Sunday Serendipity

By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor

For the pure joy of it! A bit longer than usual today but worth every moment. Beethoven at his best. Somehow just perfect for this Sunday morning.

Enjoy the music and as always enjoy your day!

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  1. jace, wonderful.

    all you liver and onion haters must never have had fresh from the field. a true delicacy.  just ask a pride of lions….except they forego the onions… and the frying.

  2. lex. herald leader:

    Fancy Farm – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell arrived at the 137th annual Fancy Farm picnic in Graves County Saturday after a week of speculation on whether he would find time to attend. He seems to revel each year in the give-and-take of the picnic and fully understands its history and importance to Western Kentuckians.

    McConnell, accompanied by his wife, U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, glossed over the Senate’s recent failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, by highlighting other accomplishments.

    “We’ve already made a huge difference and we’re only six months into a Congress that lasts two years,” he said at the Saturday morning Graves County Republican breakfast. “We’re not through, we’re not through at all.”

     

    and more of mitch from us news:

    FANCY FARM, Ky. (AP) — A week after an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he’d consider a bipartisan effort to continue payments to insurers to avert a costly rattling of health insurance markets.

    McConnell told reporters Saturday there is “still a chance” the Senate could revive the measure to repeal and replace “Obamacare,” but he acknowledged the window for that is rapidly closing.

    The Kentucky senator noted Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee is working on “some kind of bipartisan approach” that would involve subsidies for insurance companies.

     

  5. Ahhhh, Ludwig van. Thanks Jace (as always).  He was my intro into classical music. Without him I would never have found Mozart, Liszt, Wagner (yes, I know)  Bach and Brahms, all of whom I could die happy listening to – throw in the Beatles and my musical transition playlist to the ever after will be complete as far as I’m concerned. Of course I will be happy to have Chuck, Eric, Gregg and the boys and Lowell and the Feat popping in from time to time. And I’m hoping this transition will last another 25 or 30 years or so.

    I was encouraged last week when cleaning out the garage. I ran across my old stereo gear and spoke with LP about any interest he might have in vinyl, and he said he thought he’d like to have my old turntable – direct drive, 10 lb granite stabilizer and viscoelastomer feet to cut down extraneous vibrations, excellent arm – and he’d like a pair of larger speakers – bucking most of the modern sound trends. Luckily for him his grandfather was a bit of an audiophile and had a set of Klipcsh Heresies that his Grandmother said he is welcome to. Be interesting to see how he responds to old school audio in real life.

  6. For the first week of August, this morning is great.  With this morning’s selection playing I am enjoying Trail Mix, coffee and a beautiful start to the day.

     

  7. Oh, and liver and onions – Memaws’s was very good – never had any other I’d eat twice. BUT!!! I did have some delicious L&O made with chicken livers oncst. It was not very beef liver-like as you might imagine – much more delicate and delicious although I have no idea how it was prepared to keep the liver from disintegrating.

  8. Jace what is the venue for today’s selection?  I don’t see that and don’t read Russian. Wonderful acoustics.

  9. oh wait, it’s at the Pushkin Museum (says in English), they might be called the Kamerny Ensemble.

  10. Thanks Jace.  I’m wondering, how do you decide what to pick?  Do you wait until the last minute or is it something you like to contemplate the whole week?

  11. Patd,

    Mitch McConnell is a legend in his own mind. Having just overseen the least productive congressional session in history he is on track to ride heard on a new session that may well be it’s equal. They have confirmed a Supreme Court justice, and that is about as far as it goes. As for repeal and replace he must be living in an alternative universe. It’s either going to remain status quo or get fixed with the help of democrats. Fat chance of the latter. As for Lamar Alexander’s idea of paying subsidies to insurance companies, given how health insurers have behaved in the past,me thinks that will be a tough sell and rightly so. Sounds rather like a case of corporate welfare to me. When the average American receives some form of assistance from the government, republicans call it freeloading. When large companies receive something from government republicans call them subsidies  and insist that they are a necessary part of the free market structure.

  12. KGC,

    No set criteria, I usually start looking on Wednesday or Thursday. I may have a particular direction that I want to go, or not. For me at least there is the tendency to go with well known composers and well known works, so I try to avoid that, lest you be saddeled with a steady diet of Bach,Beethoven, and Brahms.

    Today’s selection is well known and is indeed by Beethoven. My interest in choosing had as much to do with the instrumentation as with the music. The horn and bassoon figuring so prominently in a chamber work makes for a wonderful sound, that to me at least was worth sharing. Mostly I am looking for works that can easily hold the listeners attention as opposed to demanding their attention.

