What's on your mind now?

[oxy60]

I'm kind of shocked and surprised back into reality about the U.S.  "Greatest country on Earth" etc. etc. etc.  And the cliche of putting a man on the moon.

... But we can't plug an oil leak?   

Actually the moon is closer then that leak in terms of getting men to the leak site.

[Bob]

Men are experts at making leaks, not stopping them. 

*Bob remembers he needs to clean his leak site.*

[Bob]

Can't beat live, human-performance music.

[liordavid]

Can't beat live, human-performance music.

was that video game a replay or was mario reacting to the music

[Bob]

I was wondering too.  I bet that's a recording of the game.  That would start getting too strange if someone learned that stuff well enough to improvise it along with the motions of a live game.

[littletune]

 So I guess today was really the end of my music school for this year (i mean till september)  Cause we had the final recital and we got something where it says we finished this year of music school.... well I am supposed to have one more piano lesson next week, but that's it!  well it has been a really great year! 
Oh and I was looking for something about different pianos on the internet and I learned that my piano is really called Console piano, cause it's small. My piano is great! I'm so happy I have my piano!!     

[Bob]

The horror... the horror....

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100618/ap_on_bi_ge/us_spaghettios_recall;_ylt=Ag_hgbAG_ukjKP.Wzwx2YGADW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTJxc2hldmZ2BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNjE4L3VzX3NwYWdoZXR0aW9zX3JlY2FsbARwb3MDOQRzZWMDeW5fYXJ0aWNsZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA2NhbXBiZWxsc291cA--

That's an awful lot of Spaghetti O's.

*ponders what it would be like to swim in Spaghetti O's*

[littletune]

I want to change my nationality! Why do people from my country have to post stupid things?! here on piano street?? I mean ok I know I post stupid things a lot of times too    but at least I know I'm stupid...    but some people don't! they just think they're so great and funny and post a billion stupid things in one day          (and they're mean too! at least I am just stupid but I am not mean at all!!)

[oxy60]

I want to change my nationality! Why do people from my country have to post stupid things?! here on piano street?? I mean ok I know I post stupid things a lot of times too    but at least I know I'm stupid...    but some people don't! they just think they're so great and funny and post a billion stupid things in one day          (and they're mean too! at least I am just stupid but I am not mean at all!!)

Don't jump out of the frying pan into the fire. Every nationality has its share of idiots and abusive people.

By the way, congratulations on getting good marks on those exams.

I remember how much I looked forward to vacation when I was in school and spending endless hours floating out beyond the break line on inner tubes with my friends.

[Bob]

He knows. 

This is before the surg... before the fun, friendly visit to the vet.

[Bob]

I bet Ernst Hemingway would like this kind of stuff... if he were writing about the running of the wiener dogs.  

[littletune]

Don't jump out of the frying pan into the fire. Every nationality has its share of idiots and abusive people.

By the way, congratulations on getting good marks on those exams.

I remember how much I looked forward to vacation when I was in school and spending endless hours floating out beyond the break line on inner tubes with my friends.

Thank you!    I am very very happy about the exams!     
Is break line something in water? I've looked on google but couldn't find exactly what that was.... but I've found what inner tubes are  You will teach me a lot of new words!  cool!  I haven't been swimming for a long time now!! Since september! I really really hope I'll go swimming soon!!!! Cause the two things I love the most are music and water!!!     

[oxy60]

The break line is where the rolling sea starts to become a wave. Hanging out there was great because we weren't tossed about by the waves.

These days it is considered safe to build housing further than 200 meters from the break line. There is quite a fuss going on now in Spain about old houses built within that 200 meter safety zone about whether they should be removed.

Those inner tubes we used were left overs with several patches. Today I see similar flotation devices for sale in beach shops but I don't know what they are called. Also I don't see ones big enough to float a big 17 year old.

Enjoy the summer!

[Bob]

*Bob contemplates a unicorn burger* Mmmmm...

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100622/ap_on_bi_ge/us_odd_unicorn_meat;_ylt=Ag0lPCxVIe0FrUw4SpORm0PtiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJrNHE1MGxqBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNjIyL3VzX29kZF91bmljb3JuX21lYXQEY3BvcwMyBHBvcwM1BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA3Bvcmtib2FyZHNxdQ--

Interesting ways to waste money...
https://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/my-first-bacon.shtml

[Bob]

I'm wondering why synthex deleted all their (almost all) posts.  I didn't see anything odd.  That's a lot of work too to delete posts but there were only about 70 of them.  Now I'm wondering what that person wrote.

[Bob]

https://www.musiciansbuy.com/Solid-Stands-Freedom-BREAKDOWNSTAND-BREAKDOWN.html

Cool idea.  Have the instrument adjust to you.

