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I really like Oh Darling - but not the version sung by Robin Gibb. Always liked Dear Prudence too. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da ob-la-sucks.

Dead Wrong A man was arrested and charged with sexual assault on an elderly woman's corpse Saturday, according to police. The act of necrophilia allegedly occurred sometime Friday night when 48-year-old Mahdi Allah slipped into the Hogan, Sullivan and Bianco funeral home at 1266 Ninth Ave. A funeral home employee discovered Allah Saturday on top of the corpse with his pants around his ankles, passed out drunk, according to police spokesman Dewayne Tully. Allah, a former employee at the funeral home, allegedly used a key to let himself in sometime the previous night, went downstairs and removed the corpse from a storage freezer before placing it on the floor. He is being charged with two counts of sexual assault upon a person who is unconscious or unaware and one count of burglary, according to Tully. The investigation is ongoing. Eric Bianco, manager of the funeral home, said Allah, who police say is homeless, worked as an attendant at the parking lot adjacent to the home. Bianco said he was "absolutely disgusted" when he heard the news. He added that he did not know Allah closely and had no idea how he had acquired a key to the business. "This isn't something that has a whole lot of history that I can comment on, it's just something that doesn't happen," Bianco said. "It's an unfortunate situation and if there is one person to blame it is the person who did it." Bianco said that he had already spoken with the family of the woman and pleaded for the media to respect their privacy. Allah worked for only a couple of months, according to Steve Fujii, the owner of the funeral home, the adjacent parking lot, and two nearby Japanese restaurants on Ninth Avenue. He remembered Allah as always reading, and described him as extremely smart and well educated. Allah was homeless by choice and slept in nearby Golden Gate Park, according to Fujii. While working at the parking lot, Allah had briefly been allowed to stay in a studio apartment above the funeral home and was fired when he refused to leave, according to the property owner. "I was shocked, he was such a straightforward guy, he was very intelligent," Fujii said. "But when I saw him (on Saturday morning), he was very drunk... he shouldn't have done it." Original Article Quote: "... he shouldn't have done it." Way to understate it, Fujii-san.

No. 26 - how could anyone not like a song with the lyric: "The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on. He took a face from the ancient gallery. And he WALKED ON DOWN THE HALL!"? No way that's more melodramatic than Celine Dion's "My Ass Will Go On".

I'm a Grammer God? That's unpossible!

Landscape and Tokyo Encore, both recorded live in Japan in 1979 are two great recordings. George Cables on piano, Tony Dumas on bass, and Billy Higgins in typical badassed form on drums. Both recordings have an overlapping set of songs so you only need one - I'd opt for Landscape. It's as good as the Live at the Village Vanguard series.

Possibly a WWII movie called "Inglorious Bastards" or a Vega Brothers movie (Victor/Masden and Vincent/Travolta).

You, me, and a bunch of other people. Saturday, February 23rd, not sure what year but it was probably 2000 or 2001. I gave myself 2 hours to drive 30 miles to to the gig but with Atlanta's typically horrible traffic it took 2.5 hours. The gig was sold out (SRO) but I was on the reservation list so they let me in - barely; I literally had my back pressed against the door for the whole show. Right before the show I noticed someone crowded up next to me, looked over, and it was Sam Rivers waiting for his introduction to come to the stage. Tall, reed-thin, and decked out in the baddest purple pinstriped pimp suit ever. The definition of cool. I think that was the most fun I've had at a concert. That same church has hosted previous gigs by David S. Ware, Brotzmann, Evan Parker, Derek Bailey and others. Damn, that's a hell of a church!

I had the same response at the Sam Rivers' Trio concert in Atlanta a few years back.

Throw in a pair of eyeglasses and it's a match. By the way, last night I saw Kenny Garrett in concert with the Georgia State University Jazz Band and it was a great performance by all the players. Now, off to surf some other sites...

Thanks PHILLYQ, that must have been it. I was too young to understand the significance of that situation - all I knew was that those Watergate hearings were getting in the way of my Brady Bunch watching.

I remember that game - I wasn't there but my house was about 20 miles away so we were Braves fans by default. My father was watching the game on TV and every time Aaron came up to bat he would drag me in from the yard and plant me in front of the TV. I'd protest (not a sports fan at 9 years old) and he'd say "Boy - you're going to appreciate when you're older". So I saw the home run (and the two guys that ran onto the field) and then went back to digging in the dirt with a staub or whatever was so important to me that evening. Over the years I've really grow to cherish that memory (as far as memories of TV go) - more so than watching the Braves win the World Series. My father also made me watch Nixon give a speech one night (with the same "Boy - you're going to appreciate when you're older" spiel). It might have been a resignation speech, without an announcer yelling about what was going on it was a little hard to follow. Hank Aaron's big in Atlanta (still). If you buy a BMW from his dealership he'll come out, shake your hand, and (maybe) give you an autographed ball.

