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Why, it's Omaha's own Shonna Dorsey! http://shonnadorsey.com/

Ah, here's something I know! It's because it's a beltway/loop/whatever based built around I-10. Highway numbering systems are one of those things that I got curious about at one point for what ever reason. There really is a method to the madness. Texas in particular has all the crazy Spurs, FMs, CRs and all that. If you know they basic system and get on a wrong numbered road road...hey, it's a start. The rules for the Interstate system can be found here: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/programadmin/interstate.cfm As pertains to I-610 (and others like it): The major route numbers generally traverse urban areas on the path of the major traffic stream. Generally, this major traffic stream will be the shortest and most direct line of travel. Connecting Interstate routes and full or partial circumferential beltways around or within urban areas carry a three-digit number. These routes are designated with the number of the main route and an even-numbered prefix. Supplemental radial and spur routes, connecting with the main route at one end, also carry a three-digit number, using the number of the main route with an odd-number prefix. To prevent duplication within a State, a progression of prefixes is used for the three-digit numbers. For example, if I-80 runs through three cities in a State, circumferential routes around these cities would be numbered as I-280, I-480, and I-680. The same system would be used for spur routes into the three cities, with routes being numbered I-180, I-380, and I-580, respectively. This system is not carried across State lines. As a result, several cities in different States along I-80 may each have circumferential beltways numbered as I-280 or spur routes numbered as I-180. Getting excited just reading it!

Plenty!

Well, good luck, for real. I've got a co-worker with a daughter in Houston (Inner Circle, I think it's called?) and she just got pictures of street flooding that's not quite mid-hubcap level, not enough to be scary, but certainly enough to be worried about getting worse.

just the style of the language, seemed like a bad detective novel type thing, almost (but not quite) a parody. But ultimately the content trumped the style,

Hearing things w/o having access to real-time live reports. How we doin' down there?

Nope. https://nationaltoday.com/johnny-appleseed-day/ Johnny Appleseed Day – September 26, 2019

Alphabetism Allowed Free Reign

Hey, calm down, it's not even Johnny Appleseed Day yet!

Three volumes is about two too many to get a really quality experience. Too much cheap uninspired borderline competent cheap (oh, I already said cheap...well ok, CHEAP) imitations dripping with the slime of greed and insincerity. But there are gems, and near-gems, things that have lineage (if not necessarily quality) and things that are just out of the blue WTF?!?!?!?! But those would have fit on one disc quite nicely. Definitely no more than two.

The writing itself is more cringe-per-minute than I can count, but the realization that it's all real people being talked about by somebody who was incontestably there and dealing makes it a fun read in spite of itself, sorta corny but 100% authentic.

So much teenage energy momentum that they gotta stick in the odd 2/4 bar to hold it all! And even then, it threatens to run over and out all over everything!

Pretty sure they've arrived, also sure that, as this is a one-man operation, it'll take a little time to get every order bundled up, packed, and invoiced (in what ever order). But good news - the shipment seems to have arrived! I was invoiced and paid last night. Good things on the way!

The whole "SJW" thing is so fucking trite (from every angle). I'm looking forward to people doing better than cheap actions and cheap labels. Don't know if I'll live long enough to see it, but oh well about that.

See later response, found it.