  14. As good as that music was…..that’s how bad it was taking an ever so cursory glance at that McConnel person.

    i heard on npr yesterday about George Lopez and his show about the wall….they played snippets. I look forward to seeing it.  I always have to wait until they come to the Drive-in for the things I want to see

  15. Pogo – wow for the audio gear.  There are several good places to get parts and information.  Vinyl Engine is a very good site for manuals and information.  Needle Doctor is one of my favorites, but there are others equally competent.

    Fried chicken livers are another favorite of mine.  Fresh, fresh and fresh.  At home drain, rinse, put in a bowl and cover with milk.  Let them sit for a few hours.  Drain, dredge in seasoned flour and fry until light brown.  I love those little morsels with ketchup (a leftover of my childhood).  I have to be careful about eating too many, they are rich.

  16. pogo, for a ‘bama boy I would think you well-experienced at eating fried chicken livers and gizzards.

    here’s some info from seriouseats on chicken gizzards prized by the chef who notes: When I fry my chicken, I serve the breast meat to health-conscious friends and the dark meat to fat-loving ones, but for myself, I squirrel away the gizzards. Gizzards are the cook’s reward for a job well done: nubby, chewy little bits with a slightly feral taste.

  17. When I was a kid, back before interstates, when a buck was still silver, and a joint was a bad place to be…..we always had to wait “until it comes to the drive-in”.    But then somehow my mother took to taking me along to cheap daytime movies at an old downtown theater…….yowza…..candy cigarettes, popcorn and co-cola…. Not to mention a bunch of Sigmond Romberg, Mario Lanza, Jeanette McDonald & Nelson Eddy, State Fair etc……weird stuff for a ignert little kid to see……

  18. Don’t think I’ve ever eaten a gizzard.

    I’ve assisted in the demise and plucking of many a chicken, though.

    I know EXACTLY what someone means when they say, “running around like a chicken with its head cut off”.

  19. nbc news: Trump Administration Stirs Alarm Over Voter Purges

    Larry Harmon, 60, hadn’t voted in a while when he drove to the high school in November 2015 to weigh in on a local referendum in Kent, Ohio. But he wasn’t allowed to cast his ballot.

    “I served in the military and they tell us, ‘Oh, you’re fighting for freedom.'” he said. “Then you come back and you’re taken off the voter rolls because you didn’t vote for two elections? That doesn’t make sense. I thought that was our right.”

    Thanks to six years of inactivity — and a single piece of unanswered mail asking him to confirm his voter registration — Harmon, now a plaintiff in a major voter purge lawsuit before the Supreme Court, was removed f”I’ve been paying my taxes, paying my property taxes, registering my car,” he said. “All the data was there for (election officials) to know that I was there.”

    Harmon was a casualty of the latest voting battleground: How America’s lists of registered, eligible voters are maintained. rom Ohio’s voter rolls.

    [….]

    Harmon, the Ohio voter turned away at the polls, initially thought he’d done something wrong when he couldn’t vote.

    “I kind of blamed myself initially,” he said. “I did a little Googling, and I found out about the purge and found out that if you hadn’t voted in six years they’d take you off. Then I got a little mad.”

    Now, as his case heads to the Supreme Court, he said feels good that he’s spoken up.

    “I’m glad I stood up for myself and wrote a letter and complained about it. I think a lot of people just think it’s not a big deal — if I don’t use my ‘right to bear arms,’ they don’t stop me from buying a rifle next year because I didn’t buy one this year.”

     

  20. Jace…   LOVE, LOVE, LOVE me some Beethoven!

    liver and onions…..   YUCK!    lamb……  YUM!

    dv300…   congrats to the daughter!  hope she enjoys her time in college.

  23. Jace: “works that can easily hold the listeners attention as opposed to demanding their attention”

    what a perfect way to put it, that’s certainly the “note” you hit each week. thanks.

    To your question abt wine with lamb — anything sparkling is my preference

  29. Pogo,Glad to know that there’s still a vinal man around here and there. Have about twelve large boxes of LP albums that Cheryl and I have collected over the years. Probably should have parted with them when we moved but couldn’t bring ourselves to do it. Amazing music galore and no turntable, the absolute definition of between a rock and a hard spot.

    Your comments cause me to consider going out shopping for a turntable and speakers.

  31. Stop by first to thank Jace for his weekly contributions to the trail.  This is a particularly nice Beethoven since it isn’t the more familiar symphonic works.

    If you take requests, a lovely string quartet would be appreciated at some point.

    Now off to the races for the day.  Del Mar is running and I must bet.  Have fun all.

