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Thanks for the link. It looks wonderful enough to order, so I'm going for it. ®ø∂

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Hello folks, Got this notice in the mail today. Been on reserve for months now and would love to see it actually come out, but they are waiting for at least 300 reservations. I'm hoping that some of you could help out - either by reserving a copy or by posting it to someone you know who'd be interested. We all thank you! **************************************************************************** We would like to keep you up to date about the box you ordered. Right now we have almost 270 reservations. To actually produce the box, we need 300 reservations. You can help us push that number to 300. Since you are a fan of ICP, perhaps you can help this process along by informing your like-minded friends about this unique set of recordings. An easy way to tell them is by putting the link on Facebook. You just copy this link: http://www.icporchestra.com/icpbox/.'>http://www.icporchestra.com/icpbox/. Then you go to Facebook and copy the link where you usually put your status update and you click 'Share'. Now all your friends are in the know. Dear friend, I ordered the ICP box! A box to celebrate 45 years of Instant Composers Pool. The music that is released during all these years has now been collected and is planned to be released as a special edition box. It will contain 50 cd's, 3 dvd's, will include bonus material that has never been released before and a photo-book of the rich ICP-history as shot by Pieter Boersma. Every box is numbered and unique because Han Bennink himself will be painting each copy by hand! And I will pick it up on a organized day where Han Bennink is painting the box personally. You can order the box via http://www.icporchestra.com/icpbox/ Best, We will also organise a Big Box Day where you can physically collect your ICP-box if you are in the neighborhood. (And save € 40 on package and delivery costs !) Han Bennink will be there to autograph them, and we’ll even have a bit of live music by ICP musicians. When and where the Big Box Day happens depends of course on when we have the 300 reservations necessary to get this show on the road… We hope we can count on your help to make this box possible. We are looking forward! Best, Challenge Records Int. http://www.challengerecords.com

Well, I seem to be outnumbered when it comes to the spine-up idea, so, Clifford, you should probably listen to them because clearly they've had or know of problems regarding that. I'll have to say that I've just not had these problems with splitting sleeves - inner or outer - and, as I said, the spine-up idea was just for easy ability to scan what you have in the boxes once you arrive in Brooklyn. Maybe it's because I have a lot of then in VRP sleeves? I don't know. In storage, I have boxes stacked 10 levels tall with the bottom box recordings (or sleeves) receiving no damage at all. Maybe I'm just lucky, Actually, the ultimate way to transport your vinyl is to remove each record with its sleeve and place it next to its cover and transport it that way, but it could take quite a while to do this for 3000 LPs - Your call, of course. Anyway, Clifford you probably should go with their idea to be on the safe side. Good luck with your new home! I'm sure you'll have to adjust to new weather conditions. An afterthought: could it have something to do with the way the inner sleeves are stored within the outer sleeve? Since I store them with the sleeve opening pointing to the top of the outer sleeve, it would seem that storing them upright in a box could potentially do damage to the record itself (if, I'm assuming that storing the records upright in the box is what some of you are suggesting).

My thoughts too. I also think that an enlightened "consumer" is good as well, so I think it's important to know how the "boss" of your desired convention is treating you as a consumer of his product. People just decide whether the game is worth the candle, I suppose. As for reconnecting with old friends: I seem to remember something called "email" - something that hasn't stopped more than enough "old friends" from getting in touch.

You're always good at reminding me how much your cheese has slid off your cracker.

What I find odd is your implied notion that blogs are started just for the purpose of converting others to their beliefs. There may be something "hilarious" about it, but "ironic?" - no I don't think so. Maybe an "I Hate Blogs" blog could be considered ironic, but even that would depend on the content.

Wow...let's call this "drip painting logic."

Facebook draws user ire with email switcheroo

Yes, for stacking and easy access later if you find that you can't dump all of your collection in your new home at once. U-Haul boxes may be just fine. I just use the ones I mentioned because the size is perfect - you don't want them smaller, because you'll have a lot more boxes, but you don't want them bigger because they'll be hard to carry. Also, white repels heat. Get the size I mentioned (U-Haul or Container) and fill it and pick it up to see if you find it comfortable. Bend your knees when you lift, otherwise you'll pay for it physically the rest of your life (I know!). Another thing: Tape the bottom of the box evenly - in other words, don't fold the four flaps in a roundabout manner and think they'll be fine. Fold two opposing sides first, then the other two opposing sides and put two strips of tape over the remaining crease (where the flaps meet) in the middle of the box.

