Re: [tlug] Light to control over Wifi

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

CL writes:

 > Actually, "culture" makes me think of Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Frost, 
 > and my eighth grade music teacher, Dave Zimmerman's, little brother 
 > Bobby who came by our music class a few times and let us play our 
 > guitars with him.

*That* Zimmerman?!  Heh, I didn't get so privileged as to play with
him, I only got to babysit in his summer house after he sold it to
some doctor (who was uncultured enough to tell everybody who the
former owner was -- nice house, didn't need such associations).

But that reminds me of, what was my 10th grade music teacher's name
... that's it, Mrs. Rignall ("Kingston Maroon" yearbook to the
rescue!).  The one where in voice class I answered "yo" (which I got
from a Peanuts TV special) at roll call and she gave me a lecture on
how that comes from the "I" of Spanish, and is choushitsurei in Latin
cultures.  Of course, she's also the one who told the kyounyuu soprano
who stood next to me in choir to shut her mouth when she wasn't
singing, she looked like an iguana trying to catch flies.  Which was a
damn shame because not looking like an iguana made her (the soprano,
dummies!) attractive enough to distract me from the music ... which,
topically enough, was Robert Frost's "Two Roads" set to music for a
Danbury CT Centennial (which had nothing to do with my choir, just
explaining why there was a tune at all).  Dunno if she (Mrs. Rignall,
you dummies!) liked me, but she was probably the most influential
teacher I had (at least in a good way: Mrs. Hoffman and Mr. Tucker --
who definitely did not like me! -- taught me mostly to disrespect
authority based on job title, but Mrs. Rignall knew what she was
talking about, theory and practice.)

But pop culture is culture (heck, where does your friend Bobby stand?
between two cultures? and if so, how about C.P. Snow?) and it
eventually influences "high" culture, you know.  Andy Warhol is an
important factor in American culture, just as the hackneyed chord
progressions that end every hymn are (and you can hear in certain
Rolling Stones songs if you listen carefully, just as you can hear
motifs from Mozart in some Beatles stuff).  Pat Benatar trained to
sing opera, so it is said (and listening to her phrasing I believe it,
even in "Hell is for Children").  I'm glad she didn't continue that
path!  (Nothing against opera, but I can't study or hack to it so I
don't listen to it as often as I might otherwise, and I prefer tenor
and baritone arias to coloratura sopranos for some reason.)

Dunno if AKB48 will ever affect high culture in any important way, but
who knows, maybe there's a talent in there that we would never hear of
if they had to start from zero!

Just-felt-like-going-even-more-OT-so-blame-Mrs-Hoffman-ly y'rs,