BruceH

That "studies" like this are silly and meaningless.

Is it Jimmy Smith Plays Pretty Just for You? Horace Silver THE STYLINGS OF SILVER, Blue Note 1562. The Jimmy Smith is Blue Note 1563! I was going to say The Stylings of Silver but was afraid someone would come up with an earlier one! Oh me of little faith.

You look very creative, outgoing, and at ease. Also open to new ideas. (Truth to tell, I've never completely gotten used to Jazzmoose switching to a cat avatar.)

Yeah, why reissue anything when no one is buy CD's anymore?

Damn Interns! But then again, what do you want for free? Not to listen to David Sanborn....?

IF that is indeed your real name....

What DAY, fer Christsake? Tomorrow, the next day...I assume it's not today, but who knows? Then again, who cares? I know little of David Sanborn's music, and I'm sure he's a talented guy, but my impression has long been that he's a bit on the "muzak" side.

My neigborhood gets an 89. Frankly, I'd rate it in the 90's. Add a much-needed bookstore, some large trees, and re-open the Alexandria Theater and I'd rate it 99.

Very pretty, thanks. That "merkin" building is a trip, what?

Then there's the little-known "Jazz Goes To Junior High"----when will THAT ever be released on CD?

From an old book by Gilbert Seldes, a collection of essays in which he argued that the popular or "low" arts could be as deserving of critical attention as the old "high" arts. The seven were: Comic strips, Movies, Musical Comedy, Vaudeville, Radio, Popular Music, and Dance. I think the book was written just a little too early to include television. I used to have a copy; probably still do, banging around here somewhere.

No doubt that has a lot to do with the fact that they were both written by Michael Crichton. Well, Westworld written by him, Jurassic Park based on the book by Crichton. He even DIRECTED Westworld. He's never been shy about returning to the same themes and story structures again and again.

Guess I didn't have the fortitude to tackle the third one!

Wow, never even seen that album before.

I picked up Dave Digs Disney thanks to a recommendation on this board, or maybe it was the BNB. Was not disappointed.

I certainly didn't curse, or crumple his books (crumple a book? Heaven forfend!) They had enough interesting moments, striking images, or cool ideas that I obviously kept going with them. (Though the last couple whose names escape me---Quest For the Future? Supermind?---I never finished.) It's just that after a while I concluded that he wasn't one of my favorite science fiction authors. Your mileage, as they say, may indeed vary quite a bit.

Interesting; I can sure see where this would scare a little kid. A still rather obscure little movie that's also good. Several of the films that scared me as a kid seeing them on TV were not exactly obscure: The Thing Them! Seconds (Yes! It was actually on broadcast television way back when! And I ran into it twice!) The War of the Worlds---Most of this was more exciting than scary---kids love seeing things get destroyed, at least I did---but I found the Martians themselves genuinely creepy. The Incredible Shrinking Man---The part with him fighting the spider: Yuck! The opening sequence of The Prisoner; hey, the guy gets kidnapped!

Same cover as the one I read (back in 8th grade) but I don't think mine said "Ninth big printing" on it. Poor old van Vogt couldn't write a novel to save his life. Notice how Slan breaks down into 15-25 page segments, like short stories but without any endings, all stitched together in only the loosest way. There's almost no narrative thread at all. Perhaps that's why so many of his novelistic heroes are men who've lost their memory for some reason. I'm reading an edition not unlike that you read; mine is the 7th printing,without the "banner" on the cover. I don't quite agree with your assessment of his novel-writing skills. He is using bi-focal viewpoint here, with the two Slan characters as the narrative point, and their different stories alternating. I don't find it disconcerting or particularly clumsy after the first few transitions. But as I recall, ALL of his books are exceedingly episodic. At least the ones I read; Slan, both the Null-A books (for my sins), The War With the Rull and a couple others whose names now escape me. Of course, I'm going by memories three decades old and more, but Damon Knight backs me up on this.

Let's hope so.

Wouldn't surprise me at all, as I heard the whole trilogy has a subtle atheistic message. Probably will never read it to find out, though.

Well, it's Wednesday and we're still here. Whew! What a relief! Now we can move on to the next silly non-threat. I personally suspect that aliens are stealing my luggage. And Bigfoot-type creatures are stealing my garbage.

I agree completely. (Though the next one, "Conquest," where Zira and Cornelious go back to the 20th century, is kinda fun...) Beneath the Planet of the Apes is one of my most terrifying movie memories from childhood, though, thanks to ONE scene-- -- - I was visiting relatives in Iowa and the movie was playing at a drive-in. I couldn't have been much more than 7 or 8. We get to the part where the mutant underground people are worshipping the the bomb...ho-hum....the leader says something like, "We now reveal our true faces to our deity..." then everyone proceeds to pull their face off (you realize all of them were wearing rubber-like artificial skin) and what we see are the (choke!) veins and arteries that would normally be beneath the skin. Yikes! I freaked out!!! My poor aunt and uncle; they had no idea. That damn scene gave me nightmares for months and has stayed with me ever since. Probably the most frightening thing I ever saw at the movies.

Same cover as the one I read (back in 8th grade) but I don't think mine said "Ninth big printing" on it. Poor old van Vogt couldn't write a novel to save his life. Notice how Slan breaks down into 15-25 page segments, like short stories but without any endings, all stitched together in only the loosest way. There's almost no narrative thread at all. Perhaps that's why so many of his novelistic heroes are men who've lost their memory for some reason.

Not nearly as dangerous as when the new family microwave was hooked up.

Ringtones are the spawn of satan.