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Only on this forum would a thread headline identify Scheider as the actor who played Dr. Benway in Naked Lunch, rather than as the dude from Jaws. I guess that's why I love it here.

Whooah! I want one. Thanks, Jim.

Oy! Definitely some Gilliam/Python influence there. Thanks!

Never saw them on the road, but when I was young my family used to visit a transportation museum in the Boston area that displayed some of the sign sequences.

The best!

Buster Keaton's The General. Hell, anything by Keaton.

Commodity meat.

Last year I found a CD in the 99 cent bin at my local thrift store called The Best of Miriam Makeba: The Early Years (2002, Wrasse Records, distributed in the UK by Universal). It has two tracks from King Kong, "Back of the Moon" and " Quickly in Love." The two tunes strike me as decent retro-pop/jazz of the day, along the lines of something like "Hello Dolly" without the banjo. Nothing really African-sounding about them, but not bad either.

His daughter is very good in I'm Not There opposite Heath Ledger.

Yes, he was.

I was there. Moses was very self-effacing, by choice, and it was definitely Muñoz's night. I'm still processing it, but there's no doubt in my mind that Muñoz is a rare and undeniable musician. His tone alone, with minimal equipment, is amazing.

Gryce is nice!

Amazing to see so many voting with their virtual feet... Welcome back, Bev, and welcome to all...

Are those plates or buttocks enhancers?

Farmer's Alamac?

Great stuff!

I, too, really enjoyed the WGBH broadcast last night. Frank sounded great.

I agree that Metheny is the real thing; he's just not my thing. I suppose that the same could be said about Schneider based on the consensus. Certainly, both are fine musicians, but far from my cup of tea. (I prefer a caffeinated black tea to Celestial Seasonings, I guess.)

His body was found around 3:31 PM, but you heard about it this morning. Could I have the name of your crystal ball gazer? Could have sworn it was the morning... Well, as a West coast dude, it was three hours earlier your time...

Thanks, Larry. Both of those clips are amazing!

The Metheny comparison is right on, Chewy; that was the first thing I thought when I finally heard her after reading so many rave reviews. I was surprised that such tepid, swoopy, and harmonically cloying music was getting such acclaim (often from critics who, oddly enough, had previously expressed reservations about Metheny).

Sad. I really liked him in I'm Not There.

I recently bought Jazz in 3/4 Time and I've really been digging Wallace's playing, especially with reference to the semi-parallel lines you mention, Larry. I've been wondering where else he recorded. Now I know. Just another reason to love these forums: answers to questions you didn't even ask!

In that case, I gotta see it ! If you haven't seen at last some of R. Kelly's "Trapped In The Closet" then you'll miss a good deal of the humor in the South Park episode. There are more episodes after that (and another "season" just came out recently), but that'll at least get you up to speed. That shit is ridiculous in every sense of the word, positive and negative. Absolutely riveting. Can't believe that I haven't caught up until now. R. Kelly is some kind of genius/fool... And now on to South Park...

The Silent Movie Theater breaks the sound barrier? That's like when Dylan went electric. Are there mimes protesting in the streets, creating imaginary havoc?