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Progoff Journals - Performing Arts/Music

A l’écoute de:

Recording=European Lute Music, Vol. 1: 17th Century France
Category=Classical - Solo Instrumental
Soloist(s)=Junghänel, Konrad, lute
Leader=Ruhland, Konrad
Label=Teldec, etc.
Personnel=Capella Antiqua Munich

#musicsky #hifi #france #musique

The Performing Arts - Ancient Music

A l’écoute de:

Recordings=European Lute Music, Vol. 1: 17th Century France
Categories=Classical - Solo Instrumental
Soloist(s)=Junghänel, Konrad, lute
Leader=Ruhland, Konrad
Label=Teldec, etc.
Personnel=Capella Antiqua Munich

#musicsky #hifi #france #musique

Classical Music - Recordings Owned

Anna Netrebko: Arias
Berg: Wozzeck
Bizet: Carmen
Britten: Death in Venice; Britten: Gloriana; Midsummer Night's Dream; Rape of Lucretia
Cavalleria Rusticana
Donizetti: Don Pasquale; Lucia di Lammermoor
Handel: Flavio; Giulio Cesare
Hannibal (Picture Soundtrack)

What real writers' lives are like.

The rest is tourism.

«Appaloosa»?

As in Ed Harris, Renée Z., ole Viggo?

Jeremy Irons once said to me, that time, down at Versailles (c. 1995), he said, "Brideshead. Good Book!"

Soundtrack=Tom Petty, feat. Mudcrunch. Song= "Scare Easy."

«Appaloosa»?

As in Ed Harris, Renée Z., ole Viggo?

Jeremy Irons once said to me, that time, down at Versailles (c. 1995), he said, "Brideshead. Good Book!"

Soundtrack=Tom Petty, feat. Mudcrunch. Song= "Scare Easy."

August 8, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode | PBS News Hour August 8, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

Project 2025, § 3.17 "The Department of Justice," p. 546. Re: redistricting. See note 16.

www.thirteen.org/programs/pbs...

Could have been another funny, teen-band Irish movie I'm thinking of The one where Wilson Pickett makes a cameo:-)

On the American Civil War, “four years of free carnage” [Henry James, «On Writers and Writing», “Mr. and Mrs. James T. Fields”, p. 353]

"What we had taken so actively in believing in was to bring us . . . [to] the brink of the abyss, yet as I look back I see nothing but our excuses . . . . we held ourselves comfortably clear of the worst horror that in the past had attended the life of nations." -Henry James, Essay on Writing (1915)

Getting there one hour at a time:-) Tomorrow will cable up the Martin Logan sub and bookshelf speakers. Am gonna actually read the manual so I know how to get the most out of Audacity when burning mp3 files from vinyl. Bought 8 risers. May need four more. Trial and error.

Are banana plugs worth it?

Yeah, but who's the black musician rolled through Dooblin?

What's that line says "we're the niggers a Yrup?"

List=Performing Arts/Film & Feature Documentaries

Title=Synge Street
Date=2016
Genre=Drama/Historical Period
Director=John Carney
Note=as in Irish writer John Millington Synge
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mi...

#Film #Filmsky #MovieReview #Moviesky

in my list of 3500 mp3 files there's mad Irish music.

like this

am sorting my AT vinyl-mp3 turntable right this very minute.

Gimme second. . . .

Am assuming you're not taking «Astral Weeks» or «Too Long in Exile».

#irish

Irish writing in English is by definition Resistance.

Too few African-Americans understand that being BLACK is resistance, POTUS or otherwise.

Better said,

"Fix the damn pot-holes."

-- San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria

Hangover food?

www.google.com/search?clien...

I musta been drunk.

But I do like Romanian music.

They play HOCKEY?

In ROMANIA?

back to bed

first, I need a shotta vokka

Do they come in long-sleeve, too?

Seriously, though: I was born in 1960.

Grew up on Blue Note classics.

Dual turntable.

JBL speakers.

Marantz receiver

Y'all ready knowin' steady knowin'.!

Ain't it funky now . . .

Team America Gives Team Romania A Head start:

America's Test Kitchen Cookbook
Joy of Cooking (Umpteenth edition)
Larousse Gastronomique

It got to be a habit, our home-coming ritual.

I walk in the door, pat my shoulder, cats do that cat-shit:

Eyes predator-wide open.

Tail wags-straight.

LUNGE.

Cats funny people.

Cat-Tricks:

Cat-tail-stub thump.

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Do that three/four times.

alina stefanescu, writer

I collects recipes.

Romanian writer Alina Ştefănescu:

Kitchen throw-down challenge

www.alinastefanescuwriter.com#:~:text=alin...

www.alinastefanescuwriter.com

Challenge: Romamian recipes one can make at home

Langston Hughes probably passed through Romania.

How many NHL players from Romania?

One of my two sets of twins.

One of my cats used to jump up from the floor and onto my shoulder.

As if I were a tree.

Or prey.

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There's a reason great writers like Baudelaire appreciate cats, superbly beautiful creatures.

Dogs, too.

www.google.com/search?clien...

When a black writer is that conventional, white editors simply over-understand.

Writing Projects - «Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»

(Excerpts currently under simultaneous submission/editorial review.)

Works – Performing Arts/Film & Feature Documentaries

Actor=Winona Ryder

As Lady Anne, «Looking for Richard»
www.rottentomatoes.com/m/looking_fo...

RC is this what you mean?

Context: Am 64.

CDs didn't exist when I was born.

1979 was a golden age of LP reissues.

I still had a turntable.

When CDs zone-flooded, I transitioned to a Harman Kardon dual CD burner.

2025, bought an AT turntable, and am binge-ing $1 LPs of the music I grew up on.

Just wanna digitize that.

I downloaded Audacity, months ago.

After a free trial I wasn't happy with, I specifically intended to use it with my new Audio Audio-Technica AT-LP120XUSB-BK Convert Vinyl to Digital turntable.

Went out and bought dozens of classic vinyl LPs.

What Audacity sound quality headaches should I expect?

Gratitude works both ways, Jase!

Putting together my pawn-shop, brand-spanking-new-OUT-THE-BOX Audio-Technica AT-LP120-USB turntable.

Online price=$450 to $500.

Trusted Pawn Shop Price=$200

I can always upgrade the cartridge or Best Buy Insignia speakers.

Also got a Martin Logan sub Seiko watch

Timelines - Chronology (Early Middle Age, Published Malcolm X, 1995-2001)

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Got an AT turntable--brand new in the box--at a local pawshop I trust. Brand new, in-box unit, $200.

Gonna go on Amazon right now and buy risers to avoid feedback hum.

I have a Logan Martin sub.

What bookshelf speakers do you recommend as an upgrade from my decent Polks or POS Insignias?