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How could you miss Ren and Stimpy. I really miss Ren and Stimpy.

You don't have to like him, or even respect him. I'd be quite the hypocrite to piss all over Leslie Nielsen's memory and then bitch because somebody said something mean about John Lennon. However, I find your comment disingenuous. I can't believe that you didn't "notice" when he died (I assume that's what you mean. Not that you weren't aware that he'd been dead for the past thirty years). Even as a child, albeit the child of Beatles fans, I could see that the story was all over the news at the time. This was not treated by the media like the passing of some also-ran pop musician. This was more akin to the death of a Head of State. The death of John Lennon was treated, by the media and populace alike, as equal to the death of JFK or Martin Luther King, Jr. Because the story here was not merely death, or even untimely death (Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon), but VIOLENT, untimely death. Whatever you thought of the Beatles, John Lennon's death was BIG, BIG NEWS. You noticed. Or did you also not happen to notice 9/11? "Hey, didn't there used to be a couple of towers over there? What do mean, 'where have I been'?" I can see missing George Harrison's passing. It wasn't quite the same level of news story. But missing John Lennon's death? Do you have ANY memory at all of 1980? Maybe that comment was a bit too flip, let's just say Lennon's untimely passing still isn't that significant to me. I heard about it on the radio the next morning while I was buying my Dad his birthday present. Now Harrison's death...that was real sad. Comparing it to 9/11 plain fucking silly. The Beatles are pretty trivial in the big picture. I could see the twin towers from my building and was on my was to town on that morning.

can't say I even noticed he was gone. did any jazz musicians die on this date?

I'd get that too!

No, what is sad is that an amateur like you is taking hacks at someone like Leslie Nielsen. "For some reason he kept getting cast in comedies"? Give me a fucking break. I'm not an amateur anymore, Dan. I get PAID to be funny these days. Is Dan a professional something? I thought he sold mortgages or something financial.

same label...different release?

I'm sorry.

Congratulations Aggie!

nice story, enjoy!

I've started to move a few of them into guitar keys to take advantage of the open strings. This makes a lot of sense if I'm playing alone or with just a bass player. With other players (and when I play around with a piano), I'd just rather leave 'em alone.

I own it...maybe I'll get a chance to read it over the holidays.

I can't wait until the Mosaic box of the sessions is released.

ah well...she's sick.

new cover! that album is so chilled.

Brian Eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea If Brian Eno made an album like this a year for the next ten years, I'd be happy. .

or the Gear Page.

try using a photobucket account to host the photos.

JEFF BECK: THE FUSION YEARS

Maybe fake, but very realistic.

looking forward to the day when ECM comes to their senses and releases an Abercrombie/Beirach box with a live show (or two!) in it.

nice vid!

Skeleton Makes Good Originally appeared on Ice Cream For Crow There's so many things to feel and see while you're awake they're just out of reach out of grasp yeah out of reach and just as many; maybe more the minute that you sleep so I got to throw my preach skeleton breath scorpion blush I have a crush on your skeleton watch out unsuspecting stranger you'll fall off the log headfirst into dreams end up screaming this will comb the wolf and that will comb the fog what will peen the rain what will preen the hog oh you mean earth and hell over you and laugh at your tire tracks if you get up skeleton makes good.

Brickbats Brickbats fly at my fireplace Upside down I see them in the fire They squeak and roast there Wings leap across the floor Fold up the wall shadows The window curtain ghost Throws my heart and dusts my throat My mind caught by the corner Gradually decides its safe Becomes a bat itself Flexes its little claws Curse its leather wings With loud, hollow pops Around the room Threatening to dash its brains Somehow at the last minute Retreats and becomes a natural glue And holds fast and slow In every other motion Making the night more interesting Becomes a cold, liquid breeze That freezes and thaws And pours the surroundings full As no breath can be taken It drowns and relieves To see the black turn into yellow And the yellow into black. Brickbats Brickbats Brickbats Brickbats

great box, I still listen to it quite a bit.

So you finally got it! Good! That run of it (plus the originals) that you noticed last week was a great wash of wonderful sound and, like I said, something that I thought you'd really enjoy. The booklets are real eye-openers. ® I finally got the first box this evening, I'll be digging into it in the morning. The second one will be here next week!