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  • Re: OT - Is there anything that keeps you up at night?

    From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 13 08:34:39 2022
    On Wednesday, December 29, 2021 at 12:09:48 AM UTC-8wrote:
    ???????????????

    https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/lewis-thomas/late-night-thoughts-listening-mahlers-ninth/

    https://neurosciencenews.com/stress-sleep-21413/

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  • From Oscar@21:1/5 to Frank Berger on Thu Oct 13 18:44:54 2022
    On Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 6:58:08 AM, Frank Berger wrote:

    Acid reflux
    Arthritis
    post nasal drip
    anxiety, but not since I retired 11 years ago.

    I work in the music business (concert production) and I have had 'gig-mares'. Not an uncommon thing for folk in the biz. Why, just today I was told a road case full of two-way radios was not returned tot the rental house and went into Artist storage. I
    was thrown under the bus. Sucks. What gig-mares are made of.

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  • From Oscar@21:1/5 to herman on Thu Oct 13 18:42:47 2022
    On Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 2:16:01 AM, herman wrote:

    Love

    Not true. The promise of Ronald Reagan on Mount Rushmore keeps you up at night. "Tear—DOWN—this—wall!"

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  • From Andrew Clarke@21:1/5 to gggg gggg on Thu Oct 13 18:54:43 2022
    On Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 3:05:12 PM UTC+10, gggg gggg wrote:
    ???????????????

    Little Jewish guy goes into a Catholic church and enters the confessional. The priest says 'Bless you, my son. What do you want to confess?" He says, "Last night I went to a bar, chatted up three college girls and took them to a motel, where I kept 'em
    screaming all night long." The priest says, "For your penance, say 12 Hail Marys ... " The guy interrupts him: "I can't do that, Father, I'm not a Catholic." The priest says, "Then why are you telling me?" The little guy says, "Listen, Buster, I'm 86
    years old. I'm tellin' everybody ... "

    Andrew Clarke
    Canberra

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  • From Paul Alsing@21:1/5 to andrewc...@gmail.com on Thu Oct 13 19:25:26 2022
    On Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 6:54:46 PM UTC-7, andrewc...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 3:05:12 PM UTC+10, gggg gggg wrote:
    ???????????????

    Little Jewish guy goes into a Catholic church and enters the confessional. The priest says 'Bless you, my son. What do you want to confess?" He says, "Last night I went to a bar, chatted up three college girls and took them to a motel, where I kept 'em
    screaming all night long." The priest says, "For your penance, say 12 Hail Marys ... " The guy interrupts him: "I can't do that, Father, I'm not a Catholic." The priest says, "Then why are you telling me?" The little guy says, "Listen, Buster, I'm 86
    years old. I'm tellin' everybody ... "

    A *very* old joke... I was telling this one in the 60's... but still very funny!

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  • From Bob Harper@21:1/5 to Oscar on Thu Oct 13 22:08:47 2022
    On 10/13/22 6:44 PM, Oscar wrote:
    On Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 6:58:08 AM, Frank Berger wrote:

    Acid reflux
    Arthritis
    post nasal drip
    anxiety, but not since I retired 11 years ago.

    I work in the music business (concert production) and I have had 'gig-mares'. Not an uncommon thing for folk in the biz. Why, just today I was told a road case full of two-way radios was not returned tot the rental house and went into Artist storage. I
    was thrown under the bus. Sucks. What gig-mares are made of.

    I know about job-mares. I was in industrial sales, but 10-15 years later
    I still had dreams of calls I was supposed to make and hadn't--this long
    after I'd begun teaching. My wife had the same sort of thing after she
    retired from teaching: beginning of school terrors that she wasn't
    ready, etc. And who among us has not had the 'final exam is coming up
    and I've neither attended class nor studied for the final' dreams?

    Bob Harper

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  • From Mr. Mike@21:1/5 to bob.harper@comcast.net on Sun Oct 16 12:30:52 2022
    On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 22:08:47 -0700, Bob Harper
    <bob.harper@comcast.net> wrote:

    I know about job-mares. I was in industrial sales, but 10-15 years later
    I still had dreams of calls I was supposed to make and hadn't--this long >after I'd begun teaching

    In the late 80's I was making railway schedules on this proprietary
    equipment at my job, a typesetting company. I was working massive
    amounts of overtime, and at one point, my dreams started to be
    structured the same way the pages in the schedule books were.

