A Short History of the Universe according to JtC

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 1:32pm

It's Sunday. It's below zero outside and I have cabin fever.

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Prelude

The universe was created by a 3d printer.

All that is, all that was, eminated from nothing. To something.

"This shit is so nothing, I gotta copy it.", sayeth the Creator. Goo in, goo out, wireless wormhole connectivity, blasted to a parallel reality. To you and to me.

"Here ya' go, I'm copying it all baby!" Trumpy Bear, Tac Sunglasses, My Pillow, Presidential Ellections. All too groovy for one side, of the singularity.

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Interlude

Entr'acte - Stuff happens. Fill in the blank (________).
A pause.

Bridge - The universe is proven literally to be, the Creator's brain. Planet Earth is found to be a dead neuron due to collective neurodegenerative disease brought on by excessive human greed and internecine belligerence.

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Postlude

The universe bypasses and heals.
Also sprach Zarathustra
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A heliocentric Buh Bye.

Heh!
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Submitted by JtC on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 1:35pm

stuff.

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Submitted by CB on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 1:51pm
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just a figment of your fevered, overactive imagination.

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Submitted by JtC on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 2:06pm

@CB
I attribute it to having too much fun when I was but a lad.

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Submitted by CB on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 2:56pm
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@JtC
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6bHs8Vm3EQ]

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Submitted by lotlizard on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 4:20pm
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@CB  
After Sputnik sparked fears of the Marxist-Leninists pulling ahead and winning the race.

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Submitted by QMS on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 6:27pm

@CB
Depth of perception is on your side. Ignore the shadows, and you'll be alright.

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Submitted by detroitmechworks on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 1:54pm
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[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfcC6FYyL4U]

Feeling better about things these days. Maybe it's therapy, maybe it's turning off the News, maybe it's getting my body slammed into the floor repeatedly... Smile

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Submitted by JtC on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 2:57pm

@detroitmechworks
Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido, early 80s.

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Submitted by Pricknick on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 2:00pm
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[video:https://youtu.be/kXYiU_JCYtU]

Just a little pinprick.
[video:https://youtu.be/ob2Y1_fyEIk]

Now that my significant other has joined me in retirement, we're turning her former home office into an exercise room.
It's already made a huge difference on how I'm viewing the doldrums of winter.

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Submitted by JtC on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 3:11pm

@Pricknick
George Hanson from the movie Easy Rider, "Nick Nick"

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 2:00pm
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with apologies to SD
warm.png

or maybe a better approach?
brrr.jpg

Stay warm and be careful with that 3D printer!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 3:38pm

@Lookout
zero now, but close enough for an old country boy with a 3d printer that can create his own reality.

May not be an old timey A/B melody, but close enough for a cricket on the hearth.

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Submitted by Lookout on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 11:55am
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@JtC

often plays that one. The name reminds me of a session several years ago at Galax VA...back in the days of the horse stalls. One of the few black old time fiddlers my age, Earl White, was playing "Sal won't you marry me" which I recorded. The cicadas and katydids were chirping the whole time...sometimes cycling into the rhythm but generally not. It is a wild auditory memory.

Here's a couple of buddies playing the tune, but it is a far cry from that night with the wild insect rhythms...(3.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfbaRGlNSkY

I originally learned this tune from Ray Alden's album visits
https://fieldrecorder.org/ray-alden/
http://www.oldtimeherald.org/archive/back_issues/volume-12/12-2/alden.html

Thanks for the Crickets (hope they don't do me like they did the Cuban CIA spies).

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Submitted by CB on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 2:59pm
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[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY]

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Submitted by JtC on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 3:47pm

@CB
old friend.

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Submitted by dkmich on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 3:41pm

they are predicting a major snow storm through here. I had an appt. for tomorrow am to get my Italian passport at long last, but I rescheduled it to Thursday to avoid the 60 mile round trip in 6 - 10 inches of snow. I hear Palermo is always warm. At this time of year, I'd even settle for landlocked AZ. I75 was shut down today in northern MI. They are already buried.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 4:04pm

@dkmich
you're not up north at the lake? I'm quite a ways away from I75, but I live pretty close to the start of Route 66. If you go to Palermo swing by and pick me up.

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Submitted by Roy Blakeley on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 4:43pm
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@JtC What a treat on a cold afternoon. Thanks JtC.

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Submitted by Alligator Ed on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 8:19pm
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@JtC The official start of Route 66 was at the intersection of Ogden Avenue and Lincoln Park West in Chicago. My first trip to California was from that starting point to Santa Monica. Somehow, I seem to have got stuck here.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg2EbJy-9dc]

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Submitted by JtC on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 8:42pm

@Alligator Ed
northern Illinois. Although not the Chicago area, but as I said, pretty close.

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Submitted by dkmich on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 12:42pm

@JtC

In October, we turn off the water, heat, and electricity, board up the windows on the lake and shut it down for the winter. November through April we live in our home in SE Michigan. In May we go up and turn everything on. May - October we travel between the homes. If I am not mistaken, WI has a "cottage" culture too, right?

I'll text you so you know when to pack.

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Submitted by WaterLily on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 7:19am
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@dkmich Not kidding.

Now that I have Irish citizenship, I'd love to figure out how to do this.

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Submitted by dkmich on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 12:44pm

@WaterLily

The last thing I need is three homes. If I could convince my husband to sell one of the ones we have, I might think about it a little more. Another concern is that my husband is not a DIY kind of guy. Not complaining, he takes great care of me.

