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Last night: Yob in downtown L.A., crushingly heavy experimental doom/drone band from Eugene Oregon. Great show, when i closed my eyes it was like being inside a giant lava lamp.

I still haven't seen either the Spiderman or Batman films from this summer, I'll catch up with them on DVD at some point. Today I watched a very silly and I thought quite funny film. Paul (2011 Greg Mottola) The re-teamed pairing of Simon Pegg & Nick Frost help out a stranded alien (voice of Seth Rogen). Excellent comedic cast including Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Jason Bateman, Sigourney Weaver and others add to the fun. Steven Spielberg even makes a cameo (over a speaker phone).

That's what it seems like to me.

27-string(!) guitar.

Very nice app, I checked it out last night and I think it's very well done. You can create a free email address under a fake name and join Facebook with that, nobody said you have to be honest on the internet.

Pandora doesn't let you stream entire albums though, right?

Napster was a way for people to share illegal .mp3s people ripped from their own collections. No money was paid to record labels or artists. It was completely centered around downloading of files. Spotify is a streaming service, it's not about downloading of files, the content is acquired from the record labels, royalties are paid. Artists get free publicity, I've discovered quite a few bands on Spotify and went out and bought their albums because of it...I probably would never have heard them otherwise. Do the artists make enough money on this stuff? No. But they make more money from Spotify than if somebody illegally downloaded their album from a blog.

Haven't we already discussed Spotify in a bunch of threads? The comparison to Napster really isn't valid in any way.

Iron Maiden - Behind The Beast (from the En Vivo blu-ray) Cool documentary of the 2011 Final Frontier world tour, what makes this different than most music documentaries is the focus is on the crew. It's nice to have interviews with all the sound engineers, lighting engineers, stage techs, guitar techs and production designers that put together a show of the magnitude Iron Maiden lugs around all over the world. I was amazed to find out that Maiden's FOH engineer has been with the band since 1979! From tiny clubs in London to 60,000 seat stadiums...quite a career!

I grew up hearing him around the house, always been a fan. Bruised Orange is a good starter album. The old greatest hits collection "Prime Prine" is very nice as well.

Happy Birthday!

You are really missing out on these, that's the primary reason for picking up the 40th editions. They sound fantastic. I've never heard Poseidon, Lizard and Islands sound this good.

I've still never had this happen with a CDR, however I have numerous DVDRs that are no longer readable in any player I have.

If I could afford it I would definitely buy the Larks box set, in a heartbeat. I can't, but in a perfect world I definitely would.

Larry Niven - N-Space

Damn straight. The whole jazz snobbery thing is just so damn predictable...and diehard jazz fans wonder why outsiders see them as elitist pricks.

Since I started on the old BNBB and then came here, I gotta say most of what I have to say about jazz I've said already over the past 14 years give or take. That's not a reflection on the board itself, just that I'm kind of "talked out" about the subject. Very few reissues coming out and even fewer new recordings that interest me don't really create much desire for contributing very often. Still love the company here and get enjoyment from the film and misc. music topics, so I'm happy the board is still around.

Various episodes from: Damages - Season 5 Alphas - Season 2 Californication - Season 4 Parks & Recreation - Season 1 Grimm - Season 2 Warehouse 13 - Season 4

Thanks to the thread I'm going to dig "Components" and "Patterns" out of the archives and listen to them again, its been too long.

Not that complicated, 3 different albums. The two Freddie Redd's are the original score with different lineups, the Cecil Payne is a completely different score written for the same play, I believe when it went on tour after Redd's involvement ceased. I like the Boplicity Redd with Tina Brooks the best. The Cecil Payne/Kenny Drew is great and I would rank that second, the Blue Note Redd would be third. Haven't listened to any of them in quite awhile so I'm just going from memory. I did a vinyl transfer of the Cecil Payne date which came out sounding very nice.

The original Swedish version made such an impact that I think seeing the remake so quickly afterward was a bad idea, because I didn't judge it on it's own merits. Since some time has passed now I think I'll watch Let Me In again to see how it strikes me. Chloe was incredibly good in "500 Days Of Summer" as the much wiser than her years younger sister to Jospeph Gordon-Leavitt, , that was the first time I saw her and you could tell instantly that she was going to be a star.

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (UK) - Series 4

My favorite line from the movie "Airheads". "Who would win in a fight, Lemmy or God? Trick question, Lemmy IS God!"

It is a great album. My favorites are Stick-Up and Patterns, with Oblique probably coming in third.