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59 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:
My five year old is desperate to go to a game. I've been waiting to pick it until we are on a run of some sort of form. The last thing I want is for his first experience of live football to be miserable faces, booing and endless fearful long balls. He has the rest of his life as a football fan for that.
On the positive side, an afternoon in the stands would greatly expand his vocabulary.
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14 minutes ago, mjazzg said:
Yes, that's correct, rugby Premiership and football Premier League.
I shall pay my penance at the altar of sports marketing 🙃
Interestingly, I know two Britons, one a Scot, another an Englishman, neither of whom could give a hoot about football, but they follow rugby very intensely. As i was explained, rugby is a toughness-building sport in schools, while football is not as popular.
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25 minutes ago, mjazzg said:
Lots of coverage here of how City's premiership win has a bad taste to it although I fear that vested interets may find a way of prevailing.
Recently a participant in an online discussion I sometimes participate in, who referred to the "premiership' as another term for the PL, was corrected by another participant to the effect that premiership was to be applied to rugby, not football.
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36 minutes ago, Brad said:
It’s incredible to think that Leicester was only champion a few short years ago. That championship was once in a lifetime thing. With the money presently awash in football, a small team winning a title is inconceivable.
King Power, the conglomerate of the billionaire Srivaddhanaprabha family of Thailand which owns LCFC, took a very significant hit during the Covid air travel ban. KP is a chain of duty-free shops in South East Asia.
This video explains rather succinctly the Leicester business model, and how it has come undone. I will just add that the tragic death of the owner Vichai, who is lionized by the fans to this day, and who was the force behind the family riches and loved his club, was a precipitating factor. His son Top doesn't seem to be nearly as involved with the football club as was his father.
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We started following Leicester in 2015, when Vardy was unstoppable, and the Top 6 clubs weren't looking forward to playing at Filbert Way.
The absence of the relegation/promotion system in the USA is why I don't watch the sports on tv anymore.Takes away the dreams of small clubs rising from the bottom, and no-one is safe. I would imagine that being a fan of a local team has a significant community-bonding effect in the UK. There is nothing like it here in America.
Too bad about Reading. Good old club. Perhaps they'll get back into the Championship next year.
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The judgement day is coming.
This Sunday, it's either Everton, Leicester or Leeds that is going down. Everton is at 33 points, the other two are at 31. Only a victory will do for my Leicester City. Keeping hopeful, but realistic. The club is being mismanaged, and everyone knows it.
I do love the promotion/relegation system, which is not an option in major sports in the USA, where everything is "hooked up", as they say.
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Duke Ellington - Portrait of Billy Strayhorn
Duke Ellington - Satin Doll
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April 21, 2023
Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen
The Met, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
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19 hours ago, ejp626 said:
Terrible way to go...
Indeed.
It was known as heavy smokers and alcoholics cancer. -
I was introduced to his work by a film The Rachel Papers (a brilliant film that meant a lot to me at the time), which was based on his eponymous first novel. I met him briefly at the reading he gave at either the Brentano's or Shakespeare & Co. on 5th Avenue in the mid-1990s, and he signed a copy of this novel for me. I still have it.
He was sort of an enfant terrible of the English language prose in the 1970s-1980s. I haven't read any of his other books, but I did buy a novel that made waves when it came out. It's titled the Information, I think. My reading list is too long, but perhaps one day I'll get to it.
Also, the same film, the Rachel Papers, was my introduction to the music of the late Willy DeVille, a remarkably talented and creative musician, who, sadly, was an addict. You know his music from the Princess Bride.
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1 hour ago, Stompin at the Savoy said:
And he's not even an old white man!
As a rapidly approaching retirement white man I bet these are just the boxes and booklets. The cds are stored elsewhere.
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Just list them here, like everyone else does.
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35 minutes ago, king ubu said:
Started around 16, I think, so I've been buying them for close to 30 years soon.
At 16 I was smoking cigarettes, drinking, thinking of sex a lot and listening to the likes of Duran Duran. And no, reading that someone was buying Mosaic sets when I was doing all of that does not make me feel inferior. 😁
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There are so many mechanical steps in the process of making vinyl records, it's a miracle they can sound so good.