But for $700.... I don't know... I might adjust a stand myself for $700.   

Get that... Then a bench that automatically adjusts.... which is amusing to think out a person squating there while a bench adjusted to them.  


*Bob damns himself for not being rich.*  If I was rich, I could be really, really lazy and an instrument, stand, and bench that adjust for me.   

[Bob]

Ninja bear...

https://www.wimp.com/bearninja/

[Bob]

It's about a minute in.

[birba]

Ninja bear...

https://www.wimp.com/bearninja/

Thanks!!!!!!  That made my day!!!

[oxy60]

Thankfully that has not happened to me yet. It was a good laugh to start the day.. Thanks, Bob

[Bob]

The possibility of a caffeine IV drip.

[littletune]

I just read my first post on Pianostreet. It was really funny to read that because then I was sure I won't be able to have any piano lessons and I sure didn't think I could ever have a real piano!!!  And now I do and I've had piano lessons and exams and I love to play even a million times more then I did then! And also then I wrote that I had piano lessons  I guess I didn't even know what that was exactly.... I mean I did have a teacher in school that was helping me to learn to play some pieces on a keyboard, but that wasn't anything like having real piano lessons this year! I think it's so funny that so much has changed and it's not even a year since then I'm really really happy about that!!      And I'm also so happy I have found Pianostreet!!!       

But I'm not so happy about my best friend  She's coming now and she will sleep over and she'll be here tomorrow and then..... 

Oh well at least I have my piano!!!  And Pianostreet too!   

[liordavid]

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sorry to sound unsophistocated but this is the BEST MUSIC EVER

[birba]

?

[qoogla_55]

[pianisten1989]

This is lock'n'lol! Aah! Great!

[liordavid]

?

some guy composed some really fast piece so fat and difficult that it can only be played in audio files

[Bob]

This thing cracks me up.

Don't read anything.  Just count how many passes the white team makes.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100713/sc_livescience/invisiblegorillatestshowshowlittlewenotice;_ylt=AkCNkulpGx4wZLegwiYJ_ssDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTNwN2RwazA1BGFzc2V0A2xpdmVzY2llbmNlLzIwMTAwNzEzL2ludmlzaWJsZWdvcmlsbGF0ZXN0c2hvd3Nob3dsaXR0bGV3ZW5vdGljZQRwb3MDMTIEc2VjA3luX2FydGljbGVfc3VtbWFyeV9saXN0BHNsawNpbnZpc2libGVnb3I-

[Bob]

Today's Mel Gibson rant. 

Cracks me up.  Haha...   Mel Gibson vs. the Microsoft Sally artificial voice.  It sounds like a movie script in some places.

[Bob]

They finally stopped the oil.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100715/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill;_ylt=Aix67fp7g_Yz0bQT4qpB5j8DW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTJtYmk2aThjBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNzE1L3VzX2d1bGZfb2lsX3NwaWxsBHBvcwM1BHNlYwN5bl9hcnRpY2xlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDYnBjaG9rZXNvZmZ0


Any bets on whether it will start leaking again?

[go12_3]

Hum....been awhile since I've been here   

[thalbergmad]

It has me old sweetie and indeed you were missed.

Wots goin down???

Thal

[ahinton]

Hum....been awhile since I've been here   

One good thing about deciding to Go is the ability to return, which you clearly have. I hope that all Goes well. Welcome back.

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

What an old charmer

[go12_3]

One good thing about deciding to Go is the ability to return, which you clearly have. I hope that all Goes well. Welcome back.

Best,

Alistair

Hello, and indeed I am capable of GO-ing anywhere since it's the Internet, just a click  and
of course, it's good to see you too, Alistair   

[go12_3]

It has me old sweetie and indeed you were missed.

Wots goin down???

Thal

hello, Thal, been busy with life....been quite sick last Spring and now trying to
get more piano students and working on my artwork.  Nice to "see" you too,   

[kayordee]

One of my friends lost her virginity to some *** dude who she broke up with just 2 days ago and now her parents have forced her to move far away from us. Now my two best friends have broken the friendship because of some deep seated problems years in the making and i'm now stuck in the middle of it all with nowhere to go. I feel as if i have to choose between them. Life sucks sometimes doesn't it?

[littletune]

I'm thinking about trampoline... are you more time in the air or on the ground when you're jumping on a trampoline? I think you're a lot more time in the air... so then that's almost like flying    
And yesterday I discovered you can make your own rainbow!!    you don't have to wait for the rain! you can make it with a water hose! you have to turn it like so that it's sprinkling a lot of little water drops and then if the sun shines on that you have a rainbow!!!  I think that's sooo cool!   

