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Absolutely! Suggest away. These little two or three sentence "action lines" in a script are, for me, fun and not easy to get right. I want to suggest, to a reader, and then to anyone involved in actually filming the thing, the point of the scene: Here it is urban Berlin being way different...

Misael. My credentials are only as someone who has watched a lot of stuff, and not as anyone with any real expertise in, or even knowledge about, independent filmmaking. (Although, I do have a Master's Degree. In language!) Anyway, that said . . . this is strong stuff. The writing, the...

Yes, duel. Early Spielberg TV Movie, maybe the best "made for" ever, and a must see. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067023/

Happy Birthday to Johann Sebastian Bach. Two Goldberg Variations, from Glenn Gould Number 20. And Number 21, the cannon at the 7th interval.

Yup. Been patiently holding back on White Lotus, so I didn't have to watch an episode a week--a barbaric, now, it seems to me, way to experience a story. But yea, absolutely re. Goggins. I've gone through both Vice Principals and Gemstones, beginning to end, several times, and clips from each...

Way cool. :) And, hey, I had to describe Berlin at night, quickly, in 1720, and was able sneak in a hurdy-gurdy. I think, from here on in, I'll try to say "hurdy-gurdy" at least once in everything i write--kind of like my trademark. (And to think, just a few days ago i didn't even know what...

Just remembered. I think I had one when i was a little kid! Although, as I remember, mine had a picture of Quickdraw McGraw on it--El Kabong! Anyway, tomorrow the big day? Didn't win the lottery :( and so couldn't afford my ticket. But looking forward to Early Music Day updates :)

Yes, I did make light of the hurdy gurdy--just a little harmless fun, I thought. But no, my invitation to early music day is now in danger of being revoked. Am I being "canceled" by the Hurdists and the Gurdists? Wokism! But seriously, what a weird and compelling little video tribute to the...

Cool! I learned something, a genre of early music I was completely unaware of.. And, Inspired, I did a little research and discovered one more;

I don't mean to go on and on (although I must, since I keep doing it) but re-reading above thread i do want to correct one thing. I suppose I was trying to be amusing, calling Ms. Fleischanderl's salterio a "thingamajig," but this was disrespectful and just plan wrong. This, of course, is the...

Yup. There are, I think, a lot of threads to look at in European music through the years--from Ancient to Mideival, to Renaissance, to Baroque, to Classical, to Romantic, to 20th century plus--like functional/performative, vocal/instrumental, sacred/secular and the influence of dance. And one...

Im not sure if useful is the right word, but I'm thinking of a few of the books, around mid high-school age, that turned me on to the possibility of extravagant, funny, voice-heavy, writing--the kind of books and writers you love, just for the joy: Portnoy's Complaint, Catcher in the Rye, and...

And now for something completely different. Actually, Ms. Heiderich above, at around 2:00, made me think of this, esp. when it starts to cook at around 2:45. And the roots of bluegrass do go back to "traditional North European music, such as Irish ballads and dance tunes" (Wikipedia)...

And now, with the Kellerheims, brothers and sisters. I love them all :) Edit (and, I've watched Das Duo above about seven times now--charming and delightful. thanks for that :) )

Yup, very cool, s. I should have kept mouth shut, but the DL is kind of a hero, for me, and I don't have very many. :)

Don't want to start a thing, here, but the "why issue an apology" thing is pretty easy to understand, and doesn't imply anything. And they don't exactly say it's "mainstream and normal," but rather, that its real meaning is understandable, coming from an old guy in this particular culture...

And . . . I like the joke, but feel i have to defend the Dalai Lama, the only "spiritual" leader I can think of who is, I'm pretty sure, a genuinely cool guy. The circulation and subsequent outrage over the tongue thing was a willful misinterpretation of Tibetan language and culture, and of...

Yup. Fun stuff. Maybe I'll try for the pi record, now around 100K digits.

Cool. Yes, how to get stuff from other people is a useful skill. But, I think, there are other useful skills as well, like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_See_Yourself_as_You_Really_Are Dale Carnegie meet Dalai Lama :). Anyway. Looking back at books that were really useful, and one...

And . . . I know there's some debate here, but i think I can call (at least some) baroque music "early music" (it's certainly not "classical music," which, honestly, I'm not that crazy about)--e.g. Ms. Fleischanderl playing Vivaldi on her thingamajig. Edit: (but of course WTF do I know:) )