Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GwenOnBass]

 

[GonePlaid]

Teacher says every time a Taco Bell rings, an angel gets diarrhea

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I happen to like Taco Bell-and Mexican food.

 

[Kipp Harrington]

I happen to like Taco Bell-and Mexican food.

...and diarrhea, obviously. LOL.

 

[GonePlaid]

...and diarrhea, obviously. LOL.

Nope. No problem with that-cast iron stomach. I have been known to 'clear' the air though.

 

[Kipp Harrington]

Nope. No problem with that-cast iron stomach. I have been known to 'clear' the air though.

I wish I had a cast-iron stomach! My dad did. I love all kinds of food but unfortunately, I can't handle certain ones. Clearing the "air" or clear the "room"? I'm a room clearer myself

 

[GonePlaid]

I wish I had a cast-iron stomach! My dad did. I love all kinds of food but unfortunately, I can't handle certain ones. Clearing the "air" or clear the "room"? I'm a room clearer myself

Nah, I like "captive" audiences. They aren't thrilled. Oh, well.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Nah, I like "captive" audiences. They aren't thrilled. Oh, well.

Nothing like getting on an empty elevator where someone has left a parting gift. Even worse when the elevator stops and someone else gets on and they start giving you a dirty look.

 

[Passinwind]

I happen to like Taco Bell-and Mexican food.

Speakin' of which, I finally got my wife to go out with me to the real deal non-Sears Mex joint across the river the other day. It's the classic singlewide trailer off the street where you can barely find it, but so, so good. No chips and salsa; you get homemade potato chips with salt and lime and you like it, or you can order three sublime house made corn tortillas for a buck. And no guts were bombed in the making of this movie. One of those places where I'd probably always order whatever the special of the day is, now that I know what they're about.

 

[Polish Thunder]

Nothing like getting on an empty elevator where someone has left a parting gift. Even worse when the elevator stops and someone else gets on and they start giving you a dirty look.

My nephew will fart something terrible, then go to the nearest person and ask them if they "smell popcorn". The person usually takes a big whiff. Sometimes he can get a gag out of them.

BTW, my nephew is 26 years old.

 

[Fat Freddy]

Speakin' of which, I finally got my wife to go out with me to the real deal non-Sears Mex joint across the river the other day. It's the classic singlewide trailer off the street where you can barely find it, but so, so good. No chips and salsa; you get homemade potato chips with salt and lime and you like it, or you can order three sublime house made corn tortillas for a buck. And no guts were bombed in the making of this movie. One of those places where I'd probably always order whatever the special of the day is, now that I know what they're about.
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[beans-on-toast]

 

[LBS-bass]

I'm with Paul on this. Depending on available practice time, and my interest in the song, I will be more or less meticulous in my learning process. But, my bottom line is always that this is an artistic endeavor so, therefore, my playing (no matter how meticulous my preparation) will always be my interpretation, within my technical ability. I believe we are all entitled to the leeway of interpretation we routinely give to famous performers playing other artists' songs (sometimes they are even better!).
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I have two different goals when I'm learning music and how I learn will depend on why I'm learning.

If I'm working on a deadline with a goal of performing a song in a show, I tend to be more along the lines described above. I will create a darned good facsimile of the song in question, and it will move and groove and bounce and vibe like the original version, but it may or may not contain exactly the same notes and whether or not it does will depend on a number of things, like how much time I have to learn it and whether or not the notes I'm doing differently are really integral to the sound/feel/vibe of the song as a whole. Nobody ever complains so this seems to work just fine for me.

