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  1. I'm overwhelmed you guys. :party::party:

    Tim, I'm blushing. Thank you.

    M.G. Thank you.

    Chuck, I may be 102 but I look wonderful for my age................they tell me.;)

    Clifford, thank you.

    g slade, Thank you and I love your avatar. YIKES!!

    PhillyQ, I'll take being called a "great gal" as a compliment, as it was meant. Thank you.

    Porcy62, thank you.

    TonyM , thank you.

    Bill, you're a peach. Thank you.

    Bright Moments, Love the Marilyn picture. It is Marilyn, isn't it??

    Free for All, Thank you.

    Aggie87, Thank you.

    Patrick, Thank you.

    Rachel, The intended hat smilies were received and appreciated. Thank you.

  2. Many many more happy happy ones!

    Thank you jazzbo. :cool:

    And thank you King Ubu. I don't get a lot of birthday wishes from royalty.;)

    Magnificent Goldberg. Thank you.

    Sidewinder, yeah, 102. And I look fabulous for my age.;)

    7/4 thank you.

    radissimo, you know I have a special weakness for drummers. Thank you. :cool:

  3. My books are arranged by genre and then alphabetical too. :crazy:

    Oh no!

    You don't meticulously organize all the shelves in the fridge and place the bacon next to the carrots next to the cauliflower next to the chives...... do ya? :ph34r:

    You wound me!! :blink:

    I do, however, arrange my spice bottles and canned goods according to what their use is, then alphabetically, labels to the front.

    My closet is organized from black through greys on down through colours, ending with white.

    What can I tell you? I like order.;)

  4. A person almost has to figure out some sort of order if they want to know where a particular album should be, in a reasonably large collection.

    Filing the albums, or re-arranging them after some thoughtless trogledyte has picked out several and put them back, just anywhere at all, gives you the opportunity to review your possible selections, or remind you of stuff you'd forgotten about.

    But, I'm compulsively organized, so it follows that I would be about my records.

    My books are arranged by genre and then alphabetical too. :crazy:

  5. I used to separate by genre, but I don't anymore (except, for some reason, for classical and holiday. Those I do file separately. They're even kept in a completely separate location from the rest of my collection. I'm not sure why).

    I understand why you would do that.

    Unless you've never tried to remember who did a holiday album, or who the first artist was, if it's a compilation as many are, you keep them separate to save time at Christmas when you have other things on your mind.

    Classical being separate makes sense too. If you want to listen to Bach, you don't want to be sidetracked by Bassey, Bostic, or Brubeck or.......................... ;)

  6. Do most people actually file record lps in alph order? Not me.

    The way that individual people arrange their collections depends on what sort of collection it is.

    Nobody I know arranges them according to what label they are.

    I have Blue Note, Verve, Blue Bird, Joker, Plymouth, Colortone, Jazz Tone, Wing etc. etc. etc.

    I don't know about most people, but I separate them into genres, then into alphabetical order, according to the main artist's last name, or the name of the band.

    So, I would have for example, a classical section arranged by artist, a blues section, a flamenco section, a jazz section and so on.

    Boxed sets are in a separate shelf space, arranged according to what type of music they are, similarly.

    Records that are spoken word, or comedy are again in a separate shelf space.

    But, I don't carelessly chuck them around like this guy is doing. :blink:

    I couldn't arrange my collection as genres, you know, I strongly believe that all records are born and remain free and equal in rights, without distinction of race, religion, genres or sexual orientation. :)

    A part Kenny G :g

    :D

  7. Do most people actually file record lps in alph order? Not me.

    The way that individual people arrange their collections depends on what sort of collection it is.

    Nobody I know arranges them according to what label they are.

    I have Blue Note, Verve, Blue Bird, Joker, Plymouth, Colortone, Jazz Tone, Wing etc. etc. etc.

    I don't know about most people, but I separate them into genres, then into alphabetical order, according to the main artist's last name, or the name of the band.

    So, I would have for example, a classical section arranged by artist, a blues section, a flamenco section, a jazz section and so on.

    Boxed sets are in a separate shelf space, arranged according to what type of music they are, similarly.

    Records that are spoken word, or comedy are again in a separate shelf space.

