Guy Berger

Did you watch one of the extra features that came with season one? The actress is from Tipperary. Let's just say it'd be a whole 'nother vibe if she used her real voice in the role. Looks like I'll wait to watch when it comes out on DVD. What/where is Tipperary? Guy

Dallas has now won 8 in a row, Phoenix 14. San Antonio is wondering how they're 5 games back with a .700 record. Guy

It's too bad Finger Poppin' isn't on yourmusic -- I really want to pick that one up. Guy

I've only heard three of these, but I voted for Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers. Guy

The seeds of the break between Octavian and Mark Antony are sown. I wonder when Cicero will turn on Antony (and face his undoing). I got a real laugh out of Cicero and Servilia's conversation. The guy is a consummate politician... "Tell your son that I... no, not I... his friends in Rome... uh... look forward to seeing him again... at some point... in the near... future." Nice to see that they will be bringing the great general and architect Marcus V Agrippa into the show. Octavia is a babe! Guy

I was listening to "Tenor Madness" (May '56) earlier today and while there are glimpses of later Coltrane, there are also clearly spots where he struggles and doesn't quite get there. Still, you have to give the guy props for taking chances -- particularly when matching wits with the top tenor of the time. A lot of other musicians would have instead hunkered down and played it safe, afraid to embarrass themselves. FWIW, I also got the feeling that Sonny didn't approach this performance with the aim of "beating" or "cutting" or "outplaying" Trane. Instead the whole thing has a friendly tone about it -- very different than "The Eternal Triangle" w/Sonny Stitt. Guy

Yup! No... I think '65 is my favorite. Guy

Agreed. Once the Classic Quartet was set, the music didn't make any drastic changes. I feel it got progressively better, but not really that different from where it started out. I agree with the first half of Scott's statement in that Coltrane's music didn't experience any sudden jumps between November of 1961 and, say, December of 1964. There was a more rapid evolution from from 10/60 to 11/61 and again from 12/64 to 9/65. I think the big difference in Coltrane's music during the '62-'64 period (and I owe this observation to Ed Rhodes) is between live and studio. His studio recordings during this period tended to be more conservative, his live recordings more exploratory. Guy

If you do decide to spend time with this box, I would start with the 1963 material. It's the best stuff in the box. Guy

If you don't like Coltrane, you won't like this box. I would say that in general this box is less essential than 50-70% of the Impulse material. The Impulse stuff (even the live material) generally aimed at producing album-worthy material. The Pablo box was "just" Trane and his group exploring in a live setting. One is about product, the other one is about process. That's the key difference. Guy

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Is it just me or is Jack especially torture-happy this season? I thought it was strange that he would torture his own brother just to find out where their dad is. Guy

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Isn't Interstellar space just a little bit too much influenced by Ayler? Just a thought. It always seemed to me that he was really under Ayler's spell on this one. Not sure about that. Just not sure. All I can say is that I hope the "too much" isn't a diss of the music. Guy

Why creepy? Are you saying that there are some things that fiction cannot handle? Or should not? Nabokov allowed us to see the world from the point of view of a pedophile. Why couldn't somebody else do the same with a Nazi? Shouldn't we WANT to understand the perspective of the socially maladjusted? I will say, right here and now, that I would read a book or watch a movie from the point of view of ANY character, so long as the book is well written or the film is well made. I would gladly read a book from the point of view of a Holocaust denier. No book is bad if it is well written. Stop with these red herrings. Your review of the movie went beyond simply "viewing from a different perspective" or aesthetic appreciation. You were ASHAMED of the American flag going up at Iwo Jima, you derived ENJOYMENT from seeing the Japanese side painted positively and the American side negatively. I'm done here. People can make up their own minds whether that's creepy or not. Guy

I'd be really curious to read your review of a movie that took the Nazi perspective. Guy I've seen a few ("Das Boot" for one) and I think that they're very interesting. Remember, a German perspective is not a "Nazi perspective" necessarily. Many German soldiers were regular guys who were either pressed in to service, or who genuinely wanted to serve their country (nothing wrong with that, right?). The Nazis were something else entirely, but I'd still love to see a film that takes their perspective too. I'm sure you would get a creepy enjoyment from them, too. Guy

I'd be really curious to read your review of a movie that took the Nazi perspective. Guy

Not sure these are my choice of musicians to pay tribute to On the Corner, but I'll be curious to read reviews... Guy

While I imagine that health problems associated with body weight are probably responsible for a large chunk of those 20-25 years, getting your body whacked and mauled once a week can't be healthy either. How does football players' life expectancy compare to Americans of with similar BMI? Guy

I was really surprised to recently read someone trashing this album (not on this thread): The first thing that came to mind is "dude, your sense of humor is broken." Guy

I prefer California. Screw this humidity crap. Guy

In San Diego it's probably 65 degrees! This global warming thing needs to hurry up. Guy

It's fucking cold here. Guy

Not sure how exactly how I heard about the fora, but I also migrated from the BNBB. My first post here was in July of 2003, in a Joe Henderson thread. Guy

I fuckin' detest the Patriots. I hope they get their asses whupped. Guy