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Another "revealing" anecdote - this once-young arranger I used to know told me that he was hanging with Basie after a gig and mentioned that he was an aspiring writer etc etc etc. Basie asks him who he likes as a writer, and the guy says Thad above anybody. Basie kind of winces and says, no no no...I don't like Thad's band, it sounds too much like Duke's. So go figure. We got Liberace, shouting white guys, and Duke Ellington all as reason why people don't like it. I mean, c'mon, life is complicated, but it's not that complicated.

I love Miles and I understand completely what he is saying and I love Thad Jones and I understand completely what he was saying so hey my heart is big and my love is not unlimited although it might seem that way at times but there is loveroom in it for both of those two because genius gonna genius each in their own way.

A good big band will do that for you.

Now that's what I'd like see happen, the Easy Listening Hall Of Fame! And then to find whatever board has the threads seething with anger over Perry Como not being in the inaugural class and the arguments over old school easy listening and these new breed autotuners. You should Google "loungelegends" and discover more things than even your best dreams and worst nightmare occurring simultaneously could produce.

DAMN was that a band. Thad Jones...G Sus Cryst, Thad Jones... Miss B. was doing the bald thing back then too, eh? Crazy. But not crazy like Thad Jones! And btw - how do you not dance to that? How do you not justgotta get up and DO something motional?

Showing His Werth # Can I Get A Gig writing headlines for espn.com? and oh by the way - that Nats pen today. WOW!

Game 3 was huge, the Homer Bailey game. You lose a game like that,like the Reds did, it's usually indicative of shit's not gonna go your way for a while.

Kenny Werner's book is pretty popular in a lot of circles, but as I understand it, it's more of a mental guide than a musical "system". Mike Longo has had a lot of books published, maybe him?

Not a horrible call to send the runner, but not a good move by the batter to not protect the plate at all on that pitch, made the throw out waaaaay too easy for a good arm like Posey. atter's got to know the situation there and not take a called strike 3. If in doubt, protect! And Cincinatti's since had ample opportunities to get tied. They're just not getting it done and/or SF is coming up big (aka that catch to end the 8th, hey, what can you say other than wow, that's it right there?).

Baseball. But last night, the season premeire of Duck Dynasty took precedence over everything else.

Game 5 (!?!?!?!?!) Oakland v. Verlander...must see game.

Always enjoyed his playing. Another one gone. Tick tock, and maybe you DO stop?

I'm kinda like, if you want to hear the records, listen to the records, don't bother with somebody else performing the records. That's just lame. And if you want to "re-envision" (or whatever word there is to use), just do it. It matters more if you don't tell anybody and just let it stand on its own with "pleading the case".

Here's hoping my guys can avoid the sweep. Grrrrr Watching this series has to this point been kind of a weird schizo deja-vu for me, like watching the Good Rangers play the Bad Rangers. Still like that, only the teams have reversed roles. Baseball is weird.

Night Owl Ray Knight Nancy Lopez

The Money Changers In The Temple A Pain In The Ass Astrud Gilberto

That was no lady, that was my wife.

That's the ADD medicine, right?

I'm not nearly concerned as much with what happens while it's being made or who's making it as I am with what happens to it after the people who did make it, sticky circumstances and all, end up going away and the "full ownership" of it shifts to...somebody else (because it almost always does). Because then the creators aren't around to fight back even subversively. That's when you end up with Culture. Make mine fluid, please. By any means necessary.

Notation was/is a means to an enc. There are other means to that end as well. Once upon a time, notation was needed to impose the consistency. Today, not so much. There are other tools to be used, and they are being used.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDLmpcI0lY&feature=related 1961, but still.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO1qnP6tpak 1963: African states unite against white rule http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/25/newsid_2502000/2502771.st And so forth. What wasn't Eurocentric in 1963? Plenty. DUH. For that matter...

Margaret Cho, All-American Girl Gig Smith, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League All-American Professional Carpet Cleaning

She just burnt your dick in the dick-baker, you dumbass, and you're buying that it was an accident. Hell yeah there ought to be clowns. Not a Beatle...not a Johnny Mann...not even a ballad-looking personage...close your eyes and I'll kiss you. tomorrow I'll still not have a clue who you are or what you're doing on this cover...

It's the logical next step after FM radio.

Is this a trick question?