     

  32. _really_ slept in late this morning. Jace, the Beethoven fits perfectly, goes quite well with the blue skies punctuated by emerging massive clusters of dominant clouds–beautiful. Thank you!

  33. If I were to grill lamb chops and serve them with my outstanding Korean rice along with a wonderful tossed salad, I would probably enjoy a Cabernet in the good crystal

  34. I once had roughly 2500 record albums…..I made special wood carrying boxes……always had cheapest turntables, was never all that much concerned about reproduction purity……the records were all perfect, no scratches….bought only the good ones at 25 cents apiece at the goodwill over a number of years…..About 4/5ths of them went up in the great conflagration at Archive #1…..I kind of lost interest in records after that, though I still have a large pile gathering dust……

  35. I must say, being relieved of moving all those records was a bit of a…….relief. That’s one reason I’ve made a peace with fires.

  37. At the time……what I had in mind was I’d load all those records into a trailer and head to Yellowknife and get a job as a DJ in the local radio station so’s I could afford to play honky-tonk piano in some dive on the week-end.

    it was a good plan.

  38. Flatus,

    Cabernet in the good crystal. But of course.

    Last time I cooked lamb chops, I opened a bottle of Malbec that had been given to us by a friend. It worked very well, was sorry that I only had the one bottle.

  39. Sturg,

    Famous last words. ” honey just haul the LP s in the trunk of the car, they don’t weigh all that much” OMG!

     

  41. jace, my last move had the same problem –  kaput stereo and too many a vinyl, tapes and cds too good to chuck – so upon  relocation bought a combination phono/cassette from our trail friendly next door (in rt column) neighbor mr. bezo store for a reasonable price.  not the greatest quality, but does the job of mitigating the hoarder guilt.

  44. bet he’s not long before gone if he keeps this up

    Bloomberg:  New chief of staff reins in white house aides and trumps tweets

    Echoing the Marines’ credo of “God, Country, Corps,” Kelly said he expects all of them to put country first, the president second, and their own needs and priorities last.

  45. politico:

    Gov. Chris Christie said today that he would welcome President Donald Trump “with open arms” to visit the gubernatorial beach house on Long Beach Island during his 17-day vacation in New Jersey.

    CNN’s Jake Tapper asked if Trump would stop by the beach house, where those notorious photos were taken of Christie and his family lounging on a closed beach during the state shutdown several weeks ago.

    The Republican governor laughed.

    “The president is welcome at the gubernatorial beach house anytime he wants. We would welcome him with open arms for him to come and take some time at the Jersey Shore,” Christie said.

     

    before or after he gets the homeland security post?  now that he’s finished the drug commission report and is lame duck in nj, what’s he gonna do next?  not likely to be dwts

  46. Lopez: He was a dig-ditcher. He dig sewers and he worked in construction. But he wasn’t a builder. He was a digger. Like, he dug, and that was his life. It’s tough, man, when you see a guy like that, that you grow up and those are the eyes, the impressionable eyes, that you see this guy coming in and be down from working and, you know, he’s struggling to take his shoes off. And when you’re a grown man, and you see someone depict that as lazy or a violator or anything like that. That, that doesn’t stand with me.
    –George Lopez
    I see these guys almost every day…..digging, planting, bricking, painting, carp entering,…..all that stuff…..all day long in this heat….they all help me with my Spanish…..

  47. Once one of the guys had to tell me what “pinche” means cause I’d heard it and asked him…..after he ‘sprained it I said, “Haha, like pinche trump?”
    And they all cracked up…..

  48. I have to make priorities. I have wonderful windows in our great-room. Although it would be really nice having much of the perimeter lined with gondola-type record bins, I would have to sacrifice the potted plants that provide the transition from our jungle to the inside. The record bins that I do have are verticals built into the bases of some of the furniture supporting the plants. I have CDs wedged into a couple of closets. I almost never play any of our recorded music–just when something prompts me to do so.

    The set-up I have is quite good. I have described it before. It’s a shame that I seldom use it. For casual musical stuff, it is so much easier and quite satisfactory, using the computers that are routed through the small Bose speakers that are shared with a solar powered am/fm portable radio that is permanently set to NPR. There, I sit at our breakfast table overlooking the jungle. From it I see the fireplace, the pottery and figurines on the mantle-piece, the art on the walls from the jungle-side extending all the way to the foyer. I can see the grandfather clock ensconced in his corner of  the dining room, the rest of that area is blocked by the supports for kitchen cupboards. Those supports, despite going all the way to the top of the cathedral ceiling, don’t block people in the kitchen  from being part of whatever is going on in the great-room. I have no teevee in that room. There is a media room adjoining the foyer. Wine and booze are all over the place.

