I've come across the best album cover EVAH (at least in its category), but it isn't in wonderful shape, and I'd like the picture without the album title etc.

Here's what I know:
The album is "Music, Music, Music" by Hugo Winteralter, Columbia Harmony HL 7078.
Photo credit is Al Gescheidt, which is a pseudonym for Bob Cato.

I tried Google images, several album cover search sites, Amazon and iTunes and have not found it. This is downright discouraging. Anybody got the answer out there?

Y'all remember the Darwin Award for the guy who floated his lawn chair with balloons and wound up paying a fine to the FAA? Here's his successor:

http://www.katu.com/news/weird/8399237.html

In other news, one of my cats is diabetic. He got his first insulin shot today. He may look like a grouchy old man, and swear like a sailor, but he's a kitten at heart.

1. Call for the Dead - Le Carre
2. Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two
3. Relic - Preston & Child
4. Star Wars: Jedi Trial - Daniel Sherman & David Craig
5. Reliquary - Preston & Child
6. Star Wars: Jedi Quest: The Trail of the Jedi - Jude Watson
7. Erewhon - Samuel Butler
8. Star Wars Journal: Hero for Hire (Han Solo) - Donna Tauscher
9. Confessions of an organized homemaker - Deneice Schofield
10. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
11. Dracula - Bram Stoker
12. Star Wars: Allegiance - Timothy Zahn
13. Handbook of Quality Control - Mitchel Kider & Lisa Noel
14. The Ivanhoe Gambit - Simon Hawke
15. The Timekeeper Conspiracy - Simon Hawke
16. Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz
17. The Pimpernel Plot - Simon Hawke
18. The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force - Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D. and Sharon Begley
19. Excavation - James Rollins
20. Star Wars: Jedi Quest: ? - Jude Watson
21. Star Wars: Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive - Terry Bisson
22. Star Wars: Boba Fett: Crossfire - Terry Bisson
23. The Stranger - Albert Camus
24. Revenge of the Sith - Matthew Stover
25. Piano Lessons - Noah Adams

I couldn't tell you how many books I have in progress; which one gets finished next is as much an unknown to me as to you.

And let me tell you, a predilection for monstrous cetaceans really gives you the life of a swinger.

sing along with xkcd
and
I haven't bothered to figure out how to embed YouTube links

Metaphors, like any tool, are neither good nor bad except as people use them. D&D is a creative outlet, a path to Satanism, or just a game. Words can hurt, heal, or just not mean anything. Children... well.
( Token post about what I'm actually doing. )

Speaking of which, tomorrow I'm going to see "Much Ado" with Mom and a niece. Haven't been to the theatre much these last few years (since opening the store). Maybe I'll get to the zoo as well. The other main project is doing some recording. I need to finish post-prod on some demos a couple guys from the quintet made with a singer, and then I'm going to cut a cover of "Callisto" for Tom Smith. Always wanted to do that. Need to get the guitar fixed, come to think of it.
(In case any of you haven't heard, this is what's going on in Tom's life.)

"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

( I think the list has been corrupted a bit through repostings. )

Snagged from missjely.

You can't cheat, but I can; I didn't get all of these from IMDb. Google cannot save you from my diabolical riddles.

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.
5. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
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1. "What is your nationality?" "I'm a drunkard."
2. "U will know what 2 do when U unscramble how daddy is doing"
L.A. Story - miari
3. "One word. Sonofabitch. Accent on the last syllable."
4. "I hate you." "There's only one business in the world where that's absolutely no problem at all."
Chicago - miari, adamselzer, chatworthy
5. "I'll give you six minutes--the same six minutes you gave me."
6. "Love is deaf as well as blind, that's it."
7. "Why is it all these idiots are so good at crime and smart guys like us suck at it?"
8. "Who's the best pilot I ever saw? You're lookin' at him."
The Right Stuff - chatworthy
9. "Write us out of this one, Joan Wilder."
Romancing the Stone - miari, chatworthy
10. "It's a myth! Myth!" "Yeth?"
The Muppet Movie - adamselzer, chatworthy
11. "Why is that toy on your head?" "Because if I wear it anywhere else, it chafes."
Real Genius - miari
12. "Henry, I have some reports here from your Major O'Houlihan that I frankly find hard to believe." "Well, don't believe them, then, sir."
M*A*S*H - faxpaladin - in the TV show they dropped the O'.
13. "We have a job to do, Anakin; try not to upset him."
Revenge of the Sith - chatworthy
14. "Where are you going?" "To see if there's a pub!"
15. "Can he do that? I can't do that. Can you do that?"

I wrote this on the card circulating around the office for the tech writer who is getting married.



Here’s to the end of the beginning;

Cheers to the beginning of the middle;

Years to go, years to grow,

And happiness in the end.

quadrivium gave me this devil of a question:

If you were going to write a fugue for instrumentation other than a keyboard (of any kind), what might you score it for? How would that influence the subject and countersubject of the fugue? How many voices would the fugue have? Would you keep to the strict dominant tonic relationships between subject and answer or try for some other relationship?

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That was, shall we say, nontrivial.

Well, I was thinking in terms of a list of questions, but what I got was more open-ended.

catalana asked what I most like about making music, and is there some kind I particularly like best.

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autographedcat made an observation, which I'll turn into this question: What is the connection, in your mind, between writing, arranging, and performing?

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Let's try this: I'm opening the floor to any and all questions about me and music. Background, experiences, approaches, general thoughts on the world at large, anything related to me and music. Be fairly specific so that I can answer directly and get to a point. I'll collect the comments and answer them in a couple days.

When I went to read "It's Walky!" today:

"The data center at which Blank Label Comics is housed had a catastrophic failure early this evening, blowing out three walls of their power room. They are anticipating that systems will begin coming back online Sunday afternoon, but until then, temporary sites will be put together to give you additional information. Troy C. Belding Bookworm Computing with Blank Label Comics"

Boy, there's a reason they call it hardware. I'll stick with the soft.

So, of the next generation in my family it appears the eldest niece has the lion's share of the music gene. I drove up to Toccoa (hell and GONE from here) for her wedding today. She wrote a song for her groom and actually sang it during the service. Gutsy. She did a good job, and the song was a hit. I snagged the sheet music from Mom, who transcribed, arranged, and accompanied her on piano. I'll do it up in Finale for her. Should make a demo of it.

It was an interesting ceremony. She has two children, which her new husband has adopted. They were included in the ceremony; he gave them bracelets and exchanged vows. They stole the show. (Ages something like 3 and 5; who can keep track of all these nieces and nephews and nephew-in-laws and grandnieces?) Anyway, although there were a couple bumps in the road, the ceremony went off with a hitch (as it should). (Always thought that was a stupid phrase, even with other meanings of the word. Guess I should etymologize before passing judgment.) The truly-last-minute-conscripted-wedding-director, my eldest sister, had to pull an Alexander when the groom was confounded by a Gordian knot.

Afterward, some dancing, etc., usual reception stuff. Pretty good spread at the buffet. Lots of 70s-80s group dance stuff from the DJ, like the Electric Slide and YMCA and the Hustle. KISS and get the people on the dance floor. There was an overdose of cute with the two ringbearer boys dancing with the two newly-minted daughters. All of them under seven, and they were doing better than the bride and groom in their dance. I mean, the groom was a happy statue through the ceremony, pictures, presentations, dance, reception--well, I've never met him before, so maybe he's always like that. Seems like that smile would hurt after a while.

In case you hadn't noticed,
Women in bikinis make men impatient.

I haven't kicked the tires on this one, but may be of interest to my flist.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/21/black.holes/index.html