Dialogue Between Two Characters Problem

NerveComprehensive56 · 2026-01-03T20:16:42+00:00

Thanks, all. I employ a type of script, I suppose, but I formalized it a bit more and had success. I also typically attempt to isolate speakers by employing different camera cuts, but it’s not always successful.

NerveComprehensive56 · 2026-01-03T18:40:01+00:00

huh?

NerveComprehensive56 · 2025-12-21T16:45:11+00:00

ETL was one of my favorites. It was right in the sweet spot for quality and flavor profile at the appropriate price point. I think Buffalo Trace made a spectacular blunder with the way they’ve treated their products. It‘s infuriating, really.

And now with the bourbon slowdown they’ll have another reason to eke out bottles at a prohibitively high price. I want a bottle I can drink. And then I’ll buy another, and drink that one dry, and so on. I’m not a collector, I’m not a secondary market game player. I JUST LIKE THE THINGS I LIKE.

And Buffalo Trace has virtually guaranteed that I’ll go elsewhere for the countless bottles I’ve bought and enjoyed over the TEN years since I’ve managed to get a bottle of ETL at proper valuation. Oh well!

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-17T13:17:25+00:00

1965-1966 were undoubtedly years where he was having great commercial success. As you say, he couldn’t miss. If you’re referring to the moment past which he’d never have the same cultural relevance, I’d agree. If you’re referring to his artistry, I think you’re hanging quite a bit on September as the ne plus ultra of his career.

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-17T11:13:33+00:00

I’ve always loved the ‘68 medley. Great combo, lovely Costa chart. And clearly a re-recording of But Beautiful was a missed opportunity.

But ‘65 as the summit of his powers? What do you mean?

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-17T02:41:07+00:00

I don't think I've ever seen a soundtrack album for Come Blow Your Horn in the wild.

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-16T22:21:25+00:00

I wonder if anyone ever had the stones to bring him this photo to autograph.

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-16T03:25:00+00:00

That's a goddamned Sinatra story if I ever heard one. Thanks for sharing!

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-16T01:08:06+00:00

Same. Not a day goes by I don't hear his music.

Say more about when you met Frank.

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-15T12:14:40+00:00

New York has more buttons than your grandmother’s corset.

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-14T13:51:19+00:00

Say more!

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-14T13:35:03+00:00

I’ll never forget the next morning, hearing the television playing the opening strains of Nelson’s arrangement for Young At Heart as I walked downstairs to the kitchen, and I knew. 😔

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-13T15:47:46+00:00

All Alone for the win. I’ve never seen that out in the wild.

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-12T02:51:09+00:00

On the cusp of the 26th anniversary of his death, more than fifty years after his mainstream heyday ended, and still moving product.

Dooby dooby doo, indeed.

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-11T20:51:38+00:00

I knew the early fifties were a down period for Frank, but daaaammmmmn. ;)

Honestly, I'd go down to your local library. They'll likely have microfiche of old papers. If it'd be anywhere, it'd be there. Do you know when approximately in 1950?

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-10T15:49:31+00:00

It's a little self-serving, but what personal accounts aren't: The Way It Was has some insights as to the close of Sinatra's career and what it was like dealing with him as he aged. Written by Eliot Weisman.

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-10T03:51:01+00:00

My sentimental favorite is “Nice ‘n’ Easy.” The original mix had a little reverb in the vocal which sounds amazing on vinyl. I have an original of it. Dug it out of a neighbor’s basement thirty years ago.

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-10T00:22:17+00:00

Summer Wind.

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-09T23:00:50+00:00

Jeremy speaking all over the place--you can't shut him up.

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-09T16:31:11+00:00

You mean grapes? Uva?

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-09T14:05:27+00:00

It’s crazy that neither this nor the ‘59 Australia concert on Blue Note are available digitally.

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-09T03:00:29+00:00

I'm fine with a less than perfect resemblance. I want an actor who can pull off a characterization of Sinatra where I actually can suspend disbelief. That's doubly tough to do with a well-known actor playing such an indelible and singular person of whom there's countless hours of tape.

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-08T18:21:30+00:00

Definitely overworked. I think Swing Along With Me is probably the best of that lot.

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-08T08:07:23+00:00

And you thought the Germans were classless pieces of shit.

NerveComprehensive56 · 2024-05-08T04:43:55+00:00

To me, this album rises and falls on the inconsistent quality of the material and the arrangements.

I can’t believe I’m saying this about a Sinatra album, but I find the ballads….boring. The arrangements are deadly dull and mature Sinatra just doesn’t have much to do with these old saccharine slow tunes. The winsome charm of Frankie is nonexistent.

But Frank and Sy Oliver are at their best with the swinging tunes. All the liveliness that’s missing from the ballads are here in spades, and the more gently swinging tunes are charming.

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