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Wow.

Never have liked Tony Parker, never will. Ever. Duncan, otoh, I dig. Very much in fact. The guy's a trip, what with his constant mind games. I dig athletes who are constantly mental. Seriously. But he does have a turtlehead. No way around that. Still, he's on my team anytime.

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If Quartet Out ever tours Lithuania, this cat's driving the van.

Duncan is a great player and teammate, and I'd have him on any team of mine w/o a moment's hesitation, but the man has a turtlehead. It's Tony Parker whose ass I would like to stick a broomstick up. Motherfukkin' snideass little bitch.

Everything vibrates. Everything. The senses are nothing but receptors and processors of vibrations.

I found the original liner notes to O'Neal's Porch to be delusion, perhaps even borderline psychotic. Great side, though.

My gut tells me that the Mavs have actually got a good chance tonight, especially if Jet feels the need to pay penance to his teammates. Game 6 was a display of the "old Mavericks" limpdickness. Other team isn't hitting? NO PROBLEM - we'll not hit either! Avery's been working on that bullshit all year, sometimes with better results than others. Tonight's the night to see if anybody's really learned anything this year. They can win. Whether they will or not...

Ok, I'm not talking about "vault remixes", I'm talking about the remixes that get put out on a contemporaneous release. I'm wondering who decides that a remix can/will be done, and who decides who's going to do it. Is it entirely a label/producer decision, or is the artist involved at some/any stage? I'm sure it varies from case to case, but I'm talking about what "the norm" is. Seems to me that there's some creative work going on in this field, as well as a lot of bullshit. But the announcement of the upcoming Ellington Mosaic got me to thinking that Ellington was maybe the/one of the original remixers, often recording the same song in different versions for different labels in a relatively short time frame. Yeah, in a lot of ways (some of them pretty fundamental) it's not the same. But then again, in a lot of ways (some of them equally fundamental), it's not all that different. It's still a matter of taking the raw materials of a song and making the same different, which in turn highlights that the different is still the same. Anyway, that's not really the point. I'd just like to know the "usual process" that goes on for a song to be released in several different versions at the same time. It's something that interests me at this juncture. As always, thanks in advance!

"Roundabout"? (wait a second... you weren't referring to the YES tune, right? ) Actually....yes, I was.

Ok, I'm in.

We've had many a 3-way w/the Ike Quebec 45 set, but the Cecil set got the freezeout. LTB's an open-minded woman, but you can't take that for granted. Respect must be paid. It's deserved.

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I'm in the process of doing club remixes on all of mine. After I'm finished, I'm throwing them in the trash. Fuck all that old shit.

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I still say that a good bump is nothing to sneeze at...

I've been in Allen's shoes a few times over the years - doing something (sometimes doing a lot) to help somebody out, having it work, and then getting shut out completely of the subsequent success for no other reason than they see the opportunity to "build a career" for themselves and now that they've gotten to the point where they can (and might well not have gotten w/o your help), hey, later. "I did it all by myself!" Yeah, sure you did... It hurts, and you never forget. Fortunately, I've been able to get enough going on my own that I have gotten credit for that I look at those past experiences as so much "hey, you got me, fuck you, asshole, I'm moving on". But, yeah, you never completely forget. Or forgive. Even though you should. In the wrong place at the wrong time under the wrong circumstances, that shit can still turn me evil. And that ain't good. All I'm saying is that y'all oughta cut Allen a little bit of slack, at least up to this point. And that Allen oughta let go of it now before it gets bigger than it needs to be. Because it can get a lot bigger than it needs to be. I know from experience.

In the old days, many cats would spend that time drinking, getting high, getting laid, all of the above, or something like that. Or warming up. The music, and the need to make it, was immediate, and so were the opportunites to do so. No need to consciously look for any stimulation because it was all around you. But that was then.

Yep.

Even the "minor shit that ain't nobody found yet" part? Doesn't seem like you your style... But otherwise, it's nice to be able to return a favor once in a while.