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I was VERY pleased with the Jackie McLean session. Having never heard it before, I had a feeling it would be very good, but its GREAT! The Thad Jones session, on the other hand, bores me to tears. I'll probably be selling this one.

I saw this sexy blonde woman play trumpet with her quartet at this really cool venue in Amsterdam called Cafe Alto (I think that was the name). It was an excellent venue with a fun, receptive crowd. I'm sure it would be a great place for Organissimo to play.

I haven't gotten the chance to view the bonus features yet, as I only got the DVD yesterday. But here are the features listed on the box: The Possibility of Hope: a documentary by director Alfonso Cuaron about the state of today's world and how it ties into the concept of the decaying future portrayed in the film. Under Attack: a featurette about filming the movie's most dangerous moments "Children of Men" Comments by Slavoj Zizek Theo and Julian: a conversation with Clive Owen and Julianne Moore Futuristic Design: how the filmmakers came up with the futuristic look of the film from concept to execution Visual Effects: creating the baby

This fine film came out on DVD today. I took it over to a friends house this evening, and there were a couple people there seeing it for the first time, and everybody really liked it. The DVD is very nice and it was great to see the film again, but to those of us folks who saw it in the theater, we are a fortunate bunch. This is truly a "movie theater" movie.

I'm going to try to make it as well!

I'm in your same predicament, although I am dealing with significantly fewer CDs than you are. I'm planning on listing here first in the near future.

You'll be able to get the Amstel Pilsner almost everywhere. Just look for the signs! Its unbelievably tasty, as is the Heineken over there. You won't be able to drink it out the skunky bottles over here after tasting this.

Tony Williams Select - disc 3

Allow me to vent a little bit, as I think this is probably the only place that I can do so where it may fall on some receptive ears! Andrew Hill is one of my absolute favorite jazz artists, and without a doubt my favorite living jazz musician. On a scale of fanaticism, I would probably put myself right around Rooster Ties' level. I've been listening to jazz very seriously for about 8 years now, and "Point of Departure" was one of the first CDs I acquired. Right at the first listen, it instantly became a favorite and remains my favorite Hill album to this day. Since then, and particularly in the past few years with all the Hill re-issues, I've been hearing all these wonderful Hill sessions for the first time ever as they are released, and each and every session has been a blessing to my life. Something about his music really reaches deep and moves me. To me each album sounds so different from the previous one, and therefore affects me differently, yet it never fails to sound like Andrew Hill. No session is less than excellent. This music is magic. As I spun the amazing "Compulsion" for the first time yesterday, I was finding myself feeling some mixed feelings. I was getting a bid sad that this is probably going to be one of the final re-issues of Hill's BN work, as almost all of them have been re-issued at some point in the past years. It’s going to feel very strange once I have heard all the sessions, knowing that they'll be no more "first times" to hear a Hill session from the sixties. Yet, I realized that feeling sad is selfish in a way, and that all Andrew Hill fans including myself should be very grateful that this man has blessed us with so much amazing music to be treasured for the rest of our lives. I consider myself very lucky to have discovered Andrew Hill and to have gotten the chance to hear all this great music. I've even been graced with two new Hill releases since my venture into jazz (the amazing "A Beautiful Day" and "Time Lines")! I just wanted to express my appreciation for Andrew Hill and his music, and to Blue Note for making these sessions available and in print again.

I can't get enough of this one. Its one of my favorites.

I remember that alot of people complained about Zelda 2 because it incorporated the 2D element into it. I didn't mind at all....the game was excellent. But I think the unpopularity of the 2D element in the Zelda series is why they returned to the familiar overheard style based on the first Zelda for the excellent Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the Super Nintendo. But I love those 2D scrolling games as well. The Castlevania series, particularly the second one, were among the best. Contra was awesome too! Who remembers up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start ??? :rsmile:

Unless the Horace Parlan set hits the Running Low catagory anytime soon, the Tal Farrow set is my next purchase.

My local public radio station played "Take Five" this morning on my way to work. A beautiful way to start the day.

Well, I was on amazon.com to buy a road atlas of France, and I decided to have a little fun since I just got my 2006 year end bonus at work. Picked up a couple of OJCs I fear may not be around much longer: Carmell Jones - Jay Hawk Talk Harold Land - The Fox Mal Waldron - The Quest Art Pepper - Thursday at the Village Vanguard With these, the new RVGs and my recent Mosaic order, I think its time to slow down.

The Osby sessions are really nice. I like the way they reinterpreted the standards.

I really enjoyed Zelda 2 as well. Talk about a challenge!! Took me months to beat that one. Those dungeons near the end of the game were hard as hell!

I would have to say my favorite game on the NES was the original Legend of Zelda. There was never anything like that before, and it was really incredible how a game could have such a huge scope, take so long to get through, and at the same time so challenging and fun. It was really an amazing feat. Other favorites of mine have to be Metroid, Metal Gear, Ninja Gaiden and Bases Loaded. The NES was really a great system.

Pusherman is the jam!

PM sent re: Dolphy/Little Memorial. edit to note that e-mail sent too!

Agree with this. Used to be my favorite store in the world, now I barely go in there. Anyways, don't mean to hijack the thread!

That is great....how the hell did they do that?

I bought that book at a time when I was really focusing on becoming a better drummer and was finding myself endlessly frustrated. Never got around to reading it though. I will one of these days.

See, I thought that 300 was about 200 times worse than Sin City!

I think you posted this in the wrong thread. Sounds like a fun show though!

I liked the eye candy, but didn't care for the film overall. I can't recommend it.