Finished 'Sons and Lovers', can't praise it highly enough. 'Women in Love' is in the on-deck circle. Also finished the Bester, which was fine and prescient. Next up on the SF front is Arthur C Clarke's "The City and the Stars". A few weeks back, I began a mini-project to read through Pynch...

walto!!

So, I've been reading a helluva a lot here (a by-product of the inexplicable and entirely unsupportable absence of Netflix on this continent), mostly things I can put on my trusty Kindle. In addition to the normal new stuff, I've been trying to make amends on classics I've never gotten around to. Cu...

Hey Jimmy, good to see you too. If all goes as planned, should be back in a couple of years. In the meantime, I expect to be notified if you find yourself in these fair climes.

Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Poughkeepsie High School Auditorium, 1967. For a while, I retained a shard of the chair he smashed.

About a year ago, Derek Taylor prodded me to get the George Mitchell Collection on Fat Possum. So much great music in there....highly recommended.

(edit: just realized this was a specifically piano-oriented thread...well, there;s *some* piano in there, I think...)

A family friend has this album that I remember hearing early on http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/812/MI0001812000.jpg Recently found out that my aunt dated Belafonte for over a year in the late 40s... West Side Story, for me. That or one of several Rafael Mendez albums, someone for w...

yeah, thanks, saw it (it did come to me) and tried to respond but didn't seem to have that option. Figured it was a newbie safeguard or something.

jeez, this is scary--Coltrane was followed by 'Subtraction' from 'Air Time'.....all this tired old museum music....

As if in acknowledgement, my itunes shuffle just offered up Ogunde from Coltrane's Olatunji concert....

Yo. Baldy convinced me to come back...Besides, I missed some of the folk here who don't do fb--Rita, Walto, Canty, Reynolds.....Uli.