BruceH

It's like "academic" but more...inclusive.

And here I thought the "widely accepted fact" was that reincarnation was a bunch of nonsense.

In other words, a percussionist in Anthony Braxton's nonet. Exactly.

They also like to land the planes side-by-side on them. I've seen it many times from the freeway. That really surprises me because there are horizontal as well as vertical separation rules. Unless they stagger the landings. Rules are made to be broken I guess. There's a hill you go down after taking the Burlingame exit from 280---many is the time I've seen jets coming in for a landing from there because the hill looks right down into the approach corridor. And occasionally there does seem to be more than one, though I can't say I've ever seen them LITERALLY side-by-side, but pretty close. It must be something to live in one of the houses on that hill, because they have an amazing view of what must be one or two hundred jets a day coming in for a landing over the water. AND you don't hear a thing because they have their engines throttled down (not like in South San Francisco which is right under a major take-off corridor, so the engines are throttled UP to make the climb, screaming all the way.) Just driving through South SF or San Bruno I must have seen more jets close up in one year than in my whole previous lifetime in New England.

I don't believe in reincarnation either, but if I had to come back, I'd rather it was as a trans-dimensional energy-being.

I guess if you literally get away with murder, it gives you the feeling that you can get away with anything.

There's STRINGS on that frigging thing?? Gross! Seriously, my favorite is volume 1, "The Quintets"---lotsa swing. Nice cover too.

Thanks for this, Larry. Never did get around to seeing the movie.

Is that why I don't like him?

San Diego's a trip! Arriving, you come over a hillside, and it seems like you're only a few feet off the ground the whole time you're descending. Can almost look out into people's apartment windows that are eye level with you, and you're still moving forward and down. Yes! Exactly! I saw the cooking grills on some apartment terraces, I swear. It was almost too weird to be scary though.

Happy Birthday Ken!

I'd give my mother's right arm for that.

Our own San Francisco International has two runways that stick out a ways into the bay. So what, you say? Well, they run parallel and right next to each other. A rather frightening setup, I always thought.

Doesn't compare to the St. Maarten one above, but when we flew into the San Diego airport a few years ago we seemed to be coming in right downtown. I couldn't get over it! I'm used to airports being at least a few miles OUTside the city. The San Diego airport made Logan seem like the new Denver airport. (Speaking of which, at the OLD Denver airport you used to have runways that ran right over highways like bridges! One day my wife and I were driving out there and a jet was moving on the runway above us just as we drove under the runway. Nothing quite reminds you of just how big modern passenger jets are than driving underneath one.)

I certainly wouldn't call him "unknown" either. If you can possibly find a used copy of the 32 Jazz "It's Mister Fathead" 2-CD album, that should fit the bill nicely. It compiles four albums onto two discs: 1.Fathead/Ray Charles Present David Newman, 2.Straight Ahead, 3.Fathead Comes On, 4.House Of David Straight Ahead also is a quartet with Fathead and Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers. and Charlie Persip! (Nice! )

Thanks for this. I THOUGHT that there was a label named "Obscure" but forgot that it was an Eno label.

Of boredom, no doubt. (Said in my best George Sanders tones.)

My son William picks North By Northwest as his favorite. Not a bad choice. Although I've probably said this before, with Hitch I don't have a single favorite so much as a top five or six. Rear Window, Notorious, The Lady Vanishes, The 39 Steps, as well as the above-mentioned NBN are all in it. But I also have a lot of affection for Strangers On A Train and Shadow Of A Doubt too. Not a big fan of Rebecca though.

'zactly. And I like Kessler too. And ya can't go wrong with Art Taylor. And Reece. Indeed.

I will have to check that out. Literally.

Glad to hear the good news.

Overactive moderators, I believe. ("Once given over, this power cannot be revoked.")

If John Gilmore's on it, I'm interested.

No, of course I don't require "lightning fast bebop" to dig a record. I absolutely love Idle Moments, for instance. Am I Blue, however, strikes me as uninspired.

Yeah, Am I Blue is a real snoozer.