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Well, listening to good music is not harmful to one's health, which I think is relevant to the topic of addiction. I think staying within a budget you can easily afford is important. If you can do that, I don't think you're addicted. Many of us here are bargain hunters, judging by the many posts regarding Your Music, J&R, the Concord Blowout Sale and the place in Germany that begins with a z. Last year I read that the average monthly cable television bill in America is $56.00. I've never seen anyone suggest that the average American has an addiction for television although it has been said for years that Americans watch too much TV. If we here choose to spend our free time listening to music instead of watching TV, that's a choice regarding entertainment, not an addiction. You can buy from Your Music 8 CDs per month (two a week!), month after month, for what the average American spends on cable television. So if you can satisfy your desire for music with two CDs per week or less instead of watching television, I don't think you're addicted.

I'm not sure what you are getting at... What has Bird got to do with this? Q Q, I agree with what Ubu says, but what I had in mind was that the tracks of both boxes are not complete songs.

Week 11: Calgary Stampeders 20....Edmonton Eskimos 17 http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4101304.htm Same as Monday: The Eskimos dominated the first half; the Stampeders made adjustments and dominated the second half. As I recall, Sean Fleming missed 41 and 45 yard FG attempts which went for a total of one point. Obviously, that made a difference. Toronto Argonauts 35....Hamilton Tiger-Cats 22 http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4101393.htm With Jason Maas gone for Montreal, Timmy Chang started at QB for Hamilton, and was pretty bad, although the team is so bad I don't feel like the QB can be blamed, just like I never blamed Maas. Third-string QB Richie Williams came in in the fourth and looked pretty good, although the game was over by that time. Casey Printers will probably start for the Ticats next week. The rumor in Hamilton is that the Ticats were a million dollars under the salary cap, which is why they could afford to spend so much money on Printers. I think the salary cap is less than five million, so that low payroll may indeed explain why the Ticats are so bad. The announcer said that the Ticats have 20 new players on the team this year, many of them rookies. He also said that I think four of the assistant coaches are former US college coaches with no CFL experience. One in particular is the defensive coordinator. How can you compete for the world championship of the sport of Canadian rules football with a defensive coordinator who has never coached or played the game? ***** During the Eskimos' pre-game show, a reporter said that she had heard that Anthony Calvillo had a torn rotator cuff on his throwing arm/shoulder, and should be out a minimum of four weeks. No wonder they wanted Maas.

We talked about this some time ago. Here's the latest on Bernie Parrish's beef with the players' union: http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home Federal district judge dismisses suit by retired NFL players Associated Press September 7, 2007 at 12:38 PM EDT SAN FRANCISCO — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit accusing the NFL players' union of inadequately representing 3,500 retired players. Judge William H. Alsup of the federal district court dismissed the case Thursday by former NFL players Bernie Parrish and Herb Adderley. It alleged the NFL Players Association and its licencing subsidiary, Players Inc., has done little to secure deals with clothing manufacturers, video game makers and other venues. It also sought class-action status to represent the 3,500 retired players, who it says might be owed "tens of millions of dollars." Parrish was a defensive back with the Cleveland Browns and Houston Oilers from 1959 to 1966. Adderley was a cornerback for the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys from 1961 through 1972. The lawsuit claimed $7 million was given to 358 retired players in 2005, meaning a small percentage of players have been compensated. The union said in a statement in April that its motions to dismiss were based on what it called "the frivolous nature of the suit." In a prepared statement Friday, the association said "those claims have now been rejected by a federal judge as having no merit whatsoever as pled." "The court found that Parrish's complaint was a combination of smoke and mirrors," said Jeffrey Kessler, lawyer for the NFLPA. "Aside from one more deposition, the judge has stopped all discovery starting Sept. 10 by Parrish and his co-claimants against the NFLPA because of the court's doubts that the plaintiffs will ever be able to state a claim."

Sonny's birthday was listed in the paper this morning. Wayne Shorter's was a few days ago. Times sure have changed, seeing jazz musicians' names in the paper. Maybe the editor is a jazz fan!

