Big Wheel

My order number is between Mark's and Eric's. This is getting ridiculous. I probably could have just taken the damn subway over to Berkeley and picked the CDs up at the warehouse.

Nice review. I give it 3 Jureks. (On the Jurekometer?)

Same here. I almost wonder if they are actually going through the order pile in reverse order.

The girlfriend was (I say "was" because I am pretty sure they are not together anymore) younger, but not that much younger. My dad is in his mid-fifties and this woman has grown children, so I assume that she is at least 40, probably closer to 45.

I've discovered that my dad's taste in music seems to be highly dependent on external factors. When my dad was a teenager in the late '60s he bought lots of decent stuff - some of the Jimmy Smith Verve sides, some prog rock going into the '70s. I guess he must have had a hip friend or two back then. But in the 1980s, everything started going to hell: lots of Chuck Mangione and Bob James and Earl Klugh, and eventually, everything came to mirror the complete crap that the local smooth jazz station started playing. In the late 1990s, though, I started buying my own CDs and getting serious about jazz piano, and record collecting for my father started becoming like a way to identify with me. He started listening to the real jazz station in town and buying real jazz records again - nothing too adventurous, but lots of Jimmy Smith and Wes and guys like Russell Malone or Joshua Breakstone (I guess my dad really prefers guitarists). But I moved out to go to college, my parents split up, and my dad eventually moved in with his new ditzy girlfriend and went right back to the smooth jazz, plus stuff like...the Dixie Chicks?! I had never heard my father so much as mention a preference for country/countryish music before he moved out. My best guesses are that either the girlfriend liked them, or that my younger sister did and my absence suddenly opened up this weird musical/bonding vacuum for my dad.

The lemon-wheat beer combination is acceptable. The lime-Corona one is not - half the reason they encourage you to drink it with lime is because it tends to go skunky faster in the clear bottles. Why drink Corona anyway, unless it's Cinco de Mayo or something and you're having a big Mexican feast? What about fruit-flavored beers? There is a micro in Boston that does blueberry and watermelon beers, which my friends there say is not half bad. I just tried the Pyramid Apricot Weizen. Not very impressive.

Whatever you do, stay away from hometypers.com . I can't speak to the virtues of other home data entry jobs (although frankly, most seem pretty shady to me), but I have seen numerous complaints about their business practices in particular.

I've been meaning to make it back to Malaysia some day. Cover my airfare and I'll pick up the cost of the CDs. Sounds like a fair deal to me.

Agreed. I took advantage of this sale to grab a ton of essential K2 titles. I had many on the shortlist already but had been holding off of these for a while, as Blue Note CDs had been mostly cheaper.

50 or 51 here. My brain is too addled right now to do the math.

$25 is not cheap, but that doesn't seem particularly steep to me, compared to a lot of the other NYC clubs that feature similar acts. This is New York we're talking about here.

I don't care, so long as it doesn't have a goddamn two drink minimum. What an annoying pricing model. This is why I absolutely love NYC's Jazz Standard, which has the sense to break with New York tradition and just let you order as many or as few drinks as you please.

Wouldn't it be easier to just mount a rotisserie on the Leslie? Of course, you'd have to keep it on "slow" during the whole gig....

Tom Storer's reply right under Crouch's post is awesome. Like taking a pin to a big fat balloon. Why doesn't that guy post here anymore?

This decision may be correct according to the law. However, that doesn't mean the law is a good one. If CleanFlix legally pays for the content they are bowdlerizing, they should be able to do whatever they want with it so long as they make it clear that it's a bowdlerized version. This ruling has seriously undesirable implications for how IP is handled. See here and especially here for progressive takes on this. From the latter: Edit: so it turns out that CleanFlix wasn't obtaining permission to copy the movies, which makes things a good bit murkier. I had inititally assumed that they were essentially functioning like a used bookstore, purchasing multiple copies of movies, then reselling the edited versions in a number equal to what they had purchased.

Gross.

The Zappa mention in another thread had me checking out the Fillmore East show with John Lennon and Yoko Ono making a guest appearance. I was dying laughing at this one: http://youtube.com/watch?v=SdvKgQ0ZxvI&search=zappa%20ono

I have heard a couple of clips, the MMW version of Blue Pepper Dub and KB's rendition of C Jam Blues (also with MMW, I think). It's fun, not essential but entertaining.

I don't know that the editorial really sheds any light into whether Lay had a conscience. All we hear from the editorial was that Lay made friends with George W. Bush (how many of George W. Bush's close associates seem to have much of a conscience?), grew up poor (doesn't guarantee a conscience to me), and had the good fortune to reproduce (sometimes I think that if my own parents really had consciences, they probably wouldn't have had me.). Everything else in the piece is pure speculation: Lay might have done something "interesting" with the money. Great. If wishes were ponies... To me the main difference between Lay and Skilling is generational. Lay just seemed less amoral on the surface because he moved in the folksy, golf-playing, hunting, fishing circle of Texas oilmen (despite not growing up one himself), whereas Skilling was a slick outsider, a typical Type-A personality "professional businessman" in the 1980s mold. But these are just cultural stereotypes we impute to people. The stereotypes don't shed any light on people's personal morality.

The spirits of Charles Mingus and Nightshade live on: WARNING: Gross and (probably) not safe for work.

Speaking of genealogy, I've been having a lot of fun lately with myheritage.com . It's a site with photo recognition software that will tell you which celebrities you resemble most, based on the photos you upload. (Apparently I'm a 64% match with Sarah Silverman. )

Lay's coronary arteries denied all responsibility for this one. Apparently, it was all Andy Fastow's fault.

Has anyone heard this before? I'm thinking about picking it up. http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...&cart=359247023 Columna B was the band Prieto played in before he moved to NYC. Mostly Cuban expats. Yosvany Terry's father, Pancho Terry, sat in on chekere. I saw them live at the Stanford Jazz Workshop in 1999, shortly after they arrived in the US. These guys were ridiculous live. I have never seen anything like it before or since. I guess the record was cut after Prieto split, as the credits list a "Josh Jones" in the drum chair.

If you have a Google account, you can use Google Checkout to complete purchases with affiliated stores. For a limited time you can get $10 off a purchase of $20 at CDU. Note: I'm not sure if Jim will still get affiliate cash if you make your purchase this way - apologies, Jim.

Audio here: http://media.putfile.com/AOL-Cancellation