MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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I really don’t do visual art much. In my first 40-50 years, I watched very few movies. I watch more now, but still not that many. But I do enjoy architecture and fine furniture and tableware. One of my hobbies is cooking, for which the presentation of a dish – it’s appearance on the plate – and also including the plate itself and other appropriate tableware, is visual art. I’ve thought I might have liked being an architect; I also considered being a chef – I worked parts of 6 years in restaurants long ago, but like being a musician, I ultimately decided it was not for me.
I’ve been to Paris half a dozen times, and never went in a real museum. I did go in a number of antique stores and flea markets there, mostly for furniture but also books. There’s a store across from the Louvre; when I went in there the woman told me the chair I was admiring was made by the ébéniste to the Queen. It was amazing in its proportions, in its flow, its balance. Paris still has neighborhoods like it did in the Middle Ages where certain trades have congregated, so I’ve been to the one with tableware, and the one with kitchenware.
The only famous artwork I have is Van Gogh’s Café Terrace at Night. In 1991, 100 years after it was first exhibited, I had lunch in that café. So I bought the print afterwards. I like having those memories return when I see that print on my wall.
I live in a city of 120,000 people. Every July is the Ann Arbor Art Fair, and 600,000 people show up. It’s kind of like having an art museum come to visit me. I remember long ago, standing in the booth of a guy looking at his large modern painting. After a few minutes I said to him, “it keeps changing as I look at it”, and he said, “yep, that’s what it’s supposed to do.” Art is everywhere. It is in everything – potentially.
https://krollermuller.nl/en/vincent-van-gogh-terrace-of-a-cafe-at-night-place-du-forum-1
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Terrace of a café at night (Place du Forum) – Kröller-Müller Museum
Vincent van Gogh, Terrace of a café at night (Place du Forum), c. 16 September 1888 – © Kröller-Müller Museum
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I don’t mind Taylor Swift so much. She is a big enough star to do whatever she decides to do. This is a woman who is re-recording her early catalog just because she’s not a fan of how the industry operates and what they did to her. I don’t listen to her, but she can play whatever she wants to play, the music biz can’t tell her what to do any more. More power to her. She’s successful, and she has many millions of fans who love her. I don’t see anything wrong with that.
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I am very much looking forward to the public Livestream. Maybe this could turn into a series of Livestreams. Livestreams at regular intervals, often enough to maintain momentum, predictable enough so people can tell their friends about it, can get people to hit that Share button. That can move the needle.
There are already tens of thousands of MLT fans. At least. I’m not depressed – I’m excited!
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Hi all. I’m enjoying this thread and wondering how much positive correlation there might be between the length of a post and the conviction of the poster. Lol. Or maybe the fact that it’s a holiday. Idk. Peace and joy and Happy New Year, everyone. Talk to you later. Cheers.
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Tim,
I specialize in hijacking threads. Not on purpose, of course, but I’m just not good at following directions. But I always like it when people turn me on to good new music I hadn’t heard before. So thanks.
I really like Sweet Lorraine and Count on Me as Duo Sessions too. Two of my faves.
https://youtu.be/HydHPStpQg4 Sweet Lorraine
https://youtu.be/U5V5rfyRy0s Count on Me
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Thanks Bud.
I’ve never tried to access wemu.org on a phone. If you try on a Windows laptop, you can just click on it and go. Sounds like they didn’t pay the bucks to build a phone version.
I’d love to make it to the Northwest some day. I know there’s great music there. Have a good weekend.
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I’ve always liked Sheryl Crow. There’s different levels of “like” and devotion, so I don’t own any of her albums, and I don’t know her beyond her hits. But I don’t change the channel when she comes on, I sing along with her. I remember her being a regular at the Crossroads festivals, smiling and belting out good songs, and if it makes you happy, it’s all good.
https://www.sho.com/titles/3511623/sheryl
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Sheryl on SHOWTIME - Sheryl Crow’s life and career told in her own words - and on her own terms.
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Hi Bud,
There’s a campus radio station near me that I listen to, although less than I did in my pre-MLT days. It’s on the web, so you could check it out, at wemu.org. From Eastern Michigan University, about 10 miles from me.
It’s the best jazz station near Detroit. It’s listener supported and it has real DJs who know their stuff, at least during the days. It has shows with other genres too, like blues, and roots rock.
