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Really! That's a connection I wouldn't make.

Well, the ringtones sound good: http://www.sonnyrollins.com/sonnyrollins_ringtones.php

Does he box on it? Or was he getting boxes from the food pantry? This thread has suddenly gotten very confusing...

Roy Clark Clark Kent Kent Carter

Who are the Cole Bear family?

What was the connection between Bill Dixon & Jimmy Cheatham?

Sounds reasonable to me.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Eva Gabor Gabor Szabo

Buy one, then steal the other. Wait a few months and do the same thing in reverse. Then donate the stolen sets to a public library. Win-win, unless you're the one getten stolen from. But that too can be fixed over time.

If you flunk out of college, rather than just failing one class, you've got other problems than Cecil Taylor.

Thanks for the heads-up. I didn't know that, but will be on the lookout for it.

Nope. I don't do movies (or TV, if that's what it was on) too much any more. Just a few HBO series, Earl & The Office on NBC, MSNBC & TCM on and off, and sports, that's it for TV. For movies, I'm just like "eh....". Almost all the stories have been told already. the special effects are better, but the acting ain't. And what I probably should see, LTB usually ends up bringing home from Blockbuster eventually. Charlie made me watch Kung Fu Hustle the other night thought (against all my protestations, I might add), and that ended up being a gas. So I can be had. I'm a lot of fun, really. Make your ass laugh all night long, tell you some good stories, drink you under the table w/o getting sloppy, all that good stuff. But if I ever end up single again (god forbid), I'm gonna have a helluva time convincing a woman to go out with me, because "dinner and a movie" ain't for me.

Pussy Galore Odd Job Dr. No

Yeah, "White Stripes" I know. I jsut didn't know that they each had their own names...

Oh. I should've just asked my son.

Henny Penny Loosie Goosie Ned Flanders

Forgive my ignorance, but who is Jack White?

Jermain Taylor James Taylor Jimmy James & The Vagabonds

You can improvise and still be practicing. Has to do with the intent, parameters, and direction of the improvising. Are you "working things out" or are you letting it all go and just playing? And yes, that does mean that a lot of "jazz" (most, actually) is ultimately just so much practicing in one form or another (which is not to say that this practicing does not have a beauty and validity of its own). The number of people who really play, who truly improvise w/o it being some form of "practicing" are few and far between. Hope no bubbles are being burst here.

Anybody heard from johnagrandy lately?

I'll agree with you as far as "the masses" go. What I'm talking about is a decline of what we might refer to as "serious music fans", which have always been a minority of the population. More and more, I see people who intellectually and tempermentally "fit the mold" of being the type of person who could get into music on a deeper level than the superficial, and they're...just not interested. They have other interests, other fascinations, other things on their mind, and getting into music on a "serious" level just ain't one of them. We can blame the lack of quality product that might entice them, or we can blame the easy access and constant portability of stuff that they already know that they want to have on hand, or we can blame the stranglehold on the media markets that the corporate entities have, or we can blame all of that (and more), but the point remains (at least from where I sit) - a lot of the people who "should" be interested in exploring music in even semi-depth aren't. And don't want to be. Because where there's a will, there's almost always a way. But if there ain't no will in the first place, whatcha' gonna do 'bout that?

Edit your opening post. You can change the title there.

I wonder where, if anywhere, they're going with this sub-theme of America becoming "Old World"? Tony's "mellowing" might be a part of it. Or not. Also wondering if we're going to see a collaboration between "the business" & the Feds to go after "potential Arab terrorists"? That's kinda been running in the background for a while now too. Agreed that the most recent episodes have lacked "high impact", but if seeds are being sown for a big payoff later on, I'm all for it. Plenty of interesting "little details" that could really go somewhere later on.

Beer at a church function? Are you sure you're not Lutheran?