Stefan Wood

Still haven't heard it.

An excellent compilation of African music (north, south, and everything in between) which has very good sound from the 78s sources. I'm on disc 5 of this massive set. One has to look at this as a documentary, not a straight forward music compilation, as there are narration throughout. I'm loving it!!!!

Ordered mine, sound issues notwithstanding.

Got mine from da bastids and like the Bill Dixon reissue, this is another stellar reissue!

Reissue/ re-discovery of the year.

National Archives theft

Disc 1 of the Sam Rivers & the Rivbea Orchestra Select. Just heard the tune "Cruz." This music is HOT!!!!!!!!! Reminds me when I saw his trio play with the students at the Peabody Institute. Essential listening!!!

Chuck, I put my order in for the early mitchell.

Dynamite set. Really liked the boots, LOVE this box!

Tough loss for the SKins. Why did they blitz on 3rd and 21???? Still, there was no running game, which is troubling. A real defensive battle for both teams.

Surprised (happily surprised...) that Marion Brown is featured at a Warhol exhibition. Was there more to the two of them than their common participation in the ESP 'East Village Other' recording? Too bad that the exhibition does not travel to Paris! Looks very interesting. Sorry, no. Just that East Village Other lp.

Warhol: Deadlines opens today. We just completed work on it last week. Check out the groovy staircase, where music from Velvet Underground, Marion Brown and Allen Ginsberg chants can be heard!

If this newly issued 3 cd set is anything like its predecessor, Fire in My Bones, I am all over this:

yes that's correct.

Looking forward to it in the mail. Lots of good stuff this September!

Alexander McQueen at the Met.

haven't seen skins yet in 2011- who is your qb????? Grossman. Doing fine, at least for this week. I'm concerned about the run blocking, but they looked good Sunday.

It's not a scam. Paypal is really asking for SSNs relating to taxable income. When I received the email, I thought well this was a joke. But I went directly to Paypal (not through the email), and after logging in it was asking me for the info as well. This was a month ago. A buddy of mine, a heavy ebay seller, received a similar email over six months ago.

It happened to me. And a number of people I know who do more ebay transactions than I do. The new world order....

Hangzhou

Hong Kong Not enough pictures of this beautiful city.

Beijing My only regret with this one is that you can see a flaw in the lens -- oh well.

Added a new book, the second from my honeymoon in China. This is a sampling of the insanity that is Shanghai, during the World Expo. It was here I learned to push young kids and knee old ladies aside and get public approval for this. White Ghost has learned the proper social etiquette! Not a great city (looks like it was put together by someone using Sim City) but the old international quarter on the river is stunning. Shanghai

It's all film for the past few months. The China pics -- and there will be much more-- are digital.

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