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Woody Allen Musique

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La Conga Blicoti [From MidnightIn Paris]
Baker
2:26

 

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Si Tu Vois Ma Mère [From Midnight In Paris]
Bechet
3:15

3
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If I Had You [From You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger]
Goodman
3:04

4
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Desafinado [From Whatever Works]
Byrd, Getz
5:53

5
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Barcelona [From Vicky Cristina Barcelona]
Giulia y Los Tellarini
2:25

6
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La Ley Del Retiro [From Vicky Cristina Barcelona]
Giulia y Los Tellarini
2:15

7
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Cassandra’s Dream Final [From Cassandra's Dream]
Glass, Riesman
2:58

8
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The Cockney Brothers [From Cassandra's Dream]
Glass, Riesman
1:23

9
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Miami Beach Rumba [From Scoop]
Cugat
2:41

10
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Mal Reggenda All’aspro Assalto [From Match Point]
Caruso
3:38

11
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Mi Par D’udir Ancora [From Match Point]
Caruso
3:27

12
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Take the a Train [From Melinda and Melinda]
Ellington
2:56

13
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Will You Still Be Mine [FromMelinda and Melinda]
Garner
6:18

14
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Sophisticated Lady [From theCurse of the Jade Scorpion]
Ellington
2:42

15
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Sunrise Serenade [From the Curse of the Jade Scorpion]
Miller
3:25

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Caravan [From Sweet and Lowdown]
Berigan
3:38

Disc 2

Title
Performer
Time

1
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Did I Remember (To Tell You I Adore You)? [From Celebrity]
Holiday, Holiday
2:52

2
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Cocktails For Two [From Celebrity]
Cavallaro
2:56

3
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Out of Nowhere [From Deconstructing Harry]
Coleman Hawkins & His All Stars
3:18

4
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She’s Funny That Way [From Deconstructing Harry]
Garner, Garner
2:32

5
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Whispering [From Mighty Aphrodite]
Goodman
3:24

6
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Penthouse Serenade [From Mighty Aphrodite]
Garner, Garner
3:02

7
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That Jungle Jamboree [From Bullets Over Broadway]
Ellington
2:44

8
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All the Jazz Band Ball [FromBullets Over Broadway]
Beiderbecke
2:53

9
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In the Mood For Love [From Manhattan Mystery Murder]
Garner
2:57

10
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Sing Sing Sing [From Manhattan Mystery Murder]
Goodman
8:39

11
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Moonglow [From Alice]
Shaw
3:27

12
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In the Mood [From Radio Days]
Miller
3:35

13
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Begin the Beguine [From Radio Days]
Shaw
3:13

14
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If You Are But a Dream [FromRadio Days]
Sinatra
3:10

15
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South American Way [From Radio Days]
Miranda
2:52

16
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I’ve Heard That Song Before [From Hannah and Her Sisters]
James
2:56

17
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Cheek To Cheek [From the Purple Rose of Cairo]
Astaire
3:38

18
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Stardust [From Stardust Memories]
Armstrong
3:33

19
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I’ll See You In My Dreams [From Stardust Memories]
Reinhardt, Reinhardt
2:32

20
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Rhapsody In Blue (Intro & Theme) [From Manhattan]
Goodman, NBC Orchestra , Toscanini
3:22

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Posted 1 week, 1 day ago at 7:37 pm.

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Sea Shells–eBAY

01262012SHELLSSea Shells – I didn’t hear Obama saying that your way out of the national pickle jar is to sell Sea Shells.  Real Sea Shells

But it’s working for Mike.  He sells them on eBAY.  Text him; his cell #  

  414-704-5905

If you are a boater anywhere on the Intracoastal give either of us a call.  The carrier is Verizon so if you’re with Verizon the call is free.  If you have any ideas about the coming integration of cellphones, iphones, ipads, droids with the electronics on your boat please find yourself time to call or text, picture or video. My cell# 305-407-4152

Posted 1 week, 2 days ago at 1:05 pm.

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Quilting

zentastic-spoonflower-1http://www.zentastic.com/blog/

http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/943680

http://www.spoonflower.com/help#design_help

“This should help you out of the box.”

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Posted 1 week, 3 days ago at 2:26 pm.

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Peak Oil is past tense!

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Another Day Another Sunset on Mike’s Endeavor

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Amazing what you can do – but here – what Mike has done with his. Day. What he did yesterday.   Remember he is by himself.  I can see something is missing.  His inflatable with an out-board motor.  That’s how alone he took the pix with his cellphone. I trust you to understand the Endeavor has a compliment of Marine Electronics.  You can see the Radar Dome.  Can’t you?  I knew the previous owners of the Endeavor.  They were a South African Couple; they bought the boat from 1000s miles “away”  and suffice to say they spent ~ two years outfitting and over-hauling her.  I watched them work as back then we were both in the Junk Yard across from where we are now.  If you’re on the Anclote river you will see a sign for “Sea Services”.  That’s where we were.  It’s all on Google Maps.

Why is Mike sailing her alone instead of Percy and Ginny together? I don’t know. Maybe they’ll read this and comment.  I saw Ginny in Nov.. She said they were going to Australia but would be back.  I never really understood what John Lennon said about life till I bought my first sailboat.

