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Stop assailing us with your filthy logic! LOL... The only argument I can see that would favor splitting it all out into separate categories would be if you simply want to browse topics in a general category, and you arent looking for something specific, but just sort of surfing. Then I could see the benefit to having all the classical threads together. Same with rock, country, etc.

So vote Huh? I don't feel strongly enough about it to vote. If it happens fine, if not, fine. I'll get the same hours of sleep per night either way

I haven't voted yet, but still think if you're going to separate classical music out of the miscellaneous music forum, you should separate all the other "categories" of music too. Why doesn't "miscellaneous music" adequately cover classical music? I still don't understand that. If I'm searching for a historical thread on King Crimson, I search for King Crimson. Likewise if I'm searching for a Peer Gynt (to use a current topic) thread, I would search for Peer Gynt. I wouldn't care which forum the results come from.

He did a thing called Splattercell during that timeframe. I don't know if MeShell was involved with it or not.

Happy Birthday Jim!

Three of your four posts are pimping Bebel Gilberto. She does have a nice voice. Go listen to Monday Michiru and come back and tell us which one you prefer and why.

Congratulations on finding that person you want to spend your time with - that ain't easy!

They're still there.

that ain't hebrew! I'm pretty sure that is Hebrew - in cursive rather than block letters. The loop looks exactly like a cursive letter ayin. I'm not sure what the long line is but I think it's either a vav or a lamed. [Oops - maybe it's a nun. See http://www.nana.co.il] I was not aware to the problem with the image I tried to insert. I saw it only this morning on my office PC. I hope now, after the post has been edited, everything is clear. It's clear, but now the follow-on conversation doesn't make as much sense!

that ain't hebrew! Sorry if I offended anyone. I made an assumption there. All I know is I can't type those characters on my keyboard.

Aha! Thanks

Ok, Bentsy - I'm curious. What's this? Why the red t shirt? That link isn't a link, and I can't type Hebrew on my keyboard.

You mean in trade for a 49 cent cd, right?

Why does the NBA do this draft lottery thing? What's the point? Why isn't it like football, where the team with the worst record gets the first pick? Seems a bit more fair. Spurs just put the Jazz away in Game 2. Now the series has a break for 4 days, and picks back up on Saturday in Salt Lake City for Game 3. I bet the home crowd will fire the Jazz up and they'll play alot better than they have these first two games. Spurs finally get a day or two of rest though, so they should be strong in Game 3 as well.

Caught an episode on tv last night - the one where Kramer is taking dog medicine for his cough, Elaine's current flame tells her she has a big head (and a bird even flies into it), Jerry agrees to help deliver Newman's backlog of mail in hopes of getting him to move to Hawaii, and George competes with an Andrea Doria survivor for a nice apartment. Classic episode!!

Where did you find this information, Bertrand? That surprises me.

Ok. But in the meantime (however long that is), the rest of us will have to deal with these rules, laws and burdens.

It's an average. Ours locally is $2.99 as well. Though it's gonna get worse before it gets better, unfortunately.

Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday David! PS - Tony, I'll thumb wrestle you for the blonde!

Not sure why anyone would jump on you a week after the fact for a simple typo. Either way, I think this might be a very nice recording too, and am looking forward to it!

