What are fans doing to pass the time during this Coronavirus period?

If you like Downton Abbey then you will like Belgravia. It's on EPIX and started Sun. Apr. 12th, so there have been 3 episodes so far. EPIX used to be included on DirecTV, but now I pay $5/mo for it. Pennyworth (about the younger adult years of Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne's butler) was also on this channel and had its 1st season finale last Sept. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8425532/

If anyone has Showtime, I just watched the first episode (first season) of Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels on Apr. 26th. This is totally different than the 1st Penny Dreadful show. It takes place in 1938 and is about the first Latino Detective on the LAPD and his partner, played by Nathan Lane, who is Jewish. It has supernatural overtones to it, but based on Mexican folklore. (think Day of the Dead/Dio de Los Muertos) 

On Netflix, I've watched seasons 1& 2 of The Crown, the movie Marriage Story, the 7th (last) season of Once Upon A Time, How The Beatles Changed The World and the movie The Two Popes (there's a Beatles reference in this movie, too!)

And my absolute favorite show, Outlander, on STARZ, is nearing the end of its 5th season. This is one I have the 1st 4 seasons on DVD and is definitely bingeworthy! 

Nancy R wrote:

If you like Downton Abbey then you will like Belgravia. It's on EPIX and started Sun. Apr. 12th, so there have been 3 episodes so far. EPIX used to be included on DirecTV, but now I pay $5/mo for it. Pennyworth (about the younger adult years of Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne's butler) was also on this channel and had its 1st season finale last Sept. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8425532/

If anyone has Showtime, I just watched the first episode (first season) of Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels on Apr. 26th. This is totally different than the 1st Penny Dreadful show. It takes place in 1938 and is about the first Latino Detective on the LAPD and his partner, played by Nathan Lane, who is Jewish. It has supernatural overtones to it, but based on Mexican folklore. (think Day of the Dead/Dio de Los Muertos) 

On Netflix, I've watched seasons 1& 2 of The Crown, the movie Marriage Story, the 7th (last) season of Once Upon A Time, How The Beatles Changed The World and the movie The Two Popes (there's a Beatles reference in this movie, too!)

And my absolute favorite show, Outlander, on STARZ, is nearing the end of its 5th season. This is one I have the 1st 4 seasons on DVD and is definitely bingeworthy! 

Nancy,  thanks for the tip on Penny Dreadful.  Sounds good.  I'll have to see if my wife is familiar with it.  

I forgot to list "The Crown" on my first post.   Another one my wife got me into  and I thought it was very good.  She  is also a big fan of "The Outlander".  I like both shows.

Have been reading up on Corona Virus and the different countries and how they are trying to combat it. So. Korea, New Zealand, Germany, and Iceland have done the right thing. They have shut down early and done massive massive testing, locating contacts and putting them in quarantine. Those countries had very low numbers and moved through a very small bell curve. Unfortunately the US needs way more testing  to get us through this faster. It's a mistake with these states opening up way to early. As Neil DeGrass Tyson said Its like trying to designate a peeing section in a community swimming pool.   The countries that have done that like Japan and Hong Kong have had to start all over again. We need to all pull together instead of making this virus a political platform. Governor Cuomo of NY has really come to the forefront as a great leader. 

Have been cooking and baking and freezing food. Spending a lot  time on the phone with friends and family, lightening the load and doing family meetups for toilet paper, masks, alcohol and all the little necessities.  Reading books and planning on alphabetizing my music CDs and DVDs. Planning on watching Spanish Princess season 1 and maybe Outlander. Learning a language sounds like a fun project too! 

Stay safe everyone. This is not the end of the world, hope lies ahead if we all stay safe. It will be a rough two years. It's so good to see people pulling together and helping each other through. We will make it, hang in there. Put on some good music and phone a friend!  ✌💝😷 

Well, mostly lawn work, extra long dog walks, and listening to Sir Paul. Been focusing on Red Rose Speedway this week; the original and the absolutely amazing double album THAT SHOULD HAD BEEN RELEASED in 1973!!  Okay, I'm RAMbling again, sorry. The line from When The Night, "you taught me how to swing and sway" just kills me.  Forgot how great Get On The Right Thing was; should had been the next single after My Love.  Really believe the double album of RRS could have been Wings Goodbye Yellow Brick Road moment.  Oh well. 

wingsoverkc wrote:

Well, mostly lawn work, extra long dog walks, and listening to Sir Paul. Been focusing on Red Rose Speedway this week; the original and the absolutely amazing double album THAT SHOULD HAD BEEN RELEASED in 1973!!  Okay, I'm RAMbling again, sorry. The line from When The Night, "you taught me how to swing and sway" just kills me.  Forgot how great Get On The Right Thing was; should had been the next single after My Love.  Really believe the double album of RRS could have been Wings Goodbye Yellow Brick Road moment.  Oh well. 

Wingsoverkc,

Yes another Paul album where Paul had so much material that was left off the album.   I agree with you that Red Rose  Speedway (RRS) should have been the "double album" it was originally planned.   From listening to the "Take It Away" Podcast, the guys talked about the fact that it was the  "record company" that forced Paul to only do a 1 album release in 1973.  I guess money was the issue and the fact that Wildlife sold so poorly, they were afraid that the "costs" were too high to put RRS out a double album.

I bought the 2018 Archive Release of RRS at Target.  It was a special 2 CD Package with the original CD along with a 2nd CD which contained many of the extra songs that would have been on the originally  planned Double Album.

