Overlong pulp-fictionry animation, but it has its moments. The "parental advisory" under the jolly green giant's leaf skirt elicited a LOl moment for me.
I hate it when the person in line in front of me brings a lot of coupons... the scanner person scans each one in, and then about 25% of them don't work, so they have to key in the value manually. It's even worse than the people who insist on paying in exact change, and laboriously count out each penny.
So, I feel too guilty to use coupons myself, because I imagine the people in line behind me to be looking at me like I look at coupon users.
Also, food is pretty cheap anyway. Groceries aren't a big part of my budget, so it's also not worth the effort it was when I was younger.
Worse the president? Uh, no. It'd be hard to find anyone sucking more than Andrew Jackson. And Cleveland Rocks. Also, half of them weren't even presidents... Chase, Franklin, Hamilton.
That is not a concertina: it's a chromatic button accordion, and they're quite a challenge to play. There are many types of button accordions, usually with the buttons arranged in diatonic rows. I can honk out a few simple tunes on my horribly out-of-tune one-row (usually brought out at Christmas to play auld lang syne).
Concertinas differ from accordions in that the melody buttons are on both ends (instead of melody/chord divisions typical of accordions), and the buttons are oriented in the same direction as the bellows. I have a couple types: a 20-button C/G anglo, and a 1921 Chemnitzer Pearl Queen. They're fun instruments!
Always remember: Accordions don't play Lady of Spain, people do.
As a multiple-decades UNIX user who never used either a mac or a Dos/Windows PC until the 1990s, I don't come down on either side. My needs aren't the typical user's, and I'm fine with cheap, out of date hardware running linux. But the shifting arguments over time by Mac fanatics as to why Macs rule has been rather amusing to watch.
Years ago, they were arguing the crisp greyscale monitor was superior to any color monitor, until the mac II's brought color. They argued appletalk beat ethernet or netbios or tcp/ip, until Apple ditched appletalk. Or 68k/PowerPC was vastly better than intel family procs (often accompanied by arguments over the superiorness of big-endianess), or pre-emptive multitasking is a waste of time and resources. Unix, including NeXTStep, was widely despised by 90s mac users.
And then, every time Apple moves to some already-established standard, it's hailed as revolutionary in the press, and everyone seems to change their opinion to love what they previously hated.
He was buried in a SPARCstation IPC? That's very early 90s, and fairly underpowered for the time, barely an improvement over the 68k suns. If I had to choose a Sun lunchbox, I'd at least demand an LX. Or maybe the IPX, which had a cute little curled up cat design on its motherboard (pic here: http://www.obsolyte.com/sun_ipx/ipx_board.jpg).
I like the recorder. I've played a few F contras, both Renaissance and modern, but they're a few feet shorter than that, which I assume is a 5th below the lowest I've played. Kung makes a great contra F that's about 7 feet tall, with plenty of keywork that ensures that even someone with small hands can get the reach. I'm partial to the historical models, though their ranges are rarely more than an octave and a 4th.
You know, the authenticity of this famous piece is doubted by some people, based on successive fifths which are rare in Bach's keyboard pieces. The most interesting theory, perhaps, is that it might be a Bach violin piece, transcribed by one of his students for organ. Andrew Manze, a few years ago, recorded a reconstructed transcription of this piece for solo violin, which can be found on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9reoUinXgA
It's great to hear the suggestive fugal parts on what is essentially a monophonic instrument (the modern "Bach" bow nonwithstanding).
For other wacky instrumental transcriptions, there was a trio a few years ago that performed Stravinsky's rite of spring on hurdy-gurdy, tabor pipe, and concertina. Now that was GREAT.
The trombone is rather interesting in that it's one of the few instruments that has gone almost unchanged for in about 500 years. The renaissance instrument (usually called a sackbut to distinguish it from the modern version) has a slightly narrower bore, especially near the bell, and the mouthpiece is shaped a bit differently, but it's essentially the same instrument. The other instruments that the sackbut typically played with at the time, the shawm, cornett, serpent, kortholt, curtal, have entirely disappeared.
Anyone in Dallas interested in seeing and hearing the renaissance sackbut in action should drop by Emanuel Lutheran Church in Dallas next sunday: http://www.emanueldallas.org/files/concert.pdf
I'll be playing on viola da gamba, recorder and crumhorn there.
So, I feel too guilty to use coupons myself, because I imagine the people in line behind me to be looking at me like I look at coupon users.
Also, food is pretty cheap anyway. Groceries aren't a big part of my budget, so it's also not worth the effort it was when I was younger.
(marked 'true' on snopes)
Concertinas differ from accordions in that the melody buttons are on both ends (instead of melody/chord divisions typical of accordions), and the buttons are oriented in the same direction as the bellows. I have a couple types: a 20-button C/G anglo, and a 1921 Chemnitzer Pearl Queen. They're fun instruments!
Always remember: Accordions don't play Lady of Spain, people do.
Years ago, they were arguing the crisp greyscale monitor was superior to any color monitor, until the mac II's brought color. They argued appletalk beat ethernet or netbios or tcp/ip, until Apple ditched appletalk. Or 68k/PowerPC was vastly better than intel family procs (often accompanied by arguments over the superiorness of big-endianess), or pre-emptive multitasking is a waste of time and resources. Unix, including NeXTStep, was widely despised by 90s mac users.
And then, every time Apple moves to some already-established standard, it's hailed as revolutionary in the press, and everyone seems to change their opinion to love what they previously hated.
It's great to hear the suggestive fugal parts on what is essentially a monophonic instrument (the modern "Bach" bow nonwithstanding).
For other wacky instrumental transcriptions, there was a trio a few years ago that performed Stravinsky's rite of spring on hurdy-gurdy, tabor pipe, and concertina. Now that was GREAT.
Anyone in Dallas interested in seeing and hearing the renaissance sackbut in action should drop by Emanuel Lutheran Church in Dallas next sunday: http://www.emanueldallas.org/files/concert.pdf
I'll be playing on viola da gamba, recorder and crumhorn there.