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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.

B-3r, I tried to order 'Boogaloo Sisters' today on CD Baby and they're out of stock- did I miss the boat ? Are there more in the pipeline coming to them? They do have a feature that notifies you when they get it in stock,but are there more coming?

Lazaro, Send me a PM with your email address- I might have someone that could help you in that respect.

This is what Ebay thinks I like: Picture Item Title Price # of Bids Time Left Fine Young Cannibals GOOD THING - CD Single GBP 0.99 -- 30m Bic Runga - 'Live In Concert' - NZ Only CD GBP 16.00 10 31m Jackson Browne - For Everyman CD GBP 5.00 1 35m These Days - Bon Jovi (CD) GBP 4.20 5 36m ALIZEE NEW JAPAN CD-SINGLE ( RARE) GBP 16.00 8 37m Jackson Browne makes my skin crawl, BonJovi make me cover my ears, Fine Young Cannibals had maybe two tunes I liked about 15 years ago, and the other guys I never heard of!!! Does Ebay stay in touch with a PHILLYQ in an alternate universe? Just asking...

I was listening to disc two of the set last night, and the whole session with Grant Green, Ben Dixon, Blue Mitchell & Harold Vick just absolutley smokes! Fat Judy got me up off the sofa pumping my fist-it's got a groove that's tres greazy.

Do the cupcakes come with a red lace wrapper?

So Oprah has about 20 years to catch up to Barbie for longest engagement without marriage?

We have a winner- SheldonM will have the disc sent his way today for enjoyment and pass along to the next board member.