BUT... if I'm working on something as an exercise, it's a very different thing. To learn from a master and become a better player, I have to deconstruct the master's work and learn it line by line. So I will learn a song in sections, making sure I can play the A part faithfully and accurately before moving on to the B part, etc. This is a painstaking and time consuming affair, but I learn so much through doing this that I feel it's integral to my continuing improvement. I rarely play those kinds of songs in public because they are usually too complex for the average band to even care about performing. But I learn a lot this way.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Took Executive Breakfast today and asked for hot sauce. Feels like chili peppers have always been part of my diet. Different chilies for different dishes. My personal preference when cooking for guests who are neither children nor infirm are the "sneaky" kind. The sort of deal when I warn guests "it's hot". And they say fine, then say "this isn't hot." About 3/4s through the meal it hits.

Water doesn't work to cool down the heat, respective of what the former gordo in the video says.

In the elder days when air travel is reasonably enjoyable, and an omelette is served at altitude, a bottle of Tabasco ensures my Monday starts right. No real wish at present to combat TSA and air marshals over a bottle of hot sauce.

Lower intestinal disturbances at altitude affect everyone. But there is always the guy who wears a track suit to his daughter's wedding who is guaranteed to take off his shoes at 33,000 feet. (Did anyone ever mention they'll be very hard to get back on, because this is how our circulatory systems work up there.) I've never been able to stomach how passengers will go to the head in their stocking feet? Groos me out.

And for some reason, nobody seems to complain the head on an airliner is unisex.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I have two different goals when I'm learning music and how I learn will depend on why I'm learning.

If I'm working on a deadline with a goal of performing a song in a show, I tend to be more along the lines described above. I will create a darned good facsimile of the song in question, and it will move and groove and bounce and vibe like the original version, but it may or may not contain exactly the same notes and whether or not it does will depend on a number of things, like how much time I have to learn it and whether or not the notes I'm doing differently are really integral to the sound/feel/vibe of the song as a whole. Nobody ever complains so this seems to work just fine for me.

BUT... if I'm working on something as an exercise, it's a very different thing. To learn from a master and become a better player, I have to deconstruct the master's work and learn it line by line. So I will learn a song in sections, making sure I can play the A part faithfully and accurately before moving on to the B part, etc. This is a painstaking and time consuming affair, but I learn so much through doing this that I feel it's integral to my continuing improvement. I rarely play those kinds of songs in public because they are usually too complex for the average band to even care about performing. But I learn a lot this way.

Yes, yes, and yes

 

[beans-on-toast]

Water doesn't work to cool down the heat, respective of what the former gordo in the video says.

Flushing down a meal with water is a good thing. Drinking lots of water is good for a diet. Hot sauce promotes the desire to drink in an attempt to cool the heat, whether or not it works.

If I want to cool the heat in the mouth, I follow the meal with something else. Dessert!

 

[Fat Freddy]

Flushing down a meal with water is a good thing. Drinking lots of water is good for a diet. Hot sauce promotes the desire to drink in an attempt to cool the heat, whether or not it works.

If I want to cool the heat in the mouth, I follow the meal with something else. Dessert!

Bread or milk or both to sort yer blazing tongue out....

 

[shadowtippy]

I happen to like Taco Bell-and Mexican food.

I like Mexican food but there are differing opinions on what is "authentic." Mexico is a pretty big country, so I think that different areas prepare food differently sort of like American barbeque. "Real" barbeque in Texas is going to be different from what is done in other states as well as being different from what it is in other parts of the same state.

 

[SoulReflection]

Flushing down a meal with water is a good thing. Drinking lots of water is good for a diet. Hot sauce promotes the desire to drink in an attempt to cool the heat, whether or not it works.

If I want to cool the heat in the mouth, I follow the meal with something else. Dessert!

I am with you on that...a big bowl of ice cream...

 

[GonePlaid]

Flushing down a meal with water is a good thing. Drinking lots of water is good for a diet. Hot sauce promotes the desire to drink in an attempt to cool the heat, whether or not it works.

If I want to cool the heat in the mouth, I follow the meal with something else. Dessert!

Breyers or Edy's.

 

[shadowtippy]

I am with you on that...a big bowl of ice cream...

My problem with that is that I want seconds.