Shawn

Awesome.

PayPal tells you that they will NEVER ask for your social security number or any other banking info, they don't do it. As Valerie stated...IT'S A SCAM! Don't give out the information.

Netflix works fine for me, I've essentially stopped buying movies because there are so many available to watch for a low monthly subscription amount.

There are certain topics that I know bother me and I'm now comfortable enough in my own skin to politely excuse myself from the discussion when they arise. Primarily anything political or religion based are arguments I have no business being in and will flat out avoid at all costs.

That's the 'Fright Night' remake, right? I saw the original (recommended) and was hoping this one would be good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlOv3EGjVnY

Far as I can tell/hear, this very definitely means they ARE listening to the Beatles. And the Byrds. And the Velvet Underground. And ... well, you know ... They just don't realize it.

Interesting. I'm not really sure where I fall in this discussion, though I must admit to being "stuck in the past" to a large degree. I've been listening to music constantly since the mid 70's, really got passionate about it in the 80's. By the time the mid-90's rolled around I was REALLY burnt out on anything pop/rock, so the intense study of jazz began. After spending almost a decade listening to mostly jazz I realized I was getting tired of that as my only musical diet...so I started to both check out newer bands in the pop/rock world and also revisit some of my favorites that I had neglected for a very long time. Now? Most of the newer music I listen to is very much inspired by the stuff I was listening to in the 70's and 80's, so much so that many of the artists could fool someone into thinking they are listening to a "lost band". Why? Because the musical vocabulary from that era still resonates with me very deeply, I don't want to hear samplers...I want to hear mellotrons and Hammond organs and vintage tube guitar amplifiers. It's the most "real" to me. Thus I tend to gravitate toward musicians that feel the same way as I do. I've also found that the music I listened to as a "pre-teen" sounds more fresh to me now than the stuff I was playing around my teenage years. Probably because I neglected that music the longest.

I need to give that show another shot. I tried it awhile back but really wasn't in the right frame of mind for it. I might enjoy it more now.

CONAN Quite simply the WORST movie of the year, easily. If they gave awards for inept film editing this one would win the grand prize. I don't think there was a single sequence that actually worked the way it should have. AWFUL.

Wait a couple years, your mood is likely to change.

Awesome performance, love it.

I think Harrison is playing here in LA either tomorrow night or Thursday. Thanks for the tip!

I wonder what the sales figures are like on these sets? I can't think of too many "newbies" who gravitate toward a 20 album collection of a single artist.

from an NPR story: East Coast earthquakes are typically felt in a wider area than those in California. That's because the Earth's crust is more solid in the East, and it carries seismic waves better than in the more fractured West Coast crust.

My Mother said she felt it in West Virginia, about 90 miles west of D.C.

Spotify definitely comes in handy for social gatherings, especially when your company doesn't listen to the same type of music you own. I had some neighbors over this weekend and they like electronic music...I have none...but they found all the stuff they liked. I'm using it to either check out albums I've never heard...or revisit things I like but listen to so infrequently that I couldn't justify actually owning them.

Yeah, I just noticed it's still happening. It's probably attempting to trigger the ads and then fails and stops. Hopefully they'll get it fixed.

The only Jethro Tull album I've never heard or owned...now I'm kind of wondering why, I still don't like the title track, but the rest of the album sounds great so far. Re: techinical issues on Spotify. Something must have been going on last night because it wouldn't play songs back to back, it would play 1 song and then give an error message. But you could then doubleclick on the next track and it would play, but again stop once that song was over. Irritating, but it's working fine today.

This set and the Blackhawk sets are the two Miles boxes that I revisit the most often. I'm one of those people that actually prefers In A Silent Way to Bitches Brew.

Thanks for the recommendation. I was concerned with the all-CGI characters, I still have issues with that technology, I prefer physical effects and prosthetic makeup.

I think I'd go with ATLANTIC.

Good stuff!

Have a nice "proggy" birthday!