The Ticats traded Jason Maas to the Als today for non-import fullback Jeff Piercy. Maas caught an early flight to Montreal, and is expected to be in uniform for the game Sunday against BC. Anthony Calvillo was injured last week and won't play this week. I wonder how serious his injury is. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home ***** Week 11 previews: http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4101135.htm ***** On Monday I listened to the Eskimos broadcast of the game against the Stamps in Calgary. Four streakers disrupted the game at various times. Bryan Hall said that he suspected the idea was put into their heads by a new television commercial that includes footage of a streaker. He wouldn't mention the company, but felt strongly that the league should move to have its airing discontinued. Here's an article about problems with drunks at the Bombers games. Last year Bob Ackles mentioned in a halftime interview that people in BC had complained about drunks there. Maybe we will start to see something done by the teams, but this article says that fans are showing up to the games drunk. I can't imagine the teams forbidding beer at the tailgate parties, but if the situation gets bad enough they might try something. Has anyone seen the television commercial Bryan Hall spoke of? Who was the company? http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

I wonder if with the aging of the baby boom population we will see an increase in the popularity of classical music. If so, I wonder if we will see more third stream jazz. I have two new jazz albums which feature string quartets. The first is by John Surman, called The Places In Between. Surman is joined by Bassist Chris Laurence and a string quartet (two violins, viola and cello) called Trans4mation. Trans4mation's sound is lush and smooth. The album was recorded in an Austrian monastery, so perhaps the acoustics there has something to do with it. The strings provide the body of the music, with Surman floating on top of them. I note that the CD Universe blurb refers to the music as "chamber jazz". There are 11 tracks totaling 60 minutes. It's all very relaxing, and maybe hummable after repeated listenings. A great gift for someone who likes classical music. 4 1/2 stars ***** Last year Quartet San Francisco's album Latigo was nominated for two Grammy's in the Classical Crossover category, including Best Album. Their new album is called Whirled Chamber Music. This quartet too is made up of two violins, viola and cello, but its sound is much more earthy than Trans4mation's. There are 18 songs on the album, 7 by Raymond Scott. I didn't know till now that Scott did not compose music for cartoons. Rather, Warner Bros. used his music for their cartoons after the fact. The other 11 songs are standards, if you stretch that concept to include songs by The Average White Band and Tower of Power, as well as Duke Ellington, Earle Hagen and Leonard Bernstein. On The Places In Between the improvisation comes from Surman. I don't get a sense of jazz from Trans4mation. On Whirled Chamber Music the jazz comes from not only the improvisation but also the Django Reinhart feel of the performances. The Surman album is more serious, the Quartet San Francisco album more fun. Quartet San Francisco is a group I would like to see in a club while having a drink. The Surman with Trans4mation effort would be better suited for a concert hall. Both are winners. 4 stars

That's good to know, Lon. I was hoping it wasn't the same thing over and over again like the JJ box.

Thanks Claude! Reading your link makes me a bit ambivilent about picking up the box. I get the impression that it will be like the Jack Johnson box, which I think Teo Macero referred to as "bullshit". The JJ box has been a disappointment to me. Maybe it appeals to the same people who bought the Dean Benedetti Mosaic. I broke disc 2 of the JJ box removing it from my jewel case, and haven't missed it. When the JJ box came out, it got a million raves over at AAJ. Partly because of that I don't trust many of those posters' judgment now. I trust this group much, much more. I'll wait till some of you early adopters pick it up and see what you have to say.

I've seen comments here that much of the music is currently available, but I haven't seen a list of the albums the music comes from. Can anyone provide a list please?

Original Peter was by far my favorite track from the Love Songs album.

