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I think Tokyo is definitely suffering from global DIMMING. We've had almost zero sunshine since early May. Check this out............. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes...ing_trans.shtml

JJ Johnson Disc 5 Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Solid State Disc 3

Dreadful Blade Runner weather . Humid as hell, leaden skies, never ending rain. so dark in the mornings I have to turn on the lights.

Dreadful. This years rainy season has lasted since the 2nd week in May and it's still bleedin' raining. I'm sick of it.

Teddy Wilson Disc 3

Desmond/Hall disc 3 track 12

Put them in king size zip lock files and throw them in the cupboard until needed ( seldom).

It was UFO . Middle Earth opened after UFO closed.

I saw Yes maybe twice. They were a few years after the Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Floyd period. 'The Yes Album' was the one that I best remember, everyone played it to death but that was about 71 or 72 I think. I wasn't really a progressive rock fan but the Pink Floyd were unique in the true sense of the word. More than anything they captured the mood of 1967 in London. The street/music scene and Pink Floyd were completely intertwined. I was lucky to have lived there at that time and Syd Barrett's passing is epecially poignant for me. If anyone back then had said that his death would be worldwide news in 40 years time I would have thought they were mad.

It was great of course. The club was small so you could stand right in front of the stage to watch. The dreaded era of big arena concerts hadn't started so music could still be experienced in more intimate surroundings. They had a great light show.

I saw him with the original Floyd several times in London, in fact I met my first wife at an original Floyd gig at 'Middle Earth' in Covent Garden. Anyone else remember that place ?

So long Syd, thanks for the memories.

Indeed great. Time to relisten to some of the Complete Mercury.

I thought it was all right but pretty quickly forgettable. For all the fanfare I thought it was rather flat and uninspiring. Batman Begins is the benchmark 'superhero' flic for me.

Fantastic news, I thought she wouldn't be far away.

Your cat is young so the chances are she won't have gone far from the place she knows. I'd search round your place and keep searching especially at night when you might have a better chance of hearing a response. Are there any other cats living nearby ? If she ran into one she might have hidden somewhere to avoid a fight. Check under all cars and especially gardens, ledges, tops of sheds etc. I understand how you feel, our late cat once went missing for over two weeks. She needed hospitalizing for multiple injuries but she did come back, to our immense joy.

Elizabeth George - Playing For The Ashes

Here in Tokyo we have access to an incredible variety of cdr and dvdr. From my experience Taiyo-Yuden are the best with a near zero error rate. I've tried all the other Japanese manufacturers with mixed results. I avoid Maxell, they are unreliable. I now use BenQ for everything and am more than pleased with the results. I've never had an error on a cdr and have had one error on a dvd. That's from hundreds and hundreds of burns. My strong recommendation is BenQ. I pay about $17 for a 100 spindle of cdr and the same for a 50 spindle of dvd-r.

My wife is Japanese too but she agreed with me that the Japanese team were poor at best and that Oz well deserved to win.

Once, to our astonishment, our cat (rip) killed and dragged home a fully grown rabbit ! Luckily she couldn't get it through the cat door.

Thanks for the links. The first one doesn't seem to work but 'Isn't It A Pity' is brilliant.

He was a great musician and will be missed. I remember seeing him on the British Ray Charles tour around 63, he was brilliant and I've been a fan ever since.

So, pundits and Sopranoheads, what do you make of the final (?) episode. My reaction was ' Yes, and.....you mean that's it ?' I suppose we have to wait for the final final eight episodes to see what happens next.

The response is very inconsistent, sometimes ok, often dead slow with quite a few error messages.

Chubby rain? So Steve Martin was right after all.