Van Basten II

Happy birthday

Next on the agenda.

Johnny Carson Dave Letterman Jay Leno

Received a notification today for a PM sent the 25th.

Loretta Lynn Jamie Lynn Spears Ginger Lynn The good, the bad and the naughty. The Lynn story.

Not sure i want a finance guy with the word triche in his name. ..... for the non french speaking triche means cheat.

Screw Rachael, bring on Mariah

Norm Peterson Frasier Crane Cliff Clavin

How about starting a thread what are you doing here instead of being part of a crazed mob on a buying spree for the boxing day.

Perry Mason Matthew Perry Joe Perry

The boxsets are celebrating an ecclectic French radio station that specializes in playing a curious mix of African, electronic, jazz and other non-mainstream music called Nova that celebrated their 25th anniversary . Here is their web site, try to find more info in english, couldn't. http://www.novaplanet.com/html/radio/html/radiosom.html Here's what they played in the last hour or so 13:12 Kool And The Gang Soul vibrations 13:17 Heavy Unbelievable 13:19 Pinduca Vamos farrear 13:22 Jurassic 5 The influence 13:26 Curtis Mayfield Move on up 13:35 The Virgins Rich girls 13:38 Michelle Amador/osunlade Because of you 13:42 Bb King The thrill is gone 13:47 Collie Buddz Come around 13:51 Mia Paper planes 13:54 Jimi Tenor My mind 14:00 Dynamics Miss you 14:03 Lenny Kravitz If you can't say no 14:08 Vampire Weekend Cape cod kwassa kwassa If i had access to this music in my office, i would put the radio on instead of being stuck with those awful easy listening light rock crap. Probably that Brownie and our other French friends will be able to you more about them.

That is a REALLY strange list. Quite apart from the very eccentric dating of some of the tracks. A random sample that leap off the screen: Ray Charles - Lonely Avenue - 1962 (more like 1956) Chuck Berry - Havana moon - 1964 (also 1956) Ray Charles - I believe to my soul 1964 (1959) Charlie Parker - Lover man (1956) (but he was dead!) Louis Jordan - Let the good times roll (1956) (no, 1946) Elvis Presley - Good rockin' tonight (1956) (I thought that was one of the tracks he recorded earlier for Sun, but I'm no expert on him) And what's this Meter's record "Chicken strut"? Duh? But, if you were going to pick a Berry , would you pick "Havana moon"? Or why? Given a choice of all Parker's recordings, why "Lover man"? Ditto for Ray Charles, Louis Jordan and Elvis Presley. JB's "Please please please" is in there, but none of the groundbreaking stuff from the late sixties. But it IS interesting that they've got quite a few groundbreaking African recordings in there - but equally, missed Fela Kuti entirely, also Thomas Mapfumo - one of the main cultural driving forces behind Robert Mugabe's success in Zimbabwe in the seventies - and all of the important Highlife bands from Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone. Some concentration on Francophone Africa by the looks of it. (But even within Francophone Africa, selecting Mory Kante rather than one of the much more important and much more enjoyable Guinean big bands of the Sekou Toure era seems perverse.) Please do tell us what you get out of this when it arrives. I must say it's piqued my interest, VBII. MG Now check out the as weird track list of the previous boxset covering from 1981 to 2006 that starts by Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit http://www.discogs.com/release/1017133

Grammy Emmy Tony

Just noticed the title, basically this is a wish list since Christmas 2008 is 1 year from now

Nobody knows what i'm up to music wise, they give me money and i do what i want with it.

Leonard Cohen William Shatner Oscar Peterson (RIP) From Montreal....

Here's the track list. http://www.alapage.com/files/pdf/nova.pdf Looking for a copy from the previous edition that will be affordable.

I still have no cue, but she has a fine booty.

Sharon Jones Amy Winehouse Shemekia Copeland

Another fine store, wish they'd get more European stuff. http://www.indiejazz.com/

John Barry Nino Rota Elmer Bernstein

I guess we have to find our own fun in the holiday and choose to make the best of the season---or not. I'm generally a happy go lucky kind of guy and i prefer to enjoy myself more in the quotidianity(not sure that's a real word) of our every day life than having a celebration forced down our throats.

Will Clark Jeff Kent Matt Williams

I have not been very present the last few weeks, so i have time to get back on top of things, plus it gives me time to go through my baclklog of CDs to listen. For my money the Ray Charles Atlantic set kicks the butt of any freakin' tune that we are supposed to play at this time of the year.

Gary Hart Joe Biden Dick Gephardt