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- May 15th, 2018, 8:29 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Remember Jazz Central Station and Jazz Corner websites?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11132
Re: Remember Jazz Central Station and Jazz Corner websites?
Haven't been here in a while. Still on the planet, though.
- January 2nd, 2014, 6:38 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What Are You Reading?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 25588
Re: What are you reading?
A few books I've finished recently: Aliette De Bordad - On a Red Station Drifting Robert Stone - Dog Soldiers Raymond Queneau - Exercises in Style John Gardner - Grendel Neil Gaiman - The Sandman, vol 1 Dog Soldiers was my introduction to Stone. If you like this, read "A Flag For Sunrise,"...
- January 2nd, 2014, 11:45 am
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: We Three Kings
- Replies: 2
- Views: 490
Re: We Three Kings
I especially like the interplay at the end where Sheppard repeats that bit of melody, and everybody gets some. Speaking as a dumbass rock'n'roll bass player, Dave Carpenter is terrific in all respects.
- January 2nd, 2014, 11:36 am
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: Which jazz musician do you listen to the most frequently?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4503
Re: Which jazz musician do you listen to the most frequently
Possibly because I used to hear his version of "Peace" at least three times a week when it was the theme of Eric Jackson's show on WGBH in Boston: Tommy Flanagan. Followed closely by Mulgrew Miller--If I've listened to the original Wingspan session once, I've listened many hundreds of time...
- December 4th, 2013, 2:58 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What Are You Reading?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 25588
Re: What are you reading?
Alas, prizes and mention on the NYT "notable books" list are no longer any guarantee of quality: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Theluminariescover.jpg Man-Booker Prize winner. Piece of shit. Absolutely unreadable. http://www.womansday.com/cm/womansday/images/kc/3-BeautifulRu...
- November 20th, 2013, 3:23 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What was your first favorite adult TV show?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1798
Re: What was your first favorite adult TV show?
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/defenders.htm.
I recall an episode with Robert Duvall as a psycho killer.
I recall an episode with Robert Duvall as a psycho killer.
- November 14th, 2013, 6:24 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What Are You Reading?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 25588
Re: What are you reading?
The Counselor, by Cormac McCarthy. Wow. You can't read one of these books and feel normal out on the streets. Es muy peligroso en las calles. This is written as a screenplay but it is McCarthy, same black vein as all McCarthy. Terrific stuff. The most terrifying thing about the story is there are w...
- November 14th, 2013, 6:16 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What Are You Reading?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 25588
Re: What are you reading?
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6138/5918164885_3e7d89eab9_z.jpg Read this many decades ago. Better now that ever. "The poor man has two fine ways of dying in this world, either through the complete indifference of his fellow men in time of peace or by the homicidal fury of these same fellow men...
- November 14th, 2013, 5:57 pm
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: Outstanding piano trios
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4233
Re: Outstanding piano trios
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jfzUxsP8M3I/UbHKf4RMzzI/AAAAAAAARWg/Cp0mUKQuytQ/s640/front.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EYM3g5y5xNY/TOEbZI20bDI/AAAAAAAABJA/nhUSvLYmfWc/s1600/miller_mulg_work%257E%257E%257E%257E%257E_101b.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MNS2ClLfNro/UbWb7tbL5HI/AAAAAAAARdA/UMhvEgaHmTA/s640/...
- November 3rd, 2013, 4:34 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What Are You Reading?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 25588
Re: What are you reading?
![Image](http://www.theatlanticwire.com/static/img/upload/2013/07/24/rendered/798948fce13e97b00d633c356e3f6d68_215x322.png)
Any fantasies I ever had about shipping out on a freighter have been thoroughly debunked.
- October 24th, 2013, 5:40 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Rare Color Pic of a Nazi Rally
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13360
Re: Hi
Hey Birthday Girl!
(How about them Sox?)
(How about them Sox?)
- October 24th, 2013, 5:35 am
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: Corea or Hancock?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3263
- October 15th, 2013, 9:14 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What Movies Are You Watching?
