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Well, yeah, that's what I mean, this stuff was weird as hell in all kinds of ways, and it just came into your house, burnt itself into your brains, then off to bed and the next day, hey, up and at em!

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So....at times a great artist, at times a bad person...we got anything else here?

Lately, been digging the Pub-D-Hub, and have been having fun (sometimes not) trying to find a workaround for those "offbeat" movie/etc channels powered by AdRise (evil Evil EVIL!)...but the real treat has been all the cooking stations. In a lot of ways, this reminds me of the earlier days of local TV (or cable, for that matter), where all you needed was a concept and a time slot, and somebody to put it on the air at some hour. Now, all you need is a concept, a camera (or hell, just graphics software), a server, enough money to pay the fee(s?), and BAM - YOU GOT A TV STATION! Or radio. But TV is more fun to watch. Anybody else exploring Roku for something besides streaming obvious movies & any musics?

Who's not love the Ed Wynn? Especially with the giant smoking head in front of the little conductor man down in front, to say nothing of the Helen forrest AND The Trhee stooges. Live TV! Limited Technology! Old School jokes! Good ones! "You know what an executive is to me?" HA!

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No love for Ed Wynn, Scary Rabbit Masks, Tuxedos, or Violins? Sad if not. Ed Wynn was funny!

Is there anything in particular there to be noticed? No, but in general, the guy just shows up, starts yammering about car prices and him and his wife and I'm hard pressed to know what kind of "report" this is going to be or if at some point it tuns into an advertisement, and then, Truman, commies, and sports, none of the delivered with anything more than a rambling chattiness, and then at the end, obtw - Mexico found some stolen American uranium, talk to ya' later, g'nite! Anything in particular? No. The whole thing is bizarre. You could stage it as a comedy bit and not change too much of anything. It's ROTFLMFAO-worthy and puts Bob & Ray into a deeper perspective.

Dude!

I love me some Ed Wynn.

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It's a thin line (and it might get thinner) but right now, the conversation seems to be about the life and work of Amiri Baraka, which although it was certainly was political in may aspects, was not per se "politics", it was, as they used to say, "Arts & Letters". If somebody starts to apply Baraka's positions, or opposition to them, to current events, then I think the line gets crossed. But yes, a thin line, one of which The Staff And Management Of Jim's Organissimo Burger Bar, Bowling Alley, & Bulletin Board are fully aware.

It was with Somebody Blew Up America that I feel he jumped the shark once and for all. Yesterday's palate spilled on (then) today's canvas...wholly irrelevant, like ok, what am I supposed to do with THIS? So 1965-ish, and...not even in a "sting"-y way any more. Just....silly. And sad. Precisely because it was silly. You don't want to think of Amiri Baraka & "silly" in the same breath, anything but "silly". Yet, there it was. Now that he's passed, time will, hopefully, restore the balance so that the great and the trivial can begin to take their rightful positions. And I still maintain that "In The Tradition" is the greatest "jazz poem" ever written. If a better one comes along, it will be about a different type of "jazz" (and its people), which is, I think already here, but I'll leave it to those who feel a need for it.

People who look for a more perfect world will not find it in this one. GEE-HAW Silver and AWAYYYYYY!!!!!!

Hettie Cohen is his two brilliant daughters? That's damn near non-scientific!

I've been listening to a fair amount of Wagner lately, and find a lot of it stirring, and not in a "nice" or "polite" way. But not once does what I feel translate in "let's round up all the jews and then kill'em, yee-ha auf wiedersehen". It's more like a general garrrrUMMMPHHHHTZZZLLLLLL!!!!!????? rage at life being as...small as it so often is. It's easy to turn that into looking for somebody/anybody to blame, but the reality is that there's no blame to be effectively placed than within one's own self. To the extent that the rage does in fact get processed inwardly, then it serves its purpose. To the extent that one lets it fall prey to others' odious - and inevitably small, tritefully small (murder is an act with a large impact, but in terms of human spirit/character, it perhaps the tritest act of all, indeed vile, but perhaps most because it is such a failure of anything even halfway progressive, trite, it is. Foul and trite.) - manipulations, it fails. But the simple fact of its existence and of one's confrontation of it, hell I think you really gotta worry about is anybody who doesn't have to deal with that at some point at some time. Nobody's life is that damn good all the time.

Ellington was in Houston in the summer of 1973, at the Fairmont iirc, for either a wone or two week engagement. We were in Texas City for a long weekend, visiting an uncle, I was 17, and the old man wouldn't let me take the car into Houston on my own, and all the adults were either too tired or too disinterested to go. Had to have an adult, because they served alcohol. Had managed to finagle a trip to La Bastille to catch two sets of Kenny Burrell the summer before, but the Fairmont must've been in another bracket financially, because going in to see Duke was never really seriously considered. Can't really blame anybody, all things considered, but....damn.

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Last know owner? Koch Records? http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=20050408&id=z9wrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SAUGAAAAIBAJ&pg=2993,876300

Doris Parker & Aubrey Mayhew. The material made a lot of rounds, some of it. Everest & AJ Records (Archives Of Jazz series) was how I came across some of it in the 70s. Very...circuitous routes to release, some of those things appeared to take. Previous discussion here: So a-ha, perhaps? If Koch is now the legit owner of the label, boom.

Whoa! Conrad Lester too!?!?!?!?! That's my kind of lounge! I have a beat-up copy of a Joe Carroll LP on Epic, so this was not his only leader date. Not sure of there were any more though. I agree that for me, a little Joe Carroll goes a long way. But I fully enjoy going there with that little bit.

Well, them for sure. But I think he also leaves open a payment to the label if the store is using a programming service. I'm sure Macy's would use sure a service, they're not going to let Kent in Men's Footwear bring his records to work to share with the shoppers, if you know what I mean.