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do you have many friends?
I know very well about this! If I like to read, and people from my age are all inside sports, of course I will look as the "boring guy". Just at college I was fortunate enough to find some with similar interests. Anyway, sometimes I just become a little more acid with some folks. When ask...- martinsantos
- Post #134
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Attorneys and Barristers of the Lounge
How can I read this? I'm curious! Here we do not use the common law, and of course we usually don't have much access about US Court's decisions. This proceding is a homicide? It's the only kind of proceding here with jury - and I just love this.- martinsantos
- Post #583
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Unpopular music opinions
Some critics only make noise about something they don't know anything about. In the same theme we could also take a look about operas. They were popular; nobody tought opera as something just "elegant" or "for rich people". My great-grandfather could play and sing the whole "I Pagliacci" -...- martinsantos
- Post #816
- Forum: Radio
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Asphalt Jungle, by John Houston.- martinsantos
- Post #7,187
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Unpopular music opinions
Just can agree with you about Hammerstein, Rodgers and Hart - as far I know their work. From Hammerstein I like his lyrics of "Ol' Man River", but I can't say much more... Hart was one of the most fabulous. A man who can write "My Funny Valentine" or "10 cents a dance" is just the top.- martinsantos
- Post #813
- Forum: Radio
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Typewriters
I begun too by my father. He always wrote a lot - when I was a kid, at a noiseful (and wonderful) IBM 72. Then he gave me the older typewriter, a portable Remington he bought in 1959, second-hand. This was enough to make me addicted about typewriters. I still want to get an Underwood, but...- martinsantos
- Post #182
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Unpopular music opinions
As I wrote, unhappilly I never had heard full lengh scores except a few. "Strike up the band" is one of these few - in fact came as an opera!! Why 1955? "Kiss me Kate", by Porter? do you think iit's the "last one"?- martinsantos
- Post #810
- Forum: Radio
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Fast Swing Jazz - Please Help!
Certainly is swing! Savitt's orch swung in a way that can't be beaten! And the listener feels that everybody in that orch was getting great moments playing that way.- martinsantos
- Post #15
- Forum: Radio
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How deep is your style?
I believe that we can't runaway from our times. The point is to find what we want from our times, and what we want from other times. (for example, I love the 40s - but I think I wouldn't like to be in a dentist's chair from 40s. About my teeth, I prefer to be very very modern).- martinsantos
- Post #186
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Unpopular music opinions
Sinatra at Capitol was really a great singer. But from all records he made to Capitol, THIS ONE is a masterpiece. We can find with other ingers an almost as good record (or ever a so good as) for every song. But as collection of records, the constant mood, etc, it is just a marvelous, brilliant LP.- martinsantos
- Post #807
- Forum: Radio
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Share your own art here :)
A Confederate cemetery in Brazil I think this serie is interesting... And maybe for the US folks it can be curious. My parents live in a town called Americana. It's the only town in Brazil founded by US immigrants. These came after Civil War. Still today the descendants speaks a very...- martinsantos
- Post #1,195
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your sheet music
Wonderful sheets, BoPeep! (and beautiful piano, too! I'm still trying to get my grandfather's piano, a Kemble from 1939... But it's hard to convince all my cousins to let me stay with it). The only two more with more elaborated frontspiece I've found are these, for banjo...- martinsantos
- Post #31
- Forum: The Display Case
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Unpopular music opinions
Explained very well, Fletch! :eusa_clap I don't know why, but looks that the guys from here visiting USA "need" to see a show by Andrew Weber. Not long time ago this lounge almost lost a member - because I said that Weber is "corny". I never will understand how so many can hear his music...- martinsantos
- Post #805
- Forum: Radio
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How deep is your style?
Well, Tom, this have already a good side. When a lot of people don't like vintage things, they sell or throw away. That's when we have chance to pickup all!!! I got all my 78s records in this way. Just became sad about those records destructed to put flowers inside (if you put hot water in a...- martinsantos
- Post #184
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Film Noir?
After several years, I saw again "The Asphalt Jungle". it's a masterpiece, in my opinion. Houston is one of the great storytellers, and Sterling Heyden was very good - but except this, never saw very good films with him (Johnny Guitar is a classic, but I understand this one as full of references...- martinsantos
- Post #296
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
"Woman in the Dark", by Dashiell Hammett. Hammett is one of my preferred writers... One of the very few "detective stories" you can read, read and read again. He writes much more than a simple "murder story". But this little novel doesn't have all that punch... Looks like he wrote quickly and...- martinsantos
- Post #3,982
- Forum: The Reading Room
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School Bully Targeting Trilby
Depends. A trully bodyguard is a guy tall, strong, is always thinking that the whole world hates his boss, like to show gun in the worst manner nd has no brains. Usually can't go home alone when is raining, because will be lost.- martinsantos
- Post #75
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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do you have many friends?
:eusa_clap :D I do the same, and really works! The fact that I never liked sports and never had patience with Tv helps a lot. I think that I do not have much to talk about with the biggest parcel of people... And do not have patience to explain "why" I like what I like. So I got a lot...- martinsantos
- Post #130
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What are you listening to?
Jolson is great! In 1999 nobody here was talking about LPs - except me. Once I arrived at my work with a lot of LPs. My boss, laughing at the records, asked me: "Hey! Soon you will say that you like Al Jolson!" Showed him two 10" by Jolson I just bought. He respected me a lot by my work, but...- martinsantos
- Post #5,377
- Forum: Radio
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What are you wearing today??
:eusa_clap :eusa_clap- martinsantos
- Post #13,603
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
