Thin Slices of Joy
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threetree - I hadn’t heard that before. I love both songs.
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Oh Serenity - how did you miss A Whiter Shade of Pale? Oh well it was 1967 and if I remember, ThreeTree and I are both older than you after all. I still have the original vinyl album and the HUGE poster that came with it. I used to play it at top volume, over & over, and my DH just hated the song.
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How could anyone hate Whiter Shade of Pale? Back in the day, I could just lay back, close my eyes, and just drift on into an old psychedelic "old hippie" heaven with that song. If you listen to the musical interlude of "Don't Dream It's Over" you can hear the old "Whiter Shade of Pale" organ stuff, etc.
I think Serenity might have meant that she didn't know about the connection between the two songs before, maybe not that she had never heard "White Shade of Pale"? Buy you are right, Minus. We are older than Serenity so there are a few differences in what we've all heard a lot of.
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Yup, I knew the song, but not the connection between the 2 songs. When I read up on it I learned the organ part was inspired by Bach. Good stuff keeps getting passed along. 👍
I had my first SBRT today. Everything went smoothly except my left hand went numb until I got up.
I had forgotten that the RO clinic is underground, but the hallways to the treatment areas are lined with art and skylights.
Look up! It’s a beautiful day.
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Serenity - interesting architecture. Glad the SBRT went smoothly.
One of my favorite OLD vinyl albums was Bach organ with E Power Biggs. My ex-DH didn't like that either.
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Serenity - I too am so glad to hear that your SBRT went well.
Minus - Oh my gosh! E Power Biggs vinyl. My mother had a couple of them and I just loved them. Don't remember if it was Bach or just a collection of "general classical". Can't remember if those were left when she died and I took them or not. That stuff is all still in boxes; so many years later. (I actually think I took the records after my father died 5 years after my mother.) I love church organ music and I've got some on CD for Christmas and just "regular traditional classical" like Bach, etc. This has inspired me. Every fall I try to buy myself a new Christmas music CD. I just might look for an E Power Biggs one this year.
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Thank you!
Minus - My hospital is less than 10 years old. It was designed to be a mega hospital that combined services from multiple hospitals. It looks like a Lego building. 🙂E Power Biggs - ??? Will have to look it up.
Smoked oysters - We just tried our first ones. They were ok, but it was one on sale. My husband will look for other brands. Gotta give it a good try.
I did make sourdough crackers to have with the oysters. I no longer have to look at the recipe. 👍
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Serenity - My Mother always bought Crown Prince smoked oysters.
ThreeTree - see if you can find "Winter Rose" - 'reflections on the Season of Advent' - a collection of compositions for piano & organ based on Gregorian chants & traditional Advent Melodies by Mario Balestrieri. I got mine in San Francisco in 1999 at a church store. It is not the group by the same name. Here is a sample of his music - even though I know it's too early for Christmas.
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Interesting. IUMA stands for Internet Underground Music Archive. Who knew??? There's no video or screen shots, but it should get you there to listen if you cut & paste.
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Minus - Thanks for the link. I enjoyed the little Mario Balestrieri clip with my lunch. My family too, often got Crown Prince smoked clams and oysters. I still get them today, although recently the clams were recalled and they're not available most places currently. Some sort of contamination, can't remember what.
Serenity - Those crackers look yummy. When I look for brands of smoked clams and oysters I now look for the ones packed in extra virgin olive oil (not easy to find). Many come in soybean oil, or are just marked "in oil". My understanding is all those oils except for the olive oil aren't good for breast cancer - too much omega 6, etc. (That's from FoodforBreastCancer.)
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Thanks for the Bach. I was always considered odd since I was as likely to be listening to Bach or Mozart as the Beach Boys, or the Stones or John Coltrane or (another oldie) The Kingston Trio or "La Boheme" or even Frank Sinatra. Here's Amhad Jamal for your Saturday consideration. Fun to watch the base & the drummers.
I have three brands of smoked oysters in my pantry now. Both Geisha & Kroger brands are packed in sunflower oil. Crown Prince says 'smoked over oak and hand packed in Turkish Olive Oil'. And the latter are apparently now 'sustainably raised and harvested in South Korean coastal waters'. And speaking of oil - I still prefer tuna packed in oil but it's harder to find and more expensive.
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Thanks for the brand recommendations. Not sure what they have here in Canada. We buy sardines packed in water to avoid oils.
My taste in music is all over the place, but in my top bands is U2. Here is Bono’s performance of With or Without You including the backstory with his wife. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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I can feel the waves 'shushing' on their promenade. I had to look up the lyrics and play the song again while I followed along.
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Hi, all. Loving all the music clip - lots of great ones. I caught the Colbert show with Bono as guest - always interesting to hear his perspectives and wonderful performance. Bach - here is my favorite, the Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Was at a performance of this piece in Notre Dame (Paris) and it was amazing!
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Minus - Me too!
Celiac - Good to see you! Great video. Notre Dame was under construction after the fire when I went.
Well, a welcome effect of SBRT is deeper sleep. 🥱 2 more to go.
The RO clinic has some art from local artists. Here's one by Morry Marcovitch who started painting at 48.
