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Well crap. I went to order this tonight and it's on back order until 2015? When did this happen?

Best Eyebrow Acting (Category = Female) Ever? Very seldom "great" with the lines, but not necessary, the eyebrows say more than words ever could. If looks could kill, you'd be dead before you could take your last breath.

Nucky Thompson Lucky Thompson Selmer E. "Bucky" Thompson

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To reference the *GREAT* Samuel L. Jackson, I don't know what's in YOUR wallet, but I ain't giving nobody NO $20.00 out of mine just for kicks.

When I was a kid, substitute teachers were usually hotter than the regular ones, either young teachers who had recently retired to have a kid, or else were just out of college and kind of biding their time until a regular gig came along. So, this Freeman guy, I don't understand why looking like a substitute teacher is something that bugs him, unless he's the victim of an educational system that was unfortunately option-availabled..

David Lynch The Lavender Hill Mob Satan

For some reason, I much prefer the material on the Atlantic over that on the Reprise, even though they're from the same sessions. Go figure.

Series, not show, the answer was, I think, "hey", and a few episodes later, there's another janitor with a whole scene of speaking lines, this time played by Jimmy Witherspoon. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1163437/?ref_=ttep_ep5

That's why you always build catalog, the long-term return on the initial investment.

Let's back this puppy up and get the hell outta Dodge! https://twitter.com/djangogold But wait, not so fast! In Gold's defense, after reading a page or two of his tweets, it's not that he hates jazz or Sonny Rollins, he's just a really not-funny guy, period. So Sonny should be gracious towards him, I think. Giants shouldn't step on midgets, unless, that is, the midget is asking for it, in which case, smoosh that punk away, big guy!

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1164145/ He plays a janitor dry-mopping the gym floor after a game, only says one word, but Chet Kincaid says "hi, Jim" or something like that, and JOS responds. I am 100% certain that it is him.

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Apparently Jack Handey is published in The New Yorker from time to time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Handey Never had occasion to ponder it before, but I did not think that Jack Handey was a real person, much less that he would be a Texan. Although, of course, now that you mention it, how could he not be? The only problem I have with this New Yorker piece is that it's just not funny. It's like, humor directed "downward", toward/at the "little guy" is not humor, it's sadism (not that comedy is very frequently not sadistic anyway, just sayin'.... Apparently, somebody has been hearing about "Sonny Rollins" so much lately that they think he's a bona fide Media Star, like Joe Henderson or somebody. Hell, even in the obsessively masturbatory world of Jazz Savantry, there is still a Great Unsettled Debate about When/Why Did Sonny Rollins Stop Mattering And When/Why Did He Start Mattering AGAIN? So, this feels like, Whack-A-Mole, oh, this Sonny Rollins guy, heard enough about him, jazz sucks and he'll be dead sooner than later, fuck it. Maybe when he dies he'll take jazz with him. I sure hope so. No, Jazz Musician, get out of MY life. If I have heard of you even once and remembered it, somebody's not doing their job. I guess if f you want a job done right... If they did this bit about Sabir Mateen, #1 - they wouldn't, #2 - if they did, everybody would be, like wow, this Sabir Mateen guy is really dark, #3 - haha this Sabir Mateen guy, what a GREAT comic persona!, #4 - men would be hipstering their nuts off to tell everybody, HEY I KNOW WHO SABIR MATEEN REALLY IS, cn I hz my blow job and coke now? I like S.J. Perelman, whatever happened to him?

I'm arguing for a reality-based perception of nasality. Nothing more.

whoa... a big fatass gracias beaucoup, mon señor!

I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a couple of hardcore hardboppers back in the 1970s about a Cecil Taylore record (one of the New Worlds, maybe one of the Hats, Ramsey Ameen was on it and he was in town for a concert/recording and I was involved in the proceedings, so whoopdie-doo about all that). The intended damning critiques was that "there was no language, it was all just bleepsreechackBOOM", to which I said well hey, if enough people are saying "bleepsreechackBOOM" and understand amongst themselves what "bleepsreechackBOOM" means, then you pretty much DO have a language, correct? One guy was all like, hey, whatever, you're just trying to confuse the issue, and the other guy was, hmm...that's a good point. Didn't change anybody's mind, but that's not the point. The point is are you going to not like something and move on about it, or are you going to not like something and create some persecution complex about it? Or do the same thing about liking it? Things are only complex until they're not. Music is just sounds organized the way somebody(s) thinks/sounds like they think they should sound.

I've got no dog in the hunt about how good she is or isn't doing any one thing any good, I really don't care one way or the other, but I would point out that nasality when people talk will be naturally transferred to their singing voice unless they consciously decide for it to not be there, and then...truth? Or consequences? Norah pretty much grew up in these parts, and the way "we" talk, you'd thing the larynx and the sinuses were parts of the same organ. Having never actually split anybody's head open (at least not from the front), I can't say with first-person conviction of proof that they aren't! So, that part of it has no relevance to me, kind of a, how you say, argument with a strawberry dogman about who gets the short end of the cake. Everything else, like I said, I don't care.

This is what she was doing in local clubs when she was signed by Blue Note. Whether or not it's "true jazz" or "right phrasing" or not, hell if I know. In hindsight, there's a lot of other things going on up in there if you're not listening with jazztunnelvisioned ears (which Lundvall obviously wasn't, not sure about most others) But this is what got their attention, her doing this like this.

She was signed as a jazz artist, actually. When they found her here, that's what she was doing, lounge/club gigs doing standards, and htat's what they origianlly had in mind for her. The Bruce Lundvall got to thinking about it... Haven't cared about her for a very, very long time now, but the lady has mad skills, and Puss n’ Boots, that's like hey, you think you gonna own this Puss, nah, WE own this Puss, so everything else starts from that, now, what were you saying? And hello Nancy Sinatra, talking about who's gonna own the Puss AND Who Gots The Boots. Still a role model after all these years! More power to her (Norah), just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't wish anything but the best for her.

With hair like that, you gotta have suits to match.

Andrew sent me this great interview with dunlop, talking about Monk: http://www.cruiseshipdrummer.com/2011/04/frankie-dunlop-on-monk.html

Holy shit Sal Nistico, you go ahead and drop all that Lockjaw harmonic science on the peoples and then just walk away like nothing happened. Holy shit, Sal Nistico! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx35lhlfBVg#t=13

Looks so wrong, sounds so pissed off. Gotta love it. Either that or be repelled by it, perhaps even scared. Or all of the above. Yeah, all of the above.