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Red_Dragon

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Posted: Nov 13, 2023 - 4:48pm

 Proclivities wrote:




Mary Aaaaaaaan
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Posted: Nov 13, 2023 - 4:48pm

 GeneP59 wrote:

One last AC to be pulled out of the window in the next day or so when I gets a little warmer. Easier removal, but storm window frame swap is a pain. 



Really grateful the previous owners of our place installed central heat & air. We have since replaced the unit with a more efficient heat-pump, but...
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Posted: Nov 13, 2023 - 4:42pm

One last AC to be pulled out of the window in the next day or so when I gets a little warmer. Easier removal, but storm window frame swap is a pain. 
lily34

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Posted: Nov 13, 2023 - 9:05am

 Proclivities wrote:




oh yeah.
Proclivities

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Posted: Nov 13, 2023 - 9:01am

 lily34 wrote:
i'm seeing the pattern. 11/2 & 11/13. 


lily34

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Posted: Nov 13, 2023 - 8:09am

i'm seeing the pattern. 11/2 & 11/13. 
islander

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Posted: Nov 13, 2023 - 7:00am

 GeneP59 wrote:

Fair warning!  One week till I head South.



4 weeks, 3 days here. Countdown active.
GeneP59

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Posted: Nov 13, 2023 - 5:47am

Fair warning!  One week till I head South.
Red_Dragon

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Posted: Nov 12, 2023 - 3:42pm

oh, snap
KurtfromLaQuinta

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Posted: Nov 12, 2023 - 7:55am

 kcar wrote:

Yeah, I'd agree with your line of thinking. Songs today don't seem to offer the same range of emotional experiences that songs from the 70s did. I don't hear as much wistfulness or yearning or tenderness. And I can't imagine a ballad like "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" getting airplay today.   

One of the reasons I don't like rap very much is whole mentality of staying hard, swaggering and rejecting compassion. The tendency to stick to a tight rhyme scheme and jumble ideas together into a pastiche make rap briefly fascinating but really tiresome if you have to listen to it for more than 20 minutes at a go. 

But there's still great music still being made. Just watched the video to Olivia Rodrigo's "Driver's License" and wow she really captured the gut-wrenching pain of lost love. 

I concur.


Proclivities

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Posted: Nov 12, 2023 - 6:36am

 Steely_D wrote:


Maybe a gold standard would be something like “I’d really love to see you tonight.” Can you imagine that now? Or even our national anthem “Get Together”?

Yes, there’s some good music out there, but it just doesn’t feel as friendly. Lorde’s stuff was a breath of fresh air and I’m an unabashed Harry Styles worshipper.


I don't miss that "granola-rock" stuff from the 1970s, and that song in particular, always seemed cloying and saccharine to me.  I think there is still plenty of music with unrequited love themes and "friendly" tendencies, it just may not be the top-selling stuff these days.  
I think there is a difference in attitudes, like you point out.  Maybe the 1960s and '70s seemed to offer more promise or positivity to people in their teens, 20s, and 30s back then, than there is for people in those age groups today.  That could be reflected in the music I suppose.

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Posted: Nov 12, 2023 - 6:30am

 Steely_D wrote:


Maybe a gold standard would be something like “I’d really love to see you tonight.” Can you imagine that now? Or even our national anthem “Get Together”?

Yes, there’s some good music out there, but it just doesn’t feel as friendly. Lorde’s stuff was a breath of fresh air and I’m an unabashed Harry Styles worshipper.



there's a guy at work and he has lived and traveled the globe
i hear old country and folk coming out of his office quite often

not long ago i heard him playing harry styles and i didn't know who it was
i asked and he didn't tell me immediately
the office was quiet so i left my door open and just listened

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Posted: Nov 12, 2023 - 6:22am

 kcar wrote:

Yeah, I'd agree with your line of thinking. Songs today don't seem to offer the same range of emotional experiences that songs from the 70s did. I don't hear as much wistfulness or yearning or tenderness. And I can't imagine a ballad like "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" getting airplay today.   

One of the reasons I don't like rap very much is whole mentality of staying hard, swaggering and rejecting compassion. The tendency to stick to a tight rhyme scheme and jumble ideas together into a pastiche make rap briefly fascinating but really tiresome if you have to listen to it for more than 20 minutes at a go. 

But there's still great music still being made. Just watched the video to Olivia Rodrigo's "Driver's License" and wow she really captured the gut-wrenching pain of lost love. 



quite nice
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Posted: Nov 11, 2023 - 11:38pm

 kcar wrote:

Yeah, I'd agree with your line of thinking. Songs today don't seem to offer the same range of emotional experiences that songs from the 70s did. I don't hear as much wistfulness or yearning or tenderness. And I can't imagine a ballad like "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" getting airplay today.   

