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Phil the Greek Aristotle Onassis Jennifer Aniston

Boplicity. Bought 1984.

Kojak Buffalo Bill Cody Mark Ruffalo

David Stone Martin Donald Byrd Wings

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/06/ray-bradbury-sci-fi-author-dies

Childe Harold Don Byron Ran Blake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_of_Saint_John_of_the_Cross

Seen on the big screen this afternoon. A great mass-market science fiction movie. Recommended!

Only for upper-class pissers! You twat for thinking of it!

Killjoy ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

Did the same thing a couple of years ago. Got tired of it before the end of the series, but a great experience all the same. Now trying to get psyched up to watch Inland Empire again.

Jan Thorn Prikker Slide Hampton Peter O'Toole

Here's another bubble pricker. I've certainly been reminded of "bread (or pasties) and circuses" recently:

Here's one to "prick the bubble": http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/05/call-inquiry-jobseekers-jubilee-stewards

Don't ask which artist.

When I took a jazz history course with Chuck Israels in 1974, he made a big thing of how Rollins and Thad Jones, as melodic-leaning improvisors, were much more attuned to Monk's music, as they really got inside the tunes, as opposed to someone like Charlie Rouse, who pretty much blew on the changes. Same can be said of Steve Lacy's approach to Monk. I recently read Robin D G Kelley's biography of Monk where he reports that Monk was so keen that hornmen should continue to have the compostion in mind while soloing, that he was known to stop them in mid solo during public performance. This in mind, I was listening yesterday to Monk: Big Band and Quartet in Concert and thinking how Phil Woods certainly passed the Monk test, but that Rouse, who must have played more with Monk than any other hornman, did not. Strange!

Randy Mice Davies Mandy Rice Davies Christine Keeler

Samantha the Panther Cat Stevens Pussy Galore

I recently read Robin D G Kelley's biography of Monk and note that Blake was one of the very few up-and-coming musicians that Thelonious liked. Up till now I haven't heard any of Blake's music, but as I write I'm listening on YouTube to a track from his Short Life of Barbara Monk, dedicated to Thelonious's daughter who died in her early thirties.

Steve Kuhn Al Cohn Willis Conover

Porter Novelli Ivor Novello Gene DiNovi Geno Madness Grace Jones Grace Darling Courtney Love Honey Melrose

Porter Novelli Ivor Novello Gene DiNovi

Gilad Atzmon Jihad Axeman Brian Blade

Brad Mehldhau Victor Meldrew Kenny Drew

Enuf is enough ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jun/04/queens-english-society-enuf-innit