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Now that's just wrong!

I've watched a sampling of them here: https://www.ispot.tv/brands/A62/state-farm and don't find them confusing. It's Rogers, and actor playing his agent, another real athlete and/or a real-life State Farm agent. Rogers is Rogers, the athletes and the SF agents are all cool/normal, and the jokes are all at "Rogers' agent's expense. The message appears to be simply that State Farm is real insurance for real people, no tricks, no gimmicks. Did business with them for years and found that to be the case. But they finally got too pricey for auto (based on the kids having a few random minor claims in the space of 5 years, so we had to let them go, especially when our local agent played the "sorry, it's all out of my hands, blame the underwriters" card just a little too heavily a little too often. A bit more top the story than just that, too, but suffice it to say, thee name "John Kraft" is not one spoken in our house these days without a bit of animus attached. But these commercials are a LOT more sensible to me than were the "Discount Double Check" spots of a few years ago...my god were those annoying. I remember when State Farm sponsored The Jack Benny Program on CBS.

Lennie Niehaus?

As stated, this recording does indeed consist of two compact discs.

https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/haverford-college-1980-solo-piano

Fabio Luisi is definitely going to be fun to have around.

If you've not yet heard it, check this one out. It's a different concept ("easy listening jazz"), but Nelson always had a tweak or two up his sleeve (and in his pen).

Johnny Hodges with Leon Thomas & Oliver Nelson – 3 Shades of Blue (Flying Dutchman, 1970) Oh HELL yeah!

go cat go

whoa, wasn't expecting this...LieberStoller songs, Johnny Mandel arrangements, the whole thing sounds like an "updated" Lotte Lenya/Kurt Weil collaboration, without any of the myriad things that could go wrong with that going wrong.

Getting back into the concert season tonight with this, at the DSO: Fabio Luisi CONDUCTS Lise Lindstrom SOPRANO COPLAND Quiet City JULIA WOLFE Fountain of Youth [Dallas Premiere] BARBER Andromache’s Farewell RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

Yes, this. RIP

IG Culture w/Wayne Francis, encouraging:

Tommy, I've placed a few orders with you over the past year, and have had zero complaints about any aspect of your service. Wishing you well, and would certainly encourage others to try you out in 2020.

I'd go to this Onkel Po thing, then to Griff & Lock (part of the OJC Blues Up & Down CD), and then to the rest of the OJCs, stopping for Ow! somewhere along the way, and not stop until you have them all. Use this as a gauge, though. If it doesn't do it for you, stop now and wuit while you're ahead:

“They’re trying to own basic building blocks of music, the alphabet of music that should be available to everyone,” Perry’s lawyer Christine Lepera warned in the case’s closing arguments. Oh boo hoo, get some new blocks then, you unimaginative fucks who can't even tell the difference between a block and an alphabet, like if you're a baby, they're the same thing. You make baby music, so I see why. Or if you like, now that it's been decided that somebody is going to own this shit at some level, don't act surprised when people want to get paid, especially people who own shit without actually creating it. Guarandamtee you - if and when "people" start wanting to hear something truly different than what's been going on since their grandparent's time, this will stop being a "problem", at least for a bit of a good while. Until then, intellectual inbreeding is still inbreeding, and the long term effects are predictable.

I can tell you that it's among the friskier Jaws/Griff sides of all time, one of the very friskiest, in fact.

As long as the people who are supposed to understand it can, you got yourself a language. Now, if all you want to do is talk to yourself in a language that only you are certain to understand, hey, knock yourself out. Just don't get all angst-y if the gigs aren't there.

Wow, that's easy!

The assumption here is that "expression" by definition falls outside of the "language" of the tribe? I don't know where you grew up, but I grew up in the semi-rural American South, and we pretty much all knew that a simple "hmmmm...." could mean damn near anything (including "where's the men's room) depending on tone, inflection, facial expression, body language, the whole thing. So I've never been convinced that a literal verbal/written expression is the ultimate in meaning. Far from it, actually. Quite apart from all that though...if there's a language that is not being understood, the problem is not necessarily with the language, and really, it's not necessarily a problem at all. Nobody understands everything. How could they? Why would they? Everything?

And as well with traditions of non-verbal communications. Cutting those off (and/or minimizing their importance in ways up to and including calling the very possibility of the existence of such) is like cutting off the higher and lower overtones.

We need, at best, a dictionary and a government, to make that even kinda work for verbal/written languages on any scale, so I'm not particularly impressed by their efficacy. Then you'd best allow for the possibility that you are about to find god where you least expect it (which is usually how it works anyway). Nor are all bathrooms. The REAL pros know which ones have locks on the stalls.