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Mike? I missed the Derek.

In place of a Jazz Profiles memorial, WKCR is thoughtfully broadcasting a ball game. I may of missed it, but I don't think Derek Bailey got a memorial broadcast.

MS Walk PS: Amanda is the wife of one of the folks at AllAboutJazz.com and a damm fine guitar player too. Chip in gang. Some more information edit: http://amandamonaco.com/

Still sick. But stackable.

Aw fuck. RIP.

Tuning would be the first step. If it doesn't sound good, service would be the next step.

Fucking crazy drivers. I almost got run over by some crazy woman last week. I was crossing the street, no traffic and she comes speeding around the corner, blowing her horn. Too much trouble to change lanes.

Sounds like a good idea to me. I think it would work for a big band. I wonder what those arrangements of Ornette's music by Jazz at Lincoln Center sound like. I can't imagine that that would have translated too well.

Woah...young. RIP

Hope you had a good 'un hoots!

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...ic=2802&hl=curb

Goes well with Jazz too.

We don't fuck around.

I should stop in at the Pickle Guys and stock up. There used to be a Hot Pepper shop on Sullvan St. years ago and I got on a kick of buying a lot of different hot sauces. There was one with garlic that was perfect for use on garlic pickles. And a beer.

No wonder you post that silly crap in the political thread.

March 28, 2006 Stanislaw Lem, Author of Science Fiction Classics, Is Dead at 84 By BEN SISARIO Stanislaw Lem, a Polish science-fiction writer who, in novels like "Solaris" and "His Master's Voice," contemplated man's place in the universe in sardonic and sometimes bleak terms, died yesterday in Krakow, Poland. He was 84. The cause was heart failure, his secretary, Wojciech Zemek, told The Associated Press. Mr. Lem was a giant of mid-20th-century science fiction, in a league with Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick. And he addressed many of the themes they did: the meaning of human life among superintelligent machines, the frustrations of communicating with aliens, the likelihood that mankind could understand a universe in which it was but a speck. His books have been translated into at least 35 languages and have sold 27 million copies. What drew the admiration of many of his fellow writers was the intensity with which he studied the limitations of humanity, in ways that could be both awed and pessimistic. In "Solaris," a densely ruminative novel first published in 1961 — and made into films by Andrei Tarkovsky (1972) and Steven Soderbergh (2002) — contact is made with a dangerous and unknowable alien intelligence in the form of a plasma ocean surrounding a distant planet. As they attempt to understand the organism, astronauts aboard a space ship are plagued by hallucinations drawn from their own memories. In "His Master's Voice," published in 1968, scientists in a Pentagon-sponsored project are similarly perplexed by a superior alien communication, this time from a pulsating neutrino ray. But the failed experiment gives the ill-tempered narrator, Peter Hogarth, a sense of wonderment: "The oddest thing," he says, "is that defeat, unequivocal as it was, left in my memory a taste of nobility, and that those hours, those weeks, are, when I think of them today, precious to me." Born in 1921 in Lviv — then part of Poland but now in Ukraine — Mr. Lem began to study medicine as a young man, but his education was interrupted by World War II. He worked as a mechanic during the war and later returned to his medical studies but did not take his final exams out of fear that his services would be needed in the military. His first literary works were poems and short stories. He emerged as a major science-fiction author in the early 1950's with works that he later disavowed as simplistic, and he sometimes ran afoul of the Communist censors. In one early book, "The Cloud of Magellan," he had wanted to write about cybernetics, a banned concept. "In order to get the novel through," he told The New York Times in 1983, "I had to rename the field 'mechanioristics' — I created a new term." An editor wasn't fooled, and for a time, Mr. Lem said, the book remained unpublished. Among his other works are "The Invincible" (1964) and "The Cyberiad" (1967). Some, like "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub" (1961) and "The Futurological Congress" (1971), are darkly satirical pictures of cold war-era life, involving technocratic societies that have broken down under the weight of their advanced machines. Mr. Lem sometimes ridiculed his chosen genre. In "His Master's Voice," Hogarth, in an effort to come up with new ideas, tries reading some science-fiction stories but dismisses them as "pseudo-scientific fairy tales." Some of his most ambitious works drifted into experimental and philosophical territory. "Summa Technologiae" (1964) is a speculative survey of cybernetics and biology, and "A Perfect Vacuum" (1971) is a self-conscious experiment in meta-fiction, a set of reviews of 16 nonexistent books. One of the books reviewed is "A Perfect Vacuum" itself. "Did Lem really think," the review reads, "he would not be seen through all this machination?" Mr. Lem's survivors include his wife and a son, The A.P. said.

