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June 17th, 2024 at 11:46:09 AM permalink
JimRockford
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Quote: terapined
Quote: odiousgambit
So if you get into a conversation about who your favorite classical music composer is, got something for you to pull...

You say your favorite is "Joe Green." When you get a puzzled look, you say " Oh, he is very famous!" [you get another puzzled look or worse] ... acknowledging the puzzlement, you say " Oh, excuse me, wrong language! Giuseppe Verdi !"

>>>

https://www.connollymusic.com/stringovation/-giuseppe-verdi-amazing-facts

I'm a huge music fan
So huge, currently shelling out about 500 a weekend for live music
That said
I think opera sucks
I like classical music
But
I can't stand opera
Doesn't do anything for me and I'm a person that finds certain music simply magical
Verdi means nothing to me. It's bombastic cheese
We would constantly call out Bobby of the Dead for the Cheese factor. Cheese is overly dramatic
Bach, now you are talking genius


A few years ago, I would have agreed with this 100%. But then I stumbled on this from Luciano Pavarotti and gave it a chance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWc7vYjgnTs

Now I get it. Not enough to sit through an opera, but I have found a few more pieces I appreciate.
A government of laws and not of men. - John Adam’s
June 17th, 2024 at 12:09:42 PM permalink
odiousgambit
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music among those who are fans of the same kind is a wonderful experience

music however can be very divisive when this is not the case... music of one ethnic group being played so that a different ethnic group hears it involuntarily, for example

as far as talking about Joseph Green, though, that can be pulled out when others are getting uppity about their composers, condescending to others
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June 17th, 2024 at 12:58:54 PM permalink
terapined
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Quote: odiousgambit


music however can be very divisive when this is not the case... music of one ethnic group being played so that a different ethnic group hears it involuntarily, for example

????????
Where does this crap come from
I enjoy all ethnic music
To me it's all roots music
I don't know any ethnic music that offends anybody
I love the music of Bela Fleck
Here he is going to Africa to take a deep dive into ethnic music. Fabulous documentary
https://youtu.be/sJt6jn0xT8A?si=e6lzi2QfmSBTH6_8
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"
June 17th, 2024 at 3:07:08 PM permalink
odiousgambit
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Quote: terapined
????????
Where does this crap come from
I enjoy all ethnic music
To me it's all roots music
I don't know any ethnic music that offends anybody
I love the music of Bela Fleck
Here he is going to Africa to take a deep dive into ethnic music. Fabulous documentary
https://youtu.be/sJt6jn0xT8A?si=e6lzi2QfmSBTH6_8


You love it all except opera I guess

I'm waiting for the anti-Italian remarks now
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June 17th, 2024 at 3:24:52 PM permalink
terapined
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Quote: odiousgambit
You love it all except opera I guess

I'm waiting for the anti-Italian remarks now

Yup
That and say Justin Timberlake
On the flipside
Buffy St Marie is a wonderful singer of Italian ancestry
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"
June 17th, 2024 at 5:27:56 PM permalink
odiousgambit
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Ethnic music can be interesting. You have to like for it to be a voluntarily selected experience, don't you? If it is generated at a basic level, nothing beyond that, I find it may be very repetitive ... I tend to tire of that very quickly
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June 17th, 2024 at 11:22:48 PM permalink
terapined
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Quote: odiousgambit
Ethnic music can be interesting. You have to like for it to be a voluntarily selected experience, don't you? If it is generated at a basic level, nothing beyond that, I find it may be very repetitive ... I tend to tire of that very quickly

Ethnic music at its roots all over the world is porch music. It's what people have been doing since the dawn of time. Getting together and playing music for the sake of friends, neighbors and themselves. This is the roots of the Country music industry. Porch music. The Carter family started the whole thing by searching for porch music. AP Carter searched the back country for porch songs. Essentially ethnic music. He brought these songs back to his wife and wife's cousin to learn and sing. These songs were were so popular on the radio that people bought records and started the Country music industry
I absolutely love these old roots music traditionally played on a porch :-)
Too me, this is the good stuff
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"
June 18th, 2024 at 6:52:03 AM permalink
rxwine
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Quote: terapined
Yup
That and say Justin Timberlake
On the flipside
Buffy St Marie is a wonderful singer of Italian ancestry


You must have put a hex on him terapined.

