WTF-Beta

By the way, i I checked the photos I have but I couldn’t find a photo of my grandma’s basement kitchen. I’m going to ask my aunt. If nothing else I’d like to confirm my memory of it.

@AndyD said:
You don't have to like it, just play it better than Ax & Jon

Not likely!!

@Bernard that’s lovely, thank you for posting it!

@CHAS said:
I don't like it very much. Will see.

The funny thing is, a lot of pianists at PT don’t rally like it either. I’m kind of blah about it myself

But nevertheless I plan to polish it (mostly) and upload a recording next month.

As for hobbies, y’all know mine, piano piano piano. ️️

@Mary-Anna said:
"I'd really like a house that has more bathrooms than kitchens." I could see her point.

"overflow" cooking.

I love this expression! That’s basically my grandma. She cooked for family. She cooked for her church. She always made enough to feed an army.

My aunt made a photo/recipe book and I can’t use most of the recipes because it makes enough for 200 people and I don’t know how to scale! . There are these handwritten recipes that call for 10 eggs… (like, you know where a normal person would use two eggs to make something that serves five or six people)

@wtg now I am wondering about my memory of the space … I was much smaller then.

I wonder if there photos somewhere.

Back then, you took photos of people in their Sunday best in the front room, not in their aprons in the basement!

@Steve-Miller When I was a kid my Italian grandma has a kitchen in her basement (in addition to the main kitchen). She had these huge tables down there, we used all the surfaces when it was time to make pasta or bread. Whenever I was there, I "helped" but most certainly not in any way that was useful!

Anyway, I always associate a second kitchen with that.

@Steve-Miller I wonder if they got charged extra for data roaming...

@AdagioM said:

I haven’t really played the piano in a decade, maybe?

I guess I didn't know that! Do you still have your piano at home?

@AndyD I'm glad to hear yours is coming along!

I have been half-heartedly playing the easier version, I plan to record it by the Piano Tell deadline (July 15 I think) and since that's a ways out yet, I've been focusing on other goals.

I don't know if anyone else here is playing it, but several people are working on it at Piano Tell.

@Steve-Miller said:

I plugged a little Bluetooth adaptor in to the receiver and stream to it from my phone. It’s like having the largest record collection ever!

Brilliant!!!

@Steve-Miller said:

1975 Marantz 2220b receiver.

When I first saw your photo, I wondered if we were supposed to be looking at the receiver, or the vases!

When I was growing up, I loved listening to records.... But I don't have any of the stereo equipment I had in days of yore. Nor do I have any records.

What will you be listening to? Do you have a big record collection?

@Bernard said:

A Justice Department lawyer told a federal appeals court Friday that the Trump administration could demolish the Statue of Liberty before anyone could sue to stop him — and that would simply be the end of it.

Unfortunately they’re right. But they need to be mindful that they don’t give him any ideas!!!

The New Yorker picks up the story, during a visit to the Faust Harrison showroom.

https://archive.is/EyWA4

Oh dear! That’s not good!!

@jon-nyc that is hysterical!!

For whatever reason, Japanese TV is (or used to be) obsessed with Sagrada Família. When we still lived there, it seems like there was always some TV show where a Japanese celebrity would visit Spain and they would do a segment on Sagrada Família and its history etc. It made me want to visit there!

@Bernard those are all important points Bernard!

How cool!

@mary-anna your house sounds wonderful! And the full size piano pic is indeed glorious!

@RealPlayer how sad!