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Required Listening: The New Albion Festival by Sarah Cahill. Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: The News from Camp Albion by Carl Stone. The New Music Scene Comes to Me Downtown Descends on Annandale .

Based on your contact with him, do you think that he will ever provide the answers to his recent Blindfold Test? I would really like to know the artists and song titles, especially on the second disc. That would take all the fun out of it!

He doesn't return my phone calls either..

I made a request to become her friend at MySpace...denied.

That's impressive! I saw 3.65 a few hours ago and that was about a mile or so from the Bayway Refinery here in NJ. .

Sheee-it. that ain't nothin'. I had to spend quite a bit to get a ticket reduced last year.

I always care about Womens beach volleyball. .

ditto! .

August 6, 2008 Behind the scenes of Hilton's mock ad By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 3:19 p.m. ET LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Paris Hilton didn't need cue cards for her presidential campaign ad. The 24-year-old heiress memorized her entire monologue, which included Hilton outlining her energy plan, in an online video spoof posted on Funny or Die, the comedy Web site's content director said. Co-founder Adam McKay came up with the concept for a mock ad starring Hilton, which has received over 3 million views since it was posted Tuesday. ''Adam thought it would be really funny to get Paris to respond to the John McCain ad that featured her,'' Funny or Die content director Amy Rhodes told The Associated Press on Wednesday. ''Adam contacted Paris directly, and she agreed to do it. He wrote the sketch. And she really, really loved it.'' In the online video, Hilton -- clad in a leopard-print swimsuit and heels while lounging poolside -- announces her candidacy for president and suggests an energy plan that combines elements of McCain's offshore oil drilling plan and Barack Obama's incentives for new energy technology. She also suggests a running mate: R&B singer Rihanna. ''I want America to know that I'm, like, totally ready to lead,'' she says in the video. Rhodes said the video was directed by Jake Szymanski and produced by Chris Henchy of Gary Sanchez Productions. She said the video took a few hours to shoot at the house where Hilton was staying at in the Hamptons. Rhodes also said Hilton was not compensated for appearing in the video ''because she decided she just wanted to do it for fun.'' Jason Moore, Hilton's manager, would not comment to the AP about Hilton's appearance in the video.

More like 35 years for me. At some point I started using my spare time for other things... .

I thought it was because we don't have ABC's Wide World of Sports anymore. It's been a very long time since I watched the Olympics. .

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Interesting. I expected the posting to be much more caustic, given the headline. I like the idea that Braxton's music can be much more playful and "fun" than listeners sometimes give him credit for. This is what I found in "Iridium." Not so much, however, in something like "For Alto." I find fun all through his small grp music - all those marches! - but not much in his "classical" music. It's just a dumb WMFU sort of title.

July 27, 2008 Norman Dello Joio, Prolific and Popular Composer, Is Dead at 95 By DANIEL J. WAKIN, NYT Norman Dello Joio, a composer who achieved wide popularity in the mid-20th century with a proliferation of essentially tonal, lyrical works, died on Thursday at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 95. His death was announced by Carl Fischer Music, one of his publishers. Mr. Dello Joio wrote dozens of pieces each for chorus, orchestra, solo voice, chamber groups and piano, as well as scores for television and three operas. Church music, the popular tunes of the jazz age and 19th-century Italian opera were all influences on his style, which could be both austere and colorful. In defining his musical approach, Mr. Dello Joio cited the advice of a teacher, the composer Paul Hindemith, that he should never forget that his music was “lyrical by nature.” That meant, “Don’t sacrifice necessarily to a system,” Mr. Dello Joio said on his Web site. “If it’s valid, and it’s good, put it down in your mind. Don’t say, ‘I have to do this because the system tells me to.’ No, that’s a mistake.” He said he took the advice to heart, and jokingly called himself an “arch-conservative.” A strong spiritual bent emerged in his composing, and the story of Joan of Arc became a major theme. He wrote an opera called “The Triumph of Joan,” which he withdrew after a student performance in 1950 at Sarah Lawrence College, saying he was dissatisfied with the work. In its wake came “The Trial at Rouen,” a new St. Joan opera written for television. He revised it for the New York City Opera, under the title “The Triumph of St. Joan,” and later derived a symphonic piece from the first version. Mr. Dello Joio said he was first drawn to the subject by a children’s book on the lives of the saints, which he found in an organ loft at age 12. “The timelessness and universality of Joan as a symbol lay in the eternal problem of the individual’s struggle to reconcile his personal beliefs with what he is expected to believe,” Mr. Dello Joio wrote in a 1956 article in The New York Times. “Daily, for ages, she has challenged men to have her courage.” Mr. Dello Joio won awards throughout his career, gathering a Pulitzer Prize in 1957 for his piece “Meditations on Ecclesiastes” for string orchestra and an Emmy in 1965 for a TV series, “The Louvre,” on NBC. He also wrote works for ballet; Martha Graham choreographed a number of them. The jazz clarinetist Artie Shaw commissioned a concerto from him. Mr. Dello Joio taught variously at Sarah Lawrence, the Mannes College of Music and Boston University, where he was a dean of the School of Fine and Applied Arts. He also helped to establish a program at the Ford Foundation that placed young composers in residence in high schools. Mr. Dello Joio was born on Jan. 24, 1913, and reared in New York City. His father was a vocal coach, a church organist and his first keyboard teacher. (He recalled that he used to see Metropolitan Opera stars arrive in Rolls-Royces at his house for coaching.) At 12, he was substituting for his father at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Manhattan. By 14, he was organist and choir director at St. Mary Star of the Sea Church on City Island. He also studied organ with his godfather, Pietro Yon, who was the organist at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. He studied composition at the Juilliard School and with Hindemith at Yale and the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood. Mr. Dello Joio’s first marriage, to Grayce Baumgold, ended in divorce. In 1974 he married Barbara Bolton, who survives him, along with his sons, Justin Dello Joio, a composer, and Norman Dello Joio, a champion equestrian jumper; his daughter, Victoria Dello Joio, a martial arts master teacher; two stepchildren, Ned Costello and Kathleen Bar-Tur; and three grandchildren.

Anthony Braxton Fans are So Full of Shit Really now... .

A new future for Paris Hilton! .

no matter how many times it took, it's something bush would never have been able to say. ... The shocking truth ... Wouldn't it be ironic if Paris Hilton ran for office someday (in the very, very distant future)? ... Hey, if George can do it ... ugh...Reagan was president!

Yeah, she's amazing. I'm surprised I don't have more CDs by her. Istanbul 1925 Tanburi Cemil Bey

You should have checked and cleaned up to see if there was anything tempting around as soon as you stopped - people, places and things have to change! .

Hmm... I don't recognize this cover, and am wondering if this material is available elsewhere. What's the label, 7/4? Sounds of the World SOW 90184 made in Portugal, IMC Music, Ltd.

Just like Xenia! .

I was thinking of the strip of hair beneath your nose. .

You look a bit like her too. Must be the hair...

Anthony Braxton - 20 Standards (Quartet) 2003 Anthony Braxton - 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003 Anthony Braxton - 8 Standards (Wesleyan) 2001 I've been listening to these lately and checking out the guitar playing of Kevin O'Neil. Quite nimble.

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