Guy Berger

When I walked in to my apt tonight Chuck was waiting with a mask and a shotgun... I knew I had no choice but to spring for the box. Guy

Wow, I missed the original post -- at first I didn't realize what Chuck and Dan G were (rightfully) getting in arms about. Anyway, instead of used CDs you might want to check out yourmusic.com. For $6 & free shipping, cheaper than many used CDs, you can pick up many of the cds on your list. Guy

Well, they have a good team and their roommates don't. With Sacramento stinking it up (Losing to the Knicks at home? Now THERE'S a real WTF) and Phoenix crippled by Amare's absence, it wouldn't surprise me to see the Clips snag the division title (and consequently slot #2 or #3 come playoff time). Guy

Though the Prestige session wasn't their first studio session, it was the first album by the group to be released (and, IIRC, the only one released during the group's lifetime). Unless someone was lucky enough to catch them in person, it was probably most listeners' first encounter of the group. Guy

Is this possible? Given prices of 17.98/disc, 55% off only amounts to $8.01/disc which is still substantially higher than the yourmusic price. Guy

I've made several panic orders in the last few days. Pared down my queue quite a bit. ← And just made a panic order of Mother Ship to boot since it told me there will not be any copies available by the time the next queue slot ships. Guy ← I can't even get Larry Young to show up in a search. Didn't have it in the queue either. ← He was there this morning! Looks like he's now gone. Same thing happened last week with "Mingus, Mingus . . . ." The warning appeared above my queue that it wouldn't be available on the scheduled ship date (later this month), and then it was gone the same day. ← Sigh... the Larry Young got cancelled. Kind of a shame, too, because I ordered Horace Silver's Serenade for a Soul Sister in October (also running low) but would have definitely gotten the Young had I known it would disappear. My main lesson is to order the queue by what you want to have, and let low-priority (or low alldirect-yourmusic price difference) items disappear. As far as the recent Columbia reissues -- which of these are copy-protected and which aren't? Guy

I'm kind of surprised nobody's made a bigger deal out of this (or maybe they did and I did notice it; Brownie did note in the "recorded on this date" thread), but... 50 years ago (October 26th, to be precise), Miles Davis went into the studio with a quintet consisting of a cocktail pianist, a kid bassist, a drummer who played too loud, and a no-name tenor saxophonist who was only hired because Sonny Rollins was unavailable. They recorded: Little Melonae Budo Ah Leu Cha Two Bass Hit I wonder what the hell Miles was doing with these bozos???

It's almost a shame (actually, to me it IS a shame, but YMMV) that he reduced his electric piano playing in favor of fancier keyboards. He got so many interesting sounds of that instrument. Guy

It seems readily available as an import, and the price isn't crazy ($19.45 at alldirect.com). Guy

It's too bad ABC doesn't have Marv Albert & Steve Kerr -- those guys are really good. (Is Doug Collins announcing this year? I dig him too.) Mike Fratello needs to quit coaching and come back to announcing. Guy

He's atrocious. How does he keep his job?! ← No, he's not the worst, but he's pretty bad (and he doesn't even have stupidity as an excuse). I remember a finals game from last year when it was tied at halftime and he said something about how the Spurs had the Pistons on the ropes. Greg Anthony had the biggest "WTF?" look on his face and pretty much said so. Guy

More good news: the fact that the Warriors shot 34% for the game and STILL only lost by 1 point is not bad. Also, when/if Baron actually comes back to full health and Ike comes off the IL, this will be a better team. Guy

Maybe you were hallucinating that Shaq was playing. Guy

I dug your review! Guy

Thought I'd start a thread on these guys. I have their first four albums, thought that the s/t debut and Standards were somewhat boring while Millions Now Living Will Never Die is pretty good (really dig "Djed", the rest isn't as good). TNT is one of my favorite albums -- nothing heavy, but it has a nice chill atmosphere that I like to put on to relax. Are these guys good enough live for me to seek out live recordings? How was their 5th studio album? Also feel free to discuss other bands on the Thrill Jockey label (though maybe the Chicago Underground thing should have its own thread since it is actually jazz). I thought Gastr del Sol's Camoufleur and the one Sea & Cake album I heard were pretty boring. Isotope 217's Utonian Automatic is pretty good though not on the level of TNT. Guy

Check out one of his shorts, "The Cure". (It's on vol 1 of the Mutuals DVD set.) Hysterical. Guy

I've been slowly working chronologically through all his films. (Many of the Keystones were painful to watch!) The Circus is going to arrive from Netflix today, and then it's onto City Lights & Modern Times).

I finally started watching Da Ali G Show and the Sopranos on DVD. Can't wait until Netflix sends the 2nd Sopranos DVD, I'm getting sucked in already! Guy

Think how bad it is for those of us living in New England! I was actually hoping to hear the games on KNBR online but for some reason it blacks out the games. On the plus side I was very psyched to see the W's beat the Bucks last night -- the first decent team we've beaten, and Baron isn't nearly at 100% yet. Hopefully we will do just as well against the Bulls tonight. As far as the Pistons beating the Kings -- impressive. Their first few victories were against mediocrities and while this isn't the mighty Sac of yesteryear, it's still an emphatic road victory over a strong team. Guy ps Flip must be loving his new job!

I've made several panic orders in the last few days. Pared down my queue quite a bit. ← And just made a panic order of Mother Ship to boot since it told me there will not be any copies available by the time the next queue slot ships. Guy

All this talk of backordering made me panic and order The Great Concert of Charles Mingus, which I was going to hold off on until early December. Guy

Porcy -- the number of foreign movies that make it to major movie theaters is pretty small. But a lot of cities have smaller movie theaters that show all those artsy movies that give me a headache and don't have enough explosions. Guy

Only the somewhat annoying fact that they won't let you use multi-CD sets as part of your "subscription". Guy

Maybe he's trying to feed Latrell Sprewell's kids. Guy