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may I ask - do you guys have some kind of anal-retentive database that allows you to run a search for recording date? would someone of you come and catalogue my discs? there may only be 4 to 6 thousand (can't make a closer guess, sorry...)

Milt Jackson, "Plenty, Plenty Soul" (Atlantic US late 80s CD reissue) - the musician listing for what was originally side 2 does not include the pianist (Horace Silver, I think).

Happy Birthday!

Playing this one right now, with Clifford in fine form:

Hey, there's only one real (and tasty!) Budvar!

My guess is you won't need it, but I don't know. You can compare yourself, here's the discography of the Proper set: http://www.propermusic.com/popups/PROPERBO...discography.htm

Ray Charles box Hans Koller - Jeanneret Tapes Dexter - The Panther Hank Mobley - Thinking of Home

Too true, yes! And go catch it again. I think the restored version was done by the Berlin or Munich Filmmuseum or whatever there is... they will certainly show that one at the Cinemateque!

I have no idea what is out on DVD, but here are a few other favourites: "Man Hunt" (1941 - picture above taken from that film) "The Woman in the Window" (1944 - one of the most beautifully photographed, and image-wise, not necessarily story-wise, darkest noirs I've seen) There are more that I've seen, but these two are the ones that come to mind immediately (besides M and Metropolis and the Mabuse ones). I think I've also seen "Scarlet Street", but I don't have any vivid memories, same, I think, for "Ministry of Fear". Then there's "Hangmen also die", a curiosity, rather than a great film. Poor BB (not Brigitte Bardot, mind me, but the author of the famous "Ballade...") was one of the script writers of that one.

Thanks Pete! I have that Norfolk date (of course I got it all via your fantastic seeds)!

I think you're right. However, you can't deny that as a piece of art, "Metropolis" *is* fascinating, no? And all those modern hollywood flicks making use of the vertical (like that stupid sci-fi film that put Milla Jovovich on the map) owe a lot to "Metropolis" (in fact they just stole from it).

I wonder what he'll do to them meaty broblopps!

I just saw this for the first time a couple of days ago. It is a profoundly moving, beautiful film. I went out and bought it the next day. The Criterion Collection DVD is fantastic! ← I was in trance when I left the theatre after the film had finished. Definitely one of my very very dearest films. The home edition here has two DVDs, the first with the film, the second with deleted scenes (including director's audio comments), interviews with Wong and some of the main actors, stills, trailers, posters... quite nicely done. I would recommend seing this film in a theatre first, though. I haven't dared watching the first DVD yet, being afraid of disillusion. Not sure the colour scheme and everything works out on the small screen... Oh, and those south of the border songs by Nat Cole are sooooo beautiful! So are Maggie Cheung's dresses...

I liked M better than Metropolis, though I was positively surprised by both films. (I'd recently seen both Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, both of which hadn't aged very well.) Guy ← Yes, "M" is the true masterpiece! But I saw a restored version of "Metropolis" in a theatre, with a live band (violin, piano, drums), and it was a true event. I think it was the first time that restored version was ever showed in a theatre, too... But "M" is a much better film, I agree. I disagree on both "Nosferatu" and "Dr. Caligari" - love them both. There's also Murnau's "Faust"... great stuff!

So brownie, what would you say, is it Dolphy at all? I am well aware that pre... what, 1960? Dolphy doesn't really sound like Dolphy a lot, so it may be a difficult call... Any more info on that last quintet date? Newport we all have, I assume, but I'm not sure about that one...

and what will you do with her?

Want proof about Miles? First he embraced this: But less than a decade later he embraced this, and that was *almost* nouvelle vague, I guarantee: ample proof I say, that Miles would allow taping! in my last seance, he said, whispering, "fuck owner rights, yo mf!"

wouldn't do that... read more here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=21883

yup!

Or else they're piling up in and around the sink... just as the other stuff piles up on the desk and on the floor and around the bed...

oh hellyeah!!!

You're welcome! Oh, and watch your mailbox - you're gonna get some ..... well, before Xmas! ← I will... still 10 weeks to go, no hurry!

I have seen both Metropolis (in a gloriously restored edition, from Berlin, I think, 2002) and M in a theatre, last year or so - terrific films! Bought this one, recently:

not that I really care, but: ← OK Switzerland proved to be a good match for the French team BUT the Swiss goal was headed against his side by Lilian Thuram ← On the other hand I've heard (of course I haven't seen a minute of the match, myself...) that once the French could only stop one of the swiss by attacking him? Doesn't exactly make a good impression! Has God turned his back to Zidane? Or was that only the media/marketing God anyway, that talked to him? Or was it la liberté? Would she speak to Arabs?

not that I really care, but: