BruceH

I'm a fan. I wish they had used a somewhat larger number of actors and actresses, but it's a fine show.

I used to blast that one, too. And Dub Housing as well. ← When I was in college, I used to fantasize about the ideal jukebox, which would include "Life Stinks" and "Sentimental Journey" from The Modern Dance, early tracks from The Ramones, Television, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Eno, Flipper, Wire, the Modern Lovers, Velvet Underground, as well as some blues and R&B. Later I would add selections (such as Decca Basie, Ellington sides, Dial Parker, etc) to this phantom jukebox. The idea was that playing the jukebox would drive out the undesireables (i.e., anyone who didn't like that music.) Immature of me, but I was just a callow youth.

But why, oh why, on a Saturday afternoon?

The Modern Dance comes to mind... Oh, you mean JAZZ albums? How about Ellington's All-Star Road Band?

Curtis.

I'll look for this. Jo Jones is one of my all-time favorite jazz drummers. But that's kind of like saying "J.S. Bach is one of my favorite composers"----true, but kind of...obvious?

Who says you should? ← You should.

Whatever happened to Trilobite Records?

I like Uptown. (Nessa ain't bad, either.)

I'm getting more into Henderson too. For years I listened to him but didn't hear him, if you know what I mean; he didn't seem to "click" for me. But over the last year or so I find I'm "hearing" him more and more. I don't know why it took so long...

EXCELLENT!!

Sometimes liner note writers get it very, very wrong. I recall an old Curtis Fuller album (a Savoy I believe) in which the original liner-writer puts down Benny Golson's playing, which struck me as unintentionally hilarious. Too bad the Selects don't come with some NEW liners, but then they wouldn't be Selects, I suppose.

The Slack looks good to me.

I'm still waiting for them to release the old Fantastic Voyage cartoon series on DVD.

McCloud was a "Sunday night mystery movie" series that I loved as a kid, but have the feeling that it might not hold up so well now. That complete Thin Man box looks good! Has anyone checked out the Homicide DVD's? I've been watching them lately and being reminded of why I liked the show so much. (Trivia: Edie Falco appears in some early episodes as the wife of a cop who gets shot.)

One of my transition albums into jazz (at that crucial age of 18-22) was also Nice Guys. Others were Kind of Blue (yes, I'm just that boring), and the Columbia LP reissues of Armstrong's Hot Five and Seven sides. To veer over to punk, I finally got into The Ramones (rather late, 1982 or so) through one particular song, "Rockaway Beach." I heard it on an anthology, and finally "got" why some people swore by them... Since "Rockaway Beach" was on Rocket To Russia, that was the first album I purchased by The Ramones.

Exactly! I was a fan of It Takes A Thief, too! (Didn't see the Hitchcock movie until I was a grownup, though.) The first season of Switch had a nice theme song. I'm hearing it in my mind right now.

Amen! Please, no Olympics in the San Francisco area. And no more Superbowls at Stanford. I don't even want to see the PBA here... ← Agreed! Bay Area to world: Forget that we exist!!!!

Yes, I saw that just a couple of years ago, on VHS. Not long ago, TCM played one of his rare starring-role movies, a 1941 flick called, I believe, The Great Mr. Nobody, in which he played a nice guy who always finishes last. Everybody called him "Dreamy" because he dreams of quiting his job and travelling the world, but something always sets him back, mainly him trying to help somebody out. A third-rate movie to be sure, but very depressing. The none-too-subtle message is that you're nobody without money or success, and you aren't going to get those things without getting aggressive and nasty. BTW, in junior high I was a big fan of Switch. I tried to get all my friends to watch it, but then it took a big nosedive in quality from one season to the next. RIP

Monk gets my vote.

Oh, don't worry, I DID think it was dead already, on that you can rest assured.

Yes. Yes I do, once in a while. But you don't want to see what it looks like. Trust me.

Yeah, that would have been nice.

Ouch!!