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So if I was digging Nessa LPs during my pre and teen years (and I was), then I should be reconsidering my choices from those days?

Complete Ligeti piano too (on BIS).

I'm in a Springfield VA hotel room confused as shit. I'm gonna have to think about this some...

Like the set very much. Standard thickness of LPs, but good sound quality. Have thought about selling the set tho, but not because of the music of course - just the redundancy of having the CD set. It was a little unsettling, at first, to have some of the LP overlap, but got used to it. Yes, I'm curious too what this set would fetch.

Sure Ubu - I just wanted to say that I'm not holding anything against you I'm just grateful to be able to hear from someone who has great taste in music who makes a discovery thru his own ears - unbiased by the commodity hounds. I'm with Robert on these too - I've been surprised by some of what's included on these comps. Also, if you are interested in making the jump to find out more about music from other cultures, there's a fun, informative magazine that I get called Songlines that comes with a CD. Rod

...but I like the idea of hearing someone (ubu) talk about his interest in this label on a purely musical level. I'm agreeing with Clem on this too (I'd add a few others to that list too: Trikont for bizarre explorations, fer instance), but Ubu doesn't have the Starbucks uber-hip lifestyle culture music in his face the way it is here and this is good to hear his side of what he truly enjoys. rod

M.G. and I were talking earlier about this on another thread... and you WANT the Ghana Soundz! Just ask the man with the elephant ears!

Well, you know, they still get away with charging list price of $64.99. $64.99 - $19.50 discount (30%) = $45.49 + $3.75 to the taxman (8.25% here) = $49.24

I used my Borders 30% coupon to get it. You can too!

WOW! I'm sitting here at this very moment eating Cinnamon Puffins (the cereal, that is...):

Dan, you know, I'm sorry if you were somehow offended, but in reality, you are reaching for mental connections and assumptions where there are none - not even a mere wisp. My comment had nothing to do directly with the topic title and that's OK - not only on this forum, but in life. It's called lateral thinking. I don't know either of these people either personally, professionally or culturally and no attempt was made to either smear, degrade, or lessen their character in any way. So what's the fuss? Am I being accused of poor product placement in someone's mental bookstore? Apparently my off-the-cuff "Emily Litella"-like McMahon/Carson ka-ching is now seen as a disruption of some kind of "weighty" mental pose that all who post to this topic are suppose to have? (...and, as an aside, it's too bad that anyone who begins to recognize the irony of this baseball player's earlier comments paired with the nature of his death won't be able to bring this up in discussion, because, you know, we must keep a dour face on EVERYTHING remotely "connected" to this topic). Clem may have issues about the guy(s) and I understand (and appreciate!) his defense (BTW, my comment didn't even get close to "levity"- for that would assume that I was commenting on the subject!) Me? I just tried to make a "funny."

Actually, more like tunes between raps! A definite distinction 'cause there were only 4 musical... uh...interludes...of about a minute or so each that would fade in and out on side two. So out of about 40 minutes of talking about "pussy", "jackin' off", and "getting high", you were treated to a glorious 5 or so minutes of wandering horn blowing. Someone apparently told him his standups were funny, so I guess Eddie believed it.

What does he hafta do with it?

Pretty dreadful really... I tried listening to that again last spring. I think it's been re-released on CD with Come On Down! Eddie trying to be Redd Foxx... Oh, and the actual title is (so you can search): "The Reason Why I'm Talking Shit" - it may read as "S--t". Harris

We may have to fill out a form to get it.

This guy looks like a Hindi Billy Preston

I think...like many have said here...it's that damn ritual aspect. You may not buy anything (or in my case - mostly magazines), but there's the ritual that's sometimes tied into another activity completely. Making that trip to a restaurant and 'round the corner to Tower and driving back home around midnight on nearly deserted streets with music as your driving companion. Sometimes I just hate being mentally tied to this aspect - "ritual" being OK, but regular or the "expected" ritual is a trait that I try to get rid of, but it stays as if it's some kind of reoccurring fungus. Let's have the surprise ritual! So, I'm just looking at this as another ritual to drop. Same thing when a favorite restaurant haunt changed hands and the food, service, etc all deteriorated. It's going, going, gone and habits are changed.

Pretty cool eh? I'm thinking of panels around the house for easy access - new meaning to kitchen tiles when it comes to recipes, shopping, etc. It could look nice near your "Entertainment Center" and be useful for ordering things. The business application at the end of the video is pretty cool too. Of course, I'm thinking of creative uses already if it shows up commercially soon.

4K x 2K Sharp Corp. has displayed a 64-inch LCD panel achieving 4096 x 2160, so-called "4K x 2K" resolution. According to the company, this is the "industry's first" direct viewing display panel that ever realizes the 4K x 2K resolution. Its total pixel count reaches 8.84 megapixels, about four times higher than "full HD" resolution. "We developed this LCD panel focusing on the upcoming 'super HDTV' generation," said a company spokesperson. Its commercialization has not been scheduled yet. The prototype's contrast ratio is 2,000:1 and gradient extends to 10 bits. Sharp, however, has specified little about other details. The panel is Sharp's "ASV" LCD using equivalent technology as used for the existing product. As issues that required efforts, Sharp cited "the panel's productivity (yield) and drive circuit that handles a four-times-higher frequency than the full HD panel's."

What kind of speed are you getting with cable?

DataTiles (has a short - ca. 2 minutes - video demo) I can imagine these tiles being created/used in the same way that Widgets are utilized on a Mac. The DataTiles system integrates the benefits of two major interaction paradigms: graphical and physical user interfaces. Tagged transparent tiles are used as modular construction units. These tiles are augmented by dynamic graphical information when they are placed on a sensor-enhanced flat panel display. They can be used independently or can be combined into more complex configurations, similar to the way language can express complex concepts through a sequence of simple words.