Go over to the Container Store (over on Research Blvd) and buy as many white moving boxes of this size that you need (1 box should hold about 125 LPs - give or take for box sets): 16-3/8" x 12-5/8" x 12-5/8" and pack your LPs - very snug - with the album spine facing the top of the box. You should have no problem getting them there without warpage. I have tens of thousands of LPs in hundreds of boxes that have been stored in conditions from near freezing to 100°+ temps in boxes like that for a good 25 years now and have had no problems. You should be able to take them 1800 miles with no surprises at the end. BTW: a trip from Chicago to Denton, TX in August heat with 82 of those boxes was, of course, successful. ®ø∂

Don't have a Kindle because the things I read usually aren't available for it. The last 5 books I've read: • Peter Cusack: Sounds from Dangerous Places • Han Bennink: Cover Art • Carl Schuster & Edmund Carpenter: Patterns That Connect: Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art • Imagination At Play. The PRIX ITALIA and Radiophonic Experimentation • Brian O'Doherty: Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts I've looked at my sweetheart's iBooks, which she enjoys, but I don't own an iPad either.

I went to Borders for the magazines as well. Last month, I was disheartened to find that B & N changed their hours so that they now close at 10PM instead of 11. This is exactly what happened months before Borders closed their doors. OK, maybe B & N is more in touch with readers than Borders was, but it still could be an omen. Big fan of Buchhandlung Walther König! I carry an extra suitcase for places like that. ®ø∂

Stopped reading the Voice when he and a few others left the paper. Made film interesting - even to those of us who weren't interested.

Apparently, he had some health problems.

There's a version on a 3-disc set called the All Japan Jazz Festival '71 Poll Winners (Nippon Phonogram-Phillips, FS-5065-7). Good luck! ®ø∂ BTW: It should look like this:

Great, great stuff! The first two (Hino w/The Blue Comets) are from the Seaside Jazz Festival, in Chigasaki on July 14, 1969. The lineup on the Freedom Jazz Dance track is: Terumasa Hino, trumpet Ken Muraoka, tenor Sadao Watanabe, alto Yoshiaki Masuo, guitar Masaaki Kikuchi, elec. piano Kunimitsu Inaba, bass Motohiko Hino, drums and it's from a concert given at Shinjuku Tokyo Welfare Pension Hall on May 29, 1971 The next vid shows actor, best selling author and, of course, Cecil Taylor-influenced piano player Yosuke Yamashita's Trio with Seiichi Nakamura, tenor Takeo Moriyama, drums The piece is called "Keiko-tan" and is from a long OOP double disc. It's live at the 1970 Nemu Jazz Festival. Yamashita's Trio LPs are worth a good search. The VERY fine Shunzo Ohno is the first cut from the LP "Falter Out." Definitely worth getting if you can find it for under 50 bucks. Also, look for his album "Something's Coming" too! ®ø∂

The circle jerk fest runs deeper. (BTW: Happy Birthday. Fifty can be a hard one)

Still, amidst all of the criticisms within that WikiP article and the talk here and elsewhere of how the consumer is ultimately responsible, there's still the asshole himself to consider: FB's odious beginnings, its pride in personal disregard of others in this mid-period and its eventual death due to the same disregard coupled with a condescending egotistical approach to social networking. I don't see this same attitude from Brin & Page (except for some recent rule changing) and even less from Jack Dorsey (and Twitter was something I thought was a ridiculous idea at first). It doesn't matter how "careful" you are after you sign up. The actual "signing up" already empties you of your self-respect, dignity, rights to privacy and ownership of anything audible, visual or textual that you decide to post. You could already do that at Murdoch's SkewsCorp entity "MySpace" - why debase yourself even further? Nick Bilton, lead technology blogger for the The New York Times‘ Bits Blog tweets: “Off record chat w/Facebook employee: Me: How does Zuck feel about privacy? Response: [laughter] He doesn’t believe in it.” I'm predicting that he'll self-destruct by 2015 - probably physically - he's already moving there mentally. Watch this Valley-boy sweat and evade (and it's not just the hoodie and lights). Don't forget to clean up the slime off of your keyboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3hu3iG8B2g

I don't know if this explains enough...

With Ra, it's hard to pick for others. Those that lean away from out-jazz may prefer the Evidence titles and the Montreux title that Pete mentioned could be a step closer to the outer regions. I have over 250 titles and enjoy them immensely for differing reasons, but the Art Yards would probably not be my first recommendations to someone new to Ra - even tho the sound and packaging of that set is wonderful. I'd recommend going here and listening (there are over 1000 samples) and then, later, reading the stories behind the titles that you enjoy in order to get a fuller understanding of what Ra was all about (under all of the talk). Also, I wanted to mention that even tho a couple of the discs in the Art Yard clock in at under 30 minutes, you get more music on the other titles making the 7 discs equal to about 6 hours of music if you decide to cast your fate to the solar winds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1CJijhGnfo

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