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I think I'd like a good Mozart opera, if ever I'm going to connect with Mozart, there will likely be words and staging involved. Opera in general, I'm becoming curious about attending....I know I'd like to see Tosca (and just missed it here last year) some Wagner and other later operas, Wozzeck and/or Lulu, definitely. But opportunities here are neither ready nor affordable. Plus, my wife is pretty, uh, adamant about not going. She's still got my old blanket dislike of the sound of "classical vocal" sound (I'm not fully over it myself), and I know how that's like, so either I go by myself, go to Ashley Madison and look to have an Opera Affair, or else stay home and keep working on the wife. It'll come, eventually?

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Well as long as you're playing it like that... I think this one has infinitely better, or at least significantly less weepyvictimy, lyrics. Stainy! Black Coughing: Black Coffin: WeepyVictimy (or Stainy) done so much better than Peggy Lee, or anybody. Coffee/cigarettes, kinda too Stan Kentony Capitol Neurotiphonic Publicity Photos for me, let's cut to the chase take it straight to the graveyard!

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For all the focus on how the DH is about empowering offense, it sometimes goes overlooked that it also empowers a pitching staff - having a DH hitting instead of a pitcher alters how your team can handle its staff and bullpen. It frees up a manager to handle a staff as more "purely" a staff, without having to look at should I risk wasting/overextending a pitcher because he's due to bat next inning. Different, yes, but still a strategy that can become quite engaging when handled with aplomb. Truthfully, I like there still being a difference between leagues in this regard. World Series/Interleague is still weird, but you know that if it were up to me, I'd say do away with inter-league play and for the WS....maybe get some sabermetic university geek lab to run a year's worth of simulations 24/7/365 to see what would happen if you played a huge bulknumber of games where each league's team played to their own model in the same game - the NL team has pitchers hit, the AL team uses the DH, yes, all in the same game - and then take it from there. I suspect the end results would be skewed toward the AL/DH model, but if in the end, pitching is what wins (and this I do believe), then maybe not so much. I'd gladly put my tax dollars to work for that kind of research! Back in the real world, though, how many days until pitchers and catcher report is it now?

Here's the Tina Fey version, not much on singing but should you need ideas for staging, hey.

Adding a DH to the batting order (not to the roster, really) is/was a rule change. You think somebody snuck that one by one day and by the time somebody noticed it was like, oh, wow, who knew...welllllll...., ok then! Adding a 10th fielder is not quite the same as having a DH in the batting order. You still have 9 guys on the both sides of the ball. And also keep in mind that there is no rule that says that an AL team must use a DH or that the DH must be used in the pitchers' place. If you got Super Sluggo on the mound and Uber Mensoza at shortstop,, hey, DH for the SS and let Sluggo hit that day. It happens very rarely, but I gotta think that some team some day is going to be in a situation where somebody crunches some numbers and says let's try this as a recurring plan, and it actually works. Heads will explode, but games will continue to be played. I'm thinking htat some teams have actually used a pitcher as a DH, as a response to an immediate situation. Contrary to casual observance, DHs create a strategy of their own. Batting order, who plays in the field on any given day, how aggressively you do or do not move on the bases, all that and more come into play when you do not have that pitcher hitting in the 9 hole. Pitching and defensive strategies change too. It's not an elimination of traditional strategy, it's a recasting/reframing of it. Having watched mostly AL ball now for decades after years of being a NL-only guy, I get that it "feels" different. But it's like any other rules change, at first, nobody gets the finer points of it and they just thud along doing the obvious, but then, some guys start thinking, hey, what happens if we do This with it, and it works, and then everybody follows suit, lather rinse repeat. Evolution. And if you want to get hyper-granular about it, "pitcher" is not an offensive position, nor is any other player's position in the field. Imagine a game where your batting order had to be the same from game to game, that would suck, that would be stupid, who would want that level of arbitrary rigidity? Yes, the DH adds a variable between offensive and defensive positions that did not exist before, but there are so many different things that have changed so many other things about how the game gets played while still keeping the playing of the game intact that it's hard for me at this point to get all puristy about this one thing (still not happy about the scheduling thing, but apparently that's just a matter of me being on the wrong side of history, oh well.). You still got 9 players on both sides of the ball, 3 outs per inning, 3 strikes per out, no clock, 27 outs (in theory) to win, three bases, 90 feet, 60 feet, 6 inches, grass/"grass" (and ok, that's another game-changer), dirt, fences and foul territory all of them totally non-standardized, (and think about what other sport has that!), and still only one way to score only one unit of scoring. Pitchers still gotta pitch, hitters still gotta hit, fielders still gotta field. As long as you got all that, you still have baseball, in whatever form it takes.

