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http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2011/12/28/america-s-drunkest-cities-photos.htm one how american consumption compares to other countries.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0437260/#MusicDepartment in addition to all this, artie was a keyboardist on many recording sessions.

there was a time in the late 50s, 60s, and 70s, when every american orchestral record i picked up had the same personnel ray brown, budimir, hyman, kane, glow, bodner, rosolino, julius watkins, callendar, jimmy cleveland, and probably 50 more. recording sessions in those days must have been a madhouse with unbelievable demands on the musicians. what are the best written or filmed portrayals you've discovered of the session of studio life?

2 novembers richard strauss elizabeth schwartzkopf

the progressive girl in her best performances. http://www.progressive.com/commercials/progressive-commercials.aspx enjoy. stephanie http://www.youtube.c...h?v=lYbLDbex8UA

this weekend, espn will be telecasting the hawaii bowl as part of an endless stream of mostly mediocre college football games. they will be at espn headquarters at bristol connecticut. the announcers will be in a studio and a virtual field will be in front of them with all the camera angles on a huge wall. they, of course will pretend to be in hawaii,.complete with a hula girl or two. they've done it for a while now with a local group of abc camera operators. they did the same thing for the world cup before they lost it to fox. when you see aikman in front of the set, you can't know where he's at. back in the 30s, ronnie reagan called the cubs baseball game for radio from peoria. he was never at the park. he had a board of sound effects in front of me and he read the play by play of a ticker tape and embellished it. reagan worked the sound effects like batted balls, out, strikeouts, and audience noise and simulated them all. it was unbelievable. these days, with the technology available, remote play by play of athletic events looks pretty easy. wouldn't it be cool if you could see the actual angles only the producers get. that is coming for you and me. it is going to be part of a premium package. they feel, that this, as part of a premium service, will be increduibly popular. then we really have fist fights over the remote. it would be even better if there was no voice at all and no bleeping crawlers or animation hogging the screen. just the game, please. ghost song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53oLUMTE2HE

your point about the live overtones is on the mark. the power and sound of the bass trombone makes the hair on my arms stand up!!!!! strangely, the best 2 in my immediate area are lovely ladies.

check out wayne henderson's grooves from the mid 60s crusaders recordings. uh huh and (especially) live at the light house come to mind.

music is an aural thing with me. the visual is a distraction from the music. occasionally, i may enjoy viewing intimate chamber music or an intimate jazz performance. when it really grabs me, i pace.

is it really the same crap?? the chinese incarnation of a big mac may be something other than what some of us westerners kill ourselves with. On my one visit to the US I found the beef in a MacDonalds burger tasted different to the UK version. Only natural, I suppose. British cows stand in fields looking over gates waiting for a passing composer to rhapsodise them. American cows have to run miles over plains being chased in and out of rivers. Must affect the flavour. perhaps to flagellate them? today's crop of british compoasers don't amount to much.

is it really the same crap?? the chinese incarnation of a big mac may be something other than what some of us westerners kill ourselves with.

festival starting in 15 hours.

from my trips to vegas,, the carls jr. burgers compared favorably to in and out burgers. from my trips to vegas,, the carls jr. burgers compared favorably to in and out burgers.

kenton discussion was very heated back in the day, but was decidedly more negative, as i recall, particularly in the late 50s. i would like to think that these recent thoughts are more enlightened (through the prisms of time, serious listening and reflection) and enlightening. thanks to each of you.

pizza hut had a decent one, as well. i'm guessing they've kicked theirs to the curb. now they all want to serve beer and wine. the reason they can't now is the amount of underage help they use. i'll try chipotle for the first time after christmas.

