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  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    Sounds like a dandy birthday.
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    S____ and I always take the first week of January off to celebrate our collective birthdays. This year we are considering a road trip to Florida. Still not quite sure if it sounds like a fun adventure or using up our week off with a lot of "doing stuff".
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    Never knew Ray Charles, Sam And Dave, and KC and the Sunshine Band and others are from Florida.
    Not gonna lie. Neither did I.
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    Are you from Tampa, Eric?
    Did elementary school through high school in Ft. Lauderdale. Moved to Tampa after that. Tampa/St. Pete is definitely my spiritual home, though. Still a big nest of good friends there.
  • Jurf_WurburJurf_Wurbur Posts: 5,475
    I'm more of a curator of playlists these days. Some of mine are weirdly specific. I've got Sunday morning with the family upbeat no explicit lyrics indie pop playlists, a family friendly Beatles/ELO/other classics afternoon jams list, a playlist for late evening outdoor drinking with friends, a playlist for early a.m. transit, a combination classic soul/neo-soul playlist, etc.
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    I have playlists at the two opposite extremes specificity.

    1. Playlists I made for a themed party that are super specific "songs about the olympics" "songs about plantlife" etc.

    2. Playlists that are called "good songs" "other songs" "these songs are good"
  • KimKim Posts: 624
    Ray Charles was born in Georgia but moved to Florida when he was an infant. Spent his formative years and learned music in the Tampa area
  • KimKim Posts: 624
    I’m reading the chapter on him now
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    It doesn't mention what tampa neighborhood, does it?
  • LefunesteLefuneste Posts: 7,989
    I never make any playlists. I'm either listening to a specific record with everything in the order intended, or I'm letting the random function chose from thousands of songs.
  • LefunesteLefuneste Posts: 7,989
    It doesn't mention what tampa neighborhood, does it?
    The black one?
  • KimKim Posts: 624
    Ray Charles lived in Greenville, Florida until his mother died. Then he moved to St Augustine Florida at 14 to go to a blind school. Lived in Orlando and then moved to Tampa at 17 and lived on Short Emery in an adjacent neighborhood known as The Scrub.
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    Oh shit. The HOME house was just north of there.
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    And yes, that was and is a predominantly black neighborhood.
  • Jurf_WurburJurf_Wurbur Posts: 5,475
    [nudges capn to ask the thing]
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    soooooo....uhhhhhh..... Anybody doing activities this weekend?
  • Jurf_WurburJurf_Wurbur Posts: 5,475
    YUP. We're going to go hang with my ex-boss and his family in Lincoln Square and do German Christmas stuff.

    How 'bout y'all?
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    We've got our first full weekend with the fellahs since marching band started. :smiley:
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    Hoping to see Spiderman, but E___ and S____ might form a coalition to override me to go to the Freddy Mercury movie instead.
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    I love Freddy Mercury and it's got pretty good reviews, but I think I'm just alllllll full up on music biopics for the rest of my life.
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    Considering how they are supposed to be shining a light on the unique creative spirit, they are all so formulaic.
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    Can you provide some uniquely German christmas activities?
  • Jurf_WurburJurf_Wurbur Posts: 5,475
    I think I'm just alllllll full up on music biopics for the rest of my life.
    I HEAR YOU. SAME.

    Uniquely German stuff? Gluhwein, I guess? That and browsing the German market for whatever they have that looks interesting. As with anything else in 2018, it's mostly "shit you can buy."
  • Jurf_WurburJurf_Wurbur Posts: 5,475
    The only music biopic worth seeing is Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    I'm Still Here was good too. Maybe the key is to use fictional musicians.
  • KimKim Posts: 624
    I’m going to breakfast with Matt at Milktooth and reading my book. I will tell more Tampa info as I get it
  • KimKim Posts: 624
    This weekend ^^^^
  • captqitncaptqitn Posts: 3,624
    Milktooth is your spot these days.
  • KimKim Posts: 624
    It’s sooooo good, like an explosion on your tastebuds. The first time I’ve noticed my tastebuds tingling. It’s known nationally. I meet people from other states in there all the time

    https://www.milktoothindy.com/
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