Random thoughts that are pointless and too dumb to say anywhere else thread: 2012

[Thurston Fluff]

It seem to me the terms "up north" and "down south" should be reversed. After all heat rises and it's warmer in the south.

 

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[bball123h]

It seem to me the terms "up north" and "down south" should be reversed. After all heat rises and it's warmer in the south.

The southern hemisphere would disagree with your argument. Of course, if you simply flip your globe/atlas/map/laptop upside-down, you'll be all set!

[1992casey]

The official in the Bucs-Falcons game announced that a player "drug" his foot.

[Thurston Fluff]

The southern hemisphere would disagree with your argument. Of course, if you simply flip your globe/atlas/map/laptop upside-down, you'll be all set!

 

In other words we are speaking as if we lived in the southern hemisphere. It's kind of like group dyslexia or something.

[hawing]

Someone I had a crush on in high school now has a high-ranking position in the U.S. Department of Commerce. I knew he was employed by the feds, but I didn't know his position was a Presidential appointment. Huh.

 

He's a Yankees fan (or was in high school), so it would never have worked anyway.

[hawing]

As a quite casual fan of college football, I didn't realize until tonight that the Orange Bowl halftime show is kind of Superbowlesque, with a "name" band performing. Imagine the outrage if Wisconsin ever made this bowl and its band couldn't appear.

[RightFieldCoder]

Is it the cause of the Orange Bowl or the Computer Pick Bowl? Imagine the outrage if the Badgers made the championship game the year it was the Rose Bowl.

[1992casey]

When loading the Paul McCartney All My Best! CD into iTunes, the CD was split into five different "albums."

• Several songs by Paul McCartney
• Several songs by Wings
• Several songs by Paul McCartney & Wings
• One song by Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder
• One song by Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson

By rights, there should have been one more "album," as Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey was performed by Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney.

 

The fix is easy enough. You go into "Get Info" for these songs and designate Paul McCartney as the "Album Artist." It would have been nice if the online database would have filled that in for me, though.

[Principessa21]

Someone I had a crush on in high school now has a high-ranking position in the U.S. Department of Commerce. I knew he was employed by the feds, but I didn't know his position was a Presidential appointment. Huh.

 

He's a Yankees fan (or was in high school), so it would never have worked anyway.

So you're telling me there's no hope?! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/ohwell.gif

[logan82]

Someone I had a crush on in high school now has a high-ranking position in the U.S. Department of Commerce. I knew he was employed by the feds, but I didn't know his position was a Presidential appointment. Huh.

 

He's a Yankees fan (or was in high school), so it would never have worked anyway.

So you're telling me there's no hope?! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/ohwell.gif

Nope, none.

[Point Beer Is Best]

This is as random and pointless as it gets for those who don't care about such things, but I just met Aaron Rodgers and Graham Harrell. We initiated them as honorary members of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at St. Norbert's chapter.

[chadomac]

The past two days on the east side of MKE have been in the high 40's. In January. Gotta love that global warming!

[pitchleague]

This is probably a question that the "older than me" set can answer. I can remember when MTV started out and played music videos. But what was done with music videos before MTV existed? What made the MTV people decide they needed a channel to show videos? Were videos being made before MTV existed? (Obviously, yes, since MTV played many different videos when it first started.) So, before MTV were videos shown somewhere? In disco halls? At concerts? Where?

[dadofandrew]

Videos as we think of them today, as a genre, mini movies almost, were rare. Many of the older "videos" are taken from concert footage and variety shows. I'm sure it was an idea that people just felt "would work," much like ESPN brought in 24 hour sports.

[JimH5]

This is probably a question that the "older than me" set can answer. I can remember when MTV started out and played music videos. But what was done with music videos before MTV existed? What made the MTV people decide they needed a channel to show videos? Were videos being made before MTV existed? (Obviously, yes, since MTV played many different videos when it first started.) So, before MTV were videos shown somewhere? In disco halls? At concerts? Where?

 

MTV launched in August of 1981.