why? Carls jr plus hardees(CKE) 3,160(1260 plus 1900)

this should provoke some discussion, # of US restaurants: White Castle (425), Wendy's (5,800), Burger King (7,200), McDonald's (14,000)

point well taken, dan. thx

not jazz per se, but....... http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/12/19/vaclav_havel_walks_into_a_nightclub?page=0,0 BY CHARLES HOMANS | DECEMBER 19, 2011 It's a shame that the death of one of the world's most ghastly leaders, North Korea's Kim Jong Il, will overshadow the death of one of its finest: Vaclav Havel, the first president of post-communist Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic, who passed away on Sunday, Dec. 18, of respiratory ailments -- he was a lifelong smoker and lung cancer survivor -- at his country estate in northern Bohemia. I only met Havel once and wouldn't pretend to know him, and my reminiscence accordingly counts for far less than the rest that will be offered. You can read those if you want to understand why Havel matters to history or art; what follows, for what it's worth, is an account of why he matters to me. COMMENTS (1)SHARE:Twitter Reddit Buzz More... It was six-and-a-half years ago in Washington, D.C., and I had somehow persuaded an extremely indulgent editor friend at a music and fashion magazine to let me write a short squib about a Czech band called the Plastic People of the Universe, which was playing at the Black Cat nightclub on 14th Street. I mostly wanted an excuse to meet "the Plastics," a band whose legend far outstripped its recorded catalog, most of which was out of print and hopelessly difficult to find. The group had formed in Prague in 1968, amid the rush of the Prague Spring, with the intention of playing music inspired by the American experimental rock musicians they adored: the Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart. It was a modest aim that, after Soviet tanks rolled into Wenceslas Square the following August, suddenly looked revolutionary. The Plastics were not particularly political, but Czechoslovakia's newly disciplinarian communist regime looked askance at their lyrics -- many of them written by the best Czech poets of the era -- which celebrated sexuality, Catholic imagery, and other taboos. In 1976, after years of government harassment, the band's members and associates were finally rounded up and hauled into court on trumped up "disturbing the peace" charges. Among the poets whose work had informed the Plastics' records -- which were pressed in sympathetic Western countries and circulated samizdat-style in Czechoslovakia -- was Vaclav Havel. The band's trial inspired him and other dissidents to draft the landmark Charter 77 human rights declaration the following year, a document that laid the foundation of the 1989 Velvet Revolution. The conviction of the Plastics -- which was finally overturned by the Czech Supreme Court in 2003 -- also prompted some of Havel's finest writing. In his essay "The Trial," Havel described how the court proceedings made the band into "the unintentional personification of those forces in man that compel him to search for himself, to determine his own place in the world freely, and in his own way, not to make deals with his heart and not to cheat his conscience, to call things by their true names." The seven-piece band that was waiting downstairs in the Black Cat's sepulchral green room when I arrived that summer afternoon included only a couple of the members who had founded the Plastics 37 years earlier. One of them, saxophonist Vratislav Brabenec, also happened to be the band's de facto English-language spokesman; after leaving prison, he had spent many years in exile in Canada. Brabenec was 62 and, with his long flowing hair, prodigious beard, and heavy Slavic features, resembled an Orthodox patriarch. Like everyone else in the band, he smoked incessantly as he described the details of the band's visit to Washington. "Oh," he added, leaning back in the cracked pleather chair, "and Vaclav is coming." A couple of hours later, they trooped down the stairs: not just Havel, who happened to be in town for a reading at the Library of Congress, but also former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the Czech ambassador. They availed themselves of the cooler full of Heinekens, drinking and smoking with the band and listening while the bassist, Eva Turnova, recounted her run-in with Lenny Kaye, the proto-punk guitarist and her hero, on the band's tour stop in New York. Then the band was called up to the stage, and the rest of us followed, settling in the back of the club around a big black plywood table, sticky with stale beer and etched with the names of dozens of past concertgoers. On the stage, Brabenec let loose an ear-splitting peal of free improvisation, and the rest of the band settled into a heavy, abrasive rhythm. This was not the Fleetwood Mac of Bill Clinton's administration, and I leaned over to ask Albright what she thought of it. "I think it's -- I think it's great," she said after a lengthy pause. "I like it a lot. Now, I can't say I've heard a lot of it -- I've mainly heard about them." Havel, the old avant-gardist, was watching with a smile on his face. He had personally coaxed the Plastics out of retirement in 1997 for a performance at Prague Castle on the 20th anniversary of the Charter 77 signing; a year later, he brought Plastics bassist Milan Hlavsa -- who died in 2001 -- to Washington to perform with the band's hero, the Velvet Underground's Lou Reed, for Havel and Clinton at the White House. I asked him about his relationship with the band, but the music drowned out his soft voice, and I stopped after a couple questions, feeling guilty -- I was keeping him from watching the show. On the dance floor, the Czech ambassador was shimmying to the music with a drink in his hand and a Plastics T-shirt under his sport coat. A slow trickle of admirers approached Havel for his autograph, which he signed with a pair of red and green felt-tip pens: "Havel" in loopy cursive, followed by a heart. Then without warning, Turnova blew Havel's cover, outing the "ex-president" in the back of the club. A couple of hundred fans turned around to face Havel, who stood up and waved sheepishly, his shoulders hunched slightly inside his sport coat. "For Mr. Havel," Brabenec called out, "'Magical Nights!'" The Plastics launched into a song of the same name, one they had performed three decades earlier at a clandestine music festival that Havel hosted at his country house. The lyrics went: We live in Prague, that is the place Where the Spirit itself will show its face. We live in Prague, that is the place. The ex-president smiled again, and I realized I was in the presence of something remarkable. Here was a man who had survived one of the Eastern Bloc's worst regimes and helped overthrow it; who had navigated the confusion of the Iron Curtain's fall and the division of his own country; who had endured the myriad little compromises and disappointments that come with the actual business of governing. Yet he had emerged somehow intact, in a way that the U.S. politicians I had met in Washington, survivors of far less battering public experiences, rarely seemed to be. As I watched him drinking beer with old friends and basking in the sound of a band he had seen play who knows how many times, it was possible to believe that one could plunge into the morass of politics and emerge on the other side a human being. Havel had, true to his own words, determined his own place in the world. It was 1 a.m. by the time the encores wound down and Havel finally got up from his seat. After he had left, I noticed something on the table at the place where he had been sitting. It was just a concertgoer's name, etched through the black paint in loopy cursive, punctuated with a heart.