    But, I don't carelessly chuck them around like this guy is doing. :blink:

  8. But they're in such nice alphabetical order, except for Cecil Taylor being next to George Lewis.

    Jeez, I can't believe I noticed that.

    Wait. Yes I can.

    So this guy files Art Blakey under "B" and the Jazz Messengers under "J". I think that about tells you all you need to know.

    Up over and out.

    What I noticed is that he had them all propped against the wall in his version of alphabetical order.

    Then, he flipped through what, three or four groups and put each bunch over to the left, not facing the same way as they were with the first one facing the wall and then back, keeping them in the same order as they were.

    His way, they were no longer in alphabetical order.

    And flinging them around the way he was made me wince slightly.

    I wonder if he actually listens to them.

  9. Patricia Corwell's latest, Book Of The Dead and A.J. Jacobs' follow-up to his The Know It All, "The Year Of Living Biblically"

    As well, my daughter gave me a beautiful silver bracelet with the inscription, "We can do no great things. Only small things with great love. Mother Thresa"

    Other stuff too, mostly hockey related, [one of my passions], so a pretty good haul.;)

  10. Music For Torching - Billie Holiday - Verve label.

    The back of the cover has some nice candids taken by Norman Granz.

    Accompanying Billie are:

    Jimmy Rowles on piano

    Harry Edison on trumpet

    Benny Carter on alto-sax

    Larry Bunker on drums

    and

    John Simmons on bass

    Nice collection that includes one of my favourites, "I Don't Want To Cry Anymore."

  11. My all-time favourite from my childhood was the original "AVENGERS which featured Patrick MacNee and the fabulous Diana Rigg. I wanted to be Mrs.[not Ms.] Peel.

    It was on every Friday night and nobody I knew missed it.

    The writing was top-notch witty and totally nuts, but in a good way.

    Loved it!!

    The feature film made recently with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman didn't come close to the magic, it's multi-million dollar budget notwithstanding.

  12. The Best Of Danny Kaye. Columbia label [Formerly titled, "Pure Delight"]

    I had no idea that there were records of Danny Kaye's work, I don't know why.

    I do remember how many delightful films I saw when I was a little kid, at Saturday afternoon matinees, which featured this super-talented man.

    This record's tracks are:

    Side 1

    Anatole Of Paris

    Dinah

    The Babbitt And The Bromide

    Minnie The Moocher

    The Fairy Pipers

    Side 2

    Jenny

    Tschaikowsky [and other Russians]

    It's Never Too Late To Mendelssohn

    The Princess Of Pure Delight

    Molly Malone

    No liner notes at all. I have no idea who the excellent orchestra backing this collection is. Kaye does a kick-ass version of Minnie the Moocher.

  13. I'm afraid I have to agree with you, Alexander.

    It's been shown that, even when people DO consider their charges to be human, they are still prepared to treat them with complete callousness. (I'm thinking of the experiment conducted with students playing roles in, I think, a California university.)

    Oh, and I don't think this is political; it's more like what it is to be human.

    MG

    I believe you're referring to the experiment done at Stanford in which ordinary students were part of an experiment in human behaviour in which they were randomly divided into guards and prisoners. Within a very, very short time the experiment had to be discontinued because the participants had so embraced their roles that the safety of the "prisoners" was feared.

    This is a very well-known experiment, which is why I'm puzzled as to how anyone is surprised at the behaviour of guards at Abu Ghraib and similar American detention centres recently.

    At Abu Ghraib, guards who had not that long before held jobs at places like KFC in the U.S. suddenly had people's lives in their hands. The results were predictable.

    As for the normalcy of their lives otherwise, some who have spoken to journalists since they returned to the U.S. have only now begun to feel anything like remourse, and not all of them do.

    Normal is a very flexible condition. Whatever is happening as part of one's everyday routine becomes normal.

    You might want to look for "The Good Old Days - The Holocaust As Seen By It's Perpetrators and Bystanders" edited by Ernest Klee, Willi Dresson and Voelker Rees.

    It is a collection of fond memories of the personnel who ran the concentration camp, Treblinka.

    If anything, it reads like a memoir from summer camp, rather than a chronicle of evil.

    That's what's so horrifying about it.

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