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Seems like it'll be a nice night out either way, a fine quartet playing a good program, and no wedding reception in sight. And bonus win points for there being Janacek!

Have been an O's fan going back to 1966, but Nelson Cruz left a sour taste here with the whole steroid-suspension/refusal to appeal/miss most of the second/half of the season as a result/team really needrd you/free agent/blah-blah-blah, and besides, Royals are a once-proud (and quality) organization back from the grave with a lot of young home grown talent playing their ass off in a smaller market. They've already accomplished what I set their goal to be - reveal the A's and Angels for the frauds they were, so I am giving them my backing from here on out. The Orioles are not frauds, however, and will be tough competition (or not!). However, they built their strength on the backs of a lof of Rangers castoffs, and with Cruz, somebody who destoyed a good piece of fan goodwill with the way he left. When the whole thing started, we were calling the Orioles the ranger's AAAA club, then, as the got better, Rangers East, and now, this year that must never happen again, AL East Champions.I can feel good for them if they win, but...Darren O'Day? Seriously? I can still pull for Orioles against either SF, St.L or LA in the WS, (especially the Satanic Cardinals) but I'd feel better about doing it with the Royals. Memories of Whitey Herzog, Dick Hoswer, Cookie Rojas, Frank White, Willie Wilson, Jerry White, George Brett, Dan Quisenberry, Amos Otis, and so many more still resonate here, and it was just a very few years ago that I had a young resurgent bunch of happy guys playing happy baseball and kinda coming out of nowhere in my backyard, so hey, that's my kind of vibe.

Takács Quartet Monday, October 6, 2014, 8:00PM | at Caruth Auditorium Program: Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat Major, Hob. III:67 Janáček: String Quartet No.2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Beethoven: String Quartet in E minor, Op.59, No.2 http://www.dallascha.../takacsquartet/

Royals sweeping Angels partying it up the rain, beautiful on many levels. Same for Scioscia pulling C. J. Wilson after 2/3 inning. C'mon Royals!

Here's the original Mirror Mirror cover: It was released in America by Pausa.

Here, PBS is offering the whole film: http://m.video.pbs.org/video/2365268839/

Giants & Nats play two games, only get credit for one..hello MLBPA. where is your leadership?

Not exactly the same...the TCB has some odd occasional (and consistently odd) string machine overdubs in spots. Still haven't figured out where, when, or how that happened. Also don't remember for sure, but think the TCB might have put one cout on there by some Ramsey Lewis clone. Not sure about that, though, and not gonna go to the shelves to compare.

Always appreciated the idea of it more than the reality of it (at least what I saw of it), but this stuff is freakin' riveting. How much of that is Balanchine and how much of it is the dancers inspiring Balanchine (and how much of the impact is intensified by kinescope, I always feel kinescope footage very....rawly), I don't know, and at this point neither care nor need to know. I'm still working on the whole Ellington thing for that equation. Until then, hey, this is a groove of it's own, and a beautiful groove it is.

Stumbled into this documentary on Netflix quite accidentally last night, and was just going to wait until LTB fell asleep and then get over to baseball, but no, the vintage performance footages transfixed me at once, and when it was over, I rewatched from the beginning. The whole "tragic life story thing", ok, yeah, tragic life story, that it is, but the footage...holy shit, the footage. http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Afternoon-of-a-Faun-Tanaquil-Le-Clercq/70298351

Just work with singers, lots of singers, some of them not as odd as others. Your own instrument will become that eventually. Trust me on this one.

Original in C Maybe I've worked with too many singers over the years and think that everything's in a weird key now,

I believe it is.?

Royals gettin' it done.

That's funny...when I arranged horn charts for local blues bands, I would sometimes write the 12/8 charts in, well, 12/8. But I soon learned that you could write them in 4, save time and paper by so doing, and they'd get played the same way no matter what, as long as you didn't have studio and/or "jazz" players on the gig, because they would use their eyes first and their ears second. Funny how that clash of cultures might well still exist.

...whoa...

http://metro.co.uk/2014/09/22/so-someones-gone-and-created-a-burger-which-tastes-of-human-flesh-4876283/

Not remembering it if you have, please do tell!

Damn, Tigers, seriously?

Talking about dots after notes, one "agreed upon" way to notate "swing". Played literally, strictly metronomically, this would definitely not swing (at least not as generally understood/consumed), but played with a consensual understanding of the suggestion, it can...or might. Time is one of those things that means different things to different people...

Action/Reaction = ways of everybody being happy and unhappy, just not all at once. It's only a "big deal" if you think you're entitled to be happy with everything all the time. Otherwise, it's just the way life works, even when the pendulum is allowed to turn into an anvil. Sucks when that happens, but...it happens anyway, because it makes some people happy.

whoa...

Legato = absence of pulse?

dedifferentiated

Oh, that seems a little too much...a stabilized listener represses hearing. Doesn't matter if that listener is executing or receiving the music. Stabilized in, stabilized out out. I don't think music itself can stabilize anybody who isn't already (or is wanting to become) stabilized. What are you hearing in your life? What are you listening for? Where have you set your finish line? Everybody looks for a scapegoat, ya' know. Start with self, fix that, and then go from there. Blame "the system", boo hoo. "The system" exists because it's the easiest way for most people. If you're not one of those people, proceed accordingly and don't worry about "repressed hearing" in anybody but yourself. This Adorno guy, he seems like a real pain in the ass, honestly, like a scoldy prick, probably be right in place with so many of the HuffPost Live hosts I see today (talk about a let down...) Seems to treat the "symptoms" rather than the "disease", which is simply that throughout history (which to me indicates some very distinct possibility of hard-wiring) most people really don't give all that much of a shit. So proceed accordingly. You know what I found out from a few years of eating really healthily? This is what I leaned - that shit does not stink because it's shit and has no choice. Shit stinks because the waste of "improper" diet stinks. so, if you don't want stinky shit, don't let your body get that stinky shit inside itself. Totally Newtonian Principle Of Shit Smell #1. However, I like the food that makes the stinky shit, so my shit generally stinks, sometimes cruelly so. But that's on me, not on my shit. I own my shit-stink, and would not have it any other way.