BruceH

Just ignore him, Bags.

I'll bet you're right. OK, everybody! All together now---stop buying mp3s and start complaining!!!

One thing I've always wondered: The alien grew awfully fast after bursting out of some poor guy's stomach. Where did it get all that extra mass? Hyperspace? Did it eat chunks of the ship and transmute the metal atoms into organic (nitrogen/oxygen/carbon) ones?

Bullshit. Five days after unions disappear, they'll be needed again. Today's UAW? I doubt it. Obviously, if unions disappear, that would include today's UAW. But a new union would soon arise, because you can bet your ass the rollback that some would love to see wouldn't stop at just eliminateing unions, but getting rid of nasty things the unions brought, like the 40 hour week, those unfair child labor laws, etc. Though I'm sure the same people who championed the great idea of unregulated financial markets would pooh-pooh my concerns as unrealistic and paranoid, but we've seen what the world looks like without unions, and in a capitalist society, it looks strangely similar to slavery. You're just down on the whole "Gilded Age" thing.

Same here. My mother read to me almost every night before bedtime from as early as I can remember up through first grade.

I hate it when that happens.

She didn't come across as very likeable during a Fresh Air interview a few years back, either. For all it's flaws, though, I'm glad I saw the documentary on the big screen.

Stereo Jack's was one of my favorite record stores in the Boston area (and back when there were a lot more of them!) One of the best of all time, easily. Don't get to go there much these days. Visited the Princeton Record Exchange just once in 1990 or '91 on a car trip back from NYC. Grabbed some rare Mingus and Ellington. Was quite impressed with the place. Of course, here there's always Amoeba and Rasputin. I tend to go to the Amoeba near the Golden Gate panhandle just because it's the most convenient.

And she had no uvula!

Yeah, Auster kind of gave metafiction a bad name for a while.

Is that the one on 20th near Irving?

I used to like to go to the Streetlight Records on 24th street in Noe Valley. It's closing in January.

Ah, I have fond memories of The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, one of the very few fantasy novels I really enjoyed as a teenager. Read it years before seeing the animated movie, though. Also, one if the first "real" (i.e., non-kid-oriented) sf novels I read was H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, in sixth grade. Come to think of it, that may have been the first 19th-century novel I ever read.

Love Fats Domino! Yeah! Time to get the old Fats vinyl out for tomorrow. MG What, is tomorrow his birthday? No - I just suddenly felt like listening to Fats when I read the thread, but it was nearly bedtime. Easily suggestible, that's me. :rsmile: MG Hey, I'm the same way! I often get ideas on what to listen to next from the "What are you listening to now?" thread.

I have "You're Looking At Me" on the After Midnight album. Great song and great performance. (To me all the songs on that album are "famous" because I've played it about a billion times.)

Got the "Collectables Jazz Classics" conflation of the two European Concert albums by the Modern Jazz Quartet online. It just came in yesterday. Ordered it due to discussion on this board. So far, I'm digging it! I can now proudly add it to the teeny-tiny collection of MJQ albums I already have. Got to get more someday.

There's a British LP (on the United Artists label if memory serves) that had a great selection of 10 songs per side; for my money, 19 of the 20 songs were classics. If it's available as a CD I'd recommend getting that.

I'm with you 100% on that.

That's hard to believe; the movie made sense... His short stories tended to make a lot more sense than his novels. Sometimes.

Dr. Seuss! A real biggie in the earliest years, particularly Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories which I can still remember having read to me before I could read. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish was the first book that I recall being able to read all to myself. But I also remember all through elementary school being fascinated by science FACT books. From both the school and town library I would check out anything that had the words "science," "space," and "astronomy" in the titles, and books on oceanography, particularly as it related to whales and sharks. Time/Life books were great. (I also recall that in first grade I couldn't read these books too well, but I kept trying.) Glad someone mentioned Dick Francis. I went on a Francis reading jag in 9th or 10th grade when my uncle lent me Flying Finish. During one summer vacation I read all the books he had out from the library (this was the mid-seventies, so that amounted to 13 or 14 books I think.) That pretty much burned me out on him. I also recall trying to read the Hardy Boys and Tom Swift and found them too old fashioned and stodgy, same as Tom. I also got the feeling that was stuff which some adults THOUGHT I should be reading, but I just couldn't get with that program.

I have Con Alma and really like it a lot. Don't have any of his other albums yet though.

Indeed! What a freaking dope! You'd think the librarian would be pleased that you were READING, fer kripesake! (Also that seems like a rather advanced reading level for seventh grade; certainly by today's standards.)

I imagine they'll be a lot more locked down in terms of regional coding. While I don't have a lot, I probably have 20 or so DVDs that are region 2 or 3. So I'll be hanging onto my DVD player for the immediate future. Fortunately, it is an external model that should fit into most systems. I don't have any burning desire to get a Blu-Ray (nor do I have a TV that would justify Blu-Ray), but maybe someday down the line I'll do it (maybe if Playtime was remastered into something closer to 70 mm). Same here. I don't have a TV that would justify Blu-Ray either. But as you say, if they remastered Playtime into something approaching 70mm, indeed, that would be a big incentive! I like the way you think!

That's terrible!!!

Only one eye, but it's BIG!