How Do You Like Petula Clark, and other Ladies Who Sing?

[sleepy]

He wasn't driving that day. He was headed north or northwest from the studios.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

I noticed with my music embeds that most people won't follow a link. They prefer to watch or listen to the embeds. But from my days on dial-up, I know what you mean.
I'm glad I'm on broadband now. Sorry about that rib.

what rib...? is anyone in the country still on dial up at this point? zoiks!

i guess i must be the outlier, then. i like a nice flat link because as long as the poster has made clear what it is, i know whether to follow it or not. i don't need a bunch of embeds in my face yelping for attention.

altho gotta admit... seeing a bunch of big black blocks (say it 10x fast) in threads like this is almost intriguing in a 2001 kind of way. :)

And hey. The shitty Firefox behavior. On my XP ODS (Old Dog System), it was the ADB Helper that was the problem. If your Firefox is running poorly, open the Add-On manager, click the Extensions, find the ADB Helper and Nuke it. It belongs to Android and Firefox OS devices. And I don't know why it would be installed on an XP system unless it functions as a bridge to your Android devices via Bluetooth or whatever. But without it, everything is working great. I was able to play the YouTube for Black Sabbath/Paranoid HD without a glitch!

thanks, but i never did use ADB helper and it's been many years since i ran XP.

sleepy, somehow you seem to be conflating my windows situation with my android situation. maybe i explained it poorly. so i'll try one last time, and please bear in mind i'm not asking for help but for whatever understanding you can muster:


WINDOWS
- i run a pretty tight ship so do not automatically run scripts on FF. (i use noscript extension)
- the embedded tube videos require the ytimg.com script to display and be playable.
- ytimg.com also causes me a lot of problems even though i run the latest portable apps build of FF, therefore i rarely enable ytimg.com.
- you may be saying to yourself: "but ike, why don't you just do research on what the problem is with ytimg.com script in FF!"
- thing is, that same script also enables a lot of unwanted ads and spam on my news / email site. therefore motivation is pretty much nil on that issue.


ANDROID
- running the latest chrome, embeds display correctly. they also tend to slow things down when i play them.
- AFAIK i know this is not at all unique to android or mobile platforms. it happens in a variety of situations when a device is overloaded, typically by in-browser web apps. in other words it's not so much a chrome / android / slow device issue as it is a mobile optimisation issue.
- any site that has significant mobile traffic tends to produce a streamlined version for mobile users. it's just common sense and increasingly typical.
- this site seems to be running an older vB package (only security updates are refreshed, it looks like).
- therefore ppl who hit this site with mobile devices seem to be, unfortunately, not getting the streamlined (mobile) version of the site.
- now, you might also be saying to yourself: "well, bill isn't complaining about slowdown, so why are YOU?"
- bill is special... he's using an ipad. he's the guy wearing the laurel wreath, buxom lasses sprawled at his feet, idly tossing grapes and figs in to his merlot-redolent maw.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

point is-- when you embed a video you make it far more complicated for me to view, rather than otherwise.


but, wait! here's a thought... when embedding a video, could you post the directlink right underneath?

 

[sleepy]

Oh no. No conflating. The FF issues that I have are ongoing with the ancient system that I'm using. Would figuring out how to make the black boxes also function as a clickable link to the YouTube page be of interest to you? Are the embedded players, or black boxes, causing issues without clicking them?

 

[sleepy]

Heh. Or include the link above the embedded player?

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

Oh no. No conflating. The FF issues that I have are ongoing with the ancient system that I'm using. Would figuring out how to make the black boxes also function as a clickable link to the YouTube page be of interest to you? Are the embedded players, or black boxes, causing issues without clicking them?

no, sleepy... i didn't say i had the FF issues for the reason why you're apparently having your FF issues. i said i was having them for the reasons i mentioned... in pretty exhaustive detail, i think.

yes, i already said that i know how to discover what's lurking behind the black boxes, just that it kills a lot of the momentum.

no... again... the 'black boxes' are not causing issues in FF in and of themselves.


anyway, pardon me... i'm going to go take a break and go indulge one of my favorite pastimes for a bit. seeya.

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[StevOz]

How about Patti!

 

[StevOz]

So how about something more Aussie?

Still recall seeing this band live, free entry at the local 15 years ago or so and she played mighty fine fiddle too and all, her voice was was sweeter still..

 

[StevOz]

Really and is there nothing these girls can't do?