The city I live in likes to call itself “Tree City”. 5 times last year the trees came down and took my power out. I missed about a month of power last winter. That’s when I put my solar radio in the window. After the power came back, I decided to leave it there. So when the sun comes out, I get a faint sound of – usually jazz – licks from wemu, getting louder as the clouds part. I think of it as the angels sending me tunes.
Michigan is surrounded by Great Lakes – I tease my Canadian (and Texan) friends that Michiganders know how to build a real moat to keep interlopers out. But those lakes also bring lots of clouds like the Northwest gets, so the angels don’t usually send tunes more than a couple times a day.
A friend of mine that I used to work with, who was a true ’60s hippie, used to say that the only bad music is no music. I think he was right, although sometimes I have to remind myself of it. I am always ready to discover new music, and if it’s popular, I’ll try to figure out why.
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If you lose a bunch of text that you typed in, like Bud said, one thing you can try is to hold down the Ctrl key, and while holding it down, press the Z key. It reverses the last thing you did. And you can do it multiple times as well.
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I’ve never been to Singapore, and I know it’s in the tropics, so I’m wondering how the sales of Der Bingle’s White Christmas went there(?). They may believe in Santa, but Idk how they can think they’re going to have a White Christmas.
Those pics look like they could be in a science fiction movie, actually.
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I have never held a gun in my hands in my life. So no hunting for me, but I’ve gone fishing plenty of times. I do like the taste of game meats though. If I lived out in the country I might have gone hunting by now.
I live in a mid sized city, and there are a lot of animals around. Here’s the herd of deer that I’m thinking about charging rent to. The one who’s staring at me, I remember her. But there are at least 5 other deer in the picture too. I have almost no grass in my yard, it’s all wild flowers and stuff like that. If I mow it at all, it’s about once per year when it rains a lot in the spring. I always tell people my yard is the last remaining piece of prairie land east of the Mississippi.
That doe is a little worried about me, but not too much. I was sitting 20 feet away. She’s seen me before, and she only worries if I’m looking right at her. If I look away, she ignores me and goes back to having her salad. And sometimes she’ll even lay down. I know they sleep back there too. You can’t really tell at this angle, but this pic was taken last May 7th, and she was definitely great with child – Bambi – back then. So maybe next year there’ll be 7 of them.
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Thanks so much for the Livestreams and the whole Advent Calendar! It does feel like I’m getting to know you and your family. You are so close, which is wonderful – watching you smile and laugh the same way, and finish each others’ sentences.
I’m getting to know the Club members better too because of these Livestreams. This was so special. Thanks! You are the best.
I just took the pic below a few minutes ago, but the smile on my face has been there since I joined the Club.
All the best, and much love,
Chris
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Thanks for the recipe Daryl. Sorry – I was joking about hiding it.
That recipe sounds great. It sounds really delicious.
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Daryl,
Sounds to me like that’s a seasonal view. Cooking is one of my hobbies, and I’ve made head cheese before, and I will again sometime – it turned out good. There’s a good butcher in town and he started carrying whole pig’s heads not long ago. At first he wasn’t sure anybody would buy one so he sold them for $5 apiece. I’m like “wow! a week’s worth of food for $5!”
That venison jerky sounds great. I love beef, but would pick venison over beef all day long.
I tried googling studnetz, and did find one recipe, she called it studinetz, and also called it hyshky. My Ukrainian is pretty much limited to Slava Ukraini – so I never heard of either.
https://petroshasblog.wordpress.com/tag/studinetz/
What is your recipe?
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Blissfully quiet, you said.
I remember when I moved from the lake house to where I am now. I’m in a city now, and on a pretty busy road.
It’s funny how sounds and smells can bring back memories. Out on the lake, it was almost totally quiet. In the city, traffic.
The first night I spent in the city, the traffic noise reminded me of being in Bligny-sur-Ouche, (Bligny on the river Ouche), a small town in Burgundy, in France, that I had been in not long before that. It was an old hotel, Les Trois Faisans (the 3 pheasants), which was right on the shoulder of the road.
Funny that it brought me back to that, but that was the last time I had heard that kind of traffic noise. I’ve thought about moving back out to the country, but at this point I don’t think I ever will.
