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  1. porcy62

    Bob Dylan corner

    Doesn't matter, I found it here http://www.searchingforagem.com/
  2. porcy62

    Bob Dylan corner

    Some of you Dylanlogist certainly know about the 'Freewheelin' affair: first pressings with four different songs retired immediatly from Columbia. Do you know what was the correct sequence of songs in this Holy Graal of records collectionists?
  3. I can't remember in wich movie they are driving at zig zag, turn left and right. The gag was something like: 'why are driving in this way?' 'Because I go on left for a while then at right for a while so I don't make any mistake'. Does someone have more information about it?
  4. The answear is: TOO MUCH, but Hey, it's Xmas holydays.
  5. BUON ANNO A TUTTI!
  6. porcy62

    Bob Dylan corner

    'Bringing it all back home' 'Highway 61 revisited' and 'Blonde on Blonde' are one of the most astonishing achievement in history of modern music, and poetry, period Almost every's Dylan record is carved in my personal history, from my youth to my first love, from my dad's death to my son's birth. What else can I say?
  7. But it has a professional tape recorder as optional, Lennon wanted it, no joking, so you can listen at home all your 'damn it!' when you were cought in a traffic jam in the rush hours.
  8. Just discovered, otherwise I would have ask it to Santa Claus for Christmas. I've been a very, very, very good boy this year. http://www.kienle.com/daten/english/1280+/...=&Info=Info
  9. I think it was the 1977 Karajan's Beethoven symphonies, DG. My parents gave it as present ages ago for Christmas. Vinyl, still have it. When my dad passed away I inherited his 1962 Karajan recordings, and they are my preferred ones.
  10. It's one of those really nice Supraphon albums that have a gatefold cover with a book glued in. Already worth acquiring for its looks! This one presents an overview of Czechoslovakian "dance bands", made sometime in the late 50s/early 60s is my guess. There is some pretty wild and whack stuff among the 15 tracks. I sometimes wonder how people were supposed to dance to it all... Thanks Couw! Any musical relation with Goran Bregovic and Mid European Brass Band? I'll look for some of them next time I'll dig in some vinyl shops.
  11. What's that? I've been in Prague recently and I definitely fell in love with her.
  12. porcy62

