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A co-worker and his wife were scheduled to fly into Raleigh tomorrow to visit family and the airline refuses to change their tix (without a severe penalty of course) by claiming that it's not an emergency.
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While I fully sympathize with how you all feel, to put things in perspective, on the night of the big quake here there were over 100 aftershocks, several of them more than 5.0.
Maybe you won't believe this but my missus still has emergency bags ready packed and sitting near the porch.
Oh I believe it! And the biggest one that I've been in was "only" a 6.9. I can barely imagine what Japan went through.
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Pillars is right. RIP.
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If limited to jazz artists, it would have to be Duke, Mingus, or Monk. Which one in particular is harder to say.
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Congrats Allen! Just don't get all complacent and Regina Carter-y on us now!
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This is incredibly shocking.
And I hate to say this but it freaks me out that we are friends on FB and he could see pictures of my kids. I think it might be time to take all that stuff down and just use FB as a business outlet.
Ah crap, Jim, I didn't even think about that! You're right - and I post pics of my girls on FB all the time.
But I refuse to let the "bad stuff" of our world outweigh the good. I've made too many new friends on FB - and recently met and dined with our own Big Al as a result of our FB posts - and I'm not about to leave that behind by being overly concerned about the bad apples out there. But hell, it does make one think...
This is incredibly shocking.
And I hate to say this but it freaks me out that we are friends on FB and he could see pictures of my kids. I think it might be time to take all that stuff down and just use FB as a business outlet.
I am FB friends with him as well, but I'm not going to let it change things for me. I may need to be more selective about who I am friends with, though.
That's true, but honestly you guys on this board are about the "stranger-est" guys among my FB friends. That is, though I've known some of you for over a decade now, I've only met a handful of you in person. Chuck's very right about this: the threat's probably greater from those across the street or in one's own family than from a random acquaintance brought together by a shared hobby.
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Good god. Just saw this thread after seeing what I thought was a peculiar reference to Bill on another thread. I kinda feel sick right now.
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I had absolutely terrific experiences with emusic for the decade I was a member there. Found the downloader fast and easy (though I preferred their earliest and simplest one, without the bells and whistles) and found their search engine to be more than adequate. I canceled only recently after the price increases and revised business model, but mostly because my buying habits changed. It's unfortunate what it's become as I much preferred it when it was indie-only.
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Perhaps the single most important jazz album I ever bought - the one that really got me hooked - was the 70's Blue Note Thelonious Monk 2-fer LP "The Genius of Modern Music." I can still remember when (1980) and where (a little used book/record store in Solana Beach that's no longer there) I bought it. I don't play those and other 70's 2fer LPs often, and most of the music has since been re-bought on CD, but they still hold a dear spot in my heart.
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At least the Lou Donaldson litho is signed by Lou!
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The Onion might be able to do something with this. They're the ones who speculated that by the year 2075, there will only be five intelligent people left on the planet.
Why so long?
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I was on a jury in a case of some gravity -- alleged child molestation of a girl and a boy by their male stepfather, case based on the testimony of the children, now some eight years older IIRC, plus the fact that the accused looked and acted rather creepy. While the jury was basically reasonable in their deliberations, I thought there were some holes in the kids' testimony, that they also had been heavily coached (both by the prosecutors and even more so by their natural father, who was estranged from his former wife [she stood by the stepfather, to whom she was still married], had had custody of the kids for several years now, and seemed to me to be at least as creepy in his own way as the accused and a very manipulative, vindictive guy). I did get a chance to raise my (admittedly speculative) doubts, but everyone else thought I was nuts or an idiot ("How can you not believe the kids?"), so I finally voted guilty with everyone else. When the judge was told that we'd reached a verdict after maybe three or four hours, he came into the jury room grinning and said, "What took you so long?" This didn't make me feel any better, particularly because I felt that the accused's demeanor -- puffily overweight, with an unusually boyish face for a man in IIRC his mid-30s -- led many on the jury to turn against him from the first.
I was recently a juror on a very similar case and had much the same experience (save the judge part). But my jury took it very seriously even though we all felt the hard evidence was pretty weak - essentially a he said/he said thing. Several of us had some doubt, but since the defense didn't put on any case about all we had to go on was the victim's testimony. And finding his story credible we had little choice but to convict.
If I ever get called for Jury Duty I'm just going to tell them that I favor the death penalty for the most minor of traffic offenses and hopefully they'll boot me out.
Yeah, good luck with that strategy. Judges don't like it when prospective jurors try to pull that. Believe me, they've heard it all!
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I have a problem with the premise of Leno's story: for Rahsaan's Boston gigs in the 70's, Kirk was always booked at the Jazz Workshop on Boylston St. It was always a solid, positive vibe -- sometimes Jaki Byard and Alan Dawson would sit in for the third set. There was never a whiff of disrespect on the part of the owner or management (that I could notice).
I lived in Boston from 1971-79 and noted Rahsaan's every week-long gig at the Workshop. If Kirk ever hung out at the Sugar Shack, it was possibly a one-time stand-up without his band.
Leno certainly may have gotten the name of the club wrong; he used to play everywhere in those days - and it was 40 years ago. I'm not sure where you're getting the "disrespect" part from Leno's quote.
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Shawn, I'd love to hook up and compare notes if you'd like - I work in the film biz and have some, if perhaps limited for your needs, contacts - but ironically I'm headed to Texas and other Southern environs this weekend. So maybe later next month after I get back.
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I'd actually prefer mp3 "box" deals to be posted here just to keep things simpler.
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Go to any page an mp3 is being sold and click on "Redeem a gift card or promotion code & view balance" in the upper right corner.
I can't find that. Can you say again where it is?
PS - Never mind! I just found it! Thanks!
It's hard to find unless you click on an actual album/song - then it should be clearly in the upper right corner.
Thanks Sonny max for the tip!
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Chandler and Hammett are certainly the classical go-to guys, but for something a bit more "modern" I'd suggest James Ellroy, either "The Big Nowhere" or "Black Dahlia."
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Up until just a few years ago, we used to see Mr. Falk quite often at the Universal commissary, eating lunch with us regular folk - for some reason we never quite figured out, he kept an office on the lot long after he stopped acting and/or actively producing. Always a real nice guy, though we never bugged him much other than to nod and say hello. He will be missed.
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Very good news indeed! Hopefully this will lead to a career renaissance.
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Just grabbed Bill Evans' Secret Sessions box for $16.99 from Second Spin!
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This one really hurts. I used to see Jack play quite often after I first moved to L.A. back in the late 80s. But I haven't seen him in many years despite his having a semi-regular gig at a bar not ten minutes away. He was such a fixture that it was easy to take him for granted. He was Jack Sheldon and he'd always be around to entertain us. Sadly, no more. R.I.P.
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I'll do it!
Irene
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I'm with Dan on this one. Sure, the news channels want eyeballs and this is a compelling story to follow, but I also think it's their job to hype and persuade people of the danger lest too many simply ignore it. It may turn out to be nothing, but you can't predict these things with exact certainty and I'd rather see people take it seriously then shrug it off. It's always like this with flu season too. The gov't warns people to get shots in the hopes of warding off a possible pandemic, then people get shots, the pandemic never comes... and there's always some fool who then says that the danger was overblown since it never happened.