JSngry

Be true to your school.

Quite!

Point of contention indeed! So who gets to define that "true value"? Is this not the crux of the matter/battle right there? I say that allowing something/somebody to define what is/should be "valuable" to you is nothing more than volunteered slavery.

Well, I suppose, but when you look at how markets actually move -- mostly through the transactions of truly enormous pension funds, university portfolios, mutual funds and hedge funds, there really isn't that much that concerned individuals can do to swing the market around, although one can invest responsibly at a personal level. Interestingly, there have in fact been lawsuits that ultimately forced all public universities to invest like "everybody else," rather than in a socially responsible way. I'd like to get figures on what the proportion of socially responsible mutual funds are compared to the entire market -- one recent estimate is it is about 3% of the value of the US market, but growing slightly. Here's a website to start you on your way: Socially responsible investing Yeah, I know it's an uphill climb, to put it mildy. No illusions here. But it's a climb worth making. More unlikely turnarounds in public consciousness have happened. If the principle that collective individual monies can be used to reward/punish certain "behaviors" is a fallacious one, then I recant. But I don't think that it is. And if it's not, then the rest, as a techno-futurist buddy of mine likes to put it, is "just a matter of engineering".

If it's a fantasy to hope for people to use their money to encourage and reward certain behaviors, then so be it. "Socially responsible investing" is not a fantasy. It's a means of empowerment. Remember - it's your money to do with what you want. That gives you power, power to direct the course of society. Money is power, definitely. Certainly not the only type of power we have, but an immediately recognizable and difficult to deny power nevertheless. To surrender that power to the easy allure of an easy return that may have negatives social consequences (and this has damn little, if anything at all, to do with record companies and reissue programs, let me make that clear), is to give up your power, your voice, your leverage, just for the quick money. It's kinda like being a ho'. And if you think your pimp is gonna care for you once he's gottten out of you all he can get, well sir, that's a fantasy.

http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=d9h...p%3Bincl_cs%3D1 Trust me.

Yeah, he was going for a West Coast sound...

Hi & Lois Goofus & Gallant The Timbertoes

No small feat indeed, and really all that anybody can hope to accomplish in this life. Anything beyond that is dependent upon confluences of "circumstance" and "destiny" over which there is no conscious control.

Ginger Lynn Amber Lynn Fred Lynn

Bam Bam Pebbles Left Eye

Same here. I've gotten stuck on this one: Not only is Bootsy freakin' unbelievable on this, but the seamless tag-team interplay between JB & Bobby Byrd never fails to bring a glow to the soul.

Joe Meek also engineered a Joe Harriot EP!

I'd like to see a list of Top 5 Desert Islands...

That melody that Trane starts singing...wow....

James Earl Ray John Wilkes Booth Mark David Chapman

Yeah. The Urban Cave.

Jim: Read the first post again. He said that you can bring the artists with you, not just the records. In other words, you can take Monday with you! Still not going? OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Why is everybody in such a hurry to get to these desert islands?

Must've been Bingo Night at the Cave...

I appreciate how that article focuses on his compositions. I've long felt that the best of his WR compositional output forms a body of work that goes far beyond "just" tunes to jam on. We're looking at a new (even though it's been 30 or so years now, you still gotta consider it "new" just because few, if anybody, have followed up on it) form of composition for a new type of instrumentation, one that delves into the ensemble possibilities of synths to create a new kind of "big band" format. It's a logical extension of the possibilities of a B-3 combined withthe "big band writing for small combo" style of Horace Silver. Yeah, Zawinul's deep. Not everything he's done has been deep, not even, but oh well. The guy hears things that "nobody else" does. Ignore him at your own risk.

Hal Singer Lee Morgan C.H. Guenther

Can't you make an electronic payment for the minimum over the weekend? Check this out - I have a Bank Of America bill due 12/31. Says right there on the bill: Payment Due Date: 12/31/2006So I go to make an online payment & it says thta the payment will be credited Jan 2, since 12/31 is not a business day. Fuck that. I'll pay by phone, take the hit on the fee, and be done with it. Nope. Same deal. Make it on 12/30, get credited for 01/02. I'm talking to some CS zombie and I ask him straight up - Define "Payment Due Date". "That's the last day you can make your payment and not have it considered late." "So why is a payment made before the Payment Due Date going to be considered late?" "Because the Payment Due Date falls on a Weekend" "So it's not really the Payment Due Date then, is it." "Yes, it's still the Payment Due Date." "So you're telling me that words on a piece of paper have no real meaning then, right?" "No, that's not what I'm saying." "You're a liar, aren't you." "No sir, I'm not. Is there anything else I can help you with?" "Yeah, you can get your head out of your ass before it gets stuck there permanently." Click.