tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post4501583109425822872..comments2024-03-18T19:37:21.040-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Invisible Church of the Perpetual RaccoonGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36524322891262790602007-03-03T12:11:00.000-08:002007-03-03T12:11:00.000-08:00One other thing about "Breach" (and I don't think ...One other thing about "Breach" (and I don't think I'm giving away the ending because we already know Hanssen got locked away in solitary confinement for life) is the salt.isfaction an OC coon will get when viewing the final scene: Two Coons taking an interloper down an <I>elevator</I> he had breached.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11454759355824773842007-03-03T10:54:00.000-08:002007-03-03T10:54:00.000-08:00Jacob c.Heh, no slight meant to Alex Lifeson, as a...Jacob c.<BR/>Heh, no slight meant to Alex Lifeson, as a reformed bassist, my attention naturally turns more towards the backbeat than the lead.<BR/><BR/>;-)Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37556321917711957292007-03-03T10:46:00.000-08:002007-03-03T10:46:00.000-08:00VAN: My wife and I are both of the opinion that Al...VAN: My wife and I are both of the opinion that Alex Lifeson's picture is next to George Harrison's in the Pantheon Of Criminally Underrated Guitarists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7509758997439471402007-03-03T10:25:00.000-08:002007-03-03T10:25:00.000-08:00uss ben said... "Van-Actually, I read all your pos...uss ben said... <BR/>"Van-Actually, I read all your posts and don't always comment, so now I feel bad...sort of." <BR/><BR/>Ben, tell you what, I'll take your :(, you take my :(, and exchanging them they'll both get turned around into a (: <BR/><BR/>;-)Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75242344248634780692007-03-03T06:58:00.000-08:002007-03-03T06:58:00.000-08:00Wow! 104 comments posted as of 9 a.m. Saturday mor...Wow! 104 comments posted as of 9 a.m. Saturday morning. Cool! <BR/><BR/>Eavesdropping in on the conversation - which is better than doing housework- I find analog is preferred - Cosa and River love Eva Cassidy too. And "What a Wonderful World" to know there are OC coons working behind the scene to locate, isolate, remove and, if necessary, eradicate the deadly mohammad and related parasites. My own chosen part to play is to inoculate the host through education.<BR/><BR/>I saw the film "Breach" last night -- a tribute to the worth of public service and the gravity of espionage. Chris Cooper's performance, as the<BR/>extremely externally devout, but internally troubled Catholic spy Robert Hanssen, is nothing short of mesmerizing. <BR/><BR/>Hanssen's character is a sublime metaphor for the ever present unceasing work of God being hindered by the activity of man's fallen nature, by obedience to earthly passions. Such people breach the work of God upon their own souls.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7493229259768881002007-03-03T06:44:00.000-08:002007-03-03T06:44:00.000-08:00River and Dr Bob,“As we were saying yesterday: you...River and Dr Bob,<BR/>“As we were saying yesterday: you shall not turn stones into bread, or digital into analog!”<BR/><BR/>Perhaps it’s like the difference between a movie shot on film versus a soap opera shot on video equipment. Sometimes you’ll see a little of both used in a TV show – which are shot in film… and then some character picks up a video camera and your view is now through the camera. You can tell the difference.<BR/><BR/>There is a flatness – lack of color depth to video. Film is richer and smoother. It’s also a function of the frames per second displayed. If you go to the movies the delivery reading/equipment is much different process. Light is used to pass through film. I believe they still ‘flash’ each frame twice (the clicking sound on the old projectors). VHS magnetic tape recorder reads changes in magnetic field. DVD is different still. Laser light is used but to read a digital number basically which is later converted to analog. So there are a number of conversions involved versus film with no conversions at all.<BR/><BR/>I believe Mel Gibson’s new movie Apocolypto is filmed with a completely digital HD camera. I think it’s a first. There’s getting closer…but better. Well better for other reasons…not necessarly more accurate. But what you can do with the digital imagery later (color grading, etc.).