 

I graduated from high school in 1980, and that summer, me and two buddies went to Florida for a few weeks. One of the highlights for us was to watch a local cable channel that aired music videos for maybe an hour each day. Their library was so limited that they aired Lipps Inc. "Funkytown" and The Cramps "Garbageman" every day. That was the first time I saw music video outside of the Don Kirschner's Rock Concert shows that were performance/lip-synch. . .Soul Train, Solid Gold, etc. Dick Clark had been doing that type of show for years.

 

Later, I worked at a bar that subscribed to RockAmerica, which was a music video service that sent monthly (?) 3/4" U-Matic compilation tapes, and then later they changed to VHS.. That was after MTV had launched, but I think RockAmerica had been established prior to MTV. The tapes were about an hour long, with 12-15 videos. I suspect you could subscribe to a variety of formats, but videos were just one after the other on tape, without any beat-matching or other segue between songs.

[1992casey]

I think that mostly, music videos other than concert footage didn't exist. There would have been a few, but not all that many.

 

For what it's worth, the first music video approximating the format we've seen since the launch of MTV was by Ricky Nelson and was aired on an episode of Ozzie and Harriet around 1960.

[1992casey]

Addendum: The Monkees TV series used the modern music video format in every episode.

[Patrick425]

I use to be glued to MTV when I was in HS (early 80's). Before that, other than actually going to a concert or possibly seeing the artist on Don' Kirshner's rock concert or SNL, it was rare to see them perform. When I try to explain this concept to my 13 year old son, he doesn't get it. Anticipating a new artists album to come out and then, when it does, rushing to the store to get it and listening to it over and over again until you knew every song (not just the ones played on the radio) is also a strange concept to him. I anticipated and purchased albums similar to how my son now anticipates and purchases video games.

 

Once in a while I show my son an old video from the early MTV days and he gets a kick out of it. When ever the Talking Head's "Once in a Lifetime" comes on now in the car, he does the hand chopping the forearm movement.

 

I do think there is less of a "generation gap" between parents and children now in regards to music than there was when I was a kid. My son and his friends have songs from The Police, Nirvana, Jethro Tull, The Who, The Beatles, Rush, etc on their Ipod Touches. I never listened to my parents music growing up. My Dad was into big bands and Sinatra and my Mom was into music like Ray Coniff or Musicals like West Side Story and Sound of Music. My Music was pretty foreign to them. Music seemed to be much more of a rebellious outlet when I was younger than it is today.

[Godspeed]

Whenever the Talking Head's "Once in a Lifetime" comes on now in the car, he does the hand chopping the forearm movement.

 

That is so awesome.

 

 

In keeping with the thread, when a contractor gives an estimate of $450/500 for a new dishwasher install not including permits, that's the best way of him telling you he has no interest in the job.

[Invader3K]

Their definitely were music videos made before MTV. It was before my time, but I think they usually aired on niche syndicated TV programs and things like that.

[fondybrewfan]

I bought one of John Grisham newer books, Confession, on Friday. I became addicted and managed to miss every minute of NFL action yesterday because I couldn't put it down. 500+ pages; but damn that was a good book. Much better than Grisham's other recent efforts.

[Baldkin]

A Song of Ice and Fire has consumed my life.

[JumpinMacFlash]

I was at the grocery store the other day, in the meat department. I was browsing for a nice beef tenderloin, when I overheard an exchange between a mother and daughter regarding their dinner.

 

Mother: "We could get some ribs..."

Daughter: "Ribs are like Star Wars, they both suck!"

 

If one of my sons ever said that to me, a small piece of my soul would die.

[jjgott]

Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop was arrested in Madison. The national nightmare is over: http://www.huffingtonpost...410.html?ref=mostpopular

[Thurston Fluff]

It always amazes me how few people know who Mort Sahl is. Especially when compared to Lenny Bruce. Yet he was one of the greatest comedians in American history. He was the first to record a live album and work college campuses. An avenue George Carlin used when he was being censured in traditional comedy clubs. He ushered in the narrative style of comedy that worked so well for guys like Bob Newhart. I once saw a routine of his where he read a newspaper and made comments based off that one paper. It was both insightful and hilarious. He was as controversial as Lenny Bruce but, unlike Lenny, never forgot to be funny. Maybe if he would have died tragically he would have more notoriety now than he does.