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This is too funny. I wonder why the The Indigo Girls made the list twice? Ted Nugent because he wore a loincloth.

Oumou Sangare Bakary Sangaré Bakary Sylla

Jackie McLean McDonalds Golden Arches

The Williams sisters Twisted Sister Sister Act

Bert and Ernie Big Bird Snufalufagus

Trot Nixon Richard Nixon Checkers

Columbo Andre the Giant Wallace Shawn

Terry Pratchett Terry & the Pirates Bluebeard Blackbeard Johny Depp. Orlando Blume

Some more photos. You can better understand how small it really is.

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Baby Dodds Johnny Dodds Lou Dobbs Lou Donaldson Sam Donaldson Bobby Donaldson

Tiny London apartment on sale for $335K By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer Mon Jan 22, 6:12 PM ET LONDON - Location, location, location. Almost anywhere else, the tiny dilapidated studio wouldn't attract much more than mice. But this is London and the 77-square-foot former storage room — slightly bigger than a prison cell and without electricity — is going for $335,000. ADVERTISEMENT The closet-sized space in the exclusive Knightsbridge neighborhood may be only "about the size of a ship's galley, said real estate agent Andrew Scott, who's handling the sale. "But it's permanently anchored to one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the world." At more than $4,340 a square foot, the mortgage buys a spot within walking distance of tony stores like Harrods and London's iconic Hyde Park. Originally conceived as a maid's room, the apartment at 18 Cadogan Place hasn't been used for years and is littered with trash bags and crumbling paint. A coffin-sized shower is en suite, and storage is provided by a shallow closet and 10-inch-deep shelves cut into the wall. Two hot plates and a small sink make up the kitchen. Two dirty windows allow light to filter into the basement room, and the fire escape could conceivably double as a shared patio. With no electricity or heating, Scott said it would cost an additional $59,000 to make the room habitable. "It is an investment," he said, as he stretched his arms the width of the room, laying his palms flat on opposite sides of the wall. The sale of this dark, mildewy room illustrates the astronomical rise in property values across London, which in the past year has seen average residential property prices increase 22.4 percent, to about $703,000, according to figures released Monday by Rightmove, which tracks the British property market. Prices in London's most desirable neighborhoods have grown even faster, with average house prices in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea — where Cadogan Place is located — rising 61.8 percent over the past year to a jaw-dropping $2.2 million. Ultra high-end property prices in London are the most expensive in the world, with some recent sales hitting $5,900 per square foot — making the Cadogan Place studio a bargain by comparison, according to research published last year by CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. Similar properties in New York can go for about $5,300 per square foot, while those in Hong Kong sell at around $3,950 per square foot. Scott said he already had three offers on the property, which might go to auction. Size, he added, is in the "eye of the beholder." "If you thought of this as the cabin on a boat, you'd say, 'It's pretty spacious,' " Scott said.

On the note of videos, how do you get them on your iPod? What format do the videos need to be in to up-load them? As Marla said, I too have a ton of videos I would like to put on my iPod.

I saw a copy of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers "Moain'" today with a totally different cover. Is this a rip off the Blue Note album or what?

I want to remind those in the NY area that this show is coming up February 19, 2007. I am hoping to make it. Does anyone plan on going to see this show that night? From what I've read Freddie really needs the money.

Thanks for the music Mike. RIP

Thanks, I didn't think of trying that since it is out of print. Can't hurt.

Somehow I cracked it when I Rolled my desk chair over it. Are these sides available on other releases?

I stand corrected. There are many JRVG, but none done here in the states.

I was listening to Black Orchid just now and this question came to mine. The only reason I can think is they wouldn't sell as well some of the other artists. Sad but true.

Not that I would run out any re-buy these, but just wondering why this important group for Blue Note in the 50's and 60's would be overlooked.

