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One of my favourites. Earlier van Vogt is inventive and nutty, kind of like of Chewy post. The later books are unintelligible and lose the fun.
Meanwhile, I'm reading Emma by Jane Austen, which is fabulous.
Glad Jane Austen doesn't post here, all the same. I'll settle for Chewy
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A couple of years ago I read a piece of cod psychology in a colour magazine where someone claimed that, by examining the contents of a record collection, he could determine its owner's personality. Where jazz records were present, his opinion was:
1) Classical records also likely to be present (Surprised?)
2) Owner likely to score high on tests of openness to new ideas and innovation (Flattering?)
3) Owner likely to score low on tests of religious devotion (Provided Ellington's Sacred Concert wasn't in the collection, I suppose
)seems it's time to start the "do you have a beard" poll...
Well, if that's your portrait I'm looking at, we know the answer!
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A Y Jackson
Frank Johnston
A J Casson
Members of Group of Seven of Canadian artists.
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Carol Levis
Hughie Green
Bernard Braden (Canadians who were once British TV stars)
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Mistress Quickly
Doll Tearsheet
Ensign Pistol
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"Last of the Lions: Gerald Wilson" on Night Lights from WFIU.
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Frank Hampson
Kev F Sutherland
Jamie Smart
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Frank Bascombe
Harry Angstrom
Nick Adams (protagonists in 20th century American fiction)
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Cain
Abel
Abel Gance
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Now reading J G Ballard's Cocaine Nights and it's going very well
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Ozzy Clark
Clark Tracey
Tracey Emin
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Richard "Stinker" Murdoch
Arthur Askey
Kenneth Horne
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Dr Watson
Sherlock Holmes
Richard "Groove" Holmes
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How is this a Brit thing, Marcello? Do you mean that it's a culture where tone of voice trumps substance so often that some people just go straight to tone of voice, regardless? That fits my understanding of what Morton and Cook were up to in their weak moments, but it's no excuse.
It's a Brit thing in another sense, Larry. Unlike you, Cook and Morton as commentators on the 20th century American music called jazz lack two factors: not American and too young to be around when much of it happened - hence the emphasis on records.
There's a fallacy in that idea, Bill - the idea that someone present in an historic period will have a greater understanding than someone looking back to it from much later.
But someone present in that historical period will have a perspective that others will never have.
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How is this a Brit thing, Marcello? Do you mean that it's a culture where tone of voice trumps substance so often that some people just go straight to tone of voice, regardless? That fits my understanding of what Morton and Cook were up to in their weak moments, but it's no excuse.
It's a Brit thing in another sense, Larry. Unlike you, Cook and Morton as commentators on the 20th century American music called jazz lack two factors: not American and too young to be around when much of it happened - hence the emphasis on records.
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Bebop Spoken Here from KBCS
Now playing: "Cheryl" from It's Time for Dave Pike (Riverside)
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Now reading
Ah, so it's a book! (I only know it as a Charlie Mariano composition.)
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Mustapha Mond
Mustapha Kemal
Oasis
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Switching gears yet again, I see from above that we have a few Ballard fans here; have any of you read The Atrocity Exhibition? There's another book I've been looking for for decades without any luck...
Several copies in Manchester Public Libraries. Guess you're living in the wrong place
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Mark Nightingale
Bill Crow
Charlie Byrd
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Mike and Bernie Winters
Ann Summers
Reuben McFall
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...except for To kill a mockingbird which i hated...
You, sir, have been officially cut out of my will!
Great! So can I have your records?
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I've read 26, but they were probably more accessible over here!
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Carla Bruni
Carla Bley
Paul Bley
Music preference and personality
in Miscellaneous Music
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Glad you've picked a picture that looks like you, Niko. I always find it a bit disconcerting not to know whether or not I'm looking at an image or near-image of the poster. I mean, does Allen Lowe really look like one of Richard Nixon's seedier henchmen? Or does medjuck look like Clarence Williams - or is that a photo of someone else?