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  1. Sure, he's given up 5 hits and 4 walks--and we still haven't scored! Loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the 5th and still couldn't plate a run! With A-Rod, Matsui, and Swisher batting... I feel a Dan-Gould-style expletive-laden post coming on.
  2. Hell of a pitching duel at Yankee Stadium this afternoon!
  3. Going to start disc 3 from Season 1 myself tonight. BTW, I guess AMC is running a Season 3 marathon tomorrow of all 6 shows broadcast so far, from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m.
  4. Doesn't sound good: Layoffs at Rhino
  5. Pretty amazing, too, that A-Rod missed the first month of the season and still has a shot at reaching 30 HRs and 100 RBI (for what would be the 12th season in a row). Speaking of double plays, a nice one to end the game last night.
  6. I realize there's been some discussion of this show in the "What Are You Watching?" thread, but I've gotten so badly hooked--and this from watching only the first half of Season 1 so far--that I wanted to start it as its own topic. My TV watching has been pretty limited in recent years by choice--I never even really got on board the Sopranos train (and I realize this program has a connection...Matthew Weiner used to write for The Sopranos, correct?) When "Mad Men" debuted in 2007 I read an article about it in the NY Times and was very intrigued, in part because my mother-in-law worked at J. Walter Thompson's in NYC during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Somehow I never got around to watching it, though. This past summer she started to watch and talk about it, and after Amazon put Seasons 1 and 2 on sale for $18 apiece, I bit and bought...and man, just on the basis of the first 6 episodes alone I have to say it's some of the most amazing, haunting television programming I've ever seen. (And as BruceH commented, highly addictive... the DVDs came Thursday, and I watched three episodes Thursday night and then three more last night.) The writing and acting is so excellent that I feel empathetic for the characters even as they're periodically infuriating me. You feel like saying "You poor, f'd-up bastards, what are you doing?" It's like a brilliant, sophisticated, very well-done soap opera.
  7. Yes, I'd rather beat the Bosox with all of their hands healthy and on deck. Lots to like from last night's game, for sure--Joba's and A-Rod's performance...managing to keep Hughes and Rivera on ice for today and/or tomorrow...and what was up with the Yanks' 7 stolen bases? A season-high, evidently.
  8. Happy birthday to a cool cat!
  9. No doubt about that, but I'd say it's a toss-up now...before this past series, I would have given a betting edge to the Angels.
  10. I definitely feel better about the Angels after NY took 2 of 3 out there. Nothing's a given in the playoffs, of course, esp. given NY's spotty performance over the past several years, but Boston's the team that concerns me the most right now. And yes, you're right about Joba... will he get back on track from the erratic "Joba rules" or not? Big if there!
  11. Yanks took 2 of 3 at Anaheim and Burnett pitched a good game last night. Hopefully Joba will do better his next time out--against the Bosox at Yankee Stadium, no less.
  12. Still working on this, btw.
  13. WMCE, the Erie, Pennsylvania public radio station that actually went against the tide and converted to an all-jazz format at the beginning of this year, just added Night Lights to their line-up; it will be broadcast on Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. WMCE Jazz FM
  14. Meant to add a special note of thanks to BillF, whose prompting pushed the JC Songbook show up on the programming schedule. Couple of previous Night Lights Trane programs as well: Trane '57: John Coltrane's Pivotal Year in Jazz Red Trane: the Collaborations of John Coltrane and Red Garland
  15. Yes--but it's listed as Season 5. In the UK Seasons 4 and 5 were only two episodes apiece, and for U.S. broadcast/DVD distribution purposes they were bundled together as "Season 4." Just a bit of odd duckery there... I've been trawling around for updates on broadcast times for the new, postwar shows (Season 7), but haven't found anything yet. I'm guessing they'll be shown in the UK this winter and on American PBS next summer.
  16. You are really "Traneing in" today, Bill!
  17. Sort of related to the topic--if you haven't already, it's well worth picking up the ZAWINUL reissue, which I think dates from around the same time. It's part of the (dreaded) Mosaic Contemporary series: Zawinul
  18. Great Angels-Yankees game last night--practically felt like a playoff. Just glad to see NY finally pull one out at Anaheim.
  19. Posting today for his birthday--Coltrane's music played by Dexter Gordon, McCoy Tyner, Dave Liebman, Gerald Wilson, Steve Kuhn and others: The John Coltrane Songbook
  20. I'll post this elsewhere tomorrow for his b-day, but for today: The John Coltrane Songbook
  21. Just about all Miles makes for great late-night listening, but the 65-68 box might be one of the best periods for such a time. A bit bleary-eyed today, as I was up past midnight and beyond last night, finishing a Night Lights show and watching President Obama on David Letterman. Nice to have all the windows open late on an autumn evening.
  22. A friend of mine gave me the Retrieval CD, and it's currently sitting in my "to be played" stack on top of the stereo (a priority-status spot! as opposed to the several "to-be-played" stacks and areas around my study). Thanks for the rec--I'll try to give it a spin in the next few days.
  23. Hey, when I first saw it tonight on Active Topics I thought it said "Zep deforming?"...but then aren't we all, eh? I have to grudgingly commend Plant for not going the fullblown reunion-tour route. The 2007 show (IMO) was pretty successful, a nice exclamation point on their career...and perhaps he's sensed that they couldn't hold up as well over the course of a multi-month, mega-concert affair.
  24. I'll certainly back you on that! Majestc! Definitely one of his greatest. Perhaps its un-memorable title causes it to be overlooked. I also have a soft spot for COLTRANE and have been thinking about getting the 2-CD edition. Timely for me to come across this thread right now--a ridiculously cheap, brand-new copy of FEARLESS LEADER arrived in the mail today, and I just spent the last hour listening to disc 1. Very nice set in terms of sound and notes. Jim, any word/rumor on whether or not the rest of the Half Note material will ever be "officially" released?
  25. Was this RCA Victor? An older jazz DJ friend of mine told me that the Sauter-Finegan LPs on that label tended to sound really great.
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