on ITunes/MSNMusic/Rhapsody etc...

"Chimes Of Freedom" - The Byrds
"Chimes Of Freedom" - Youssou N'Dour
"Chimes Of Freedom (live)" - Bruce Springsteen
"Chimes Of Freedom (Live Version)" - Bob Dylan


    Far between sundown's finish an' midnight's broken toll
    We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing
    As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds
    Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing
    Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight
    Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight
    An' for each an' ev'ry underdog soldier in the night
    An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

    In the city's melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched
    With faces hidden while the walls were tightening
    As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin' rain
    Dissolved into the bells of the lightning
    Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake
    Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an' forsaked
    Tolling for the outcast, burnin' constantly at stake
    An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

    Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail
    The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
    That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze
    Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder
    Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind
    Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind
    An' the unpawned painter behind beyond his rightful time
    An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

    Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
    For the disrobed faceless forms of no position
    Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts
    All down in taken-for-granted situations
    Tolling for the deaf an' blind, tolling for the mute
    Tolling for the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute
    For the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an' cheated by pursuit
    An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

    Even though a cloud's white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
    An' the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
    Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
    Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
    Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
    For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
    An' for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
    An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

    Starry-eyed an' laughing as I recall when we were caught
    Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
    As we listened one last time an' we watched with one last look
    Spellbound an' swallowed 'til the tolling ended
    Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
    For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an' worse
    An' for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
    An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

    8207. Ulgine Barrows - 5/27/2006 6:55:31 AM

    All that i'm asking tonight, is that I make it back home alive

    No explosions, no crashes, no fights, I wanna get back home...
    Back home...back home...
    I wanna get back home...
    Back home...back home...
    I wanna get back home...
    Back home...back home...
    I wanna get back home...
    Back home...back home...
    Back home tonite

    ~Lost On Yer Merry Way
    Grandaddy

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