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I just got the Samsung 49 inch SUHD TV for the bedroom, and a nice mount for the wall. It’s all up and working now. What was awesome is that it sensed my Samsung Galaxy phone and offered to copy all the settings over to the TV if I wanted. HELL YA!!!! Smoothest setup ever.

One thing that took a while was getting the Xfinity remote to handle volume and power. I found the codes I needed and the process online. I came across the manual, which I will share here.

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The manufacturer code that worked for me was 12051. There’s a page at xfinity.com/remotes that gives a lot of codes.

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All right – I know I haven’t finished the last one yet (Horse Latitudes), but I am reading Keith Richard’s book ‘Life’ and he talks about open D tuning. Wow!!! It makes a lot of songs (Rolling Stones, Steve Miller, etc) a lot easier.

I love the semi dissonances..one chord sounds just like ‘It’s Getting Better’ – the Beatles probably used open D for that…maybe.

Anyway, Keith’s book is surprisingly good – if you haven’t read it yet you should pick it up if that sort of thing interests you.

Here’s my studio setup, getting ready to record.

Open Me:

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Well….today I woke up to a howling wind and a bunch of snow. Took a walk outside and came across a statue in the woodsy park near my hotel, the Best Western Silva in Sibiu Romania.

Here’s a picture of the man….not sure he appreciates the snownose.

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Here’s the wiki info about Mr. Eminescu. (Link: Wiki Link)

He appears to have had a tragic end of life by being mis-diagnosed and injected with a mercury compound. Even after death, there were “D’OH” moments. Check out this sentence:

Moreover, at the autopsy performed by Dr. Tomescu and then by Dr. Marinescu from the laboratory at Babe?-Bolyai University, the brain could not be studied, because a nurse inadvertently forgot it on an open window, where it quickly decomposed.

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I still remember the first time I heard this song. Coming home from a gig up north. Cruised into Allston about 3 in the morning. Dead tired but couldn’t get out of the car. Me and a buddy were just floored by this and couldn’t stop smiling. You forget how good the lyrics are after you’ve heard it about a zillion times. But I heard it on the radio on my way home from work today for the first time in a while and all the memories came flooding back. I think it was Ellen Foley who sang but Karla DeVito sure does a great job in the video. Wow.

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“You Talk Too Much” is a 1960 single by Joe Jones. It was written by Fats Domino’s brother-in-law, Reginald Hall, but Domino actually turned down the song. Jones’s version peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Other versions by Frankie Ford #87, Georges Jouvin (trumpet), Richard Anthony and Nat Peck (Trombone) et son orchestre

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Here I am, mashing up what little I know of physics with the real life human condition.

When someone crushes your soul, and all you want to do is erase some of the supposed laws of physics so you can breathe again.

Maybe someday someone will find a way to deal with all of the crushing blows we bear throughout life.

But if that happens, do the stellar highs go away with them? Probably. So maybe we just leave things alone and only sing of the sentiments.

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From Boston to Dusseldorf, flew Air Berlin for the first time. It was OK. They did not give out headphones but I did get a nice red heart shaped chocolate on the way out the door.

And they supplied toothbrush and toothpaste!

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And here’s Dusseldorf Airport at 6:30AM on a Sunday Morning.
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And of course, the Camel Smoke Shop – what are they smoking in there anyway?
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