Jazzmoose

Sure there's still talent around, but I think the main reason the music industry ain't what it used to be is the complete fragmentation of audiences combined with the blockbuster mentality of the industry. You can't have it both ways without surrounding yourself with bland, prepackaged clones with the shelf life of an old tangerine...

Well, there you have it. Unless someone comes up with a way to include my twenty year old ears (and a way to attach them to my fifty year old body), I just don't see the point. I was listening to an old favorite of youth (Joe Jackson's Look Sharp) and was disappointed to discover that it just didn't sound like it used to sound. The highs were missing, and it just seemed a bit lifeless. Then I realized why...

How is it? This one's sitting on my shelf waiting (along with a stack of other Blish) for me to get the urge.

I know I will; I have no idea why I've put it off. Well, I did get this book store gift certificate for Christmas...maybe I'll get off my butt.

I think you're going to want to read at least a couple Chandler and Hammett novels before Yiddish Policemen's Union. I read most of them a while ago. Then they came out with the Library of America sets (which do a better job with the novels than the short stories). I can't recall right now which of these I have in LoA, maybe just the Hammett novels. I said "Chandler", not every hardboiled writer in America. I've read all of Hammett's novels multiple times. Same for Cain. I just overlooked Chandler for some reason.

Busted...

Damn straight! Never forget!!

What is this 'VHS' that you speak of?

I don't see how quoting what every Zappa fan I've ever met has told me in life counts as comedy. (though, if I ever see any of them again, I'll have to confess that they were right about Hot Rats...)

Blakey killed Tina brooks?! No, his albums were kept off the market by Blue Note. That's why there's only two or three of them.

...and sidewinder beats me to the punch again! Percy Sledge Jan Hammer Ezra Pound

Sally Leroy Stanley X Max Frost Damn, I love that dorky movie!

Fine. I'll go hang out on the politics forum. At least there I can get yelled at...

The article starts out rather strangely, pointing out three aspects of the theory and immediately agreeing that two of them are true. I'll admit, though, that without the third (sales), it's kind of a hollow 'two out of three'...

This probably isn't the best place to do it, but I've got this sudden compulsion to put myself up as a target for everyone's stale fruits and vegetables by saying that I think Catcher in the Rye must be the most overrated book ever published. Not the worst book, by any means, just the most overrated.

Confession time: I've never read anything by Chandler...

This one's on my 'must read' list, though it isn't on my shelf yet....

An update, after finishing the book... I retract my nonrecommendation; it's a much better book overall than I expected. However, keep in mind that I think the perfect audience for this book would be a girl in her early teens. Since I am not now, nor have I ever been, a girl in my early teens, this recommendation may be a bit off...

I was undecided at first, but after reading the responses, bored members kinda leaps out...

The Dimensioneers by Doris Piserchia. It's okay. I dunno if I'd recommend it. Look, I just felt like making a post, and I wasn't watching anything or listening to music, and I had the book with me at the computer (dial-up will do that to you), so there it is.

I've lost track of how many days in a row it's snowed, and it's supposed to continue for at least another week. You two can take this White Christmas crap and shove it up Bing Crosby's wazoo...

When's the real match?

Um. I'm looking at a computer monitor. So I can see what you wrote. And then to see what I'm writing. And shortly, to make sure what I wrote gets posted. Then I'll probably.... Oh, alright...a replay of the Fresno State/Colorado State "Bowl" game.

So throw the acid in his face and let him complain. What's the paradox?

Exactly. There are better sources for photos nowadays...