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WNMC, That 'junkyard dog' song is probably 'Bad Bad Leroy Brown' by Jim Croce "Bad bad Leroy Brown, baddest man in the whole dang town, badder than ol' King Kong, meaner than a junkyard dog" I actually remembered that off the top of my head- is that a head crammed full of useless information?

What got me hooked on jazz was an article in the Village Voice in 1972. I was 16 and thought I was pretty hip and cool when it came to music, and the VV had their annual pazz & jop poll. usually I knew almost everything in the top listings on the poll, except that year. For 1972 the critics voted 'The Inner Mounting Flame' as the album of the year. I was aghast- I never heard of these dudes and they had the album of the year?! Mortified at my lack of knowledge, I made sure to get a copy of it and played it every day for a month- it still didn't click for me. Frustrated at my lack of understanding, I got incredibly lucky- they were playing in NYC in a few weeks. I went, it clicked when I saw it live, and that started me on a lifelong love affair with this music. McLaughlin led to Miles, to everyone else...

Isn't Syanon the drug rehab place?

Congratulations! Let us know if it's true that the best part of being a grandparent is spoiling the hell out of the kid and then handing them back to your daughter!

I think Conn has the best approach to this problem. This realtor made some very large cash on your referral. Any decent human being would at least say thank you quite profusely, and most would take you out to dinner, slip you an envelope with some cash, buy you a Mosaic set or six, etc. This ingrate did nothing. I would let bygones be bygones, but never refer anything to this person ever again. If this cheapskate should ever mention that nothing has come from you since these two transactions, THEN is the time to mention the parsimonious response politely but firmly.

I don't know if this qualifies as 'craziness', but this sure is a high price for one disc: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5&category=1056

I have the book- I got it as a Christmas present from my wife. She meant well, but she's not a jazzaholic , so she didn't get my objections to the film when we watched it together. I read a few sections and had to put it down or I would've torn the book up into little pieces. The authors spent two pages doing nothing but ripping Keith Jarrett(KJ had the temerity to criticize Wynton Marsalis!), even to the point of inserting a racial angle into KJ's criticism. For $9.99 you could buy a decent cd of something that has more value, say, sound effects. The pages are set upside down so that you can appreciate Stanley Grouch's upside-down view of what jazz is & isn't!

RT, You might be better off getting a cheap VCR- they can be had at very low prices now. If you buy Tivo, it costs about $200 for the box and then there's a monthly fee on top of that. Worse yet, Tivo spys on you! Tivo can tell HQ what you watch and what you like to record. If you want to record a program, Tivo searches similar programs also, leading to some weird suggestions. A box similar to Tivo is available to customers of some cable systems, and in a few years to probably every cable system. For the use that you describe, a Tivo box is a waste of $- get a cheap VCR, and tell your wife that you saved so much money by going that route that you can now afford a Mosaic set!

Catesta, I have that first picture you posted of Dex on a t-shirt- it almost always draws comments & glances.

Jim, After hanging out at Clementine's, give me a buzz and you guys can come over for dinner- I'm a very good cook and you can show my son some sax stuff(He's 11 and taking lessons.). Let me know what you like to eat and I'll cook up a whole mess of it!

When Bonds started out, he wieghed around 195lbs.. All of a sudden, in his mid-thirties, he goes up to 245lbs. of pure muscle.With a straight face he's saying he never took anything: he just decided to discard physiology and logic and everything we know about aging atheletes. I'd also love to see a series of three jason Giambi photos- when he first started out, last year and now(He claims to have lost 4(!) pounds in the offseason)...

LENNY KRAVITZ as a real rocker?????????

Not as universal as 'In your ear with a burning spear'?

Bol, Do you live near any large banks? They might be able to convert some USD into yen. You won't get a favorable rate and there might be a service charge, but if you could do that, then you could send cash via registered mail to your seller. Or there may be an office of American Express somewhere near you. If there is, call them to get an approximate rate and service charge quote and then decide from there if you want to go that way. Another possibility is if you have an American Express card- call their customer service number and explain what you'd like to do- they should be able to help you. You might need to get a bank account number for the seller.

It's too bad that Gibson decided only to look at the suffering and torture. I haven't seen the flick(& I don't plan to), but by many accounts it is mostly a gorefest(not Al!), with chunks of flying flesh, slo-mo whippings, etc. It seems a shame that Gibson didn't do a movie about the LIFE of Christ, to show him preaching love and peace, etc. I'd love to see the miracles and so on with today's special effects technology- to my mind, that would be a whiz-bang movie, but with a great potentail to be little more than an elaborate cartoon. Gibson is laughing all the way to the bank on this one... .

Does anybody know the story of how she got screwed by Atlantic & the bank, or lead me to a website that explains it? I know a lot of people got royally screwed in those days especially the honest ones.

AB, I miss your very thoughtful posts- you actually admit that at times you don't know the answers to everything.

I think Mosaic should send a thank you card to this board for hyping the sales of the Blue Mitchell set- I bought one because of the raves here, but my backlog of unlistened discs is rather large now and I haven't even listened to it yet! Nice problem, right?

I recall Herbie Hancock speaking about a concert they were playing when HH came to a wrong chord. HH said something to the effect that Miles laid something on top of that wrong chord that made it sound 'right'. I think that saya a lot about Miles' playing, that his focus was on the music sounding right and not on empty displays of chops.

If Halle Berry could lipsync as well as Angela Basset did in the Tina Turner biopic, it would be a great choice!

One factor to remember in looking at rates is that Currency Converters give a rate that you can get if you're converting a large amount of money, like $500,000. when you get down to small amounts, you get killed on the rate.

Now that's some very positive fallout from the unleashed boobie episode. Janet Jackson playing Lena Horne would be enough of a travesty, but then she wanted to re-record her tunes?! That is a truly nauseating thought!

I thought it was a brother-in-law she didn't know about and she killed her only rival for the man's affections. Have I been watching too many true crime shows on TV(My wife loves them)?

MY TWO CENTS There are plenty of question marks on both teams. Will Kevin Brown be healthy & effective? Will the(ahem) newly slimmed Giambi be as productive & will his knee hold up under a full season? Is Jon Leiber healthy and ready to pitch well? How much will Lofton whine when he's benched? There's probably plenty of other questions that just don't come to mind right now. For the Bosox, will Schilling be as effective switching leagues? Will Pedro go on the disabled list this year, and for how long? Will Manny Ramirez, who has never been known as an enthusiastic player, spend the season sulking because he was trade bait for so long? Will Nomar be physically healthy and not of wounded psyche? If the two teams meet in the playoffs, will A-Rod get the hit that bounces the Bosox? The irony in that would be utterly cruel but not unusual. Stay tuned, it should be an interesting ride this year.

My wife likes jazz, as long as it swings and is fairly hummable. She dislikes fusion or 'out' music and despises King Crimson. So I wait som enights until she goes to bed and play stuff, or I head to the mini-stereo in the basement. I take the subway to work, so I listen with a discman on my commute. My suggestion is to have more than one cd player so that you can listen in another room. Look at your time schedule to see when you can listen without commentary or interruption.