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No suggestions here, sorry, but I'm glad to find that I'm not the only one who finds a product from the supposedly unbuggy Apple family of world-changing products to be pretty damn buggy, all things considered. I've got the 160GB, update it's OS regularly, and still am not immune to the odd "surprises", the most irritating one being tracks not playing to completion before moving on to the next one. Apple!

Keys expanded towards another modality, and have a thigh and a drumstick while you're at it, if you dare!

He'll go to hitting that rim on 2 & 4 about as quickly as anybody who's ever lived. That gets on my nerves really badly. I was in the Recovery Room one night when he did that on Marchel, and Marchel turned around and got it stopped immediately. Just one more reason why Marchel remains my hero. Per precedent, this qualifies him as an anti-musical hack whose work should be digitally edited out of existence, and qualifies me to disregard his basic proven abilities and his work history in the service of furthering my notion that "jazz" is really a lesser music, because, you know, too much improvisation takes away from the compositional perfection that could have been achieved if the parties involved would have been smarter and/or more motivated. Players like Bobby Durham should just cease to exist, period. Go tell it on the mountain! That's what seems to be all the rage these days, and I don't want to be left too far behind. Ok, I sarcasticate a little. But that 2 & 4 rim thing of his really has pushed me over the edge more than once in the privacy of mine and/or somebody else's home. It's a swing killer!

Keys, please!

Bobby Durham.

The implication was that a steady diet of pizza...ah....clogs you up, not the plumbing, and now that...eh, never mind.

I used to think that the muted horn was a lazy bone's voice calling from a disinterested afar...59. I'd have been 3-4...horns talked to me then. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YknAHtDN6Y 50 cents...my folks would uby stuff like this to give to me along with the children's records and the Billy Bayou (which I wore out, and then some). 50 cents was all it took. Side 1 Matrix No. K2NH-0806 Hot Diggity ( Dog Ziggity Boom ) ~ Adapted from Alexis Chabrier's 1st theme of España, Rhapsody for Orchestra Words and Music by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning, 1956 Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers Patricia Music by Perez Prado with lyrics by Bob Marcus, 1958 Perez Prado and his Orchestra Lazy Bones Music by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Johnny Mercer , 1951 Kay Starr Side 2 Matrix No. K2NH-0807 Dream Along With Me ( I'm On My Way To A Star )theme song from "The Perry Como Show" Words and Music by Carl Sigman, 1956 Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers Land of Dreams Music by Eddie Heywood and lyrics by Norman Gimbel, 1954 Eddie Heywood with Joe Reisman's Orchestra Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart Gogi Grant with Henri René's Orchestra I don't recall ever playing Side 2.. Ever. But I do remember this one, another one where the instruments sounds oddly like human-esque expulsions of secret conversation...

I had a record player the first day I can remember, probably before. And records, all of which take me back to age 4,5,6...

Tune Up (Eddie Vinson) Tune Down (Kenny Drew) Bernie's Tune (made popular by Mulligan) Elmer's Tune (Glenn Miller) Luny Tune (Grant Green - comp. Larry Young) Next Up = WINTER

Not if they weren't home and/or were asleep...

Because now that you don't live on pizza, you might need a plumber?

Long Ago & Far Away (standard) How Long Has This Been Going On? (standard) The Long & Winding Road (Beatles) (They Long To Be) Close To You (Bacharach) Long Tall Dexter (Gordon) Next up = PLEASE

This is a very cryptic comment...

Doesn't address the issue of documentation/etc, but "digital download" and "MP3" are only sometimes the same thing. FLAC files are lossless, and in this day of broad/broader/broadestband and terramegagilameshbyte HDs,...there should be options for the discriminating consumer. Whether or not there will be remains to be seen, but if there's ever going to be a time to "raise a voice" before being forced to settle, now is probably it. If you have a choice, take it.

Fred Stamps dethrones Adrian Beltre as King Of Testicle Injury Toughness.

I also stay away from those sprawling "clincs" that have locations conveniently located everyfuckingwhere. Went to one one time, got a shitty, halfassed cleaning, a generic exam, and a strong nudge to sign up for some whitening program which was "usually" covered by insurance. Total factory, the place was, not what I want from any kind of medical practice. We've been using the same guy for about 20 years now, a small practice, no partners, been at the same location forever, cute-enough (and highly competent) hygenists, and a stable staff. Offers the cosmetic stuff but does not in any way pimp it. And good nitrous for when I need it. Yet, the guy has had virtually no online presence until very recently, and even now you can tell his heart's not in it. He's happy having a neighborhood-based family practice and building his business slowly, from generation to generation and through word of mouth. My kind of guy!

Yeah, but....a dentist can be a cold fish with limited social skills (mine is kind of like that) and still be a helluva good dentist (as he is). "Personality" is too often confused with quality of service, at least that's been my experience. Then again, all I really want out of a dentist is a hot hygenist, some good nitrous., and for the fillings to not fall out. Other than that, hey.

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Ah yes, online customer reviews...people who you don't know if they are who they claim to be talking about things about which you have no idea if they share your standards/tastes or not.. Sometimes, anyway. But I've encountered enough b.s. (especially with restaurants) to where I don't even bother except as a supplement. Word-of-mouth from people I trust is still what I look for whenever possible.

Hey, you can still buy vinyl. Sometimes. Don't know about cassettes, though. But then again... "We" will always be a "specialty market". Keep that in mind, always, especially when it comes time to decide what you are or are not willing to accept in the process of having your specialized needs met.

Anybody else remember this article (cover story, actually) about the impact that downloading was going to have on the business? Of course, the record companies fucked up completely and artwork & CDs are just getting in the way now, but...this is all inevitable, really, in a consumer-driven market based on providing the consumer the option to be anyplace else but at a specific place at a specific time in order to hear whatever it is that they think they want or might want to hear.

Haven't you heard? I'm anti-intellectual and don't read books. I thought everybody knew by now. But seriously, I'm still attached to my land line. Don't like being "reachable" 24/7, and besides, in this house, people still leave home w/o their cells and/or misplace them for days at a time and/or once in a blue moon have them stolen. All of those scenarios become less logistically impossible to cope with with the land line still in place. And sometimes, often, actually, I'll be sitting in the house somewhere and want to know where a business is or what somebody's phone number is, and it's easier to just pick up the phone book and look than it is to go all cyberistical just to find a damn phone number. Sometimes the shortest distance between two point is still analog.