http://www.sportsbus...orts-Media.aspx sports media john curand The past year in sports media was dominated by industry-changing rights deals. That trend will continue next year, as the BCS, Big East, NFL, MLB and NASCAR look to cut deals. It's not much of a prediction to say that most will see significant increase in the average annual payout — that surely will happen — but here's how I see the year shaking out.NBC picks up new NFL package: The NFL will add up to four additional games to NFL Network starting next season, giving it a total of 12 games. The move will help the league finally close a carriage deal with Time Warner Cable. NFL Network's added games will overlap with an eight-game Thursday-night package that will generate a lot of interest. My bet is that the new package winds up on NBC Sports Network, though Turner could snatch it.MLB leaves Fox: MLB will consolidate its rights with one media company rather than continue with its current structure across three networks: ESPN, Fox and TBS. NBC will make a big push to win the rights. But my guess is that the league opts for ESPN in a deal that will finally include the same TV Everywhere components that other leagues have rolled out. Keeping Turner involved in some form can't be counted out; think of the NBA's deal with ESPN and Turner. I wouldn't be surprised to see some playoff games land on MLB Network, but look for most of the playoffs to be on ESPN (with, maybe, some on TBS) and the World Series to air on ABC.No NASCAR deal gets signed: NASCAR ratings will continue to see an uptick, especially withDanica Patrick appearing in more races, but networks will hold off on renewing their rights deals until 2013. Network executives aren't going to be looking at the overall viewership. Rather, the networks want to see if NASCAR is able to win back the young-male demographic. If those numbers stay low, the sanctioning body will not see an increase in its next television deal.NBC picks up Big East rights: At an industry conference earlier this month, NBC Sports Group's Jon Litner announced to a crowd of college officials: "We are open for business." NBC's first chance to prove that will be with the Big East Conference, which spurned a proposed ESPN extension earlier this year. ESPN will submit a bid, and Fox will kick the tires — but my bet is that NBC lands the Big East rights.ESPN retains the BCS: ESPN's four-year, $495 million deal for the BCS, signed in 2008, changed the industry. That was the moment when rights holders and networks realized that cable channels' dual revenue streams of advertising and affiliate fees are needed to afford these kinds of rights fees. Those rights will be negotiated again in 2012, and I expect Fox to make a strong bid to win them back. The BCS has been a huge success for ESPN, though, and I expect Bristol to break the bank to keep the games. Look for the BCS to agree to a plus-one game during these negotiations, too.Fox keeps the Dodgers' rights: The Los Angeles Dodgers will take their rights to the open market. Time Warner Cable will make a strong bid. It's a long shot, but DirecTV could swoop in and make a bid, too. Still, I see Fox doing whatever it takes to keep the Dodgers' rights. Why Fox? Earlier this month, former Fox Cable President Bob Thompson told a bankruptcy hearing that Prime Ticket's existence would be threatened if it lost the Dodgers. That's a good incentive for Fox to keep the rights.serif; font-size: 14px; ">TWC Sports will struggle for distribution: Time Warner Cable's planned RSNs in Los Angeles will launch on TWC and DirecTV this fall, but the channels will have a hard time finding other distributors unless the channels get the Dodgers (and I don't think they will).Quick hits: Despite the lockout, the NBA will see its viewership rise through the playoffs. … Golf ratings on CBS, NBC and Golf Channel will be up 20 percent in 2012. Thanks, Tiger. … Fox's UFC deal will be a success, bringing a huge number of young viewers to the network, which will average around 7 million viewers for its four fights. … Neither DirecTV nor Dish Network will carry the Pac-12's planned channels. Those are my predictions for 2012. I expect you to hold me to themJohn Ourand can be reached at jourand@sportsbusinessjournal.com. Follow him on Twitter@Ourand_SBJ.

