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Alles gute, tjobbe!

Happy Birthday!

Saw this info on SH forums: unlimited 5.99 plus free shipping when purchasing 5 or more J7C9 This is basically getting you the "old" Yourmusic deal, with the added bonus of earning music points with each purchase. It appears to work with box sets too. It may expire on 11 January, not sure.

Actually, I am so thinking about it, put it on my desk, how cool would that be? All for $16.95. The only thing cooler than that would be a Steve Wilson action figure! Don't you mean the Steve Austin action figure??

...a couple of upcoming things in Austin: Jan 14 - Stanley Clarke/George Duke Project (One World Theatre) Jan 24 - Jeff Tweedy (Hogg Auditorium) Jan 25 - Ottmar Liebert (Paramount) Feb 2 - Raul Malo (La Zona Rosa) Feb 10 - George Winston (Paramount) Feb 16 - Big Head Todd & the Monsters (La Zona Rosa, only for people who aren't scared of big heads) Feb 25 - Eddie Palmieri (One World Theatre) Mar 7 - Global Percussion Masters (Zakir Hussain, Giovanni Hidalgo, Terry Bozzio) (One World Theatre) edit - I tried to get by the Continental Club to see the Mike Flanigin (soulstream) B3-Trio over the holidays, but ended up with too many family commitments. One of these days I plan to catch them - might be a fun hang for any of the Austin area board members!

Curiously, downtown Austin is now roped off too, as there have been apparently large numbers of birds found dead. Hopefully no correlation, or attacks, in either case. Maybe Aric/ContemporaryLadyinSF was on to something, with the bird flu thing...

Update on SW's release plans for this year, so far: Feb/March : Blackfield II March : No-Man - Together We're Stranger (5.1 DVDA edition) April : Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet May : Steven Wilson - Collecting MySpace (exclusive Headphone Dust mini album collecting pieces made available on SW's MySpace page, plus additional material) And later on.... Steven Wilson - Cover Version V Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun (CD/5.1 DVDA edition) Continuum - II Bass Communion - Pacific Codex

Congratulations to the whole Wulfpack!

That's "useful"....

I liked the video more than the song itself, which was just...ok. And the video is basically doing the same sort of thing they were doing in Forrest Gump 10+ years ago.

I don't think either team particularly deserved to win this game. Dallas maybe played a little better up until that weird safety, then the botched field goal. Unless the Seahawks play a helluva lot better than they did tonight, they're going to lose to whoever they end up playing next.

For some reason I'm picturing a a sequel to "Future 2 Future". Seems like if it were a new recording, more information would already be floating around, though.

According to music tap, Herbie Hancock has a new album slated for release on Legacy on Feb 20th. It's called "Techno Voodu-Astral Black Simulations". Not sure what this is - isn't Legacy an archival label? Or do they release new material as well?

Brad Mehldau/Renee Fleming - Love Sublime Antonio Carlos Jobim - Live at Minas Solomon Burke - Nashville

I think you'll love these recordings, Mark. My recommendation is to work your way backwards chronologically through Porcupine Tree's releases, if you've come to them from just the newest releases. I think you'll find all of it worth your time. Steven Wilson's non-PT music is very good too. All of it is completely different in style from the Tree, but generally as well made and absorbing. There's no-man (duo with singer Tim Bowness), Blackfield (duo with Aviv Geffen), Bass Communion, IEM, and a couple of things he's done under his own name. I haven't figured out how he managed to do so much, and so well. I'm glad to see PT getting some love around here. One of my desert island bands for sure! Though I think I'd have to swim over to Sangry's island just to lust after Monday Michiru every now and then...

It was originally an early, separate EP release, with outtakes from Up the Downstair, but it is now the second disc of the UTD reissue. I probably should have mentioned it, but I was trying to limit my list to their full length LP/CD releases. I don't know if Spiral Circus qualifies either, now that I think about it - I think it's just EP length. Signify also had a related, limited edition outtakes companion, called Insignificance, which was also the 2nd disc of that album's reissue. Hard to keep up with PT/Steven Wilson!

Ahh, now here's a corner I could camp out in for a long time! This is a band that's grown by leaps and bounds from their early days, and have stylistcially bounced all over the rock map. I haven't found fault with anything they've put out, for the most part. Here's a run down of their official releases: 1. Early recordings - When it was pretty much a Steven Wilson solo project, with occasional outside support. These releases are more psychedelic, and a bit all over the map: On the Sunday of Life Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape Up the Downstair Spiral Circus (Live) The first two CD's above are compilations from the original Porcupine Tree cassette only releases (Tarquin's Seaweed Farm, Love Death and Mussolini, and The Nostalgia Factory). YHD is a very limited edition CD release, and goes for pretty big bucks these days. Spiral Circus is likewise difficult to track down. 2. PT transitions into an actual band next, with Steven Wilson being joined by Richard Barbieri (of Japan), Colin Edwin, and Chris Maitland, and produced some spacier, proggier material: Sky Moves Sideways (their most Pink Floyd-like release, loved by some and hated by others for that reason) Voyage 34 Transmission IV/Moonloop - 40 minute single track CD 3. This next era is my favorite, just like JMJK. The band gets into a more concise, song-based cycle Lightbulb Sun (out of print, but due for a reissue some time in '07) Stupid Dream Signify Metanoia (instrumental demos for Signify - this one probably fits better with the previous releases, as it's extended instrumental improvisations) Coma Divine (live) Recordings (b-sides and outtakes from Lightbulb Sun & Stupid Dream, my two favorite PT discs...this one is as good as those two) Warszawa (live) 4. PT signs with Warner/Lava, and introduces some metal influences into the music: In Absentia Deadwing XMI (live in XM studios, w/o audience) XMII (ditto) Adrian Belew guested on Deadwing, and both Robert Fripp and Alex Lifeson are guesting on the forthcoming release, due in late spring/summer I believe. Here's a quote from a December posting to Fripp's online diary: There is also a 2 disc compilation, that covers everything before Stupid Dream, called Stars Die. It's got some material on it that can't be found elsewhere, so it's worth picking up as well, if the PT bug bites you.

also Stanton Moore - III (this one has Robert Walter on B-3)

Bad, very bad! I remember their first game in existence, when they beat the Cowboys - THAT was embarrassing too!

It's in the first post of the thread I linked (March 6).

It has run once already and will again tonite. Sure, maybe in the United States!

There is some discussion and speculation on upcoming RVGs in this thread...

Just noticed that Dave Douglas "Meaning and Mystery" is available.

If it's an acceptable offer, why not take it? Why try to get board members bidding against each other? I don't really care for the thought of this turning into an auction site, amongst friends, though maybe I'm reading too much into this.

Just to clarify, this is the non-numbered Universal set, not the numbered Mosaic, right?