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eyy, my pleasure! as long as I type it all up, I might as well share. Glad you like 'em. You should add the Rollins Freelance to your alternative booklets index, here, as well as any other additional booklets you've prepared. just added the Rollins Freelance and a PDF with covers for the Mingus Atlantic: I took those disks out of the tight cardboard and put them in 2CD slimcases. BTW please everyone remember that Ubu did the Evans Riverside booklet; I only put it up. Did you expect booklets for a Miles set or something?

eyy, my pleasure! as long as I type it all up, I might as well share. Glad you like 'em.

in case anyone wants to know: it's plain CDs like the Sonny Rollins Freelance Years Set... no booklet The Sonny Rollins Freelance set I got from 2001 does have a booklet. In fact, the booklet and the small box containing the set were made in the US and are the ones included in the US sets. Only the discs themselves were made in Germany. mine is like that as well, but I got it some years ago already. The other one I got in this sale came in a single 5CD case without anything else.

for those who need it, info sheet for the Rollins set attached

how's about you quit the beer for a while, save some money to buy a shirt and save some pounds so it fits.

FWIW, this thread may interest you funny rats.

if it flies, it must have wings

ka-chingg! This is why us yurpeans stay out of these mud pool discussions with merican morals flying to and fro and hitting the fan. Some of youse are sure fast from the hip with their moral judgements, is this one of those college fraternity contest disciplines? FFA, don't blame anyone too much. Shite flies better than birds.

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I also like Franquin's "Gaston Lagaffe" (Guust Flater) comics a lot. I don't know if these exist in English translations, but it is one of my favorites. I guess this humour is too specific to go very far. Gaston didn't make it beyond Belgium and the Netherlands and already the French market was small, just like the German market. According to Wikipedia: "The series is very popular in large parts of Europe, but except for a translation of a few pages by Fantagraphics in the early 90's, there is no English translation. In this translation, he was called Gomer Goof." Gaston, to Franquin, is sort of like Quick & Flupke to Hergé: lots of stuff to draw as a job, but this one is just for fun. There are a lot of similarities in the slapstickiness, also with a lot of the fun based on familiarity with the characters. Once you get inside of it, it is the best there is. Especially with Franquin doing the drawing. The guy draws soooo many lines and all of them are da shit. Besides being amazed by the raw stuff of the Gaston books, I can only marvel at the "cleanliness" of the Spirou volumes. The guy had an incredible knack for leaving out the stuff that could be left out, just like Hergé really.

Thanks couw, I'll have to look for these. best place to start would be "Spirou and the Heirs", drawn by Franquin and introducing the Marsupilami. Franquin is a master beyond every single one of them, I can still look at single panels for hours on end. Seriously, no one reaches the same level of graphic control over the single stray brush. Besides Hergé, Franquin is the other GREAT one to establish himself when the time was right in the 50s and the euro comic book culture grew and spread from Belgium and France. His is "the other Belgian school". From the same school: The Lucky Luke stuff is all drawn by Morris and it's all good. This is bound to be fun: Western stories with recognisable american film actors drawn and written in Belgium. Also and of course (from France this time): Astérix by Goscinny and Uderzo. Avoid the later stuff by Uderzo alone, he is not a good story teller (he only did three or four albums out of at least 30 total, so you're relatively safe). The Goscinny stories are hilarious. At times the humour may be too french, but you pick up on some Latin for that, so ey.

Aw come on man! You're being more than silly. So Ubu replies to some utter obnoxious shite and dons a semi-merican accent just for the occasion, just to drive home the utter obnoxiousness of the original posts. Then you come along and can't stand the heat from Switzerland (of all places). Grow up man, you are being more than silly.

did I catch this correctly and there is an electronic distribution in place? Then please let me in on that. I do not expect to have much time for listening let alone commenting, but I'd be happy to give it a shot.

Did you know that catesta is responsible for all wars in the world? I've always had a hunch...

pity that the little twist of the original french "Les Bijoux de la Castafiore", with a red and a green jewel adorning the cover instead of the two "O"'s, translates so bad. The book is permeated with the letter "O" being substituted ("Gounid, I mean Gounod!") as well as with the colours green (Verdi) and red (Rossi). The english title completely fails to address this little finesse and the Dutch only has one, green jewel on the cover. This is the only cover where Tintin looks at the reader, telling him to be quiet as the show is about to begin! Another nice wink from Hergé, who is playing with the expectations of the reader he created.

Now there's a remark to put some water on the fire. Take your own advice and chill man, no need to escalate this. Everyone take a breath, relax, have a beer, put on some tunes, throw your feet up on the table, sit back. Remember: we can always blame catesta.

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Wolff, actually the idea was that you apologise for your xenophobic post in the other thread, not that you repeat it.

Bruce, get the kid some Spirou (by Franquin) and add some Lucky Luke (by Morris). You can read them yourself as well. Besides that I'd advise you to get some Quick & Flupke for yourself. I wonder if they ever put out the B&W collection in english. That's how it's supposed to be read. The colour editions are often redrawn and have lost quite a bit of their original charm. Tintin was Hergé's job, he drew Quick & Flupke for fun. And that shows. In its own yurpean way, this reaches the same levels as Herriman's Krazy Kat slapstick.

