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that description was enough to make me look for some pics. with her droopy eyelids and whatever facial expression, to me she looks more stoned than slutty.

i just got this ben besiakov recording that features george. good music. interesting title. scary cover.

30-second audio clips available at barnes and noble: streaming

PayPal has my bank info, for an account I closed several years ago! I wonder if one could set up a bank account then close it after establishing the PayPal account? For all they know, it still exists.

support, yes. love? not yet. give it time. things will proceed naturally at their own pace. on the other hand, making me the sole heir of a large and valuable jazz collection would do the trick. i'm easy, but i'm not cheap!

i spoke with holland after the quintet's performance last night (nate smith and antonio hart were on fire!). unfortunately, it looks like it could be quite some time before the recording i'm looking for is available - first as a download, then maybe eventually as a mail order cd. so that brings me back to my original question: can anyone who owns holland's ones all help me out?

that song was covered by sex mob on their does bond cd. fwiw, it's also the name of a band that included drummer tom maxwell, who later played with the squirrel nut zippers.

if that doesn't work, try a

i don't own one either, but i did see this on the net. try it. what can it hurt? Free up space on the iPod If your library is larger than the amount of free space on your iPod, you'll need to free up some space on it. Here's how: 1. Click your iPod in the Source pane. 2. Click on the Music option listed under iPod in the Source pane. (If you do not see this option, click the gray arrow next to the iPod to reveal the iPod's contents) 3. Click any song that appears in the main part of the iTunes window (to the right). 4. From the Edit menu, choose Select All. 5. 6. Important: The next step will delete all music from your iPod. If you have been using automatic update you don't need to worry, because all your music is also on your computer. If you have not been using automatic update, and your iPod has music on it from another source (other than your iTunes library), following the next step will delete that music. 7. Press Delete on the keyboard. If you see a message that says "Are you sure you want to remove the selected items from the list?", click Yes.

how is $32 plus shipping a good price? as i said, the place i mentioned offers the same product for at least $12 less if you compare total costs. even american digital regularly charges only $29 plus shipping. fast shipping aside, i don't see the benefits.

although i still love the folks at american-digital.com, i haven't seen a sale on my klone cd-rs for some time, and i was jonesing for some blanks. after searching the net, i found this sale at a company called runtechmedia.com.: Taiyo Yuden 52x CD-R 80min/700MB Silver/Blue (Shiny Silver Top) - 100 Pack Free Ground Shipping $27 Taiyo Yuden White Thermal Hub Printable 52x CD-R 80min/700MB Silver/Blue - 100 Pack $29 Taiyo Yuden Value Line 8x 4.7 GB DVD-R Blank Media (Silver Top) - 100 Pack $28 i purchased 100 of the shiny silver and used software to verify they're the real thing (i'd already called them and been reassured of the same). here's a link for the ones i purchased: shiny tys

i hope that's true, and not the other way around.

thanks, that's great to hear. i certainly can wait for that.

up (gasp) for air.

Can anyone help me find a copy of Dave Holland's solo bass recording for the Intuition label called Ones All? So far, I only see a few used copies priced from $40-50! Thanks in advance.

