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Recent Easter Eurpean issue:

And what did Lonnie do with that jacket? --eric

What I'm saying is that *I* don't care much about the art. And apparently Dorn doesn't either. And that there is no sin in that. And in addition to records that have been put out with a lot of attention to design details, there have been plenty put out with little or no concern for that sort of thing. In fact, I'd say that there are very few records whose art is really worth much, putting nostalgia and commodity fetishism aside. And, when it comes down to it, if it's a choice between not having the music and having a high quality legal mp3 of it, I'll take the file. But that's me, that's my choice. Re-issue producers have their budgets and priorities, and I think they, too, should be able to choose how they're going to do things. Mosaic is going to spend all kinds of money and effort (and pass the cost of those things to their consumers) on stuff that doesn't much matter to me--handsome packaging, exhaustive completism. But I don't complain. They get to do things their way and I decide whether to buy or not. --eric

Not lame, done on purpose. Even I could have done the job the way you're talking about. A guy on the production line at the print shop could have done it--anybody could have done it. But Dorn didn't do it because for whatever reason he preferred the red x. --eric

Well, there is still a Joel Dorn. He's got a funny sense of humor, of which that cover is an example. A lot of times original covers translated badly to the smaller format of the cd. I doubt very much Dorn gave or gives a good goddamn for the collectors market. Which, frankly, I find to be kind of refreshing. But that's me. I kind of like the guys from the generation who actually thought they could make money selling jazz records and acted that way. --eric

I guess this article from Wired may be what I'm talking about. --eric

I thnk I read somewhere (here?) that thjere was a move afoot to force record companies to allow the reproduction of out-of-prints on a pre-order basis with royalties paid. Anyone remember this? --eric

And you bought it figuring the Red X over Muse was there in the first place? I mean everybody's got to make choices. Dorn chooses not to spend a whole lot of time or money working up nice artwork. You can see that and you decide whether you want to spend your money on it or not. Nobody's fooling anybody here. Personally I don't give a damn about the art, but I do want the discog info. That's my thing. If Dorn or some other producer omits that info, well then I've got a choice to make: Do I takle the risk that I can probably find said info on the internet or not? Simple. No schmucks need apply. --eric

So far, he has seemed most interested in people passing themselves off as science experts who actually don't know what the hell they are talking about (cahrlatans). In this article he's moving into scientific misconceptions of a more pedestrian nature. You should write him suggesting that he further expand his scope to include scientists who think they know something when they don't. Evolutionary psychology would be a ripe field. Martin Gardner and Michael Shermer do a fairly good job of this in the US. --eric

Is that you in the video? --eric

My god, the collective nervous breakdown. We should send this to NIMH. --eric

Thought this might be of interest after our rather rambling evolution discussion: Party hard Ben Goldacre Thursday July 21, 2005 The Guardian · In our eagerness to focus on the supply side of pseudoscience - the dismal outpourings of flaky humanities graduates in the media and the bogus pseudoscience of people with products to sell - we've neglected an important area of study: the impact on the end market. Take this from reader Richard Neville, last weekend, who was simply trying to get a drink: "I was at the bar buying a round," he begins. "'Grapefruit and soda please.' I said. The barman adopted a pained expression. 'I should point out to you, sir, that this juice is 100% pure organic and, therefore, I don't like to add chemicals - you see, I don't know what's in soda water.' 'Well,' I said, 'I think it's mostly water - which, of course, is a chemical plus a little bicarbonate of soda and added carbon dioxide.' He didn't look happy, while I just looked thirsty and persisted: 'Well,' he warned, 'if you'll take full responsibility ...'" · So it occurs to me: if I have a grandiose delusion, it is that we're engaged in a useful project here, the study of the Public Misunderstanding of Science. And this is uncharted territory. So I'm asking for qualitative research; I'm asking for your help in a grand experiment, with the widest possible sampling frame, that is: you. Only you can help me to document the stupidity that's out there. · I'll get the ball rolling. Last week, I was at a party and somebody starting telling me that the theories produced by science would be different if it had been done by women. I asked her whether she thought Newton's three laws of motion might have turned out differently if he had been a woman, and she said yes, of course. I asked her how, exactly, she thought that Newton could single-handedly change the fact that acceleration of a body is proportional to the force acting on it, divided by its mass? And she walked off. Chalk up one to the nerds; and this is only the most stupid thing I've heard this week. Perhaps someone has tried to tell you that "science, you know, it's kind of a belief system, like any other religion," in a way that made you want to slap them particularly hard. Perhaps you did slap them. Perhaps they told you scientists say we're all energy so nothing is real. Perhaps they told you that the stuff they believe is "outside of science". Perhaps they told you that science wants to reduce their life to simple laws. Forget the media, we know we've lost there. I want to know: what's the most stupid thing anyone has ever said to you about science at a party? · Please send your bad science to bad.science@guardian.co.uk

Well, I don't love them eating my dog, but I'm not phobic about them either. They're wild animals, and like many wild animals they'll bite or kill your ass when provoked or even if just given the chance. Grizzly bears are kinda cute, but I keep out of their way. --eric

'k, I'll bite - how DOES one pronounce it? ← If you don't already know . . . --eric (you are in the same boat with me)

Earlier: We Free Kings has always been a favorite of mine. The Atlantic set is cool (and was my into. to Kirk), but if you are more in the mood for a discrete release: Inflated Tear would be a good choice. --eric

I agree with you about Carter's "spirit," he's someone I've always rooted for. And I agree with you that the ballad on this album represents a lot of what is great about Carter--and I think he can be great. The richness of sound and, as you say, the obvious interplay of discipline and expressiveness here is really awesome. But the Kirk comparison really seems to sell Kirk short, if you asked me. There was a genuineness to Kirk even in his wayward and patience trying moments that Carter's playing just doesn't bring across. Carter may be truly enjoying himself, but he doesn't give a damn whether we do. I hope you're right about his continuing to mature. The guy has some serious chops, not just chops to impress but chops to just bowl you over in sound. But sometimes he just seems to have left any sense of his work as art behind--he just seems to want to win. --eric

as endorsed by Wile E. Coyote --eric

Wasn't there a problem with oxidation and pitting of some CDs i read somewhere associated with a factory called "nimbus?" --eric

Or a tradeshow booth. ← Ah, you have it pegged! --eric

Looks like a store to me: that lighting, that sign . . . --eric

A pretty broad definition of troll! --eric

Another thumbs up. "world" jazz at its best here, I think. We played this one quite a bit on the station this winter & spring. --eric

Oh right, Sidewalk MEETING.

A short George Avakian tribute sliiping over the transom disguised as a record release notice? --eric