couw

Some short samples of the Ilori album can be found here. Don't expect "jazz", but rather African Highlife music. Lots of complicated rhythms with a "primitive" sound. You get people dancing around bending limbs you never knew existed and some nostalgic ballads. I like it.

"I like Country, she likes New Wave" the "New Wave" text portions are pretty painfully hilarious. "New Wave muss sein "Das redet sie mir ein" "New Wave must be "Is what she is telling me"

the guy was turned the other way, his hand behind his back. The shot almost twisted it off. Definitely a right decision by the referee. It's still a handball or maybe you're justifying the decision by the ref in Germany US 2002? the FIFA rules says that a player has to "handle the ball deliberately", which was certainly not the case here.

Brazil played like a pile of wet towels, hardly any movement and very little ideas. Ronaldo was like a salt-pilar. Croatia lacked the skil and luck to score here, but the Brazilian defense was pretty shakey when pressure rose. One Brazilian spark sufficed, but Brazil is certainly not Champion yet!

my impression as well. The two you mention were responsible for most if not all of the French action. The Swiss were too compact in the back to let a midfield Zidane have much impact. They just let him play his fantastic passes and caught on to the player receiving the ball.

the guy was turned the other way, his hand behind his back. The shot almost twisted it off. Definitely a right decision by the referee.

Italy played very well indeed and I was equally impressed by their "realism". But to say they were that big on the midfield would only apply to the latter part of the game. Particularly during the first half, Ghana made the game and Italy only reacted with counter attacks that skipped the midfield. Later on Ghana got decidedly sloppy. Whether the Italians were not able -- with their defense almost rooted in the back -- or not willing to build up their attacks more carefully through a dominance on the midfield I do not know, but if Ghana had had some better forwards to finish things off, it would have been a poor performance by the Italians. With this opponent they performed just right: let them make the game, but prevent them from making goals. Then use the strength of the own forwards to finish it off. Let's hope for them that they have other strategies up their sleeves against the strong czech team! I really do wish the Italians would drop all the theatrical hollywood shite pretending to have been kicked in half at every little touch.

couw, don't shortchange those Ivory Coast Elephants! I never did! some were definitely much luckier when it came to picking those small balls from the bowls...

I think the Dutch performed remarkably well for the more than 30°C atmosphere in Leipzig! The Argentinians were complaining about the heat and they played at 9 o'clock in the evening. The Dutch were playing pretty similar to Argentina just that the tempo was slower. The Dutch inner defense stood pretty solid, Van der Sar included. The Serbian defense stood even tighter, a real tough nut to crack! This is a killer group. Serbia may be dangerous to those Argentinians!

Experience beat enthusiasm, Argentina - Côte d'Ivoir: 2 to 1.

pfff. Moloko on downers

oh and man of the game: Shaka Hislop!

so the Swedes did not manage to make a goal against the tough and spirited TriniTobagoes. Not even when they were playing 11 to 10 for almost the entire second half. Their 4 defenders were always there way in the back though, which may have been a blessing, but moving ahead some with the midfield and attacking/defending much earlier would have built up much more pressure. We saw a bit of it towards the end: attack upon attack. The Swedes somehow did not manage to control the midfield and only had two guys up front with most attacks. Too careful maybe. They definitely had the better players, but it were Beenhakker's Boys who managed some fast combinations on the midfield, creating some good chances, although they never got close to the Swedish goal with more than 2 players. Sweden needs to think up another tactic but to play on Ibrahimovic and on Ibrahimovic and Ibrahimovic...

Ecuador played real sloppy. Not as sloppy as the Polish, but sloppy nonetheless. The midfield was not dominated by any team; ball possession was equally divided between the teams BTW. There were too many inaccuracies in the passes. The Ecuador chances came from long passes from behind, not from sovereign domination of the midfield. There were very few combinations that lived beyond third ball contact. As we saw, the long passes and counter attacks are what Germany should be fearing. Not the style of the Polish, but certainly fitting for the Ecuador team. The Polish will probably just barely kill a couple of Germans and try to win the physical way.

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Jedi Bush http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/32664/..._Jedi_Bush.html

cool beans! It's been ages since I saw some excerpts of this. FWIW, more Verne at archive.org: http://www.archive.org/details/2000_league...er_the_sea_ipod

he'll be wearing a mask so no one will actually know who's playing him.

no hair and no gymnastics. dissux. klengelengeleng

This is concert footage, right? The studio sessions are much better, a lot less talking in between, just some short interviews. I remember seeing the "Piano Summit" concert which focussed on the evolution of jazz piano. Very interesting musically, but a LOT of blahblah in between and some of it quite toe-curling, trying to fit the players present into the story Berendt was trying to tell. Jaki Byard having loads of fun in a duo with Earl Hines made up for the lot.

That "dweeb emcee" happens to be J.E. Berendt, responsible for the television series Jazz Gehört & Gesehen, of which this is an episode. The guy did a real good job of introducing jazz in its widely varied aspects to a large German public. He also travelled through the US together with William Claxton, which resulted in the famous Jazz Life photo document. You should give the guy some slack for prying loose all those public funds and for educating the masses! Or learn German and listen to what he has to say

another optical illusion http://www.johnsadowski.com/big_spanish_castle.html cool beans!

early this afternoon (GMT), i.e. some 8/9 hours ago, I had the ole SQL too many users message thrown at me again.

http://www.ecm.de/ :rsly: slurp

that would be real thin paper with ring wear just from looking at it, then?