Are you talking about the Flaco in the band, or our Flaco known for his garden tractor prowess that someday will see him competing in Nascar championship races?Originally Posted by Phillbo
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Are you talking about the Flaco in the band, or our Flaco known for his garden tractor prowess that someday will see him competing in Nascar championship races?
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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Flaco Jimenez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6bm2GQ4CBc
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At the risk of repeating myself, I am posting Suzanne, one of Leonard Cohen’s great songs, as sung by Neil Diamond from his 1972 album “Stones” on which he sung other songwriters’ masterpieces he admired. The album is stacked with some of my favorites in arresting arraignments worth your searching them down if you like syrupy songs like I do.
https://youtu.be/AmP5jXZV4kY
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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I have found I do not care much for opera, but there are some arias which are stunning to the bone. Un Bel Di Vidremo from Puccini’s Madam Butterfly may be the most stunning of female such. If it is sung well and does not not give you goose bumps, then forget about the genre. The song is a forgotten lover’s cry before she commits seppuku, so the drama is not overdone. Some time ago I went on a search of YouTube to find my favorite performance of the aria and found I like the singer, Renata Tebaldi, best. She is a mezzo-soprano in contrast with the usual soprano version, which adds a bit more to the richness to my hearing. This performance was from the later stage of her career in which she had a vigorous dispute and rivalry with her contemporary soprano diva, Maria Callas. You might pull down Callas’ version to compare for yourself, if you are interested.
https://youtu.be/IYE99lyfzrw
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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This is one of my all time favorite pieces.
Here played by Alice Sara Ott, 31 years old and unfortunately diagnosed as having MS. The good news is that the treatments for MS have come a long way since I was making 100 mile bike rides for them.
I work with a lovely young lady of 60 who has MS but most of the time she is the only one who knows--she does have to avoid getting overly tired or stressed but she is fully mobile and rides her bike and paddles her kayak regularly.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Oh, that is just wonderful, both the soloist and the orchestra are perfect.
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If Beethoven floats your boat, I highly recommend the movie below depicting the first playing of his revolutionary Symphony #3 “Eroica.” This symphony truly marked the landmark onset of the Romantic period of classical music, and as it was stated in the movie, “From now, everything changes.”
https://youtu.be/UtA7m3viB70
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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Lovely, there are times that I wish I had lived when the masters worked---but then I realize very few ever got to hear their work--we are blessed to be able to enjoy their art at will
Here is another.
The location is in Norway and the ruins which have been incorporated into this modern structure date to the mid 12th century.
There are a number of venues in Europe that either incorporate into a modern "surround" or use in their stabilized state of ruin, without adornment, as part of the experience.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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