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This is the only "comment" on her appearance, and the genesis of the ponytail riffing. Basic comedic/compositional pivoting construct, really. Yes! Exactly! People taking offense just to be offended!

On my browser, there's a new page beginning right after the video clip of Willene. Just want to make sure that that clip gets its rightful viewership. I think its pretty awesome (in the old,meaningful sense of the world).

There is no hate. There is a lot of riffing on ponytails (how can you hate ponytails?), "cuteness", and, sorta, NPR & NPR husbands with lameass record collections. What I'm not following is, the line from, hey, don't get all angsty about it, it's FUN, and then when FUN starts being had, that's hate? Like, if you don't love it for its cuteness you hate it? Hate is now defined as an refusal to accept The Publicly Offered Gift Of Cuteness? I'm kinda like, uh, if you want to be cute and be sure it's Nothing But Loved!!!!, limit your offering to anywhere less than Fully Public. It's like people think that a public blog is the same thing as having a few friends over for drinks and board games. Well, no, it's not.

RIP Joan Rivers.

http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/saturday-night-live-vet-jan-hooks-dead-57-n222501 Always funny and never rote, always had some little extra personal play to draw out a little deeper funny.

Lovey Howell Stanley Cowell Tony Dowell

Probably old news to you guys, but I just found this about Willene Barton: http://bluesandrhythm.co.uk/documents/BR289-Willene-Barton.pdf

Well, I guess I'm an asshole, then.

Willene Barton made an album? I gotta get that, good lord, that woman could PLAY!!!! Start it @ 5:52 This is the only thing I've ever heard of hers, caught it on A&E ca. 1986 or so, but I've never forgotten it or her. That's some damn fine tenor right there!

Jed Clampett Jedi Return Customer

SWEET grapes!

Neither...it's basically "jazzy" and such TV themes. And such. The Verve stuff & Threshold & that AMN(?) thing are far more statement-al. Put another way...when it comes time to delete files from my hard drive, this one will be in the first wave. The others, they'll stick around for a little while, except for Vibrations & Threshold, which I have on LP. And yes, I realize I've done nothing to make you not want to hear it anyway.

Until Tench Tilghman gets in, hey, fuck it, man.

I dig how Lani views the challenge of the dress as to never let the stripe move, Karen views it as to never let the stripe stay in one place, and they each succeed to perfection. You'd thank that Lani was stiff or something, but she got that phrasing and the good smiles and the head jerks that say, no, not stiff, just still waters, still waters here, running deep. Karen currently resides in Minnesota.

Been listening to this set today...keep liking Harley more every time I listen to his stuff, and this set...three albums of the pretty damn happening Oliver Collins/James Glenn/Billy Abner rhythm section, this time that's what really grabbed me, these guys were tight together. I know that Collins has left some trails in Philly over the years, but can't really find any leads on the other two other than Glenn with The Visitors, so what's the post-Harley story with these guys? Bottom line, it's the sound of a tight working band, not a studio assemblage. Always something to be said for that.

Anybody who has November 2 free to be in Houston can have this to do while there: http://www.dacamera.com/1415season/morton_feldman%E2%80%99s_for_philip_guston

Karen Philipp does sexy better than sexy. She currently resides in Minnesota. I wonder who got "make" into "maeyke", her or Lani or Sergio or Grusin, or Skeeter Davis, or is that just one of those sex things that music mojo will bend you into without you even thinking about it? And it still blows my mind that the Dom Um Romao I saw going batshit crazy madgood out in front of Weather Report in 1974 was this same guy on this same gig. Pretty World all the way, except when it's not, but oh well, c'est la vie, no doubt.

I set up an Astrud Gilberto channel on Pandora (and somehow it thinks that that means I also want to hear lame retroass French-type cafe songs with or without accordion - which I do not want to hear, not now, not ever) and new versions of this song, old and new keep popping in. I "like" them all, and that keeps 'em coming in. Pandora is fun for that. Still waiting to get Art Garfunkel's version, but certainly in no hurry, take your time on that one Pandora. But I'm surprised that this, the very first recording of such an iconic piece of music has never been reissued? What kind of twisted legalities have kept that from happening?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waters_of_March But can that possibly be correct? Still? It's pretty damn frisky! And peppy! I like it! Who's the arranger on this, btw? That's some cool stuff that doesn't always land exactly where you'd expect sometimes. Not sure, but I think I heard Art Garfunkel's version of this in a head shop when it first came out, on what was left of our "underground" FM station in fall of 1975. Freaked me ut, the lyrics did, which I suppose they have done to many people. I went back and described them to somebody and they said, oh, that sounds like the new Paul Simon song about all the different ways of leaving your chick, shit just keeps rhyming and going on forever, and I said, well, no, not that, and this time I was right, although I still give him credit for kinda being in some kind of the same ballpark, very roughly. Anyway, it was that song, and it was somebody's version, and it was on the FM in a head shop. Tell me that our collective evolution has been forward, and I might not automatically agree, based on this incident alone! #truestory

I'm trying to imagine where the fringe benefits of being a musician who also booked gigs @ Slugs' would potentially end, and so far, I can't get there.

Mr. Klamm Robert Lamm AMM

Didn't one of these recent interviews have it as LaMont Johnson who got it going? As for Slugs', I would take it as the plural possessive, as belonging to the "slugs", the name of which was explained as having some philosophical derivation.

Message sent, hopefully in time.

I've always thought a Chyron was just called a "crawl". I guess the renaming is supposed to make it less irritating and appear to be the inevitability of the future that it's becoming?

Just...stop the Cardinals, Giants please. Bear the Giants no ill will, but was pulling for the Nats, just because. And Bryce Harper, once irritating as hell to me (if for no other reason than being named "Bryce"), is beginning to grow on me as the kind of no-nonsense asshole that you'd never really want to hang out with but would love to work with above anybody else. The jury is in! Now, in other news, Anaheim fans finally figure out why we "hated" to see him go, but didn't really mind. http://www.halosheaven.com/2014/10/7/6943341/hambone-boneheads-the-fans And finally, hey in the Season That Hated Life, at least there was this, not just once, but several times. That sound you hear is hope, springing eternal.