Stefan Wood

I'm doing photography now. Painting hasn't been rewarding, as I can't put in the physical labor and time into it that I would like. I am showing here, at the Black Box Gallery in Portland, Oregon http://blackboxgallery.com/Poetics%20of%20Light%20EP.html Last month, I had a piece in the same gallery, different show: http://blackboxgallery.com/Color%20Space-EP.html

An outstanding set. Well worth it!!

I did have two works of art accepted in two different exhibitions these past few months.

My mom died from cancer in October. Same day as her father. It's been rough. On the positive side, my wife is eight months pregnant. A boy. So, a lot of mixed emotions right now.

I don't think the question was about being turned off, it was about demurring from the statement: "Dynasty" (Triloka) is as great as anything Jackie ever recorded. For me at least, that's a bridge too far. IMO, it is as good as anything he has done.

Dynasty is a brilliant album. I don't understand how those who love his 60s material could be turned off by this album.

Awesome. Now someone needs to do a gag review a la The Absolute Sound and say that the sound from old skool Legos trump any other medium. Flame wars ensue.

Looking forward to this.

He's regressed. Not making proper reads. The film breakdowns from the last two games are very revealing. There was a play last week where all five receivers were open -- he could have picked one of two running downfield for a touchdown, the defense was so beat, but he didn't pull the trigger. He is clearly at a point where putting him on the field is detrimental to the team, just like Cousins. I don't know what is going on with both of them.

Right. For some reason I was thinking this was the last year of his contract. One can only hope that even as removed from reality as Snyder is that he at least sees the light when it comes to his golden child. And you're absolutely spot on about the OL. Last year it seemed as though the four worst were all in the same division. And as you said, Dallas was really the only team in the division to address the problem. And they're now making DeMarco Murray look like LeSean McCoy, while McCoy himself looks like a back for the Raiders... Well, Gruden did the right thing and benched him. Let's see how they can do with Colt in there. At least, they can evaluate players for next year....

He'll be here next year, but as a back up. They won't exercise the 5th year option. They can't trade him, and straight up cutting him would be conceding that they made the worst trade in the history of the NFL. Which, unfortunately, they probably did. As for diva status, it seems it was enabled by the owner. Certain benefits that he had were just recently revoked. This team has to invest in OL players. Dallas did and now they are reaping the rewards. Otherwise no quarterback will succeed.

It's a nice album. It's a rich, textured album, that reminds me more of Miles than anything that Smith has done, even more than the Yo Miles! albums.

Sit RGIII. Starting next week. This team played hard today, but the QB just can't get it figured out. Get someone to show him how to play. Put Colt up there, so your players have a chance to win a game.

Their latest album is brilliant. I can see how it may not click with some members of this board. It is a different mode of group improvisation than one might expect.

I hang my head in shame at what is happening with my team this season. Can't watch a football game anymore, by anybody. Just no fun right now.

On bandcamp. Excellent music. http://emptysound.bandcamp.com/releases

Can't be shipped to the US. Plus, I don't want his Beethoven and other stuff.

drool.

I'm looking at the one with the Kolner Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra. But will listen to samples first.

i credit your deadpan perversity here SW & I say that as someone w/ DOZENS of hours of Knappertsbusch at hand, lotsa Wagner, natch, some Bruckner... but I wouldn't recommend his AB be anyone's first or second or likely even third recording of a given work... what's next, Kabasta & Abdendroth? For $1-3 a pop, Tintner is worthwhile, sometimes better, that reminds me of Celibidache & Asahaina but, speaking of perversity, though Celi has that in spades & sometimes sounds "scrumptious" in so doing, I'd hold off now. best integrale that also fuels love/hate though most never saw it & few will be able to find it today is the mostly Eichorn (with some by Martin Sieghart (whose Schmidt 4 on Chesky is "fucking delectable" according to Virgil Thomson) box with Bruckner Orch Linz on Japanese Camerata. Obv. I mostly prefer individual issues in all the sym but the box economy will out. No to Kabasta or Abendroth. Zzzzzzz. I have heard individual Eichorn discs and yeah, love it. Individual discs are the way to go. I like my Bruckner full blooded and hot, not Celibidache lethargic. I want to be blindsided by those Alpine slopes in all their glory, and tumble down the steep cliffs in an avalanche. Boulez conducting the 8th is unexpectedly brilliant. Wildner instead of Tinter on Naxos, the 3rd and 9th are excellent, especially the 9th with the semi restored conclusion. Konwitschny's Bruckner is my first choice, though not a complete cycle, on Memories, which is available on Berkshire Music for about $24, for 6 discs, and is a freaking bargain for the quality of music you get.

I need to hear the Wand Bruckner. I have had the Skrowaczewski Oehms box and was deeply disappointed by it. I don't know if it is the recordings, which I find to be cooly distant, or the performances, which range from very good to unexpectedly bland. I have heard some earlier concerts that he had conducted, with different orchestras in the 70s and 80s, and they blow away the performances in this box. The Tinter Bruckner is awful, just overrated, with only the early symphonies (0, 00, 2) having some redeeming qualities. Look for Van Beinum on Decca (though not complete), the Brilliant Bruckner symphonies box (with wild performances conducted by Rogner), or above all, the Knappertsbusch cycle on Music & Arts.

Wait on it. Prices will fall.

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