Joe

Aarrrrghhhh... JRM is an institution in the best sense of the word...

I see "Baltimore" and this vintage and I just immediately think "Left Bank." Looks good, and I'm sure it will sound good, too. As Jim notes... Joe Chambers!

If only this date featured Grant Green... More Left Bank treasures?

Mati Klarwein Umar Bin Hassan Nicolas Roeg

Wonderful music and beautiful playing Allen. Thanks for restoring it to wider circulation.

Bird Goldie Hawn Snake Plissken

Lucky Wilbury Artemus Gordon The Great Leslie

Just finished Mark Nowak's REVENANTS (Coffee House). If only all so-called "documentary poetics projects" were this humble, careful, luminous. Now reading Mario De Andrade's MACUNAIMA, a foundational text in Brazilian literary Modernism... "Rabelais in the rain forest"

Not a lot of Izenzon to be heard on record, sadly. And, based on that version of "You Stepped Out Of A Dream," he was sounding --feeling? I hope -- pretty damn good that day.

Marion Tinsley Bobby Fischer Trey Anastasio

I've been coveting a copy of this for almost 20 years.

Looks as if a "proper" reissue of this very rare 1965 date, featuring both David Izenzon and Charles Moffett, is slated to appear in Japan in late March / early April of this year. https://www.dustygroove.com/item/783414

Ming the Merciless Brian Blessed Christian Slater

Imperious Leader Joseph Smith Ronald D. Moore

Johnny Guitar Johnny Staccato Johnny Stecchino

Fame is almost always something you receive when you are at your most undeserving.

http://www.openculture.com/2012/10/dizzy_gillespie_runs_for_us_president_1964_.html

Recommended. I think this book -- not Knausgård, not Ferrante, not Houellebecq, not Bolano, or Vila-Matas, or McBride -- might truly represent the future of the novel.

Josephine Wiggs Kim Deal Monty Hall

Homer Flynn / "Randy." And while I've never encountered confirmation, I believe the Shreveport origins are authentic. See also: http://residentsmovie.com/

IIRC, the WB ALBUM is the (in)famous demo tape the band sent to said label, then returned, addressed to "Residents," inspiring the collective's eventual name / identity. Some of this material has seen official release on WB:RMX. As Moms has pointed out, the history of the collective is actually one of it becoming gradually less and less so, to the extent that "The Residents" might now be, for all intents and purposes, a solo act + "hired" players.

Count me in.

All of the 70s material is worth hearing, IMO. The "Beyond The Valley of A Day in the Life" / "Flying" 7-inch, now available on certain expanded reissues of THIRD REICH N ROLL, still may be my favorite of their all their recordings. COMMERCIAL ALBUM is great "fun," ESKIMO one of those jokes that turn serious midway through the telling, NOT AVAILABLE what "prog rock" could have been. The earliest stuff (THE WARNER BROS. RECORDINGS... an official release? I can't recall.) is the most Beefheartian / Zappa-esque. Once they discovered MIDI implementation, however, I find their sonic world much less interesting / inviting.

Had been looking forward to this one. A bit disappointing: the prose is intentionally dry, the narratives conceptual. I suppose I wanted more of a display of imagination, and beyond the tropes of a North American magical realism. Perhaps the best piece in the collection is "Rivers," in which a manumitted Jim relates the story of his life post-HUCK FINN.

How many dudes have worked with both Joe Raposo and Madonna? My wife just finished reading Nile's autobiography. She highly recommends it.