neveronfriday

Sorry, but when I read your list first, the last entry made me laugh. It's the progression, I think.

Contemporary Horror Fiction, hardcovers, collectible paperbacks, magazines ... the lot. Started in the late 70s and have slowed down these past two/three years. Photography and design books. Other books, books, books ... DVDs. P.S.: I'm also into Danish furniture of the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s, but that can hardly be called collecting. I've got a couple of Mogensen, Kjaerholm and Wegner chairs plus a whole bunch of tables from various known designers. When in DK you can always find me haunting the used furniture shops. Lots to be found there if you're there at the right moment (practically when things come in the door). Add to that Grethe Meyer china (produced by Royal Copenhagen) and cuttlery (produced by Georg Jensen) plus lots of glas, Swedish and Norwegian pottery ... you get the picture.

01) first "paid" job: indexing my dad's rather extensive record collection (... was paid in Mordillo hardcovers) 01) Burger King employee (all stations, incl. garbage) until my drum set was paid for 02) musician (various more or less successful Pop/Rock/R&B bands) 03) assistant to two professors at the same time (didn't leave much time for studying) 04) freelance writer for various fan magazines and later pro publications 05) freelancing in book publishing here in Germany (secured some major authors I knew from my fan magazine work for one of the biggest German publishing houses; helped put out a slew of limited editions for a now mostly defunct publishing house) 06) web/intranet design work, both freelance and hired 07) teaching at both private and public high schools (still my day job)

Any good?

Why do these childish remarks always have to appear in memorial threads? Would you like some other people (totally unkown at that) battling it out on your grave? Sucks! Jim Capaldi was great. No less. R.I.P.

Me. Me. Me. Too. PM on its way in a minute.

If your burner and software support it, you can extend the time a few minutes past 80 min. I think it's called "overburning" or something like that. Few commercial releases go beyond the 80 min standard, though, because some players can't handle reading them. You can push a burnable way up there. Theoretically, you can squeeze 99 minutes (NERO) on there if overburning is enabled and the burnable supports it. It doesn't adhere to any standards though and can only be played back on suitable players, none of which are PC-independent, I think. So you have to use your PC exclusively for these. I've used 800 MB TDKs for some serious overburning and they run fine ... but I still have my doubts regarding the longevity of these discs. Cheers!

Those are some damn expensive disco lights. I guess the mystery speakers must have cost an equal amount because it would be a shame to drive anything but the best speakers with these. And, $75.000 doesn't come near what a setup like that would cost (just think about the amount of money invested in cables alone to get the best out of it) ... unless he got a discount for buying a whole production run. My guess is that he was driving speakers and subs with mono-blocks, maybe even doing some decent bi-amping. If you include the speakers for a setup like that (all asuming that he went with better ones in a surround sound setup) we're talking way above 100.000 dollars, probably more than twice as much, all depending on the discounts he got. If you do run a setup like that, acoustics become a major problem and lots of money has to go into making a room acoustically suitable. Besides that, you need more than ... and so on. I've seen a setup similar to the one you're describing (at an audio fair in Frankfurt, Germany) and the price tag came close to a million Euro, all told. Crazy, but if you do play a THX disc through this it would probably sound all the alarms at the Pentagon. And in Peking. Cheers!

I think this lovely critter is a thing called a Gulper Eel that lives in very, very deep water - hence the deformed shape. Great pics ! I thought it was Giger's alien.

Burnum, Burnum? Yeah, you just gotta love that guy! He sailed over to England, stepped ashore and planted the Aboriginal flag on the coast of Dover. The man had humor. Cheers!

Can someone explain to me what is supposed to be so good about Slim Gaillard? I don't get it. I have quite a bit of his stuff on some Japanese etc. box sets and I usually skip it. The guy just goes on my nerves. Is this heresy?

Yep. Just my thoughts. Surround sound can bug the hell out of you if the room isn't suited to it. On top of that, if you don't have a super-huge screen, I often have problems aligning the smaller (TV) picture with the huge sound. I'm thinking of surround sound headphones (currently I use Sennheiser 590s stereo cans which give quite a movie punch). But they're to darn expensive if you really want the good stuff. And, to sit in the sweet spot, you have to basically rearrange your living room in such a way that it becomes virtually useless. Besides, who the hell wants to live in a speaker-storage living room? Cheers!

I don't know. In the beginning I just loved it but I think it's somehow a bit uneven (small group/big band; somehow the arrangement [= sequence] of the tunes bugs me.). My fave tune is still "Straighten Up and Fly Right" - he does that one really well. Another old fave of mine is "Walking My Baby Back Home". Memories. Cheers! (Am I allowed to say that James Taylor did a grand version of "Walking My Baby Back Home"? Or will the Organissimo family ostracise me?).

yes, agree with deus.. if you really looking for some other Verve O.P. , watch out for the "...with respect to Nat" (from the Verve by request series) which I bought recently (Oscar sings ) Cheers, Tjobbe Have it. He was quite a good singer but as the story goes, they decided that Oscar would go down the piano route while Nat would concentrate on the singing. No need for unnecessary competition. Cheers! Edit: Not saying that Nat didn't continue playing the piano (fabulously so) ...

Hi Flurin, I have the Clooney ( ) and am not all too happy with it. I really love a lot of her stuff, but somehow this one hasn't caught on yet. It's just too smooth around the edges. I'm by no way a Peterson completist (although I have around 40 - 60 discs), but the Soul Espanol I have listened to many times in shops etc. and always go for sth else. You could say I don't really like it (a rare thing with me when it comes to Peterson) ... do drop it. Cheers!

I was going to post the Monty Python Spam Song here. But I think I'll refrain.

Why do they actually choose someone like that to write the liner notes?

Thanks. I might put that one on hold then for a while. Cheers!

I knew Honda made some nice cars, but now I know why they are so popular That slogan comes from an old ad for their bikes!

I won't. I already have three full DVDs for you flying around here. Will get around to finishing them in February. I know I will. Really. Amen.

Yep, and handled well they were! Got mine today. Thanks a million, Mike! And Dana, of course! Cheers! P.S.: God, I need some good music this weekend. It better be on there! I'm also looking forward to a stiff Cuba Libre or two with this BFT. With all the ****load of work I have at the moment, this BFT will be my only recreation for quite a while to come. Am looking forward to it with high hopes for a relaxing/challenging evening!

For all of those parasites ( ) ... yes, the disc is available from me. You're just going to have to wait two or three weeks. I'm not burning anything at the moment. Too much work. After I get done with the next two major projects, I'll gladly pass on the discs to you. No problem. And mind you, this disc could prove dangerous to your health. But it's also LOTS of fun! Cheers! P.S.: I will try to post educated guesses before the end of 2006/2007.

The sound is at best historic (= sucks). The music is great, but the really bad sound quality takes a lot of listening pleasure away, I think. Cheers!

WTF? Right back to the Middle Ages.