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graham4anything
clint
honkytonk man
the kid in the video (scene from movie) is his son Kyle who is an accomplished Jazz musician
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijJbAG7tLOA

he is very ill in this scene at the end
and the studio guy with the beret who takes the end is Marty Robbins(who ironically died very soon after this was recorded)
and Marty had a top 10 country song with it

(more to come)
Livyjr
QUOTE(graham4anything @ May 16 2009, 04:32 PM) *
he is very ill in this scene at the end

He is very ill in real life?

Or just the clip?

And I do remember Marty Robbins ....

What a small world in some ways, graham ....

All interconnected ....

And so ...
graham4anything
gran torino
clint
(then singer Jamie Cullen does his version, both from end credits

this movie was the best movie of 2008
well worth seeing for many reasons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZmbO6BQhWU


Clint has done the theme music (usually jazz, for his last half dozen or more movies
He could have been a jazz musician

He also did a couple of full length concerts a few years ago
graham4anything
QUOTE(Livyjr @ May 16 2009, 06:36 PM) *
QUOTE(graham4anything @ May 16 2009, 04:32 PM) *
he is very ill in this scene at the end

He is very ill in real life?

Or just the clip?

And I do remember Marty Robbins ....

What a small world in some ways, graham ....

All interconnected ....

And so ...



sorry, in this clip, I can see I didn't word it right.
The singer in Honkytonk man is dying of TB
Livyjr
QUOTE(graham4anything @ May 16 2009, 04:36 PM) *
He also did a couple of full length concerts a few years ago

The things that one doesn't know, graham ....

It's a wonder ...

And so ...
Livyjr
The lilacs are in bloom up here, graham ....

The air smells like perfume ....

And so ...
graham4anything
QUOTE(Livyjr @ May 16 2009, 07:04 PM) *
The lilacs are in bloom up here, graham ....

The air smells like perfume ....

And so ...



we are being hit with a major thunderstorm at the moment, and its suppose to continnue overnight and maybe in the morning
Livyjr
And it must have moved north, as well, graham ...

Rained all night up here ....

And so ...
Livyjr
Asturias (Leyenda) performed by Xue-fei Yang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehxfblyr-UI
Livyjr
Andres Segovia - Asturias

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9efHwnFAkuA...feature=related
Livyjr
Xuefei Yang

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yang Xuefei is an award-winning Chinese classical guitarist.

Early years

Yang began playing the guitar at the age of seven, and started to receive formal instruction when she was ten, studying under the famous guitarist Chen Zhi, later Chairman of the China Classical Guitar Society.

Her public debut came at the First China International Guitar Festival, where she met with immediate acclaim.

At the same time, Yang was presented with her first foreign guitar (a "Pepe" children's guitar from Aria), by the celebrated Japanese guitar maker Masaru Kohno.

She went on to take second prize at the Beijing Senior Guitar competition, being the only child competitor, aged eleven.

As a schoolgirl, Yang rapidly achieved an international reputation, playing extensively in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Spain, and Australia, and giving concert tours in Taiwan, Japan and Portugal.

At twelve, she played in Tokyo for the first time, and was given a special award by the Guitar Alliance of Japan; this time, Masaru Kohno took Yang to his studio and let her have her pick from among his world-renowned concert guitars.

She would play the Kohno guitar, made of cedar and jacaranda, regularly over the next five years.

During her Madrid debut at age 14, the composer Joaquín Rodrigo was in the audience; in 1995, after John Williams heard her play in Beijing, he was so impressed that he gave two of his own Greg Smallman guitars to her conservatory, for her and other top students to play.

Further education

After completing her secondary schooling, Yang went on to complete her studies in Beijing, becoming the first guitarist to enter a music school in China, and obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree from the prestigious Central Conservatory of Music.

She then become the first guitarist from China to study in the United Kingdom and the first guitarist ever to receive an international scholarship from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music for her postgraduate programme at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

She moved to London in 2000, studying under Michael Lewin, John Mills and Timothy Walker and further establishing her international career with many solo recitals and concert performances in the UK and Europe.

She graduated with distinction in 2002, achieving a Recital Diploma and receiving the Royal Academy of Music Principal's prize for exceptional all-round studentship.

Awards

Yang Xuefei has won numerous prizes in music competitions including the Stotsenberg International Classical Guitar Competition, the San Francisco International Guitar Competition and the Young Concert Artist International competition in the United States, and the Darwin International Guitar Competition in Australia.

She was awarded first prize in the Ivor Mairants Guitar Award by the City of London's Worshipful Company of Musicians, and won the Dorothy Grinstead Prize for a recital at Fairfield Hall, Croydon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuefei_Yang
Livyjr
Xuefei Yang plays Butterfly Lovers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2Ci3q7wHo
Livyjr
QUOTE(Livyjr @ May 9 2009, 05:00 AM) *
1003 hits @ 6:58 AM EST, graham ....