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Rosemary Clooney & Chris Connor (with Maynard).

Giuffre's always seen like an "observational" guy to me. Again, very much meant as a compliment. I suppose it's possible that he grew up in Dallas as he did and never got exposed to the elements that went into the overt R&B style of "Big Girl", but something like "The Train & The River" suggests that no, he knew "what" it was but did not feel compelled to try and "own" it in any kind of literal/career way. That's a pretty cool thing, actually, imo.

Exactly. There have always been changes that affect performance, and therefore, strategy. The DH might be one of the more "obvious" ones, but it's really not any more "radical" than was changing away from the dead ball (which was done openly) and going to the juiced ball (which was not, and may not have yet been fully admitted to, I don't know) and then back again. Let's see what the strategy of a game with both a DH and a dead ball and a higher mound looks like! We're not playing the "original" game any more, and haven't been for over a century (look up the foul strike rule). Arguments for or against implementing the DH in both leagues can be made on many grounds (and I'm not unsympathetic to the emotional appeal of keeping any remaining vestiges of the game as I grew up with it), but "you can't change the game" really should not be among them, because yes, you can, and yes, you have already done so more than a few times. Night baseball, anybody?

Here's one (really, two) tradition(s) that got fucked with: http://www.hardballtimes.com/the-height-of-the-hill/ And let's not forget the glory days when the AL Umps wore those big ass external chest protectors and the NL umps wore the internal ones. Anecdotal evidence suggests that that led to two subtly different strike zones for each league. Anyway...I think it would be fun to get the old Strat-O-Matic out of the closet, and play a season with some older teams using a DH instead of a pitcher in the 9 spot. I suspect that the strategy would be different, but it would still be baseball strategy, as it's still gonna be about offense getting runners on base and then moving them all the way around and defense trying to keep that from happening.

Going to Google by default seems to be the best option. Example: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=pops+poopadeaux+site:organissimo.org&start=0 I really do not even attempt to use the board search function now, ever. I act like it's not an option, like it's not even there at all, because in its current state of defuntionality (not even dysfunctionality - defunctionality), it's not.

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Are they battery-powered windup toys?

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Ok, Big Bad Mother has a loaded .45 at your head and is about to get the shakes. He gives you the choice between the DH or a return to the Dead Ball. If you choose, he drops the gun. If not, hey, you're the new wallpaper. Call it. Now.

John Jenkins & C. Sharpe too, yeah, that whole "street" side of Bird thing, unapologetically street. Shafiq Hadi. And really, Roscoe too, I think.

I'd like to think of it as parody, but he does it too well, without malice or mockery, and he's from Texas. So I feel it more as "observation" than "parody", which, really, might have been true of all Giuffre's music, and I mean that as a compliment. Oh, 78s...I picked up a McShann 78 of "Sepia Bounce" at a flew market for grins, like, late 70s. Took it home and got goosebumps when Bird's break came...was not expecting THAT coming out of a record that sounded like that. Probably all "psychological", but I think that sometimes the "cleanness" of "best quality possible" sound of older musics takes away the artifacts of age. Does this happen anywhere in nature?

Sweet. I still wonder what was behind "No Refill", the original incarnation especially. Not the "how", but the "why". That, when taken into consideration as a whole, is some weird, mysterious shit. I've nver seen the original liner notes to see if there's an explanation. Maybe the damn dog knows. I really think Thad's been under-appreciated because he fell between the cracks in a time where being on either side of them was so crucial. Fortunately, we have history, which when done right, can shine some light down into those cracks and see if there's any survivors. Shine that light on Thad, and shine it brightly.

Even bigger groove at an even faster speed, so as to be able to bring all the noise.

Is he wearing shoes with buckles instead of laces? If so, that is so cool.

Wonderful gig, great group, fascinating repertoire. The intimacy of a chamber group, etcetcetc. But this one...hairpin dynamics, some of the most fluid time I've ever heard, and by god, they swung in that way that classical music can swing when it's really being brought home, in the moment. I love it when a group plays music with which I totally unfamiliar, music with some complexity to it, and delivers it with such clarity, that you can't help but follow the ideas as they come out/go around/etc. Clarity of playing, clarity of vision, clarity but never complacency. It's exhilarating. Brenda was actually moved to tears. I just had a big grin on my face most of the night. Contrary to the crankyass that's on display here sometimes, I actually love laughing and smiling whenever possible. Tonight it was easy, so, good time. I also think Brahms might have been nuts, in a very quiet way. Yes?

The last few weeks have been a little "unsettled", family things and such, but all is well now. I have listened to Reality and found it very much to my liking.