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Hi Jerry,
Thanks a lot for thinking of ways to help us, that’s awesome!
We know about RadioAirPlay/Jango as we had looked into that about 6 years ago, and back then it was a simple pay-to-play (payola) and one of the many “promise everything under the sun” music marketing sites that are addressing independent bands. Unfortunately, in the end they’re nearly always just taking advantage of the millions of independent bands that are looking for that one thing to “make it”.
From our experience in the past, and friends who have paid a lot of money for nothing to similar sites, we don’t think they can do anything noteworthy for us.
But like I said – we always appreciate you guys wanting to help us, and if you ever stumble over something you think that might be of interest for us, just let us know anyway, so we can check it out. There are certainly many things, especially in America, that we’ve never heard about, and we’re always eager to learn something new.
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We shall be looking forward to your questions, Mike! 🙂
Christmas preparations are running high right now but we love going through all the new forum posts at the end of a long day and reading everyone’s questions.
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Hi Rick,
The clock in the corner of the screen probably helped! 😉
I didn’t help Lisa with the editing. Other than a single “more blood” I don’t think I even spoke to Lisa in those four hours. I prefer to let the wizard do her work quietly.
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Hi Tim,
Some people here have partly answered your question already but let’s see if I can elaborate a bit. When our grandma’s condition became too much for our grandpa to handle, she moved back in with us, into the home she grew up in (and that she also partly built herself – she was an architect). So she moved from the city back to the countryside, where we were living at the time.
The landscape is super flat to the east of Vienna – no hills, no valleys, very unlike the typical picture of the alps that people associate with Austria by the way 🙂 It makes the land appear endless. After a bit of an adjustment period we think grandma really loved being there again. She would go for SO many walks, literally up to 5 times a day at some points. There always was at least one nurse with her but we often joined her too.
She could walk for hours, singing, “talking” to us and the flowers and she loved meeting and petting the dogs she passed 🙂 And then she would suddenly stop in the middle of the walk, look into the distance and theatrically say “das weite, weite Land” (the wide wide land) while moving her arms to show the open scenery.
We assumed that she might be quoting the tragic comedy play by Arthur Schnitzler that we know she used to enjoy. But she might have also simply revered to what she was seeing: a lot of wide, wide land. It became more and more rare that she would speak sentences that would correctly relate to her environment so sentences like that really stuck out to us. Also she seemed very peaceful in those moments. It became a bit of a synonym to what her inner world might have looked like too. A calm but empty plain with less and less coherent thoughts.
Thank you everyone here for sharing your own family stories and tragedies. Dementia is a cruel illness, for both the person affected and their family and friends.
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Hi Steve, For all our shirts and hoodies you can click the “More Information” Tab on each product, to get the exact measurements. The tab is below the big image, right next to the “Reviews” Tab. Hope that helps 🙂
Have a look here for example: https://test2.monalisa-twins.com/product-category/clothing-monalisa-twins/And we’re happy to hear you enjoyed your Birthday greetings!
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Hi Lior,
Sorry, but we cannot easily change the layout of the profile. The idea of it is to present yourself with a background, either the default or a self chosen one. It’s pretty much the same like on platforms as YouTube or Facebook. The ideal dimensions for the background image would be 787 x 227 pixels. If you upload an image with that dimensions nothing should get truncated.
If you want to upload more pictures to show them to other members, please use the media tab. You can upload pictures, sound files or videos and even organise them in galleries.
Hope this helps,
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Mona said she accidentally deleted it while trying to edit that reply.
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See what you mean. It was something completely different, hahaha.
Yes, the standard search function of this forum is not state of the art.
It is on my list. The challenge is to find a good search plugin that doesn’t slow down the site further and is forum specific. But we’ll get there somehow 😉 -
Hi Howard,
I tried what you said, putting in “Indigo Girls vs. MonaLisa Twins” and results were coming up.
So, that seems to work.
Then I thought maybe you have used the site search for a forum search.
In that case it is clear that nothing came up because the standard site search doesn’t include the forum. Otherwise lots of restricted pages would get shown for non MLT Club members.
Did you use the search function in the forum?
1 and 2 are for forum search.
Or did you use this?
I found that in some forum topics a wrong sidebar was showing up:
This is the Site Search. If you have used this no results from the forum would show up.
So it seems we have to fix the problem that a wrong sidebar sometimes appears in the forum and to make clear what a specific search field is meant for. Forum for forum content only and Site search for everything else except forum content.Does that address your issue or did you maybe mean something completely different (… the old Monty Python Joke, I know …) 😉
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We both drive and enjoy it. I just happen to take more photos of Lisa behind the wheel it seems 🙂
And the yellow and red car we posted on instagram a while ago weren’t ours, though that would be pretty cool! We just spotted them parked in front of a park one day and had to take a picture!
