Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 05-06-19 18:28 <=-

I have an organ version of it... that part is in the pedals....

This time I read "I have a vegan version of it."

It is a food echo, after all... ;)

What makes a vegan version of the Pachelbel or anything
else food?

You have a point there.... but some do consider vegan to at least
include some food.... ;)

I hear about this cult breatharianism ... .
The Pachelbel should qualify, as it has no
substance whatever.

Recently, my massage therapist Sharon had a "soothing" version of Kanon variations interspersed with ocean shore sounds going on the ipod in the room.... she'd had it on for the previous client, and I didn't tell her
to turn it off (sometimes she needs the "soothing")... Afterwards, she
admitted that two hours of the stuff was a bit too much... (G) And I
admitted that it was a bit much for me, too... and mentioned how much
you would have "liked" it (a propos of our conversation here)... (G) Reminiscent to me of how little I like one playthrough of the Raveling
Bolero, let alone multiple ones in sequence.... ;)

It was one of those ironies that I have spent many hours
of my life being paid for playing the thing.

At least you were paid for it... ;) I may have been paid for it for a time or two when it was for a wedding.... :)

I doubt I've ever played it without being bribed.

I wasn't even bribed for family weddings... ;)

A pity. You could have said, okay, I'll play the
Mouret or the Wagner or the Mendelssohn (all
overused but not intrinsically worthless), but if
you want the Pachelbel, you'll have to pay.

They might have had to pay for the Wagner, actually... ;) Most of my
siblings had higher tastes anyway... and some of them needed a bit of
work to get to the proper level to sound good... ;)

And some organs, one gets 4 or 5 manuals.... takes a long time
to read through all of those... (G)

You could die of Bourdon.

Or Swell....

One could pretend to die of Fauxbourdon.

Would one then hear the Voix Celeste....? Or only pretend to....?

And be a diaphone-y?

More likely a Diapaison... :)

That is so. As much as cellists with the Swan or
Kanon.

Figured as much... ;)

It's not going to be the most interesting gig I've ever
done, but I'm not nearly so good as I was, either.

And they are paying you fairly well, as well... :)

I hope so. No contract ... but old clients who
generally paid ok.

Has that happened yet...?

Payment has not happened as of this writing.

But you've done the gig... :)

I do enjoy ensemble playing, generally... :)

But, as my Peter Pauper's book of Confucius sayings
said, one rat dropping spoils the whole pot of rice.

What usually spoils it for me is if one (or more) of the participants
acts like they are too good for the rest of the group... puts the rest
on edge so that it's harder to play well...

It's true, it's true!

[nodding solemnly] Yup...

Yeah, I used to be able to thump away at F&S songs
and sing at the same time. My secret was that I
transcribed everything to the key of C. I was good
enough at that to fool Carol Rand (who should have
known better) into thinking I made a living doing that.

You might have been able to... not that you'd probably have wanted
to.... ;)

I'd get tired of the white keys in a jiffy but am not
confident about my capacity to learn the black ones.
It's true that Schoenberg said "there's still plenty
of music to be written in C major," but even that
doesn't imply that man can live on C major alone.

When you get tired of just the white keys, one just slips in a black key
or two, just to season the mix... ;)

Though from the looks of the news all ribaldry is
verboten. People are getting sanctioned or even
losing their jobs for stuff that seems to me to be
perfectly harmless.

Perspective on things even vaguely bordering on the sexual has shifted,
to be sure.... not just in humor, but in general relationship... much
too strident in many cases, from what I see....

And a major motivator these days is self-aggrandizement
(and the denigration of others as either a generator or
a by-product). It's a pity that truth (and I do believe
that there is such a thing) is taking a bit of a back seat.

Agreed.

... Weather forecast: Chili today, hot tamale.

Old joke. The secondary joke is that tamales are
never very spicy.

So they might be 'colder' than the chili... ;)

Chili is seldom chilly. Tamales are hot right out of
the steamer, and I suppose that could amplify the
chemical heat, but the most my tongue has been able
to squeeze out of a tamale is a modest tingle. This
makes me wonder if any fancy trendy spot has ever
made chili con carne sorbet. I've had chile-based
frozen dishes, but not anything with that particular
appealing combo of beef, onions, garlic, cumin, and
dried capsicum powders that we know by that name.

Could be an interesting concept.....

For some of us (myself) optimum health comes
from one meal a day, possibly one every two days.

Richard and I have generally found one major meal a day to be plenty, nowadays.... whether lunch or supper... small snackings to
supplement... :)

I bought some generic Market Basket cheese doodles
the other day. A couple handfuls of these and a
full meal have proven to be well more than enough.

I could see that... I tend to snack on different things than that, but
that's about the right quantity... ;)

I'd go so far as to say on most things, yes.

As long as it's not so open that the brains fall out. (G)

I've heard that before. Never figured out what
it meant.

The idea that being too open-minded would make one stop thinking altogether... and quit being at all discerning...

Which I think is a bit of a canard; open-mindedness
to me is the antithesis of empty-mindedness.

Perhaps some of us have seen empty-mindedness being touted as being
open-minded a bit too often... A truly open mind can still reason, and
hear what others say... And I've also seen those with closed minds that
are probably pretty empty despite (or because?) of it... ;0

ttyl neb

... i can't brain today, i have the dumb.

___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
* Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140)