People stopping by to listen to inane chatter from people sitting out on the stoop ....

Top 40 radio, graham ....

If you want to sell a record, you got to play music that people can stand to hear ....

And so ...

1,479 @ 5:27 PM EST

I wonder if young people know what TOP 40 radio was, graham ....

And so ...
Livyjr
Yahoo!

graham is back ....

And so ...
graham4anything
QUOTE(Livyjr @ May 17 2009, 05:28 PM) *
QUOTE(Livyjr @ May 9 2009, 05:00 AM) *
1003 hits @ 6:58 AM EST, graham ....

People stopping by to listen to inane chatter from people sitting out on the stoop ....

Top 40 radio, graham ....

If you want to sell a record, you got to play music that people can stand to hear ....

And so ...

1,479 @ 5:27 PM EST

I wonder if young people know what TOP 40 radio was, graham ....

And so ...



I wonder if people remember what an instrumental is

Top 40 in the 60s and early to mid 70s played everything back to back, and it worked
now they say you can't do it

rock-pop-soul(r&b,hiphop,rap, whatever style) country, instrumentals, easy listeninig, classic hard rock, legends
all back to back

back in the 60s you go to the beach in NY and every single person had their transistor radios all tuned to the same station
and if you walked from the water to the soda shack in the far end, over the hot sand, (where you got the little green bottles of coke
that tasted so great and real, it almost burned going down
and you heard the same song same station on 100 different radios like going into another zone

(but then probably some here would be the type to kick sand in your face or take your radio and chuck it into the salt water)
graham4anything
QUOTE(Livyjr @ May 17 2009, 02:04 PM) *
Xuefei Yang plays Butterfly Lovers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2Ci3q7wHo



all music is great
music is music
matters little what type (which is just a label that is needless)
Livyjr
If it were not for the rests, graham, the silence between the notes, there would be no music ....

It would all just be noise .....

The sounds of silence make music what it is ....

And so ...
Livyjr
39@6:18 AM EST
Livyjr
I just heard an advertisement on the radio encouraging people to come in to these Chrysler dealerships that are being closed by the U.S. government to get a REAL GOOD DEAL on a Chrysler product ....

Then the kicker was - YOU ARE GETTING THE BEST WARRANTY IN THE BUSINESS ....

BUT ....

What good is that?

The dealer you are getting the REAL GOOD DEAL from is giving you the REAL GOOD DEAL this week, because next week or the week after, the dealer WILL NOT BE THERE!

So what good is your warranty then?

And that answer is just about as good as the warranty on a new computer, where to get it fixed, you have to take it to somebody over in India ....

And so ...
graham4anything
you know what warranty is good?
(none)...

but it could pay on a cheap obsolete item if one planned on it early enough

If you buy something like a 1 inch tv-radio and took a lifetime warranty that it would work, come June, it won't work as advertised, at which point
one could take it back saying well, it don't work (and there is no attatchment for a one inch tv)
I have one of those, NO warranty, but the guy at Radio Shack told me had I taken the warranty it would have been honored...

I normally don't take warranties.

especially on computers, especially lap tops
the worst is Dell
no one but Dell will fix a dell, then you gotta lose it for a week and bother mailing it out (and then they think someone with no knowledge can unscrew the back and take out the important stuff???
If I knew how to do that, I wouldn't need Dell to fix it
(though I have a broken Toshiba now and not dell, it's all the same).
graham4anything
hey livyjr
did you see IH posted in the relgion sections some email someone sent him about July 5
everyone hitting their knees and praying

(or is it hitting your knees and puking after too much celebrating on the 4th???)

anyhow, didn't they send the same emails black friday, and all the zealots hit their knees running (over Mr Damour) at the Walmarts?
graham4anything
onto another subject

Sunday, I went to a graduation ceremony not to far across the Queens border, and there was a surprise guest speaker

It was none other than Chuck Schumer, esteemed senator of NY (who must have somehow gotten away from the microphones and cameras to attend.)

And in the midst of a decent speech to the graduating class, I almost choked on something he said, which most people would have glossed over as not being really important in his speech.

He was saying one should find something they like

His exact words were "I did not grow up thinking about becoming a politician as my career"

...

a politician as a career...

that is every thing wrong in America today.

The founding fathers did NOT indend for people making a career out of being a politician, now did they???
(didn't George Washington himself fear just this?)
Livyjr
QUOTE(graham4anything @ May 19 2009, 05:01 AM) *
no one but Dell will fix a dell, then you gotta lose it for a week and bother mailing it out (and then they think someone with no knowledge can unscrew the back and take out the important stuff???

