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06 Feb 2013, 1:30 am

some car manufacturer needs to start making pacers again.



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06 Feb 2013, 9:04 am

auntblabby wrote:
some car manufacturer needs to start making pacers again.


I'm surprised they haven't yet.


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06 Feb 2013, 9:44 am

Mindsigh wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
some car manufacturer needs to start making pacers again.


I'm surprised they haven't yet.

it is a 70s retro design that is just waiting for a revival of the fishbowl aesthetic that was briefly popular in the 90s with chrysler's "cab forward" design. it constrasts strongly with almost all of today's car styles which have minimal glass and feel inside like one is sitting inside of a barrel peering out over the top.



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06 Feb 2013, 10:46 am

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06 Feb 2013, 10:55 am

maybe this is an unpopular opinion. it is twinkle twinkle little star.



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07 Feb 2013, 3:49 am

auntblabby wrote:
Mindsigh wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
some car manufacturer needs to start making pacers again.


I'm surprised they haven't yet.

it is a 70s retro design that is just waiting for a revival of the fishbowl aesthetic that was briefly popular in the 90s with chrysler's "cab forward" design. it constrasts strongly with almost all of today's car styles which have minimal glass and feel inside like one is sitting inside of a barrel peering out over the top.


If you want lots of glass I'd probably look into a lightly used Subaru Impreza (possibly an oxymoron)....I find them slightly odd looking on account of how tall their glass is compared with other manufacturers and they do have an odd looking hatchback
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07 Feb 2013, 4:11 am

b9 wrote:
maybe this is an unpopular opinion. it is twinkle twinkle little star.

took me a while to get your intent therein :duh: i listened and found your fantasia on twinkle to be reminiscent [but not imitative] of "walter carlos by request." i wish i could play like that.



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07 Feb 2013, 4:13 am

LimitedSlip wrote:
If you want lots of glass I'd probably look into a lightly used Subaru Impreza (possibly an oxymoron)....I find them slightly odd looking on account of how tall their glass is compared with other manufacturers and they do have an odd looking hatchback

attractive auto. another car with good glass area was the '93-'97 toyota corolla, as well as all the early 90s hondas.



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07 Feb 2013, 4:41 am

I hope the performance motoring world stays stuck in the muscle car revival forever!



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07 Feb 2013, 4:57 am

bring back "laugh in"! 2013 needs more of that kind of humor :lol:



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07 Feb 2013, 5:13 am

Sock it to me?


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07 Feb 2013, 5:57 am

^^^
tricky dicky got the fickle finger of fate when we socked it back to HIM :razz:



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07 Feb 2013, 6:50 am

auntblabby wrote:
b9 wrote:
maybe this is an unpopular opinion. it is twinkle twinkle little star.

took me a while to get your intent therein :duh: i listened and found your fantasia on twinkle to be reminiscent [but not imitative] of "walter carlos by request." i wish i could play like that.


thank you. i have removed the attempted link because late at night (early in the morning), i have less inhibition as to possible consequences of copyright violation than i do in the cold light of day.
although it is my own arrangement and performance, i believe that even "reproduction" of the notes constitutes a violation, and someone would probably own the rights to that song.

a band in australia was successfully sued for having a set of chords in its arrangement of one of their songs (from "kookaburra sits in the old gum tree") called ""we come from a land down under" (which i do not like in the slightest), so one can not be too careful.

the song "kookaburrra sits in the old gum tree" was originally a children's song sung in schools, but i think sony bought the rights to it and now all schools must pay a fee to who ever "owns" the song in order for their children to sing it.

anyway, my family had a piano that i started playing when i was 3, and if you practiced, i am sure you could play very well if you have a keyboard and practiced. also i must say that critical appraisal of my piano playing ability reveals that i have a very mechanical and rigid way of playing like a pianola does and it is not imbued with "heart" so it is not that good.



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07 Feb 2013, 8:38 am

maybe i should post to you (aunt blabby) in a private pm some other things i have played. i do not want you to comment on them, but i would like you to hear themt because i think you have a good brain.



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07 Feb 2013, 8:40 am

a "hard" playing style can be softened, especially over time, just as boogie-woogie eventually morphed into shuffle. also, if you listen to george gershwin's playing style the same thing could be said about it, namely that it tended to sound a bit mechanistic to some [tellingly, he says he learnt the piano by slowing down a player piano mechanism and placing his fingers where the keys would depress via the mechanism, eventually learning by muscle memory]. alternately gershwin's style could be described as being an utterly unsentimental manner of playing. to each his own taste.



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07 Feb 2013, 8:56 am

i will post to you in a pm some songs i played (aunt blabby) because you have well considered taste.