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Somehow I lost a long tirade about folktunes. org and the two versions of their archive and how they seemed to have wandered off like demented slime molds two years ago without leaving any contact information so that well-meaning visitors like me could correct their inaccurate transcription of "Mole in the Ground."
The reason I care is that I'm recording the songs I sang when my kids were young, and some others I've sung to the babies, notwithstanding that my voice is in terrible shape -- I have reason to think it will never return to its normal timbre: it may be the result of asthma medication I don't care to stop taking -- not as a cheesy grab at immortality but as a reference for the kids when they want to know "how did that one song go?"
Parts of this are easy, but parts are hard -- my voice gets worse sometimes, and I can't always remember the songs right, and I can't always find a text to work very loosely from (where my singing deviates from the text, I use my singing), and the cat likes to walk across the desk when I'm at work and make comments. I won't delete a file and re-record it if the only problem is a barking dog or a meowing cat. I also won't delete and re-record for minor hesitations or quavers or that kind of thing. Still, I had to record "All Around a Watertank" like four times before it was good enough. I think "My Old Hen" was worse.
I love K-drama. On "love, Truly," Bong-Soon has discovered that the good doctor Chang is quite possibly her brother (he is her step-brother but she thinks he's her half-brother). And she and Chang had been sort of angling down the slippery slope to an affair despite his being married: his wife having fairly severe dementia almost giving him permission, but both of them wanting the best for Ji-Soon (the wife) holding them back from confessing . . . Meanwhile, Bong-Gi has become convinced that they are fooling around, and is really pissed off -- he thinks it's because he can't stand having someone living in his house behaving so scandalously, but really it's because he's jealous. He's already started the transformation that will allow him to deserve her. His father is missing the cook lady who left. Chang's five year old daughter just hates everybody but Grandma and Bong-Gi (who is her bodyguard).
And meanwhile, AZN has started showing Coffee Prince! How long ago? I don't know! The stupid newspaper tv show grid doesn't have AZN on it. And AZN doesn't advertise its own shows. What's up with that? and also, shows don't seem to start and stop at exactly the same time each time. Or ever on reasonable time points. (7:30 is too early to catch the opening of Love, Truly and 8:00 is too late, for example: but drop in at any time between and you might find the show beginning, or you might find you've missed the first several minutes of plot turning events and dialog. . .) Hmph. I found the AZN website: I've missed two weeks of it. So that last episode of Dae Jou Young that I saw was almost the last one. I'm not fond of historicals. I like the more humorous modern ones. Oh no, it only runs W-F. I have no idea how many I've missed, then. Oh well.
The reason I care is that I'm recording the songs I sang when my kids were young, and some others I've sung to the babies, notwithstanding that my voice is in terrible shape -- I have reason to think it will never return to its normal timbre: it may be the result of asthma medication I don't care to stop taking -- not as a cheesy grab at immortality but as a reference for the kids when they want to know "how did that one song go?"
Parts of this are easy, but parts are hard -- my voice gets worse sometimes, and I can't always remember the songs right, and I can't always find a text to work very loosely from (where my singing deviates from the text, I use my singing), and the cat likes to walk across the desk when I'm at work and make comments. I won't delete a file and re-record it if the only problem is a barking dog or a meowing cat. I also won't delete and re-record for minor hesitations or quavers or that kind of thing. Still, I had to record "All Around a Watertank" like four times before it was good enough. I think "My Old Hen" was worse.
I love K-drama. On "love, Truly," Bong-Soon has discovered that the good doctor Chang is quite possibly her brother (he is her step-brother but she thinks he's her half-brother). And she and Chang had been sort of angling down the slippery slope to an affair despite his being married: his wife having fairly severe dementia almost giving him permission, but both of them wanting the best for Ji-Soon (the wife) holding them back from confessing . . . Meanwhile, Bong-Gi has become convinced that they are fooling around, and is really pissed off -- he thinks it's because he can't stand having someone living in his house behaving so scandalously, but really it's because he's jealous. He's already started the transformation that will allow him to deserve her. His father is missing the cook lady who left. Chang's five year old daughter just hates everybody but Grandma and Bong-Gi (who is her bodyguard).
And meanwhile, AZN has started showing Coffee Prince! How long ago? I don't know! The stupid newspaper tv show grid doesn't have AZN on it. And AZN doesn't advertise its own shows. What's up with that? and also, shows don't seem to start and stop at exactly the same time each time. Or ever on reasonable time points. (7:30 is too early to catch the opening of Love, Truly and 8:00 is too late, for example: but drop in at any time between and you might find the show beginning, or you might find you've missed the first several minutes of plot turning events and dialog. . .) Hmph. I found the AZN website: I've missed two weeks of it. So that last episode of Dae Jou Young that I saw was almost the last one. I'm not fond of historicals. I like the more humorous modern ones. Oh no, it only runs W-F. I have no idea how many I've missed, then. Oh well.