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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / April 2008Even Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cat....
I just read that Andrew Loyd Webber has been working on the score to the sequel to Phantom of the Opera (the "Phantom of Manhatten, IIRC the book was written in 1999) Anyway, his beloved cat was messing around on the keyboard, and somehow erased the entire score, and he was unable to retrieve it from the instrument. Geez. And I got mad when Bosley knocked over my Glenda the Good Witch figureine and broke her head off. Sherry > I just read that Andrew Loyd Webber has been working on the score to > the sequel to Phantom [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > figureine > and broke her head off. WooToo distracted me (it wuz hiss OWN fault, mine watterbowl wuz emptee) and caused me to hit the wrong key and forty-seven thousand words of novel went byby. I had a backup that covered the first thrity- five thousand words and I have WooToo. Just had to do a few weeks work over. And I'm sure I did it better the second time. And I back up much more often now. -- Will in New Haven Good thing cats have 9 lives, that was probably with a couple. How awful. I yelled at O T when he wiped out a months worth of book work I had to reconstruct. >I just read that Andrew Loyd Webber has been working on the score to > the sequel to Phantom [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Sherry > Good thing cats have 9 lives, that was probably with a couple. How awful. > I yelled at O T when he wiped out a months worth of book work I had to > reconstruct. Well, for those of you who SHARE my opinion of "Andrew Lloyd Webfoot"..... (I'd say the cat was an accomplished music critic!) >> I just read that Andrew Loyd Webber has been working on the score to >> the sequel to Phantom [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> >> Sherry On Apr 2, 1:24 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgm...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Good thing cats have 9 lives, that was probably with a couple. How awful. > > I yelled at O T when he wiped out a months worth of book work I had to > > reconstruct. > > Well, for those of you who SHARE my opinion of "Andrew Lloyd > Webfoot"..... (I'd say the cat was an accomplished music critic!) Sorry, I don't share your opinion! Sherry > On Apr 2, 1:24 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" > <evgm...@earthlink.net> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >> > Sorry, I don't share your opinion! Your privilege! Obviously plenty of people don't, or he'd not be so successful. (I MIGHT be enticed to a performance of "Cats" - if only for the "libretto" by T. S. Elliot - but I prefer "Phantom of the Opera" in its movie version, with Claude Raines.) On Apr 2, 3:44 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgm...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > On Apr 2, 1:24 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" > > <evgm...@earthlink.net> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Your privilege! Obviously plenty of people don't, or he'd not be so > successful. Heh, surely so. I imagine he's about a zillionaire by now. I do just adore about everything he's done. (No accounting for taste, you're thinking!) I have season tickets to the theatre and do try to see every Broadway show that comes here, and even community theatre down to college musicals. Can't say there are many shows I just didn't like, except Stomp, and it just gave me a headache. (I MIGHT be enticed to a performance of "Cats" - if only > for the "libretto" by T. S. Elliot - but I prefer "Phantom of the Opera" > in its movie version, with Claude Raines.) You *must* see CATS some day, even if you don't like ALW. It's worth sitting through just watching the performers portray their character's personality. You already know how different each cat is, and that comes through so well. I even recognize my cats. I think you'd like that part of it anyway. Sherry On Apr 2, 1:24 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgm...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Granby wrote: > > Good thing cats have 9 lives, that was probably with a couple. How [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Well, for those of you who SHARE my opinion of "Andrew Lloyd > Webfoot"..... (I'd say the cat was an accomplished music critic!) Sorry, I don't share your opinion! Neither do I, but then again not everyone is going to like the same stuff. Even more important, tastes change over time. While I will never get opera, I did find that my opinion of Rogers and Hart had changed from when I was younger. One of my favorite college professors had actually worked with Gordon McRae in a stage production of Carousel and showed us the movie version. He was also working on a local production of the musical and my son, Michael, was privileged to help work on the sets for the play. After watching Carousel, I rented Oklahoma, which I'd never been able to last for more than fifteen minutes of before. The musical was ok. again not my cup of tea, but ok. Rob discovered that he likes the musical "The Sound of Music" after years of refusing to watch it with me. We own a copy of the video for "Cats" as well as JC Superstar. As you know, I'm not religious, but I love that movie. But then I loved Godspell as well. To even things up, I also own the DVD for "Paint Your Wagon" in which two partners share a wife as well as a gold mining claim. Pam S. I like musicals, you can hide from things just listening to the music. I will probably gag everyone with this but, I really like Big Bands and the older Jazz. No one around me here likes any of this. > On Apr 2, 1:24 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" > <evgm...