The Waifs are a folk rock band from Western Australia. The original members of The Waifs are Josh Cunningham (guitar, vocals), and sisters Vikki Thorn (harmonica, guitar, vocals) and Donna Simpson (guitar, vocals). Their current tour band also includes Ben Franz (bass) and David Ross MacDonald (drums). Their 2003 album Up All Night reached double platinum in Australia and reached the top five of the Australian album charts, and the band won four ARIA Awards in October 2003. The Waifs have enjoyed two top fifty singles in Australia, London Still in 2002 and Bridal Train in 2004. The band so impressed Bob Dylan when they supported him on his 2003 Australian tour that he asked them to join him in his 2003 North American tour, including a gig at the Newport Folk Festival The Waifs co-own the independent label Jarrah Records with John Butler, and their records are released in Australia under that label.

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[LeeVanCleef]

Thank god, Steve... I was afraid it was gonna be Kylie Minogue. Isn't it a law that you have to post one of her videos? I dig that Waifs sound. Here's my favorite Aussie country gal.

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[Isaac Sauvage]

thanks for posting the links, steve. i'm not a huge fan of indy folk pop, but that was a cut above i'd say. also, very cool to hear it in an aussie accent instead of the usual warmed-over american style.

bill-- thanks for adding to my collection of 2001 monoliths. :)

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Sorry... can't help it! When that embedding works, it's the coolest thing since sliced bread!

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

looks like we'll be spending lots of time in future talking about stanley kubrick.

 

[StevOz]

How about some J rock 'n' pop then. :)

 

[LeeVanCleef]

I think that, when it comes to Japanese rock, I prefer my girl band to be a little more DIY. Like the three girls who went to a Ramones concert and thought it'd be a great idea to form a band. Just like in America. I'll make this embed-friendly, so Nic can watch it on his IBM Selectric.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

phew! for a sec i thought it was going to be j-pop with the collection of cutesy girls going through their little choreographed poses. not that i don't appreciate that, but the songs are always producer-created fluff, not stuff made by the girls themselves.

bill, from the bottom of my selectric i thank you. but maybe in the future you can do both the embed and share the directlink. then again, that might cut down on the circus-aspect that all webforums strive to revel in. hmm... what to do... what to do?

 

[LeeVanCleef]

I resent you claiming this thread has a "circus aspect"! For the first time ever in one of these pages-long wandering threads, we managed to steer it back to the topic post! Yeah... ladies who sing and such! No circus here, my friend... trains running right on time. Mussolini would be proud! Unless it's a circus train, like in Last Crusade. I'm not sure where that would leave us. What was the question again?
Oh, yeah! C&P the link, embed below! Everyone goes home happy, you get an alibi when you club your neighbor to death with a femur! "Clarke made me do it, officer!" HAW! Wouldn't that be weird? A sci-fi writer starting a murderous cult? I come up with the craziest ideas!

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

you know... somewhere amongst that sloppy broadside you managed to hit something good!

 

[LeeVanCleef]

you know... somewhere amongst that sloppy broadside you managed to hit something good!

LOL! In retrospect, what makes more sense: the plot from Plan 9, or the tenets of Scientology?

 

[sleepy]

Here we go. An accidental encounter over at YouTube that brought it all back home. These are better Ronstadts. Y'know, I saw her once. She was exiting the off-ramp to The Ventura Freeway near The WB Home Office, driving an old, rusted Olds or Buick Big Car. It was probably a stop at the office due to the Trio "Mr. Sandman" collaboration. She looked Great!

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[sleepy]

Gregory Walcott, the lead actor of Plan 9 died just the other day.
He had better luck playing in films such as "The Eiger Sanction".

 

[LeeVanCleef]

And in films like Ed Wood.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

oi bill,
how did you like this here side-by-side?

so does it turn the frisbee up or the frisb... ? HOW THE HELL DO YOU TELL WHICH WAY A FRISBEE IS TURNED ANYWAY?? BILLINGTON get back to your base and prepare your answer... what do you think i....? what is it, WHA, WHA, WHA...?

trivia for me lads-- what series is that riffing upon, eh?

 

[LeeVanCleef]

LOL! That was pretty decently mind-blowing! I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say Martin Landau makes a better Bela Lugosi than that other guy... who the heck was he, anyway? But, as a long-time MST3Ker who's sat through many of his movies, no one does Tor Johnson like Tor Johnson. Point in favor of Ed Wood, Martin's incredibly hot daughter Juliet Landau. She was great in Buffy. So the winner is the movie Ed Wood!

For some reason, that quote sounds familiar... but I can't quite place it!

 

[sleepy]

Aw shoot! In defense of Hollywood Hungarians everywhere, I believe Landau had many more years to study Plan 9. He is a great actor.

But from a purely physical similarity, I may damn well opt for John Travolta in pancake.

Velkomm.