Johnny E

Most of the young straight ahead sax players I know are Wayne crazy.

Man that Odetta footage! I also liked when Ginsberg got all choked up remembering when he first heard Hard Rain. Does anybody know if the DVD has all the performances in their entirety?

Keep your fetishes to yourself, thank you very much.

Rub it in why doncha!

No, I'd say they've stopped the bleeding by winning two in a row. If they had collapsed, the Indians would be in first by now...

He may. He's a pretty personable guy. What would you want to interview him for, do you have a radio show?

I know James Zitro and visit him every time I'm in Santa Cruz. He still plays with Bert Wilson from time to time (who now resides in Olympia, WA). He and Bert are actually from LA. Sonny Simmons and Barbara Donald were from SF I believe. James Zitro was hired by a TV network to teach Mickey Dolens of the Monkees how to play drums when they were preparing to launch that show in 67. He plays with local musicians every Sunday out on the pier in Santa Cruz in the summer time and currently works as a drug counselor for the city. A very wonderful man, and great drummer who has shown me a trick or two on kit. I interviewed him for a radio show I was doing a few years back. Boy has he got some crazy stories of his stay in NY circa his ESP days.

I'm off. See you guys in Portland tomorrow.

And in related Dutch News: Dutch talk show reporter to use heroin on TV AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A field reporter for a new Dutch television talk show plans to use heroin and other illegal drugs on the air during the weekly program on issues that concern young people, producers said Wednesday. The announcement of Shoot Up and Swallow, scheduled to premiere as a late-night show Oct. 10, sparked an outcry. Even in the liberal Netherlands, where marijuana is sold and used openly, the proposed drug use by reporter Filemon Wesselink is illegal. "This is dangerous and it sets a bad example," said Pieter Heerma, spokesman for the governing center-right Christian Democrat party. "We're going to ask the justice minister for his view on what the law says about this, and his view on the dangers and risks involved." Justice Ministry spokesman Ivo Hommes said it was not immediately clear whether Wesselink could be prosecuted. Possession of any amount of heroin is illegal, but in practice police usually do not arrest anyone with less than a half gram of the highly addictive narcotic. "The actual taking of drugs is a health problem, not a criminal act, though it's obviously hard to take drugs without possessing them first," Hommes said. "In any case, it's not something we endorse, and doing it on television is undesirable." The show's in-studio host, Sophie Hilbrand, will interview guests about drug use and abuse, while Wesselink appears in segments taped in the field as he experiments with drugs and liquor. Another reporter, Ties Van Westing, will do segments about engaging in sex acts, but not on camera. For one episode, Wesselink, 26, plans to smoke heroin, said Ingrid Timmer, spokeswoman for the show's producer, BNN. For others, he plans to go on a drinking binge in a series of pubs and to take the hallucinogenic drug LSD — on his couch under the supervision of his mother. "It's not our intention to create an outcry. We just want to talk about subjects that are part of young people's lives," Timmer said. The Netherlands is known for its lenient marijuana policy, under which the sale and use of the drug in small quantities are not prosecuted even though technically illegal. Other drugs, including heroin, LSD, cocaine and Ecstasy, are outlawed, and dealers are prosecuted. The legal age for consumption of alcohol and tobacco is 16. According to the Trimbos Institute, a Dutch group that monitors international drug use, the Dutch are about average among industrial nations. It says 6% of Dutch have used marijuana recently, compared with 8% in the United States, 8% in Britain and 9% in France. For cocaine, it was 1.1% in Holland — and rising quickly — compared to 1.3% in the United States, 1.5.% in Britain and 0.3% in France. Comparable data for heroin were not available. BNN has drawn viewer complaints for previous shows, including one that included a segment on how to have sex in a nightclub. Damn I got move to the Netherlands.

That outragous.... conrad, can you hook me up with the video?

They're dropping like flies RIP Mr. Boland

A-Rod simply wanted out of Texas, that's all. He may have been willing to defer money to play for the Red Sox, but he ain't never ever gonna give up on his money. He knew the players association would never go for that, that's why he said it in the first place, to make himself look selfless -Bullshit. In his last year as a Mariner he went on and on about how it wasn't about the money, that he just wanted to be with a winner, bla bla bla. Well, he went for the money. He joined a team that in everyone’s estimation needed 3,4 even 5 years of rebuilding. And what did he think the Rangers would do as far as acquiring pitching straddled with that $250 million dollar contract of his? If he had went to the Yankees then and there (for $250 million) I would have said, “OK, he wants to win and he went to a team that could afford to pay top dollar”, but no, he went to the Rangers no offense Al . He’s a whiney little grossly overpaid bitch. And mark my words, he will never EVER wear a World Series ring. Shit, he’s been playing for ten years already and he hasn’t even been to one!

Ah, come on now Dan. We agree on other things too. We both love jazz music. You still don't support that inept, war-profiteering, fortunate son of a Bush do you?

It looks like he took the peoples money though huh? If all of a sudden no one could paypal him money, or get a emailed mailing address to send him a check, I'd think something bad had happened to him (as in accident, disappeared, etc.), but since he took the money then split, I can't help but think he has had some finacial troubles. But who really knows? Anything could have happened. Hope he's OK.

The Yankees will never win another World Series until they get rid of A-Rod. He's spoiled, egotistical, and a divisive player in the clubhouse. Every team he goes to does nothing but lose because he drains valuable resources away from the pitching staff - which is what really wins games in the end. He's a money grubbing liar (that just happens to be gifted) and he makes my stomach turn. Go Red Sox!!!

Shut up and stop bogartin' that joint my friend.

That's pathetic.

As I posted elsewhere, I was told to "cool it" or be banned. ← Me too.

Better yet - it ain't AAJ! ← I know. That place gives me the creeps. I tried, but I couldn't stick around.

Rasta lends its name to a third type of cannabis 20 September 2005 From New Scientist Print Edition AS POLICE and dope smokers know, there are two types of cannabis. Cannabis sativa sativa is mainly used to make hemp, while the indica subspecies is prized for its tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content, which produces the "high". But now Australian researchers have discovered a third type of cannabis, called rasta. Simon Gilmore of the Canberra Institute of Technology catagorised 196 sample plants according to the DNA in their mitochondria and chloroplasts. The samples included plants grown for drugs and hemp as well as wild varieties from Europe, Asia, Africa, Mexico and Jamaica. The results showed three distinct "races" of cannabis. In central Asia the THC-rich indica predominated, while in western Europe sativa was more common. In India, south-east Asia, Africa, Mexico and Jamaica the rasta variant predominated. It looks similar to the sativa subspecies, but generally contains higher levels of THC. Since the study was of DNA rather than a formal taxonomic study, Cannabis sativa rasta is not yet an official new subspecies: the name was the result of a competition in Gilmore's lab. Their work is expected to appear in the journal Forensic Science International later this year. From issue 2517 of New Scientist magazine, 20 September 2005, page 12 http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725175.200

Man, I knew that the White Sox were playing over their head all season, but DAMN!!! They might not even make the playoffs at this rate. Go Indians! my wife is from Cleveland.

I don't get it. Is Al still writing for Bagatellen? I hope shrugs is OK...

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So what happened? Didn't spend enough time with yer grandpops as a child?