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It's tough to quit- I smoked for about 25 years and finally quit after doing acupuncture to help me quit. Three sessions of human pincushion and I haven't smoked now for 16 years. I also drank Smokers tea, which has something called Lobelia root which is chemically similar to nicotine. Of course it also helped that my wife was pregnant at the time.

Thanks everyone for your good wishes- its greatly appreciated. I actually had a non-frantic day at work on my B-day(rare these days) and I went out to dinner with my wife and my son to a nice Korean restaurant after work. I came home and watched my Yanks salvage a split, ate some ice cream cake(not mine- leftovers from my son's B-day on 6/16), watched the movie 'Waitress'(pretty good flick), so I had a very mice B-day. To anyone I've missed on a birthday thread my best wishes go out to you also.

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Paul, Thanks very much for the list- it's food for thought and another dent in my wallet. There's some titles that I need to check out.

please shoot me if i ever start wearin' my pants below my ass, thank you! If I shot every kid who had their pants below their rear I'd be the biggest mass killer in history! There's thousands upon thousands of them in Broooklyn.My wife and I call them 'anti-gravity' pants.

Replied, send payment and I'll get it to the Post Office.

Replied, send payment and I'll get it to the Post Office.

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...and the first reply is from Brownian Motion!(Sorry, I couldn't resist that one)

Hello all, Went to an interesting concert last night in beautiful Brooklyn. At Prospect Park there was a triple bill(for free) of Taylor Mcferrin, Marc Ribot and Ceramic Dog, and Medeski,Martin & Wood. Great weather and a very large crowd. Taylor McFerrin(son of Bobby) opened, playing mostly electric piano with a bassist(acoustic & electric) and drummer. He played mostly groove stuff that was good for awhile but tended to get repetitive. A couple of times he did a little human beatbox stuff and he brought out a rapper for one tune(She was very good and I’m not a hiphop fan). Overall, he’s a young guy who shows promise and I’d like to hear where he is in another year or two- could be very very cool, a mixture of funk/jazz/hiphop that’s not locked into a static groove. Next up was Marc Ribot and Ceramic Dog, Ribot’s(skewed) take on rock music. What Ribot’s group played was akin to taking rock music and twisting it like a pretzel- his own bent take on rock. For the most part it was very good, with Ribot playing some excellent guitar solos, but it seemed as if the band was a bit stiff, like they needed some more rehearsal, but overall enjoyable. Finally MMW hit the stage, and they wasted no time in locking into grooves and playing the hell out of them. They seemed to be pretty fired up, probably from the large and enthusiastic crowd at Prospect Park. Whatever the reason,they were tight while grooving really did something with the grooves rather than just sinking into them and plodding along. About halfway through their set MMW brought out Marc Ribot, and he stayed onstage for the rest of the set. In this context Ribot was a sideman, and it seemed to liberate him. His playing was mind-bending & jaw-dropping, playing a longggg solo on every tune and ratcheting the intensity up quite a few notches. Steve Bernstein also played a few tunes on slide trumpet and he fit like a glove into the music and played some beautiful(and subtle) accompaniment to some of the soloists. So in the space of 4 months I’ve seen Marc Ribot in three different situations- with John Zorn as part of a “Downtown Allstars band”(Joey Baron, Trevor Dunn, Jamie Saft, Cyro Baptista, et al, with ceramic Dog and with MMW. I’m liking his playing more and more.

Try this one by Terje Rypdal: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7016873 Vossabrygg is the title, very much in the vein of BB, really an homage to that recording.

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PM sent on Tony Williams Civilization World Sax Quartet Experience Charles Gayle Quartet Always Born hello John, Replied to your PM.

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I'm in and looking forward to it!! I love the cover.

The crossed eyes are a great touch!

As of today everything has been mailed. Please let me know if you don't receive anything.

I work in the brokerage arm of a large bank, and they are cutting like crazy. We've had a few thousand jobs outsourced to India and more on the way. Next up is moving operations(where I work) to Jacksonville Fla. They don't want people to go unless they're willing to take a 30-40% pay cut, and their plan is to have 85% local hires(read cheapo labor). I was told that my job is safe until the end of this year, but no guarantees after that. I figure January 2,2009 I'm history, and I can join all the Bear Stearns folks who were laid off and compete for the ever rapidly diminishing jobs in the NYC area in the midst of a recession. Noj, I hope you find something good. Best of luck.

The big auto makers had over 30 years(1974-5 oil embargo) to figure how to make smaller cars profitably and they wound up with SUVs- the American auto industry might be the most mismanaged industry ever.

Dominic Frontiere sure married well!

Hello Laz, It went to the Post Office today. They're two 2 disc sets, so you're getting 4 discs of Vandermark.

I saw them play many moons ago and thought exactly the same thing about them. If you want wit, cleverness & substance try the new one by Reptet, 'Chicken or Beef'- our own Johnny E is on it.

Hello Laz, I got your payment and it should go out tomorrow.

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PM sent on following: Max Roach Streams of Consciousness/ w Abdullah Ibrahim Rahsaan Roland Kirk Brotherman in the Fatherland(Live, 1972) Keith Jarrett The Carnegie Hall Concert PM back to you- all three on hold for you.