  49. Mi Espanol was progressing nicely, until you bastards elected Trump, and none of my Latino friends wanted to talk to me, anymore.  Now I have to be content with talking about white-people shit, like liver and onions, and vinyl.

  52. eProf, you’re my expert in Spanish usage. In the following, do you think Bink was trying to say Latina rather than Latino?

    “… none of my Latino friends wanted to talk to me, anymore.”

  53. Thx, Jace, as is true for very Sunday. Flatus, I am hardly an expert in Spanish. Bink, used the masculine form for ALL Latinos correctly. Unless, all of his Hispanic and Spanish speaking friends are of the female persuasion then he would use Latina.  I have no idea what he meant when he said, suave, sauve. Soft or smooth is generally how I would use suave.  Bink, que significa, suave?

  54. the twit news of the day not just on twitter and faux news but also farce-book.
    cnn:
    Former CNN commentator Kayleigh McEnany is now hosting campaign-style videos for President Trump’s Facebook page.
    Her first video, released on Sunday, cited several pieces of really positive news and credited Trump with the successes. McEnany called it “the real news.”

    The promotional segments are the latest way “Team Trump” is trying to forge direct connections with fans through social media.
    It is unclear if the effort is being funded by Trump’s re-election campaign or by the Republican National Committee. It does not appear to be government-funded.

    Sunday’s video came out one day after McEnany announced her exit from CNN.

    McEnany, a pro-Trump pundit who appeared on CNN throughout the campaign season, announced via Twitter Saturday that she was leaving the network for a “new role.” She said to “stay tuned” for details.

    McEnany was not dropped by CNN, according to a source with knowledge of her exit. Rather, she asked to be let out of her CNN contract in order to take on the new role

    [….long story continues….]

    Speaking on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” longtime political analyst Jeff Greenfield said he thought McEnany’s video was just part of a “long tradition, if not entirely noble tradition, of political campaign propaganda.”

  55. more about farce-book news from rawstory: Kayleigh McEnany gleefully anchors Trump’s ‘real news’ propaganda channel after bolting from CNN

    From “fake news” to “real news.”

    One of President Donald Trump’s faithful followers has found a new outlet to praise his efforts as Kayleigh McEnany, who just left CNN, jumped back in front of the camera Sunday to offer Trump’s “news of the week.”

    “President Trump has clearly steered the economy back in the right direction,” she boasted on his Facebook page.

    McEnany also touched on the Raise Act – a proposal to limit legal immigration – jobs numbers and the first Medal of Honor Trump handed out to Vietnam War veteran James McCloughan.

    Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump previously appeared in the weekly social media segment.

  56. Patd,

    Can’t speak for anyone else, but I have a problem with draft dodgers handing out Medals of Honor, to real heros who served their country in time of need.  Don’t care if it is Dick Cheney or SFB. It’s a crass political ploy. Any time it occurs the press should ask of the presenter. Where were you when your country needed you?

  57. Yep…..right soon after the election bunch of us were working in one of these fancy kitchens out here, and the stone countertop man Alonzo, came in, fairly agitated and slams down his bag of tricks and turns to address the room with, “I know…..all of you voted for Trump, DIDN’T you?” Glaring.
    I put down whatever it was I had, glared back and said, “Alonzo….I’m a goddam Democrat”.
    He was the only Latino i know of out here who stood up and said something. We pretty good friends now, though…..

  59. Flatus – your world sounds wonderful.  I just imagine how calming it would be.

    I need a new bookcase to store more booze.  I might add some books, I might not.

    This has been a fun weekend.  Took Gale the Service Dog to the sailboat.  It was her first overnighter.  It was bad but not as horrible as I planned for.  I at least got a few hours sleep.  Nothing like taking your dog off a boat at midnight and finding open land for her to pee.  At least there was a big and very bright moon out for us.  It was bright enough I could discern colors.  Then back to the boat, heft dog onboard and clamber back on myself.  Then get her below and the companionway closed up.  A couple of times of comforting her and she finally dozed off.

    I have decided that having a Service Dog is like having a kindergartner.  Go bag with different types and lengths of leashes, at least one vest, toys, chew sticks, nibble dolls, pickup poo bags, bags to put pickup bags in, a towel on wet days, booties if traveling along asphalt that is heated by the sun and whatever else is needed that day.  And as highly trained she is, no one expected her to be a sea dog.

  60. Ha…. I traded a small kitchen oncet for a 31′ Macgregor…..once I got it the damn thing never touched the water again……I was gonna do some sailin’……even bought a Captain hat…… but shit just didnt work out……it sits, lonely and neglected in a vacant lot up on the highway…..wouldn’t nobody even steal it for me, so I just gotta look at it every time I go by there……

  61.  

