DTMX

Who's Fred Anderson?

They left out A Jackie Mason Christmas.

Too old to rock and roll, too young to evolve...

Happy Birthday!

Didn't Yusef Lateef play Ice-Age mammoth ivory flute on Eastern Sounds?

Insurance doesn't cover them...

Worst Santa ever...

These two individuals wanted for questioning...

When they reported this on NPR yesterday, Pantera music was playing in the background. Pantera on NPR - what an age we live in.

Happy Birfday!

I think that once I have a copy of every CD I will be sated. My handle is DTMX, and I'm a jazzaholic.

Ditto.

... I've heard Seymore Swine & the Squealers sing the Porky Pig version of "Blue Christmas".

Great King Crimson reference. I need to check out this recording again.

This is going to cause the whole weinerdog wheelcart industry to collapse.

Maybe I'll make that trip to Orlando to see Sam Rivers' big band after all - and shake his hand.

Isn't this the one which begins with a scene in which Julia Louis- Dreyfus (Elaine from Seinfeld) is giving her boyfriend a hummer? B-) Waddayaknow - Deconstructing Harry just jumped to the top of my Netflix queue!

Stanley Crouch Gets His Comeuppance Via Sam Rivers (27 years ago) From some writings on the New York Loft Jazz scene by Eugene Chadbourne: What some considered the death knell of the loft jazz scene came in the Summer of 1977, which found Sam Rivers and Stanley Crouch organizing festivals scheduled for the same time, on the same street. Rivers noticed that many of the same musicians he was presenting were advertised for Crouch's surprise event, and delivered an ultimatum that anyone participating in Crouch's festival would be cancelled from Rivbea. Since Crouch's was strictly a door-money deal (no guarantees), many musicians bowed out of Crouch's festival. At least one musician opted for Rivbea, not because of the ultimatum, but upon learning of plans to tape his show & possibly make a record (without working out pay for the musicians who'd be recorded). Tensions heightened, and finally climaxed on the streets of Soho when a fight broke out, and Sam Rivers purportedly delivered a "smooth uppercut" to the competition; an event that some believe to be the source of Crouch's dislike of avant-garde jazz.

'Tis the season, for a sock monkey Nativity...

Deconstructing Harry - a dark comedy. I think I was the only one in the theater when I saw it. Harry Block is a well-regarded novelist whose tendency to thinly-veil his own experiences in his work, as well as his un-apologetic attitude and his proclivity for pills and whores, has left him with three ex-wives that hate him. As he is about to be honored for his writing by the college that expelled him, he faces writer's block and the impending marriage of his latest flame to a writer friend. As scenes from his stories and novels pass and interact with him, Harry faces the people whose lives he has affected - wives, lovers, his son, his sister. (from IMDB.com)

I saw this one. John Malkovich, Madonna, Mia Farrow as circus performers. Jodie Foster, Lily Tomlin and Kathy Bates as prostitutes at a brothel (). But on the plus side, Fred Gwynne and Kurtwood Smith were also in it. Doing what, I can't remember. The only shadows and fog that I remember was the shadow in my wallet where the $5 I spent to rent this movie was, and the fog in my head from trying to follow the plot. On the other hand, if someone want to reference some movies in their own film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Fritz Lang's M are two great choices.

Especially when they single you out of a crowd...

Resuscitating said thread: Happy Birthday!

Now if a beer company had done the survey, I think the urinal would have been the natural choice. Speaking of which, I think I need to take a little break to patronize the arts, if you know what I mean.

I like how he listed Black Sabbath's Paranoid right after Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World. Those are two songs I love hearing back-to-back.