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I couldn't pick just one Jackie Mc album. Never heard one I didn't absolutely love!

Muhammad Ali is the brother of drummer Rashied Ali (who worked with Coltrane, Marion Brown, and others). I don't hear a lot of Blackwell in his playing myself - more Elvin-like - but he's a hell of a player. Dig his work with Frank Wright and Alan Silva in the Center of the World Quartet, it's stunning!

Big Black - Headache - (Touch & Go, 2nd issue)

Rapeman - Budd EP - (Touch & Go)

Worth listening to all of it. That's right, ALL of it.

There was a really cool exhibition of artefacts from his archives at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center last year in Austin. I wish I had the chance to see him speak then. RIP Mr. Mailer.

OK Mario, scoring isn't that hard... For me, that is the measure of success. If it turns into a relationship - a good one - then that's great. But if that's what you're out for on a first date, well, you're aiming too high.

Don't care for the Coens but Cormac McCarthy gets me going. I'll be seeing this.

This Glenlivet is doing me right, but it's making it hard to remember things. I have the Edition RZ LP with "A Carlo Scarpa" (think it's contrabass clarinet and electronics??), very nice work. Also a little of his earlier stuff on a Time LP. A good friend of mine is a Nono freak, though I think I've tried to turn him onto more jazz than he has with expanding my Nono vocabulary. When I return home this weekend, I'll refresh my memory on some deep pieces by this heavy composer.

May there be an entire Messthetics comp devoted to you, Rod!

I feel like I mentioned this before somewhere, but his playing behind Archie Shepp and Lars Gullin on The House I Live In (Steeplechase, rec. 1963) is really great. Archie and Gullin are in fine form, too!

Don't click the link, CT! Tempting, but... I'll pass.

Happy Birthday! Glad to be a part of the community YOU'RE in, Paul. Hope it was a fantastic day.

Ju Suk Reet Meat!

Actually, yes, you do. It is true. Or, be prepared to deal with some serious boys' club slagging.

White Light White Heat! I find Nico grating (save Marble Index) and the banana record is pretty much a skip-around record for me. The VU collection I can also get behind, less so the self-titled LP (tho I know many who swear by it). And I'm not even going to discuss Loaded.

Don't know them. Eric's Trip were a noisy folk-pop band named, obviously, after the SY song. They have a few albums on Sub Pop and scattered EPs also. I think the most enjoyable in their discography is Love Tara. Can't seem to find my burn of the BSS You Forgot It In People, but safe to say it's sprawling indie-rock, melodic and anthemic and rather varied in members and instrumentation. My recollection is that they are somewhat schizophrenic and at times half-assed, but the ambition and possibility shined through.

Me too. The original pops up on eBay every now and then, but it's usually out of my price range.

Looks like a great gig, thanks for posting. Now if anybody has a spare Rein de Graaff on BIM/BASF, you can send it my way!

Good live show I must admit, whatever one thinks of their track record in the studio. If I'm not mistaken Jason Zumpano (of the band Zumpano) was in the mix. They also were pretty good and probably did the 60s harmonizing pop thing nearly as well as Sloan (if a bit more raggedy).

Always wondered how you pronounced that guy's name...

Trotsky Icepick, maybe...

Bulleit for me.