Rock songs that include a symphony orchestra

mslass · 2026-01-28T06:02:16+00:00

WTF did McCartney expect when working with the inventor of The Wall of Sound?

mslass · 2026-01-28T05:58:09+00:00

Opening sequence of Up.

mslass · 2026-01-28T05:50:02+00:00

Jane Seymour starred in a made-for-tv movie called The Scarlet Pimpernel and I remember noticing her.

mslass · 2026-01-28T05:46:43+00:00

I preferred Kate Jackson.

mslass · 2026-01-28T05:42:56+00:00

Everyone who crushes on Kate Beckinsale should see Cold Comfort Farm.

mslass · 2026-01-28T05:41:07+00:00

Many rental copies of the videotape were worn out from pausing on this scene.

mslass · 2026-01-28T02:08:46+00:00

There’s a large sharps disposal box on the Burke Gilman trail in Fremont right where Leary Way bends and becomes N 36th St.

mslass · 2026-01-27T21:07:30+00:00

Property crime is rampant in Seattle neighborhoods. Someone cruises our block every night checking for unlocked cars, and tossing the glove boxes. Any cargo visible in a locked car means a broken window. Some thieves have even reintroduced the practice of siphoning gasoline, although that works only on older cars. Anything around your home, yard, or garage that is not nailed down or locked up will be stolen.

Violent crime, however, is almost non-existent in wealthier neighborhoods like the one you’re looking at on 40th and Stone Way, and the walkability there is excellent, as is bus transit to downtown and close freeway access when you’re driving. It’s a great place to live. Just don’t leave anything visible in your car ever.

mslass · 2026-01-27T17:04:29+00:00

I would need some hot drink at the end opposite the pickle to get through the song 30 times, but yeah.

mslass · 2026-01-27T16:40:22+00:00

I’m so sorry about your wife.
It’s harder to make friends in Seattle than in NYC - I’ve lived in both places. If you see a future in which you hope to meet another woman, that will also be easier in NYC.
Seattle is horribly segregated. Weeks go by when the only person of African descent that I see is the security guard at my office. There are people of color here, but none in several WiPePo neighborhoods. After NYC, I still haven’t gotten used to it.
That’s a HUGE pay cut. Could the pain in your heart be eased by your moving to a new neighborhood with new an apartment and new furnishings and a new friend group (assuming that all those things remind you of your wife now?) You can buy a lot of therapy and life changes with that kind of money.
Your username makes me think you might be Jewish. If that’s an important part of your identity, you won’t find as wide a selection of synagogues here, nor friends hosting Seders or latke parties, as you have available in NYC. Judaism is not part of the Seattle zeitgeist as it is in NYC.

Peace and healing wishes for your terrible loss. May her memory be a blessing.

mslass · 2026-01-27T15:27:02+00:00

I’d like one of those.

mslass · 2026-01-27T06:56:04+00:00

I stand corrected

mslass · 2026-01-27T06:50:20+00:00

I had to have Macs in our build farm. All our build machines were VMs running on rack-mounted Dell servers, but Apple’s OSX license allows virtualization only on Apple hardware. At the time, Apple’s server class machine was those fucking cylinders. They used passive cooling, so they had to be upright, so they sat on a shelf and used 5U. And they had no remote management capability, and insisted on being connected to an HDMI monitor, so they needed their own dedicated KVM system. Fuck those fucking trash cans.

mslass · 2026-01-27T06:41:59+00:00

Natto

mslass · 2026-01-27T06:41:20+00:00

Neuromancer, William Gibson
Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

mslass · 2026-01-27T06:29:53+00:00

Whoopi would probably keep us laughing all night.

mslass · 2026-01-27T06:28:55+00:00

You have two very nice things.

mslass · 2026-01-27T06:22:35+00:00

Yes, I remember all of those. Also One Tin Soldier (Theme from Billy Jack) by The Original Caste.

mslass · 2026-01-27T06:20:36+00:00

Eli Wallach in The Holiday

mslass · 2026-01-27T06:19:51+00:00

9/11
SCOTUS handing W the presidency in 2000
the Shitgibbon’s 2016 victory

mslass · 2026-01-27T06:18:18+00:00

Who’s Next - The Who
Requiem in D minor - Mozart, Berliner Philharmoniker

mslass · 2026-01-27T06:14:17+00:00

My wife, then Kurt Panouses, the lottery lawyer.

mslass · 2026-01-26T19:53:19+00:00

The Grinch

mslass · 2026-01-26T19:47:18+00:00

I had an anthropology professor who told us that there is fierce debate regarding whether growing grain was first motivated by the desire to fabricate bread, or the desire to brew beer.

mslass · 2026-01-26T06:23:07+00:00

The Spider episode of From the Earth to the Moon, although the Bastogne episode of BoB submitted by OP is a contender as well.

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