well chosen words and thoughts--thx

thx---i woke up early and scanned the radio dial. radio doesn't exist any more in the u.s.

virtual radio--transcript

tebow sniffs out cocaine ORLANDO, Fla. – The craze for Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow rose to new zoological heights after an Orlando, Fla., airport sniffer dog named after him caught a drug trafficker. A Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation (MBI) drug canine named "Tebow" sniffed out a suitcase containing a kilogram of cocaine at Orlando International Airport, leading to the arrest of Weslie Jadier Morales Castro, the Orlando Sentinel reported. MBI agents said that they approached 20-year-old Morales Castro on Dec. 8 after he was spotted checking the tags on each piece of luggage on the carousel, as though he did not know which should be his. Agents confronted him after he snatched a case, and drug-sniffing "Tebow" took a special interest in the bag, alerting authorities to its suspicious contents. A cocaine-stuffed children's toy was found inside. Morales Castro claimed that the suitcase, which was tagged for a Jose Garcia, did not belong to him -- but later admitted that he was paid to take it to people at a nearby fast-food eatery. AirTran Airways officials said that a Jose Garcia checked a suitcase for the Puerto Rico to Orlando flight but never boarded. Morales Castro now faces a federal charge of selling or distributing a controlled substance, according to a criminal complaint filed last week. He was released from jail on $25,000 bond. Tim Tebow-mania already spawned a new word, "Tebowing," which means to mimic the deeply-religious 24 year old's end-of-game kneeling pose. It was recognized Monday as a new contribution to the English language by the Global Language Monitor. Print Email Share Comments <br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; ">Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/17/tebow-sniffs-out-cocaine-in-suitcase-at-orlando-airport/#ixzz1gqi07ecO