    I like the ones without an emblem….you know, in case I have to go out and drive an ice cream truck or something.

    Semper Paratus.

  63. “You bastards”

    I take exception to the “you” part. The other I can live with.

    (Haha)

  64. I’ve supported Hillary every time she’s ever come out to run for anything, and still do. I think she’d have made a good, if not great, president.

    May be too late for her now, but that’s a damn shame, if so.

  65. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
    –. William Shakespeare

  68. Thanks, as always, for your stories, wisdom, and education, Mr. Sturgeone.  I appreciate it.

    …and the same goes for the rest of you bastards.

  69. Son hit a $350 trifecta at the end of the day.

    Ninny McEnany is not a good addition to sane discourse

    Doubt she would want to do it again, but supported Hillary in 2008, 2016, and would do it again.  America just simply missed the boat on having a really good President and it took the Russians, the RW nut cases, and the Bernie bots to do it. She still won the majority of the people.

     

  70. Bernie had the message. The DNC turned a deaf ear to the people.   She never should’ve even been the Dem nominee. We are not “bots.”

    Do you guys really think she would’ve been able to accomplish anything with Mitch & co?

    Dream on.

     

    G’nite.

     

  71. Speaking of miseries……..

    ‘All Is Vanity,’ Saith the Preacher
    by Lord Byron
    (1788-1824)
    Fame, wisdom, love, and power were mine,
    And health and youth possessed me;
    My goblets blushed from every vine,
    And lovely forms caressed me;
    I sunned my heart in beauty’s eyes,
    And felt my soul grow tender;
    All earth can give, or mortal prize,
    Was mine of regal splendour.

    I strive to number o’er what days
    Remembrance can discover,
    Which all that life or earth displays
    Would lure me to live over.
    There rose no day, there rolled no hour
    Of pleasure unembittered;
    And not a trapping decked my power
    That galled not while it glittered.

    The serpent of the field, by art
    And spells, is won from harming;
    But that which coils around the heart,
    Oh! who hath power of charming?
    It will not list to wisdom’s lore,
    Nor music’s voice can lure it;
    But there it stings for evermore
    The soul that must endure it.

  73. Miseries galore.
    Hillary probably couldn’t have gotten as much done as Trump will be able to.

  74. Sorry I commented on organ meat then disappeared for the day. Had to go shopping, which led to cutting the grass, moving crap out of the garage, … you get the idea.

    BB thanks for the info on vinyl and needles. I’m going to direct LP there although it will likely be I next summer before he lives anywhere he can apply it. He’s moving to NYC for school and his dorm room or apt. – the jury’s still out on that – won’t be big enough for a real stereo.

    And yes, patd & BB, I’ve eaten more than my share of chicken livers and gizzards, both of which I love. Prolly not the most healthy things I could eat, but so what. And sturg, you’re a poorer man for never eating chicken gizzards, but I admit it ain’t gonna be for everyone

    So sj, if you’re out there, where do you hang out in NY?  From time to time me and Mrs P will be visiting and would love to meet up if you’re in the neighborhood.

  75. Yes Trump will go much farther toward destroying the country than Hillary ever would.  Bernie on the other hand would have, if the past 40 years are any indication, achieved absolutely nothing while getting ever richer from the deluded who think words are better than deeds.

     

  76. Pog, I go that way quite a bit also….if we’re ever there at the same time we can stand across the street and holler at one ‘nother……

  77. When the counting was done, Bernie lost the popular vote. If Bernie had the winning message it would have translated into winning the nomination. He had neither. Sometimes the simplest truths are the most difficult to accept.

  79. Sturge, would be fun to holler at each other. I’m guessing music rather than cabinet making takes you there. We’re spending more & more time there going to live music  venues there.  Last 3 were BB King’s to see Robert Cray, Birdland and Smoke jazz clubs. We’re interested in finding less well known spots. Know any?

  80.  

    Actually more cabinet making and furniture taking kind of thing for my daughter living there…..and they’ve gotten a cabin situation going on in the Catskills so that kind of figures into it a lot these days….

  81. Wouldn’t mind going to the Surf Club if it’s still down there in the village, but jeez, what’sa chances of THAT?

  82. Last show I remember really wanting to see was Debbie Harry at the Cafe Carlyle but the tickets was stoopid expensive….and I’m just a poor boy from a poor family……lol….Galileo!

  83. Well maybe you’ll slide through and give me a call. If I’m there visiting LP who knows?

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