Spousal antipathy

[Gurn Blanston]

For Gurn:

"WE LOVE CLASSICAL MUSIC OF THE GURNIAN ERA"

Thanks for sharing your collection with us, Dave. Those dolls are pretty smart.



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Listening to:
Constance Keene - Hummel Sonata #6 in D for Piano Op 106 3rd mvmt

[MN Dave]

Those are specially made Gurnian dolls. What the hell would I do with them?

[Gurn Blanston]

Those are specially made Gurnian dolls. What the hell would I do with them?

Don't make me have to explain out here in public, amigo.



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Listening to:
Constance Keene - Hummel Sonata #6 in D for Piano Op 106 4th mvmt

[vandermolen]

Yes, my wife and daughter have an intense dislike of most of the music I like. They bought me headphones but I don't like using them very much. So, this is a fairly typical scenario, when I am listening , for example, to Shostakovich's 4th Symphony, Havergal Brian's Gothic, Allan Pettersson's 'The Dead in the Market place', Miaskovsky, Klaus Egge etcetc.

Wife and/or daughter: 'MUST WE LISTEN TO THIS NOISE?'

Me: 'Don't you like Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony darling?'

Wife and/or daughter: 'NO, IT'S TERRIBLE, TAKE IT OFF.

Me: OK darling, no problem  

[Harry]

My wife and I are now for almost 29 years in harmony about everything, including classical music.
We listen and enjoy together.  

[Harry]

Thanks for sharing your collection with us, Dave. Those dolls are pretty smart.



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Listening to:
Constance Keene - Hummel Sonata #6 in D for Piano Op 106 3rd mvmt

Would love to have one of those though.
They are quite expensive to buy, maintenance is low.
That's a plus.
They never say no.........

[matti]

For Gurn:

"WE LOVE CLASSICAL MUSIC OF THE GURNIAN ERA"

Those dolls look very young despite their impressively bloated breast area. Might be wise to wait for five years before any action, otherwise you might be accused of dollophilia.

[ChamberNut]

I also frequently use headphones.  Actually, I sometimes use them even when the house is empty.

Same here, Don.

[Harpo]

I raised this issue before. I notice that Sonic Man has not chimed in yet, but I hope he is reading this thread and taking your advice.    Since I am a musician of sorts, and therefore sensitive to sound, recorded music often distracts me, rather than relaxing me. I like our small house to be quiet, even silent, except when I choose to listen.  'Nuff said.

[Gurn Blanston]

I raised this issue before. I notice that Sonic Man has not chimed in yet, but I hope he is reading this thread and taking your advice.    Since I am a musician of sorts, and therefore sensitive to sound, recorded music often distracts me, rather than relaxing me. I like our small house to be quiet, even silent, except when I choose to listen.  'Nuff said.

Ah, no wonder Dave lives in the garage! Umm, workshop...   But headphones will ruin his hearing, eventually. Then you will need to get him a hearing ear dog. You can see where this is all going, can't you? 




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Listening to:
Huntegeburth/Junghanns - Hummel Sonata in D for Flute & Fortepiano Op 50 2nd mvmt

[ChamberNut]

I don't like listening to "my" music in front of my wife and stepson, even if my wife is like "why don't you listen to one of your CDs"?  I've always been that way.  I'm very self-conscious of the music I listen to, and don't like the feeling of what other people may think of the music I listen to.

That's why I prefer headphones and listening when no one else is around.  For some reason, it is a very private thing for me, and has been ever since I was very young.

I also rather go to concerts by myself, unless I know the person is just as much into the music as I am.

[Harpo]

Ah, no wonder Dave lives in the garage! Umm, workshop...   But headphones will ruin his hearing, eventually. Then you will need to get him a hearing ear dog. You can see where this is all going, can't you? 

That I should get my own apartment?? 
Actually, the main differences are in amount and loudness of the music. He sometimes does use earphones and saves his "con blasto" recordings for when I am out of the house. Progress is being made.

[Gurn Blanston]

That I should get my own apartment?? 
Actually, the main differences are in amount and loudness of the music. He sometimes does use earphones and saves his "con blasto" recordings for when I am out of the house. Progress is being made.

Well, actually I was thinking about an old, decrepit, totally deaf Dave, unable to drive to lovely vacation destinations because he can't hear the blaring car horns from other drivers...   But an apartment is another POV. 

Yes, that's progress. Although I have already traveled the route that DavidW is talking about, and even though I have my own music room I have learned to listen at reasonable levels that don't fill the house. Better for what's left of my hearing, too.



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Listening to:
The Music Collection - Hummel Sonata in Eb for Piano & Viola Op 5 #3 1st mvmt

[Harpo]

Well, actually I was thinking about an old, decrepit, totally deaf Dave, unable to drive to lovely vacation destinations because he can't hear the blaring car horns from other drivers...  

We can always take the train!  Or I can drive   

[Gurn Blanston]

We can always take the train!  Or I can drive   

Ah, you won't be foxed then. OK.

Note to Dave: give it up, Bubba.



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Listening to:
The Music Collection - Hummel Sonata in Eb for Piano & Viola Op 5 #3 3rd mvmt

[DavidW]

Note to Dave: give it up, Bubba.

Huh?  I can't hear you!  My ears are ringing from blasting Wagner.

[DavidW]

I've moved my posts to this thread carry on with the spousal abuse.

[J]

Yup. I don't mean things that are meaningful to the relationship (which I consider sex to be. call me old-fashioned ) I'm talking about going out on Saturday morning and playing golf with the guys, or listening to music while she is watching TV in the evening. I know many wives who don't allow their  husbands that 'freedom' without getting their feelings hurt. Doesn't make sense, but there it is.



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Listening to:
Constance Keene - Hummel Sonata #6 in D for Piano Op 106 2nd mvmt

The nub of my question there, - whether CM as a shared interest was "meaningful to the relationship" in some essential way.
"No" seems the unanimous answer for those who opined - seemingly because CM is experienced by them as just another entertainment not qualitativeley different in its impact from any other,  -  a banal "tranquility in the acceptance of diversity" being the apparently wonderful domestic outcome.

[Harpo]

My wife and I are now for almost 29 years in harmony about everything, including classical music.
We listen and enjoy together.  

Well, SonicMan and I have been together 40 years and we still have a lot of fun together. However, if we ever agreed on everything, one of us would be dead (or at least deaf). 

[SonicMan46]

My wife and I are now for almost 29 years in harmony about everything, including classical music.
We listen and enjoy together.  

Harry - you're apparently lucky and also in the minority from the posts on this thread and also a number of previous ones - happy for you!  Dave