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Those LT covers are so much more honest than the pretend-vintage looks of what they do now. "Hey, let's make it look like a Reid Miles cover because Reid Miles covers were SO cool and besides, that's the way a Blue Note cover SHOULD look, even though it never did" just doesn't do it for me. That's just another attempt to institutionalize. Screw the Alamo - Remember The LTs!

$7.98 list for the LT, iirc.

Honk Mobley, I,m filing that one away for future reference... Honk Mobley.

Green Bay is starting to look like a Super Bowl team to me.

Moreso than usual!

?Goog game going on in Atlanta now. Shaping up to be a day for great playoff games.

Helluva game going on it Pittsburgh right now...

Hard to find, but the side Wodds made with Pete Robinson in LA right after he came back from Europe is an interesting listen.

Gee, if that was the sharpest spear your group had, y'all must've been a bunch of.... I mean, really!

Sorry, but failure to contexualize content is either a failure of the content-provider to deliver focused intent, or, at least just as likely, a failure of the consumer to pay attention to anything other than what they already know, want to know, or will ever allow themselves to know. I'm well aware that words have meaning, and I'm well aware that words have context that define that meaning, and I'm just as well aware that giving the first construct priority over the second is one of the bigger impedements to progress our society faces. So forgive me if I don't get particualrly enthused about actions that ultimately reinforce the problem rather than move it along. Discarding words & discouraging behaviors in and of themselves does nothing to change emotions, which, is ultimately where real, lasting change takes place. If it did, things would be a lot better now than they are.

Because , in the context of the original song, it is not clearly/specifically a slur against sexual orientation. Even then, the word, onlike other gay-specific slurs, had connotations of character that were not accustory of sexual orientation. Just like "act like a man" or "don't be a sissy" refer to quality of character, not sexual orientation, so does - and has - "faggot". It gets blurry with the latter, though, because it is also a word that does have orientation-specific slurdom attached to it. But given the context - a song about some blue-collar know-nothings who would, if given the chance, trade places with that "faggot" who got the airplane, the money, and the hot chicks (when was Prince NOT surrounded by hot chicks?, and besides how is a guy with hot chicks a faggot in the homosexual sense?), it's pretty clear to me that there's no "message of hate" in the song, and that the word is being used in an "artful" sense. And truthfully, I've always thought that the word in that song was used to mock those who were speaking it.

I get that, and agree. Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, and Chris Rock have also said the similar things about not all African Americans being... ...but it's impossible to have public broadcast standards that pay any attention to any of this. That's because too much of the "public" are dishonest pussies (in the non-Vaginal-Human sense of the word), or if you prefer, dicks (in the non-Penil Human sense of the word). They lie to themselves, they lie about themselves, they think they're all polite and decent and shit, and....that's just bullshit. Things like enforced "decency", do nothing to encourage people to confront & acknowledge the lies they tell themselves and each other about themselves and about each other. You can't self-govern what you first do not acknowledge. People who do not or cannot accept the full responsibility of self-governance of character are not people I would in any way be trying to "protect".

You want me to defend something that doesn't exist except as something you made up? Are you serous?

Same here - earlier stuff: varies from so so to OK, later stuff: no thanks. Would later stuff include the anniversary Mosaic box? Just wondering if I should consider it. For me, yeah. YMMV.

The world and its language is evolving. There is a world where not all homosexuals are faggots, nor are all faggots homosexuals. In this world, "faggott" is a character/personality slur, not a slur against sexual orientation. It's a knock against anybody who just revels in being fragilely self-absorbed. Plenty of people like that, and where they put their genitals for sexual satisfaction has nothing to do with it. Nothing. So with that in mind (and with a tip of the hat to Louis CK's bit), I think that banning that song is a pretty fagotty thing to do. No, because those aren't the actual lyrics.

I don't want that shit in the shadows. I want it fully exposed, out in the open. Let the full brightness of the noonday sun shine down upon it. The more you push it back into the shadows, the more it festers, and the sublimated\weirder it gets. Get that shit all the way exposed, and then kill it at point blank range. 10%? Really? I think you underestimate people.

Yep. a poke at blue-collar belligerance and rock-star indulgence all at once.

Lead alto skills, yes, one of the greatest ever.

Uh, yeah... I think it is. http://www.last.fm/music/Sly%2B%2526%2BThe%2BFamily%2BStone/_/Don't+Call+Me+Nigger,+Whitey

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The stuff with The European Rhythm Machine is consistently fine, imo. Other than that...I gotta be in the mood for the earlier stuff, and I'm pretty much never in the mood for the later stuff. Just my taste.

On the list of ways to effectively deal with homophobia, I'm pretty sure that banning a Dire Staits song from Canadian radio would be at the bottom end of the list, if on it at all. So we're worrying about words now instaed of meaning? This is progress? I'm not one to routinely reference Lenny Bruce, but...

She prances like a show pony. Nasty!

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