This appeared in Sunday's Boston Globe: And in the end Seeing record superstores disappear leaves one fan with bittersweet memories By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff | October 22, 2006 I had a dream, and it had nothing to do with civil rights. I wanted to work at a record store. Not some funky indie outpost but a giant retail behemoth where I could a) be in a room with more or less every album in the world, b) get a discount, and c) tell people what they should listen to. I started filling out job applications in ninth grade and pestered the store managers for years but never got the job. Eventually I landed a newspaper gig with similar perks. But the death knell for the record superstore -- which sounded louder with the recent announcement that Tower Records is going out of business -- still stings. Tower isn't cool. The lights are too bright, the product too mainstream, and the clientele is as likely to be shopping for the new Clay Aiken as a Velvet Underground bootleg. That's the beauty of the place. It's like thumbing through an encyclopedia. No matter what you go in for, you stumble onto something else. I love trolling for tunes online as much as the next music nut. My current obsession is Pandora.com , a streaming radio site that lets you create countless customized stations. Pour Some Sugar On Me Radio turns me on to new music that has characteristics in common with the Def Leppard song. Shins Radio streams tunes that shares musical DNA with the delightful indie-pop band. It's all so intuitive. Wandering around Tower Records in Harvard Square last week wasn't. Perusing the Sadies, my eye drifted to Leon Russell. I went looking for Liz Phair and found Wilson Pickett. Thanks to the random wonders of alphabetical proximity, Jesse McCartney is separated from Megadeth by the slimmest margin -- a margin occupied by Mindless Self Indulgence. I picked up the jewel boxes, held them in my hand, ogled the covers. No, I couldn't sample the music like I can on iTunes. But it's amazing what a weirdly informative vibe you can get from cover art. I remembered thumbing through the bins at my local Wherehouse store in LA's Westwood Village and seeing Emerson, Lake & Palmer's ``Brain Salad Surgery." I was transfixed by the full-lipped skull impaled on metal rods. Here was something fantastical, something heavy and arty and scary. Which reminds me: This elegy for megastores might as well include a preemptive farewell to CDs. They'll be gone soon enough. As record stores continue failing to compete with the growing legion of downloaders as well as big box retailers (Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Target, which offer broad discounts but narrow selection), the CD will vanish when digital delivery becomes the norm. Or be relegated, like vinyl, to specialty shops. I won't miss the cheap plastic cases, impossible packaging, or scratch-prone discs. I will desperately miss liner notes. For all its ease, scope, and economy, the digital world suffers from at least one big deficit: There's no there there. Information abounds and so, in a way, does communication, thanks to the blogosphere and message boards and social networking sites. But the exchange of information is not the same thing as human contact. You don't make plans to meet a friend at midnight on the Internet to buy a new album the second it comes out. There are no in-store appearances on your computer. Online, nobody sleeps on the sidewalk to be first in line to get concert tickets when they go on sale in the morning. You hit the send button, alone in your pajamas, usually to find out that the show is already sold out. Don't get me wrong. I'm not grieving for some hippy-dippy analog past. The digital music frontier has given the recording industry a long-overdue kick in the pants -- it provides incredible opportunities for independent artists and intoxicating freedom for consumers. I'm not even wistful for Sunset Strip slumber parties (full disclosure: I never camped out at Tower Records but my older sister did). I will say that growing up in LA, the flagship Tower store on Sunset -- with its garish, gargantuan paintings of album covers slung on the side of the building and the most awesome billboard in all rockdom rising high above the Strip -- was basically the center of the universe. The Whiskey and the Roxy were just up the road. Capitol Records was down the street, just beyond Laurel Canyon. The stars themselves lived in the hills just behind the Tower store, and could often be found perusing the bins. Until a few days ago the marquee in front of the landmark Hollywood store, built in 1969, read: It's The End of the World As We Know It. According to a sales clerk, LA-based liquidators Great American Group, the new owners, replaced the sign Monday with one that simply reads: Going Out of Business Sale. Now that's poetic, partly because it is the end of an era, but also because this particular ending fills me with hope. The collapse of the big record stores -- Boston's Virgin megastore on Newbury Street is expected to close its doors Nov. 4, and chains like Sam Goody, Musicland, and Wherehouse have already folded -- signifies the demise of a crippled business model. For years these stores have been stocked with overpriced, poor-quality, board-room-approved product. The privilege of forking over $18.99 for a plastic disc stuffed with filler and maybe two hit singles -- money that lines the suit pockets of Seagrams shareholders -- was bound to lose its charm, file sharing or no file sharing. It's impossible to know what the recording industry will look like five years from now; questions of how to enforce legal downloading and legislate revenue streams have yet to be resolved. But right now music fans have access to a whole lot of music and, with songs selling for 99 cents a pop (or less, if you're a freeloader), being a music fan is affordable again. I could wax rhapsodic about the album form, about arc and flow and vision that you can't manage in a 3-minute track. I'll mourn the tactile part of listening to music: holding a lyric sheet and following along with the words as the song plays, getting to know an artist through the art she's chosen as the visual companion to her songs, reading the thank yous. Maybe someone will invent a way for teeny-weeny liner notes to be spit from a slit in the sides of iPods, which will come with a miniature, collapsible magnifying glass. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Good bye, Tower Records. I'll miss you, and good riddance.

with my vote, the score is 3-2 in favor of my friend louis. it doesn't really matter why some like it and others don't. just enjoy it!

that looks good, chuck. btw, you can get it for 49.99 at buy.com if you create an account with google and use their checkout system. uh, oh. last august they released an updated version called inport deluxe that's about $25 more.

PhonoPreAmp iVinyl Digitise records and tapes with 24bit/96KHz for MP3-PlayersPhonoPreAmp iVinyl The sound-rich duo for perfect audio recordings With ease and speed, the PhonoPreAmp iVinyl can eternalize your LP, single or cassette recordings via the USB interface. All with no sound card! High-quality PhonoPreAmp for perfect recordings Record your old audio recordings to your PC without quality loss. The PhonoPreAmp is equipped with an input for your turntable (with moving magnet cartridge) and with a port for tape decks or other audio sources. Adjustable levels, shielded housing, not to mention carefully selected components and a first-class signal-to-noise ratio together guarantee the perfect recording. The phono PreAmp requires no drivers, no sound card and no power supply. Connect it to your computer’s USB port and start recording. Easy-to-use restoration software for Windows and Mac Do your records pop and crackle? Static noise on your tapes? TerraTec SoundRescue (Windows) and Roxio CD Spin Doctor (Mac) are powerful yet easy to use programs that will get rid of those annoying noises for you in no time at all. It operates in realtime, and with a simple click of the mouse. Now there is nothing standing in the way of listening pleasure in CD quality. Package Content: * Phono PreAmp iVinyl * Cinch/RCA cabel * USB connecting cable * Quick Setup Guide * Driver/Software CD * Registration card * Service card Note: At around $150, it ain't cheap. If you really need something that allows you to do the same thing for less money, how about the iMic USB External Sound Card by Griffin Technology, which goes for $35? I've never used it, but it seems to garner good reviews from many owners. Here's an Amazon.com link that includes 68 reviews: iMic

so what did you think of the show? i saw them last night, and while i enjoyed them, no one except the painist really bowled me over. there's something about seeing an ecm artist live, without the aid of the "ecm recorded sound" that sounds funny to me, like something's missing.

that blues calendar is a great one. unfortunately, mind arrived today - damaged.

must be "the luck of the italians" on the other hand, i just received one of my orders. the blues calendar i was going to give my brother for his birthday was badly bent. that's what happens when you ship a 12" by 12" item in a 10" by 13" box.

not true. i use firefox and i've made several purchases.

Just a heads up for my auction of a sealed copy of Mulgrew Miller's Landmark recording Wingspan. This is the original issue, not the 32Jazz reissue. Wingspan

well fine, who wants your stupid ol' copy anyway.