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Does anyone have experience with Sennheiser (or other brands) wireless headphones? There appear to be several models in the RS series at different price levels. Do they sound OK? Are there reception problems? Battery/Recharging issues? What's the deal?

Richie R.O.S.E.B.U.D. Petrie Mel Cooley Alan Brady

Cool, thanks. Hope to check out a set or two...

Thanks for the info, Michael. I'll be in NYC for the IAJE conference that weekend. Why the warning "...not for the faint of heart"?

Larry Schneider Pat Harrington Arianna Huffington

Thanks for posting the review, Stefan. I'm intrigued, but not sure if I'm willing to invest 3 hours of my life to satisfy my curiosity. Interesting that in a review as lengthy as this one, McCarthy feels compelled to use Variety jargon-y stuff like referring to it as a 'pic' and the actors as 'thesps'. I also like referring to the cinematographer as the 'lenser'. I wonder why Howard Shore's scoring was abandoned. Did it sound too much like early Saturday Night Live?

The Mills Brothers The Nicolas Brothers The Hudson Brothers

bumped to revise my earlier post about Cannonball Adderley appearing in an episode of the TV show Kung Fu. In the 30 years since I saw it, the image got a little skewed. He's not in a sombrero and poncho. He's wearing a top hat and playing...wait for it..."Camptown Races", and he's jamming with...wait for it again... Jose Feliciano!!! You can check out a clip of it here scroll to the bottom of the page, do some clicking, and enjoy!

I was talking about this with some friends just the other day. Seems my parents were right on the trends of the '50s and '60s when naming me and my siblings: Wayne Nancy Janet Glenn Pretty much never see any of those names any more...

I have a nice Nancy Wilson Christmas CD on MCG. And I believe they also released the posthumous Frank Mantooth CD of female singers with orchestra.

Totally weird... I've had no problem reading the organissimo board on my Mac (G4 1GHz Powerbook) running Safari. Then just a couple of minutes ago I read this very thread about the sudden quitting...and a minute later Safari quit on me! Maybe I shouldhave forwarded that spammy email to 10 people in order to avoid bad luck.

Anson Williams Erin Moran Scott Baio

Dr. T Dr. J J. J. Walker

Very cool. I will have to put this on my Christmas list. When I was living in Chicago, I taught some sax lessons at a high school where Ken Nordine's grandson was a student. The school was doing a jazz concert and I was a guest performer, and they got Ken to do a radio commercial for the concert. So somewhere I have a cassette of a radio promo with Ken Nordine actually saying my name!!!

Rooster, are you a horn player or a rhythm section guy? As a saxophonist, earplugs have always been a challenge for me; when I have them in, all I can hear is myself. With the cheap plugs it's horrible, and with the more expensive Etymotic plugs it's much better, but still not very fun. I haven't yet shelled out the dough for custom plugs, but I'm considering taking the plunge. The orchestra world is very weird. They all have plastic sound shields behind thier heads. And on the rare occasions that I get called to play with the local symphony, the string players all reach for thier earplugs when they see a saxophone or two setting up for rehearsal. Always makes me feel welcome!

I'm sure there are earlier examples, but a quick search found an example from this Jelly Roll Morton site. Click on the title of Bucktown Blues from 1924 and in the second section of the tune, at about 0:37, you'll hear that rhythm played in JRM's left hand. I hope others can find earlier examples!

Good for you, Catesta! Good luck with the trainer meeting on Monday. It's been way too long since I darkened the doorway of the gym that I belong to. Now that the holiday (read: eating) season is in full swing, I need to get going.

Clear blue skies. Gets cold over night (low 30s even upper 20s) and then warms up to high 50s in the afternoon. Warm enough to put the top down on the car for afternoon driving.

"Mr Gould, 28, boss of Digi Security in Exeter, said he was "devastated" at the crash involving his "pride and joy". "It was disastrous," he said." It's always a shame when beloved cleaning products are destroyed... (sorry)

Barry Harris Eddie Harris Gene Harris (my apologies for breaking rules earlier with the baseball park names)

Tennessee Ernie Ford Minnesota Fats Dakota Fanning

Comiskey Wrigley Camden

How about Sting's first post-Police band with Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland, Darrel Jones and Omar Hakim? Also, thinking of Brecker on Cameo "Word Up" reminded me: Late '80s my ex-wife had a Jane Fonda workout video and all of the music for was by Steps Ahead with Mike Manieri, Michael Brecker, Peter Erskine, etc. Which reminds me of this OT bit: At a clinic for some students, Michael Brecker was asked about being in the Saturday Night Live band (mid-'80s). He said that he's basically a very shy and reserved person, and that in his life there are two things that make him uncomfortable: dancing, and being in a bathing suit at the beach. His first week on SNL Eddie Murphy did the James Brown Hot Tub sketch, so Brecker had to dance in a bathing suit on national TV! Yikes!

I've been checking out Pandora since yesterday, and it seems kinda cool, even though I haven't given it much guidance. Does anyone else get a lot of hiccups in the Pandora stream when doing other work on thier computer? It's a little annoying when I'm listening while doing other work at my desk, but if I just let it go, seems to be just fine.

I've never tried any of the cheap ebay ink, but it looks quite tempting. My S.O. has a Brother all-in-one that goes through ink like crazy. The cartridges dry out even when she doesn't use the thing at all! The companies set such a low price on these machines, they must be making thier money on the ink. I finally gave up recently and got an inexpensive laser printer. It's just black white, but it's fast and will print thousands of pages on one toner cartridge. I'm sure you need color for some of your stuff. Not to hijack your thread, but does anyone have any experience with entry-level color laser printers? I think you can get into one for about $400, and if that toner lasts comparably to the black, it could be a good deal in the long haul...