Brad

What Jim said. The Basie sound is distinct and unique. Maybe you don't dig him now but maybe someday you will.

Knicks started slowly tonight but just blew the doors off the Cavs in the second half. Steve Novak, their three point specialist, just killed it. Baron Davis seems to have shaken off some rust and played really well.

I think most of us don't have agendas. Life's too short for that. Agendas get in the way of that.

Definitely no need to apologize and keep the good threads coming.

Ditto. 66 is pretty young. RIP.

If you do a search, you might find the discussion. My recollection is that each episode had its own thread.

Ditto for me as well. As with many things, good points and bad points but better made than not.

This is the content of the email: http://m.news.emihos...d481f93deda0311 Great interview with Rudy via the Gazzett.

It's not my job to find out whether a record label pays what they should, that's for the label, the artist and all the fucking lawyers. I just make sure to buy releases from legit labels, because at least there's a better chance that the artist will get paid. By legit, I think he means the company that has the rights to the original source material, not a person who can buy an album off eBay and copy it. Between the two I'd buy from the former but not the latter.

Moderation in anything is always the key, except sex

Mine had a lot of classical but also show tunes like Pajama Game and West Side Story, not to mention George M. Cohan.

Guilty, unless you're only talking about regular, the renamed "Classic."

Didn't realize it was his birthday. Yes, I'm a big fan also. Happy Birthday LTD

That's my reaction about the MP3s. The Three Sounds looks tempting but I haven't done anything yet. If it's MP3 forget it for sure.

Marlins and Nats are spending money like 2012 is really it for Planet Earth. Do they really have the money or this is just a big gamble?

I haven't had to go to hearing aids but do suffer from tinnitus, which I've learned to do deal with over the years. The loss came due to an accumulation of colds over the years. Trying to listen to dinner talk in a noisy restaurant is not easy and I try to avoid noisy places.

If you respect him, then I suppose I can see why it's important to you. I guess my question is would it change how you feel about listening to the music. By way of example (but probably not a good one), one of my passions is reading about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. If a certain noted author in the field such as Michael Burlingame dismissed a book, I probably would not read it.

Yes, I suppose the back and forth is like watching a match at Wimbledon. At the end, as you said, the music remains and the rest is just noise that recedes into nothingness.

I can't believe all the teeth gnashing tjats been wasted over what someone thinks about hard bop. It's what you think that matters. It reminds of when my son would look to me for approval when he did a certain thing. Music is rather visceral. Who knows why we like a thing or another. We just do. So he doesn't like? BFD.

That must have been something else. RIP.

Jim, Did you read the Howard Beck article that I put up earlier today. It shows he was a work in progress and probably is. The Knicks were very lucky. One wonders what if he never got a chance: would he have ever been able to show his talents. You never know. I think that could describe many a person, maybe some among us. I think that is one of the wonderful things about this story. Now, I'm not sure why this nuttiness has erupted around him. I know why my wife is (she's Chinese) and watches his games. Heck, she even watched the Rising Stars Challenge last night. She's become a big Landry Field fan too. Me, I'm just glad the Knicks are relevant after the Isaiah Thomas years. Of course, we're still stuck with the Dolans. This just shows that even a squirrel finds an acorn once in awhile

well put. Amen. So he doesn't like it. Who cares?

Well, Larry I don't see it that way but it's not worth arguing about. I think you as a moderator can probably appreciate that I was glad there to be the beginning when D'Antoni, having no other options, decided to put him in against the Nets. As the game progressed, I turned to my son and said Jeremy might score 20 and sure enough he surpassed it. I had been hoping for awhile that he would be put in because a couple of weeks before that he had come in at the end of a rare 30 point win against the Bobcats and played for a few minutes and scored about 7 or 8 points. I said to myself "not bad" even though it was garbage time. We'll just to see how things progress.

That's really the question, isn't it? With the NBA hype machine operating at ramming speed, what happens if Lin tanks? His game against Miami the other night was awful. 1-11 from the floor and eight turnovers. I've heard pundits say that this may be similar to what happens in baseball when a pitcher faces a batting order the second or third time in a game. Athletes and coaches make adjustments. They review film and they find exploitable flaws. For Lin's sake, I hope he doesn't fall as fast as he rose, but I wouldn't rule it out. I agree Dave and we here in NY (or at least I have) have been wondering how he would fare when he had a bad game. As you note, sports is all about adjustments. They're playing the Cavs on Wed so we'll see what happens. The article by Howard Beck seems to suggest that he would be able to do that. We will see.

Here's another article by Harvey Araton, also in today's Times, Disappointing Defeat Fine Tunes a Frenzy No matter how good or bad he may be, unless Carmelo or Amare step up, this team won't prosper.