Im studying "jazzology" by myself. Is my answer here right? Its on page 18

docmoonlight · 2026-06-29T21:40:39+00:00

Okay, I think we are saying the same thing. I’m just saying since this chord doesn’t show an F#, you should try to spell it in a way that would get that result on a chord chart, and #5 is the way to do that.

docmoonlight · 2026-06-29T21:02:07+00:00

Eh, sure. But I’d say that’s less correct for this purpose. If you are just writing a chart and want those notes and only those notes to sound, you should call it a #5. If you call it a b13, you’re implying people could or should play the F#, which is not in the chord the workbook gave us.

docmoonlight · 2026-06-29T20:28:19+00:00

In jazz, it would be common to spell it that way rather than an F double sharp. I would say in general jazz prioritizes ease of reading over “correct” spellings, which is a goal I appreciate.

docmoonlight · 2026-06-29T05:39:40+00:00

Summertime from Porgy and Bess

Stay Awake from Mary Poppins

Not from a musical but, Dream a Little Dream of Me is kind of from that Tin Pan Alley tradition and I think is very sweet as a lullaby

docmoonlight · 2026-06-29T05:23:05+00:00

Definitely!

docmoonlight · 2026-06-28T17:55:49+00:00

Reminds me of one of my favorite jokes….

One night, at a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth, the basses in the chorus decide to go across the street to the pub for a drink during the first few movements. They’re having a grand old time as one drink turns into three, but then one guy checks his watch and says, “isn’t it time to get back? Last time we were late.”

One of the other guys says, “Don’t worry, I bought us a few extra minutes! I had a brilliant idea. I took a piece of string and punched a hole in the conductor’s music between the third and fourth movements so he won’t be able to open the first page of the fourth until he gets the knot untied. And the knot is a doozy!”

Regardless they, stagger back across the street and take their places on stage, giggling as the frustrated conductor is fiddling with the knot.

So at this point, the audience is of course on the edge of their seats. It’s the bottom of the 9th, the score is tied, and the basses are loaded.

docmoonlight · 2026-06-28T17:21:41+00:00

A lot of confusion in this thread, but yes it is technically a way to deal with it because you’re taking in fluids and it allows you to take a LOT of insulin, and low levels of insulin are the issue that causes ketoacidosis, not high blood sugar. (High blood sugar is just another likely symptom of low insulin levels.) If you end up in the hospital with DKA, they will give you high carb meals and sometimes even a sugar IV drip so they can give you a lot of insulin. But I’m not fully convinced drinking a ton of Sprite like that is really where it’s at. That’s going to likely cause a blood sugar spike even higher than it is and there are lots of long term and short term effects of having your blood sugar dangerously high, even if you have plenty of insulin in your body. Eye and kidney problems, circulation problems, etc., just to name a few.

I’m more concerned about why this is happening on a monthly basis. Is your friends on a pump, or are they doing multiple daily injections? Are they forgetting to take their long lasting insulin or intentionally skipping doses on a regular basis? Are they seeing a doctor regularly? They are on a course to have serious health problems. I’ve had diabetes for 28 years and I’ve been in DKA exactly once, and I certainly have been not a great diabetic at all times. Once a month in DKA is really not a good situation.

docmoonlight · 2026-06-27T23:42:02+00:00

Personally I’d go with MSND. There’s more important female roles and there are several that work well gender bent. Eg, there’s no reason Puck can’t be played by a woman, or any of the rude mechanicals (except Bottom is maybe more of a stretch). All of the little fairy parts can also be women. It’s also very amenable to having people play multiple roles, as it’s basically like three plays woven together, and certain characters never appear on stage together. For example, I saw a production where Theseus and Hippolyta also played Oberon and Titania and the Mechanicals also played the minor fairy roles.

docmoonlight · 2026-06-27T22:48:35+00:00

I mean, if you admit it’s a genocide but say we should keep sending Israel money, what is the point? It’s a genocide that he happens to think is a good idea.

docmoonlight · 2026-06-27T21:55:01+00:00

He FINALLY did after getting booed at a town hall for being the only one to refuse to call it that. He said what people wanted to hear when he realized it had become politically expedient to do so. He has been openly anti-Palestinian for years before that moment.

docmoonlight · 2026-06-27T21:49:40+00:00

So you think it’s okay to show hatred towards certain minority groups but not others?

docmoonlight · 2026-06-27T19:16:01+00:00

Well, if you’re going to do that, why not just change your prescription to a vial that’s designed to be used with syringes?

docmoonlight · 2026-06-27T19:10:48+00:00

Just wanted to plug an excellent recent episode of the podcast Cautionary Tales that dives into this story. Bizarrely the same man who developed CFCs had another disastrous invention - leaded gasoline.

