Teasing the Korean

We have lots of coffee table books on art, design, and architecture. So many that I sometimes get depressed because I don't look at them often enough. 😿

I would love a Vespa or Lamborghini, but until then, I'll have to be content with using clothespins for attaching baseball cards to my bike's front fork.

Each show is archived for one magical week, before disappearing forever into the ether, unless an alien civilization picks up the broadcasts in thousands of years. (Radio waves theoretically travel indefinitely.) The show is called Surface Noise on www.wmnf.org, and she just won programmer of the year. Surface Noise primarily focuses on late-70s/early-80s punk and new wave, along with genres that led to this, such as 60s garage and glam, and stuff inspired by this. It also includes a segments titled "Your Weekly Todd" and "The Bowie Votive." Finally there is "The Cocktail Mix" in the last 15 minutes of the show, during which she may spin anything including jazz, standards, Latin, Brazilian, exotica, space age, spy, crime, French Pop, Moog, sitar, outer space. She sometimes does birthday tributes in these segments, hence my question for @GA Russell. But this week's cocktail mix will continue Earth Day recognition with a Brazilian aquatic theme, with Brazilian songs about frogs, ducks, fishermen, little boats, surfboards, and March waters. https://www.wmnf.org/events/surface-noise/ You can listen live on Saturdays 4pm - 6pm EST.

Wide range of musical interests, as with me. Good thing I found her. I would have stayed single otherwise!

Any notable birthdays falling between April 26th and 30th? Ms. TTK is seeking suggestions for her radio show. Thanks in advance.

Too bad this didn't happen with Penn Station.

I'm sure they're huge, but I don't know anyone who watches that kind of kitsch. If they do, they certainly don't bring it up in my presence.

Same here. In fairness to the guy, pop culture has become much more fragmented than it used to be. Instead of there being a smaller group of celebrities whom everyone knows, there are now zillions of celebrities whom are recognized only by certain segments of the population.

I do blame him. He could have bought a vacant lot, probably for cheaper than what he paid for this property plus the demolition. Yeah, maybe I was a little harsh. I'll be sure to check out Guardians of the Galaxy 4 and Super Mario Brothers when they come to the Criterion Channel. 😹

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/19/chris-pratt-katherine-schwarzenegger-zimmerman-destroy-historic-house-los-angeles

How is this? I never heard of it. NP: Lee Morgan - Search for a New Land - Blue Note, stereo, played back in MONO to improve the mix!

David Axelrod - Earth Rot - expanded edition with instrumentals (Capitol) Jerry Goldsmith - Escape from the Planet of the Apes (La-La Land)

Not true with this primate. The stuff that made an impression on me occurred between ages 30-50.

Uniquely Mancini - RCA Victor, iiiMONO!!! Featuring that smash surf hit, "Bonzai Pipeline!"

Mancini '67 - RCA Victor, iiiMONO!!! Featuring Bob Bain on the fuzz guitar!

Anita Kerr Quartet - We Dig Mancini (RCA Victor, MONO!)

I love the Blue Note reissues/twofers he was involved with. RIP.

Have we ever determined the identity of Nora Kelly, who wrote liner notes for two of Herbie Hancock's Blue Note albums focused on the sea?

Maiden Voyage was my second Herbie Hancock album, Empyrean Isles being the first. I got both circa my junior/senior years of high school. This would have been very early 1980s. I also had The Real Book by this time, and while I was no expert then - nor now, for that matter - my sense was that "Dolphin Dance" was one of Herbie's most well-known tunes, next to "Chameleon" and, a year or two later, "Rockit."

That's what's selling. Even downloads don't sell much anymore. Listeners in the aggregate either want vinyl, or they want to stream.

Some, not much, overlap. I am counting three common tracks. https://www.discogs.com/release/7578982-Herbie-Hancock-Herbie-Hancock Interesting that neither included "Dolphin Dance," unless that tune's stock rose in value after the mid-1970s.

Nyiregyhazi - All Liszt Program (Columbia Masterworks, 1978).

So there's no solo content here, only trio?

Herbie Hancock - 70s BN 2-LP comp from the series with pixilated colorful graphics. Because sometimes a nice 2-LP set is what you need. Playing it in mono to bring up the piano and bass, as I frequently do with BN records from this period.