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Submitted by QMS on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 4:11pm

changes in altitudes. Hey man, ya wanna buy an open thread real cheap? Y'all canna write good. Maybe get a gig going. Melt the brain freeze, guaranteed! How Che mine code.

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Submitted by WaterLily on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 7:21am
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This is a must-see!

I've watched this about 8,493 times in the last few days.

[EDIT]: Huh - the video's not there anymore. It's worth the effort for anyone who wants to "Duck" it, though. The kids are amazing!

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Submitted by Daenerys on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 4:28pm
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I've been listening to Spotify and that last song (Hell) came up earlier. Never heard it before; I like it!

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This shit is bananas.

Submitted by EdMass on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 4:34pm
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Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!

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Submitted by QMS on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 5:56pm

@EdMass
rolling a joint, let alone inhaling a thai stick (high stick, doobie, reefer), but fun to imagine anyways.

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Submitted by UntimelyRippd on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 6:21pm

@EdMass
know what that song was about?

i can't believe that happened. i can't believe that happened. i can't believe that happened.

but because it did, i'm going to repost this, which is almost as surprising, but not particularly absurd. Tom Jones and Steve Stills go head to head ... Stills seems to take permission from Jones's own over-the-top style to really, really cut loose in a way you may have never seen before ... and holy oh my moley, Neil kicks in with a guitar lead over Stills's crazed wailing ...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIDzA0YDso8]

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Submitted by JtC on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 6:28pm

@UntimelyRippd
well, what's this song about then?

Warning: this song may cause a fold in space and time.

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Submitted by QMS on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 6:36pm

@JtC
Sometimes the unimaginable gets a bit far out there, man. Even for the deeper stick wicks.

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Submitted by EdMass on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 12:08pm
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@JtC

Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around

Try this on for size.

Heh!

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Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!

Firesign Theater

Stop the War!

Submitted by ChezJfrey on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 3:17pm

@JtC Not so surprising. Real event during Deep Purple recording sessions on Lake Geneva, Zappa playing in a nearby hotel, that some idiot really did set on fire with a flare gun...lyrics are actually literal. Band manager, Claude actually ran in and saved some fans that ran to the basement due to the fire...gotta wonder about that logic, "Hmmmm, fire, run to basement!" LOL

So in that case, no "meaning" to the lyrics, other than literal, lost on Pat...but that other one, yikes! Completely lost on them...they hear, "Sweet Jesus," and jump to, "A modern spiritual," LOL Well, yes, I suppose for some it is spiritual, but I'm guessing for this crowd, not in the sense they are thinking. "You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it does."

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Submitted by JtC on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 4:36pm

@ChezJfrey
the lyrics are self explanatory. My point was the performance. You didn't find Pat Boone a little, shall we say, disturbing singing that genre in that manner? Not to mention the leather jacket and sun glasses. And I wont even mention the terrible band backing him up.

By asking for an explanation I mean, how is it possible and keeping in context with this lighthearted, nonsensical musical essay, that the universe could begat something so bizarre as that video?

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Submitted by ChezJfrey on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 4:56pm

@JtC @JtC "Everyone" knows you don't play that riff with a pick, but rather finger-plucked and also as fourths, in the third position. That vid's player is all wrong.

From a guitarist Smile

As for the Boone's cheese and style-all-wrong for the genre...well, I'm a bit weird in the sense that I sometimes enjoy that. Take the CSNY clip above, with Tom Jones. I actually smiled during that...probably similar to Crosby that looks to me like he's chuckling at the absurdity of it all during the performance. And this is from a long-time, hardcore Neil Young fan. I'm a sucker for some cheese, LOL

So, I don't usually cringe at stuff like Boone's cover, because I find humor and even enjoy it...though I won't argue with more "purist" types, because, well it's all subjective and I see no reason to force my lunacy on people that are technically, more grounded in their foundational view than I must admit I am off-base...because I'm weird. Wink

Oh ETA:

By asking for an explanation I mean, how is it possible and keeping in context with this lighthearted, nonsensical musical essay, that the universe could begat something so bizarre as that video?

To appease people like me! Gimme some cheese, universe! Granted, here is Tom Jones and Pat Boone..."oh, great, can I get some Neil Diamond too?" LOL

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Submitted by ChezJfrey on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 5:02pm

@JtC In the spirit of keepin' on, keepin'on and just stayin' alive in this crazy, mixed up world...well, crazy, mixed up version (my tribute to detroitmechworks similar posts with Leo, which I now seek for his posts all the time, because dmw seems to still be able to dig up stuff I've not yet seen from that guy):

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ib2k1w3ER0]

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Submitted by EdMass on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 12:09pm
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@UntimelyRippd

Tom Jones? Hey!

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Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!

Firesign Theater

Stop the War!

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 4:38pm
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but some days...

Just not today.

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Submitted by mimi on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 6:09pm
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"Dass ich erkenne, was die Welt
Im Innersten zusammenhält."

(To that I may perceive whatever holds
The world together in its inmost folds

"Da steh' ich nun, ich armer Tor,
Und bin so klug als wie zuvor!"

(And here I am, for all my lore, The wretched fool I was before.)

heh, some fun from a German silly woman ... who didn't get it, just the music ...

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 6:18pm
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@mimi

Tis the fate of our species. Onward.

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Submitted by burnt out on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 10:17pm
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But at least I've got Neil

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Submitted by UntimelyRippd on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 2:28pm

@burnt out
... it's called Don't Let it Bring You Down"

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