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Dee's avatar

A little moonlight snotta followed by "or were you looking at the legs up to her earlobe", very, very funny. I was thinking "my, what big feet she has!"

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Heather B's avatar

Love the musical interlude you're presenting. Grew up on classical music.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

I did too. It is just part of the musical experience not an Odd Man (or Woman) Out in the many styles available.

Blues Brother's movie: What kind of music do you have here?

We have both kinds: Country AND Western.

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Heather B's avatar

😂

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Heather B's avatar

😂

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Karafree's avatar

Listening to the first Fur Elise, gave me a deja vue, or tripped a memory. I grew up playing piano, and my older sister was very good, She played fur Elise every day, and perfected it to memory.. I haven't heard that on piano in a very long time and it brought tears to my eyes...and good memories of childhood.

Also, I do LOVE experiencing those glitches in the matrix... or maybe it's just my brain.

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

What a nice story. Music should elicit strong emotion.

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Karafree's avatar

on another note... I guess those spirochetes are good for something... composing melodies, or is that to just hypnotize us further?

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Hey now...

I was suppoed to suppress my urge to go Continuum on a neutral topic.

Butt...

I have often ruminated (I'm a cud-chewer) on the artistry and MK properties of religious music. Cathedrals with their vaulted ceilings and cymatic stained glass portals and the pipe organs and the attention of detail put into SPELLWORK to keep the Faithful - faithful, just seems like a very weird combination for a lethally petulant alien from another world/dimension to go through just to pupeteer the herd.

HOW CAN such beauty come from such a foul thing?

Although in my science fiction novels I posited that Beauty was camouflage for either survival to hide or for predators to take advantage.

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Karafree's avatar

well even the spirochetes are caught up in polarity/duality.. They can go both ways! beautiful to horrific. and all the degrees in between

oh just thought of something.. unless it was the egotistical spirochete implanting this thought... It's like the same coin different side, good cop bad cop, carrot and the stick, a bird in the hand is better than 3 in the bush, the leader vs the BOSS....

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Steven's avatar

It seems that your disappointment with mainstream classical deaf composers is easily repaired. What you need is some nice Viennese waltzes, like Strauss's Blue Danube... 9 out of 10 and you can dance to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CTYymbbEL4

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Excellent idea!

I wanted to cover time signatures that were not standard 4/4 and I absolutely love waltzes.

You've given me a great idea to contrast the different styles.

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Steven's avatar

There was this pizza place in Bradenton Florida, Roaring 20's Pizza and Pipes, that featured a recovered Wurlitzer organ that was originally in an old Oakland CA movie theater. It was under the platform and when the show began it rotated on an incline screw until this massive organ was exposed with the organist. He played a several songs and the would take requests... I suggested Blue Danube. It was perfectly rendered and I was amazed as he didn't have sheet music. (http://theatreorgans.com/florida/ellenton/)

That equipment rocked. Live loud music makes anything sound good.

Damn, closed in '95...

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Cool times. Awesome memory.

Sometimes I think we are given moments like that just to make the drudgery seem more drugerious, when every day can be that day.

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