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Tonight's DSO program:

Victoria? Whoa...

Kris Kringle Der Bingle Bobby Jindal

Can't speak for anybody else, much less interpret their intent. All I advocate for is the responsibility of pleasure, and the pleasure of responsibility.

Would it be possible for the default view to show "Paid thru mm/yyyy?"

and yet...I taught my daughter much the same thing...don't play the "tease" game, because if you find yourself playing it with some cretin who does not know how to back off, you can find yourself overpowered physically, and then what? It's not your fault that the guy is a neanderthal, that's 100% on him, but if you're smart, you'll realize not to casually assume anything about anybody. This is not to make the predator male the victim, nor is it about blaming the female victim - it's about educating the women in your live by acknowledging that human sexuality is a powerful thing not to be treated casually, and that male sexual instinct is still, largely, based on the hunter/prey model, no matter how much "sensitive" veneer we try to glue onto it. Similarly, I taught my son that if he wants a woman, his goal is not to "take" her, but to be wanted by her, to create a dynamic of mutual desire. Force doesn't enter into it. Tricks don't enter into it. Disallowing the possibility of rejection doesn't enter into it. Have a dick, don't be a dick. We teach our children how to fuck, how to avoid pregnancy and diseases, but do we teach them how to refine their sexual instincts towards enjoying the delights of mutual seduction? Or are we content pursuing the crimes of yesterday rather than reducing the likelihood that they will be committed tomorrow?

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/6835403/chocolate-armenteros-dies-trumpet I had the privilege to see him in person with Celia Cruz & Sonora Matancera...they were all "old" even then, at least they looked old. But not while the music played. Then they were eternal.

Roger Mudd Harold Budd Elmer Fudd

The label machinery is really moving now...got a promo email from Concord this evening, and apparently this is the lead single: Whoa! There's a song on there called "Goodbye Dolly". I'm like, ok, you go my attention, talk to me. And make it good. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019PL3C68?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=od_aui_detailpages00

Yeah, I tend to be entertained by original, well executed musical ideas that offer me visceral and intellectual stimulation, jazz or otherwise!

The Invisible Man is easier to search than Organissimo.

Nobody should feel guilty about the inability of another human to control their behavior. After-the-fact doubt is surely useful as a learning tool, but as a part of the permanent repertoire...I'm not a fan, myself. But that's an entirely personal process, ultimately. Which is just to say that I'm a fan of not letting the bastards get you down.

I don't think that "most likely" is a particularly civilized assumption. Evolved adults should possess the ability to "test the waters" before committing to taking the plunge. Have you ever thought that you might want to get next to a woman, and then reach a point in the proceeding where you said, hmmmm, maybe not? We all have, I'm sure, and then what happened? Have you ever been in such a situation and have a woman drug you and then get you hard and then mount you and ride you until she came? I mean, I know such things happen, but they are very, very rare. So, of course you have the ability to disengage from a situation should you decide. A woman has the same ability, but when a man blocks that ability and continues with an unwelcome continuation, that is when it becomes rape. I won't blame anybody for "being there", but once there, there are still rules, hell, still laws.

I dig anybody that covers a post-WR Wayne tune without trying to "apologize" for it by moving it backwards. It is what it is, move on with it. Regarding Minnie Riperton...I keep talking about Monday Michiru, and stand by that, but people who are into the whole "historical education" aspect of getting into music who haven't yet heard Minnie's Come To My Garden should really give hard consideration to doing so. It was her first album after leaving Rotary Connection, produced by Charles Stepney (and all that implies), and is a simply brilliant piece of work. She'd subsequently drop bits and pieces of it through her work here and there, but this is the full frontal package here. It and late-70s Marvin Gaye are two things that when you hear any pop artist referencing those continuums, you know they're serious about it, because those musics were not particularly popular, but it sure wasn't because of a lack of substance.