I had a Gateway and to get tech advice, I had to talk to someone over in India ....

After going round and round with the computer wallah over in India, it was determined that the computer had to be evaluated by Gateway, but that could only be done down in Texas ...

So I had to box up the computer and pay to have it shipped to Texas which was dear enough ....

Then, they lost it ....

They had no idea where it was .....

After a few weeks, I found the computer, but it was not fixed, even though they told me it was ....

I escalated that matter all the way up to Gateway's CEO ....

Between professional politicians and worthless warranties, this America of the 21st century is quite a ******-up place, alright ....

And so ...
Livyjr
QUOTE(graham4anything @ May 19 2009, 08:40 AM) *
hey livyjr

did you see IH posted in the relgion sections some email someone sent him about July 5 everyone hitting their knees and praying

No, I missed that, graham ....

As you say, people will be on their knees on the fifth with their hang-overs from the fourth ....

And they won't likely be praying ....

Unless it is for a swift death to put them out of their misery from the hang-over ....

And so ...
Livyjr
QUOTE(graham4anything @ May 19 2009, 09:11 AM) *
He was saying one should find something they like

His exact words were "I did not grow up thinking about becoming a politician as my career"

...

a politician as a career...

that is every thing wrong in America today.

The founding fathers did NOT indend for people making a career out of being a politician, now did they???

(didn't George Washington himself fear just this?)

The founding fathers are dead, graham ....

And so is George Washington, along with everything that he said ....

And yes, I would say that he gave us more than ample warning about Chuck Schumer ...

But sounds of silence, graham ....

I don't think anyone heard him ....

The words of George Washington are written on tenement halls ....

And men's room walls ....

And that is about it ....

So we end up with Chuck Schumer as our prize ....

A professional politician ....

A man always on the make ....

He'll sell you out for a dollar or a dime ....

And call it compromise for the good of the nation ...

And so ...
Livyjr
38@7:16 AM EST
Livyjr
45@6:12 AM EST
Livyjr
Here's hoping that you have a fine Memorial Day weekend, graham ...

And everyone else as well .....

Safe travels if you are out there on life's highway .....

And so ....
Livyjr
49@7:12AM EST
Livyjr
Bluegrass is on the radio and all is right with the world ...
graham4anything
QUOTE(Livyjr @ May 23 2009, 07:06 AM) *
Here's hoping that you have a fine Memorial Day weekend, graham ...

And everyone else as well .....

Safe travels if you are out there on life's highway .....

And so ....


same to you, not driving this weekend at all.
Staying by the lake, family is in from Boston

though they are still not sure what the weather has in store tonight and tomorrow
Livyjr
I'm not driving, either, graham ...

I don't need that stress in my life on a long holiday week-end ...

Do you live on a lake, then, graham?
Livyjr
Sun is shining up this way, although it was a little cool this morning ....

Some rain overnight, but not much ....

Maybe some thunderstorms today, but right now, there is nothing on the horizon ....

And so ...

graham4anything
QUOTE(Livyjr @ May 23 2009, 03:40 PM) *
I'm not driving, either, graham ...

I don't need that stress in my life on a long holiday week-end ...

Do you live on a lake, then, graham?


yes, right down the block...we moved here from NYC specifically for the lakes/trees/and room to walk and room for kids to play
when people think of NJ, they never think of where we are, which is NW jersey but not all the way west, but close to all the way north

where there are still working farms in the area
Livyjr
How big a lake is it, graham, would you say?



Livyjr
New Jersey is a misunderstood state, alright, graham ....

The words New Jersey conjure up images of endless traffic jams on the NJ Turnpike ....

And Atlantic City ....

And Wildwood ...

And Newark ....

I must confess that I don't know a lot about the state, myself .....

But it is called the "garden state", isn't it?

So there must be farmer's fields there somewhere, one would think ....

And so ....

Livyjr
Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMWKbtKW1tc
Livyjr
And can't forget going up Cripple Creek ...

Going on a run ...

Going up Cripple Creek ....

Going to have some fun ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4sqishGuYw...feature=related
Livyjr
Buffy Sainte Marie - "Cripple Creek"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvCXPqRLVpY
graham4anything
It's big enough to sail, and swim

Did you ever hear of a place in CT named SquantzPond?
use to go there with my grandparents a few Sundays a year during the summer

ventured back there a few years ago, still is beautiful
across the NY/CT border from Danbury
think its CT state park

Livyjr
QUOTE(graham4anything @ May 23 2009, 06:11 PM) *
It's big enough to sail, and swim

Then let me say that I am sincerely happy for you and yours that you get a chance to live there, graham ....

