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Hell if I know if you do.

I don't know that I want all of this all at once, but there's none of it that I don't want, and this is how it comes.

I'm intrigued by this notion of negative husbands...sounds like a behavioral health concern, no?

Dude, you need to watch either more or less porn if you can't tell the difference. It's really not complicated.

I don't see anybody being happy about what they're doing in those pictures, nor do I see them being taken for those who would derive pleasure from seeing them. I mean, if you do, you're a sick fuck, period. But I see nothing in either intent nor content indicating that these pictures were taken by or for sick fucks. But really, is it really that complicated?

I think that Sunflower and Salt Song are the apex of the whole CTI thing, the two records where intent and content mesh perfectly, each in the service of the other. I like a lot of CTI, actually, but if I'm honest, there's enough honorable reservations to be had on either of the content/intent divide on damn near all of them. Except for those two! If you changed anything about them, they would be different types of records, or even worse, the same type of record but just not as good.

good stuff

Taking those photos out because there's no place for porn on this board. Death porn, S&M Porn, or any kind of porn. But yes, that's what we were doing to our people back then, sending them off, turning them loose, andthen faking horror while also giving implicit approval. A lot of them have come home broken as a result. And as an institutional society, we still don't seem to give too much a halfagoddamn about too much of it.

Sunflower is one of the great jazz records of all time.

now THAT'S worth a lot, thank you! Although...Brooklyn? October? 1990? But still, a connection exists, now the rest is logistics!

You know what's always great? Facts and data. Like, real facts, and real data. Not this "alternative facts" parallel universe bullshit that makes it impossible to engage with because it's a totally different perception of what "reality" is. I'm as much a fan of multiple realities as anybody, but when it comes to shit like medicine and science, there's already a proven reality there and I'll draw my own interpretations and conclusions and unknowns therein, thank you very much. This is not complicated, this part of it isn't.

Strong!

113,055 and rising. Arizona, not looking so good right now.

And Bird knew how to cop!

That's right.

They should hire great jazz musicians to be cops then. They will have more than enough habits of discipline and training to do any damn job that's worth doing. ok, all this trump/biible/hairproduct talk, back between the lines, please. To borrow a phrase, that's not why we're here.

now see, that's the shit I could never even begin to understand. You went to a school, you were a kid, and somebody paid them. You left with, maybe, a degree, and maybe, an education. For that you're supposed to pull for their football team for the rest of your fucking life? I don't think so. I can certainly see feeling allegiance to individuals, or even to programs, and gratitude for opportunities, I certainly get., but all this wearing school colors and logos and mascots and shit, hey, that's for chumps. Wear your own damn colors, man.

I'm still working on Plastic Dreams, to be honest. Not sure I'm gonna get there.

Yeah, I know. but there's no recording information on it anywhere, on the website or on the product.(but Out For A Walk on LP? I don't see that?). I've been tempted to order some of those old LPs from them, but have yet to get a confirmation from another person that it goes well doing that. I sent them an email inquiry a while back and never got a response, so... Does somebody know Odean, to ask him about this record?

Maybe I was just too stupid at the time to hear this at face value, but DAMN is this a beautiful record.

I dunno man, "never" is a pretty big word.

I liked it a lot more by the time it was over. The opening things just seemed kinda weeeeyascreee but then they stopped that and started doing something else, and THAT was very good! I mean, I shouldn't be surprised, here it is almost 50+ years later and people still be chasin' dat trane, this was less that 5 years later. But then as now, there's no place to go with that other than a weaker version of what already was. But they figured that out themselves, right? And right on the gig apparently!

That's why the "mindset" matters. I think a lot of people, in and out of the military, saw what was going on in the aftermath of our post-9/11 actions and decided that it was not healthy for anybody. But a lot is not everybody. To not go past that, though, can we all agree that broken people should be helped, or at least not be encouraged and enabled to break others? Just as a general principle, cops, military, civilians, felons, CEOs, just anybody. Facilitating that is, to me, what "protect and serve" is all about above anything else. Police, military, clergy, community activist, dairy farmer, record collector, hermit, anybody.

hmmm...McPhee has a great sound, but this music...if you want an example of how there was kind of a "void" after Coltrane died and before AACM got more traction/exposure in/to the collective hearing, maybe this will do. Certainly nothing worng with it, and again, McPhee's core power is still here, but as far as "purpose"...that would be forthcoming. Ok, the longer this one plays, the better it gets to me.

Let's also consider that the overall "culture" of the military in in 2020 is perhaps different/better/definitely-evolved now than it was in 2001.