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I remain skeptical.

You can handle it. You're a Marine.

Who's Penny, and why was Trane fucking her?

Get it. NOW.

If I read Crouch correctly, he's saying that JALC is important, not bacause it's making J stronger, but because it's making JALC stronger. The implications are as horrific as they are obvious.

Herb Alife, didn't he lead a band called The Marjuana Grass back in the 1960s?

The very best Frito Pie is made with shredded cheddar, diced onions, and is served in an actual bag of Fritos, cut open on the side and filled to near-overflowing. It is best purchsed and eaten during halftime on a cold Friday night at a concession stand operated by the local Band Parents at a small town high school football game, preferably by a chivalrous young man who offers to share his with (or even better, buy one for) a so-wholesomely-beautiful-that-it-hurts young woman that he notices shivering ever so slightly as the steam of her breath increasingly accentuates the rosiness in her cheeks and the knowing innocence of her smile as she accepts his offer. This kind of Frito Pie can lead to many things, none of them bad. Now, about this particular Lou Christie album - has anybody ever heard it?

You mean ? Missed it back in the day, haven't seen it since.

What's going on in my mind? Right now, it's... FRITO PIE!!!!!!!

How can you say this? The man is the hippest son of Arkansas, ever. With no lack of certainty, that's how! Hipper that Pharoah Sanders? Well, Pharoah's not really "hip", but you know what I mean.

God, Annette is almost Ornette. That Paul Bley don't leave the circle much, do he? I don't have this album (because) I've never come across it. Is it small group, or is there an orchestra?

Top o'the murnin!

At the risk of causing good booze to get spit out, I ask again, has anybody heard this one?

I've watched Jeopardy since the Art Fleming NBC daytime days, and I'm having a very hard time believing that one guy can win this much for this long without some kind of "assistance". Maybe not (or maybe...) getting the answers, but something like a "friendly buzzer", or "carefully selected" competition, or something. Be realistic - two or three weeks is the max that a streak should be able to last in a game like this if everything's level. What we're seeing ain't natural.

Must-have.

The real genius of the Christie/Calello partnership was in the B-sides. Are we spitting our beverage out yet?

Charlie Calello is very underated, I think. And yeah, "Friggin' Lou Christie" is sorta what I thought too. But pop greatness comes in some damn wierd places sometimes... But fersure, more work would be GREAT!

A bit long for a field goal, but if you got the wind to your back...

Last week, I was thinking about "unusual looking" rock/pop albums that I passed over in the cutout bins 30-35 years ago, and am now wondering what, if anything I missed. One was The Four Seasons' The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette , and another was Lou Christie's Paint America Love. The Four Seasons thing I haven't really researched, but I did a bit of looking into the Christie, and find that it's apparently some sort of "cult favorite". Words like "kalidescopic", "panoramic", and even "symphonic" keep popping up to describe it. For a mid-60s/early 70s "art pop" junkie like myself, these are tantalyzing words indeed. So, has anybody ever heard this thing, and if so, what's the deal? I know in advance that it's going to be "pop", but what kind? Is it really something "special", at least as far as it goes? Your replies will be greatly appreciated.

RACIST!!!!! (Sorry, this is a "Dallas-fu thing" )

And thanks for the John Bloom-fu!

Very good, but not great, album. However, if you're into these guys (and aw shucks, you KNOW I am), it's nevertheless essential still all the same anyway. Y'all.

See?

Yep. And it's a lot more than "along the lines of Slominsky". Not busting your chops, just letting you know. And along those same lines, you should be aware of Ray Anderson in this category as well. A wildly inconsistent player taste-wise, but he's amazing as often as he is silly.

When is he comin' back, anyway?