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Serenity - how fun to try use my college French to read in the original. Not great but not horrible. Love the quote: "Without dreams, nothing of consequense happens."
Is he 'deeper sleep" restful?
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Minus - Yes, it’s been restful fortunately.
Another U2 fave. One with Mary J. Blige.
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Can you smell another batch of sourdough crackers? Need to feed that gut micro biome.
Meanwhile it’s been U2 all day.
With B.B. King - When Love Comes To Town 😎
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Oh Yeah - BB King!!!
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How about Ray Charles?
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And always & forever - Smokey. I might have already shared this, but at one of his concerts at a relatively small venue in the early 1990s we went back stage after the show. He kissed my cheek. Oh my...
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Love all the recent clips! Some of my old childhood friends and I went to see Smokey back in like 2004 or 05 or something, at a local casino. We did it to celebrate "the old days" and while we loved it, we noted that he was "noticeably older" as we all were of course. To my surprise, he is back at the same casino this year again! Got to love him for both the "old days" and all that continuing stamina. That is a real love of what you do, to still be out there on the road in your 80's.
And yes Serenity, I can kinda/sorta smell those crackers, but wish it was "real" (smile). I keep my gut microbiome going with daily probiotic yogurt (mostly Greek) and fresh sauerkraut. Occasional off the shelf sourdough rye crackers too (to go with my sardines).
Been hearing this a lot on the oldies station lately and thinking about how just wonderful and smooth his voice was back then. It's turned into a bit of an earworm since the clips above. For the "old days":
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Thanks ThreeTree.
I liked Smokey when he was with the Miracles. I liked Linda Rhonstadt when she was with the Stone Poneys. I liked Diana Ross when she was with the Supremes. I liked Grace Slick when she was with The Jefferson Airplane. I liked Stevie Nicks when she was with Fleetwood Mac. Ii liked Simon when he was with Garfunkel. And etc.... Not that I don't appreciate how many of them have grown & changed, but I still like the oldies.
Oh my - turns out I spent over two hours going from one song to another last night. (thanks to my son who gave me GREAT speakers for my desk top computer). By the time I finally got myself disciplined to STOP the music and go to bed - it was after 2am. And of course I was wide awake with lots of earworms. Ended up still hanging in there for the last several weeks - 'ONE LESS BELL TO ANSWER' - of course - the 5th Dimension.
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Love these oldies! While in SBRT they played this song from my youth. I kept the bopping to my fingers.
The Romantics - What I Like About You 🥰
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Serenity - how can anyone sit still listening to that.... dance, dance, dance...
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Sharing a 'blurb' from The Week... "a multidecade analysis of 150,000 pop songs showed that uses of the word 'love' in top-100 pop songs declined by 50 percent between 1965 to 2015, while the incidence of 'hate' and other negative terms rose sharply."
Hmmm - maybe that's why I like oldies?
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Serenity - Really enjoyed the "What I Like About You" clip. Hadn't heard it in a long time. I seem to remember that my former spouse used to really like that song and would sing along. Love the energy those guys had and their remarkable instrument playing ability.
MinusTwo - That is a very interesting statistic. I like your insight too this possibly being the reason for liking oldies. Many years ago I either read an article or saw a clip of a lecture where a sociologist or economist was talking about how popular music was a predictor of the economic and social climate yet to come. He gave all sorts of examples about the economic boom of the 50's and 60's and how so many of the songs were just about "simple love" and "nice" teen relationships, etc., but then projected bad things to come based on changes he was seeing in the 70's and forward. I really thought about it a lot when rap got big - talk about hate and unloving lyrics, etc. There may be a legitimate artistic reason behind it (that I've never been able to appreciate), but I think you can see that it's rise came about at the same time the socio-economic climate changed (I would include the political climate in that too.) Some interesting food for thought.
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Minus - I forgot to mention that I completely agree about liking individual singers/musicians when they were with their original groups, more than when they went solo. You gave good examples, and I would agree with them all and add the Beatles too. I realize that for "personal growth" and "artistic" reasons, people have to move on with their lives and careers, but these people all came to fame and were recognized for being so good as groups. While their individual talents contributed greatly to the groups' successes, the individuals just don't create that same fabulous synergistic effect that having all of the talented individuals in a given group bring to the whole.
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Minus - They place a compression plate on my belly to keep me still, but I want to make sure the radiation hits the target area! The dancing waited until today.
Threetree - That’s interesting. Many of the artists I liked once I could choose my music had protest songs. People who complain of artists protesting now never listened to the lyrics.
One of my favourite solo artists is Peter Gabriel who was in Genesis along with Phil Collins. In this case I prefer Gabriel.
Peter Gabriel with Kate Bush - Don’t Give Up 🥰
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Serenity - don't have a visual picture of a compression plate on your belly. Does the radiation go through the plate, or is that just a 'stabilizer'? Nice Peter Gabriel song that I'd never heard before.
Interesting generational juxtaposition. Many of 'my' songs were protest songs too - but my friends were being drafted to Vietnam - so wage peace not war & smell the flowers. Or women finally standing up to be counted as equals. Or marching with MLK.
Bought a great T-shirt for myself when I was ordering Christmas presents last week. Maroon with white letters - "I Can't Believe I'm Still Protesting This Crap".
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