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SUCKS!!!!!!!! Damn, how do they thrive being so poorly run? I sell on ebay a fair bit, and last night, all these auctions that did not sell should have automatically relisted thru inkfrog.com where I also store my photos...well, instead, 18 auctions did not, each generating an email from inkfrog saying there was a category problem. I thought, shit...this doesn't have to do with what was posted on this board yesterday with category changes, does it? Oh, it does! I couldn't even re-list let alone start new listings last night. I thought it was a glitch , even ebay couldn't be this stupid! Ah, but I misunderestimated them! There is only one category now for cds, number 307, general! I am sure from all the surveys ebay paid for that most customers said, hey, toss all listings in one big pot, If I am looking for Megadeth, don't have a category just for thrash metal, put it next to 259823 other cds, next to Yanni, and Judy Garland...it just makes sense! I honestly thought last night they did this to destroy small companies like Inkfrog who got money ebay would get for image hosting, auto listing, etc..etc...today, I can at least relist my non selling auctions, but instead of them going back up automatically, I have to change each and every one of them to general category...I like to waste my time! Any auctions that don't end with bid, will have this problem for the next week. Not the biggest deal in the world, but hell, will less people bid now that they can't just go to bop/hard bop? IF you know what cds you are looking for by title, no problem, but folks like to browse, I know I do...just put in some key words, or just see what is ending today in jazz... Ebay screwed up things last year by getting rid of subcategories under video like classic films (Gee, Modern Times, put it under Drama, subcategory Romance?) And who the heck would want to see all the Foreign language films in one section, put them under drama, that's what most of them are, anyway! Well, now ALL movies are general movies, whether they be on DVD, VHS, or Laserdisc...ALL lps are identical, no need to differentiate! I know, I'll show 'em and list more on half.com...wait, they are doing away with them in a few months... Someone please tell me why someone else hasn't been able to be real competition for them? Blockbuster has to deal with Hollywood video, Wal-mart has Target, Hertz has Avis...someone could make a real killing by creating a online auction site that didn't charge you the same 30 cent fee for 3, 5, and 7 day auctions, and didn't gouge you 20 cents more for 10 days. Didn't charge you when an auction doesn't sell. Didn't charge you to put in extra words for your description because THEY didn't make enough room for you.... I'm a bit pissed in case you can't tell!

Jazz, good luck! A hell of an adventure awaits you!

Aww, come on, show the wing with the 20's jazz at least!

Ghost, That is the MCA box set, covering the years 1931 to 1957. Wish someone would do better than just a greatest hits box set, but then again, how could I afford it? Damn, good eyes though! Here is the Columbia Box I do have, just 3 cds, crap sound, but great liner notes from Michael Brooks(who met his hero Bing, to be let down a bit by the real Bing) with may alternate tracks, and rarities, which most people buying set would not be aware of! Dig the lens on my Dad's JBL Speaker! I do believe you are right about the author writing both books. This book kept going up in price, I should have ordered it when I worked at borders! An aside, I used it for years as a training exercise at Borders, I would ask for a book called Tram(Not in the title base, they had to go to Books In Print) So many people know of Bix, Bunny, and Tram, in Atlanta, and yet they don't!

Damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ANY time I am in pawn stores, or music shops...junk is $500-1000, perhaps I need to dig deeper in ATL, I would love to mess with a cheap C...

Don't you own any cds????

Or Moose's thread on weird organization, mixing the rock with the jazz...a foolish Idea, if you ask me! I have wondered how others had their collection laid out...mine is purely the buy another cheapo spinner from laserline and see how many will stack and spin! I like my cd horizontal so I can read the titles, of course, 2 cd sets don't fit in those spinners alphabetically, so I have to use this wooden case for 2 cd sets, and various artists, alpha of course, and no rock in 'em!(Except for the one DVD audio I own , by Megadeth , that comes in a goofy too tall case, so it lays on top of other jazz cds! ) My Box set collection with just a few Mosaics, that cannot be seen(Just vertical blackness, no matter how much I adjust the brightness) The Proper sets on top cost just about the same amount as the Capitol Jazz set! Not that the Capitol isn't worth it. Of course, the Frankie Trumbauer Bio-discography (Blue book on right)was the price of 4 propers as well.... For anyone that thought my talk of Megadeth was a joke... For the life of me, I don't know why stuff always falls off the top of these! Need to see if I can get a fourth one on this stack! Of course, whenever possible, I put all hep cds by the same artist together, to have the color flow, and If I can get to different hep artists to butt up together... I cropped this photo, so I wouldn't have to explain why I had not one, but 2 of the same Patti Rothberg cd on the floor...wait, did I just mention...I am tired.... So, I showed what a pigpen I live in, and my cd collection...NEXT!!!!!

