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Yiddle mitn Fiedel

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I had a song stuck in my head. It was playing on a loop through most of the afternoon. I input the lyrics into a search box and found out that the primary refrain of my song was a movie: Yidl mitn Fidl or Yiddle with his Fiddle. According to the National Center for Jewish Cinema, Yidl mitn Fidl was “the most commercially successful musical in the history of the Yiddish cinema.” The story about a penniless father and daughter who become traveling musicians has songs, but not the song stuck in my head. There is a clip of “Yidl mitn Fidl” from the movie on the Jewish Women’s Archive and also a version by the Klezmer Quartett Heidelberg:

A cursory search of the internets found “Yiddle on your Fiddle play some Ragtime” by Irving Berlin.

 

This was also not the song stuck in my head. When I went home last night, I searched through our newly organized record collection for the song. I knew I had heard it in the house, on our little multi-function record machine. I was unsuccessful. Then, while watching Sense and Sensibility I had a brainstorm and went to our CD cabinet. I found Music From the Yiddish Radio Project and on it was Yidl mitn Fidl by the Barry sisters, and Eureka! That was it, so I share it with you. Enjoy!

Fair Use Week 2016

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As a special close to the week’s activities, Kyle Courtney released “The origin of U.S. fair use,” an artistic rendering of the codification of fair use into the Copyright Act of 1976… , which readers may explore here.

Source: Fair Use Week 2015 | Harvard OSC

Sensible sentiments from WWII

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Source: w2p740.jpg (JPEG Image, 800 × 1019 pixels)  American Forces Information Service Collection at the University of Iowa Digital Library

In our house

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do you hear the birds talking?

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birdman4I do because I am listening to Noisli.

Long ago, I used to listen to language learning lessons while doing my daily work.  Then, the daily work started demanding a little more of my cognitive abilities and I switched to listening to music.  Now, I can only manage chamber music in the background because excess input, along with all the other stuff I’m staring at-reading-writing-adding, breaks my head.

My initial method for bringing a little serenity to my desk environment was to make sure my desktop backgrounds were all simple and expansive nature, like a field of flowers or the interlacing branches of a tree.  I can’t remember where I read about it first, but this article:  “How Nature Resets Our Minds and Bodies” explains how looking on nature alleviates stress and focuses attention.  I also don’t know if the photographic projections of nature on my computer screen are any real type of stand in; time will tell.

In addition to the visuals, I have added some ambient nature noises to my day.   Noisli is my number one right now, but I have also scoped out the nature sounds at ambient-mixer and the simplicity of iSerenity.

Trojan Videos: Ecstacy! The Musical Starring Alan Cumming & Ricki Lake – YouTube

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I saw Alan Cumming at our local playhouse and had a fabulous time.  Don’t forget the condoms Valentine’s revelers!

Happy new year

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GYROJETS – Live at The Amsterdam 1/28/16 – YouTube

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I was there and yes, it was awesome.  I am also super excited that one of my favorite songs got recorded on this video.  yay!

 

2015 art review

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Florida love

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tampacoverWhen we first bought our house, I started studying the building methods of the period it was built, tracking the previous owners through publicly available city and county records, and learning about the history of the area we were planning on living in for a while to come.

I found brochures and magazines, knowfloridacoverinformation dedicated to the Florida tourist or investor.  A wealth of time specific salesmanship!  And, I started collecting.  I buy in little bits at a time, looking for pamphlets and brochures from the time period when my house was built, or with information on population and industry.

Two recent acquisitions of mine have a couple of choice passages that I felt compelled to share with you.  The first:  “Tampa Hillsborough County Florida”  alternately “Florida’s Newly Discovered Vacationland” on one side and “Florida’s Industrial and Commercial Center” on the other, was published jointly by the Board of Representatives, City of Tampa Board of Commissioners, and Hillsborough County Chamber of Commerce in the 1940s (pictured top left) includes a rather foreboding message to visitors:     “…please advise anyone seeking employment not to come to Tampa.”

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The second:  “Know Florida” a 1939 facts booklet issued by the Florida State Department of Agriculture through The Tribune Press in Tallahassee is an understandably dry, but well written fact booklet with loads of information on industry and agriculture throughout all of Florida, except two paragraphs where the author takes a trip into the most florid poetics I’ve ever seen aimed at my home state:knowfloridaexcerpt

The shocking change in tone from the paragraphs around it is quite jarring. I suspect that someone else slipped those paragraphs in there. Maybe the brochure was laying out just a little short, or the editor looked over it and thought it was a bit dry, so she pulled out her bong and basked in the Florida love for a while. At least two paragraphs worth.

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learning something new

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I got an animation program for Christmas.  I’m learning how to use it my way:



Credit Is Due (The Attribution Song) – YouTube

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