GregK

Um, Rush isn't American.

I heard that there was a 2 hr wait at the checkout for the liquidation sale at the Arborland store closing sale. The discount was 20-40% off. That's what the average weekly coupon has been for at least the past 3, 4 years!! Where were these people then??

I got mine from Borders.com. No problem.

I've always known Borders more as a music store than as a book store, even though any time I was ever looking for a book, they had it (same goes for CDs, actually). When I moved to Ann Arbor in Y2K, the flagship store had 2/3 of the second floor devoted to music, with a dedicated staff running the section. You actually paid for your CDs upstairs in that section! Seems so long ago. It changed not long after, maybe in mid-2001, when you could go down to the regular check out to pay, and the music staff was no longer there full-time, but still the selection was pretty deep. They are closing the second best Ann Arbor store, the one in the Arborland mall, the only one actually with any decent music selection left. Figures. If they attempt to come back as strictly a bookseller and ditch music altogether, how do they hope to survive? Are enough people buying music or books in physical form for both chains to keep surviving?

got it yesterday. Thanks!

He's offered it to his employees, but the rent is ridiculous. Will they be able to buy it? If that goes, and with the impending bankruptcy of Borders, Schoolkids left a few years ago, Shaman Drum left recently.....there's not much reason to stick around Ann Arbor anymore.

I hope they make it across the state to me through the blizzard of '11

is there an option for controlling the tv via the DVD player? The cable could be implicated in that situation.

ignorance

I still love it. The only thing overrated about it is people saying it's overrated.

everyone loves raymond

I like her.

this guy. Love the winter and this time of year. I would work extra in the summer if I could get extra winter holidays.

Braxton-Hemingway Old Dogs and the Neil Young Archives (although I think that is more "multimedia" than music, since it's a Bluray set)

so, can I get this for Christmas?

Very cool. Who took the picture?

No, but maybe he would have been bothered that you've repeatedly misspelled his name. NIELSEN.

Could that have been due to his back problems?

who's halftime entertainment? Wasn't it Blue Rodeo last year?

That is the same prediction as GA made. Cold weather. I'm going to go a little bit low. Montreal, total 35 points. Damn, I meant Saskatchewan!! The cold weather gives them the advantage! I posted that and didn't check the board or my email all day so I missed GA's message!

I listened to this at Marty's suggestion and my reading is very different. They have a nice rapport, lots of laughing, and while Jarrett's ego and self-importance are certainly on display (when are they not?) I don't find him the least bit disrespectful or condescending to McPartland. Also, he does not refuse to duet with her. In the course of conversation, Alec Wilder's tune "Blackberry Winter" comes up and McPartland asks Jarrett if he will play it for her, at which point he declines, saying "I don't know it well enough right now" and then, picking up an earlier thread in their conversation, he makes a lighthearted joke about not only not being able to remember his own material but other peoples' as well. McPartland then asks playfully he would be annoyed if she played it. He says "No, no, no. Why would I be annoyed?" The exchange sounds completely innocent to me, almost charming. I certainly wouldn't defend Jarrett's jerkier moments, but this show hardly qualifies. That's about the way I remember hearing it at the time, too. He seemed almost shy in conversation, and caught off guard when asked to play the tune, like he didn't want to make a mistake.

My computer is too slow to search, but I'd like to know what I picked last year. Montreal, total of 50 points

I never understood the fascination with this band. I tried listening to their output and was utterly bored. Just a bunch of 3 min or shorter songs mostly played fast with vocals that you could barely hear. I don't get it.

Really???? I may have to listen to this then. When I saw Burnett's name, I thought it was going to sound more like Sugarcane, which sounds nothing like Momofuku, which is not a bad thing just a personal preference is all. I really don't know what to compare it to. I've listened to it a few more times, and it definitely is good (a "grower", one of those awful cliched terms but I think it applies to this record), and I think I made the comparison to Momofuku because the first song is a rocker, like most of that album, and because it seems to be all over the place stylistically. But it doesn't sound like Sugarcane even though it shares some of the same players and the same producer. Actually, if you order it from his website you get a bonus EP which DOES sound a lot like Sugarcane. Odd. Oh yeah, maybe the best thing about the album, other than the fact that at this stage in his career Elvis has put out another good record, is that Marc Ribot plays a lot of good guitar on it.

I've listened to it twice so far, and I haven't heard much that is making me want to go back to it again. I'll keep trying, but it seems too much like Momufuku to me, which is alright, but I really liked Sugarcane, and I had read that this new one was supposed to be similar to that. I haven't heard the similarities at all. Elvis does folk-country well, and I was hoping for more.