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...whoa...

http://metro.co.uk/2014/09/22/so-someones-gone-and-created-a-burger-which-tastes-of-human-flesh-4876283/

Not remembering it if you have, please do tell!

Damn, Tigers, seriously?

Talking about dots after notes, one "agreed upon" way to notate "swing". Played literally, strictly metronomically, this would definitely not swing (at least not as generally understood/consumed), but played with a consensual understanding of the suggestion, it can...or might. Time is one of those things that means different things to different people...

Action/Reaction = ways of everybody being happy and unhappy, just not all at once. It's only a "big deal" if you think you're entitled to be happy with everything all the time. Otherwise, it's just the way life works, even when the pendulum is allowed to turn into an anvil. Sucks when that happens, but...it happens anyway, because it makes some people happy.

whoa...

Legato = absence of pulse?

dedifferentiated

Oh, that seems a little too much...a stabilized listener represses hearing. Doesn't matter if that listener is executing or receiving the music. Stabilized in, stabilized out out. I don't think music itself can stabilize anybody who isn't already (or is wanting to become) stabilized. What are you hearing in your life? What are you listening for? Where have you set your finish line? Everybody looks for a scapegoat, ya' know. Start with self, fix that, and then go from there. Blame "the system", boo hoo. "The system" exists because it's the easiest way for most people. If you're not one of those people, proceed accordingly and don't worry about "repressed hearing" in anybody but yourself. This Adorno guy, he seems like a real pain in the ass, honestly, like a scoldy prick, probably be right in place with so many of the HuffPost Live hosts I see today (talk about a let down...) Seems to treat the "symptoms" rather than the "disease", which is simply that throughout history (which to me indicates some very distinct possibility of hard-wiring) most people really don't give all that much of a shit. So proceed accordingly. You know what I found out from a few years of eating really healthily? This is what I leaned - that shit does not stink because it's shit and has no choice. Shit stinks because the waste of "improper" diet stinks. so, if you don't want stinky shit, don't let your body get that stinky shit inside itself. Totally Newtonian Principle Of Shit Smell #1. However, I like the food that makes the stinky shit, so my shit generally stinks, sometimes cruelly so. But that's on me, not on my shit. I own my shit-stink, and would not have it any other way.

Yeah, "history" inevitably takes care of itself in accordance with whatever manner the lens is directed at any given time. Very few genuine "unknowns", just.a lot of people who haven't been looked at yet. So anybody who wants to leave a trail now to be looked at later, can't blame them for that. And unless and until all documentation of any given time/place is completely destroyed by natural or forced means, there's always hope. Centuries, even eons, of it. As far as "the best"...I don't know what that means, outside of executing any given set of parameters more thoroughly than anybody else, and even then, how do you know that it won't be done better by somebody else at some point. I mean, ok, Bird is definitely "the best" but he's not even been dead 75 years yet, and at some point, those parameters (which ultimately have to do with spatial & dimensional fluidity trough the physics of sound) will either no longer matter at all (god forbid), or else the means by which consensually desired execution of those parameters will have changed so dramatically that the meat will be lost and all that will be observed is the skeleton upon it once resided. I hope to not live that long, and maybe that time will never come. But it might. and even if it doesn't, hey, you still got Bird morphing Newtonian into Quantum, so...deal with it. Or not. I don't care. I'll create (or more accurately, discover) my own history, thank you, and it will "matter" or not depending on how many intersection points there are with everybody else who is doing/has done/will do the same. Not gonna cry if/when that's not very often, nor feel like God Made Manifest when it does. Safety In Numbers vs Lemmings, who wins? Depends on how far away the cliff is, I suppose.

this is the Detroit tenor player we're talking about, correct? Glad to see him finally getting some props!

Ok, who is driving the bus on this sudden spotlight(s) on Slugs, and is it the end game or is this groundwork being laid for somethings mores? Not complaining, not at all, very much not at all. Just...surely this is not all once cosmic coincidence, eh?

You can't win with this one. If you talk theory or intervals or micro-macro structures or specific instrumental technique, much less print score excerpts or solo transcriptions, you get the cries of woe from the "hey, I'm no musician, this is of no interest to me" crowd. And then when you go off into subjective reactions, you get hit with the "oh, you're just projecting" line. Frankly, I think both crowds protest too much. It never hurts to learn the basics of anything you're interested in, things don't just happen by magic. And it never hurts to be open to a pure subjective reception either. That's more or less an essential act of humanness. And really, a well-balanced/disciplined human will proceed from one direction into the other, and back again, for as long as the fascination holds/grips. Pretty much a sucker's game to refuse to be educated and interested at the same time. Really, no-win, which I personally think is bullshit. And I think a lot of the "projecting" is done as much by the people claiming that they are being projected on, just as the cries of over-technicality are often coming from those who realize that they really could/should be able to learn a few basics and just haven't bothered (for whatever reason). But it is what it is, always has been, always will be. It never hurts to try to figure out why you like or don't like anything, but it also doesn't hurt to simply like or not like that thing first, worry about it later, if at all.

Yes, "counterfeit" = oversimplification on my part. "Knowing approximation for the purpose of appropriation" would be it.

Note the attention to proper sanitary practices. I would trust her to handle my records, unlike that Toscanini cat who was a freakin' groper, right? But review them? What happens to the chocolate then? She feels resentment that she's diverting her personal passion to my own? And then what, she overcompesates with the chocolate, gets all fat and shit, everybody loses their self-esteem and gets shows on E! or some such? How does that leave anything better than it began? I'm telling you, that NPR guy is flirting with disaster, if not already penetrating it.

Very sorry to hear this. Only knew him through his posts here (and had been noticing absence of same), but yes, always enjoyable. RIP, and condolences.

I have no qualm with people meeting their porn needs, as long as it's between consenting adults. However, the escalating tendency of so many people in general to pay for damn near anything has me thinking the Ebola might yet end up serving a constructive purpose. What we won't do for ourselves, nature will do for us. Porn will always exist, but bad porn should only exist as a failed last (or first) resort. It shouldn't become the industry standard. But people and their genitals, fools and their money, same old same old.

No, that's a fake. That's a counterfeit of the BN 45 label. The catalog # 101 & signed sleeve suggests that it was, hopefully, just a vanity pressing made up to be sold or even given away as a wink-wink-lol-if-only type of thing. At least one would hope so. "Singingly yours"....eeeeEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW!!!!! Yeah, good luck, Mallory, for real. You've been genuinely Touched By Creepiness!

Not sure these EuroPD AudioPorn Collections Of Xeroxed Grampa Playboys count as bootlegs, although I am sure that they count as EuroPD AudioPorn Collections Of Xeroxed Grampa Playboys.

Not Jazz, but major music anyway... Takács Quartet Monday, October 6, 2014, 8:00PM | at Caruth Auditorium Program: Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat Major, Hob. III:67 Janáček: String Quartet No.2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Beethoven: String Quartet in E minor, Op.59, No.2 http://www.dallaschambermusic.org/70thseason/takacsquartet/

Bucs making sure I get to bet on time tonight...thanks, I guess, but was hoping for at least a better game. In the meantime, don't bother showing Miggy the money, he's not wanting it: http://espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2014/story/_/id/11625438/miguel-cabrera-detroit-tigers-sign-paperwork-playoff-bonus Good luck, Tigers!