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The /Film Award for the Best Acceptance Speech of the 2007 Golden Globes goes to Sacha Baron Cohen. Cohen won the award for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical. Here is his hilarious speech: “I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press. And I just want to say that this movie was a life-changing experience. I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America. But I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America. A side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian. [Davitian shrugs and raises a wine glass] Ken, when I was in that scene and I stared down and saw your two wrinkled golden globes on my chin, I thought to myself, ‘I better win a bloody award for this.’ And then when my 300-pound co-star decided to sit on my face and squeeze the oxygen from my lungs, I was faced with a choice: Death or to breathe in the air that had been trapped in a small pocket between his buttocks for 30 years. Kenneth, if it was not for that rancid bubble, I would not be here today.'

"lug in the equipment" ??? Is that musician speak for smoking pot?? Thanks, but I'll pass. Well, that is unless Randy has scored some of that stuff from the West Indies. I hear that's the best weed on the planet.

Zora is gonna be there?? Hmm, maybe I'll bring my son along. He's two "and a HALF!!" Hey Ron, do you know what's on the toddler menu at the PMA?

Why I think the Iggles will never win a SB under the current management... Posted on Sun, Jan. 14, 2007 Incites | Banner making no points with fans By Don McKee Inquirer Columnist Whatever Joe Banner studied at Denison University, it probably wasn't public relations. The Eagles president committed an incredible faux pas last week and demonstrated yet again why this city - which worships the franchise - is reluctant to embrace its front office. In a week in which the Eagles were basking in the glow of the public adulation that accompanies a Super Bowl run, Banner chose to step on the celebration. Worse, he stepped on the celebrants. In an article about Jeffrey Lurie in The Inquirer on Thursday, Banner complained about the city's lack of appreciation for the owner. He also said the city was lucky to still have a team, despite 70-plus years of unqualified support. "I don't think there's another owner who would have kept this team in Philadelphia for the economic deal we got on our stadium," Banner told The Inquirer's Bob Brookover. Banner also made the stunning admission that the Eagles had received offers from other cities - and implied he would have moved the team. Banner (and Lurie) clearly don't get it. The reason fans don't embrace them is their own words. The fans not only embrace the Eagles - they positively smother them with affection. A good number of fans live their lives through the Eagles. The whole area was bubbling with good-natured, post-holiday Eagles sentiment, and the natural pessimism that grips this city of losers had moved to the back burner. Fans were enthralled with the team and had rallied behind Jeff Garcia as their newly minted hero. And what did they get in return? An acid reminder that they didn't ante up enough pocket money for a multimillionaire.

I can't believe you would rather face NE than SD. The Pats absolutely OWN you guys when it comes to the playoffs and they are playing their best ball right now.

Even though the Saints cooked by beloved Birds I will be rooting for them the rest of the way. I'm hoping for a NO/Indy now but predict a NO/NE SB.

