BruceH

I think I've caught one or two episodes of Air Emergency. If it's the show I'm thinking of, I like the amount of detail it goes into. You know exactly what happened, how the flight crew dealt with it, etc. This reminds me: Have either of you guys seen the Errol Morris series First Person? He's the documentary filmmaker who came out with The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War. In this TV series, each pisode is an interview of someone with an unusual job, obsession, or story to tell. My favorite episode is titled "Leaving the Earth." It concerns the crash of a passenger jet in 89 or 90 on the outskirts of Sioux City, Iowa----one of the most horrific crashes ever. You see the video clip of the plane tumbling and fireballing over the runway and it seems utterly impossible that anyone could survive it, but a few did. The fact that anyone survived at all is due to the efforts of one Denny Fitch, the interviewee. He was a check pilot for an airline, someone who basically makes sure the pilots' skills are up to par. But he just happened to be on this flight because he was coming home from leading a seminar or class of some sort. So he was just a passenger on the plane when all of the jet's hydralics went out AND one of the engines stopped working. (This was supposed to be a one-in-a-billion chance, so no emergency procedures had been worked out to deal with it.) He could tell something was wrong, so he went to the cockpit and offered to do what he could to help. It's an amazing story; he takes you through it step by step so you understand what was going on and what they were trying to do to ameliorate the situation. Fitch comes across as very humble, but clearly if he hadn't happened to be there the plane would have pitched into a worse crash and killed everyone aboard. One of the most utterly riveting hours of television I've ever seen.

Me too! Coincidentally, I rewatched Grand Illusion recently and was struck by Kosma's score. He composed the music for Children of Paradise too. I'd say that makes him one of the all-time greats.

A big favorite of mine from the great Elmer Bernstein. And, along with Man With the Golden Arm, one of the first examples of a jazzy score in a Hollywood film (and as a film, I'd say it holds up rather better than MWGA.)

Don't know them.

Maria Bartiromo. And Joey Ramone liked her too. Even wrote a song about her.

I only just discovered Sloan in about January of this year. Twice Removed is indeed a good one; but I also really love One Chord To Another and Between the Bridges, their other masterpiece.

Mobley---"This I Dig Of You" Tina Brooks---"Theme for Doris" Horace Silver---"Too Much Sake" Freddie Hubbard---"Arietis"

Absolutely love Rota. Good call.

Damn, YES!!!

Didn't we do a favorite albums thread before, more than once?

The Kinks---Something Else The Beatles---Rubber Soul/Revolver (can't decide) The Rolling Stones---Aftermath The Ramones---Rockit To Russia The Zombies---Odessey and Oracle (yes, it's spelled like that) Sly & the Family Stone---There's A Riot Goin' On Brian Eno---Another Green World Bob Dylan---Highway 61 Revisited Miles Davis---Kind of Blue Duke Ellington---Such Sweet Thunder Stan Getz---Stan Getz With Cal Tjader Sloan---Never Hear the End Of It Tina Brooks---True Blue Dave Brubeck Quartet---Jazz Impressions of Eurasia Hank Mobley---Soul Station Benny Golson---Gettin' With It Teddy Edwards---Sunset Eyes Bobby Hutcherson---The Kicker Grant Green---Idle Moments John Lewis---The Wonderful World of Jazz Clifford Jordan---Glass Bead Games

The Kinks---"Waterloo Sunset" The Rolling Stones---"Think" The Ramones---"Rockaway Beach"

Monk---"Work"

Darwin isn't saying that he predicts that his views will be uncontroversial to the religious. He's saying that there aren't any good reasons why religious people would find his views controversial. And he's right; there are no GOOD reasons...there are moronic ones, though.

I, for one, am not sure I'm growned up enough. Actually, I think porcy's got a good point, but I sure as hell don't feel like arguing about it.

Some of the quotes are very political indeed, but fair enough.

Shakespeare: The World As Stage-----Bill Bryson

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see my favorite recent one: "We will be greeted as liberators."

We felt it here in the city...but down in the San Jose area they really got a scary jolt.

Exactly. But the US Goverment just keeps bailing them out. I hear talk of floating Ford like they did Chrysler several years back. Whatever happened to all that hugga-mugga about the "invisible hand of the marketplace" stuff anyway? They don't really believe it. Small businesses can die, but big businesses have bought too many politicians to be allowed to fold up shop without a huge bailout.

I'm a Kinks fan from way back (freshman year of college to be exact.) I must have missed this thread before. Face To Face and Something Else are my favorite albums, but a bunch more are "up there." I don't know about "Waterloo Sunset" being the most beautiful song in the English language (a tall claim for ANY song), but you could say it's the "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More" of the 60's.

That one has been on my "to read" shelf for almost three years now. Someday... I read it back in the early 80's. I recall it being damn good, but a tad depressing.

"Make a product that does NOT rip off the consumer." Indeed, a notion so revolutionary that they just can't conceive it.

It's still pretty nice.

"Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da", done as a calypso, is not far behind. (Unfortunately it is included on 'Summertime', disrupting the atmosphere of an otherwise balanced set.) The horror...the horror...