I have to thank you because once I relistened to the original album, I started to like a couple of tracks much better that I know you really like.  One was "Get On The Right Thing".  The other track was the final "Medley" ensemble which I never liked originally.  Maybe it was because I had only heard it a couple of time on FM Radio, but once I had the remastered album, I have come to appreciate the 11 minute "Medley" a lot better.  And of course I have always loved original album songs like  Little Lamb Dragonfly, Single Pigeon, When the Night, One More Kiss and Big Barn Red.  Unlike some critics, I also always liked the big hit from RRS "My Love

But it's all the extra songs on the 2nd Target CD that I just couldn't believe were left off the album.  I think the reason that RRS should have been a double album is that it would have made RRS (the whole album) much more varied and harder.  As a double album, it would have contained many more "rock" tracks like "The Mess", "Best Friend", Live and Let Die, Little Woman Love, HI Hi Hi, Night Out etc.  He also had other rock tracks he could have added like Soily and Give Ireland Back to the Irish.  While I like the original album, it was a little "soft" as a whole so as I said, the double album would have given RRS much more variety.  I believe that some of the other members of the RRS Band said similar things like Denny Laine, Denny Seiwell and the great guitarist Henry McCullough.

B J Conlee wrote:

wingsoverkc wrote:

Well, mostly lawn work, extra long dog walks, and listening to Sir Paul. Been focusing on Red Rose Speedway this week; the original and the absolutely amazing double album THAT SHOULD HAD BEEN RELEASED in 1973!!  Okay, I'm RAMbling again, sorry. The line from When The Night, "you taught me how to swing and sway" just kills me.  Forgot how great Get On The Right Thing was; should had been the next single after My Love.  Really believe the double album of RRS could have been Wings Goodbye Yellow Brick Road moment.  Oh well. 

Wingsoverkc,

Yes another Paul album where Paul had so much material that was left off the album.   I agree with you that Red Rose  Speedway (RRS) should have been the "double album" it was originally planned.   From listening to the "Take It Away" Podcast, the guys talked about the fact that it was the  "record company" that forced Paul to only do a 1 album release in 1973.  I guess money was the issue and the fact that Wildlife sold so poorly, they were afraid that the "costs" were too high to put RRS out a double album.

I bought the 2018 Archive Release of RRS at Target.  It was a special 2 CD Package with the original CD along with a 2nd CD which contained many of the extra songs that would have been on the originally  planned Double Album.

I have to thank you because once I relistened to the original album, I started to like a couple of tracks much better that I know you really like.  One was "Get On The Right Thing".  The other track was the final "Medley" ensemble which I never liked originally.  Maybe it was because I had only heard it a couple of time on FM Radio, but once I had the remastered album, I have come to appreciate the 11 minute "Medley" a lot better.  And of course I have always loved original album songs like  Little Lamb Dragonfly, Single Pigeon, When the Night, One More Kiss and Big Barn Red.  Unlike some critics, I also always liked the big hit from RRS "My Love

But it's all the extra songs on the 2nd Target CD that I just couldn't believe were left off the album.  I think the reason that RRS should have been a double album is that it would have made RRS (the whole album) much more varied and harder.  As a double album, it would have contained many more "rock" tracks like "The Mess", "Best Friend", Live and Let Die, Little Woman Love, HI Hi Hi, Night Out etc.  He also had other rock tracks he could have added like Soily and Give Ireland Back to the Irish.  While I like the original album, it was a little "soft" as a whole so as I said, the double album would have given RRS much more variety.  I believe that some of the other members of the RRS Band said similar things like Denny Laine, Denny Seiwell and the great guitarist Henry McCullough.

 

Red Rose Speedway was released today in the U.K. in 1973!  (Apr. 30th in the U.S.) 

I'm doing a lot of piano practice - I'm self-taught. I don't read music but I just get chord lists for songs - I've got hundreds of songs which I go through at random, particularly Beatles songs, sixties classics and the Great American Songbook. I have a portable keyboard with many different sounds and rhythms. I'm also reading a huge amount - biographies (music mostly), poetry and some Dickens (enjoying Pickwick Papers at present). I think I'll probably have time to get through the Beatles Tune in, a new 10CC biography and Andrew Lloyd Webber's memoir (all massive and very entertaining). I love the Bond films (for me Pierce Brosnan is the best 007 because he combines action and humour very well). My wife and I love the beautiful trees and local wildlife, and this is helping us get through lockdown.

Has anyone tried Brit Box? Just wondering, I enjoy so many of the British shows when I've been over to visit. Have been thinking of getting it, although not sure how it gets set up. Not as good with the computers as I'd like to be.

I logged into the work place as I have been doing since the stay home thing...

The company sent out a long long guide of how and what to do when the return happens.

Maybe it is because they have to cover all the possibilities.... right now on a few readings ... it does not seem like something to look forward to as I once did when I first stayed home.

In a nutshell it is just stuff like:  wearing a mask all day, cautions to take when having to do something that involves 2 or more people, sometimes googles or face shield, possible lab jacket, wiping anything you touch - before and after- no coffee machines, all breakroom stuff removed - chairs, microwaves, refrigerators, * not that I use some of them, but that other people I work with cannot. There is a limit of how many people can be in meeting rooms, breakrooms, bathrooms, and then the cleaning required before and after in areas ... 

Probably sounds worse than what it will be -

Like a product that has all the cautions to cover many possibilities... once you use it, everything is fine. Oh well... it is what it is 

And that is today's world....