Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
I’m not sure what to say about this composition. Listen to it and I’m certain you will recognize parts of it and like me you may not have realized that it was written by Bach
But it is perfect to get you in the mood for Halloween
Enjoy, Jack
thanks, Jack, disney’s Fantasia was the 1st time I heard it. musically it’s perfect for making a dramtic entrance even more dramatic. use in phantom of the opera good example.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like Michael Cohen testifying against Trump in his civil fraud trial.
click here for last night’s SNL cold open‘s usual and not-so-subtle biden diss. BiD & Ivy, this is how that “old & decrepit” trope gets spread.
I like Bach, a lot. This is great for checking out speakers. E Power Biggs brought it to the peoples who normally did not listen to classical.
Checked through yesterday’s notes. Looks like a lively day. I am in a location that has rather poor Wi-Fi or cell coverage, a “blessing and a curse” goes the phrase. It is good to start the day with poor then no communications as I can just not bother trying for a day.
Last night sunset was a knockout for beauty of the sun going below the horizon. Then looking 180° there was the full moon rising with Jupiter trailing it. Wonderful
summerfall night.Ha, Pat, I too was introduced to it by Fantasia, that and many tunes.
Ever the gracious one, Trump first ignored Pence departure, then brought it up at his second Iowa event yesterday, saying Pence should endorse him since “I made him Vice President,” but he might not because “people in politics are very disloyal.”
If the republicans don’t have an “enemy” they’re powerless.
Breaking News: Pence was running for President.
Jack…. thanks!
yes I’ve heard some of that too…
I just googled for examples of Bach used in film and got a web page from Turner Classics.
Proof that the new AI generated content is going to ruin search on the internet tubes.
LOL
Jack
I wonder what the new Speaker thinks of this…
Thank you Jack – Excellent selection to lead in to Day of the Dead or Halloween
Jamie – Night-before-last, I had a dream that I gave you a giant, lavender, ceramic owl.
Ivy/patD – The ageism has been going on for years, but POTUS Joe is extremely capable in his job. As folks age, they may have some arthritis and the voice may get a bit thinner, but his duties as President don’t include running races or singing operas.
*His team needs to push a little more Dark Brandon content. It drives the MAGAts Q-razy.
Orange Adolf and the entire MAGAt Party will ensure Biden gets a second term.
MAGAts only represent the ultra-wealthy. Most of the fools who support them are not wealthy; they are mostly-white, bigoted folks who cherry-pick the Bible to support their hate/fear.
Biden/Harris 2024!
I have a filling that when the president and his team think the time is right they’re going to mop the floor with Magatism.
I wonder if Biden and them can think up things to say that will drive the chump up the flipping wall.
Somebody needs to tell the Biden campaign that if you go to Biden dot com, it redirects you to ALZ dot org ;the Alzheimer’s site). I’m guessing that the Russian MAGAts had something to do with that, and have probably done that to other, similarly-named sites for Biden.
Biden/Harris 2024!
Sturg – The Dark Brandon stuff makes MAGAts drool.
Well, i praised Rep. Mike Johnson’s public statements on race, but the more i read about his alleged “black son”, the more suspicious it seems, and if false, he wouldn’t be the only prominent GOP congressperson guilty of concocting elaborate lies for political gain
Any woke he’s got is tactical lying.
Onward Christian jerk-offs.
Blue
It’s the thought that counts. Should you see a real one, let me know. I don’t have a blue one yet except for my Twitter owl.
Hmm. It’s almost like Amy Phony and MAGAt Mike incorporated them into their families so they could point at them and claim that their policies/rulings aren’t racist. It’s just like they hide behind their interpretations of cherry-picked Bible verses and claim to be Christians rather than the bigots they are, obviously.
We’re on Cape Cod… it’s raining… but we don’t care. We will eats lots of fresh seafood…and breathe that wonderful sea air.
The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
Most serendipitous, Jack.
“A long piece,” I comment to Mr. Ivy.
“Bach’s Fugue,” he notes, “most people have only heard the beginning.”
Later, after listening raptly he says, you have to wonder wherein his brain that came from.
Blue Bronc, glad to hear you.
Pogo, hope you’re having a better day.
Man, I hope so. I’m stuck for what to say one-to-one and face-to-face to real folks talking red-in-the-face. You have to get your shots in fast with them before they’re on to their next tirade.
Renee, that sounds sublime.
We have so many left-handers in our family. It can be a struggle with not enough end-seats for everyone at the table. Yes, there was persecution. My brother got smacked with the ruler in school. Fortunately more lenient when my son came along.
Day 5 for the fly.
Yes, they used to force right-handedness and it started early. I was constantly corrected in kindergarten because I would switch hands when I was coloring. But, the world is set up for right-handedness and they were trying to make things easier down the road, I guess.
Ivy – If the fly lasts into the new year, it’s good luck.
Windchill here is 39 and drizzling. It was almost 90 last week and it’ll freeze tomorrow night. It seems we’re having winter before we have autumn.
My grandfather, born 1901 in Upper Michigan, told me about how he was forced to use his right hand. It was not a nice thing they (teachers and religion) did to him.
My eldest son started as a Lefty and some time ended up right, but can use his left pretty good.
Due to damage to my right hand I use my left. Not that it had been an issue earlier in my life. I learned how to bowl left handed, in earlier life I could bat left. My handwriting is illegible with either hand.
I think humans are so adaptable to situations that when we lose use of a limb we can change over to another one. Or we lose sight, we up our hearing. So many things are out there.
When I was in first grade my teacher ask my mother if she had tried to switch my handedness. The reason was I have a lot of trouble telling my right from my left, even now I do.. From what I learned later it is really common when you are 6, most people grow out of it but some never do, I’m one of those. I learned a few tricks to get by but try to follow verbal directions from the phone, ain’t gonna happen. There is a 50% chance I will zig when I should have zagged.
I am somewhat ambidextrous and can use a lot of tools with either hand, in grade school could write with either hand. But if you have ever seen a sample of my writing you would say that is a low bar.
Jack
Left-handedness was a shame-thing, maybe because of stupid stuff in the Bible. This is in my living memory, so not that long ago (well, maybe.) Because my favorite people in childhood were “leftists” I learned early on to discount and distrust the mentality of certain heavy-handed people who were large-and-in-charge.
Yay, Broncos. That was an awesome win over KC.
No Taylor Swift in Denver today. 🏈
Thanks Ivy. Nothing broke down today.
I am the least ambidextrous person I know – righty right. Not sure why I was born with a left hand except to keep stuff held for my right hand to work on.
Jack, I have to hold my left hand up in the shape of an “L” to see which way is left.
Eat with left hand fork.
Write with left.
All sports right.
Guitar right handed.
Tools left and right equally.
Only grief I ever caught was 3rd grade. It was like she thought she’d get a medal for every left-handed kid she could “cure”.
When I went to Australia we sat down to dinner with a family in Bendigo and I noticed that they were all left-handed. I thought that was kinda odd but soon found out about what they called “continental” style of fork-wielding. I thought I’d found a left-handed country.
Taylor’s tour has started up, again, so no pics of her and Mama Kelse in the skybox for awhile. A few more tour dates here before she starts the international tour next month.
My great-uncle tried to reach me right from left, but every time I faced a new direction I was lost, again.
Continental-style cutlery use makes so much more sense, really.
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