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Geez, with a title like that I would have expected it to be a thoughtful and scrupulously accurate book. I picture a bunch of nursing home denizens zealously rushing through a tangle of video-tapes just to get in under the wire! For what it's worth, Ride Lonesome has the perhaps the best and most satisfying closing shot of any film I've ever seen. Same here, but you knew that already. I wasn't exactly expecting deathless prose, to say the least, but when you spot half a dozen inaccuracies in just a few minutes you realize it's a "bathroom book" in more than one sense. Good for wiping at least?

I made spaghetti a la carbonara tonight. AKA: four fats delight. This dish includes bacon (and rendered fat thereof), olive oil, ricotta cheese (I use yogurt), parmigiano cheese. Delicious.

I just got the DVD for Christmas--I'll have to keep an ear cocked for that. Let me know. It's a very good movie, nevertheless. I wish I had a "Kim Novak" in my corner...

I need to get the MTM DVDs. I've got the first two Newhart sets and can confirm that they stand the test of time. This shit is still funny... These two shows were perhaps the funniest and the most lasting of the 1970s... Both topical and timeless...

Just finished watching Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai on the recent Criterion DVD releae. Essential. Perhaps the most silent film made in the sound era. Bob le Flambeur is still my favorite Melville film; but this one may be the more universally "great" masterpiece to go under his authorship. I'm glad I own both and I look forward to getting the rest of his uniquely "Amero/Frankish" works...

Thanks for the heads up. I'll definitely be checking this site frequently!

Isn't there a "Hiya, Shorty" scene (or equivalent) in The Man With the Golden Arm?

Fascinating. I wonder how Sidney Bechet would appear. Or Ben Webster. Johnny Hodges! How about Ellington or Monk? I'd love to see how they'd picture Cecil Taylor. Or Albert Ayler!

Here's wishing a happy birthday to one of the forum's MVPs. I would have never guessed you were such a youngster! Thanks for your participation here.

Geez, with a title like that I would have expected it to be a thoughtful and scrupulously accurate book. I picture a bunch of nursing home denizens zealously rushing through a tangle of video-tapes just to get in under the wire! For what it's worth, Ride Lonesome has the perhaps the best and most satisfying closing shot of any film I've ever seen.

Let us know how it is. I'm really curious about this.

Congratulations! When do you hit Boston again? Unfortunately, I couldn't make it the last time

Indeed. Perhaps THE great combo. Better than Oliver and Armstrong? Bird and Diz? Monk and Trane? Holmes and Watson? Laurel and Hardy? Martin and Lewis? (Well, yeah, better than them.) One of the great combos in any case. Jeeves and Wooster? Carella, Brown, Kling, Hawes, Meyer, and the other cops of the 87th Precinct?

I was referring to the quote above in my previous post. Like Nate, I have Maelstrom on an Inner City LP. I always assumed the lousy sound was because of the sources of the original recordings: private tapes, radio broadcasts, etc.

A lot of it was released on an Atlantic double LP in the late 70s/early 80s. That's where (and when) I first got this excellent material. As far as I know, the Mosaic Box is the only currently available source for this music.

Indeed. Perhaps THE great combo. Better than Oliver and Armstrong? Bird and Diz? Monk and Trane? Holmes and Watson? Laurel and Hardy? Martin and Lewis? (Well, yeah, better than them.) One of the great combos in any case.

Actually, that "corrected" edition of Ulysses no longer bears the word "corrected" on its cover, as so many scholars have questioned the editor's methods, including going back to earlier drafts to "restore" material presumably rejected by Joyce, as well as correcting "mistakes" that Joyce intended. Later editions of the "corrected" version say "Gabler Edition" on the cover.

Light snow.

Time to 'fess up. I actually wrote it. One of my best "pre-natal" tunes...

I thought he had a reputation as a tenor player. Flute has traditionally been a side instrument for reeds players like Yusef Lateef. You're probably right, though it seems to me that he was promoted for his flute playing. Perhaps because it was a trendy thing at the time? For whatever reason, I always associated him with the instrument.

It's not primitive... A horse drawn plow isn't entirely primitive either Mike. I think you've missed my point. I guess I should have said "Beyond 'primitive', like a horse and plow." If you are comparing a mortar and pestle with a Cuisinart, it is fair to describe the mortar and pestle as primitive. These two devices are not entirely interchangeable however. In my mind, the mortar and pestle is just as brilliant, if not moreso, than the electric-powered machine that came centuries later. Is a horse drawn plow less brilliant, or less innovative than a tractor plow? I still think the horse drawn plow is the real innovation. Still, to find a cropper using a horse drawn plow in the age of Industry would seem primitive. This music is the equivalent of a horse drawn plow in a world of tractors. To me, anyway. A lot of the music coming from this region of the United States, even to this day, is primitive when compared to its contemporary. In my mind, this doesn't make it any less valuable, or enjoyable. Let me just add that, as an amateur cooking enthusiast, I use my Mortar and pestle about ten times more frequently than I employ my Cuisinart.

It's the Parmagiano that really makes it. No matter what it is! (Though I wouldn't generally recommend it with fish.)

Some of my greatest culinary triumphs have been of the "cleaning out the fridge" variety. No doubt that most of the "classic" dishes had a similar origin in the distant culinary past... Just making use of what was on hand. Much like jazz...

...are in need of re-listening chez moi.

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