Brad

Dragon Tattoo Trilogy. Just finished watching the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

The League to Barca I can only hope Juve denies them the UCL title.

And he may be too it seems.

The King is dead. Long live the King. He touched us forever. When this young boy heard him for the first time, my life was never the same. RIP

The La Liga race is definitely over. I can't say how Barcelona will lose it at this point. Madrid's only hope is to win the UCL. If they don't, Ancellotti will probably lose his job, a shame.

Nice little article.

I thought it was 1 but ain't no genius!

Odd performance from Athletico, missing all the pressure they have applied to Real in the past. Imagine what the score would have been had Real been at full strength. Hoping that Real takes on Juve as that's quite doable.

He's in love with himself, thinks he's a genius blah, blah. More tolerable than Mourinho. That's not saying much, however.

That is truly sad. A music label devoted to the soul of music being managed by a label that focuses on what can be hardly called music.

Yes, extremely satisfying to see Chelsea go out. He acted like a fool when they recently won - yawn - the League Cup.

Just finished up watching Peaky Blinders, an outstanding series. My son and I are now watching The Strain.

When I was in high school in Barcelona, there was a kid who used to open a coke bottle with his teeth. He wasn't the brightest guy around, to point out the obvious.

That is a quote from one of those responding to the article. Just what the hell does the sentence I bolded mean? That it's not enough to go and listen to the music. If so, that's a commentary on the people of today who feel they need to be involved in the experience.

RIP Anthony Mason, Mase. He was part of the heart and soul of the Knicks in the 90s, a scrappy, tenacious player who was a lot like the city he was from and played. He was a heck of a player in his five years with them. Only 48, too young to go.

RIP, a legend, an iconoclast.

Live Long and Prosper. Part of out youth is gone.

Some guy who was complaining that he was tired of jazz. Didn't catch his name.

I always liked Tuesdays as a release day, particularly as it coincided with the release day for books.

I'd like to think that some of these non-jazz recordings helped pay the bills but I can't imagine Alice or Linus contributing to the bottom line, but what do I know.

My first intro to Trane was My Favorite Things and I was hooked. As someone said, it depends on your target audience. If they don't like Favorite Things, they may not like Trane.

I think some are over analyzing some of these songs, trying to see in them what they would like. In the case of It's My Party, a girl by the name of Judy Gottlieb (now Solash and living in NC), who was 16 and living in Brooklyn in 1963 , was having a Sweet 16 party. Her parents informed that her grandparents had to be invited. Judy Gottlieb burst into tears, and her father said, "Don't cry. " She, of course, answered: "It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to." Her father, Seymour, was a part time song writer and wrote the lyrics. He gave the lyrics to to his songwriting partner, Herbie Wiener, who in turn passed them onto someone else. He then heard Gore singing the song on the radio and contacted Weiner and they agreed to share Wiener's royalties from the song. From an article I read, the family is still receiving royalty checks. As to when she realized she was gay, I saw an article saying that she said it wasn't until her 20s.

Unintentional or not, I think she was proud of You Don't Own Me and that it had been recorded by others. Some people here may not like Quincy Jones but she certainly did.

Did you ever read his first one about the War in North Africa? That was quite good.

Can't say that I did. Madrid won 2-0 and will probably advance as the first leg was in Germany. Marcelo hit a cracker of a goal to seal the victory.