Now that's talent!

What's a 'typewriter'??? mechanical analog word processing.

March 27, 2006 Author of 'Solaris' Dies at 84 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 12:53 p.m. ET WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Stanislaw Lem, a science fiction writer whose novel ''Solaris'' was made into a movie starring George Clooney, died Monday in his native Poland, his secretary said. He was 84. Lem died in a Krakow hospital from heart failure ''connected to his old age,'' the secretary, Wojciech Zemek, told The Associated Press. Lem was one of the most popular science fiction authors of recent decades to write in a language other than English, and his works were translated into more than 40 other languages. His books have sold 27 million copies. His best-known work, ''Solaris,'' was adapted into films by director Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and by Steven Soderbergh in 2002. That version starred Clooney and Natascha McElhone. His first important novel, ''Hospital of the Transfiguration,'' was censored by communist authorities for eight years before its release in 1956 amid a thaw following the death of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Other works include ''The Invincible,'' ''The Cyberiad,'' ''His Master's Voice,'' ''The Star Diaries,'' ''The Futurological Congress'' and ''Tales of Prix the Pilot.'' Lem was born into a Polish Jewish family on Sept. 21, 1921, in Lviv, then a Polish city but now part of Ukraine. His father was a doctor and he initially appeared set to follow in that path, taking up medical studies in Lviv before World War II. After surviving the Nazi occupation, in part thanks to forged documents that concealed his Jewish background, Lem continued his medical studies in Krakow. Soon afterward, however, he took up writing science fiction. Lem is survived by his wife and a son, Zemek said. Funeral arrangements were not disclosed.

Bummer. RIP.

She's got that Henry Cowell thang goin' down. Workin' them tone clusters.

Last Friday.

March 25, 2006 Warner Music to Acquire Ryko, Gaining Labels and Song Library By BLOOMBERG NEWS The Warner Music Group agreed yesterday to buy the Ryko Corporation for $67.5 million to gain independent labels and recordings by artists including Frank Zappa. The planned purchase of Ryko from an investment group led by J. P. Morgan Partners includes more than 1,000 songs, Warner Music said yesterday. Warner will also acquire a distribution business and music labels like Restless Records and Rykodisc, whose artists include the Posies and Joe Jackson. A takeover of Ryko will give Warner Music older recordings that can generate steady sales without the costs associated with new releases. Ryko's music library includes songs from Richard Thompson, the Misfits and They Might Be Giants. Warner will also gain access to new and developing artists affiliated with the smaller Ryko labels. The older titles, known as catalog in the music industry, will be marketed by the Rhino Entertainment unit of Warner, which puts out greatest-hits and compilation albums. Ryko's chief executive, Sam Holdsworth, a partner in the investment group, will resign, Warner said. William Hein will remain head of the labels and Jim Cuomo will continue to oversee distribution. The company has about 75 employees. No job cuts are planned, said John Esposito, who heads Warner's WEA distribution business. The distribution unit sells albums from independent companies including Rough Trade/Sanctuary and Alligator Records, a blues label based in Chicago. Warner Music plans to operate the business separately from its Alternative Distribution Alliance division, which is also a distributor of independent labels. ********************************** Zappa must be turning over in his grave!