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26040621580709198172007-03-03T05:00:00.000-08:002007-03-03T05:00:00.000-08:00River:That's a good point about piano. Perhaps it...River:<BR/><BR/>That's a good point about piano. Perhaps it's such a "bell-like" instrument, that it translates well to the digital domain, whereas the human voice suffers the most. The new release of the <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AMJEKA/103-0073253-5764633?ie=UTF8&tag=onecosmos-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B000AMJEKA" REL="nofollow">Bill Evans</A> Trio live at the Village Vanguard, the consensus choice for the greatest jazz piano album by arguably the greatest jazz pianist ever -- sounds phenomenal. <BR/><BR/>Much also depends on how well something was recorded to begin with. The art of recording hit a certain high point in the 1950s, whereras much of the music of the 60's and 70's was recorded quite poorly, including a lot of bad stereo. <BR/><BR/>If you listen, for example, to Sinatra's Capitol albums on audiophile vinyl, there is no way they would have been able to capture that same magic today. There is literally a "magical" element to vinyl that cannot be reduced to a scientific engineering category -- which, of course, drives engineers nuts. <BR/><BR/>As we were saying yesterday: you shall not turn stones into bread, or digital into analog!Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18208138264935171002007-03-03T03:56:00.000-08:002007-03-03T03:56:00.000-08:00PS - as a pianist, I've never been impressed by vi...PS - as a pianist, I've never been impressed by vinyl. I think maybe I've never heard a <I>good</I> vinyl recording of piano music, but the piano on all old recordings vinyl or otherwise sounds tinny and empty. A lot of it, I know, is the mic used, and so forth. <BR/><BR/>Question is, what is the difference between excellent vinyl and excellent digital? Possibly, the vinyl will always suffer from poorer quality, but have better atmosphere. Wonder how one could get a bit of both?<BR/><BR/>Oh, live music. Moving on...Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53728592188491682422007-03-03T03:51:00.000-08:002007-03-03T03:51:00.000-08:00Bob, if you want to go full old school, listen to ...Bob, if you want to go full old school, listen to some of Joplin's piano rolls. Recorded by his own hands on the keys...<BR/><BR/>Now that is analog!Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20224402589454003462007-03-03T03:13:00.000-08:002007-03-03T03:13:00.000-08:00cosa: Eva Cassidy is the best. I love her album, '...cosa: Eva Cassidy is the best. I love her album, 'Live at Blues Alley' -- if there is a singer who can bring me to tears every time, it would be her singing, "Fields of Gold", "Had I a Golden Thread", "People Get Ready", "Bridge over Troubled Waters"... (her rendition of that one I like a lot, though many, many have done it.)<BR/><BR/>It is a shame that she didn't get her due during her days, but isn't that one of life's unusual ways? Keeping us humble, all.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47604920075156033452007-03-02T23:57:00.000-08:002007-03-02T23:57:00.000-08:00Van-Actually, I read all your posts and don't alw...Van-<BR/>Actually, I read all your posts and don't always comment, so now I feel bad...sort of. <BR/>Kind of a periphery bad feeling, but I know it's there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34485024050172458552007-03-02T23:51:00.000-08:002007-03-02T23:51:00.000-08:00Smoov-Not a problem. Although I'm retired from the...Smoov-<BR/>Not a problem. Although I'm retired from the Navy, there is still TS, Secret and NoForn info. I can't divulge, so I'll file the data you sent me under 'lips sealed'.<BR/><BR/>After all: Loose lips sink ships (and stuff).<BR/><BR/>Security is my middle name.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34105652610210551102007-03-02T22:47:00.000-08:002007-03-02T22:47:00.000-08:00Good timing on the Polyani/Schuon question.Sigh, t...Good timing on the Polyani/Schuon question.<BR/><BR/>Sigh, time for bet here too... feel like my seven year old "but I don't WANna go to bed! Coon's are callin!" I suppose it's more snoring (snoring on key and to the beat) that I'm hearing now though...<BR/><BR/>Nighty-nite<BR/>wv:deizdq God's dairy queen?Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45197543693056700572007-03-02T22:39:00.000-08:002007-03-02T22:39:00.000-08:00There was that certain summer intimately tied up w...There was that certain summer intimately tied up with that Captain Fantastic LP... cool northern california nights, surepticious glances and snuggling... every pop and crackle of that vinyl playing on a cheap turntable is precious to me. I actually got that lp recorded to cassette and then years later to CD - audio quality's piss-poor, but sensory recall is Hi-Fidelity.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-73488240898981209332007-03-02T22:36:00.000-08:002007-03-02T22:36:00.000-08:00Something to take you to dreamland - Eva Cassidy, ...Something to take you to dreamland - <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGE_Fd9B6-4" REL="nofollow">Eva Cassidy</A>, who never got her due while she was alive.<BR/><BR/>Night, 'coons...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17335086247817293882007-03-02T22:31:00.000-08:002007-03-02T22:31:00.000-08:00Smoov,"I've still got plenty of uncharted territor...Smoov,<BR/>"I've still got plenty of uncharted territory ahead of me. I am still in the place where I am overjoyed to have found out that spirituality is not only not naive and foolish supersition, but that it is about what is really real. "<BR/><BR/>I echo that.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45266844141931791752007-03-02T21:57:00.000-08:002007-03-02T21:57:00.000-08:00Wow, step out to chase some car repairs and people...Wow, step out to chase some car repairs and people slap 90+ comments on the board.<BR/>Loved the Juggler & Mr. Howler.<BR/>On Elton John, I'm probably off on my own here, but Captain Fantastic is my favorite, start to finish.<BR/><BR/>And Smoov, "And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart..." I'm usually not one for extended instrumentals & solo's, but when Geddy Lee and Neil Pert get going, I'm a believer.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23865387543713863802007-03-02T21:22:00.000-08:002007-03-02T21:22:00.000-08:00Get the bad guys for us, Smoov.Get the bad guys for us, Smoov.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75271551460274149382007-03-02T21:20:00.000-08:002007-03-02T21:20:00.000-08:00Thanks Bob. I'll have to rent those SRV videos. Th...Thanks Bob. I'll have to rent those SRV videos. Thanks for the tip. Nighty night.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7388206082666219822007-03-02T21:16:00.000-08:002007-03-02T21:16:00.000-08:00Me too.G'nite!Me too.<BR/><BR/>G'nite!Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39695538806922346192007-03-02T21:14:00.000-08:002007-03-02T21:14:00.000-08:00BTW, USS Ben knows who my company is. I don't mind...BTW, USS Ben knows who my company is. I don't mind if he shares that privately with Bob or other true Coons, but I really need to keep that info confidential otherwise. Moonbats and Islamists never sleep. They look for any opportunity to malign anyone in the counter-terrorism community.Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66776155814279281512007-03-02T21:10:00.001-08:002007-03-02T21:10:00.001-08:00We just watched SRV live in Montreux the other nig...We just watched SRV live in Montreux the other night, and I'm pleased to say that Future Leader was totally enraptured.<BR/><BR/>It's two concerts, one from 81, the other from I think 84. Amazingly in the first one -- which was recorded even before his first album came out -- the Euros boo him! <BR/><BR/>Wow, past my bed time...Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40429476635614972282007-03-02T21:10:00.000-08:002007-03-02T21:10:00.000-08:00Shortly after 9/11--I had a friend in the south to...Shortly after 9/11--I had a friend in the south tower--I started my current company to make sure those demons never, ever get on our planes again. Some days it feels like our hands are tied, but we're making progress. We're on a first-name basis with the people at DHS. They care. We all care. We'll outsmart the buggers in the end.Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84491214992223406672007-03-02T21:04:00.000-08:002007-03-02T21:04:00.000-08:00ricky:Little Wing was always my favorite Hendrix s...ricky:<BR/><BR/>Little Wing was always my favorite Hendrix song. It's gorgous. Thanks for the link.Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9940376305567098942007-03-02T21:03:00.001-08:002007-03-02T21:03:00.001-08:00Smoov--Yes, even if an artist has talent, contempo...Smoov--<BR/><BR/>Yes, even if an artist has talent, contemporary recordings sound just awful. I usually can't even listen more than once, the sound is so uninviting.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.com