'Old-school' Horry would knock down Nash again SAN ANTONIO -- Trust me, they don't call him "Cheap Shot Bob" in this town. Instead, Robert Horry, the man whose shoulder shiver helped alter the look and feel of the NBA playoffs, received something Sunday afternoon that you don't see and hear every day: a spontaneous, heartfelt standing ovation that lasted a full 30 seconds. For checking into the game. "They just missed him," said the Spurs' Michael Finley of the reception. "As fans, you miss having a valuable part of your team." Horry didn't put up much of a linescore in the San Antonio Spurs' 108-100 victory against the Utah Jazz in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals. But he didn't have to. All he really had to do was show up. "I'm just happy they accepted me back," said Horry, who can now count on exactly one finger the number of times he's gotten a standing O for reporting to the scorer's table. "It was funny." Or as Jazz guard Derek Fisher, a former Horry teammate with the Los Angeles Lakers said, "I was actually jealous." Exiled to David Stern's penal colony for two games, Horry finally returned to the court ... and to a hero's welcome. The cheers weren't for his three rebounds, two assists and one blocked shot in 16:32 of playing time. It was for what happened last Monday in this same AT&T Center. Phoenix Suns' point guard Steve Nash can tell you all about it. Horry's controversial body check of Nash in the closing seconds of Game 4 sent tremors through the Suns-Spurs series. Horry was suspended for those two games, but it was the one-game suspension of the Suns' Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw (for leaving the bench area following Horry's flagrant foul) that created a national uproar. The short-handed Suns lost Game 5 at home and were closed out here last Friday evening. Afterward, Nash said Stern's decision to suspend Stoudemire and Diaw "will forever haunt us." It won't haunt Horry. The man previously known as "Big Shot Bob" has a long history of winning championships (no active player has won more than Horry's six NBA titles) and of making plays that matter. But the Nash controversy continues to puzzle him because, he said, he didn't do anything wrong. "I'm still amazed at the notoriety that this one play got compared to Baron Davis' foul [against Fisher in the Golden State-Utah series] and Mikki Moore's foul [against Aleksandar Pavlovic in the Cleveland Cavaliers series]," Horry said. "Those were like malicious fouls in my eyes. Guys who can't protect themselves off their feet. Blow to the head." According to the Horry School of Fouling, his shoulder-check on Nash was perfectly acceptable playoff etiquette. That's why he didn't understand why everyone -- Nash, Stoudemire and Diaw, the media -- got bent like a paper clip. "You know what?" Horry said. "If I had the situation to do all over again I would still [do it]. That's just the way I'm programmed. You go over there and foul, and you foul them hard. The only thing I wish I could have changed is that it wouldn't have been that close to the scorer's table. Other than that, I'm an old-fashioned player, an old-school player who will foul you and foul you hard." Nash was a rookie when Horry joined the Suns in 1996. They used to play one-on-one together in the Suns' practice gym. They took car drives together. Horry respected Nash then, and he respects him now. But that doesn't mean Nash, or anybody for that matter, gets a free pass in the postseason. "I think on my part -- and I think [Nash has] been in the league long enough to realize -- it's just basketball," Horry said. "I can understand if I had clotheslined him and tried to hurt him, but that was just a bump. Hopefully in his eyes he'll look at it as just basketball and no hard feelings. Because when you're trying to win you have no friends until you walk off the court." Horry probably doesn't have many friends in Phoenix, not that he cares. He said Stoudemire and Diaw only have themselves to blame for getting suspended. "They complained ... like I can get in their heads and play Nintendo with their minds and bodies and get them to walk out onto the court," Horry said. No, he said, this was about something more basic. This was about the unwritten code of playoff basketball that Horry, now in his 15th season, learned during the 1994 NBA Finals. The New York Knicks vs. Horry's Houston Rockets. Horry went in for a dunk and Knicks enforcer Anthony Mason took him out. Horry bounced hard against the wooden floor. "I had two sprained wrists and a hairline fracture in my ass after it happened," he said. "I knew what had happened, but I was hurt. I got up after that, but it was still painful. You just played on. You don't worry about it. Nobody [from the Rockets' bench] ran over there trying to push and shove, trying to cause anything. It was just a hard foul and you get up and go." Nash eventually got up, but it was obvious after the Game 6 close-out loss that he felt that the suspensions had denied the Suns a chance to compete on an even level. I agreed and told Horry that the best postseason series had been reduced to what-ifs. Horry scoffed at it. "Every year's going to be a what-if," he said. "That's the game of basketball. What if a guy turns his ankle? What if a guy gets in a car wreck coming to the arena? There are so many different aspects that could happen that nobody knows. Only the man upstairs knows." Except that Horry's foul on Nash wasn't an accident. It was done on purpose and with the Suns' victory already assured. Doesn't matter to Horry. The playoff code is the playoff code. And he isn't the only one who thinks that way. "It's a part of our game," said Fisher, an 11-year veteran. "It's not like he picked him up and threw [Nash] over the scorer's table. He hit him." So I asked Horry what he'll do if the same set of circumstances present themselves in the series against the Jazz. Utah guard Deron Williams dribbling down the court ... the Jazz comfortably ahead in the final minute ... seconds ticking off the game clock. Horry looks at me like I've asked him if he wears socks during the game. Of course, he'd foul Williams. "But I'd fall down this time and make it look like I'm trying to take a charge," he said. "I've got to look like I'm trying to get ready to take a charge and fall down. Then everybody would be like, 'Oh, he got knocked down too.'" Horry is laughing now. He gets up from the chair in front of his locker and begins to walk away. "Can't tell more secrets," he said.

Parker's through the legs pass

Beautiful pass between Okur's legs by Tony Parker today! I missed all but the 4th quarter, having taken my daughter to Shrek 3 (which was funny, but mostly more of the same). I don't understand the scheduling on this series. Spurs had to play less than 48 hours after a tough series vs. the Suns, and play again Tuesday night, but after that there's a long break until Saturday. Why can't they space these things a little better?

THeyr'e not the first. I just recently bought three LPs from Yep Roc Records, and the purchase gave you free MP3's of the recordings as well (and were available immediately upon purchase, not having to wait for the code that comes along with the vinyl). Yep Roc's vinyl is nice, 180 gram vinyl, and is on sale for $4.99 as well! Minus 5, Robyn Hitchcock, Los Straightjackets, Bob Mould, and a number of others. Yep Roc Vinyl Sale