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Both are invaluable sources of music knowledge. Come back, guys!

The most remarkable part of this sad story is the cellular phone company workers who found a few text messages which were sent to the man's phone and used them to determine the location of the antennae which sent the signal to the phone. This gave the search teams the radius in which to look. I also heard that the vehicle was completely buried, and it was only the man's footprints which enabled the helicopters to find the mother and child. Still, how does one leave the house in a snowstorm and not know exactly where one is going? Poor planning, horrible consequence.

Nice list, MWTGA! "Hector" by the Village Callers is a personal favorite. "Ah, Hector, you're our manager, but you sure are ugly Hector! Tienes la cara de lastima, Hector! Como estas? Horrible! You know?"

Does "Greensleeves" count as an actual Christmas tune, or one that just sounds like a Christmas tune?

My November order shipped on 12/2, and it was changed to Howard Roberts' Good Pickins because Miles Davis ESP was backordered. They also have yet to ship the 5 RVGs I ordered 11/20. I guess they'll ship some time in January. Must be busy over there!

More good stuff on Soul Fire:

Thumbs up for all three! :tup

My favorites are the Stitt/Patterson, the Johnny Hammond Smith, and the Kynard. I've enjoyed very nearly all of them. Like MG, I wasn't feeling the Trudy Pitts. Maybe I'll revisit it with Soul Stream's comments in mind.

Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land Grant Green - Street Of Dreams Jack Wilson - Something Personal Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue Brother Jack McDuff - Moon Rappin' Horace Silver & JJ Johnson - The Cape Verdean Blues Joe Henderson - Mode For Joe Art Blakey - The Big Beat Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage

There have been six 30-point quarters in NBA history. Kobe has two of them. He's got his hops back, and was dunking all over Utah.

Listen kid, I'm out there busting my ass every night! Tell your old man to hustle Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!

The Heat are awful sans Daddy. Pistons by 20.

Teachers can't teach motivation, it's a matter of choice. I had an interesting experience in high school. All my life I'd been in the Advanced Placement courses for kids who are slightly ahead of the pack. I enjoyed learning and reading and always tried to get my work done correctly and completely. As I understood it, it was my duty to do so. In 11th grade I became more interested in art and decided that I wasn't going to go to school for academic courses, so I didn't need to continue taking the more challenging Advanced Placement courses. I dropped down to a regular-level English course. To my horror, the performance of my classmates was simply abyssmal. The entire class was so horribly deficient in terms of reading comprehension and so lacking in the ability to clearly express ideas that it was depressing. Where the Advanced Placement courses were competitive and loaded with students ravenous for learning, the regular-level course was a cesspool of stagnation. It was simply riddled with lazy students who rarely completed assignments on time. The teacher embarrassed me weekly by reading my essays aloud to the class and lambasting the rest of them that they couldn't write at the same level. I spent the whole year wishing I'd stayed where I belonged.

No doubt, she sounds like a keeper!

First time I've heard it referred to like that!

Wow, what a babe. I notice she sports a wedding band, lucky dude.

My Dad said the torture scene is in the book, fwiw.

MG's got it down to a science!

If it's any consolation to Iverson, I think most basketball fans understand how amazing it is that he is a dominant scorer at 6'1". He may never win a title, but I will always consider him one of the best offensive players I ever saw.

Can't y'all at least hold off until December?

Thumbs up here! Saw it this morning. Good action, and the depiction is much more realistic than in previous Bond movies. Drags a bit through one segment, but other than that is fun throughout. I'm over the fact that Craig was unable to drive a stick shift during production. He made for a good 007.

Isn't it bad enough that the Raiders completely suck? I mean, does the NFL still have to rip them off with amazingly bullshit calls? Illegal forward pass? Are they serious?

My dad only likes oldies, and my mom only likes pop music she can sing along to. Dad had oldies radio going in the car (if any music at all), and Mom played albums by John Denver, Anne Murray, The Eagles, Simon & Garfunkel, Carly Simon, Jim Croce, and others all the time when I was a kid. I have two older brothers, one of whom listens to nothing but 1980s heavy metal. My other brother likes 1980s alternative rock. So, the earliest music I had in my collection was hand-me-down tapes in a mish-mash of all of the above. Once I wanted to establish my own listening tastes, I parted ways with stuff my family liked and started listening to bands like The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Firehose and other skateboard-punk bands. At the same time, I started to dig rap by groups like De La Soul, Public Enemy, Erik B. & Rakim, and even gangster acts like NWA. I grew up playing basketball and skateboarding, so I had a very diverse group of friends because those sports attract participants across all cultural lines. I began to be exposed to many different varieties of music through my friends. A few friends were DJs spinning records at local parties, and they taught me about sampling in rap and how beats are laid down to rhymes. One friend used to get a cappella versions of rap songs and press the lyrics up to instrumental beats originally used for other rap songs. This was an intriguing process to me, songs could be transformed into other songs. I had cool audio cassettes for the car which would throw passenger friends for a loop, as songs would start with the beat with which they were familiar yet have the lyrics from a different tune. I learned about sampling and began to love to track down the songs which were sampled. I found I liked these old songs much better than the rap songs which were created from them. At the same time, a good friend was given his father's jazz lp collection and I began to hear a lot of jazz over at his house. John Coltrane's Giant Steps and Africa/Brass and Horace Silver's Song For My Father were music listening epiphanies for me. I'd always been partial to instrumental music, and here was instrumental music which was so much more advanced and nuanced then anything I'd heard previously. I think my early exposure to music was so shallow that when I began to understand the depth of what is really out there I was hooked on trying to know more. I now like to switch from genre to genre and keep the mood changing all the time. I love the diversity of sounds, and the fact that no matter how large my collection grows there's always more to hear. I love not being stuck in a rut, I'm not stuck to any genre, and I don't care what year something was recorded in. Jazz has grown to be my favorite genre because I find it the most rewarding, but I keep it sounding fresh and prevent myself from being bored by what I hear by diversifying my listening. Along the way I've started collecting blues, funk, soul, reggae, dub, salsa, afrobeat...

I don't remember who I picked.

You showing me the door, Chuck? Sorry, I was bored to tears during a very slow day at the office.