It is nice being near water if you can be ....

And when you live near a lot of trees, there is more oxygen in the air you breathe because of them ....

And so ...
Livyjr
QUOTE(graham4anything @ May 23 2009, 06:11 PM) *
Did you ever hear of a place in CT named SquantzPond?

use to go there with my grandparents a few Sundays a year during the summer

No, I never did, graham, which of course means nothing, since there is a lot that I have never heard of ....

For whatever reasons, or none, I never really got down Connecticut way all that much, although it is not all that far away .....

I spent a lot of time in Vermont and Massachusetts, so I know them better, but Connecticut, being south of them, was just far enough away to be too far to go just for a drive ....

And I didn't know of anything or anyone down there to draw me that way .....

Whereas for someone down in NYC, you can get to Ct. fairly easy on some good roads down your way ....

And so ...
graham4anything
ever get to Cooperstown and the Baseball Hall of Fame? (not that its really close to you either, they made sure to put it away from just about everyone).

I have been to it four different times for different reasons over the years

you gotta be in the right frame of mind to enjoy it (sort of like in an odd way Disney is)

but anyhow...
I always wanted to live by a lake and speficially one you could swim on. I don't like ocean swimming
and specifically sought out a place when we were moving

there are about 25 different towns out here where swimming is a big deal, even had some Olympic dreams in the different towns

you know what's odd ...

kids out here can't wait to leave for the big city
people from the big city come here to get some air
big paradox I guess

living out here, I now would never want to live in an apartment in NYC or the boros again
graham4anything
I am watching a 30 minute informercial for one of those 100 song music sets from time-life interspersed with videos
I always seem to watch this, even though its just snippets of songs and I could youtube any of them full length

I once had a medley about 30 minutes long, that had short piece of over 500 songs from WABC radio from like 1963 to 1982, don't think it was
missing anything
someone should modernize it to the present (and backdate it to say 1900.

You know, there are major stars from around 1900-1930 completely forgotten now
right up to say, the Big Band era and Bing Crosby

Henry Burr, Billy Murray and many others, now just forgotten like moldy old 78s, 45s 33 1/3 and one of these days cds and dvds

music was suppose to be listened to on vinyl if you ask me
Livyjr
QUOTE(graham4anything @ May 24 2009, 09:30 AM) *
ever get to Cooperstown and the Baseball Hall of Fame?

Actually, Cooperstown is not all that far away, graham .....

About an hour's drive or so .....

And yes, I have been there several times, although I never went to the baseball Hall of Fame ...

That lake is the Glimmerglass in James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer ....

Up at the other end, there is an old mansion where you can walk on trails through the woods ....

They have chamber music concerts in that mansion from time to time, or at least they did ....

And so ...
Livyjr
QUOTE(graham4anything @ May 24 2009, 09:30 AM) *
I always wanted to live by a lake and speficially one you could swim on.

There are a lot of lakes around up here where I live, graham ....

I always preferred to swim in a big hole down at the bottom of a big waterfall on a creek up here, or to tube the creek further down when the water was high after a thunder storm in the mountains ...

I go out in the countryside on Sundays to play my banjo, and where I go, there is the sound of flowing water ...

I also have a stream flowing along my property line so I have that flowing water to listen to, as well ....

I like to watch the water and listen to it and be on it in a sailboat, but not to be in it .....

And so ....

Livyjr
I just posted a story entitled "Komodo dragon attacks terrorize Indonesia villages", graham .....

What is up with that, do you think?

The people said they always got along with the dragons before this ....

Is the world going crazy?

Or what?

And so ....
Livyjr
47@6:11 PM EST
graham4anything
QUOTE(Livyjr @ May 24 2009, 05:01 PM) *
I just posted a story entitled "Komodo dragon attacks terrorize Indonesia villages", graham .....

What is up with that, do you think?

The people said they always got along with the dragons before this ....

Is the world going crazy?

Or what?

And so ....



maybe the dragon was a friend of Mr. Damour, and he heard the news and just snapped

I like the sound of water myself...it is very soothing

I like watching the towns kids on the lake having fun, diving, swimming, laughing

I like being in the water too

I remember one summer I had a good book by Stephen King, and damn if I didn't take it and a float out in the water, and spent six hours reading
without stopping
didn't even know the time was passing

always liked the water since I was little
Used to be really great swimmer too, before I got (heavy)...

have it of mind to go everyday I can this year and lose some weight, though something will get in the way
txbluejay
Hey graham, that sounds nice, living close to the lake. Yeah, I don't picture New Jersey being that way, but it's nice to know there's room to spread out and relax.

Speaking of water, here's a great song by Little River Band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bKwRW0l-Qk
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