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Believe me, there are far worse out there. This record has Steve Winwood, Sting, Nile Rodgers, and Todd Rundgren playing on it as well.

I don't know what Jazz Loft is, but the link provided at the Ictus site that goes to Polish Jazz is where I pre-ordered it last month: order

Hallo, Domo, and all that... My first post in Funny Rat. I've been really enjoying this ICTUS 30th Ann. boxset for the past few days, but I wanted to mention something about it in case anyone else is considering picking it up. ICTUS Box You should have a razor blade handy 'cause that's what you'll need to use to get into not only the box itself, but each of the individual 12 discs. As a matter of fact, there are even directions for doing just this. So, if you are at all anal retentive about the way your discs should be treated or look, then you may want to think twice before getting it. I kind of wish the artwork for the front of the box was as good as the beautiful individual discs, but maybe that would've tacked on too many bucks to the whole thing(?) The music, as most of you know, is a superb collection of pieces and just a look at the site above should give you some proof. Anyway, I'm not really reviewing this set because I'm not good at such things, but I did want to mention the bit about actually getting to the discs. Rod

That song is now permanently inscribed in my brain!

Great collection! I love all of these Brown Sugar releases. Some of the tunes are somewhat predictable on these releases, but they do their homework on many of the others. You can get reviews and audio here. I love the Rhodes sound. I need my dose regularly (same with B3 natch )

One of the best exchanges: “Do you work here?” When I said I didn’t she said, “Then why are you wearing a blue shirt? You shouldn’t come here in that shirt.”

Thank you for keeping us abreast of these latest news developments!

I like JBidWatcher, but it's the only one I've tried so I don't know how it compares with others.

He was here Thursday night doin his 4 hour funk fest. Suprising how often he comes to these parts!

We're losing our Virgin store any day now. It's being replaced by a West Elm store. I say good riddance. I'm just not gonna pay inflated prices...and apparently, others won't either.

Thanks for all the feedback tonight. Enjoyed doing it as usual and I think some pocketbooks (do we still have those?) may be far lighter, but what's to do until she's signed by someone who can trust her to bring home the goods. Anyone see her in NYC this last Monday? Just got in tonight from a show, so there's no reason why I can't just let this run overnight for those that may have missed out. hands free and tired, Rod

Yup, it was in my sig. rodcast You're welcome! Hope you enjoy! Rod

Today's rodcast will include all the tracks from these recordings: • Delicious Poison • Four Seasons • Jazz Brat • Maiden Japan • Optimista • Recollections • Routes plus the tracks Rainbows and Native Tongue from Naked Breath and 2 tracks exclusive to her website: a remix of Hung Up and a live version of Yellow Bird. 100 tunes 9 hours: 37 minutes Enjoy!

grumble...grumble... (doesn't anyone there have a complaint?)

Ooops! Sorry, it's John Cage.

A favorite. First are the 2 intro pix - cover and inside page: then the 3rd pic that's uploaded so you can see it full size. Look at the second name down: Yearbook Rod

I heard that there ain't no cure!

Easy: Durian Imagine eating a custard tart over an open sewer. "Writing in 1856, the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace provides a much-quoted description of the flavour of the durian: A rich custard highly flavoured with almonds gives the best general idea of it, but there are occasional wafts of flavour that call to mind cream-cheese, onion-sauce, sherry-wine, and other incongruous dishes. Then there is a rich glutinous smoothness in the pulp which nothing else possesses, but which adds to its delicacy.[14] Wallace cautions that "the smell of the ripe fruit is certainly at first disagreeable"; more recent descriptions by westerners can be more graphic. Travel and food writer Richard Sterling says: ... its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away. Despite its great local popularity, the raw fruit is forbidden from some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Southeast Asia.[15] The unusual odour has prompted many people to search for an accurate description. Comparisons have been made with the civet, sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray, and used surgical swabs.[16] The wide range of descriptions for the odour of durian may have a great deal to do with the wide variability of durian odour itself. Durians from different species or clones can have significantly different aromas, and the degree of ripeness has a great effect as well.[17] In fact, three scientific analyses of the composition of durian aroma — from 1972, 1980, and 1995 — each found a different mix of volatile compounds, including many different organosulfur compounds, with no agreement on which may be primarilly responsible for the distinctive odour.[18] This strong odour can be detected half a mile away by animals, thus luring them. In addition, the fruit is extremely appetising to a variety of animals, from squirrels to mouse deer, pigs, orangutan, elephants, and even carnivorous tigers. While some of these animals eat the fruit and dispose of the seed under the parent plant, others swallow the seed with the fruit and then transport it some distance before excreting it, the seed being dispersed as the result.[19] The thorny armored covering of the fruit may have evolved because it discourages smaller animals, since larger animals are more likely to transport the seeds far from the parent tree."[20] No fine?

Yes, it's part of a bizarre scientific event known as Amanuensis whiplash. [see: Markab, Saussure, and Caldwell (2002) Expressions of Collapse: The submaterial paradigm of reality. Oxford University Press]

David, I've PM'ed you about Qu'ran. Rod

Thanks Chuck! Please give him my best regards next time you guys talk. I was happy that he had his own label because he often had good, eclectic taste in music. (tho it was quite a while before I found out that it was actually his!) label. Rod

I'd love to hear what's up with Bruno nowadays! We worked together when I was manager of a record store in Chicago. Really great (and funny!) guy who always was in search of new sounds! I thought I had heard that he'd moved out of Illinois - Michigan or Wisconsin perhaps? Wonder if he still has his Einstürzende Neubaten tattoo... Rod

I've tried a number of times to respond, but, I'm just speechless when it comes to your first statement. Maybe we shouldn't go there...

Nope. Qu'ran was deep, heavy and wonderful and now it's gone, but like I said, it's on the LP and first Sire CD release, so it can be added on to a self-created CDR if one wants.