Teasing the Korean

You're generally correct, although every now and then, a decent composer accidentally gets a film scoring gig.

Yep. And like Pat Williams, he is underrepresented on LP and CD.

The Best of Gabor Szabo - impulse! (stereo)

The Fifth Dimension - Up, Up and Away - (Soul City, stereo) I don't listen exclusively to jazz. I like to keep up with what the kids are listening to.

I can imagine Pierce as Cannonball. Can't you hear him saying, "This next tune has a kinda Latin rhythm we call the bossa nova. Well, it's not really a bossa nova, but we think you'll dig this."

Rotary Connection - Aladdin (Cadet, stereo) Recorded in "Concept 12" stereo!

War - Greatest Hits (UA) Had this but unloaded it. Thanks for reminding me that it exists!

This track from the soundtrack to The Grasshopper, by the underrepresented-on-LP-and-CD Billy Goldenberg, has a "Memory Band" vibe. The track "Les Fleur" has had a presence in recent decades.

I thought Pierce was entirely convincing as a musician - I guess that's why it's considered good acting.

Claudio Simonetti's Goblin - Suspiria (Rustblade) A new recording of the classic Goblin score! On blue vinyl!

Goblin - Profondo Rosso OST (Rustblade) Half soundtrack, half live recordings of the soundtrack from more recent decades. On red vinyl, natch!

You mean the Sabu album? That is killer! It sounds very ahead of its time to my ears, like proto-bugalu in places.

Oscar Peterson - The woefully mistitled Soul Espanol (Limelight, stereo)

I have gotten to be friends with forum member @Stonewall15. He and I are both fans of David Simon's work, including The Wire. Recently, Ms. TTK and I binged another David Simon series, Treme, about Post-Katrina New Orleans. I found many aspects of this show to be incredibly moving, especially the segments involving the brass bands and Black Masking Indians. Clarke Peters (Albert "Big Chief" Lambreaux) and Wendell Pierce (Antoine Batiste), both of whom were also in The Wire, were fantastic. The ending of this show, from my perspective, was more feel-good than that of The Wire, but New Orleans needed all the feel-good it could get at that time. Curious if there are other fans of the show.

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