Thanks. I'll dig through the stacks for my copy of Footprints Live and see if I can recognize any of the music while the concert is still (relatively) fresh in my memory.

Last Saturday I had tickets to both the Wayne Shorter and Sonny Rollins concerts in Atlanta. Unfortunately the respective venues were miles apart so I had to pick one. I chose the Shorter and gave my Rollins ticket to a friend (haven't heard from him since). On to the show. The rhythm section kicked things off with nice groove. Shorter seemed tentative at first, starting on tenor, but was back in form before long ("form" being defined as "Footsteps Shorter" as opposed to "Free For All Shorter"). John Patitucci and Brian Blade were absolutely phenomenal, especially Blade who was the most hyperactive person I saw all night (except for the guy in seat C104). Danílo Perez played harmonics on his piano strings and used his water bottle to do some prepared piano effects. In fact, Perez started channeling John Cage at one point - crumpling said water bottle under the microphone and raking the crushed plastic across the piano strings while JP and BB played some abstract music/sounds in the background. Shorter joined this piece by whistling something that sounded a little like Jobim's "Cocovado" but probably wasn't. The musicians were constantly cracking each other up - which made the performance more fun. The poor Steinway on the stage was used as locker, what with the bandmembers keeping their water bottles, bows, and (maybe) charts in its interior. Shorter seemed to have a bad spring on the G# key of his soprano - he was constantly adjusting and picking at it during the performance. Didn't affect the quality of the music though - all of the non-waterbottle-related music was first rate. But here's the deal: Although there was much acknowledgement of the audience throughout the show, Shorter never spoke to announce song titles or anything. Now I've got a shitload of Shorter on CD, but I couldn't recognize a single theme at the show that night. Given this quartet's penchant for turning Shorter's Bluenote classics inside out I could see why I wouldn't hear anything familiar - plus this quartet's been together for so many years now they've probably got their own book of unrecorded stuff that they play in concert. So here's the question: has anyone seen Wayne Shorter on his most recent tour and did they recognize any of the set? As exciting as it was to hear some unfamiliar material, I'm curious as to whether any of it was revamped old stuff.

Art Blakey thought so.

eh-yep.

The Tower Records in Shibuya and Virgin Megastore in Shinjuku are my two favorite brick and mortars in the whole world. I can spend all day in either one.

I'll think of another one in a minuet.

Same here. Used to have that dream a lot. It always involved not taking a particular class, resulting in no diploma, nullification of college degree, and so on. Sounds stupid, but in the dream it makes sense. Must have something to do with unfinished business. The strange thing is, whenever I dream about high school or college the buildings and campus are nothing like where I went or have ever been. But it's always the same buildings no matter what the dream - like the dream buildings are my subconscious image of the real ones. Add airport, hotel, railway station and movie theater to that list too. It's the Reincarnation of Peter Proud all over again.

I keep having dreams about suddenly realizing that I'm supposed to be on a plane to Japan (or America) and that I have to make a mad dash to get things in order (passports, prepaying utilities/paying hotel bill, etc...) before leaving. I think it has to do with guilt over procrastination regarding household duties (yeah, my house looks like a house on COPS). The reason the destination is Japan (or vice-versa) is that I used to travel to Japan for months at a time and being on my own, if I didn't have my ducks in a row before I left I could come home to a foreclosed house, shut off utilities, etc... As a kid, I would classify a nightmare as a dream that involved monsters . But now they involve something like losing my job, letting a Mosaic slip by me - the real stuff of nightmares.

They'd have found it sooner, but it was "Haydn".

Got my copy today. Probably listen to it in the car driving over to the Wayne Shorter concert tonight. Sometimes it just all comes together.

The Jazz -> Free Jazz -> ANDY MCWAIN QUARTET: Starfish is great - been listening to it in the car all week.

Elvin Jones played guitar on Elvin's Guitar Blues from the Heavy Sounds album. Just doubling up in case the drum gig didn't work out.

Most Happy Funtime Retail Crime Device! Not shitting: When I was in Japan I saw a toolbox and underneath the manufacturer's logo was stamped "For Your Luxurious Life" in cursive script.

I bumped a deer with my car. I was driving home during daylight hours, there was a song on the radio that I wanted to hear to its conclusion so I was just coasting along, letting gravity move the car - maybe 20 mph (home was over the next hill). A deer bounded out of a kudzu patch and ran along side me. I thought he might cut in front of me so I locked it down, when I had all but stopped, he jumped in front of me and sat his whitetailed ass right down on my front bumper doing a nice job of interlacing the bumper and grill in ways they were not meant to mesh. Then he sprayed green shit all over my bumper which went through the grill and onto my engine block (said shit turned to vapor upon contact with the block and was sucked into in interior of the car). Then he ran off, leaving a handful of flank hair between the bumper and grill and me about to puke. There's a herd of deer living in the woods on the edge of my property - Mr. Greenshit was probably one of them. And he's still out there. Mocking me.