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Some titles are probably slow sellers. Others, like the Stones, Lennon, etc....no idea why they are so discounted. Maybe "much better new revolutionary definitive end-game" pressings are forthcoming.
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Acoustic Sounds is running a palpable sale on vinyl, which includes the Blue Note Classic and the Tone Poet series.
https://store.acousticsounds.com/index.cfm?get=results&start=1 &saleid=677#
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On 3/29/2019 at 2:37 PM, GA Russell said:
Produced by Nick Phillips, the vinyl box includes eight 180-gram LPs, remastered from the original analog tapes byPaul Blakemore (all of which were recorded by renowned engineer Rudy Van Gelder) and cut by Clint Holley from 24-bit/192kHz transfers. The lavish, linen-wrapped, portfolio-style book features an eye-catching design and includes 40 pages containing extensive liner notes by Grammy®-winning American music historian Ashley Kahn, rare ephemera and historical photographs of the saxophonist and his collaborators, including several taken by renowned jazz photographers Francis Wolff and Esmond Edwards. The 5-CD edition, containing a 76-page book, is a faithful replica of the 8-LP vinyl box.
Another vinyl project that uses digital transfers. It's like playing a giant black cd that costs more. I really like listening to my records, but digitally-sourced LPs don't appeal to my ageing ears.
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41 minutes ago, optatio said:
Oliver Lake
The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jiveass Slippers
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3 hours ago, Niko said:
Sun Ra's Chicago by William Sites mentions Dangerfield briefly but doesn't say anything about what happened to him... I just looked around a bit and came up with the following basic info: Claude Ruben Dangerfield, born 15 September 1931 as son of Claude Dangerfield Sr and Anna Gamble in Chicago. Married Barbara Joyce Cotledge on 8 December 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi. Died 6 November 1988 in Los Angeles. Final address 2118 West El Segundo Apt 6 in Gardena CA 90249, survived by his wife Barbara.
Art Pepper was born in Gardena.
Incidentally, just days ago received this book, but haven't opened it yet.
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I quit cigarettes cold turkey 11 years ago, after many years of smoking. Feel wonderful, but gained 10 kilos, which are never coming off. Would probably like to have a nice cigar to accompany an appropriate beverage, but am afraid to relapse into cigarettes. So no stogies for me. Enjoy!
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This set is now on LAST CHANCE .
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4 hours ago, Gheorghe said:
Reading in English is great for me as long as it is album cover text or musical biography. For other materia my vocabulary is too limited, so most books from anglo-american authors I read in translated version.
Here "Jocuri de putere" which means "Power Plays" written by Danielle Steel. We have ton´s of translated books on romanian books-online stores they are my favourite non jazz lectura.
This is about a female director executiv and a male director executiv, and their different characters.
The male is always braggin´ about his position and is a womanizer, the woman doesn´t want to share her success with the public....., very good insight into the business world.
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I hadn't realized you are Romanian. Were you born there?
On 5/2/2023 at 7:33 PM, Larry Kart said:I find Vanessa to be a more attractive figure than her sister Virginia (Woolf).
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I learned about the Bloomsbury Group and Formalism in the Art Criticism course I just finished. Clive Bell's Art was one of the books we discussed.
On 5/2/2023 at 4:24 PM, JSngry said:Still does...
Nice quip. Well put!
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Speaking of the Threadgill ephemera, I have recently come into possession of this important object: a compact disc of the Henry Threadgill Zooid - THIS BRINGS US TO Volume 1, with a handwritten note on the cover.
The text is as follows:
To FRANK
Thanx's For
Your PlaceI am assuming that Frank had provided a very important service for the person who gifted him this CD. Am I right to assume that the person who chose to remain anonymous is Henry Threadgill? Are there any HT handwriting experts in the group?
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32 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:
Maybe change it to "Prosaic," with minimal costs involved in changing the logo.
Cut the "i", and all will be good.
Phil Spector Dead at 81
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Tina Turner checked out today. 83.