[oxy60]

I can see by the posts or lack thereof that the weather is very good in Europe.

Littletune; the trampoline is a great source of video clips for "America's Funniest Home Videos." You should see what happens to people flying through the air..

BTW, Thal how was that sojourn for the concert in A'dam?

[Bob]

I can see by the posts or lack thereof that the weather is very good in Europe.

Or the heat got them.  Maybe they tried to type out a cry for help but couldn't get up the strength to hit enter in end.  Sad.  *Bob wonders if there are any cookies left...*



I'm thinking about vuvuzela concerti. 

[thalbergmad]

BTW, Thal how was that sojourn for the concert in A'dam?

I didn't go. In the end I just could not face it.

Have heard no reports from anyone that went, but i guess it might not have finished yet

Thal

[ahinton]

I didn't go. In the end I just could not face it.

Have heard no reports from anyone that went, but i guess it might not have finished yet

Oh, it finished OK, albeit not until the wee sma' orrs of the day following that on which it started (although it would and should have finished on the same day had its commencement time been more sensibly scheduled). I have indeed heard it and, although the relatively small three manual instrument on which Kevin Bowyer played the monstrously demanding work in question presented quite a series of challenges of its own, no least short compass manuals and pedals, no pistons / sequencers / etc., a flat pedalboard and a very heavy action, it evidently went down so well that Mr Bowyer was invited on the spot to give the Dutch première of Sorabji's Third Organ Symphony in the Holland Festival in 2013 shortly after the work's world première in Glasgow. On balance, you'd have been better off attending the Glasgow performance, where the instrument was largely up to the task, but whether that city would have been capable of providing you with other entertainments to suit you on a Sunday may of course have been debatable...

Best,

Alistair

[birba]

One of my friends lost her virginity to some *** dude who she broke up with just 2 days ago and now her parents have forced her to move far away from us. Now my two best friends have broken the friendship because of some deep seated problems years in the making and i'm now stuck in the middle of it all with nowhere to go. I feel as if i have to choose between them. Life sucks sometimes doesn't it?

I'm thinking about trampoline... are you more time in the air or on the ground when you're jumping on a trampoline? I think you're a lot more time in the air... so then that's almost like flying    
And yesterday I discovered you can make your own rainbow!!    you don't have to wait for the rain! you can make it with a water hose! you have to turn it like so that it's sprinkling a lot of little water drops and then if the sun shines on that you have a rainbow!!!  I think that's sooo cool!   

I love this juxtaposition.

[thalbergmad]

but whether that city would have been capable of providing you with other entertainments to suit you on a Sunday may of course have been debatable...

They just start a little later on a Sunday. 6pm instead of 4pm.

Thal

[ahinton]

They just start a little later on a Sunday. 6pm instead of 4pm.

It would have had to be the finishing rather than starting time that counted; the Glasgow performance began just after 1.00 p.m. and ended just after 11.30 p.m., whereas the Amsterdam one started at around 2.30 p.m. and concluded just after 1.30 p.m.

The possible availability or otherwise of supplementary entertainment notwithstanding, it's a pity that you missed both performances.

Best,

Alistair

[gep]

Mr Bowyer was invited on the spot to give the Dutch première of Sorabji's Third Organ Symphony in the Holland Festival in 2013

* grabs agenda and thick felt pen to write in this *

the Amsterdam one started at around 2.30 p.m. and concluded just after 1.30 p.m.

A tiny correction: it started 2.15 P.M. and concluded at about 0.30 A.M.. A wee difference of 13 hours...

gep

[ahinton]

A tiny correction: it started 2.15 P.M. and concluded at about 0.30 A.M.. A wee difference of 13 hours...

Sorry - I thought that it had commenced at what I assumed to have been the advertised time of 2.30 p.m. and my reference to its ending at 1.30 p.m. was a typo for 1.30 a.m.! That said, as the perforamance really did end at 0.30 a.m., did he take rather shorter intervals than the c.35 minutes and c.55 minutes that he took in Glasgow 12 days previously?

Best,

Alistair

[littletune]

Littletune; the trampoline is a great source of video clips for "America's Funniest Home Videos." You should see what happens to people flying through the air..

I know trampoline can be dangerous, but I haven't done anything like that just jumping

And don't worry Bob the heat didn't get me  I like it!   

Oh and I think juxtaposition is a really really funny word! 

[Bob]

I'm really wondering how I managed to get some avocado up my nose.  Strange...

[Bob]

I think it's possible.... Yes... It could be a good Halloween costume.... You get a moustache... a wig for the hair.... add a sweater.... Yes... I could dress up as Yanni this Halloween.  That's pretty scary, isn't it?