I have my check book out. By Paul Majendie Tue Jan 9, 8:14 AM ET LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters Life!) - For sale: the world's smallest country with its own flag, stamps, currency and passports. Apply to Prince Michael of Sealand if you want to run your own nation, even if it is just a wartime fort perched on two concrete towers in the North Sea. Built in World War Two as an anti-aircraft base to repel German bombers, the derelict platform was taken over 40 years ago by retired army major Paddy Roy Bates who went to live there with his family. He declared the platform, perched seven miles off the east coast of England and just outside Britain's territorial waters, to be the principality of Sealand. The self-styled Prince Roy adopted a flag, chose a national anthem and minted silver and gold coins. The family saw off an attempt by Britain's Royal Navy to evict them and also an attempt in 1978 by a group of German and Dutch businessmen to seize Sealand by force. Roy, 85, now lives in Spain and his son Michael told BBC Radio on Monday his family had been approached by estate agents with clients "who wanted a bit more than a bit of real estate, they wanted autonomy." He suggested Sealand, which has eight rooms in each tower, could be a base for online gambling or offshore banking. Asked to describe the delights of living on what he described as a cross between a house and a ship, the 54-year-old said: "The neighbors are very quiet. There is a good sea view."

Horce Silver's "Doin' the Thing" has extra tracks.

Sad story in jazz. Chicago jazz mecca closes doors, perhaps forever CHICAGO (Reuters) - In a city that lost several beloved institutions in 2006, the sound coming out of Chicago's jazz scene is providing a year-end coda no one wants to hear. The Jazz Showcase, this jazz-drenched city's oldest club dedicated to the musical form and the second-oldest U.S. jazz venue after New York's Village Vanguard, is closing its doors this weekend after 59 years. A New Year's Eve "last blast" featuring saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman and Henry Johnson's Organ Express will be the final show at the club, which for six decades presented artists like Charlie Parker and others working out of the tradition associated with legendary players like John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. This fall, the club lost its lease and despite help from the city of Chicago, its owner and founder, 80-year-old Joe Segal, still has found no new digs. The uncertainty surrounding the venerable club's future serves as a depressingly apt final note in a year that saw a number of Chicago landmarks -- including the Marshall Field's department store on State Street, the Berghoff restaurant, and the scruffy City News Service -- pass from the scene. "It's impossible to overstate the importance of the Jazz Showcase to Chicago," said John Corbett, a Chicago jazz journalist and musician. "We don't have the network or infrastructure of mainstream jazz clubs that a city like New York has. Which is bizarre because we have a great vibrant jazz scene. But in terms of the places where you can go see, every night, great mainstream jazz, there aren't that many." After Sunday night, there will be one fewer. Despite three months of looking with the help of the city of Chicago, Segal, who founded the club when he was a college student after World War Two, says he's "getting tired of looking." "No one's coming up with anything that says, 'We want you to be viable,"' Segal said. "They're introducing us to brokers. But they haven't found us anything that we can afford." BASEMENT STORAGE So after Sunday's 11 p.m. show, all the tables and chairs and memorabilia documenting the generations of jazz luminaries, including Parker, Diana Krall and McCoy Tyner who played there, will be moved into his son's basement. The Showcase has called half a dozen places home over the years so few jazz fans were worried when news of the club's troubles first became public. But as the club prepares to go dark for the first time in a decade, there's growing concern it may be for keeps. Ken Vandermark, a Chicago-based avant-garde jazz musician and winner of a 1999 MacArthur Fellowship "genius" award, fears what the scene would be like without it. "If you look at the lineups Joe has year after year, he's bringing in some of the best players, the most creative musicians, working in that part of the field," he said. "It would be such a huge blow if he's not able to find some place and not get some support for that. I would be really, really saddened by that." A benefit to raise money to help Segal find a new home is planned for March. But even if he finds a new site, Segal said the reopened Showcase will be a scaled-back affair, confining its presentation of internationally known acts to the weekends, rather than the current six nights a week, and featuring more jam sessions and open mike nights. If the Showcase doesn't reopen, there still would be jazz clubs in Chicago, which has been closely associated with jazz since Louis Armstrong recorded here with his Hot Five band in 1925. The Green Mill and Andy's, two mainstream clubs, aren't going anywhere and the Velvet Lounge, a more experimental club, has a new home after facing a situation similar to the Showcase's. Lauren Deutsch, the executive director of the Jazz Institute of Chicago, a non-profit group Segal helped found in 1969 to preserve the music in the face of rock 'n' roll's onslaught, is optimistic the Showcase can be saved. "People here have a kind of cultural ownership," she said. "Does that mean they won't fall and bite the dust? No. For jazz lovers, the Showcase is an exceptionally important place and is near and dear to our hearts."

I find Apples'stunes jazz selections to be somewhat thin. Here an example. I wanted to but Dexter Gordon's "The other side of round midnight". Apple' itunes only has 2 tracks from that album. I know some music lovers just want a song here and there from an album, but to me that is more in the pop and rock genera.