Gosh, I take it back..why are really old saxes not worth more??? edit...bastards at ebay won't let you even post a link to auctions anymore!

You know, I don't know jack about the value of C-melody saxes, but should be worth more than that in good condition, right??? It is an investment then!

I've never been able to figure the old saying that a dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's. I mean, yeah, the dogs licks its own ass, or eats its own shit, then licks you? I don't know. I'm no dog expert. Maybe dogs have less bacteria in their mouths? But, maybe the dogs need less bacteria? Maybe the bacteria in a human mouth is necessary and humans would have problems if the bacteria weren't present? Where's Mnytime when you need him? Maybe he could comment on the amount of bacteria/filth in a human mouth versus a dog mouth? Perhaps if we ate our own poop, we would have less bacteria in our mouths....

Donuts...I taste them(or at least the grease) hours later, which kinda grosses me out......

Ya'll all crazy, the best dark chocolate bar is Milky Way Dark.......

Once again, the DVD brings the long forgotten back to life! the info at Deepdiscountdvd.com DVD Description After hosting a highly successful special on NBC in 1977, Richard Pryor was offered a ten-week contract by the network to present his own show. However, bizarre scheduling problems and Pryor's paranoia concerning his abilities meant that it only ran to four shows. Although the ratings didn't manage to live up to expectations, the shows have subsequently undergone something of a critical rehabilitation, and are now regarded to be amongst Pryor's best work. Combining a mixture of political satire and his inimitable rapier wit, Pryor worked with a variety of special guests on the shows to produce some classic comedic subject matter which still resonates to this day. Guests include John Belushi, Maya Angelou, Robin Williams, Sandra Bernhard, and many others.

Peter shouldn't have, and neither should I, for the same reasons!

Oh yeah! Need to find my a sugar Mama! You like Cougars right? There is a european Muscle car mag called Crome and Flames That has a sweet '70 RX7 convertible that someone owns in Austria!!!

Well...It is getting harder to justify buying more jazz cds. I have a lot of jazz cds already(I mean my collection is big, it is 1/1000 the size on Lon's! )But when sanity loses it's grip on me in a few weeks.... most likely the Boswell sisters , vol 4, and 5.....I was going to get some of those el-cheapo 10 cd box sets from Past Perfect that run 30 bucks, like the Lester Young set, Coleman Hawkins...damn...why didn't I spend 30 bucks??? Oh no...it is happening again!!!!!

If you have ever wondered what other wonderful people were born the same day I was, wonder no more! Famous Birthdays; Phil Lesh ( Grateful Dead), Mike Love (The Beach Boys), Judd Hirsch (Taxi), Sly Stone, Fabio, Howard Scott (War), Dee Snider (Twisted Sister), Bret Michaels (Poison), Mark Hoppus (Blink 182), Terence Trent D'Arby, Harry James, Samuel "Lightnin" Hopkins, Jimmy Swaggart. Macdonald Carey as well!

Thanks everyone!!!! Not too exciting a birthday...yet! My poor parents! When I was younger, it was what do you want for your Birthday son? Why, money to buy some springs for my car! Or the front seat recovered (Old car nut I am!) Mom hated that...later, it was jazz cds "But son, you buy them all the time from Borders! Don't you have enough already?" Silly Mom! Dad understood a bit better since his used to be a big jazz fan, and has hundreds of ol' big band/Vocal lps. But today is a new day, I have broadened my horizons, I no longer put a false set of parameters on my desires..... I asked for dual exausts to be installed on my '70 Buick Wildcat! Let's see what she'll do the 1/4 mile in now that the 455 will be able to breathe! Plus, better fuel economy, the real reason of course. What kind of jazz fan am I, anyway? I could have gotten a Mosiac, perhaps a select as well for what that cost. I shall mull that over as I have a nice thick steak at Outback tonight.

