Well I just got engaged! I can't believe it, just last year I was beginning to
think i would never meet anyone. I'm 25 already and I thought it was all over.
After some recommendations from a buddy I joined up here:
http://www.lookieherenow.info/ubxy and after 2 weeks I was already meeting up
with a beauty. Well, 14 months later and where still together and planning our
marriage for later this year =)

Hello everyone.  I manage a band that often draws comparisons to
Weill in terms of compositional style.   I would like to share their
music with all of you.

A song called Glamorous Woman is a brilliant piece and is the song
that draws the most Weill remarks.  You can listen at:

http://www.bitchinentertainment.com/glamwoman.mp3

You can learn about the band at www.inkplotband.com

I look forward to talking with all of you soon.

James

Hello my long-neglected clubbers!

This is a link to the ALL THINGS INTERNATIONAL forum, where I post as
San Sam San. Please come visit and join (it's a free service) a very
interesting, diverse group of people from all kind of backgrounds
chatting and discussing cabbages and kings. WorldCrossing is big, and
if ATI doesn't fit your bill, I'm sure some other forum will (I
recommend Random International too).

http://www.worldcrossing.com/WebX?13@205.qCebebOR8wh.4@.ef05ad8

If you want more information, please e-mail me at nehayeva@...

Weillians, darlings, awake!

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Congrats-and will join!!

Hey, everyone... my new band, the Mansfield Rack,
has recorded a cover version of Mack the Knife. We
haven't mastered our tape, which contains several other
songs, but we will in the near future. I am the singer,
but I also handle a few extra instruments when
needed...<br><br>We have a club:
<a href=http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/themansfieldrack
target=new>http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/themansfieldrack</a><br><br>I hope you
all join... especially you,
Sanya!!!<br><br>-Christopher

Thank you for the compliment about my looks... I will still operate under the
idea that I am ugly as sin, however.<br><br>:p<br><br>-Chris

Eww, no.  God no.  Not cavorting on a beach.  Ick.  <br><br>Why are you moving
away, and what happened to your old job at the lab?<br><br>-Chris

Sorry, dear, lost your e-mail (do send me a
message); so I'll just have to whisper it here: YOU'RE
RATHER CUTE, YOU KNOW!!!<br><br>(-:<br><br>I am allowed
to do this, I am old enough to flirt with teenagers.

So how's my favorite club faring in this weather?
On the brink of expiration, it seems...We are at
least one down, it seems... By way of explanation for
my long silence-I am going slightly mad looking for
a new job and trying to pick a continent...to live
on, and continue to listen to Kannonen-Song... And
you folks are probably cavorting on a beach somewhere
and sipping cold multicolored drinks... C'est la vie
et que sera sera...

Well... I have my little band thing going...

And that would be...?<br><br>C'mon...the world wants to know!

Sigh.  I have been up to relatively nothing, I am afraid... <br><br>I should get
something done soon, though... <br><br>-Chris

Hi, Chris!<br><br>Quiet indeed. As for
happiness-there was lots of it around last evening, when I went
to the Jonathan Richman/ RANDY NEWMAN!!! concert in
the park... Okay, so I'm inexpressibly weird-but I
simply love the man... He's old (he says, "dead"), he's
fat, he's funny... (Did I ever tell you I adore Leon
Redbone too? Don't run away...)<br><br>Speaking of the
hopelessly quirky, unabashedly old-fashioned music, if you
have an ear for early jazz/tin pan alley, you should
hear the New Leviathan Oriental Fox-Trot Orchestra.
Albums include: Old King Tut, Here comes the hot tamale
man!, I didn't mean good-bye...<br><br>I first heard
them in the St. Alphonsus Church in New Orleans' Irish
Channel. First time I ever saw people dancing in a church.
They are all amateurs, lawyers, cab-drivers,
physicians, led by the invincible, unfalsifiable George
Schmitt, painter, banjo player, bon vivant and wit. I miss
them...<br><br>What have you been up to? Any traveling? I itch to
hitch a ride somewhere...

Sanya, how have you been lately?  It has been quiet in here, and I was wondering
if you were happy down there in NY and what not.<br><br>-Chris

That was a smart thing to do. We need you around here...(-:

No, of course not on the same
stage...<br><br>John Lee is ok. He looks good enough for his age
(about 80). When he did "Mini-Skirts" I was howling at
the top of my lungs along with him, and this crazy
guy beside me pulled out a switchblade...<br><br>So,
I shut up.<br><br>-Chris

AND John Lee Hooker!<br><br>Not sharing the same stage, I
suppose...<br><br>How's the old man doing?

I saw the Shockheaded Peter and John Lee Hooker on the same day in Toronto. 
<br><br>SP was interesting...

Mais quelle desolation!<br><br>death-have you seen the Tigerlillies already? If
so, what did you think of "Shock. Peter"?

C'mon! Post something! Your last night's dream, grandmother's favorite recipe,
the rumor of the week...

Yes, last month, April 15. A friend just returned Amphigorey Too...the book I
most frequently give as a present.

I don't know if his anthologies count as comics, but man, was I ever sad when he
died last month... or was it March?  No... I think it was last month.

Novels. The classics, mostly... not much good in
contemporary stuff, save for Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen, I
can't think of any good contemporary novelists. I'm
sure there are some that are momentarily escaping my
mind.

Thanks, Sergei. Great photos. Please keep posting.

The recording of the Kuhhandel I have (Capriccio)
omits any spoken parts... I never thought to define
Weill's operas as such or not... The very term "operetta"
seems so passe'...but I suppose technically you're
right... <br><br>Anyway-I love der Kuhhandel very much,
more then anything of his apart from Die
Dreigroschenoper.

Oh well. Another continent to
discover...<br><br>It was just a fleeting association-in The Sandman,
Death is a person (described by someone as "a young
Chrissie Hynde)...<br><br>Still, a sensibility that likes
Weill (can one say this?) is a sensibility that might
enjoy (some) comics... Hugo Pratt's "Corto Maltese",
for instance... Godard's & Ribera's "Le Vagabond des
Limbes"... What do you like to read?

Well, I guess I'd better get busy and go listen
to Der Kuhhandel! Anyway, I would guess that Die
B"urgschaft is closer in style to Der Kuhhandel because of
the time in which it was written (I hear some
correspondences with the 7 Deadly Sins in Die B"urgschaft, for
instance). However, Die B"urgschaft is very definitely opera
(i.e., almost entirely sung), not an operetta such as
Der Kuhhandel.<br><br>--John

Sorry, no.  I never got into comics.