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Well, here's his chance to get a clue. If he takes advantage of that chance, good for him. If he's still clueless afterwards, not your fault, not unless you got shitfaced drunk (or shitfaced sober, sometimes I swear they end up the same, at least in my experience) and only wanted to talk about old lawn mower motors and shit, which I seriously doubt is what happened. But if it accidentally did, then that's on you, you'll just have to own that one. Hopefully the man at least knows how to spell Tecumseh. Otherwise, hey.

Seems like a good chance to update the Warners set and pass it along to a friend. But maybe not. I got excited about "mono mixes", but they're from Fat Albert Rotunda, and...errrr...not excited. But give me a mono mix of Crossings, and I'd have to hear that, wrong as it would seem/be. Like, remove that third dimension ok, just give me a flattline mix, let's see what THAT does. However, along those lines, the "single mix" of "Water Torture", that's still stereo, so is it just an edited version, or will they have an actual 45 hotass mastermix on there? If so, that's better than nothing! Crossings is, for me, an album that never really hits me, yet knocks me out. One of those subliminal seduction things, perhaps. No matter, when I reach for it, it usually stays reached for for a few days, ongoing.

oooohhhh....I hope this one stays in print for a while, because the ratio of songs I haven't yet tired of hearing with lyrics (the key difference, with lyrics) to the ones I either have or just don't care about, period, is, from a cursory glance at the track list is about 60/40, and if I ever get motivated to really get into those songs at that level again, Rosemary Clooney with this straightforward of a backing seems like a damn good way to do it.

Not to worry. I sent hundreds to the "landfill". A few months ago, we bought a new shredder, one that can turn CDs into confetti. The after-smell is delightfully surreal. Where is the early days of AOL now that I could put it to good use? 100 FREE MINUTES? No - a lifetime of puzzling odor. That's a deal I make every time.

Did not know until yesterday that it was Paul Horn who composed and played the music on Clutch Cargo.

Per Chuck's dead-on comment waaaay up above, if you grow up hearing "country people" and or "Southern people" speak, it's not hard to hear at all. Same thing with any region and it's speech/vocal mannerisms, I suppose. I remember going to Sterling. IL every summer to visit my dad's side of the family, and there were times when I totally missed a word or phrase because I wasn't following the sound, it was not yet acclimated to me. That's why I dig regionality instead of mocking it, there's stories to be told just in sound/timbre/inflection/whatever. "Words" are, sometimes, a crutch for the overly literal-minded. Even when one reads, I believe one hears a voice, or voices, of the words, and it is not some "universal" voice that one is hearing. How could that be, anyway?

I hope to not live long enough to see a box set of the complete AOL promotional CDs.

"Squirm", rhymed with "worm", not "world". "She gets you to squirm"..and it might be "world", but that's one of those blues words that sounds like what it sound like, don't worry about it, you know what it means, no matter, the sounds tells you what it means, and if it really needed a "word", it would be there. Instrumentalists do the same thing with notes.

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A commercial about painful intercourse due to menopause. http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7fjC/osphena The subject, I don't find creepy or disturbing at all. The commercial, otoh...

Probably not a good gift choice, but at some point you both might enjoy some of Judith Bingham's work. The one that really hooked me in was Salt In The Blood. No video on You Tube, but there is this, which is nothing like that, except that there are some harmonic choices made along the way that had me looking like a quizzical dog before changing to looking like a happy dog. But a LOTmore in "Salt..." than here. So, maybe get your friend something else, and get some Judith Bingham for the dog. Then snatch it back for yourself after the dog dies, or whenever else the fair opportunity arises. She's got a good idea why she does what she does too.

My son and his wife have been season ticket holders for FCD two years running now, plus he's part of the team's official "booster club" or whatever it is. At this point in the sport's popularity in this area, it's an affordable proposition for him, and it's affording him the opportunity to interact with the organization on more than a casual spectator level. Don't know what "kops" are, but it sounds like he might be one! I've gone to a few games with him over the years, and look forward to attending a few more in the years ahead. It's a good thing, and definitely not what you see your kids playing on Saturday mornings, to put it mildly!

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Yeah, Howard was fantastic, absolutely, but if your team is playing well, you shouldn't have to make 16 saves either. I mean, if Howard didn't have the game he had, it could have been 10-0 or something. . Yeah, it's kind of analogous to a baseball team having something like 17 RISP and only letting one of them score...only a goalie is not responsible for all those opportunities, so its only a partial analogy, as is the other one I kept thinking about, that it's like all those 1-0 games that Yu Darvish lost last year, great individual performances, a man doing his job exceptionally well, but a total lack of run support by the team...I know, soccer is not baseball, but it's how the human performance dynamic keeps manifesting itself in seemingly endless permutations in sports, especially team sports, that's what is fun to see and contemplate for me, especially when one is denied the immediate visceral thrill of being on the winning side. That, and I always like it when if my team's gonna lose, they make you sweat for it right up until the very end, don't let the spirit get broken, yeah, I like that. Anyway, I'm coming to like soccer more and more as time passes, especially now that I've learned to not watch just the ball all the time. HD TV makes that a lot easier, as does having an adult son who is a true fan and who doesn't mind pausing/rewinding on the cable box to show me what's really going on. It's like having a soccer John Madden right there on the sofa, only without the turducken grease in the hair, thank god.

This Tim Howard guy...damn...

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In fairness to people who don't know any better...the "noise" link between Hendrix & Ayler was an immediate bridge for me as a teenager, something that made it sound not at all "unfamiliar" or "strange". Thing is, once I started crossing that bridge, I kept going, and really never had a desire to cross back over. But it's not that the "analogy" has no basis in truth, it's more that it's true as far as it goes, but as far as it goes is not nearly as far as it really is. Also, the same is true about Hendrix as it is Ayler - that"noise" element didn't just show up one day on an acid trip (good, bad, ugly, or indifferent), it was (another) post-atomic moment(s) where everything that had been going on for a good long time came together real quick, compressed itself as far as it could, and then blew up all out of itself into its new self.

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Ok, that makes it sound like I have disfavor for Luis Bellson, and I don't, I really don't. The guy knew the music, he did. It's just me. But hell, he ain't no in the way, that's for sure. So...it's just me.

I like later Etta Jones too...predictable, but...why not? It was a good groove. Regarding Pablo, it's funny, I look at used LPs and see a Pablo with Jaws on it and first reaction is DAMN how have I not heard/seen this one before, and then I get to looking at who else is on it, and it'll be, like Joe Pass, or Bobby Durham, or Louis Bellson (fine musicians all, just not what I prefer on instinct), and it's like, oh, THAT'S why. OTOH, Big Joe Turner had a magnificent run on the label, slurryass strokevoice and bands and all. Didn't matter who was on his records (or how rehearsed they were or weren't), as they say, have no fear, Big Joe is here, and that trumped everybody/everything else. I mean, dude, LEE ALLEN! On Pablo!