- Replies: 485
- Views: 180250
Re: What Movies Are You Watching? Part 1
http://cdn3.gossipcenter.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/story_header/photos/ganolfini-final-role-072613sp.jpg An actual romantic comedy about actual adults. Meaning, the laughs don't come cheap, mostly, and some of it is not funny at all. Gandolfini is...perfect. Ms. Louis-Dreyfus doesn't act, ...
- October 11th, 2013, 5:32 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Government Shutdown
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9830
Re: Government Shutdown
What I meant was that I'm not sure Obama goes to sleep at night pining for his longed-for goal, eviscerating Social Security. I'm not saying he won't do it, but maybe he won't do it if he doesn't feel he needs to do it in order (for example) to stop the Republicans from doing what they're now doing...
- October 10th, 2013, 5:05 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Government Shutdown
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9830
Re: Government Shutdown
You suspect he will also "eviscerate" Social Security, for example the cuts he already offered in the ill-fated "Grand Bargain." I'm not so sure, since the budget the Dems have agreed to has spending at Republican-approved levels already. I'm not sure what you're saying ...
- October 10th, 2013, 4:57 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What Are You Reading?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 25588
Re: What are you reading?
![Image](http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/graphics/goodwin_doris_k_lincoln.jpg)
Just finished this. It's hard not to come away from it thinking that Lincoln really was our greatest President, because he was the most human.
- October 10th, 2013, 4:47 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Cameras & Photography
- Replies: 282
- Views: 98471
Re: Cameras & Photography
Take a look at these:
http://www.beforethey.com/tribe/kazakh
When I stop gawking at them, I wonder how the hell some of those mountaintop shots were taken.
http://www.beforethey.com/tribe/kazakh
When I stop gawking at them, I wonder how the hell some of those mountaintop shots were taken.
- October 9th, 2013, 4:27 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: Can you drive a manual transmission?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4577
Re: Can you drive a manual transmission?
Hillman Minx! I learned to drive with a 1962 Triumph Herald. It looked a lot like this: http://www.triumph-herald.co.uk/photographs/herald3.jpg I quit driving a stick about 20 years ago, because I wanted to be able to drive and drink coffee at the same time. Now I'm lazy, and besides, my 2001 Accord...
- October 8th, 2013, 4:12 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Government Shutdown
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9830
Re: Government Shutdown
Here is what's going on: Obama clings to the hope that he can get his "Great Betrayal" deal to cut Social Security benefits done. If he does it under the cover of "The Republicans made me do it to prevent a default" he's home free. But the Tea Party crowd is never, ever ...
- October 8th, 2013, 4:02 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: The Affordable Care Act
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13922
- September 16th, 2013, 4:28 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: I Hate People
- Replies: 70
- Views: 6781
Re: I Hate People
You guys need to chill for a moment. Read this: http://publicnoises.blogspot.com/2009/05/david-foster-wallace-kenyon.html sample: But most days, if you're aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her kid...
- September 8th, 2013, 12:02 pm
- Forum: Jazztalk Central
- Topic: What Are You Listening To?
- Replies: 575
- Views: 294836
Re: What Are You Listening To?
Found this under a stack of other stuff. Damned tragedy that they couldn't keep this band together.
![Image](http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/images/covers/black-note-jungle-music-20120813080944.jpg)
![Image](http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/images/covers/black-note-jungle-music-20120813080944.jpg)
- September 6th, 2013, 3:23 pm
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What Are You Reading?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 25588
Re: What are you reading?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V81FKTdMPy8/TV_gdgizjuI/AAAAAAAAA5M/9kXvbFdf2Hk/s320/Matterhorn-Vietnam-War-Karl-Marlantes-unabridged-Blackstone-Audio-books.jpg You pick it up, open it, and pretty soon you're in the jungle up near the DMZ, five days without food or water. If ever I needed a justification...
- August 27th, 2013, 11:57 am
- Forum: The Alley
- Topic: What Are You Reading?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 25588
Re: What are you reading?
http://www.csmonitor.com/var/archive/storage/images/media/images/41911-list.jpg/9986246-1-eng-US/41911-list.jpg_full_600.jpg Several of my friends urged me to read this. When I got to the part where the 44 year old creep from LA gets a blowjob from a teenaged girl while standing just offstage at a ...