    Bob Dylan corner

    I will gladly support your effort. Mr. Zimmermann is one of my spiritual guidance since I was thirteen. I grown up with him. I even learned english, with scarce results, on Dylan's songs.
  13. IMHO 'Who's next' is the best of all albums, 'Tommy' is great, (and if you have a decent vinyl early UK pressing one the best sounding records of his times, like Who's next' and 'Q'). 'Quadrophenia' is a great album too, probably a more coherent story as whole then Tommy. Not sure about the movies, long time since I looked at them. My only problems with 'Q' is that I love motorbikes and hate motor scooters, so I would be a rocker, not a mods, if we speak about transport.
  14. I assume so. Why not? Because in some cases, like the infamous 'Terminator seeds', cloned plants do not produce seed, so you have to buy it for every harvest, that means that if you, for any reasons, don't have money to buy them, you'll not have any harvest. This is not the case with 'natural' agriculture. Because nobody can foresee wich type of desease can occur to a cloned animal. AFIK cloned animals have a lack of immune defenses. Yes. I'm not sure why this is relevant. Guy Is it relevant because, when most of the farming will be cloned, because it will be proved to be profitable in the short term, you'll have to pay some sort of hidden copyright to few big Corporation who have enough money to afford biotech. Anyway I didn't see any comments on my thoughts followin the questions. Should I assume that you don't agree with them?
  15. Some questions for Guy Is cloned animals able to reproduce by theirself? Are they strong enough for resisting at diseases? Do we have the right to know what we are eating? Who own the technology and the patents for clonig? Until now, farmers usually buy selected sperm from selected bulls from selected purposes: milk or meat. We naturally selected animals during centuries for some specific purposes, some animal were multipurpose, for example in the mountain regions of the so called 'third world' cow must be strong enough for carrying a plow, for resisting the adverse climate, disease, ecc. It happened the same with agriculture. In poor countries the intensive and specific agriculture push small farmers on the global market and violated the natural tendencies of a kind of soil. The results can be good or disasastrous. If I start to grow a plant that needs a lot of water in a semidesert countryside, I'll need more water, and if I have a prolonged dry season the farmer loose all. Or if the prize of this specific product fall in the global market the farmer loose all again. That's why we had for centuries a differentiate agriculture, you grow eggplants, that need a lot of water, and lentils for dry seasons. The disappearance of a big range of plants and animals because of profit could be not such a big business for us in long term. Scientists know it and they start to collect plants on the way of extinction because of ultra specific tendencies of the market. As every businessmen can explain you, their goal is profit in a short or midterm, otherwise they will be fired. Long term issues like the survival of the planet or the poor farmers is less important then dividends at the end of the year. When I was a baby, back in the sixties, we all thought we will have started a colonization of other planets, foresee natural disasters, produce robots that relief the life of people, clean and secure energy. And look at world now. I am not against scientifc progress, I am for it, but I want that the people, and the people we elected in a democratic election, can control it. I want that WE, the people, are well informed about it , consequences, etc. I don't want to leave the future in the hand of a bunch of Big Corporations out of control.
  16. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,723...w=wn_politics_1 After reading this I don't know wich smilies I have to use. Maybe this
  17. Terry Riley A RAINBOW IN CURVED AIR, CBS UK pressing. Bought today following a suggestion from my preferred records' dealer. It sounds interesting. .....and a bit boring So I spin Sticky Fingers, zip cover, US pressing.
  18. Here there is another opinion: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writ...taly/index.html As someone wrote down: If you do not see beauty in defense, you cannot understand the essence of the Italian game. http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/10/sports/wcwrap.php
  19. I am not so 'into' football to judge the 'the best player in the world', actually I just followed the WC. Creativity is hardly recognize in a defender, or goalkeeper, that's why all the prizes usually go someone's else. And in the year of WC, you have to do a great championship in order to get the prize. Look at Ronaldinho, he missed the chance at WC. IMHO Buffon should have had the prize, for what he did during the whole year and at WC.
  20. France Loves Materazzi After All France Football magazine shelves World Cup controversy and lists five reasons for making up with the Italian footballer. PARIS – A few days ago, it defended Golden Ball winner, Fabio Cannavaro. Today, it is inviting French fans to make their peace with Marco Materazzi. In its last two issues, the influential France Football magazine, organiser of the Golden Ball award, has undertaken a far from easy task in a country that has yet to digest the Berlin World Cup Final. In the edition published last Friday, the bi-weekly carried an editorial under the headline “Cannavaro, Peace and Love” dedicated to all those – including a number of French managers – who cried scandal at the trophy going to the Azzurri captain. After the FIFA verdict that crowned Cannavaro the best player in the world, France Football wrote “Managers and journalists together, same battle, same verdict, same Cannavaro”. In the issue currently on the newsstands, France Football invites French readers to “make their peace” with Materazzi, the “provocateur” who needled Zidane into losing his rag in Berlin.“In this Christmas period”, says the magazine, “France Football says that you can love the great Marco”. Five reasons are cited:“He had an outstanding World Cup”; “He’s technically very good”; “He has the gift of being frank”; “He’s a man with a heart”; and “He loves France”.Accompanying the article is a photo of the goal scored by the Italian defender with a splendid overhead kick during the Inter Milan-Messina game on 17 December.“Holder of the record for Serie A goals scored by a defender in one season (12 with Perugia in 2000-2001), Materazzi is capable of displaying great skill, as he did with his acrobatic scissors kick against Messina, or his own goal from forty metres against Empoli last spring”. France Football devotes two pages to the Zidane-Materazzi affair, with a photo of the notorious head butt and a caption for the former captain of the Bleus. “It was his last second – the second too many – that marked 2006 and will be remembered for the next twenty years. But it was also the one that all those who admire Zinedine Zidane, and all those who love football, never wanted to see, or comment on, or attempt to explain”. Zidane refuses to talk about the episode.Materazzi immediately offered to make up but then said he was no longer willing to do so, in view of the Frenchman’s attitude.He even denied that he would go to Zurich to meet Zidane and make it up with him at the FIFA World Player ceremony. “I’ve got three kids”, said Materazzi the day before, “and tomorrow is their day.I prefer to be with them”. English translation by Giles Watson www.watson.it http://www.corriere.it/english/articoli/20...materazzi.shtml
  21. I beated my step son on his playground. I bought the Mobile Fidelity LP of Nirvana's Nevermind (at times), recently we had a A/B comparison with his iPod hooked at my tube pre amp. It was a no contest The only problem is that when I am not at home sometimes he play my Led Zeppelin's records for his friends. I suspect for impressing girls. We had a big and confortable sofa in front of the loudspeakers. Actually I don't know what counts more, Jimmy Page or the sofa?
  22. So they are bought the copyright of our memory. Watch out, someone will buy the recipe of the apple pie, or try to get a patent for sunday's bbq. One of these days we will have to pay royalties for everything.
  23. Many, many thanks Dmitry! Every Christmas I am attracted by a trip to NY, and I have dozens of friends who actually do it. I don't know why I never did. Sure I'll do it one of these Christmas. BTW, US is one of the few places I knew better from books, movies, music and I visited it for a very short time. During my life I spent more then one month in Canada or Mexico and few days in US. Maybe with the next administration Anyway I haven't any intention to die before having a look at the Grand Canyon and the Monument Valley. John Ford still rules in my youth.
  24. That's what my wife asked for yesterday's dinner. Funny, my wife wanted gammon & salad, then turkey & etc, then chocolate trifle. (I passed on the trifle and went for mince pies and Courvoisier cream.) MG I mean after the shrimp cocktail, raviolis stuffed with codfish, dressed with a sauce of dried tomato and black olives, and several traditional desserts.
  25. That's what my wife asked for yesterday's dinner.
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