What's everyone up to right now?

[Rev. Rye]

In Skokie, IL (near Chicago), and, for what it's worth, I've been nosebleed-free the last two days (so far, anyway.) At this point, I think that, during a particularly extreme nose-blow on Thursday, the booger in question (it was about as big as a pinky fingernail) somehow ripped with such force that it broke skin. The other two happened because of followup blows. That said, if I keep getting nasal blockage this big, I may need to see an otolaryngologist.

Well then, just cut your nails for safer picking.

You're talking to someone who routinely cuts them to the quick for reasons I'm certain are related to my OCD and Autism.

[The Valkyrie]

Riding a boat through dense fog on the Mississippi River. What could go wrong?

Deliverance...

[Crossless2.0]

Riding a boat through dense fog on the Mississippi River. What could go wrong?

The ghost of Huck Finn gives you a reach around.

Wait — my sex life might improve?

Tell me more, Mr. Glass-Half-Full!

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Riding a boat through dense fog on the Mississippi River. What could go wrong?

Deliverance...

That was Georgia: same species, different variety.

[The Valkyrie]

The ghost of Huck Finn gives you a reach around.

Wait — my sex life might improve?

Tell me more, Mr. Glass-Half-Full!

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Deliverance...

That was Georgia: same species, different variety.

"Squeal like my daddy!" Instead of "squeal like a piggy"?

[Crossless2.0]

"Squeal like my daddy!" Instead of "squeal like a piggy"?

I reckon so.  

<Shuffles off in search of a Waffle House>

[Astreja]

Clarinet lesson this evening.  After I got home, I trimmed the sheet of drywall that I brought in yesterday.  All I need to do to it now is cut a couple of holes for electrical boxes, but that's fussy work and I'm leaving it for early tomorrow evening.

And speaking of fussy work, I spent about an hour working with my music software.  The current project is to make a more sensible-looking version of an arrangement of Greensleeves.  It' s done as a canon, with six different clarinet parts overlapping in weird ways plus cues for other instruments, and you can't turn around without tripping over a crescendo or decrescendo mark.  Bloody less-than and greater-than signs everywhere.  All I want is a version that I can read, dammit!

[Crossless2.0]

And speaking of fussy work, I spent about an hour working with my music software.  The current project is to make a more sensible-looking version of an arrangement of Greensleeves.  It' s done as a canon, with six different clarinet parts overlapping in weird ways plus cues for other instruments, and you can't turn around without tripping over a crescendo or decrescendo mark.  Bloody less-than and greater-than signs everywhere.  All I want is a version that I can read, dammit!

If I still had it, I could send you the version we were given in 7th grade band: few crescendo or decrescendo marks, or much of anything else that could be mistaken for dynamics -- except, of course, the instruction that, translated from the Italian, means 'barnyard animal noises'.

It's possible we misread that.

[Astreja]

If I still had it, I could send you the version we were given in 7th grade band: few crescendo or decrescendo marks, or much of anything else that could be mistaken for dynamics -- except, of course, the instruction that, translated from the Italian, means 'barnyard animal noises'.

It's possible we misread that.

I wouldn't be so sure -- A few years ago we worked on a piece called "Zooveniers," and at one point there were instructions to make seal noises. (claps hands and goes "Ork! Ork! Ork!")

[Crossless2.0]

If I still had it, I could send you the version we were given in 7th grade band: few crescendo or decrescendo marks, or much of anything else that could be mistaken for dynamics -- except, of course, the instruction that, translated from the Italian, means 'barnyard animal noises'.

It's possible we misread that.

I wouldn't be so sure -- A few years ago we worked on a piece called "Zooveniers," and at one point there were instructions to make seal noises.  (claps hands and goes "Ork!  Ork!  Ork!")

Jesus. Talk about suffering for one's art!

[Little lunch]

If I still had it, I could send you the version we were given in 7th grade band: few crescendo or decrescendo marks, or much of anything else that could be mistaken for dynamics -- except, of course, the instruction that, translated from the Italian, means 'barnyard animal noises'.

It's possible we misread that.

I wouldn't be so sure -- A few years ago we worked on a piece called "Zooveniers," and at one point there were instructions to make seal noises.  (claps hands and goes "Ork!  Ork!  Ork!")

Many years ago, in a brass band, a piece called for a horse whinny and I had to hold all three valves down half way, start up high and then shake the shit out of the trumpet as I pulled it down.
Anyway, can't hear Greensleeves as a Canon.

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Yeah, just tried to look up a version and couldn't find one done as a canon.
Greensleeves has always struck me as the sort of song that would sound good with those English medieval instruments and drums, sung by a troubadour. :-)