http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61kQ-%2Bjk1yL.jpg by Will Hermes. Thorough, informative, well-written and fun account of musical developments in many genres (including loft jazz) during a period which is often considered dormant. Bonus points to Will Hermes for responding to my email telling ...

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Manly Man rosé from French Basque country. 70% tannat! Big tannins, the kind that make you want to eat salt cod and play pelota.

I can't seem to get the "URL text" script to work. Lookit, Dave--- Type the text that you want to link to. Highlight it. Click the URL button at the top of the posting area. You'll get this: [url]This is the text I want to link to.[/url] Now type an equals sign inside the opening url ...

I blame it all on sinkholes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/us/sinkhole-opens-under-florida-resort.html?_r=0

Is music more literary or painterly? I dunno, but music's long suit is expression. Go to the link, click on lecture #7, "Musical Expression" for James Grant's Oxford lecture on this:

http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/aesthetics_and_the_philosophy_of_art

I can't seem to get the "URL text" script to work.

http://www.mountainx.com/article/51918/Smart-Bets-Kyle-Sorenson-and-Horse-Ghost

I always knew what kind of girl I was: I always got paid. It saved me from embarrassing conversations about talent. Now I'm experimenting. Whether for good or ill, I expect to find out soon enough.

Carla Bley!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUochgqUE3g

i'm going back re-enjoying all the cds from the scofield qrt. with lovano and bill stewart. I saw that group at the RegattaBar, seems like a million years ago now. Really simpatico bunch. I'm embarrassed to say that I heard this album for the first time yesterday. I'm not sure what to think about i...

A kind of fever dream, but a very humane fever dream.

I prefer today's breakfast: fresh croissant, triple cream brie and a fresh peach. I'd prefer that breakfast, too. It's not like it can't be done, I'm just too lazy to drive five minutes to the City Bakery branch over on Charlotte St. for a fresh croissant or baguette. We did have some Bleu d'Auverg...

http://www.earlyword.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/978-1-4000-6755-8.jpg Sociology that reads like fiction. But isn't. As I read it, I kept thinking she was inventing dialogue. But it turns out she wasn't. There is an appendix that explains how she worked. I've never typed these words before: This...

Blue Train wrote:Chick Webb
Ella Fitzgerald
Marilyn Monroe

James Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Pepper Adams

For a grappa beginner, I'd recommend Michele Chiarlo Nivole. Pretty civilized stuff for grappa.

Last Saturday I was in Durham, NC and had a Sprecher Root Beer float with salted caramel ice cream. It was awsome.

Some years ago I read about a guy who said his passion was accounting. Ever since, I've found it hard to keep a straight face when the word comes up in conversation. Actual passions? What I'd put my life on the line for? Naaahhh...I have interests, things I like to do. I like to play and listen to m...

Not in 20 years. And not ever again. Sometimes I drive down Patton Avenue late at night, and there they all are, lined up and lit up like a bunch of two-dollar whores: McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, Krispy Kreme, Taco Bell, KFC, and on and on. Every single one ready to kill us, one $1.99 special a...

Had some fun in NYC. Threw caution to the winds and drank some fun stuff. Smaragd, late harvest Aligoté, Duras. Had an Attitude Adjustment regarding "health food." We've been arguing with bartenders around town about Negronis. Most are using less Campari. They say because people want them...

How about some Pie Franco?

Still sad about losing Mulgrew.

A novel about being at the end of your rope at the end of the American Age. Very well done, but almost unbearably sad.

Bald old white guys kicking ass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=305RFwP7B0k

AHA!

I finally get to figure out how to use the ban function! [/quote]

Fuck you, too.

Two of us on the same BBS will probably result in monitoring by the NSA. No, wait...they're already doing that...