The assumption that possibility guarantees outcome, or even assumes outcome is a depressingly unevolved one, which is not to say that it has not been, and to a large degree remains a prevalent one. But really - if we keep the same attitudes, we only re-enforce the mindset, and in turn the behavior. We'll be perpetually reactive. Men will still be wondering why women such devils, and women why men are such beasts. Because we are, that's why. Perfection does not lie within us. Improvement through evolution, however, does. Let's just accept that as a given and then go about redirecting ourselves based on what is, not what is hoped for. But as for the right now, yes, if I invite a woman to my room and she accepts, yes, I get a sense that the game is on. Butit is just that - a game, and any game needs to be played, and both players need to play it. To go from there to that I'm entitled to win the game or that consenting to play the game equates to a tacit forfeiting of it...no, no, and HELL no. And that it's fair game for me to use any weapon at my disposal to win this game, drugs, alcohol, guns, bathrobes, whatever, bump that one up to OH HELL NO. Also - both parties have a responsibility to respect what game it is the other thinks the other might want to play and adjust accordingly without rancor or malice. Believe it or not, flirting is not the same thing as inviting seduction. It might be the first step towards it, but it might also very well be an end unto itself. That's one of those things where it's only "impossible" to separate them until you tell yourself you can and should separate them, and then...just do it. Own your own damn self. it's surprisingly easy to be "stimulated" without becoming "aroused". If the private Bill Cosby was really the public Bill Cosby, he'd have known this. Now having said all that..on an individual-by-individual basis, I would certainly be willing to consider the possibility that any these women had "ulterior motives" of their own. I have no problem allowing for that possibility. But just do the math - at some point, the ability to prove the same thing over and over and over and over yet again becomes less that a sure thing, and that applies to both Cosby and his accusers. Because, you know, nobody bats 1.000.

All I can comment on is this one song, this one performance of it, and I think it's freakin' brilliant. A more than worthy worthy addition to the Minnie Riperton/Charles Stepney Continuum. If the rest of the album operates at this level...HELL yeah. Just found this, apparently a whole set, don't have time right now to go in depth, but...yeah, go ahead with that, take it there. No problems here.

I don't know if I'd use the phrase "bat-shit insane", but...woefully un-nuanced, that one I would use. The notion of "tacitly given" consent for sex, leaves one asking many questions, not the least of which is - is this system of tacit agreement actually a universal agreement, or a unilateral assumption? Was the introduction and meeting set up with a mutually unambiguous expectation that she was there to fuck him and that he was there to help her career? Also, what kind of sexual activity might have there been a mutually consented to advance expectation of? Getting felt up a little? A handjob? A blow job? Intercourse with condom? Or here, let me knock you out and then fuck you however I see fit? Care for a bathrobe? Really, the only truly tacitly assumed consent that holds up in any of these scenarios is that the "conversation would continue". Past that, it's assumptions and expectations and my limits vs your limits, presumably neither of which had been explicitly discussed beforehand.

Name/Title_______________________________Format__Price____Quantity___Total Pigmeat Markham __________________________ LP 1.99 1 1.99 Trial Item: 75911, Condition: Very Good- (NOTE: Blue label pressing with the deep groove. Cover has a stain on back along the opening.) Berio/Castiglioni/Holliger/Huber/Krenek/Le LP 6.99 1 6.99 Spectacular Heinz Holliger -- Sequenza VII/Alef/Trio/Noctes Intelligibilis Lucis/Viere Stucke/Spiele -- Holliger/Collot/Wyttenbach Item: 769035, Condition: Near Mint- David Bowie ______________________________ CD 11.99 1 11.99 Blackstar Item: 778876, New Copy Berio ____________________________________ LP 13.99 1 13.99 Visage/Circles/Sequenza III/Cinque Variazioni -- Cathy Berberian/David Burge Item: 782950, Condition: Near Mint-

If it's true that this guy has been doing this all these years and didn't have a reputation of being a predator, I find that a little disheartening. Even if nobody had the guts to go public in the aftermath until decades alter, I'd like to think that there was a "grapevine" that put out the word "watch out for this guy, he's trouble". Maybe it was a byproduct of the overall culture of the time, maybe nobody really wanted to believe it had happened to them, but by god people, look out for each other. My daughter's age group (the 25-ish zone) seems to be very much into looking out for each other when they have unwanted advances pushed on them past the point of the "can't blame a guy for trying" stage (which itself seems to be a shorter and shorter leash these days, and good for that as well). That's why I want to know who today's "Bill Cosby"'s are. I would really hope that potential and real victims are talking within their own circles about who's trying what on whom, and making every effort to proceed accordingly. Problem is, there's always people who don't mind being used like that, and that only emboldens the predator, who has his belief that of course they want it even further reinforced. And there's always people who are convinced that they're different, that it won't happen to them. What's done in the dark should come out in the day (that's a variant on an old folk saying about trying to hide your wrongdoing, not a statement of desire for yet more bedroom gossip). Shine that light wherever it needs to be shone, and don't take decades to get around to it!

Peter, Paul, & Mary My Brothers And My Sisters All Over This Land Papa Full version...epic

Has Bill Cosby been accused of child molestation too?

For Major Holley completists: Better vocals.

Hop Sing Hedda Hopper Hoppity Hooper

I want to know who today's "Bill Cosby"s are, and how long it will take them to face their accusers in a court of law.

Jack Parr Le Roy Parnell Bill Parcells