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  1. film director King Vidor. tho most critics rip the majority of his films, one stands out head and ruby red slippers above the rest: The Wizard of Oz.
  2. i thought about that, but i really didn't want to create any hard feelings, or get in a fight with anyone. i chatted with Jim about it and told him i was gonna delete them and he was cool with it.
  3. link gone. i will not post anything like that again. my appologies to Chaney, Chuck, and Matthew (and anyone else who were offended) for posting this. <edit for spelling and grammer>
  4. WeirdAl could cut a version of this tune and call it, Eat Me I'm A Danish.
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  6. not work-safe catchy tune.
  7. usually when the fires are raging in SoCal, we in Las Vegas valley get the smoke. not this time as the winds are blowing from the north east. Prayers sent. i understand temps will be dropping soon.
  8. in leu of thanks, have her box up some of your CDs and ship em to me.
  9. this link is absolutely not for the easily offended or the easily queezy. not work safe either. <link deleted>
  10. does anybody really know what time it is? does anybody really care?
  11. hope you like the cake...the first one i did, with Coltrane, Blakey and Parker as decoration, didn't come out so good.
  12. maybe she can go to the same rehab as Rush. seems they have something in common. they'll fall in love, Rush will divorce wife #4 (i think he's up to four), and marry Courtney. "He's really not like his radio personallity", Courtney will say. Rush will go on his radio show and say, "Now i know what you're thinking, your're thinking, Rush, have you gone off the deep end"? "My answer to you my friends, is yes indeed, i have gone off the deep end".
  13. better living thru chemisty, eh Jazzmoose? considering all of the natural additives that i've consumed over the years, i'm surprised i remember as much as i do.
  14. By Dennis McLellan, Times Staff Writer Jack Elam, the veteran character actor with the trademark off-kilter eye who menaced John Wayne, James Stewart and other screen heroes in scores of westerns during his more than four-decade career, has died. Elam, who had been in declining health in recent years, died Monday of congestive heart failure at his home in Ashland, Ore., where he had lived since 1987. Although various biographical sources give his age as 86, he was actually 82, according to his wife, Jenny, who said Wednesday that he had added four years to his age to get work as a young accountant. With a face once described as belonging on a wanted poster, Elam portrayed some of the screen's meanest, nastiest characters. He tried to knife Stewart in the back in "The Man From Laramie," and he bashed Stuart Whitman with a rifle butt in "The Comancheros." But one of his most memorable villainous turns was as the sex-crazed killer in Henry Hathaway's "Rawhide," the 1951 movie that established him as a screen tough guy. "I was pretty bad in that one," he acknowledged in a 1993 interview with the Modesto Bee. "I shot a baby to make it dance, and I killed everybody in the picture except Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward. That's bad." Film critic Jim O'Connor agreed: "He's so good because he's so bad. And the way he can pop his eyes, bare his teeth and lick his lips in a leer is frightening." Elam's portrayals of sinister thugs, gangsters and gunslingers were aided immeasurably by his squinty, wandering left eye. He had lost vision in the eye at age 12 when a fellow Boy Scout jabbed him with a pencil during a scuffle at a troop meeting. Elam had no control over his wandering eye. "It does whatever the hell it wants," he said in one interview. The memorable opening sequence of Italian director Sergio Leone's 1968 western "Once Upon a Time in the West" is dominated by a close-up of Elam's eye as it stares sideways while a fly buzzes around it. "He's about as distinct a character actor that ever walked on screen," film critic Leonard Maltin said Wednesday. "It wasn't just his look. It was his presence. I think of him in 'Once Upon a Time in the West' right away. He's indelible. "And yet it turns out he had a wonderful sense of humor and, in fact, could be a delightful comedic actor as well, spoofing his own image." The comedic side of Elam surfaced in 1969 in the western parody "Support Your Local Sheriff!" starring James Garner. "I was playing rotten, worthless guys in 95% of my pictures until that movie came along," Elam told the Toronto Star in 1986. "Since then, I've played 95% comedy relief or plain, dull nice guys." Elam appeared in about 100 feature films, including "Vera Cruz," "Kiss