king ubu

And I already got my discs! Wow, that was fast! And they're cool enough to put a wrong value on the custom slip so I don't have to pay any friggin' taxes - very nice!

I finally got "Soul Sisters" last fall - fine album! Rest in peace

Ok, ok, I gave in and ordered

Kind of weird... about 1.5 discs worth spread on 3 (fine with me), for 40€, and coming from Lithuania? I must say I am tempted, though...

Well thanks everybody for the education here... will know better next time, but I guess I was kind of lucky this time around!

And one more note, Chuck: these series - at least the best of them, they achieve something that US mainstream films have given up several decades ago: they build complex plots with many characters, they even explain the motives of less important characters, they challenge the viewer and demand attention, or you'll get lost soon. This may be a big point in why they're successful, as most of what Hollywood's been producing for the past two or three decades is aimed at teenaged boys going to the movies on the opening weekend, while they have mostly abandoned doing films that hold up for a slighty more demanding (and mature) crowd. These TV series bring that back again, which is not a bad thing.

Well Chuck, it's not *that* bad, "Lost" is only the fourth series we're really watching (including "Californication", which was hilarious and hard to be believe it came from the US, but not including "Twin Peaks", which is way more than just some series...). We watched "Alias", just for the fun of it, and then much of "24" (not yet seen Season 7), and now "Lost". I mostly keep busy revisiting classics of cinema from all over (including the US, latest was Frankenheimer's "Seven Days in May", very good one).

Just watched the first five episodes of Lost Season 4 - holy crap! We're hooked again! But there will be a break after that as Season 5 still costs serious $$ as it can only be imported.

squatting being? putting up a bid with a max sum on day 1 and just wait until it ends?

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Mike! :party:

No - you can check out the contents (tracklists, that is - you'll need to compare with the older CDs or allmusic or something else) here: http://www.amazon.de/Montreal-Tapes-Charlie-Haden/dp/B0024Y5Z0K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1258467956&sr=1-1

Thanks, will look into it when I do my next ebay-bidding!

That Piano Select is really getting expensive these days... Ebay Piano Select flurin got quite a good deal for his $90 ! Yeah, I had 100$ in as a maximum bid (and that was the total cost including shipping - it's on its way by now)... and newbie that I am on ebay (I bought about five discs in the past ten years...), I would have been totally lost to keep up with the guy/gal who bade (is that the correct verb form?) against me during the final few minutes... glad it only arrived at 90$ before ending! The best way to bid is to wait until the last few seconds and then place a bid or use a sniping service that does it for you. Bidding early only invites others to try and outbid you and it drives the price up. I see I still have a lot of learning to do there... don't like the word "sniping" in this context, but I guess I'll have to look into that, eventually... the price stood fairly low until the final few minutes, so I don't think I've driven up the price to my own disadvantage.

I can be bought at Amazon, at least on their European sites. I've got all the Universal/Verve sets except for the one with Rubalcaba, so I'm not going to buy the box.

That Piano Select is really getting expensive these days... Ebay Piano Select flurin got quite a good deal for his $90 ! Yeah, I had 100$ in as a maximum bid (and that was the total cost including shipping - it's on its way by now)... and newbie that I am on ebay (I bought about five discs in the past ten years...), I would have been totally lost to keep up with the guy/gal who bade (is that the correct verb form?) against me during the final few minutes... glad it only arrived at 90$ before ending!

Done with Season 3 of lost, watched a whopping 7 episodes yesterday It got better and better after around the middle of it, I found, but there still were some slow and boring moments. Now I guess we'll get started with Season 4 tonight - this will be a fast one, to be caught in 3-4 viewings (14 episodes only). We don't have Season 5 yet, it's still way too expensive over here, as it still is on TV right now!

It doens't include the set with Gismonti. And it was discussed here, came out somewhen last fall:

spoilt as in "you get CDs for half as much money as we get them here"... not for Bush, war, tea parties, health care (or lack thereof) etc...

Yes... the total lack of interest is somewhat disappointing... can't be the prices, I guess... Would also have expected some offers for the Shank/Cooper set, but then most here seem to think 80 or 90$ way too much for a Select, while I was ready without the slightest reluctancy to pay that much or more for the ones that disappeared last year...

Gee Hans, if you get two offers, re-direct one to me, ok?! Good luck! It's actually just one disc that wasn't reissued in that batch of 60th b-day Blue Note sets, but I'd love to have the Mosaic set as well!

Excellent film indeed! And lots of great music making in it, with his family (Ramblin' Boy is a fine album, btw!) as well as with friends (including Keith J. - just so you know...) and some great footage, too, most notably from that Lisbon concert with Ornette's quartet where Charlie was arrested! A superb musician, and I think a mighty fine person, too!

I watched the beginning of Season 1 of "Dexter" on TV, found it quite good, but because of it's plot they moved it to later and later starting times (and maybe eventually they just wanted to get rid of it... the way to do that seems to be to have a series start later and later, and eventually no one will watch, so they can cut it using lack of interest as a reason - morons! Instead they'll put up more moronic "I want my 15 minutes on TV" shows, but it seems there are so many idiots around that feel superior to the idiots taking part in all these casting shows that the system will work for another while...) Anyway, end of rant... We're two thirds done with Season 3 of "Lost" by now, and while it got better and had moments of terrific suspense, alltogether it seems like the low point so far, lack of ideas, whole filler episodes (such as the blonde chick and the Latin guy and their diamonds... cool idea to bury them alive though, I admit). Hope the short-cut Season 4 will pick up some steam! Lots of Season 3 was also paced too slowly for my liking. I found it less interesting than Season 2, even though I had seen probably a third (but not one complete episode) of it a few weeks earlier, when Ms. ubu was watching it... I caught up in a frenzy, watching Seasons 1 & 2 within just two weeks, and that was a hell of a ride, and I just feel Season 3 doesnn't hold up by comparison!

Happy Birthday, Hans! Ahm, John, ahm, all these men called "Hans"... (hey, I'm only paraphrasing Ingeborg B., so don't shoot the messenger! )

Happy Birthday, Hans!

Assuming this is a sincere question, it makes sense when you're shipping internationally. It saves a significant amount of postage expense. I really did not realize how much it costs to mail the jewel boxes internationally. I recently ordered some replacement jewel boxes and was struck by how flimsy they were. I guesss they are all fungible to a large extent. Yeah, there are various kinds of replacement jewel cases, and usually they're packed and labelled and priced the same, but they come in varying quality! That does suck now and then, but still, shipping w/cases can get ridiculously pricy very fast, if it's not within Europe (but even there, you'll quickly note the difference, it's the same price to ship 1CD w/case as 3CDs w/out them!)