MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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I don’t know if musicals qualify for this list, but Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, two masters, created something truly magical and timeless in West Side Story. I haven’t seen Spielberg’s take on it; this is from the first movie, in 1961.
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Jung,
You might like this. NASA took this shot in September from a probe called Juno.
This is a shot of Jupiter, or so they say. I think it’s Janitor Joe.
And yeah, I finally noticed most of the posts in this thread are 2 years old.
nasa.gov
Just in Time for Halloween, NASA’s Juno Mission Spots Eerie “Face” on Jupiter - NASA
On Sept. 7, 2023, during its 54th close flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno mission captured this view of an area in the giant planet’s far northern regions called
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Did they have chicken wire around the stage? I’ve never seen that outside of this movie. Just wondering. Come to think of it, one of the guys in the movie says “Chicken wire?” when they first get in there, so I guess they’d never seen it before either.
The only roadie I ever worked with was me. My Rhodes back in the old days weighed around 100#; that was loads of fun, literally. Never had a gig like you hear about where I had to carry it up 10 flights of stairs though.
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Thanks David. I didn’t know about Spielberg’s version until I went to look up the old one. But I read a bit about it. Some say it’s Spielberg’s best film. Wikipedia says it had terrible box office numbers, and doesn’t mention that it was during the pandemic — who was going to see movies then?
That clip you posted is well done too. And now that I know the two movies are the same, I don’t have to see the other one. (Just kidding.)
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Thanks. Yeah, I had heard that someone was using a more accurate way to measure that distance.
There are stories of scientists who worked for decades only to have their theories debunked. That must not be fun at all. Any theory as entrenched as the Big Bang would certainly need a lot of evidence to get people to desert it. And as the author was saying, it’s still too early to know if the Big Bang, or any other theory, is really in need of a repair, large or small. We will see.
But that’s why we build these things, we need evidence. One of my favorite theories involves 95% of the contents of the universe, dark energy + dark matter. And we have no idea what they are.
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Valerian is currently free on the streaming service I subscribe to.
JWST has found some things that have people asking questions about the Big Bang theory. Like how is it possible to have full blown, mature galaxies so soon after the Big Bang? No one has an answer for that one yet. JWST is going to upset a few more theories before it’s done too I’m sure.
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I didn’t know NASA was cutting back on missions. Here’s a listing of their missions.
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/
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Jürgen,
Seti.org has one of the free newsletters I currently subscribe to. They’re still around.
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Here’s a tool for planning a trip. I wonder if Janitor Joe used it(?).
https://trajbrowser.arc.nasa.gov/traj_browser.php
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Thanks Jung, I was just about to post about Rick Beato’s reaction as well.
He mentions that John is one of the few writers that would have changes with 3 minor chords in a row. I think it sounds very much like a John Lennon song. But the guy who’s not on this at all is George Martin.
I’m glad people like and enjoy this, and it’s interesting…
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Yeah, when I mentioned “It’s sad” above, I had just watched this video. Paul and Ringo don’t seem to be enjoying themselves too much, they just miss John and George.
I know I do.
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I saw A Clockwork Orange once, at university, so I don’t remember him from that; it would have been mid-70s.
But I just looked him up and saw his picture. I remember him for a tv series for a number of episodes called The Mentalist, which was a cop show. He was one of the bad guys. That was around a dozen years ago.
His entry on imdb.com shows a lot of things he was on. Born in Leeds.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000532/
imdb.com
Malcolm McDowell | Actor, Producer, Writer
Known for: Clockwork Orange - Kellopeliappelsiini, Star Trek: Sukupolvet, Aikakone eli mitä Jack Viiltäjälle kuuluu tänään
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Jürgen,
It sounds like you know quite a bit about it. I did know that Hupfeld wrote it, since it’s on my jazz playlist. On that list I wrote that it was written in 1931, 11 years before the movie was released.
I can sympathize with Max Steiner; he wrote the whole rest of the score, and the only song most people remember is one done by someone else.
But as you said, it is a wonderful, timeless song indeed.
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Somehow I missed that you posted this before I posted about Miami Vice.
I liked Jan’s soundtrack better than the show itself.
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That show was a regular when I was growing up. I remember for a long time, I didn’t get the line in that song,
“Gee, our old LaSalle ran great.”
Couldn’t figure out what they were saying, and no web to look it up on.