ghost of miles

Just picked up Alan Furst's THE POLISH OFFICER again and also started John Rechy's CITY OF NIGHT.

You're gonna love it! I bought it when it first came out and still play it once or twice a year... interesting that the original 78-folio-packet was, in some ways (IMO) a forerunner of Mosaic in terms of marketing (limited edition, aimed at a connoisseur audience, a certain scholarly "coffeetable"--which sounds uncomfortably pejorative, don't really mean it that way--angle to the presentation). The CD re-issue, as others have said above, beautiful to both listen to and peruse.

Oh yeah... I'm ordering it along with Late's poetry book and an item TBD this weekend. Actually, there was yet another song Preminger wanted to use as the theme...Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady." Somewhere on the board we have an entire recent thread devoted to the theme music.

Yeah, I fired that listing off to our fulltime jazz DJ last week when I saw it--Hyena is Joel Dorn's latest outfit, I believe. Hoping we can get a promo for the station.

Michigan's useful, too--I need a good place to stop for a knish while I'm traveling to and from Canada buying prescription drugs for elderly relatives. Re: Boston Market, my wife & I did have a weakness for the mac/cheese and meatloaf whenever driving up to Michigan for the weekend--used to hit one in Kokomo, but it went under a couple of years ago. I still think there's a place for non-burger fast food.

Hmmm... Roxy Music's AVALON served a similar function during my undergrad years. You're talking about playing euchre, right?

Don't you worry 'bout a thing! Yep, I'm wavin' from the bandwagon... it inches out SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE for me.

yeah....and at least we can tell you where we live w/o pointing to our hand. Y'know, earlier I was going to say Hoosiers may have small heads, but big hearts, but if you're gonna be like that about it... That's it!! C'mon, fellow Hoosier fellers 'n gals... we got a state to take! By the time we're done they'll be callin' their fancy resorts "Mackinac-on-the-Wabash."

Hey Dan, did you ever get that Bosox-Yankees sportswriter book? It's still on my to-get list...

I thought baseball players mostly did steroids.

I'd answer that, but I'm too busy pondering descriptions of meatloaf in the "Boston Market" thread.

Now you're Dutch? I thought you said German on another thread? Must hail from the border area around Meppen? Well prove it -- say a few words in plattdeutsche for me and then tell us if this is gorgeous pumping installation near the border is Dutch or German? I said heritage, man... some German, some Dutch, and a helping of Appalachian mountainfolk for a zestful, life-loving Eurobilly mix... but at home, I speak strictly American.

aka the de-aricator As opposed to the "Effron-o-lator."

Can it reheat day-old pizza?

I just called your family members and invited them to join this board Wonderful! I'm sure you'll have an absolute ball arguing with all the Norwegians & Germans on the 'Is it true that the Dutch are a wee bit more high strung than other europeans?' thread. First Chuck's talking smack about Hoosiers, now Weizen's dragging in the Dutch... I can tell I've a full day ahead of me defending my heritage!

Did a big-band show based around this several weeks ago... hopefully we'll have it online next month, in case anybody wants to get a sense of what the box sounds like. Definitely worth picking up if you're into this era and style of music.

The Andrew Hill and Art Pepper Mosaic Selects. Hope they're here by Thursday...

Either that or put on Jo Stafford's blues album.

I don't think so. Time to switch to decaf?

Jim, I would like to put myself on my "Ignore" list, please... I've had it!

Seriously, it's not a bad thing... I used it for Greg M. at one point on AAJ. The user's post appears but the text is blocked out (don't know if it will work differently here).

Can one ignore the ignore function?

I think I need some more coffee...

Hey, what is dis Chuck Nessa guy talkin' lotsa smack 'bout Hoosier heads? If he keep it up I gonna post lotsa stoopid erroneous crap all ovah da Intanet 'bout how Philogy gonna put out a single four-minute track that take ALL the thunder outta dis much-bollyhooed Uptown Parker thingie... and call it FLIPPIN' THE BIRD, heh, heh!!

Happy b-day, SEK!