The Dino-Aspie Cafe (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Wish I still had Player Piano. I loved some of his books. I thought it was funny when Phillip Jose Farmer published Venus on the Half-Shell under the pen-name of Kilgore Trout ! !

I have them here.

Re music, I really ought to track down my LPs and get a player and...

... anyway I'd quite like to listen to "Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, featuring The Human Host and The Heavy Metal Kids" again.

I didn't realise it was by H&CC, but I have this poster out in my garage:

WHOA ! !! Instant flashback ! !!
Never heard of that band, though???
I have an old record player, and every once in a great while listen to vinyl. Very careful with my Pink Floyd collection, some are rather valuable old records. It feels odd to put on a vinyl record, and drop the needle, instead of clicking on a file on the computer. Weird how accustomed we get to certain things.

My guess is that refers to the band Ozric Tentacles ?
I used to think it was Ozark Tentacles, since that's the closest I could come to a known word. Have heard a few of their tracks & liked them. I enjoy shwoomy, swirling, vast music-such as that on the NPR show "Music from the Hearts of Space"-Vangelis, Steve Reich (or Roach-I get the surnames transposed somethimes), Robert Rich, This Mortal Coil.
Most of the time I listen (not to videos, but music channels) through cable tv. Artists like Theivery Corporation, DJ Shadow, The Crystal Method. One of the names I've come across is new to me & is a fun phrase for me to say-Bugge Wesseltoft. Not sure how to prononunce the first name-buggy or what ?

I found this. The LP was red vinyl.

I haven't found the sequel LP yet, which was yellow vinyl, IIRC, totally different, and I also have, somewhere.

I dredging this up... The sequel was Western Flier, but the album sleeve doesn't look quite right to me. The track "Allons dancer, Colinda", IIRC was on the sampler "Gutbucket", that I also have... again... somewhere.

Precisely how obscure was this band ?? I can't recall ever having heard of them, although as they say, 'if you can remember the sixties ...'

I feel the same way about Maine, Nan. I visited there about three times, and can never get enough of it. But here I am, stuck in Florida. I love the smell of pines, and the feel of brisk, cool breezes with a hint of the ocean in them. Florida is a swamp, especially now that the heat, humidity and mosquitoes are beginning

Vonnegut -- He's in heaven now.

(That's a joke he wanted told when he died. He told it when Asimov died. Both atheists.)

Kurt, I still think you are somewhere good now. You'll continue to sustain us here on the WP.

Chuck -- ride the waves, friend. We all get spring fever -- the bounce that comes with the lengthening light and increasing warmth. You just do it up big time, eh.

Nan and CosCat --

Sleeping in the pines. A man instinctively offering warmth and protection. The best things always were and ever shall be.

DD

I told my husband you were off to find The Wall and he said, "If you don't eat your meat you can't have any pudding! How can you eat your pudding if you don't eat your meat!"

To which I respond, "Hello. Hello. Hello. Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone at home?"

We went to see the movie in Berlin of all places (back when there was still East and West Berlin.

WOW ! !!

Did you go to the concert Roger Waters did in Berlin of "The Wall"??? I have the video, and it looked like one of the all time greatest concerts ever performed ! !!

I love the swamp. It's getting a bit cold for me now. I keep moving South. Pretty soon I'll have to kick Castro out of Cuba so I can move in. You think it's hot now? I've found it to be very cold this year. I'm getting to the point where it can't go under 80 or I'm freezing.

No. They did a movie version of that album and it came out while we were there visiting my brother so we all went off to see it. Now you see how I can be married to an NT. We can speak to each other in Pink Floyd and understand exactly what we are talking about. He is sure the Psychs are trying to make us all bricks in the wall. LOL He keeps telling me if I go for a diagnosis they will try to "fix" us and ruin our marriage. LOL We are function in our dysfunction, thank you very much!

Day after day, our love turns gray,
Like the skin on a dying man,
And night after night, we pretend it's alright,
But I have grown older, and you have grown colder,
And nothing is very much fun anymore,
And I can feeeeeeeelll one of my turns coming on ...

Next obscurity... my sister and brother-in-law are modern jazz enthusiasts.

He has his limits.

I think he passed on this album to me.

"The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra" by Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra.

There were apparently two original volumes 65/66, but with a third added much later.

I'm fairly sure it must have been volume 2 I had/have, as this looks right for the album cover:

I thing Sun Ra did a song on the Disney compilation album "Stay Awake". (Very strange.)

Wot's the album like ???