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Max's Musings

by Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #2041762

A math guy's random thoughts.

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Raven

Mar 2, 2025 at 10:16am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

Happy birthday!! We watched Reacher...last year sometime I think? It's ok if you just don't think too hard about the economics of any of the things the criminals do. Or about circulatory systems.

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JACE

Mar 2, 2025 at 10:09am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

Thanks, Max.

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Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

Mar 2, 2025 at 10:00am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

JACE

--BTW, Regarding Henry is available to rent on Amazon.

Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

Mar 2, 2025 at 9:58am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

JACE

, I do remember Regarding Henry. You're right--the thematic material is similar. There's a scene where he's amazed to see his daughter tying her shoes and asks "Who taught you that?" She says, "You did."

I remember seeing that scene with my daughter, and I asked her who taught her to tie her shoes. She said, "you did." I have no memory of teaching her, but she did!

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JACE

Mar 2, 2025 at 9:47am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

Your list sounds just like our TV playlist, although my wife doesn't care for Reacher. We love Irrational.

Did you ever see an old movie, Regarding Henry? Harrison Ford stars in this 1991 movie. Very similar to the plot of Doc. Loved that movie. I believe it's time to see if it's streaming anywhere.

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BIG BAD WOLF is Merry

Mar 2, 2025 at 9:40am
In response to "What we've been watching on TV, birthday edition"

Been watching playthroughs of a game called Rimworld. Looks interesting.

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Seabreeze

Feb 26, 2025 at 10:15am
In response to "Soundtrack, Feb 26, Melancholy Baby"

Nice. I love just about anything played on a piano.

Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

Feb 7, 2025 at 12:39pm
In response to "Soundtrack, Day 4, Hallelujah"

Allan, that's a nice rendition. Here's another by a group I like.

Allan Charles 🐾

Feb 7, 2025 at 11:33am
In response to "Soundtrack, Day 4, Hallelujah"

I absolutely love this song. It gives me goosebumps every time. This is personally my favorite cover of the song:

🐕GeminiGem🎁

Feb 6, 2025 at 3:36pm
In response to "Soundtrack, Feb 6, Come Sail Away"

I became a rabid Styx fan in the early 80's. At one point I had all the vinyl they had released, but those are long gone. I rely on greatest hits CD's or a Styx mix on Spotify. This song comes up often. I always wondered about the line about climbing aboard the starship, but not enough to research it or anything like that, LOL

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February 24, 2025 at 8:30am

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Soundtracfk, February 24, The Devil Went Down to Georgia

The Charile Daniels Band relesed "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" on their 1979 album Million Mile Reflections. Whle uncredited, , Vassar Clements originally wrote the basic melody an octave lower, in a tune called "Lonesome Fiddle Blues." Charlie Daniels moved it up an octave and added lyrics. Tthe lyrics, which are more of a recitative than sung, tell of a battle with the devil over the soul of a country fiddler. This is recognizably a varition on the classic deal with the devil

trope. In particular, Daniels has cited the poem The Mountain Whip[orwhill

by Stephen VIncent Benet as the inspiration for framing the trope as contest of violinists.

The lyrics and music also mention at least three old-time country songs.

Fire on the Mountain

The House of the Rising Sun

Granny Will Your Dog Bite

Ida Red

The last is referenced only by the lyric, "Chicken in the bread pan peckin' out dough."

The song rose to number three on the BIllboard Top 100 Chart, but the populatirty of "My Shirona" eventually stopped iis rise.

In my story, "The Package"

, the song is playing on the radio as the protagonist drives home, as a bit of foreshadowing for what's in the unexpected package she finds on her driveway. If you want to read the story, please drop me a note for the passkey.

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