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So around 1985 Frankie Yankovic was nominated for 'Best Polka Album' at the Grammy's- it was the first and last time 'Polka Album of the Year' was awarded- more of a lifetime achievement award I think, and good for him. My cousin, who's still an amazing trumpet player, was in a band also nominated for the award. Pretty sure they all knew it was a setup for Yankovic to get a Grammy, but they still had a blast in LA. My family moved West years before and the bandmates mostly stayed with us. I remember one day being the tour guide- we hung out at a beach in Santa Barbara and stopped at the Oxnard Airport on the way back to the house to take a whizz. We walk into this small airport and John Travolta had just landed his personal 727 there, and was walking toward us. It was pretty random, and those guys must've thought you just run into movie stars everywhere you go in LA haha. Whatever it was, it was a blast, and Travolta was absolutely gracious. They went to the Grammy's, didn't get the award, but I'm sure have some great memories to carry them through.

Hmmm, I can find a clip of The Who playing My Generation in 2024, but.... Those were 80's Madonna songs... don't confuse the semi-napping old-timers. ) Just let your mind wander to a peaceful place, watch 'Get into the Groove' and take a deep, nose-forward inhale, it's Madonna's pit-smell after a night at the club.

That's 80's!! I always felt like I could smell her pits watching this video

Classical music alert- beware. This video has always blown my mind. How in the ... was this made in a world before modern gizmos, let alone today Zbigniew knew his stuff.

Pretty sure this is terrible, but I've got a soft spot for it-

I always thought this was one of their finest.

This was actually the first song I thought of to be the first song of this thread- it's absolutely gorgeous. After consulting my bandnamometer, I had to go with either The Electric Prunes or Strawberry Alarm Clock. Funny part 2... or is it trippy - I came to this thread because I've had The Yardbirds swirling around.... and Ralonzo's got them front and center.

Someone unlikely to get assassinated by their running-mate is generally higher on the list of other candidates. Trump has to be the only non-liberal who wanted to 'hang Mike Pence'. Bunch of clowns.

I'n going with Trump-Un, Trump-Orban or Putin-Trump as the likely 2024 Republican election tickets.

Trump's gonna bleed the RNC dry- it's his own kitty money now, And eventually the rest of the candidates are going to rebel. The Republican Party is absolutely ***** from every angle in the coming elections.

It's the same idiots who chant USA USA at any international sporting event. Act like you've been there before, you bloated sacks of protoplasm.

Trying to say, but it couldn't because even the sentence knew it was bull####. I really hate that the most pro-Russia, USA hating bastards have absconded with the Gadsden flag.

Nice spot on the Media Composer reference . )

whoa, so you're telling me I won't even have to remember if my grocery store club app is on the third right swipe, or is it the 4th?? .. what a powerful powerful feature. ) In case I didn't mention it, I couldn't care less about the Apple/Android fight- II just want things that function... except for British cars... they don't have to function, they just have to be. *A note to our British friends, I truly do love the optimism of a people who live in one of the wettest countries on the planet, yet have made more convertibles per capita than any other nation, relentlessly, and in good times and in bad. I currently own a gem off your production lines and, allah willing, will own more of your lovely cars before I am done. **British electrical systems are significantly better than Bosch IMHO

I think the exact quote from people 25 years ago was, "The crap don't work anyhow, and my doctor can't help me get rid of these kind of viruses." *****, Microsoft hadn't even blessed the world with Windows Vista at that point. Everyone was running for cover and trying to discover the 'wonders' of running XP at home. meanwhile those of us on the evil Macintosh were playing an old copy of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.

First and foremost, I have no idea what the issue is- I don't believe I've ever had a messed up text session with anyone due to the platform either of us uses. I'm really not an Apple crusader, but I'm a big fan of things that work... and British cars. Androids are the British cars in the US. ***** happens when you're competing against Toyota. Sure you can put 4 wheels, an engine and a gearbox in the thing, but that doesn't mean we have to protect your competitive market.

"January 6th was a lawful protest" You've got to be ***** kidding me, not just that someone brain-farted that onto a page, but that someone read it and thought, 'yeah, I agree'. I don't know you, but apparently that someone is... you. Good luck in life, but not on my dime. and I love the opening bit about blaming the National Parks Service... I mean how little thought and accountability can Mike Davis and his chum have in life?

* Full disclosure. I do have a horse in this fight- my Pop bought an Android phone and I had to constantly help him with it over the years. That and the #%@&*¥% PC.

A girlfriend of mine asked me what I thought she should invest in, I pointed to my edit system and said Apple's figured it out- It's the only legitimate thing that functions. It's still true today, none of the other platforms come close to the consistent, simple and reliable platform Apple provides. We broke up after a while so no Idea how it worked out, but if she invested in Apple when she asked in the late 90's, she'd have 130k for every $100 she'd invested. I wasn't an investing type... oops. I think iPhone has easily won the battle of 'what is a phone'. Just break up Apple's iPhone into 5 competing companies, like Ma Bell, and let Android and the other clunky systems fall by the wayside.

Totally agree, though I don't recall the 96 million software developers having such a problem with all of this while Apple only had a consistent 4% of the market. Funny how concerns and lawsuits emerge when you find out you've aligned with the wrong horse.

Honestly I don't even fully understand the functional problem. I've got an iphone and have never had an issue texting a soul on this planet. Sorry to hear some people have issues, and I am very against monopolistic corporate moves but On Apple, a few notes. I'm basically the opposite of most current Apple users- I've primarily used their products for hugely complex creative work in eras where the finest offerings from Microsoft and other platforms just absolutely didn't work for years after Apple products were fully functional, and then later were not reliable, or required as much time dealing with the temperamental operating systems as doing the actual work. SGI had its moment for 3D, but beyond that you had the functional ecosystem of a Mac, or you had garbage. PC nerds would tout how fast their system was, as they produced nothing. Of course that changed, and the hardware advances finally allowed the PC world to become functional, and certainly overtake the Mac, at times by quite a lot (still a crap operating system imho) Tech is constantly evolving, people who wouldn't have a clue about what I know now have me over a barrel about how texting has been ruined by something-or-other. Next week they'll say, 'google, make me an Oscar-winning film'. Funny this thread hit on the manual transmission. I'm definitely in the top 95% of manual transmission-shifters worldwide. Wanna race?

I mean 50, probably dead by now, but we can still bless the soul. oh jeesus 59??? Can one still wipe oneself at that age?

Somehow these two belong together, Hollywood Strings making the magic happen. It's a lovely era

Stupid good song. The Stones wrote some really poignant stuff, especially 'Little T & A', but I gotta go with this Stones album as my favorite: