Dmitry

A guy I used to work with at the record store had that 45. Winning bid - $8239. Fucking A!

Karl Denson - HERBAL TURKEY BREAST Just about to unwrap this baby.

Check out what's written on the poster behind the subject. Who's the subject?

Enjoy your birthday, John!!!

Lads, if anyone has the tray card for Blythe's Metamorphosis/The Grip India Navigation cd I'd be very grateful for a xerox copy. Got the used cd, booklet is there, but no tray card. Please PM me if you're willing to help.

HAPPY BIRFDAY!

Many happy returns!

The ARChive of Contemporary Music is having its semi-annual cd/lp sale. I picked up 2 Threadgill titles and an Amina Claudine Myers [all on Novus], and an original Douglas pressing of the Turkish Women at the Baths. As usual, they had a ton of $3-$5 Knitting factory cds, and many many $1 Lps. Especially recommended is the 2cd retrospective of the Bembeya Jazz National from Guinea. A must have collection, imo. Sale runs till Dec. 19th at 54 White Street, 1 block below Canal, between Church and B-way.

I drove by 6th and w22nd today. The dude is still there. He also has dvds. I asked the wife if we could stop [having just come out from the semi-annual ARC cd/lp sale on White Street], but she gave me that ray look, so we proceeded to the Met, as planned. Gilbert Stuart exhibition is not to be missed..

HELL YEAH, Philly! The original Nathan's rules! That's where they have the famous hot dog eating contest every 4th of July. A scrawny Japanese kid has won the last 2 times, I think. Japanese professional speed-eater Takeru "The Tsunami" Kobayashi destroyed the competition for the second consecutive year at the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July international hot dog eating contest, scarfing down 50½ hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes. The 24-year-old Kobayashi, who weighed 113 pounds before the contest and almost 120 pounds after, bettered his 2001 world-record performance by half a hot dog despite having to fight off the 100-degree heat. He also covered the spread of Internet gamblers, who favored him to win by 20 hot dogs. Me, I usually get 2 hot dogs with everything. Matter of fact I'll scoot over there this afternoon after work. Nothing tastes as delicious as a good kosher hot dog to this New Yorker.

Poe's THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE is considered the mother of all modern detective stories. Residing in Paris during the spring and part of the summer of 18--, I there became acquainted with a Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin...

Was there ever a consensus on who was the basis of Holmes's character? I remember reading that it was based on a medical school professor of Doyle's, Dr. Joseph Bell. I own the venerable Oxford 2 vol. set, but will browse the new edition for sure.

Happy birthday, David! Keep that frequency in check!

I am very touched, very touched indeed. Dear friends, thank you for the wonderful birthday wishes. Even though my presence on the board has been marginal lately due to work commitments I feel very honored to know that people still care. It warms my heart to read your greetings. Thank you!

To all those who expressed interest in obtaining a cd of the terrific track # 2, I encourage you to Nick Demopoulos direct through his web-site - http://www.exegesisonline.com/ The whole cd is nothing short of wonderful. One of the best discs of the 1990s, imo.

Cd-r was mailed. I'm not surprised it didn't arrive. My experience with mailing things to Russia is dismal. Seems like most mail is being stolen either by the P.O. staff or from people's mail boxes by their neighbors. I only send things to my friends in Moscow with a courier. Sorry about that.

A consensus! I will pick up both.

Sassy Swings the Tivoli The tune selection looks particularly tasty, and I don't think I have any live recordings of Sassy in small group setting in my collection. Eddie Condon in Japan In all honesty I'm not familiar with Condon, but the personel looks paticularly enticing - Buck Clayton, Vic Dickenson, Pee Wee Russell, Bud Freeman. I'm thinking I should pull the trigger...

I met a gentleman at the Tower who sold his Lp collection to a Japanese buyer for 40 grand in the mid-80s. I wonder how much he could've gotten for it today. 5-6 times more perhaps.

Is anyone up to continuing to make the .pdf files of all the covers/personell listing? It was a good beginning!

On a tangent - I was less than impressed with the Evans-Russell 1972 Columbia collaboration titled the Living Time. Still have the Lp, so might give it another spin, but from what I remember it was a massive pile-up of [loud] sounds and Evans was the wrong man for the job. His record with Toots Thielemans is perhaps the ultimate cocktail party album.

хлам-почта is right. The song, well, the song is toufta [туфта] aka doo-doo aka crapola. IMO, etc.

Yes, it's true. Tristano was Billy Joel's driving instructor.

I met David Lee Roth in Manhattan last year. He was with one of the most beautiful cocaine chicks I've ever seen. His pants were tighter than hers. Both were seriously stoned.

I got mine for $200 I think. Those sets will eventually climb back in price, imo.