The Ticats have won the Casey Printers sweepstakes. Three year deal at $500,000. per year, making him the league's highest paid player. So long Jason Maas. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...ory/GlobeSports The Ticats could afford to outbid four other interested teams because they have room under the salary cap. Maybe that room explains why the Ticats are so bad this year. ***** The Bombers have signed Juran Bolden and Ike Charlton. Bolden was great once upon a time, but I don't expect him to have much left in his tank. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Win...4472890-cp.html ***** The Argos cut Heisman Trophy winner Eric Crouch today. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...ory/GlobeSports ***** The practice roster is increased by five this week to make room for the NFL cuts.

Happy Birthday Sidewinder! Put on the Four Freshmen Mosaic in celebration!

I saw a guy over the weekend whose belt was at crotch level. That's too low IMO.

My sister had that one! Christmas of 1963 as I recall. People forget what a breath of fresh air the British Invasion was.

That day will come, Kevin!

I don't think that's Brady's style!

http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home ...the Patriots also cut quarterback Vinny Testaverde, who at 43 would have been entering his 21st season in the NFL. Free agent Kenton Keith now inherits the backup job behind Joseph Addai — at least temporarily. Keith, a veteran of the Canadian Football League, has never had an NFL carry. Quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, who lost the No. 3 job to Anthony Wright also was cut as the Giants released 21 players. (Isn't he the husband of that woman on television?) Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith made the Baltimore Ravens final roster Saturday as a third-string quarterback.

Toronto Argonauts 32....Hamilton Tiger-Cats 14 http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4100499.htm I tuned in for the fourth quarter, and the Argos already had it in the bag by that time. Michael Bishop returned from his broken wrist layoff and looked good. By the way, I read yesterday that when a player is placed on the nine-week injured list, his salary does not count against the salary cap. I suspect that explains why Damon Allen is on the list for his toe injury. Calgary Stampeders 35....Edmonton Eskimos 24 http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4100561.htm It was a tale of two halves. The Eskimos scored 17 points on Calgary turnovers and errors in the first half and led throughout. But it was all Calgary in the second half, as they stopped fumbling and making stupid penalties. ***** During the off-season I commented that I felt that Kerry Joseph and Henry Burris are the two most overrated players in the league, and that Kemau Peterson drops too many passes. The press even took to calling him Kemau Incompleterson. But I will admit that so far all three are having their best years as pros.

In 1968 I worked for a radio station, and had the pleasure of meeting Jean The Shrimp Shrimpton. She was billed as "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", and I wouldn't disagree. The models of today can't hold a candle to her IMO. I saw a picture of her a few years ago, and she looked terrible, with bags under her eyes and a double chin. But in her day she was the greatest of them all!

Saskatchewan Roughriders 31....Winnipeg Blue Bombers 26 http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4100379.htm Sounds like a great game!

