Brad

Don’t know much about Curson and Pop Wine is very — don’t know the right word, so I’ll go with cool, incisive, what have you.

I suppose they’re devoting minimum capital to the cover but, yeah, you’re right. I don’t have any of these. How do they sound?

I thought I read somewhere where these releases are supposed to be pretty basic, not fancy like the Tone Poet.

I see it on Amazon (direct from Amazon I believe), plus there are copies for sale on Discogs.

Nite Life was the choice for this past Sunday. Great disc.

Several years ago, I used to listen them a lot; I was listening to a lot of Bob Wills at the time. I still may have a couple of their albums.

Having finished Soldiers of Salamis, which was outstanding, I have now begun his latest Lord of All the Dead, about Javier Cercas’ uncle who was killed in the Civil War. I have also picked up Toni Morrison’s Home. This is my first time reading anything by her.

I’d call your dealer and ask him.

I got a kick out of the name of the Irons character: John Tuld vs Lehman’s Richard Fuld. I never read The Big Short but did read Charles Gasparino’s The Sellout. Pretty amazing.

Fantastic movie from Joan Micklin Street. When I was a kid being from Hester Street was not considered a good thing. When we misbehaved, my grandmother (and people of her generation) would say that “you act like you were brought up on Hester Street.”

I’m just getting around to reading the 2019 edition, commemorating the lives of people, some famous and some not so famous, who died in 2019. The Lives They Lived

Thanks for the recs. Perhaps I need to re-see 1917, give it another chance. I mentioned Westfront 1918. This is a great movie, showing the War from the German point of view. Speaking of which, Schlump by Hans Herbert Grimm, reissued in 2016 by New York Review of Books Classics, is a terrific book about the War from the German side.

I ordered it Scott

I have a few of his albums but, in all honesty, wasn’t familiar with this one. Thanks for the YouTube link. I need to seek this album out.

I just saw that Tony Fernandez, who was just 57, has died. He apparently had kidney issues and then suffered a stroke; his family elected to take him off life support. RIP. Wonderful player.

Paths of Glory doesn’t begin to deal with the ugliness of war. Guess we are watching different movies. Sorry, but the script in 1917 is weak. It’s just not that great a movie. The so called one long shot was gimmicky. Frankly, I was bored.

A Record Store Day purchase.

This is excellent, a semi fictional look at the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Just as good as The Big Short, which was a tremendous movie.

Disc 2.

Movie was ok, not as good as The Pianist.

This is a remarkable book about the horrors imposed on the Lithuanian people. The novel, which is told through the eyes of a 16 year old girl (and was meticulously researched by the author) recounts how she and her family are forced into a Russian prison camp and the privations they suffer, especially when they are moved to a second camp at the edge of the Arctic Circle. The conditions under which they lived are indescribable. It would be 12 years before they would be allowed to go home. Although the book is said to be fiction, what the Russians did to Lithuania is terribly true.

From the little I’ve heard, it sounds like the Astros press conference was a disaster.

Disc 2.