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I thought his name was Selim?

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About 1986, a friend and fellow employee (who has since moved to Jamaica) had a photo of Miles vacuuming his living room floor dressed in a long robe that looked like silk. He got the picture from a friend who worked at one of those photo developing shacks. His friend had made copies of it and was amazed that Miles (or a friend of Miles?) would use one of these photo developing places. Unfortunately, he had only the one copy - his - and so I can't post it here.

The descriptions are ROTF funny!!! Yeah Bucky Fuller's contraption wasn't one of his best ideas... ...and Malcolm Bricklin's first failure was almost my first car. It was suppose to be a graduation present. I got to drive one and I thought it was the absolute coolest - kinda reminded me of all of the spy TV shows that I used to love. ...and those AMC doozies! I had a robin's egg blue Hornet that had to have a new transmission brought in by Greyhound bus from Atlanta, (ultimately costing me my job) because of the fact that AMC was just an amalgamation of parts from a bunch of other car companies. AMC...ahhh... I remember one summer while working for a car dealership "hiking" cars across sometimes hundreds of miles from one dealer to another, I had the displeasure of driving a Pacer - mostly with my right hand, 'cause my left arm was desperately trying to hold the driver's side door - not just closed but actually on to the car, because it had become detached from the rest of the car. "Ford Explorer is responsible for setting this country on the spiral of vehicular obesity that we are still contending with today" Yup.

Yes, I'd like that too - especially the first part of your statement... and it'd be nice if it happened inside the venue - unfortunately it does not.

Bob Belden responds...

Yup, it takes an eon to disappear! edit: man, Erik beat me to it!

Bertrand (and other's who may be interested), To give you some idea about quantity, I created a random 160GB "smart-playlist" with the stipulation that the songs must be between 3 and 20 minutes (as an example of possibly your CD selections) and it came up with a playlist that shows: 16274 items...65d:05h:27m:41s total time...160GB size You could safely estimate 8 - 10 songs per disc average which would put this around 1600-2000 discs. BTW: this comes out to ca. 227 kbps/song which is a comfortably high rate.

Actually, opera didn't begin until about 1600 (Monteverdi). Sound has been around a long time tho!

"Historically, a gigabyte has been defined in terms of powers of two: 223, that is, or 1,0243 - exactly 1,073,741,824 bytes. The folks who sell hard drives, however, shortchange you 73,741,824 bytes by defining a gigabyte in powers of ten, meaning 109, or one billion bytes (1,0003)" - Mac | Life (Oct. '07)

Well, CDs too...cassettes and special packagings from highly experimental music folks could be counted as well I suppose. Oh! and 7" singles too...ummm...

I've been reading that the IEEE 1541 (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) recommendation renames the true mathematical gigabyte as the gibibyte (GiB) as well as mebibyte (MiB), tebibyte (TiB), etc. in order to make distinctions between powers-of-two and powers-of-ten devices. Expect to see these distinctions in the near future. You won't feel shortchanged by 73,741,824 bytes any longer!

I can certainly relate to this! A technical note concerning "Party Shuffle": I've noticed that if you have the display set to "0" for (not) showing the upcoming tunes, every time that you add something new to iTunes, each track is considered a possibility of coming up during shuffle play. This differs from playing your tracks randomly outside of the "Party Shuffle" feature where you have to actually turn the shuffle off and then on before it'll consider the new songs that were added.

I have to say that I'm with brother Jim on much of what he says, (I'd probably add "movies" to his list tho...and books of fiction... and maybe a few other things as I give it some extra thought). I feel manipulated in the midst of those areas - a feeling that I'm not at liberty to have my own thoughts begin from a state of zero. As for the video, I made it thru the first 3 minutes and that was about all I could handle of it. I pretty much know what is coming... soon...this manipulative overwrought crescendo that builds to a finale while the manipulated audience responds accordingly with wild, ecstatic clapping and cheers of "Bravo" (I may be wrong, but it appears that's the mass reaction often with these kinds of things). I'm not a fan of operatic trained voice anyway. It does something rather vulgar to the voice (and it's sound) that I find really annoying (re: T the K & 7/4's comment). Give me Dave Burrell's version of La Boheme - I've loved that recording for decades and I don't have to get sucked into the high culture vortex while I listen.

I've heard them on bad radio, but that's about it, so I can't say much more about them. Tho' the band I used to manage recorded a lounge version of that "Stairway..." song with Tiny Tim! R~~

Hey! Hey! I'm over 50. I'm not ready to do that yet. What do you think, that 50 is OLD or something? I can see it at age 90, though. When I am 90 I may feel quite differently. Well, I'm being 12.9% funny boy, but only that much 'cause I'm moving in that direction myself...sincerely so. I'll be 49 next month and I'm already experimenting with various harddrive combos and ideas for keeping "soft" files and stepping up the eBay selling again of the hard copies. It's not physically messy 'round here, but I'm surrounded by all of this - what I'm beginning to see as - detritus. No complaints from my sweetheart here at home about quantity - she knew who/what she was getting. I'm just feeeeeling the weight of it all. It's gone from about 26 or 27K to about 32K titles in the past 9 years. ...and you realize that just building an add-on to the house or carting them to some external storage facility doesn't pare things down - it just moves it out of sight. Ideally, it would be nice to get it down to what the Buddhists refer to as the "Ten Thousand Things." Now if I could just somehow store all of these books and manuscripts on disc - short of scanning...

Yes, the interviews are wonderful to hear in some way. John has to explain yet again and again his ideas, but it's always a delight to hear him talk. I'm listening to an interviewer now who's asking pretty much the right questions, but he's clearly not too comfortable with silence on the radio - Often, he cuts Cage off before he's able to complete his statement(s). Anyway, I miss his voice and this is a real delight.

oh, man...Grand Funk!

Just received some photos. With friends just outside of Köln in July. I think these would make great band photos (if we were actually in a band - ): L-R (first pic): Rod Stasick/Rob Preuss/Takashi Matsudaira/Mark Polscher/Alain Taquet here and here Rock star edit:

Thanks for this info too! It'd be nice if they use CDs of performances rather than the old, very used, LPs that were used on KCR yesterday.

Buy! Buy! Buy! 'til you're 50. then: Sell! Sell! Sell! 'til you die!

I'll remedy that problem...

Same here.

You're probably referring to the absolutely beautiful Time Records recording that was released in '62. Cartridge Music was composed in July of '60 and the '62 recording features Cage with the extraordinary pianist David Tudor. BTW: three works on the other side of the LP feature the wonderful composer Christian Wolff who, finally these days, is getting the attention he and his work deserves (and while he's still alive - I might add!) I came to the KCR broadcast late, I believe, and so I have just heard only piano works. I think the complete Sonatas and Interludes will be broadcast now.