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On 4/1/2024 at 3:21 PM, Wacka said:
No we always know when Easter is. It's the day BEFORE Dyngus Day!
Frankie Yankovic is no relation to Weird Al. Weird Al is probably on of the best accordionists around today.
10 years ago, when I was in rehab recovering from a stroke in California, they had an accordionist come through the nursing home.
Played Lady of Spain and stuff like that. The he got to my room, I asked him to play Who Stole the Keisha? he gladly did. He was originally from Chicago and we talked about polka bands from Buffalo for about 20 minutes.
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.
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On 4/1/2024 at 6:30 AM, Another Fan said:
That performance was actually in 1990 though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blond_Ambition_World_Tour
lol. I’ll always find her sexy though.
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.
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10 hours ago, Another Fan said:
Early 90s clips.
Very provocative for its time
Love the nostalgia of this video. My dad had an old camcorder like that I still remember
That's 80's!!
I always felt like I could smell her pits watching this video
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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.
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Pretty sure this is terrible, but I've got a soft spot for it-
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I always thought this was one of their finest.
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On 3/23/2024 at 2:47 PM, muppy said:
1969 seems to ring my bells quite a bit in this thread.
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.
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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.
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I'n going with Trump-Un, Trump-Orban or Putin-Trump as the likely 2024 Republican election tickets.
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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.
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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.
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On 3/25/2024 at 5:32 AM, Doc said:
You really don't know what the bolded was trying to say?
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.
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11 hours ago, AlCowlingsTaxiService said:
I’m a freelance fcpX editor, but Premier Pro has the edge IMO, although I still have a soft spot for the Avid Media Composer, the system I cut my teeth on
Nice spot on the Media Composer reference . )
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19 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:
This is why I am team Android since day one. It has finally taken Apple 17 years to adapt this. 😆
https://www.androidauthority.com/apple-copy-android-more-customizable-home-screen-3427873/
Apples "work" because they break others or limit things, take control. Read my above link. It's taken Apple 17 years to adapt customization. They will release it and the iSheeple will eat it up as "new." 😆
Oh, British cars leak oil like a sieve. 😆
Toyota motors sludge. Frames rot. 😆
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
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On 3/24/2024 at 9:03 AM, ExiledInIllinois said:
We were here before with Microsoft and IE. What were people's take on that 25 years ago?
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.
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8 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:
I don't think it's about picking a wrong horse. Nothing to do with apps. It's standardization of the way two phones communicate.
Personally as an Android user, I don't mind... If you're in a group text with say iOS users and you're phone blows up... It's time to delete everything and get out of the conversation. Or... Say a family thread, they send you all kinds of shi... 😆🤣
Still... Phones need to basically work the same and it's Apple that purposely breaks the standardization so they sell more phones and keep people hooked for life. It's predatory, especially on teenagers... They are more likely to fall for the silly status of such things.
Maybe in respect the way Apple communicate via text, media is better... They should get paid for it... But time should run out on the proprietary nature of such innovation and be open to standardization... We're going on 20 years of the smartphone. That standardization will drive new innovation. The almighty buck is a good driver of innovation.
It's really the governments role to standardize the communication between the two gardens. Everything else can stay the same.
We don't drive on whatever side of the road a state chooses and then piecemeal in crossovers at each state line/border. Sure most of the time those crossovers would work... But the chaos it creates during peak times would be insane.
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.
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"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?
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* 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.
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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.
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3 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:
What was your take on Microsoft & IE years ago?
It's an antitrust suit:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-03-21/apple-doj-lawsuit-consumers
Android has more market share throughout the world... But in US, it's flipped. Like 70/30 and growing.
The government has evert right to check monopolistic behavior... Especially when it's interstate communication.
Standardization is good. Walled gardens bad.
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.
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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
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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?
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I mean 50, probably dead by now, but we can still bless the soul.
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Somehow these two belong together, Hollywood Strings making the magic happen. It's a lovely era
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The 60's Music... or Crazy Purple Things
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Somewhere around 1990 I got to see Roger McGuinn guest artist at a Tom Petty show at the Pacific Amphitheater.
The show was already fantastic, then the 'special guest star' shows up onstage... McGuinn with Petty!!
He's got his 12 string Rickenbacker and they bust this one out, straight out of the gate