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I'd like to say a big thanks to the fellas from the band for running this board yet another year and giving us all a cyber home to hang out. Seasons greetings to all of the board members whatever your faith (or lack of ) an hope you all have a peaceful, safe and loving time. to everyone

2005 brought me to Tina Brooks in a big way, his small but perfectly formed collection of Blue Notes is on heavy rotation in the house, on the iPod and in the car. Early in the year I was bowled over by the remasters of Miles' Live In Antibes etc. These still enjoy lots of listening time mainly due to George Coleman's gorgeous sound. At the time of writing I'm still devouring my recent acquisitions from Jackie Mac's and Bobby Hutcherson's BN backcatalogue; they'll keep me in meat and drink for a while to come. Lastly, but no less important this year was my introduction to a couple of BNs from Wayne Shorter that were missing from my collection, in particular Et Cetera. Happy days indeed.

Doesn't this do something nasty though when hungover/dehydrated? I remeber reading that because you have this alcohol stored latent somewhere in the body unable to be absorbed through said dehydration. You think "mmm, lots of water" only to allow the booze to course through your bloodstream again and possible get you phished once again. B3 sounds good though, with gravy naturally

Neat chilled vodka and rollmop herrings

and my riding country..

Richard Ashcroft and Coldplay tonight in Tyneside.

ooooo.....interesting choice!!! I picked this up when they did those 2K remasters and listened to it avidly for weeks but have not sine. From what I remember Rebirth is a killer but I'm not so keen on the eastern-ethnic instrument piece on koto, mainly because of the instrumentation. I'll dig this out later, probably tomaorry as I'm off to see Coldplay live later today.

Done it but it couldn't find the vilage I live in so I'll retain a certain amount of anonymity.

Same here but I have a handful of his discs

I wonder what the incidence of board members with sleeping disorders is like here? I'll bet it's quite high; I too keep 'odd' hours most days of the week and find myself awake for no apparent reason in the dead of night. Without trying to preach, if we bear this in mind, the more we can do to be supportive and tolerant of each other will only be a good thing. Don't fall out fellas....since weeding out some real dickheads here, the place seems such a nice place to visit.

Spring Is Here....wishful thinking...

Lighter fluid, sparingly.

Very sad for Sam and all those that knew her. Immortalised in a beautiful melody. RIP.

This is great fellas. Once again I have the xmas tunes (laptop went pop earlier in the year). Now I have the facility to put them on the iPod and onto disc (so my wife can enjoy them!!)

Something we can agree on! Next time you watch it, notice how many times a white firebird shows up during the chase scene. I think a bug keeps re-appearing as well... And the Charger lost about 6 hub caps too!!!

yeah, does anyone actually live in Iowa? What's there of note? At least now though, I know what the Oklahoma Pan Handle looks like.

Well at least there's some consistency, that's the same motor as the 275.

You can't even imagine trying that now, even in a provincial town, nevermind a city!!! very impressive, if somewhat insane, driving. At times it looks like he's making his route up as he goes along. The V12 yowllllll.... amazing given that this 'supercar' only has 280 bhp; mediocre for today's boxes.

Africa: 37/52, 70%, ave error 543 miles by the way, don't open the browser window first then come back to it because you'll get some wierd times in your results! Europe: 99%, 44/45, ave error 45 miles (Liechtenstein )

The States Europe South America Asia Africa Middle East States: 88% correct, 435 secs and ave error of 29miles (my first guess was Iowa! ) Check back later with some more results Middle East: 13/17, 76%, ave error 174 miles S. America 19/20 (Belize), 95%, ave error 43 miles Asia: 24/32, 75%, 153 miles

Blue please.

The Live Chat does work now eh! trouble is, I'm only one in there

I got tired of my Miles avatar (makes me think of Vince Wilburn ), so I temporarily replaced it with Helène Grimaud http://www.helenegrimaud.com/ She's a stunner. Can she play?

Naaah. i would have remembered her if she was in Take That!

It's Organissimo Jim, but not as we know it. Loving it and looking forward to the live chat function for when I'm in insomniac mode! BTW Claude, who's the piccy of?