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Hi Lior!
Thanks a whole lot, we’re glad you’re enjoying the new song and appreciate the nice words!!
We’re happy to answer most questions but some things you’ve got to figure out yourselves. 😉
Hint: It’s not German.
Stay groovy!
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Hello Greg!
Wonderful to have you here, we hope you’ll enjoy the ride (and more jigsaws to come 😉 ). Greetings to Los Osos ❤ -
What an endlessly fascinating subject. Reading everyone else’s answers here I think is the best proof of how we all experience what music does to us in a slightly different way. I’d say the majority of people would agree that it is something so essential to the human experience that it almost takes on a mystical and philosophical element that is hard to put into concrete words. Like what is love or what does it mean to experience.
I never tried to formulate my thoughts around that subject but this is how I would currently do it, (though I’m sure people much cleverer than I have dug a lot deeper and worded it a lot more eloquently ;-)) :
In its most basic form I would say I consider art to be some kind of a short-cut way of communication. But in a terribly profound way. There is no setup needed, no explanation, often no words or even the need to understand the language. Some of the music that has moved me the deepest was long before I knew English well enough to understand the song’s lyrical meaning.
It transports feelings, thoughts, a state of mind, sometimes lyrics and ideas, memories, even physical sensations through nothing than some soundwaves hitting your eardrums. If you think about that for a while it becomes so mind-boggling that you can’t help but think music is some sort of weird unexplainable witch craft :-).
But next to watching a really captivating movie (which without music would still be dull as hell 😉 ) it’s probably the closest thing we have to travelling in time or space without physically moving.
I think people also enjoy and want music in their lives so much because, even in its most primitive forms, it always speaks to the part in us that looks for the comfort of harmony and patterns, of things coming together to form something coherent. Instruments, a beat, melody etc. turning into one.For creatures who very much dislike chaos and disarray I guess music is the easiest way of finding something that speaks to our need of having things play together in harmony. Again, in its most basic form. I believe that the most exciting and meaningful music then takes this concept and pushes the boundaries, shakes it up a little, leaves you with just the right amount of ease and unease to keep your attention.
Then there is a whole cultural aspect, the poetry/storytelling aspect, the way people use music as a way to identify and to belong, etc. The different purposes of music. To motivate, to regulate emotions, to relax or to heighten one’s alertness, get out anger etc. I mean, what music can do to one’s brain is simply insane. We tie memories and times of our lives so strongly to music. The kind of music we grow up with gets engraved pretty involuntarily into who and what we become in the future.
And then there is the whole aspect of creating music yourself. Learning and mastering an instrument, the repetitive and disciplinary aspect of that. The physical aspect of getting your body to produce what your mind wants to hear.
And then when it gets to the actual songwriting: Where does inspiration actually come from? What exactly is an idea and how can one influence one’s own ideas? How does one really produce ideas? What can someone do to build a foundation that’s going to allow good or even great ideas to be born? It’s all those weird, slightly abstract questions that once you start thinking about turns into such a huge subject that it hurts my head 😉
I’m sure people have written books about subjects like that, and I understand why – because a forum post is not going to cut it even in the slightest. Music, or art in general, is such a universally accepted concept and phenomenon taken for granted, but once you start looking into it more it becomes this unfathomably complex thing that so much of our reality is built upon.
To be able to partake in an artform this wonderful and strangely mysterious with the potential of bringing joy to a large number of people is amazing ♥
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We wanted the opening track to set the mood, to introduce the overall thematic arch of the album and to pay homage to artists and thinkers and the type of curiosity that had a profound impact on the future of society. People that knowingly or unknowingly ended up playing a role in stirring things up a little or a lot. The pursuit of truthfulness. Also as much as we draw inspiration from the past, and especially the 60s, it is the future that is yet to be written, that is yet to be shaped and experienced. We don’t romanticise the past. We believe there are lessons to be learned and a lot of wisdom to be taken on to help shape the future in the best way possible. That’s in a way everyone’s own responsibility and what makes the human experience so utterly exciting 🙂
Whether or not all that comes across in the track is up to the listener’s interpretation but those thoughts plus a big dose of sheer fun and experimentation was what was driving our artistic decisions for that track.
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For this video we had to approach it a little differently as we filmed the video before we even started recording our version of the song. In the video we were miming to the original tracks and only had a few hours in the car to memorize the chords, that’s why it’s not perfectly in synch at some points 🙂 Not our preferred way to shoot a music video but we didn’t have the time to get our version ready before we left for the States. So for the California Dreaming Project we decided to shoot all the footage and later work on the music for it. But it worked and gave us enough time to concentrate on the music in peace after our trip (plus we were really inspired by the US adventures which I think helped us in the studio too).