One of the reasons I don't like rap very much is whole mentality of staying hard, swaggering and rejecting compassion. The tendency to stick to a tight rhyme scheme and jumble ideas together into a pastiche make rap briefly fascinating but really tiresome if you have to listen to it for more than 20 minutes at a go. 

But there's still great music still being made. Just watched the video to Olivia Rodrigo's "Driver's License" and wow she really captured the gut-wrenching pain of lost love. 



Maybe a gold standard would be something like “I’d really love to see you tonight.” Can you imagine that now? Or even our national anthem “Get Together”?

Yes, there’s some good music out there, but it just doesn’t feel as friendly. Lorde’s stuff was a breath of fresh air and I’m an unabashed Harry Styles worshipper.

kcar

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Posted: Nov 11, 2023 - 9:52pm

 Steely_D wrote:

In old man mode, I’m remembering that songs seemed to be more about romance or loss of it, or freedom and exploration. Whereas now, admittedly stereotypically, there’s less real navel gazing, less community, and more individualism - songs about how powerful the person asserts themselves to be in the face of all their “challenges.”

I know I can easily come up with exceptions, but I’m talking about the tone in general. Fewer songs want to buy the world a Coke.


Yeah, I'd agree with your line of thinking. Songs today don't seem to offer the same range of emotional experiences that songs from the 70s did. I don't hear as much wistfulness or yearning or tenderness. And I can't imagine a ballad like "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" getting airplay today.   

One of the reasons I don't like rap very much is whole mentality of staying hard, swaggering and rejecting compassion. The tendency to stick to a tight rhyme scheme and jumble ideas together into a pastiche make rap briefly fascinating but really tiresome if you have to listen to it for more than 20 minutes at a go. 

But there's still great music still being made. Just watched the video to Olivia Rodrigo's "Driver's License" and wow she really captured the gut-wrenching pain of lost love. 

Steely_D

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Posted: Nov 11, 2023 - 4:19pm

In old man mode, I’m remembering that songs seemed to be more about romance or loss of it, or freedom and exploration. Whereas now, admittedly stereotypically, there’s less real navel gazing, less community, and more individualism - songs about how powerful the person asserts themselves to be in the face of all their “challenges.”

I know I can easily come up with exceptions, but I’m talking about the tone in general. Fewer songs want to buy the world a Coke.
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Posted: Nov 11, 2023 - 7:25am

 oldviolin wrote:

It was early winter of '77. I was stationed in Butzbach, W. Germany. I still have the piece of concrete. Its sort of shaped like a thick slice of pie and weighs around 1.5 lbs.
Got me right between the eyes and took 17 stitches to close. Not as much blood as one might think but anyway I bet I taught that chunk of fun a lesson. It left a scar  shaped like a cross. I wasn't debilitated though. I mean, it stunned me and blacked both my eyes. Looking back I shouldn't have sent my Mother the picture. I looked pretty bad and she wasn't amused. Besides it will never look as cool as my Dad's scar which he got as a kid. He got hit between the eyes with the end of a bicycle handlebar when he was 12 or something. It left a scar that looked like a clock, or at least I thought it did. It had a hand on it and I can't remember exactly the hour it pointed to, but I'm sure it was perfect timing. Just like my date with an innocent looking snowball...
Two between the eyes...


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Posted: Nov 11, 2023 - 7:11am

 Red_Dragon wrote:
When did you suffer that debilitating head-injury?
 
It was early winter of '77. I was stationed in Butzbach, W. Germany. I still have the piece of concrete. Its sort of shaped like a thick slice of pie and weighs around 1.5 lbs.
Got me right between the eyes and took 17 stitches to close. Not as much blood as one might think but anyway I bet I taught that chunk of fun a lesson. It left a scar  shaped like a cross. I wasn't debilitated though. I mean, it stunned me and blacked both my eyes. Looking back I shouldn't have sent my Mother the picture. I looked pretty bad and she wasn't amused. Besides it will never look as cool as my Dad's scar which he got as a kid. He got hit between the eyes with the end of a bicycle handlebar when he was 12 or something. It left a scar that looked like a clock, or at least I thought it did. It had a hand on it and I can't remember exactly the hour it pointed to, but I'm sure it was perfect timing. Just like my date with an innocent looking snowball...
Red_Dragon

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Location: Dumbf*ckistan


Posted: Nov 10, 2023 - 4:23pm

When did you suffer that debilitating head-injury?
lily34

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Posted: Nov 10, 2023 - 5:24am

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
That whole show was covered in snow.






 no kidding. 
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