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I don't know. The school determined that the child wasn't a threat and sent him back to class. He went home from school on his own, then was arrested at his home. Certainly someone at the school let the fuzz know what was going on. Unless I missed it, the story didn't say how the police became aware of the kid's drawings. His therapist thinks the police reaction to the drawings was out of line. His mother, too. If the principal sent him back to class, his or her initial assessment seems to dovetail with that of the child's therapist and mother. If the police determined that they were required to take some kind of action, I'm sure they had some flexibility. They should have considered a home visit from an officer trained in dealing specifically with emotionally challenged children. Hauling the kid off to jail shows a complete lack of judgment on the part of the police, which is not really surprising.

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Hadn't seen it. Heard about it. They took her to the hospital thinking she may have suffered a stroke. Don't know the outcome.

Bummer. Basically shattered in the guy's hands. I'd guess it happens often enough. A woman in a shop in New Orleans was demonstrating an old Victor phonograph for me last summer and a chunk of one of the old 78s she was using just broke off as she was setting it down next to the machine. Then the machine itself broke. I left. Town.

That looks good Jeff. Nice heads-up. Listening to samples now at CD Baby.

All I know is that Bieber video is creepy.

What documentary is that from? Young, highly creative artists sometimes view their failures through a magnifying glass.

I agree, but then that's the way I feel about any actor who operates this way. Heck, even Jerry Lewis was funny for a picture or two.. As a director, though, I think it's true that the 'creepy pedophile' tag did hurt him greatly. After that episode, I just didn't seem to notice people discussing his movies as much as before. People can overlook a lot for art; apparently marrying your step-daughter isn't one of them. I'm sure I'll get into trouble here, but Soon-Yi was not his stepdaughter. Allen and Farrow were never legally married and although they did legally adopt two children together, neither of those adoptions was Soon-Yi. The more damaging accusation (never proved, obviously) was Farrow's claim that Allen molested their adopted daughter Dylan when she was seven. The relationship between Soon-Yi and Allen seems to have begun when she was 22. Unseemly in its beginnings, yeah. Illegal, no. And it's worth noting that the relationship has endured. Beyond that, I won't defend it. As for Allen's films, I'm a fan. Or at least used to be. He was able to create in his early films that sense of attraction and revulsion all in the same moment. You'd say, "Oh no, no no, that's awful! Hah, but yes! It's perfect!" His character was usually to be scorned and envied all at the same time. Trouble is, we got it the first time (or first five or six times). It began to wear thin after a while and started to become just 'schtick." I've seen just a handful of the films he's made in the last 20 years or so. I remember enjoying "Match Point." Certainly not the mountaintop of film making, but interesting.

I understood him to mean that all avant garde is atonal.

Yeah, that was my reaction. No boogie woogie? No '20s, '30s and little from the '40s? No avant garde? And why even mention elevator music? Looks like a nice crib though.

Thanks for the heads-up sonnymax. I snagged this one for $1.78. Listening now. Mal Waldron Quintet at the VV also available for $1.78.

He could have vacated his own suite and arranged for NFL big wigs to vacate their suites so those displaced fans could use them. Turns out the NFL knew the seats may not be safe. So screw them, too. He had the power to at least try to make it right for those fans and he didn't. You can fault him for that.

Screw Jerry Jones. Here's some football Texas can be proud of, in my humble opinion.

Do hope your wife recovers and you're OK.

Old/Quartet arrived earlier today. Unrivaled service, really. I have never received anything so fast as I do orders from Nessa Records. Thank you Chuck. The music: stunning, beautiful, truthful, ... I could go on and on, but suffice it to say that this is my first exposure to this music and it is absolutely beautiful. Just gorgeous. And pristine, sonically. Magnificent job, Chuck. And to Larry Kart, thank you for your insights on the music. You packed a lot of punch in a fairly short amount of space. The jitterbuging comment wasn't simply a well-turned phrase. It crystalized quite brilliantly the function/idea of parody in Mitchell's music. There's more 'there' there, but top to bottom, pretty damn impressive.

If a few Packers' receivers had managed to hang on to some balls that Rodgers laid right into their hands, this would have likely been a blowout. He played a great game. Deserving of the MVP.

Well, it will be for her bank account. I didn't even realize AOL was still around.

I admit I was. Tats ...

Sorry to hear this. Stay positive and feel better soon.

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The compelling economic argument for owners of the music to make as much available as possible in some kind of "on demand" form is this: You reach a point where the bottom part of the catalog generates more revenue than the more popular top part. It's kind of an amazing economic phenomenon, to me anyways. And it's the reason that virtually everything will almost certainly eventually be available "on demand."

Not all of us, the "non-downloaders" (like me) wouldn't. I'm pretty much a non-downloader, too. Although that hasn't always been the case. You, or I, can choose not to listen to a piece of music because it's not being delivered the way we prefer, or we can spend way too much money to obtain it in the format we prefer, while others will be able to obtain that same music more readily, and for a fraction of the cost, putting cash in the pockets of those who actually own the music (as opposed to cash in the pockets of some guy on eBay). As for a Harriott Mosaic, I'm not familiar with the man's music beyond the wonderful 'Free Form,' but I'm sure it would be an amazing project.

Which probably means there are no end of illegal downloads available. In this day and age it seems a pity that there are not legal alternatives. I can understand why pressing a CD version might be uneconomic; but putting up a download version (no need to remaster) and having it permanently available would seem to be a relatively inexpensive option for whoever owns the rights. Ditto Hum Dono. And it wouldn't prevent the issue of those discs on CD, vinyl or whatever with posh packaging at a later date for the market that prefers them that way. Deletion, witholding and eventual re-release seems to me to be a marketing strategy that is well past its sell by date. More and more I agree with this. And, as mentioned in another thread, and as outlined nicely here, the economic benefit of making digital downloads easily and affordably available for vast swaths of "limited interest" material could be -- has proven to be -- substantial. We'd all get to listen to music that is locked away from us now. And record companies could monetize a considerable pile of assets that now sit dormant.

There are a lot of elevators and food courts out there.

I read about this guy yesterday and still can't believe it. It seems like the lack of any recuperative period just wouldn't allow this to be possible.