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This comment from Zazzafooky in Santa Barbara. She wrote about loving musicals and singing them at the top of her lungs around the house.
I, too, love musicals. I have collected the CDs of my favorites, like Cabaret, Camelot, and West Side Story. I’ve also begun to collect the DVDs when available. West Side Story, Gypsy, Mame. Although, I gotta say Lucille Ball as Mame doesn’t hold a candle to Rosalind Russell. Even if Rosalind can’t sing. which she can’t.

I found a CD that has both Lisa Kirk’s and Rosalind Russell’s performances for the movie. Lisa Kirk’s voice was dubbed in for the movie. She sounds enough like Russell, that I didn’t realize it wasn’t Russell until I heard Kirk’s performances on this CD. Yikes! ok, that Rosalind! she can carry a tune, but not very far. (I hope the Musicals Police don’t get me for that sacrilege.) I will redeem myself by stating that I love Russell’s performances in Gypsy and Mame. awesome. totally commanding and bitchy in a good way.

I saw Gypsy on tv when I was a pretty young kid. watched it with my dad. no, wait, that was Kookla, Fran and Ollie. Wow, totally different memory. I guess memories all warp into one big mass of pleasure and pain by the time you’re 40.
That’s Life. That’s what all the people say.
You’re riding high in April
Shot down in May.
But I know I’m gonna change that tune
when I’m back on top in June.

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I have taken the next step in the builder’s program at Free Geek. Today, I went through two trainings; Card Sort + Motherboard Evaluation, and Evaluation 1.
In the Card Sort session, I learned to differentiate between video cards, sound cards, network cards, modem cards, combo cards, and game cards. I also learned to identify whether those types of cards were AGP, PCI or ISA. And further, 8 bit or 16 bit ISA. It was fascinating. This part of my 4-hour shift didn’t take long. Soon I tested out of card sorting and motherboard readiness and went on to Eval 1.
In Eval 1, logically a precursor to Eval 2, I evaluated incoming CPUs to see if they met the minimum requirements for reuse. If not, they went to recycle. The current minimum requirement for a Free Geek box, aka Freek Box, is a 500 mhz processor.
If the box met the minimum, it goes on to Eval 2, a process I will learn on my next trip to Free Geek.

Ornette Coleman once said, “The Tenor’s got that thing, that honk, that you can get to people with. Sometimes you can be playing tenor, and I’m telling you, the people want to jump across the rail.”
Yesterday, I purchased a Savoy Jazz 2004 release, Good Time Blues: The Ultimate Tenor Sax Collection. It contains selections played by Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Illinois Jacquet, Sonny Rollins, Gene Ammons, Hank Mobley, and more.
Right now, I’m listening to John Coltrane’s rendition of E.F.F.P.H. recorded in 1958. This is a simple two-chord tune with which all the players are having fun. Coltrane plays the third solo, after the flugelhorn and pianist. His entry to the song is commanding and confident. He takes 5 choruses that wail amidst a mambo, tropical blues feel. Sweet tune.
This CD reflects a variety of styles of music in addition to the variety of styles of tenor players. Sonny Rollins plays the straight-ahead tune, Audobon from 1949. Yusef Lateef takes his combo screaming through 8540 Twelfth Street from 1957. Coleman Hawkins, with his super-relaxed embouchure and feathery vibrato, is featured in a small ensemble playing On The Sunny Side Of The Street from 1944.
This is a great compilation which I enthusiastically recommend.

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