Ever see Arthur Jones on TV? A real character. I'm surprised that both of his parents were physicians. First of all, they must have been free thinkers to let him quit school and bum around like he did. Second, his mother being a doctor in 1927 must have been a pretty rare individual herself. Here's his LA Times obit: Arthur Jones, 80; his Nautilus machines revolutionized the fitness industry By Jon Thurber, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer September 1, 2007 Arthur Jones, the flamboyant inventor and entrepreneur whose Nautilus machines made weightlifting chic in the 1970s and '80s and changed exercise culture in America, has died. He was 80. Jones died Tuesday of natural causes at his estate in Ocala, Fla., according to his son, William. "Nautilus revolutionized the fitness-center business," said Joe Moore, president of International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Assn., a trade organization for commercial health clubs. "Many of the innovations he came up with in the 1970s are still incorporated into strength training on machines of all brands." When Jones introduced his first Nautilus machine at a fitness competition in Culver City in 1970, weightlifting was a narrowly specialized activity undertaken by hard-core bodybuilders, often in dank gyms. Their response to his machine was less than enthusiastic. "Real men use free weights," was their mantra. But Jones' line of machines, which offered a variable resistance technique to replace the dead weight of traditional dumbbells and barbells, began to catch on with an audience he never envisioned: average people. From the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, Nautilus cornered the conditioning business in America. Stylish Nautilus facilities sprang up around the country and were staffed by knowledgeable trainers who guided clients through brisk 30-minute workouts. "These Nautilus gyms really took off," said Wayne Westcott, a professor at Quincy College in Massachusetts and fitness research director at the South Shore YMCA in Boston. "It was a quick, intense workout. There was a fixed movement pattern on each machine, so there wasn't a large learning curve. It was far safer and [more] time efficient than free weights." Jones, a rough-hewn man who carried a gun, chain-smoked Pall Mall cigarettes and once boasted that he "shot 630 elephants and 63 men, and I regret the elephants more," reaped the benefits. He was secretive about his wealth, but at one time his Nautilus company was believed to be grossing $300 million a year. The son of two physicians, Jones was born in 1924 in Arkansas and grew up outside Tulsa, Okla. He dropped out of school in the ninth grade, saying that he had learned all he needed from the education system, and rode the rails for a time before serving in the Navy during World War II. After the war, he set off on an eclectic career that included running an airline in South America, dodging danger in Africa as a big-game collector for zoos and circuses, and working as a pilot, moviemaker and host of a syndicated animal show, "Wild Cargo." A multimillionaire, Jones developed Jumbolair Aviation Estates in Ocala whose most noted resident is actor John Travolta. Jones' personal 600-acre estate in Ocala was populated with 90 elephants, 300 alligators, 400 crocodiles, a gorilla, three rhinos and a menagerie of poisonous snakes and insects. He owned and flew several jetliners and was married six times; most of his wives were age 16 to 20 on their wedding day. Jones once summed up his favorite activities: "Younger women, faster airplanes and bigger crocodiles." He is survived by at least four children. Self-taught in most of the disciplines he mastered, Jones learned physiology by studying cadavers, a daughter once told People magazine. "We always had an arm or something in the freezer," she said. He built his first exercise machine while living at the Tulsa YMCA in 1948. During the next 22 years, he would continue to refine and improve the engineering, eventually coming up with the pullover torso machine. He called his company Nautilus because the kidney-shaped cam that was a key development in creating his line of equipment looked like a nautilus seashell. Jones not only developed the machines; he also designed a workout regimen to go with them. His system preached steady, controlled repetition, which was not always the case in free-weight gyms. A lifter would start by doing one set of eight to 12 repetitions on each machine and work his or her way up to doing three sets on each machine. His regimen demanded correct form with full range of motion, and was to be performed two to three non-consecutive days a week to allow muscles time to recover. When a lifter could handle doing three sets at a given weight, more weight would be added at the next workout. His machines and workout regimen caught on with professional athletes as well. After selling Nautilus to Texas oilman Travis Ward in 1986, Jones turned his attention to rehabilitating spine and neck injuries, developing new exercise machines through a company called MedX, which he owned until the mid-1990s. Much of that equipment became staples in sports medicine. Jones was also interested in improving the lives of geriatric patients in nursing homes, using his Nautilus equipment to regain their range of motion. Moore, the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Assn. president, said that one of the legacies of the Nautilus era was the idea of one-to-one training, which spawned a new industry of personal trainers. "The Nautilus centers would have a trainer, and a client would go through the line of machines, set the weight pin and move you on to the next machine when you completed your set of repetitions. It was one of the first circuit-training systems," Moore said.

The NFL is making its final cuts this weekend. Kenton Keith made the Indianapolis squad. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home ***** The Argos expect to sign Marc Boerigter this week. Here's an article that says that he has had two knee surgeries, and confirms that salary was a reason they cut Bashir Levingston. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Tor...463398-sun.html ***** Does anybody else have the impression that right now all four Western teams are better than all four Eastern teams?

In 1969 I bought Herbie Mann's Flute Souffle mono for probably $1.99 when the record stores were clearing out their mono copies of everything. Both the front and back of the album cover say Status, but the record itself is a blue label Prestige. It's always sounded OK to me.

Chet Baker Live PJ, disc 2 The music of this box was released by PJ as three separate CDs in 2000-2001. I think that more tracks were found for those later releases, but I haven't gone over the lists track by track to be sure.