Teasing the Korean

Getz & Gilberto #2 - Verve (mono)

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/...oges_stang.html Are You a Larry, Curly or Moe? As Found in the Chapter 10 "Weird Politics" Introduction in High Weirdness by Mail Copyright © 1988, by Rev. Ivan Stang. ============================================== There are three kinds of people -- I call them Larrys, Curlys, and Moes. The Larrys don't even know that there are three types; if they're told, it's an abstraction, because they cannot imagine anything beyond Larry-ness. The Curlys know about it, and recognize it as a pecking order, but find ways of living with it cheerfully...for they are the imaginative, creative ones. The Moes not only know about it, but exploit and perpetuate it. Among the listees in this book 1 , the naive, pleasant New Agers and "nice" UFO contactees, for instance, are Larrys (as are normals at large)--ineffectual, well-meaning do-gooders destined always to be victims, often without once guessing their status. Like sheep, they don't want to hear the unpleasant legends about "the slaughterhouse"; they trust the strange two-legged beings who feed them. The artists, unsung scientific geniuses, political writers, and earnest disciples of the stranger cults are Curlys--engaging, original, accident-prone but full of life, and intuitively aware of the Moe forces plotting against them and trying to fight back. They can never defeat the Moes, however, without becoming Moes, which is impossible for a true Curly. The Moes, then, are the fanatics, the ranters, the cult gurus, the Uri Gellers AND the Debunkers; they are the Resistance Leaders and the Ruling Class Bankers, both. They hate each other, but only because they want to control ALL the Larrys and Curlys themselves. They don't actually enjoy their dominance; it's simply part of their nature. Nor are they any less foolish for the fact that they make the decisions. They suffer a chronic paranoia that is unknown to their less demanding underlings. Larrys and Curlys die in wars started by rival Moes--the Larrys willingly, the Curlys with great regret. Concepts like "Hell" and "Sin" were invented by Moes to keep Larrys in line; the Larrys, in turn, being far more numerous, exert social pressures on the Curly minority to also obey...mainly so the Larrys won't feel like suckers. The Moes also invent myths, like that of the "Grouchos, Harpos, Chicos, and Zeppos," to throw the more rebellious Curlys off their trail and keep them unsure of the real situations.* I am a Moe, though not a particularly powerful one; that is why I know these things, and it is also why I dare to tell you -- for most of you will think it's just a funny joke. A few will know it is the truth, but will fight far harder against my Moe enemies than you will against me, a relatively harmless Moe. My fellow Moes--enemies and uneasy SubGenius allies alike--will know what I'm REALLY saying, and chuckle in appreciation while plotting my downfall. In vain. ALL in VAIN, boy... 1 High Weirdness by Mail, by Rev. Ivan Stang, 1988, a Fireside Book, published by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, NY. * When the Curlys finally die of overwork, the Moes find that they cannot live in an all-Larry world; they select special Larrys and vainly try to mold them into False Curlys...but it isn't the same.

But I feel like my shoes have been crazy glued.

Fred Wesley/James Brown - Black Caesar - Polydor

Roy Ayers - Ubiquity - Polydor

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

Jones.

Does anyone have the "Fleeting House" DVD? I was watching it tonight. Some really amazing stuff on there.

Antill: Corroboree Suite paired with Ginastera: Panambi Suite (Everest stereo) Great 20th century orchestral exotica! Corroboree is rarely performed or recorded.

Absolutely. My benchmarks are: Are they pressed on center? Do they have scratches you can feel with your finger? Are they mono?

Bossa Nova + Soul

A classic. Hopefully you have the companion album by Johnny Mandel, arguably the greatest jazz film score.

Fabio said the same thing on his hard to find CD.

I think she did. . Not surprising.

Tommy's holiday camp.

I admire the fact that she hasn't had any stupid plastic surgery. That I know of, at least.

I had two pressings of this album. The later pressing took care of some surface noise that was on some tracks on the previous version (transferred from vinyl, apparently). Verve liner notes are sometimes vague about the sources used for their reissues. I suspect that some master tapes have been lost over the years.

No, but move your Percy Faith "Black Magic Woman" album in the funk section.

Interesting. I always thought a good time to hear them would have been in the late 60s, as evidenced on the 1969 Live in London album.

Bill Evans Trio - Live at Montreux (1968) - Verve

Albert Harris - Bacchanale (conducted by Frank DeVol) Columbia 6 eye stereo (1960) An orchestral suite depicting the gods of ancient Greece, composed by Les Baxter collaborator Albert Harris.

Was a HUGE fan in my teens and early 20s, but never saw them live. To me, the records were what they were about. By the time I was old enough to go to concerts, they had essentially become an oldies act, and weren't doing much that interested me. After Dennis died in 1983, I kind of regretted not seeing them, but by then it seemed too late. I did end up seeing Brian on the Smile tour, which was closer to my ideal of a Beach Boys concert than what the group was doing for past few decades. One other note on the Beach Boys live: Around the time of their comeback, circa 15 Big Ones/Love You, there was an NBC TV special. This would have been summer 1975 or 76. I don't think this has been released in its entirety, but clips have been recycled for subsequent documentaries. Anyway, the live footage included in the show featured THEE ABSOLUTE WORST sound and singing I have ever heard in any live Beach Boys clip from before or after. Voices were cracking, and they were woefully out of tune. (I have an audio cassette someplace to prove it). I was 11 or 12 at the time, and this played a huge role in discouraging me from seeing them live. It was only later that I realized how good they were capable of sounding in concert (as evidenced on the Reprise live double album). Amazing that anyone from the group signed off on using this footage.

As Bird said: "When I first heard Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, in the language of the streets I flipped." Yes. Soon will be spinning the full ballet on London/Decca ffrr.

Years ago I found an OJC vinyl reissue of Mongo Santamaria's Fantasy album "Yambu," which has one of the greatest album covers ever. This one disappeared pretty early on, even when OJC was still pressing vinyl. Very happy to have found this one.