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  • From Andy Evans@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 16 14:18:35 2022
    I always listen to music as I go to sleep - I put on a playlist in iTunes or YT. So the question is what works and what doesn't.

    List of music that works:
    - my own songs, best of all. I have an album of 12 songs made in Garageband
    - Modern Gospel - Clarke Sisters, Dorinda, Kim Burrell etc
    - Garage tracks in YT
    - Bill Evans trio with Gomez and Zigmund
    - Jazz singers slow numbers, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Carol Welsman, Diane Shuur, Dianne Reeves, Shirley Horne, Lou Rawls, Dr John, Taj Mahal etc
    - Steely Dan/Donald Fagen tracks, selected
    - Debussy Preludes Book 1
    - Beethoven selected piano sonatas
    - Schubert selected piano sonatas
    - Wagner Meistersinger
    - Ravel L'Enfant et les Sortileges

    I find that vocal music tends to work and piano is pretty good. Orchestral not good - too many dynamic contrasts. Bach doesn't work either.

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to Andy Evans on Sun Oct 16 15:58:20 2022
    On Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 2:18:38 PM UTC-7, Andy Evans wrote:
    I always listen to music as I go to sleep - I put on a playlist in iTunes or YT. So the question is what works and what doesn't.

    List of music that works:
    - my own songs, best of all. I have an album of 12 songs made in Garageband
    - Modern Gospel - Clarke Sisters, Dorinda, Kim Burrell etc
    - Garage tracks in YT
    - Bill Evans trio with Gomez and Zigmund
    - Jazz singers slow numbers, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Carol Welsman, Diane Shuur, Dianne Reeves, Shirley Horne, Lou Rawls, Dr John, Taj Mahal etc
    - Steely Dan/Donald Fagen tracks, selected
    - Debussy Preludes Book 1
    - Beethoven selected piano sonatas
    - Schubert selected piano sonatas
    - Wagner Meistersinger
    - Ravel L'Enfant et les Sortileges

    I find that vocal music tends to work and piano is pretty good. Orchestral not good - too many dynamic contrasts. Bach doesn't work either.

    Weren't the Goldberg Variations composed to help a person fall asleep?

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  • From number_six@21:1/5 to gggg gggg on Sun Oct 16 21:13:21 2022
    On Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 3:58:22 PM UTC-7, gggg gggg wrote:
    On Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 2:18:38 PM UTC-7, Andy Evans wrote:
    I always listen to music as I go to sleep - I put on a playlist in iTunes or YT. So the question is what works and what doesn't.

    List of music that works:
    - my own songs, best of all. I have an album of 12 songs made in Garageband - Modern Gospel - Clarke Sisters, Dorinda, Kim Burrell etc
    - Garage tracks in YT
    - Bill Evans trio with Gomez and Zigmund
    - Jazz singers slow numbers, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Carol Welsman, Diane Shuur, Dianne Reeves, Shirley Horne, Lou Rawls, Dr John, Taj Mahal etc
    - Steely Dan/Donald Fagen tracks, selected
    - Debussy Preludes Book 1
    - Beethoven selected piano sonatas
    - Schubert selected piano sonatas
    - Wagner Meistersinger
    - Ravel L'Enfant et les Sortileges

    I find that vocal music tends to work and piano is pretty good. Orchestral not good - too many dynamic contrasts. Bach doesn't work either.
    Weren't the Goldberg Variations composed to help a person fall asleep?

    yes, I think that's also been said re some Corelli concerti grossi...

    Here's one of my anti-insomnia games -- for each letter of alphabet, think of five (up to 20 for some letters) composers and then maybe imagine hearing some of a work in my head...exceptions often made for Q and X...zzzzz

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to Herman on Mon Oct 24 15:40:52 2022
    On Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 5:29:54 AM UTC-7, Herman wrote:
    On Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 1:54:29 PM UTC+2, JohnGavin wrote:
    1. Don’t dwell on all the bad news that has intensified since the onset of Covid.
    Sleep is overrated, and I mean continuous sleep thru the night.

    It rarely happens I'm not awake for some time between three and four a.m. and I love hearing my girlfriend's breathing...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn8wnlhNa78

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