MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Hi Will
I believe Mona is 5′ 7″ and Lisa is about 5′ 6″ or so. So about an inch difference. People stop growing at about 18 or 19 I think. With variances in foot wear and elevation, it’s probably hard to judge height differences reliably from photos.
Both quite tall and beautiful. 🧡
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Here is another charming one about friendship.
Short films have their appeal Sometimes the message or sentiment can get lost in a longer drawn out film, and often times people don’t have an hour or 2 to spare. These are like the short concise songs common in the 60s that were often only 2 to 4 minutes, but never the less are powerful with great impact. At work, one of the skills in a good presentation is keeping it short and sweet while driving the point. Peoples attention span is limited. There is an elegance and beauty in efficiency.
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Hi Jurgen
Yeah I totally agree with what you said. Don’t count out graphic art animation films, there are some amazing ones I’ve discovered. There was a time I also felt animations were for kids too, but I saw some really amazing animated films that made me realize they can be every bit as good or better than regular cinema films, as animated films free the artist to express almost unlimited imagination not limited by logistics of reality. Janitor Joe was perfect for animation, I don’t think it could have been done better to express the imaginative story line short of Mona and Lisa going up in the Space X and playing with Janitor Joe in the stars.
I really enjoyed that first 10 mins clip of Soul. That first music class scene sounded just like my grade 8 band class and I tried to learn to play trumpet. I didn’t try that sucking up the M & M’s from the floor trick with the trumpet though. I really love getting lost in the beauty and magic of music where time stands still and that moment is like eternity. I’ll have to watch that whole movie. Thanks for posting it.
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Here is another really heart warming one.
These short animation films are like songs, with a message or feeling to express.
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Hi Tom
Those limited MLT lyrics are priceless, I always cherish my handwritten lyrics of the Wide Wide Land, written in Orange fountain pen ink I sent them back then. It’s so special for us lucky few who have them, as are the Studio Scribbles. When you listen to June, isn’t it incredible to have the lyrics actually written by Lisa and signed by both of them in your hand! I love the personal touch they put into their art.
That is such a cool story of how you use to write to NASA and they would reply to you. I am sure NASA must have been so happy to have an admiring fan of their missions.
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Charming film “Rubato”: https://youtu.be/1D7D3_HFB3o?si=-EIGPJeAIDuoX_w0
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Award Winning “Windup”: https://youtu.be/efGqe1j3RNk?si=_1BW51fEtUHKUwGT
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In 1977 Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys (drummer) released his first and only solo album Pacific Ocean Blue, and with it included this amazingly honest hand written note to his fans. It is so real and personal, only a hand written note could express to his fans.
This is why MLTs Studio Scribble hand written lyrics are so special, it is so real and personal.
Interestingly, Dennis Wilson was always the most underrated member of the band, with Brian Wilson letting him into the band at the bequest of their mother. Decades after Dennis Wilson’s death, his album Pacific Ocean Blue was re-issued, to amazing praise from music critics around the globe, touted as a masterpiece, and even held up to Pet Sounds by some. While considered the least talented Beach Boy, it’s Dennis Wilson’s solo masterpiece album, that took over 6 years to write, that is considered the best Beach Boys album output since Brian Wilson’s decline due to substance abuse in the late 60s. He certainly rose up in the end like a bright flame for the band.
Honestly, I haven’t had goose bumps to a Beach Boys song since the 70’s, but Dennis Wilson pulled it off for me again.
https://youtu.be/fVktrPv5zW4?si=ZFOAN2iTxgDddDyG
Wikipedia:
Released in August 1977, Pacific Ocean Blue received mixed reviews upon release, but in subsequent years has been re-evaluated by critics and is now widely praised.[4] It has appeared on several “Best-of” lists[19] including Robert Dimery’s “1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die,”[20] and Mojo’s “Lost Albums You Must Own”[21] and “70 of the Greatest Albums of the 70s” lists.[22] In 2005, it was ranked No. 18 in GQ’s “The 100 Coolest Albums in the World Right Now!” list.[
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Thanks Bud, Chris, Tim!
A couple weeks ago went to visit a friend up near Kamloops BC, and there was a massive 6000 hectare wild fire about 20 KM away from my friends place. This is what it looked liked from the highway in the car as we drove along, and what a lot of British Columbia looks like in the north. Fortunately it has not moved and my friend said it started raining, and the massive wildfire in Kelowna BC that has burned many homes has subsided a little bit the last couple days.. So thankful for the Summer Rain. Certainly not out of the woods yet as there is still another month of the fire season left.