I did. He went after Hobbs. The TV guys said that he probably went after him because the Pats were celebrating on their home turf before the game was over.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/c...s-pe-california OBITUARIES Alice Coltrane, 69; performer, composer of jazz and New Age music; spiritual leader By Jon Thurber Times Staff Writer January 14, 2007 Alice Coltrane, the jazz performer and composer who was inextricably linked with the adventurous musical improvisations of her late husband, legendary saxophonist John Coltrane, has died. She was 69. Coltrane died Friday at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center in West Hills, according to an announcement from the family's publicist. She had been in frail health for some time and died of respiratory failure. Though known to many for her contributions to jazz and early New Age music, Coltrane, a convert to Hinduism, was also a significant spiritual leader and founded the Vedantic Center, a spiritual commune now located in Agoura Hills. A guru of growing repute, she also served as the swami of the San Fernando Valley's first Hindu temple, in Chatsworth. For much of the last nearly 40 years, she was also the keeper of her husband's musical legacy, managing his archive and estate. Her husband, one of the pivotal figures in the history of jazz, died of liver disease July 17, 1967, at the age of 40. A pianist and organist, Alice Coltrane was noted for her astral compositions and for bringing the harp onto the jazz bandstand. Her last performances came in the fall, when she participated in an abbreviated tour that included stops in New York and San Francisco, playing with her saxophonist son, Ravi. She was born Alice McLeod in Detroit on Aug. 27, 1937, into a family with deep musical roots. Anna, her mother, sang and played piano in the Baptist church choir. Alice's half brother Ernie Farrow was a bassist who played professionally with groups led by saxophonist Yusef Lateef and vibes player Terry Gibbs. Alice began her musical education at age 7, learning classical piano. Her early musical career included performances in church groups as well as in top-flight jazz ensembles led by Lateef, guitarist Kenny Burrell and saxophonist Lucky Thompson. After studying jazz piano briefly in Paris, she moved to New York and joined Gibbs' quartet. "As fascinating — and influential — as her later music was, it tended to obscure the fact that she had started out as a solid, bebop-oriented pianist," critic Don Heckman told The Times on Saturday. "I remember hearing, and jamming with, her in the early '60s at photographer W. Eugene Smith's loft in Manhattan. At that time she played with a brisk, rhythmic style immediately reminiscent of Bud Powell. "Like a few other people who'd heard her either at the loft or during her early '60s gigs with Terry Gibbs, I kept hoping she'd take at least one more foray into the bebop style she played so well," he said. She met her future husband in 1963 while playing an engagement with Gibbs' group at Birdland in New York City. "He saw something in her that was beautiful," Gibbs, who has often taken credit for introducing the two, told The Times on Saturday. "They were both very shy in a way. It was beautiful to see them fall in love." Gibbs called her "the nicest person I ever worked with. She was a real lady." She left Gibbs' band to marry Coltrane and began performing with his band in the mid-1960s, replacing pianist McCoy Tyner. She developed a style noted for its power and freedom and played tour dates with Coltrane's group in San Francisco, New York and Tokyo. She would say her husband's musical impact was enormous. "John showed me how to play fully," she told interviewer Pauline Rivelli and Robert Levin in comments published in "The Black Giants." "In other words, he'd teach me not to stay in one spot and play in one chord pattern. 'Branch out, open up … play your instrument entirely.' … John not only taught me how to explore, but to play thoroughly and completely." After his death, she devoted herself to raising their children. Musically, she continued to play within his creative vision, surrounding herself with such like-minded performers as saxophonists Pharoah Sanders and Joe Henderson. Early albums under her name, including "A Monastic Trio," and "Ptah the El Daoud," were greeted with critical praise for her compositions and playing. "Ptah the El Daoud" featured her sweeping harp flourishes, a sound not commonly heard in jazz recordings. Her last recording, "Translinear Light," came in 2004. It was her first jazz album in 26 years. Through the 1970s, she continued to explore Eastern religions, traveling to India to study with Swami Satchidananda, the founder of the Integral Yoga Institute. Upon her return she started a store-front ashram in San Francisco but soon moved it to Woodland Hills in 1975. Located in the Santa Monica Mountains since the early 1980s, the ashram is a 48-acre compound where devotees concentrate on prayer and meditation. Known within her religious community by her Sanskrit name, Turiyasangitananda, Coltrane focused for much of the last 25 years on composing and recording devotional music such as Hindu chants, hymns and melodies for meditation. She also wrote books, including "Monumental Ethernal," a kind of spiritual biography, and "Endless Wisdom," which she once told a Times reporter contained hundreds of scriptures divinely revealed to her. In 2001 she helped found the John Coltrane Foundation to encourage jazz performances and award scholarships to young musicians. In addition to Ravi, she is survived by another son, Oren, who plays guitar and alto sax; a daughter, Michelle, who is a singer; and five grandchildren. Her son John Coltrane Jr. died in an automobile accident in 1982.

Has this been confirmed yet??? I can't find any mention of her death anywhere.

I can't imagine how popular Bonds will be w/ his teammates after throwing Mark Sweeney under a bus. What an ass.

Wow... Barnes had 23 in the first half against the Griz... Is that the same Matt Barnes the Kings threw in when they sent CWebb to the Sixers??? Man, Billy King can't do ANYTHING right.

Some more.... Tonight at Tritone... "An urban griot of the 21st Century"- poet/DJ/musician JOHN SINCLAIR (manager of the MC-5, organizer of The White Panther Party, Ann Arbor Jazz & Blues Festival, etc.) will be performing this Thurs., Jan. 11 at 10 PM With him will be vocalist-DOROTHY GOODMAN; musician/poet-ELLIOTT LEVIN; DAN COLLINS; ROBERT KENYATTA (percussion); DAVID HOTEP (guitar); JAMES COOPER (bass); and Special Guests. And Friday night Odean Pope is palying at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Oh, and next Friday there's some organ trio playing at the Art Museum.

