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it's already out there on the wwweb my man!

Your girlfriend will not like it, but from an intellectual point of view, you cannot pass by FREE JAZZ by Ornette Coleman. Actually, a friend of mine teaches art at a school for kids between 12 and 18 where he also covers music history. He mentioned some disks he got through the school which had (part of) Free Jazz on it. He played it in class and got a lot of strange looks....

Word of advice: I've tried these. They suck.

...with the endearing, often copied, never surpassed lines: I woke up this morning.... (insert dadum-dadum blues licks here) I went right back to bed.

My Friday Night in SF CD has 1982 on it after the circled p and c.

sorry to bring a bit of politics into this, but -- echoing part of Rooster Tom's sentiments -- I believe this definitely is a message to be taken seriously ....

howzabout you do a course in Photoshop Dan and show us how it's done? :g Seriously, I have actually been toying with that idea but it was late and blahblah... The tag on Jackie's Bag is more obvious & more fun in that respect. You gotta love the irregular timings between the letters though

and those are the lyrics to what song? heads up Tom, have beer, play some loud music. The hell with it all. Come tomorrow,... come ... an empty bottle and that annoying peeping in the ear

Another one as suggested by Big Al. Of course I was being lazy at first and made this one: I had to admit it was a pretty lame attempt. It's only for people too young to know or too old to be able to remember those glorious days of the type-writer where the text simply didn't start at the top and builds downward, but was rather created at the same spot over and over again, the previous thoughts making way for fresh and new ones (cool couw, this philosophical treatise on the type writer... ) Anyhow, I came up with this: of which you may find a big version here (click) (390 Kb) As I had all the letters cut out I thought it a waste not to put them to use, so I sort of polished up the above "classic" version with a more modern re-iteration of the message. ...and a big one of the above can be seen here (click) (540 Kb) You will have to imagine the noise yourself though. I hope you like it anyhow.

Oh, right... I was too lazy to do that and took the default siginificance on every question...

Yo Rooster, looks like we're sort-a like brothers in arms on this one! 1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (99%) 3. Liberal Quakers (87%) 4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (82%) 5. Nontheist (72%) save for the fact that you have two percent more on the liberal christian protestant front that is. But your being such a secular humanist as well, I guess you don't give a damn about that either-

it seems to me they have focussed on designs that can stand on their own without any jazz necessary reference. From that viewpoint any shirts with "our" heroes on them are unlikely to hit the market.

I have been spinning this album non-stop this morning and last night and I like the hell out of it, but have a real hard time nailing it down. The music is definitely inspired, at times sounds haunted, and there's a lot of blues in it. Other than those incredibly non-expressive qualifiers (how DO you come up with it couw...!) I have to agree with DrJ on the tunes entering my subconsciousness the first time I heard them never to leave the place, probably as long as I live. Now THAT's definitely worth something in my book.

--and is maybe even more probable to occur in relative seclusion, no?

I'm sorry, but I do not agree. I think it is up to the compiler to make her/his choices. No taste is broad enough that it cannot do with a little prodding it even wider by confronting it with new things outside of it. Just another opinion...

I have my own trusty design and simply type the stuff up in MSExcell. One file holds simple listings of disks and another one (linked through a common number to the first file) lists recording date, personnel, and whatnot. Sometimes I download song listings from AMG (good with large boxed sets). Otherwise it gives me something to do on long winter nights.

this is the Red, Blue & Green disk, yes?

I had a tune in my head while making this one, that may explain the "sweet touch" You know, FZ's Stick it Out (Aber beklecker nicht das Sofa, Sofa! )

Moose with alcohol in their bodies, good news for The Royal Canadian Moose Burning Society....

have a safe travel and keep the stress out! Good luck for now and I hope you return soon.

Remember that this little piece of fun costs money once you're on the giving end. It may just be that people don't see it as an honour to compile the disk, but more as a duty. I myself certainly feel some of the latter. Though I certainly also and moreso see it as a great opportunity to confront people here with my choice of music. I am not saying (nor would I want to infer) that many/most participants are free-riders, it's just that money and effort seem of little importance when they lay somewhere ahead of us in the future. Knowing exactly which day you're gonna have to be there puts another spin on it. I will want to jump in real soon, my monetary situation has not be improving lately -- to put it eupemistically -- and if I don't do this soon, I cannot foresee when I will.

I invite you to check out this thread

I've recently been playing AEC-Theme de Yoyo VERY LOUD

I also did a version of Jackie's Bag, but it is WAY TOO BIG to post here. I have already thrown some frames out (records spins no longer ) and reduced contrast and whatnot but to no avail. So here's a 200x200 version: click (390 Kb)

idea came from Big Al: Big one: click here (210 Kb)