AFAIK there is nothing in the discographies about such a meeting in the 60s or anytime when Basie was still around.

my teacher in Kindergarten had all the books and she would lend me one each week when I was about 5 or 6. I have been reading these books ever since, time to pull them out again! Years ago, before I wasted all my money on music, I used to spend it on comic books and I built up a nice Hergé collection. One day, I stumbled on a pile of Petit Vingtième volumes from the early 30s, all of them with Hergé covers and installments of Tintin and Quick & Flupke; so I emptied my piggybank then and I have some of them adorning my walls these days. good stuff.

The Soviet album was only reprinted as a collector's item somewhen in the 70s. It is a bit amateurish, but a fun read if you like slapstick. There is little of the real Tintin magic in there though. Similarly the first three books of the colour series (Congo, America, Cigars) were originally published as weekly two page spreads that were usually thought up the night before deadline. So it's all a bit erratic. Only with the Blue Lotus album you get a preconceived storyline. The Blue Lotus marks the transition from the first phase of books where Tintin the reporter just goes somewhere and has some adventures to the second phase where something mysterious happens at home and he goes out to investigate. Very good storytelling here if at times a bit straightahead. That changes with The Secret of the Unicorn, which marks the start of the third phase that culminates in the Calculus Affair. The Unicorn is a fantastic book that has three parallel story lines that combine as one. The story about his ancestor told by Captain Haddock is a tour de force of the classic comic book, fading the borders between story teller and the story told. The second volume of this story, Rackham's Treasure hilariously introduces Professor Calculus, the cast is now complete. More fantastic story telling in the Seven Crystal Balls which is permeated by a hot broody summer evening atmosphere. Actually, the Unicorn and the Seven Crystal Balls are much better than their respective second volumes (Rackham's Treasure and Prisoners of the Sun) that only wrap it all up in a fairly straightahead way. Still all very good though. The Black Gold is an odd duck that was started before the war, but finished only in 1950. So originally it would fit between Ottokar's Sceptre and the Crab with the Golden Claws. The Crab as well as the Shooting Star are a bit of a relapse or a developmental stand still. Rather simplistic stories that draw a straight line from start to finish. At least you get a great cast with both (Crab introduces Captain Haddock and Star has a great group of funny scientists). Maybe Hergé was inspired by the Black Gold to make The Calculus Affair. He did the Moon saga in between, but then returned to the spy thriller stories to produce what many consider his best. This one is a fast one. Lots of running, tripping, flying, lots of following and hiding and lots of noise and explosions. Classic stuff with superb pacing. This is required reading for sure. So the stage is set for the final phase, which is a return to the basics and an investigation of these basics and the medium itself. So you get Red Sea Sharks which is pure theatre with a surplus of characters available and just letting them get onto the stage and do their thing and see what happens. Great stuff. Tibet was done when Hergé fell into a deep depression and instead of the characters tripping over each other like in the previous volume, there are only four main characters in this book: Tintin, his friend Chang, Haddock and Snowy. A very beautiful hommage to friendship, Haddock steals the show here. The Castafiore Emerald is simply the best there is. It's a spoof of the Tintin series itself. Actually nothing happens in the book but still everyone is continually excited. As a reader you expect the thing to take off and the adventure to start at every turn of the page, but it doesn't happen. There are lots of false tracks which fool the characters as much as they fool the reader. Lots of hidden clues. Great, great, great book. Where the Castafiore Emerald deals with the reader and expectation patterns, Flight 714 deals with the crooks of the series. A nice cast of characters is (re-)introduced and the line between good guy and bad guy isn't all that clear anymore. The classic bad guys are deconstructed, the bad guy with the colgate smile loses his teeth, the bad guy with the big nose is compared to an ape. The bad guys give off a real sorry picture in this album. So after the reader and the bad guys, it's time for the good guys to get a spanking and we get The Picaros. The main ingredient here is that actually Tintin doesn't want to get on an adventure. Huh? The good guys are not really participating in the story. They are playballs of larger things surrounding them. The story draws them their limits. Some hate it for that, I think it's sublime. Actually, the final story left on the drawing board when Hergé died would have dealt with the medium itself and ask the question whether it's art or just a farce. Now my advice would be to leave the books of the first phase for what they are and start off either with some of the second or third phase. My favourites would be the Broken Ear or Ottokar's Sceptre from the second phase and The Unicorn or Calculus Affair from the third. The best stuff is in the fourth phase, but you'd need some backpacking to appreciate it. Once you start reading, you'll want to read it all anyhow, so your backpack will be filled in no time. Enjoy!

A descriptive term that pops-up with amazing frequency on many boards..........sounds fancier than 'tiring' but actually means what? You start to twitch? Feel exhausted and in need of a Red Bull after 3 tracks? You get cranky and yell at your wife? what? Chewy wants to know!!! so we call it "tiring" and chewy will want to know if we mean Goodyear or Gladstone.

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i think that may be more a description of the original poster's comments... PS - "F*cking"------> "F-ing"-----> "F-N" now that's silly. Effing is written "effing", or "effin'" when you're not in a hurry and can find the effing ['] key. Everybody knows that. Here's hoping there isn't some rule that says that in Merican english you have to abbreviate like this.