jlhoots

So I need to buy this just for the Blackwell?!? I don't think so.

I believe they are - but I'm no expert.

Yes - that's the source I use here in the US.

Tom Russell

The Marshmallow Records website gives a late Nov. 2013 release date.

Sure it is.

Halvorson / Knuffke / Wilson: Sifter

Frankly the ECM bashing is sort of useless. If you don't like the sound, don't buy the music. BTW not all music needs to be dissonant, skronky, atonal, roaring, monstrous , screaming, etc. , etc. to be worth listening to IMO.

On the way to me. Looking forward to it.

or Stone Arabia.

For some reason this makes me think of the novel, A Visit From The Goon Squad.

Slaid Cleaves

Yikes!!

I'll second Straight Street.

Episode 7 - season 5 of Damages on DVD. 3 to go.

What the hell - me too!!

It's a solid album, a solid recommendation. For me, over the last few releases Jen Shyu's vocals and Marcus Gilmore's drumming have been two key components... they've loomed large for me so their absence makes Functional Arrhythmias feel, as much as i like it, like a bit of a transitional record, the start of a new phase. Not that that's necessarilly a bad thing and it may just be some classic projecting on my part... I guess for me it's just a less exciting album than the earlier albums on Pi... more refined but more dry... any thoughts? I'm not a fan of the vocals you mention. Just me. Sorry. So this new one works better for me.

I'm not a beer drinker, but I have a friend who swears by something called Moose Drool.

Eugenides: Middlesex Read it approx. 10 years ago. Reading it again for our Book Club. Really good.

The new one - Functional Arrhythmias is the one you need currently IMO.

Pandelis Karayorgis has 4 CDs on Driff Records all of which are very good in different ways.

Terri Hendrix / Lloyd Maines

Last night - 2009 Turley Zinfandel (Tofanelli Vineyard)

I've had this for a few months. I like it - I'm a fan. BTW I read someplace that NotTwo no longer has a U.S. distributor. Anyone know if that's true?

Agree with Mark. R.I.P.