“Life is what happens while we make other plans”

John Lennon 

In my case I have VHF, Shortwave, GPS, Radar.  Maybe later I’ll talk with Mike that way but right now for these purposes it’s easier to use the phone.  His plan is to sail down the Intracoastal Waterway.  The portion from Tarpon Springs to Ft. Myers.  It’s like a road.  It is marked with signs.  The equivalent of exit ramps, right of way, etc.. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracoastal_Waterway

Hemingway PatrolsDuring the war the WATERWAY provided some safety from German U-boats.  Hemingway spent a couple years catching Marlins and looking for U-boats with his boat, the Pilar.

The Waterway currently consists of three non-contiguous segments: the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, extending from Brownsville, Texas east to Carrabelle, Florida; a second section of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, beginning at Tarpon Springs, Florida, and extending south to Fort Myers, Florida;[10] and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, extending from Key West, Florida to Norfolk, Virginia (milepost 0.0).

hemingway-with-bumpyRead “Islands in the Stream” to learn more about this in the words of someone who knew the stream, loved fishing and had an acute sense of adventure. The Waterway from Tarpon Springs to Fort Meyers is a dredged channel in or on the shallow coastal shelf. It would be faster for Mike to sail line-of-sight from Tarpon Springs to Key West but that that would expose the Endeavor to attack by a lost das Boot  unaware WWII is old news.     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islands_in_the_Stream_(novel)

Posted 1 week, 3 days ago at 9:46 am.

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The Artist

To understand this post it helps to have read the last few posts (sic: a blog is a push-down stack).   A dear friend an email friend of mine told me earlier in the day that she could hardly wait to see “The Artist”. I need not tell you that it is typical of people to have certain opinions about films not yet in official distribution.  I downloaded the film.  I watched it.  I deleted it. It was worth watching but it isn’t a keeper for me.

The previous post was a snapshot of Internet traffic. It does not tell us what the “video” is but right now a portion of the traffic is “The Artist”.  Bits and clips are on YouTube.  NetFlix is huge.

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media in the United States, Canada,[5] Latin America, the Caribbean, United Kingdom and Ireland and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California. It started its subscription-based digital distribution service in 1999[6] and by 2009 it was offering a collection of 100,000 titles on DVD and had surpassed 10 million subscribers. On February 25, 2007, Netflix announced the billionth DVD delivery.[7] In April 2011, Netflix announced 23.6 million subscribers.[8] By 2011, the total digital revenue for Netflix reached $1.5 billion.[9] Netflix launched in the UK and Ireland on January 9, 2012.

Besides YouTube and NetFlix who are “safe” there is a lot less safe or legal “data in the stream”. This is not speculation.  It’s DATA. 

I just watched “The Artist”.  It’s a silent film.  I can’t dare say it’s “gawd awful” but it’s no “Midnight in Paris”.  It is “gawd awful”.

Woody Allen can pull that sort of “outside the box” stunt off.  B&W.  Time travel. He just did that in his last movie.  But Woody does his stunts without pretense.  Every film is  just another one of his little $2,000,000 one/yr movies.  He does give his films a happy ending or any other focus group spin/fix to cover production costs.  The Artist was $12,000,000.   The mix of french actors and B-level english actors does not work.  And what is the movie about?  By now we know Woody isn’t going to solve the problem “about dying” but we know he’ll have some fun with the question.  The lines he has Hemingway saying in his Paris flick will have you lol.  As an extra in a 5-minute visual feast he tells us how clever of the french were to abandon the Britiish at Dunkirk in May and to surrender in June 1940 and save Paris.  Hencetherefore Paris was not bombed by the Germans nor the U.S.A.F. during WWII.  That’s why it’s so beautiful – unlke Berlin which was – and isn’t.  Beautiful. 

Excuse me: there were French men and women who believed that the main body of the French armed forces had surrendered too willingly. At the time of the surrender, the Germans took 1.8 million (!) French soldiers prisoner. They still had 2x the tanks, heavy guns, aircraft. It was not for nothing that Marc Bloch (1886-1944, when he was shot by the Gestapo) entitled his book on the 1940 campaign and surrender a "Strange Defeat".

Without prejudice: "Cheese-eating, wine guzzling, soap dodging, mutiny Monkeys", since N..   General Schwarzkopf said on Iraq that "Going to war without the French is like going deer hunting without an accordian. All you leave behind is a load of noisy baggage".

What is there creative in ignoring modern filmmaking techniques? Instead we have a nothing new monochromatic palette and soundscape of silence.  That’s how movies used to be shot.  It is 2011 ODD but  The Artist is as conventional as a late night B-Movie can be. Michel Hazanavicius’ took a simplistic approach to storytelling and it works at first then it starts to bore me.  I’d say  “The Artist” was a technical exercise first, a movie second— with a tacked on happy ending. The result is undeniably pleasant. Few will be safe from the movie’s bombardment of silent but deadly charm. But there’s nothing to think about or remember 15 minutes and 15 miles from the Exit.

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I won’t be surprised if it picks up a few Oscars.  Yes it’s “french cookin’ but it dies in the last reel –  I hope what  we’re seeing is not “The Directors Cut”.  Maybe I am wrong.  Maybe like “Blade Runner” it will become a cult film and be re-released.  But I don’t think so.

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Posted 1 week, 4 days ago at 1:39 am.

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Look what has happened to the web in twenty years!

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SwimSuits Beijing Olympics 2008

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waterpolo usa team 2008

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lost and found pix

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Right of Way at Sea

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Posted 1 week, 4 days ago at 8:23 pm.

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