J Larsen

Wow, that's bigger than mine! Ever try squeezing into a normal-sized football helmet?

Other Music had the Coltrane Records edition of Cosmic Music for $60 one day when I walked in. I had no idea what a deal that was. By the time I knew, it was too late.

Well, I don't know why you bothered with the Buds, but at least you realize it's not beer.

I lived in Harlem for a while. A very short while. No money there, and it wasn't exactly neighborly. Not that people were hostile by any means or that there was a lot of violent crime, I just don't find EXTREMELY loud block parties at 3:30 AM on, say, Tuesdays to be very neighborly. And yes, that really happened - nearly every night. The music being played on the streets would be so loud that I could actually FEEL it in my bed. So I can't say that neighborly-ness is a strictly monotonic function of neighborhood wealth. Before anyone might reply to me, I am aware that there are nice parts of Harlem. This wasn't one of them. Long story as to how I wound up there - I had a friend who had had a place there for ten years and I was in temporary need. My neighbors now are okay. I get a lot of really loud Latin pop and 80s American top 40 music blasting through my walls, but not to late at night. Those are just the sorts of things you have to accept in apartment life.

Boney Boy Parker???

The Missy Muffy cartoons aren't online anymore??? I was going to link those, but bullseyeart.com seems to be no more. Edit: I found one new episode on line but it's really bad. REALLY bad. Edit 2: Dude, I just clicked your link and got an EXTREMELY lame alternative rock video! No Scrotum Puppy to be found. Unless that's the band's name...

Moose, I can give you a 99% guarantee that you'd love Conversations by Eric Dolphy (with a 1% chance that you'll just really like it). It features Bobby Hutcherson, Clifford Jordan, Sonny Simmons, Woody Shaw, Richard Davis and is somewhat similar to Out to Lunch. It's perhaps a bit more "inside". If you see it, I say grab it.

David, did you catch the story in the New Yorker on Tatu? That was the first I'd heard of them. They seem like sort of strange girls (or else they're putting on a very contrived act - or it was a misrepresentative article - or both). At one point in the interview, one of the girls, not having been asked about her physical condition, blurts out "My pussy hurts". How's that for a signature line?

Pee Wee Russell: ASK ME NOW!

I can't endorse the Ayler. It has a couple really good tracks but the rest of it doesn't work for me. Either really dumpy vocals or bagpipes ruin many a tune on that record. Ask Me Now seems to be the best of the bunch. October Suite is okay, but it's really quiet. A bit too refined for my normal listening tastes. I like the Shepp more than I thought I would, but not enough to recommend buying it - there are just so many better discs you could buy. In a way the Hines is the oddball in the batch, as it's the most traditional record by far. It's about what you'd expect from Hines with the Ellington band circa 1966 - perhaps not as spectacular as it possibly could have been in a perfect universe, but solid nonetheless. I'd give this one the nod if you wanted to make a second purchase in the series. I guess my feelings on the current batch from Impulse is that it's great to see more stuff come from their vaults, but that I waited so damn long my expectations rose too high. When the next batch comes (whenever that may be), they will be demoted from "day of release purchase" to "wait for the reviews" status for me.

I'm in grad school. I usually sleep from ~4am to ~noon. Most of my peers say they keep similar hours. My girlfriend is a 9 to fiver, so I've been trying to get more in sync with her, but if I go to bed at midnight with her I still don't wake up until noon!

My cap size is 7 3/4. I forget what that translates into in inches. In high school I used to have terrible headaches after football practice because the largest helmet size my school had was still considerably too small for me. I could barely squeeze into it. And yeah, I scare myslef sometimes...

I read online that the film reels were lost shortly after it debuted. Seems odd that they wouldn't have a couple of backups... Evidently the film won some awards at a NY film festival.

Oh. I know who it is now.

It would have been funny if you had said WM!

Woody Shaw occured to me too, but it was a little early for him and he is discussed fairly often. WY??? I may not have heard of this guy.

BERTRAND: Alan Shorter???

BERTRAND: BN trumpet player+not often discussed+still alive=Louis Smith??? I can't imagine Louis Smith on that record, but then again if Lee weren't on it, I probably wouldn't be able to picture that, either.

BTW, I never saw the "who almost played trumpet on Evolution" thread, so I'll take a stab at it. It obviously isn't one of the usual suspects, otherwise it would have been a short thread. With that in mind, I guess Ornette Coleman.

I'll miss the blues recommendations thread. I think I even started that one, but I'm not positive of that. Hans, Chuck and several others went to a lot of effort to come up with and list 100s of blues recommendations, being sure to cover every corner of the genre. I saved Hans' massive list to my harddrive, and I bought most of the ones Chuck recommended, but sadly the rest is lost. There was a lot of valuable information in that thread.

Even though I have joined in the dogpile on P-Rockhead from time to time, I think ignoring him is likely far more damaging to his ego than bickering with him.

If you're running OSX, the new Safari browser is supposed to be *really* nice. I haven't downloaded it yet just because IE5 hasn't caused any trouble for me to this point.

Cherry/Blackwell/Grimes is a monster line up. I'd buy it.

Excellent! Here are the others I thought of on the way home: "We came. We saw. We conquered." (Simple, to the point, arrogant - should be enough to piss him off) "I steal homeless kids' collection cups to buy OOP reissues" (Don't know if you saw it, but at one point he implied that we ought to be ashamed of ourselves for buying cds and that we should instead be giving money to charity - I could have sworn I already did give to charity...)

That's good! I'll have to think up a sig too - maybe something snide about the superiority of 60s hardbop...