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Ed Swinnich has hit on a key point. Are her feelings dead, or is she just frustrated at you over one or more things and sees no way out? If her feelings aren't dead, you can change the situation by agreeing with everything she wants. "Agreeing with everything she wants"--how else can a guy stay married for any period of time? I always thought it just went with the territory.

When I Googled the owner's name today, the entries which popped up all stated that the ebay buyer turned out to be a fraud. Did you find different information?

I bought a 1951 ten inch album on Columbia, in mint condition, for $4.98 from Half Price Books, a Ralph Sutton Plays Fats Waller collection:

In 1970, if you had predicted that 38 years later, Whole Lotta Love would be the song to usher in the next Olympic games, it would have seemed truly insane. If they were going to play it at this closing ceremony, they should have had the reunited Led Zeppelin, with Bonham's son on drums, play it.

My "let her get a house and pretend to be interested in tile" post comes down to this for me. If she has a strong interest in something that you have no interest in, you are at a crossroads. You can say, this is not what I like, this is not me, so too bad, the marriage is over. I am not going to be someone I am not. Or you can say, this is not what I like, this is not me, but it is important to her, so no matter how I feel about it, I am going to go along with it and do it in a way that makes her as happy as possible. If it makes her as happy as possible for me to have detailed conversations about the merits of different kitchen faucets in a cheerful voice, then I will have detailed conversations about different kitchen faucets in a cheerful voice. I want to make the experience as great for her as possible. (There are thousands of different kitchen faucets, I learned). When I announced when I was 25 that I wanted to buy an expensive stereo and lots of albums, she had no interest in either. But she was enthusiastic about our spending all of our money on it, and went with me to stereo stores and listened to stereos and make helpful comments about how they sounded to her. It was because I wanted it. Now if she announced that she wanted us to get involved in Satan worship or something genuinely evil or destructive, I would draw a line there. Otherwise, I'm there for her, however much it takes me out of my zone of preference.

If it's largely about a house, eat crow and let her get a house. Pretend to be greatly interested in the different types of tile for kitchen backsplashes and other design materials. Make genuinely insightful comments about each material. What if she suddenly made decent comments about your music regularly, such as, this Ornette album sounds a little different than the last one you played. I see that Billy Higgins is the drummer instead of Ed Blackwell. Do you think that this makes a difference in Ornette's sound? Wouldn't you like that? I would. It's the same thing with this house stuff. You must let a woman do the house thing, and it is part of the pain of being a man, to pretend to be interested well enough that she is convinced that you are really interested. That's what I did. We are still together.

The investigation into the age of the Chinese gymnast has already ended in a whitewash.

This is one of the most important, and welcome, reissues to come along in many years.

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When the LP first came out, I played Side 1 for a friend who was a devoted free jazz listener, and who had seen the Art Ensemble of Chicago live several times. He chuckled out loud and seemed agitated. I have always loved Side 1 myself.

Why doesn't ECM reissue the remaining albums that have never been on CD, instead of this?