Tonight. Thursday, January 11 | 6pm FROM JELLY ROLL MORTON TO THE JAZZ AVANT-GARDE with JOHN SZWED & DAVE BURRELL Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania | 3805 Locust Walk Free Admission Ars Nova Workshop and Kelly Writers House welcomes John Szwed and pianist Dave Burrell in a public discussion that hopes to shed more light on the significance of pianist/composer Jelly Roll Morton and the stride continuum that paved the way for the jazz avant-garde. John Szwed taught as the University of Cincinnati, Lehigh University, Temple University, and later became the Director of the Center for Urban Ethnography and Professor of Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1982, he began teaching at Yale, where he has served as Director of Graduate Studies and Acting Chair in Anthropology, as well as Acting Chair of African-American Studies. He has also served as Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor at Columbia University. In recent years John F. Szwed has published several books including "Space is the Place: The Life and Times of Sun Ra"; "So What: The Life of Miles Davis"; "Jazz 101"; "Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture"; "Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul"; and "Doctor Jazz," a book included with the CD set, "Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax," 2005, for which he was awarded a Grammy in 2006. ---- Friday, January 12 | 8pm DAVID S. WARE UNIT with DAVID S. WARE, tenor saxophone MAT MANERI, violin/viola KEITH WITTY, double-bass WHIT DICKEY, drums WORLD DEBUT OF DAVID S. WARE'S NEW QUARTET Co-presented with: International House Philadelphia | 3701 Chestnut Street $22.50 Students / $24.00 Members + Seniors / $30.00 General Admission http://www.ticketweb.com/user/?region=penn...mp;event=692327 “The David S. Ware Quartet is the best small band in jazz today.” –Gary Giddins, Village Voice David S. Ware (b. 1949) has been performing for over 40 years - first as a youth in informal practice sessions with Sonny Rollins in the 1960s, then as part of the fertile New York Loft Jazz era of the 1970s. During this decade, he joined the Cecil Taylor Unit and Andrew Cyrille's Maono as well as worked frequently with drummers Beaver Harris and Milford Graves. It wasn’t until the 90s, following Ware’s purposeful and rigorous engagement in a period of extensive woodshedding, that he would totally develop both his personal sound and his visionary group concept. And, with a series of ground-breaking albums by the David S. Ware Quartet, this decade saw the full-on recognition of Ware as a true saxophone colossus. Perhaps the most highly acclaimed group of the last decade, the Ware Quartet’s efforts were rewarded by being one of the very few jazz ensembles whose work was appreciated by an audience outside the narrow confines of the jazz community. In addition, a pointed reference of this period is that many writers and jazz fans alike referred to the David S. Ware Quartet as "the most exciting jazz ensemble since the classic John Coltrane Quartet.” Indeed, Ware's typical manner of performance - modal and free, rubato, high-energy collective improvisation - stems directly from Meditations-era Coltrane. The quartet, which features the esteemed William Parker and Matthew Shipp, celebrates the release of “Live In The World” (Thirsty Ear Records), which features drummers Brown, Hamid Drake and Susie Ibarra.

Happy Birthday Syd!

Let's just get it out of the way now. Nancy Pelosi is a Deadhead. "'Ms. Pelosi is a huge Dead fan,' her spokeswoman said. The Dead you say? Or perhaps it should say The Grateful Dead. The remaining members of the American band the Grateful Dead played tonight for the party celebrating the new re balancing of power and the installation of Nancy Pelosi as the Speaker of the House. The live music concert touted as "on January 4th, Nancy Pelosi Presents" wound down about 10:30pm EST. The "House Band", which featured three members of The Grateful Dead as well as members from the band Phish and The Allman Brothers Bandopened the show with a touching "End of the Innocence' by Bruce Hornsby followed by "Touch of Grey" by The Grateful Dead. Then Tony Bennet sang"The Best is Yet to Come" and "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". Near the end of the concert, Wyclef Jean joined the house band to close the live music with Aiko Aiko. The encore was "You've Got a Friend". http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/8532..._Trip_It_s_Been

Losing to the Lions at home?? That's pathetic. You know the Cowboys' loss today actually works for them seeding wise. They get to play Seattle on the road. The Boys have a better road record this year than at home. I think Dallas will spank them. Then they go to Chicago. At this point I think they would rather face the Bears than the Saints after the whippin' NO put on them a few weeks back. Still pick the Bears. Giants and Eagles?? My heart bleeds green but after watching their two games this season I'm hesitant to make a pick. Although the Eagles are definitely the hotter team right now. I think we're looking at a SD/NO Super Bowl.

I just spoke w/ my mother. She works for USPS. She confirmed that there will be no mail on Tuesday and that they had a day off after Reagan and Nixon died.

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=31503

http://inquirer.philly.com/slideshows/News/061229jamesb/

So happy Zito didn't wind up w/ the Mets. ((((Bobby Murcer))))

Pluto, 1930 - 2006 R.I.P.

Spotlight on James Brown, y'all. He's the king of them all, y'all. He's the king of them all, y'all. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Long Live The King!

Eagles crushing the Cowboys in Dallas. Thank you Santa.

Wow. Gotta agree w/ Dan here. McCarthy was the guy that made Freddy Garcia expendable.