The smoke has lifted where I am in Vancouver.
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Chris that improvised piano rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Art Tatum was really enjoyable. Those piano flourishes really sounded great.
Jurgen, Eva Cassidy really provides a heart felt rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow with her guitar. There is a lot of feeling there.
Thanks guys!
There is something quite magical with this song. For me it evokes a feeling of something beautiful and special beyond our reach in this world, like the end of a rainbow.
Back in 2015 I was dealing with a lot of stress with my mom’s deteriorating condition in the care home and stress of work and many other things. I needed to get away for a bit, and I found this cheap Canadian Rocky Mountain week long guided bus tour, meals and lodging included, no thinking, just bring yourself along kind of get away seemed perfection. The tour guide played this song rendition by Aselin Debison on the bus often, and remember heading up into the mountains listening to this, took me to a beautiful imaginative place in my mind in the clouds, made me forget everything and feel how beautiful the world can be. This is a cover by Canadian artist Aselin Debison of Israel Kamikawiso’s rendition of Somewhere Over The Rainbow/It’s a Wonderful World I posted earlier. It’s another beautiful variation on the song
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David, what an All-Star cast of talent coming together to do a wonderful rendition of Let It Be. With Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr playing on it with Dolly Parton, that is quite the endorsement.
Let It Be is my favourite Beatles song, first heard it in elementary school sang by a couple of the older girls in grade 6 or 7 with an acoustic guitar. It felt like church music, from 200 years ago, so amazingly beautiful and divine. I later learned this was the Beatles. Everything good and amazing song that instantly made me love it was the Beatles. More recently when I learned how Paul McCartney was inspired through a dream to write this song, solidified my belief Paul is the greatest songwriter/composer of the 20th Century and takes his place amongst the greatest composers of al time.
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I just had to share this:
“Einstein once said that while Beethoven created his music, Mozart’s ”was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master.” Einstein believed much the same of physics, that beyond observations and theory lay the music of the spheres – which, he wrote, revealed a ”pre-established harmony” exhibiting stunning symmetries. The laws of nature, such as those of relativity theory, were waiting to be plucked out of the cosmos by someone with a sympathetic ear. …
From 1902 to 1909, Einstein was working six days a week at a Swiss patent office and doing physics research – his ”mischief” – in his spare time. But he was also nourished by music, particularly Mozart. It was at the core of his creative life.
And just as Mozart’s antics shocked his contemporaries, Einstein pursued a notably Bohemian life in his youth. His studied indifference to dress and mane of dark hair, along with his love of music and philosophy, made him seem more poet than scientist. …
In his struggles with extremely complicated mathematics that led to the general theory of relativity of 1915, Einstein often turned for inspiration to the simple beauty of Mozart’s music.
”Whenever he felt that he had come to the end of the road or into a difficult situation in his work, he would take refuge in music,” recalled his older son, Hans Albert. ”That would usually resolve all his difficulties.”
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2006/jan/genius-finds-inspiration-music-another
ucl.ac.uk
A Genius Finds Inspiration in the Music of Another
Last year, the 100th anniversary of E=mc2 inspired an outburst of symposiums, concerts, essays and merchandise featuring Albert Einstein.
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Hi Jacki, oh yeah that is a great animated music video. I believe it is Mojo who rated this one the greatest music video of all time.
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Hey Bud, and neighbour! I had no idea you are just a couple hours south of me. I love Seattle, use to go down there on weekends all the time. Even lived there when I was little for a little bit, and a lot of fond memories as a kid as my dad took us there often when we lived in eastern Washington State in the 60s before we moved to Canada. Seattle Centre and the Space Needle are special places for me.
Eloquently said about the state of affairs in the world, and how MLT’s WHY? resonate so well with everything going on in our world and new reality. I love not only their music, but their view of the world and willingness to state things as they see it. They are my heroes in so many ways. Brilliant new music they are creating, just like the Beatles never repeating themselves. Pioneers.
Just heading out the door, but thanks for all the music links, here enjoyed them!
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Good point David! Have you seen the movie “Dead Poet’s Society” about a Poetry school teacher. When school budget is slashed all the fine arts like poetry and music are cut in the curriculum in favour of math and sciences. He makes the case to the school board, what is the point of teaching kids to learn to read, write, and count when there is nothing worth reading and writing about. It’s the imagination that drives the mathematics and sciences giving it meaning.
