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Oh man....that's funny!

Another vote for the Beatles. They are one of the very few rock groups that I've listened to whose music gives me a feeling that is similar to the one I get from jazz.

I bought a set of Infinity bookshelf speakers a couple years back and they sound mighty fine.

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Couldn't have said it better myself. Its a drug.

What Rooster Ties said. My second choice would be the Miles Davis/John Coltrane Complete Recordings on Columbia set. It may cater to your friends' straight ahead tastes a bit more, but I still say go for the 65-68 set.

Mark / Eric: Let me know if you guys are going to any of these. I defintiely plan on catching one of the Henry Grimes shows, as well as Tomasz Stanko show the following Wednesday. I'd like to catch Ted Sirota as well, but not sure if I'll be able to make that one.

Thanks rockefeller center!

I sat through the credits of my Fargo DVD last night and noticed that the symbol that Prince used to use when he was "The artist formerly known as.." was credited for the "dead body lying in snow". I think I remember years ago someone mentioning that Prince makes a cameo in "Fargo". Can anyone confirm this?

Agreed. That performance, along with the Aviator, in my opinion are the only two times he really stepped it up. Catch Me if you Can was close, but not quite there.

kinuta, The picture and sound have been improved to these eyes and ears. At times, the onscreen dialogue is a bit quiet, like in the first DVD, but overall the presentation is much nicer. The picture especially. Plus, you get Martin Scorsese commentary. I haven't listened to this one yet, but there's a Jake LaMotta commentary as well!

I agree with Larry that the plane crash was the highlight of the film. I enjoyed the Aviator quite a bit. I don't think its anywhere close to being the best film of the year like the Oscars are hyping it to be, but still a fine piece of work nonetheless. Leonardo does give the performance of his career, and Cate Blanchet is fantastic as always. I guess its just difficult for me to warm up to this new big-budget-epic direction Scorsese is going in. I wish he'd call up DeNiro (who desperately needs to be in a good movie) and return to the mean streets of NY.

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Thanks for the heads up, ubu. I was unaware of this title, and will be ordering it soon. Cadence has it for $16.

The site is great! Very easy, and enjoyable, to navigate. Both of you have done some really outstanding work. Congrats!

I also recently picked up the new Raging Bull Special Edition DVD, which is a must have. Much better than the crappy version that came out in 1999.

I love this movie. Not one you can watch all the time, but a darkly beautiful film with great performances and an amazing screenplay. Its directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, a writer/director to keep your eye on. Its alot like the aforementioned "Short Cuts", but with much deeper undertones.

Max Roach - disc 4.. Woahhhh....Booker Little! What a loss to music his death was...

Yeah, great work Mark! That shot of Mabern is one of the best pictures you've taken, IMO.

Hello all, I have absolutely no Dexter from the Prestige years. I don't want to buy the entire box set, so I was wondering what are people's 2 or 3 favorite titles that are in print?

Try not to lose any sleep tonight.

I don't have the best audio/video equipment, but its fairly decent. With the deleted scenes, I noticed that the the picture quality looked like it was transfered directly from the film stock, and not digitally remastered or anything. The colors were weak and the picture was grainy. Imagine watching a movie in 70mm and then a scene cutting to 16mm. This is what it felt like. And the sound was very compressed...almost sounding metalic. It was a huge change from the beautiful 5.1 mix that the rest of the movie had. Sorry to keep bitching about this. I'm sure it had to do with the budget and pre-production forcasts and all that good stuff..... I'm just upset because I think these extra scenes could have really served the film had more care gone into the presentation. And now, it feels like we're stuck with a half-assed product. I wish that I could process it all at the end and be done with it, but unfortunately these things really bother me.

He has a new release on Criss Cross coming out later this month that looks like a winner.

I finally got around to watching my copy of the Ray DVD. Although I agree with Jim in the fact that the deleted scenes are effective and add to the depth of the film, I am VERY unhappy with the "technical" aspect of this DVD. Before you buy this, be aware that it is not a seamless "extended" edition like Lord of the Rings. As you are watching the film, right before it goes into an extended scene, these white music note icons come blinking on the screen (very annoying), and then you get a pause (while a new title loads) and then it goes straight into the extended scene, which is grainy, has bad sound, and just poor overall presentation quality. When the deleted scene ends, again the 2-3 second pause, as it has to re-load back into the main film. What's happened here is that the technological shortcomings of this DVD have destroyed the continuity of what could have been an effective extended edition of the film. Why couldn't the filmmakers have spent a bit of extra time and money, restored the deleted scenes to the same quality of the regular film, and created an option to watch a true extended edition of the film that actually would make for a good experience? I have never before seen a DVD release that has taken this cheap route before. Instead, we're stuck with this thrown together crap heap of a DVD that takes some really effective scenes and just cheaply and unartisticly throws them into the mix. It didn't work for me, and I'm very disappointed. I will stick to watching the theatrical version in the future.