Justin Timberlake just arrested for DUI.
"Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP.
June 19th, 2024 at 6:02:43 AM permalink
odiousgambit
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I've been thinking about this lately

how is a person to get to the advanced stage without proper home life, with parents fully engaged

how much does have to do with, say, Asian kids being prepared so well [to pick an ethnic group] ... and other minorities not being prepared well?

If one parent is an absolute bibliophile I think this is enormously helpful

>>>

What are the five levels of literacy? [you get different answers to this kind of question, this is just one of them. The link expands on it of course]

Literacy Development: The 5 Stages for Developing Literacy
The five stages of literacy development include
emergent literacy,
alphabetic fluency,
words and patterns,
intermediate reading,
and advanced reading. Each stage of literacy development helps the child move forward and become a stronger student.
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https://www.lwtears.com/blog/literacy-development-stages
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June 20th, 2024 at 6:17:34 AM permalink
odiousgambit
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only the title has anything to do with the card game

to write lyrics like this, you'd have to be totally wasted?

>>>

TEXAS HOLD 'EM
Song by Beyoncé

Lyrics
This ain't Texas (woo), ain't no hold 'em (hey)
So lay your cards down, down, down, down
So park your Lexus (woo) and throw your keys up (hey)
Stick around, 'round, 'round, 'round, 'round (stick around)
And I'll be damned if I can't slow dance with you
Come pour some sugar on me, honey too
It's a real life boogie and a real life hoedown
Don't be a bitch, come take it to the floor now, woo, huh (woo)
There's a tornado (there's a tornado) in my city (in my city)
Hit the basement (hit the basement), that shit ain't pretty (shit ain't pretty)
Rugged whiskey (rugged whiskey) 'cause we survivin' ('cause we survivin')
Off red cup kisses, sweet redemption, passin' time, yeah
Ooh, one step to the right
We headin' to the dive bar we always thought was nice
Ooh, run me to the left
Then spin me in the middle, boy, I can't read your mind
This ain't Texas (woo), ain't no hold 'em (hey)
So lay your cards down, down, down, down
So park your Lexus (woo) and throw your keys up (hey)
Stick around, 'round, 'round, 'round, 'round (stick around)
And I'll be damned if I can't slow dance with you
Come pour some sugar on me, honey too
It's a real life boogie and a real life hoedown
Don't be a bitch, come take it to the floor now (woo)
And I'll be damned if I cannot dance with you
Come pour some liquor on me, honey too
It's a real life boogie and a real life hoedown
Don't be a bitch, come take it to the floor now (woo)
Woo-hoo
Woo-hoo
Woo-hoo
There's a heatwave (there's a heatwave) coming at us (coming at us)
Too hot to think straight (too hot to think straight)
Too cold to panic (cold to panic)
All of the problems just feel dramatic (just feel dramatic)
And now we're runnin' to the first spot that we find, yeah
Ooh, one step to the right
We headin' to the dive bar we always thought was nice
Ooh, you run to the left
Just work me in the middle, boy, I can't read your mind
This ain't Texas (woo), ain't no hold 'em (hey)
So lay your cards down, down, down, down, oh
So park your Lexus (hey), throw your keys up (hey)
Stick around, 'round, 'round, 'round, 'round (stick around)
And I'll be damned if I cannot dance with you
Come pour some sugar on me, honey, too
It's a real life boogie and a real life hoedown
Don't be a bitch, come take it to the floor now (woo)
And I'll be damned if I cannot dance with you
Come pour some liquor on me honey, too
It's a real life boogie and a real life hoedown
Don't be a-, come take it to the floor now, ooh
Take it to the floor now, ooh
Hoops, spurs, boots
To the floor now, ooh
Tuck, back, oops (ooh, ooh, ooh)
Shoot
Come take it to the floor now, ooh
And I'll be damned if I cannot dance with you
Baby, pour that sugar and liquor on me too
Furs, spurs, boots
Solargenic, photogenic, shoot

source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Beyoncé Knowles / Brian Bates / Elizabeth Lowell Boland / Megan Bülow / Nathan Ferraro / Raphael Saadiq
TEXAS HOLD 'EM lyrics © Hyvetown Music Inc, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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