BruceH

Butter and maple syrup.

Yep.

Yes indeed!

I've also happened upon that Fantagraphics book of Flora's work (The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora) just recently. Great book.

I've got a Christmas jazz/blues anthology that I like to spin around Christmas, but nothing quite does it like Phil Spector's Christmas album. (You know, the old one. Before he took to shooting people.)

Got to agree with Ubu on this one. ....And Jack Black playing the role of Carl Denham? Methinks no thank-you.

It SHOULD be available on CD on Such Sweet Thunder. Can't say it often enough, folks: Always keep your vinyl.

The definitive assessment. And it rhymes, too. I'm still pissed about the alternate take of "Up and Down, Up and Down (I Will Lead Them Up and Down)" that he somehow substituted for the master on the Columbia/Legacy CD of Such Sweet Thunder. Yeah, just when the hell is that going to be corrected?

"Revulsed"?

You hit the nail on the head. I've long thought that the Treniers practiced a sort of musical supersymmetry in which those strands hadn't yet been frozen out into seperate categories.

Very sad news. R.I.P.

That sounds intriguing...

Same here. I'd particularly like to get Le Samourai but don't know how I'll pay for it.

Sharon Stone had her film debut in Stardust Memories. David Ogden Stiers has been in approximately one million Allen films.

I hope they put up one with one of those nifty retractable domes, like in Toronto.

The State of the Art----Iain M. Banks

I heard that the main reason they dropped it was that people came out of the screening talking only about the scary spider sequence. It upstaged the entire rest of the movie.

This sure looks good to me. I love 'Sweets,' not to mention swing music in general. I'll have to check if I already have this, but if not, I'm gonna get it.

I think the Zombies made excellent use of electric piano.

Goddamn royal family.

Hehe... They just want people to know that deep down inside they're not as boring and dorky as they look. (Now excuse me while I put on my "Anarchy In the UK" t-shirt with the matching "Love Comes In Spurts" wristwatch.)

Just found the original "Music From Peter Gunn" as arranged and conducted by Henry Mancinni and reissued by Buddha. I've been looking for this for a while, and this copy was only $4.99...I used up a little remaining credit I still had, and the thing ended up costing me just two bucks. Nice! The lineups feature loads of jazz musicians, BTW, which makes sense as the eponymous PI was supposed to dig le Jazz West Coast.

Heh.

It's probably been mentioned before, but Victor Feldman played on several 70's Steely Dan albums, and Phil Woods, I believe, did the sax solo on "Dr. Wu."

He could pull it off, if anyone could. Agreed, but why would he lower himself to do that? It'd be like Paul and Ringo joining with the original guitar player to reform Herman's Hermits. On the other hand, just showing that he can might be reason enough for Todd. Anybody remember the album side on 'Faithful' where he attempted (pretty successfully, truth be told) to become the Beatles, Dylan, Beach Boys, Yardbirds, and Hendrix on covers of their songs? I listen to 'Back to the Bars' more than any other recording of his, greatly enjoy a lot of the Nazz stuff and the later Todd stuff as well as the classic 70's recordings, and my favorite song by him is "A Dream Goes On Forever", especially the live version. I have a friend who went to high school with Rundgren and tells a really funny story about how he was totally convinced that Rundgren had blown his shot at the big time by quitting his guitar slot in Woody's Truck Stop (one obscure post-Rundgren album on Smash) to start some unknown group called the Nazz. Same friend tells another funny story about expecting the Beatles to fade way quickly as a fad, that he was convinced that the really substantial British Invasion group was the Dave Clark Five. Don't take any investment tips from that guy. Yeah, I was actually thinking of that "covers" side of Faithful when I wrote that he could pull it off if anyone could. (His cover of "Good Vibrations" really amazed me at the time.) Why he would want to is an open question...probably just for the sheer hell of it. BTW, the best imitation of the Cars that I've heard in a long, long time has got to be "Stacy's Mom" by Fountains of Wayne.