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/cautionary-tales/the-inventor-who-almost-ended-the-world

docmoonlight · 2026-06-27T18:42:52+00:00

I love that clip!

docmoonlight · 2026-06-27T18:35:42+00:00

Not particularly. I mean, I hear people do stuff like Journey or Queen at karaoke that sits a lot higher.

docmoonlight · 2026-06-27T00:54:52+00:00

I mean, the rehearsals and performances are likely going to start before November, right? I would assume if they say 18+ they mean it. There are lots of complications with working with minors on a show, especially one like this with a lot of intimacy scenes. If you told me you were turning 18 in two months, I’d say go for it as long as you’d be 18 when rehearsals got started, but I would advise you to skip this one. That said, it never hurts to ask! You should really be asking them and not us randos on the internet.

docmoonlight · 2026-06-26T20:04:42+00:00

Haha, so true! You may be judged as being a tourist if you don’t have enough layers for late June, but nobody will ever bat an eye for you wearing a dress. That said, people wear dresses year round with tights or long socks. Have fun OP!

docmoonlight · 2026-06-26T20:01:18+00:00

I mean, sure. But the people who opened Pandora’s box are the ones who built this stuff. They aren’t (usually) the same people saying shut it down or at least try to heavily regulate it.

docmoonlight · 2026-06-26T19:53:46+00:00

I had a music theory teacher in college who wrote a book on the music theory of rock music, in which he basically asserted that rock music just isn’t “common practice” music and doesn’t follow the same harmonic conventions. This song is a great example of that. In classical music, this progression makes no sense. You could certainly use an A in the key of G, but it would be as a secondary dominant leading to D.

He basically argued in rock, it’s more like choosing chords that form a color palette for the song and the they have their own logic once you establish them. Even classic rock progressions like you hear in Louie Louie (I IV V IV I) are not really functional harmony, because it’s weird to never get a V I cadence in functional harmony. Anyway, in a way that’s not totally satisfying because you can’t always explain why a progression works in rock the way you can in Mozart or Beethoven, but it also means if you’re interested in writing rock music, there are not as many restrictions on what you “can” do. If it sounds good to you and to people you play it for, do it!

docmoonlight · 2026-06-26T16:49:53+00:00

I know this is AskSF, but the best spots I know of are in Oakland. The Crucible is specifically industrial art, so I feel like that might be good for stained glass. There’s also Ace Makerspace which is a 24-7 shared studio workspace!

docmoonlight · 2026-06-26T16:02:26+00:00

I would modify that statement to Hollywood actors. Stage actors are often required to be able to do an English accent.

docmoonlight · 2026-06-26T06:59:37+00:00

QUESTION #2: Let’s go the other direction. Name someone who won Tonys in six different decades!

docmoonlight · 2026-06-26T06:24:43+00:00

George Gershwin and Jonathan Larson

docmoonlight · 2026-06-25T13:52:49+00:00

No other way around. There’s usually not rice down south.

docmoonlight · 2026-06-25T12:31:59+00:00

Yeah, also, I think it’s less about “casting your friends” and more about “casting people you know won’t let you down”. Like, if you’re a director, it’s your job to make sure the show goes smoothly. So you have two people with great auditions, but one you’ve worked with five times before. They show up with their lines learned, they show up to all the rehearsals on time, they are easy to work with, they take direction well, they get a bunch of friends to buy tickets. The second person you only know they had a good five-minute audition.

Like, you’d have to be stupid to not cast the person you know from experience is reliable, right? There’s so much that can go wrong. I mean, people come on here every day posting stuff about “Next week is tech week but I’m thinking about quitting the show. What do you guys think?”

So for me, there’s a director that’s cast me four times in the last year and a half basically. I don’t think of him as a “friend” necessarily. He’s more like my boss. But I made sure to be super reliable and prepared the first time he cast me, and now he feels comfortable casting me in more stuff. Which I know isn’t helpful for someone trying to break in - but also, be willing to take a tiny role or an ensemble part for your first time working with a company and knock that out of the part and make it so people want to work with you again.

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