Ah, it's likely AFM, not ASCAP, and it can be found here: https://www.popsike.com/Pittsburgh-International-Contemporary-Music-Festival-complete-20-record-set/231404166470.html Talk about something to find in a used bin somewhere for not too much money...eyes wide open going forth! 20 LPs! Record #1 - Drinking Song from Sir John in Love / Vaughan Williams ; We Fight Not For Glory from The Testament of Freedom / Thompson (University of Pittsburgh Men’s Glee Club); Psalm XXIII : My Shepherd Will Supply My Need / Thomson ; Immortal Autumn / Finney (Heinz Chapel Choir); Cherubic Hymn / Hanson (The Bach Choir and Carnegie Institute of Technology Student Orchestra and Chorus) Record #2 - Piano Quintet, Op. 57 / Shostakovich (Juilliard String Quartet) ; Piano Quintet / Piston (New Music String Quartet) Record #3 - Serenade, for Tenor Solo, Horn and Strings, Op. 31 / Britten ; Music for String Instruments, Percussion, and Celesta / Bartók (String Sinfonia - Pittsburgh Symphony, William Steinberg conductor) Record #4 - Rispetti e Strambotti, String Quartet / Malipiero ; Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 / Webern ; String Quartet No. 1 / Piston (Juilliard String Quartet) Record #5 - Symphony for Strings / Schumann ; Concerto Grosso / Bloch (String Sinfonia - Pittsburgh Symphony, William Steinberg conductor) Record #6 - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra / Berg (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conductor) ; String quartet no. 1 / Thomson ; Trio, for violin, viola, violoncello, op. 45 / Schoenberg (New Music String Quartet) Record #7 - Piano Quartet / Martinu (Walden Quartet of the University of Illinois) ; String Quartet No. 4 / Bartók (New Music String Quartet) Record #8 - String Quartet, A Minor / Walton ; Sonata for Flute and Piano, D Major, Op. 94/ Prokofieff ; Four Sonnets A Cassandre / Martin (Walden Quartet of the University of Illinois) Record #9 - Bachianas Brasileiras no. 1 for 8 violoncelli / Villa-Lobos ; Protée : Symphonic Suite No. 2 / Milhaud (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conductor) Record #10 - Symphony for wind instruments / Stravinsky ; Suite for band / Milhaud ; Commando march / Barber ; To you, America / Still ; Bolero / Ravel (arr. by Captain E. Resta) - (United States Military Academy Band, Captain Francis E. Resta conductor) Record #11 - Quartet no. 2 in A minor (The Walden Quartet of the University of Illinois) / Walton ; Quartet no. 1 / Virgil Thomson (The New Music String Quartet) Record # 12 - Symphony for band / Harris ; Toccata marizale / Vaughan Williams ; Symphony for band / Hindemith (United States Military Academy Band, Captain Francis E. Resta conductor) Record #13 - Symphony no. 5 / Honegger ; Lincoln portrait / Copland (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conductor) Record #14 - Partita for violin, viola and organ / Piston ; Sonata no. 1 / Hindemith ; Sonata / Krenek (Organ and Choral Concert) Record # 15 - Tudor portraits / Vaughan Williams (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) Record # 16 - Concerto for piano 4 hands, op. 56 / Persichetti ; Six pieces, for piano, op. 19 / Schoenberg ; Quaderno musicale de Annalibera / Dallapiccola (Piano and Percussion Concert) Record #17 - Toccata for percussion / Chavez ; Sonata, for piano, 1952 / Ginastera (Piano and Percussion Concert. Conducted by Roy Harris.) Record #18 - Fugue and chorale / Honnegger ; La nativite du seigneur / Messiaen ; Three chorale preludes / Sessions (Organ and Choral Concert) Record #19 - Symphony of Psalms / Stravinsky ; Symphony no. 5 / Harris (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) Record #20 - Alabanzas del adviento, op. 30 / Santa Cruz ; Song of the pioneers / Chajes ; Psalm 103 / Freed ; Dance with me / Ahe ; Passer mortuus est (da Catulla) / Malipiero ; Svenska folkvisor / Rosenberg ; The golden harp, op. 93 / Read ; Shepherd's farewell, op. 35 / Saeverud ; Two French Canadian folk songs. Sainte Marguerite ; Le navire de bayonne / Willan ; Lendas amerindias / Villa-Lobos ; Vocalise (in modo russo) / Lopatnikoff ; A bucket of water / Phillips ; Ave verum corpus / Poulenc ; An immortality / Copland. (All Community Program)

The original record is given as being on the "ASCAP" label...Google search returns nothing for this. What's the deal with that?

I can live without "The End Of The World", that one's been burnt into my brain over the years (possibly against my will...), but right now, Essential seems the way to go for starters. At that price... How's the album with NRBQ?

And a little bit of Solal goes a long way for me (just a combination of his harmonic/rhythmic shape, and it's me, not him). But his ears are unquestionably big, as are Lee's, so they usually end up with a singular, unimpeded/unimpaired mindset, and while improvising at that. It's one of the higher forms of life, I have to think. LOVE it when that happens.

Neat to see, though, that vhronological proportion may in fact have a pjsiological component.

But that does not give me "I Can't Stay Mad At You" or "Gonna Get Along Without You Now", does it? I don't want to end up with just one Skeeter Davis record and it doesn't have those two songs on it!

Amazon has Essential for $3.79, and with my Prime, that's it (except sales tax, of course). But I do like the depth of the Oldies.com catalog. If/when I decide to go deeper, that will a good place to dig. The immediate question here, though, is which record is the starting point...Essential surely seems to be a better overview, but Skeeter Davis' "countrypopgirlgroup" songs are something I really am ready to check out in more detail. Those vowel sounds in that context...unique and compelling (if you want it to be). And that's where the other one seems to have the edge. But - how much of the "extras" are really worth it, and how much are filler? Here's where the opinions of experienced Skeeter Listeners are being sought.

This: or this: Open to the possibility of exploring deeper in the catalog, but one of these will be the starter. Both?

Surely he knew the tune a little, the basic shape of it? That's not an uncommon tune in terms of being played. It is a little non-cliché in how it shifts key centers during the structure, but it's not startling or anything. Here's the best changes for that song: https://www.amazon.com/End-Love-Affair/dp/B076CMMYJK