Me Deadly," "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," "Rio Lobo," "Support Your Local Gunfighter" and "The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County." He appeared in dozens of TV series, including "Cheyenne," "Bonanza" and "Gunsmoke," on which he had 14 guest roles. "He played a rogue kind of a guy, but not a real mean heavy, although he could certainly do that," "Gunsmoke" star James Arness recalled Wednesday. "What made him distinctive was the fact he could play unusual characters. And he had this marvelous face — it was one of a kind — so he could make almost anything play." Arness also remembered another side of Elam. "He was a great card player and great at all kinds of gambling," Arness said. "He always took everybody's money when he was on the set. He was a wonderful guy, and I thought extremely highly of him." Elam was born in Miami, Ariz., a tiny mining community 100 miles from Phoenix. His mother died when he was about 2 and he lived with various families until he was reunited with his father at age 9. After studying at Modesto City College, Elam arrived in Los Angeles in his early 20s with his first wife, Jean, who died in 1961. He worked as a bookkeeper, theater supervisor and auditor for the Beverly Hills Hotel and the Hotel Bel-Air. Exempt from military service during World War II because of his eye, Elam worked as a civilian for the Navy in Culver City. After the war, he worked as a bookkeeper for Samuel Goldwyn Studios and then as controller for William Boyd's Hopalong Cassidy production company. But staring at small figures on ledger sheets for hours on end strained his good eye and doctors told him he risked losing his sight if he continued his lucrative accounting business. When a movie director friend was having trouble getting financing for three western scripts, Elam told him he would arrange the financing in exchange for roles as a "heavy" in all three pictures. The first was "The Sundowners," a 1950 film starring Robert Preston, which helped launch his long career. Years later, Elam would say that he didn't care for modern movie villains, whose bad behavior was attributed to psychological problems. "The heavy today is usually not my kind of guy," he told the Los Angeles Times in 1977. "In the old days, Rory Calhoun was the hero because he was the hero and I was the heavy because I was the heavy — and nobody cared what my problem was. And I didn't either. "I robbed the bank because I wanted the money I've played all kinds of weirdos, but I've never done the quiet, sick type. I never had a problem — other than the fact I was just bad." Elam's last credit was "Bonanza: Under Fire," a 1995 TV movie. In addition to Jenny, his wife of 42 years, Elam is survived by three children, Jeri, Scott and Jacqueline; three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. At Elam's request, no memorial service will be held.
  15. i remember hearing that he was first noticed on Soul Train. don't know if that's true or not.
  16. the dude could dance quite well. anyone remember "Lockin'"?
  17. thanks for the link AB. did you check out the Butterscotch Blonde Tele? jeeze i wish they made drums too. i'd buy a 60's Ludwig set.
  18. i think they had 4 "Lawsuit" models. a Tele (which i had), a Strat, a Fender Jazz Bass and a Les Paul. all of them were copies/replicas of the originals. they even copied the number of winds in the pickups, hence to lawsuits. oh shit i almost forgot. this guy i knew owed me some $$$. he didn't have any cash (crank), so he gave me his Tokai "Jazz" bass instead. it had a rosewood fingerboard and was fretless. it had a funky greenburst finish, and played like a dream. sold it for $800. (needed the $$$ for tuition).
  19. my thoughts too.
  20. my spousal unit doesn't like "fast jazz". she'll listen to ballads, as long as there's no 'fast' parts.
  21. here, you'll need these:
  22. i think it has to do with several factors. one has to listen a little more carefully to jazz than pop music to "get it". pop music has hooks and very repeatitive melodies. easy to listen to. there is a general perception that jazz people are intellectuals, and one must be very smart to understand Jazz. (a couple of visits to any jazz forum on the net should dispell that myth. ) "do any of these songs have words"?
  23. 2 albums that i've always been fond of are, 4+1 and Jazz in 3/4 Time. i know 4+1 is out on CD, not sure about the other.
  24. i haven't picked up a guitar in 10+ years. but when i did play, i played a Tokai Tele, 2 or 3 (can't remember) color sunburst . maple neck, rosewood finger board. SWEET!. i only paid $100 for it. sorry i sold it.
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