Alexander

Strange claim?! It's obvious that he's not their biological father!

OH NO! BILLY MAYS IS DEAD! NOW WHO WILL PITCH HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS AT THE TOP OF HIS VOICE?!

DAMN!

You wouldn't call, for example, the missed opportunity for Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke to record together tragic?

Absolutely. No single artist, not even Elvis himself, spanned such extremes as did Michael Jackson. Jackson's highs were brilliant. His lows were abysmal. Listening to "Off the Wall" right now, myself. To me, this album represents one of the great missed opportunities in music history (great as it is): One of the tracks, "I Can't Help It," was written by Stevie Wonder. Can you imagine what a Stevie written and produced Michael Jackson album would have sounded like? Another one of the great missed opportunities also involves Michael: The song "Bad" was originally conceived as a duet for Michael and Prince. They wound up not doing it (Prince claims because they couldn't agree who would sing the line, "Your butt is mine...") and I think it's tragic that they didn't. A Michael Jackson and Prince collaboration...the mind reels.

No one should have to go that way, and for that I am sorry. On the other hand, I never had the slightest use for her when she was alive, whether as an actress or a bikini model. Sorry. Like the Nick Lowe song says, "She never meant that much to me..."

That's a great record too, imo, but it's generally considered to be The Record That Ruined Joni Mitchell's Career, her Pet Sounds, if you will...but hey...she got a new, if significantly smaller, audience out of that one. Really. I love "The Hissing of Summer Lawns." That was the only new album I bought during the Spring Semester of 1991 and I listened to it over and over again for months...

Funny. I love it! "There Goes Rhymin' Simon" was a favorite growing up and the first album I got when I decided to explore Simon's solo albums a few years back... I know a couple of professional photographers and they switched to digital years ago. I can imagine that they were quite happy to say goodbye to fooling with chemicals and dark rooms! Not me I am not glad , Digital has taken the Mystery out of photography. Every client I have now thinks they can shoot .....screw em.....next time I go to the Dentist i am bringing my own Novocaine! Results speak louder than words, though. Yes, every asshole with a camera thinks he can shoot. But he can't. Not really. Put his amateur effort next to your professional effort and the difference will be clear. I don't think professional photographers will be supplanted...

Yeah, that story never rang true to me...

I have this sick urge to just once file jazz by label (and then probably by recording date, though maybe release instead) just to see what it looks like. However it's a hell of a lot easier to do with a couple of mouse clicks in the database, so that will have to suffice. :rsmile: My system seems to be different than most. I file jazz cd's by label in alpha order. Within a label I file by artist in alpha order. If I have a large number of CDs by an artist on the same label I file in order of recording date. I'll have to ask him, but I think my friend Henry does something similar. When I was at in place in Virginia a few weeks ago, I remember seeing this wall of white BN spines, so I think he keeps them shelved by label. I can't imagine doing anything like that. Too complicated. Too confusing...

This is was my first Mosaic and is still one of my favorites...

Funny. I love it! "There Goes Rhymin' Simon" was a favorite growing up and the first album I got when I decided to explore Simon's solo albums a few years back... I know a couple of professional photographers and they switched to digital years ago. I can imagine that they were quite happy to say goodbye to fooling with chemicals and dark rooms!

Great album and it really facilitated my eventual interest in fusion! For a long time I was strictly into acoustic jazz, but I was also a Joni fan. I had this and her other albums with Jaco, et al. When I started checking out fusion, my first thought was "Gee, this sounds a lot like 'Hejira'!"

And another celebrity that I already thought was dead bites the dust... Seriously, we all grew up with the guy. RIP.

I have a very wide range of musical genres AND a lot of Various Artist compilations. I sort by strict alpha by artist regardless of genre. I can't imagine sorting genres WITHIN genres! My VA comps are shelved after the main body of the collection, and then alpha by title...

Same here. Although I get lazy about actually filing them away sometimes, and I also have stashes all around the house, which is not good but I simply don't have enough shelf space for the little buggers. But I've never lost any...so far. I'm anal about shelving. My CDs get shelved as soon as I get them. With 3,000+ CDs that means a lot of shifting. If the CD comes early in the alphabet, I've timed the shift as taking upwards of a half an hour! Oh. My. God. That literally sounds like a nightmare to me. How do you live like that?!

It's not often that I feel like a piker. Most people think that my 3,000+ CDs and several hundred LPs is a "big" collection. I am shamed by those who have over 10,000!

I do the same as you: Alpha by artist, and then chronological by either release or recording date (if known). Can't say that I've ever "lost" anything in my collection. I've forgotten I had things (never to the point of rebuying a disc, thankfully) and I've sometimes forgotten the name of an artist or a band that I was looking for and had to go look it up, but I've never misplaced something in the collection itself. Speaking personally, I think my technique is the way to go. It only gets more complicated from here. Interestingly, there seems to be evidence that this behavior is genetic: My daughter recently shelved her collection of Webkinz in alphabetical order by name...

Brilliant!

Have a good one!

You can say that again!

That's the impression I have too, although like you I've not watched all that much. Great comedy is quite often cruel, but it shouldn't be mean. Maybe it's because I do improvisational comedy, but I can't help but admire Cohen's ability to stay in character and improvise while dealing with increasingly hostile people who aren't in on the joke. It can be hard enough to perform with someone who consistently blocks your offers when they are also performing. What Cohen does takes that to another level of difficulty entirely. Imagine a musician who walks into any club in town, uninvited and unannounced, and just gets up on the stand (regardless of the type of music being played) and just starts jamming. Not only would he have the difficulty of trying to improvise blind, but he'd also have to deal with the hostility of the people who want him to get off the stage. That's what Cohen does. There's an improv group called "Improv Everywhere" that does something similar. They do these big public improv stunts (like getting dozens of people to ride the subway in NYC pantsless in the middle of winter) and filming the reactions of the bystanders. You might think it mean or childish. I think it's brave and brilliant.

Funny. I'm a big fan of Gervais as well. Maybe it's because we get smaller doses of the two of them here in the US...

He's brilliant. "Bruno" looks as thought it's going to be just a much fun as "Borat."

I agree. The barn door has been opened and the horse is gone. All the kicking and screaming and lawsuits in the world ain't gonna put the genie back in the bottle, if I may mix my metaphors...