The Saturday 6-Pack

innerspaceboy · 06-19-2022, 08:09 AM

1. Who’s your favourite Muppet?

So difficult to choose! I'm an unabashed Muppet fanatic with rare Muppet treasures all throughout my home. Kermit's positivity resonates with me, and I adore Gonzo's weirdness. And Emmet Otter from Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas is a humble but noble protagonist. I think each Muppet has an endearing quality with which I like to associate.

2. What was your first home like (that you can remember)?

I remember a modest house from when I was 7 or so, at the bottom of a freeway on a hill and not far from a train station. The white noise of the highway and the distant trains lulled me to sleep each night. A fond memory.

3. What, currently, is your main or preferred mode of experiencing music?

Despite my having a substantial rare vinyl collection, I can't overemphasize the convenience afforded to me by my media server. I've made sure to research and track down lossless archival copies of the most superior digital master of each recording in my vinyl library, and to carefully construct exhaustive discographic archives of noteworthy record labels, artists, and composers, and to meticulously tag all with parenthetical release date prefixes to populate catalogs chronologically. My server provides me access to hundreds of thousands of my recordings from any web-enabled device and can transcode/downsample if needed for devices where the DAC would not benefit from FLAC to save on data, so I can enjoy my entire library from my phone anywhere I travel. It's a dream come true.

4. What was the last gig you attended?

Graham Nash at Babeville in Buffalo, NY on my birthday. It was an honor to see him live as my late father gifted me a vinyl copy of Songs For Beginners many years ago and it became a staple folk record in my library. At the show I claimed the very last autographed copy of his latest album which made it all the more memorable.

5. Would you rather take a trip on an old sailing ship, a steam train, or neither?

Steam train most likely. The scenery out the window would be zen-like.

6. How organised are you, in general?

I am an INTJ and am meticulously organized. I've worked to hyper-structure every moment of my life down to a window of 5 minutes. I manage my finances in a similar fashion.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 06-19-2022, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by ribbons

Very vivid descriptions of your childhood homes, Cella and TH - I really enjoyed reading them (but maybe not about the rat...as I too am a scaredy-cat

). music_collector, I am having an olfactory hallucination of smelling sulfur right now, lol.

Haha the funny thing is I was like 8 years old and watched the entire scene of day beating the rat to death, I've always been a bit morbid! Glad you liked reading my memories!

Plankton · 06-20-2022, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy

3. What, currently, is your main or preferred mode of experiencing music?

Despite my having a substantial rare vinyl collection, I can't overemphasize the convenience afforded to me by my media server. I've made sure to research and track down lossless archival copies of the most superior digital master of each recording in my vinyl library, and to carefully construct exhaustive discographic archives of noteworthy record labels, artists, and composers, and to meticulously tag all with parenthetical release date prefixes to populate catalogs chronologically. My server provides me access to hundreds of thousands of my recordings from any web-enabled device and can transcode/downsample if needed for devices where the DAC would not benefit from FLAC to save on data, so I can enjoy my entire library from my phone anywhere I travel. It's a dream come true.

That really is amazing.

ribbons · 06-20-2022, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Celladorina

Haha the funny thing is I was like 8 years old and watched the entire scene of day beating the rat to death, I've always been a bit morbid! Glad you liked reading my memories!

I don't think you're morbid, just really BRAVE! And I really admire that.

ribbons · 06-20-2022, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy

4. What was the last gig you attended?

Graham Nash at Babeville in Buffalo, NY on my birthday. It was an honor to see him live as my late father gifted me a vinyl copy of Songs For Beginners many years ago and it became a staple folk record in my library. At the show I claimed the very last autographed copy of his latest album which made it all the more memorable.

Songs For Beginners is a very fine album. Cool that you were able to obtain an autographed copy of Graham's latest. I always like reading about your fond remembrances of your father and things you shared together - including that beautiful lamp he gave you.

innerspaceboy · 06-20-2022, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by ribbons

Songs For Beginners is a very fine album. Cool that you were able to obtain an autographed copy of Graham's latest. I always like reading about your fond remembrances of your father and things you shared together - including that beautiful lamp he gave you.

Thanks so much for remembering! I have something extremely exciting about my writing in the works. I'll have an announcement on my member journal once things are finalized.

Stay tuned!

music_collector · 06-20-2022, 05:32 PM

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music_collector, I am having an olfactory hallucination of smelling sulfur right now, lol.

I have to admit, when I turn on my natural gas BBQ, the smell comes back and I'm reminded of those times.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 06-23-2022, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by ribbons

I don't think you're morbid, just really BRAVE! And I really admire that.

Ribbons, you are so amazing, I just want you to know that!

Thank you, I've learned to be brave as otherwise I might not have got to places like Antarctica!

Lisnaholic · 06-23-2022, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Celladorina

Thank you, I've learned to be brave as otherwise I might not have got to places like Antarctica!

I'm going to take a guess and say that you are the only person on MB, past or present, who has ever been to Antarctica. To have visited what is one of the least hospitable areas on the planet is super-impressive.

I haven't been there myself, but I was for some time immersed in Apsley Cherry-Garrard's accurately titled books about his own journey there:

This was the 1911- 1912 expedition in which Captain Scott died just a mile or so from his life-saving stores. Before that, in an extraordinary expedition side trip, Apsley C-G and two others went to visit an Emperor Penguin colony during egg-laying time (= the S Hemisphere winter) :-

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In almost total darkness, and with temperatures ranging from −40 to −77.5 °F (−40.0 to −60.8 °C), they man-hauled their sledge 60 miles from Scott's base at Cape Evans to the far side of Ross Island. The party had two sledges, but the poor surface of the ice due to the extremely low temperatures meant that they could not drag both sledges as intended during parts of the outward journey. They were thus forced to relay, moving one sledge a certain distance before returning for the other. This highly inefficient means of travelling – walking three miles for every one advanced – meant at times they could only travel a couple of miles each day.

Hoping your trip was a bit more comfortable, Celladorina !!

Trollheart · 06-23-2022, 07:11 PM

I'd just like to point out that you ladies now have enough for a coven, power-female trio: Celladorina, Ribbons and Marie Monday.

Beware the hex!
I said HEX! Honestly, you people....

06-23-2022, 07:11 PM	#11140 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	I'd just like to point out that you ladies now have enough for a coven, power-female trio: Celladorina, Ribbons and Marie Monday. Beware the hex! I said HEX! Honestly, you people.... __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018