@earthlink.net> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Pam S. >I like musicals, you can hide from things just listening to the music. I >will probably gag everyone with this but, I really like Big Bands and the >older Jazz. No one around me here likes any of this. Rob doesn't like Jazz or big band music, but I do. One of my favorite pieces was called "Old Man's Tears" I can't remember the trumpeter, but I think it was Doc Severinson of Tonight show fame. I'd love to get a copy of it. The trumpet solo was haunting. I also am the proud owner of a CD of songs by Lady Day, Billie Holiday. Then there's the Blood, Sweat, and Tears music, and Benny Goodman, and Louis Armstrong. And so many more. I love alto guitar and baritone Sax. The sounds are so basic and earthy. Ok I'm a music slut. Pam S. When I was in high school I got to meet Benny Goodman, and Louis Armstrong. They appeared at a collage in town and several of us went. It was wonderful. My jazz likes go to Charlie Parker and Dizzy. There is a program on NPR that has Jazz before 1936 and that is really some good stuff. Yes, before my time but still good!!!! >>I like musicals, you can hide from things just listening to the music. I >>will probably gag everyone with this but, I really like Big Bands and the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Pam S. > When I was in high school I got to meet Benny Goodman, and Louis > Armstrong. They appeared at a collage in town and several of us went. It > was wonderful. My jazz likes go to Charlie Parker and Dizzy. There is a > program on NPR that has Jazz before 1936 and that is really some good > stuff. Yes, before my time but still good!!!! Before my time too, but classics never get old. I also like Charlie Parker and Dizzy G. but then I also like Kenny G. Quentin Marsalis has put out an educational series on types of music and components of composition for the middle school crowd. I got hooked on it while substituting for a middle school teacher. He did it very well. Pam S. who is married to Mr. "I can't believe that you're listening to this crap" For 30 years I listened to country. I like the old stuff but not this new that is "all about me". I like the stuff where you can put yourself in the picture or at least know you understand what the words mean. I planned a real neat wedding for a friend several years ago. We used the words of George Jones "Walk Through This World With Me" for their vowels. >> When I was in high school I got to meet Benny Goodman, and Louis >> Armstrong. They appeared at a collage in town and several of us went. It [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Pam S. who is married to Mr. "I can't believe that you're listening to > this crap" > I like musicals, you can hide from things just listening to the music. I > will probably gag everyone with this but, I really like Big Bands and the > older Jazz. No one around me here likes any of this. Not gagging here. I *love* the Big Band sounds of the 40s and 50s. Sam, supervised by Mistletoe >> I like musicals, you can hide from things just listening to the >> music. I will probably gag everyone with this but, I really like Big >> Bands and the older Jazz. No one around me here likes any of this. > > Not gagging here. I *love* the Big Band sounds of the 40s and 50s. Much better than what passes for "popular" music, nowadays! (Those guys had to really know how to PLAY their instruments - it wasn't just electronic noise that requires no skill at all.) > Sam, supervised by Mistletoe . As you know, I'm not religious, > but I love that movie. But then I loved Godspell as well. To even things > up, I also own the DVD for "Paint Your Wagon" in which two partners share > a wife as well as a gold mining claim. > > Pam S. That's one of my all time favorite movies. And its cool that there is kind of a play on my name in "They Call the Wind Mariah" Can't recall what rain is called, but the fire's Joe. Can't be too bad with a young Eastwood. And he sings! Jo Firey The rain is Tess. That movie is one of my all time favorites also. We own only 10 movies, that is one of them. Lee Marin singing is a strange as Clint Eastwood singing also. Charleen > . As you know, I'm not religious, >> but I love that movie. But then I loved Godspell as well. To even [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Jo Firey > The rain is Tess. That movie is one of my all time favorites also. We > own only 10 movies, that is one of them. Lee Marin singing is a strange > as Clint Eastwood singing also. > Charleen Marvin's gravelly voice is strangely compelling and some of it is done so that he sounds like he is singing to himself, as if he were thinking out loud. Mariah is a great song, and so are the other songs. I also got a kick out of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band making their debut singing "Cans of beans" There is some controversy about whether Eastwood sings his songs in the movie or if they brought someone else in to do the songs. Pam S. [cat destroys an Andrew Lloyd Webber composition] > Well, for those of you who SHARE my opinion of "Andrew Lloyd > Webfoot"..... (I'd say the cat was an accomplished music critic!) There was guy who used to do a series of captioned photomontages called "Lost Consonants" for the papers where some well-known phrase was illustrated with a letter missing, like "The Collected Woks of William Shakespeare" in which the Bard was surrounded by a pile of woks of different sizes. I thought his most inspired one was well along in the series once you'd got the idea... a completely straight picture of Andrew Lloyd Webber at the piano, captioned "Andrew Lloyd Webber composing a hit musical". ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === <http://www.campin.me.uk> ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts > [cat destroys an Andrew Lloyd Webber composition] I seem to have heard that story before. I wonder if it's an urban legend? Not saying it is, but I'm just wondering, it kind of sounds like one. Is it that easy to wipe stuff out, so that a cat could do it? If so, then that's some lousy software! Not very idiot-proof. (At the very least, A.L.W needs "Pawsense". :)) > > Well, for those of you who SHARE my opinion of "Andrew Lloyd > > Webfoot"..... (I'd say the cat was an accomplished music critic!) <guffaw> Good one, Evelyn! I have never been a fan of musicals, in particular not his. (Although I will admit to liking JC Superstar...) > There was guy who used to do a series of captioned photomontages called > "Lost Consonants" for the papers where some well-known phrase was [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > of Andrew Lloyd Webber at the piano, captioned "Andrew Lloyd Webber > composing a hit musical". LOL!! It actually took me a minute to get that. On the other hand, he could be *composting* a hit musical. Or maybe he *should* be...  SignatureJoyce ^..^ To email me, remove the triple-X from my user name. >> [cat destroys an Andrew Lloyd Webber composition] > I seem to have heard that story before. I wonder if it's an urban > legend? Not saying it is, but I'm just wondering, it kind of sounds > like one. Is it that easy to wipe stuff out, so that a cat could do > it? If so, then that's some lousy software! Not very idiot-proof. > (At the very least, A.L.W needs "Pawsense". :)) If the cat intervenes at some crucial point in your file manipulation, this could well happen. (If you hadn't been doing backups properly, that is). Ollie gave Marion a fright last night by managing to move the main window for an important application almost off-screen when he was playing with the mouse. With MacOS it can be surprisingly difficult to get something back once it's fallen off the edge of the world. (I don't think Windows lets you shove windows off into the empty space beside your monitor, so you don't run into this). Marion's response was to look for the "Creature Comforts" DVD to play for him. I'd have got him something more interactive. Somewhere I've still got a copy of a Classic Mac OS game called "Babysmash" that used to run on the Mac Plus. Baby would bash the keyboard and the computer would flash up a geometric shape and make a bleep, boing or animal noise on each keystroke. Splodge got the idea when he was a kitten. ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === <http://www.campin.me.uk> ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts On Apr 2, 5:44 pm, bastXXXe...@sonic.net wrote: > > [cat destroys an Andrew Lloyd Webber composition] > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > it? If so, then that's some lousy software! Not very idiot-proof. > (At the very least, A.L.W needs "Pawsense". :)) It does sound like an urban legend, doesn't it? I read about it on Wikopedia, likely not the most reliable source on the net. :-) Sherry Well, I had pages of cash pulls, expenses and monthly ending papers done and a cat stepped on the delete button and it all went away. Good bad or indifferent, to see it all go right before your eyes is a shock. On Apr 2, 5:44 pm, bastXXXe...@sonic.net wrote: > Jack Campin - bogus address <bo...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > it? If so, then that's some lousy software! Not very idiot-proof. > (At the very least, A.L.W needs "Pawsense". :)) It does sound like an urban legend, doesn't it? I read about it on Wikopedia, likely not the most reliable source on the net. :-) Sherry On Apr 2, 1:24 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgm...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Good thing cats have 9 lives, that was probably with a couple. How awful. > > I yelled at O T when he wiped out a months worth of book work I had to > > reconstruct. > > Well, for those of you who SHARE my opinion of "Andrew Lloyd > Webfoot"..... (I'd say the cat was an accomplished music critic!) I'll duck that question. -- Will in New Haven "Do you have tiger Nature? Strike without anger; Kill without feeling." Feather in <Poker for Cats> so Mr. Will was this you wrote, and rewrote, about cats or poker stuff? > On Apr 2, 1:24 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" > <evgm...@earthlink.net> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Kill without feeling." > Feather in <Poker for Cats> > so Mr. Will was this you wrote, and rewrote, about cats or poker stuff? Neither, actually. It's a fantasy novel. There aren't any cats in it at all, which is odd. Some of the people in the story have cats and there are cats "around" but they aren't directly in the story. At least none yet. There's one dog "onstage" so far . If you let me send you what I have done so far, on your head be it. - Will in New Haven "Decaf? Decaf is for children!" - Jim Thompson Sent you a different email addy. Would like to read. >> so Mr. Will was this you wrote, and rewrote, about cats or poker stuff? > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Will in New Haven > "Decaf? Decaf is for children!" - Jim Thompson |
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