Exactamundo! It's hard for me to listen to Jimi covers. I've never picked up any of those albums. I am sure Dylan fans hated the fact Hendrix did All Along the Watchtower, no matter how much Dylan praised/copied it....

I see someone beat me to the punch!

Toyota joins Japan's robot technology race with trumpet-playing humanoid Thu Mar 11, 6:54 AM ET Add Technology - AFP to My Yahoo! TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's top carmaker Toyota unveiled a trumpet-playing robot -- its first humanoid machine -- in a bid to catch up with robot technology frontrunners such as Honda and Sony. Toyota Motor Corp. (news - web sites) showed off its walking and rolling virtuoso robots to the media at a Tokyo hotel as it announced the outline of its robot development project. The 120-centimeter (48-inch) tall robot played "When you wish upon a star" with a trumpet as a presenter held a microphone up to the instrument, swaying naturally to the rhythm of the famous song from the Disney cartoon film Pinocchio. The robot, with what appeared to be an artificial green leaf stuck behind its left 'ear', bowed to the audience and waved its arms to respond to applause following the brief performance. The 35 kilogram (77 pound) as yet unnamed robot has artificial lips which can alter their position as subtly as human lips as air is forced through them, enabling it to play a trumpet as it presses the stops with its hands. "We are determined to drive forward the Toyota Partner Robot project by putting together what we have cultivated in automotive development and production," Toyota president Fujio Cho told the news conference. "I'm confident that this will be a symbol of Toyota Group's technology," Cho said. Toyota plans to form a "robot band" to play music at the 2005 World Exposition at the carmaker's base in Aichi, central Japan, the president said. Among its partners in the project are Japanese computer giant NEC Corp. and micro-motor maker Yasukawa Electric Corp., a Toyota official said, adding the company has no concrete plans to commercialise the project. Toyota started humanoid robot development two and a half years ago, Cho said without mentioning costs. The robot development race is highly competitive in Japan, the world's leader in the technology. In 2000, its rival Honda Motor Co. (news - web sites) Ltd. unveiled ASIMO, the world's first two-legged walking robot, and Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news) (news - web sites). revealed its QRIO, the world's first jogging robot, in December. Earlier this week QRIO appeared for a photo opportunity conducting the Tokyo Phiharmonic Orchestra as it performed part of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. It was not immediately clear whether QRIO would be conducting Toyota's robot musicians in future as well. "Honda has obtained excellent patents of two-leg walking robot technology, but we cleared that hurdle with our own automotive technology," said Kusuke Shiramizu, Toyota's executive vice president. NEC has released an interactive robot with "humanlike" expressions, which can speak 3,000 phrases, while Hitachi Ltd. has unveiled a birthday cake-shaped cleaning robot that manoeuvres round furniture and sucks up dust automatically. The robot market in Japan is estimated at some 500 billion yen (4.5 billion dollars). "Toyota's entrance will have a great impact on Japan's humanoid robot competition," said Shigeaki Yanai, a researcher at Japan Robot Association. "Toyota, the nation's biggest manufacturer, has already secured highly reliable robotic technology through its industry automation, and is wealthy enough to use considerable funds for robot development," Yanai said. "With Toyota's participation, competition in the nation's robotic industry will be tougher." http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid...15417&printer=1

Isn't it something like $69.95??? Man, if the folks who would lay down that kind of money to watch a homoerotic event only knew about Mosaic! (Well after pissing of beerdrinkers and wrestling fans ina span of 2 minutes, my work is done!) The Rock is the best actor who ever wrestled professionally....

All beer is glorfied piss water of some sort.... I try to start a fight with all the beer drinkers like Catesta and Weizy, every few months, but it never works!