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Little Willie John Wee Willie Winkie Winky Dink (and you)

Lou looks like latter-day Bill.

There are instructions online for how to hack a Philips DVD player to make it Region 0 (all region), just search with your model # and something like deregionalize. I've done it to two units. It involves entering codes through the remote while the tray is open. The Philips DVD players are PAL-compatible, but they can only sell region 1 in the U.S. (regardless of what Best Buy told you), then you have to hack it yourself to make it all-region. I have lots of Region 2 (UK) and Region 4 (Brazil) DVDs that I watch all the time on my Philips. The right hack code should solve your problem and leave you with an all-region NTSC/PAL player. The regions have to do with licensing restrictions of content. If somebody is selling an all-region Philips on Ebay, they've likely bought one with factory settings, then hacked it and upped the price for something you can easily do yourself.

Dave Lambert and Gil Evans put those charts together, but that doesn't make them good.

Your cat's named Tim?

Aren't you glad you used Dial?

http://sudo.3.pro.tok2.com/Quest/cards/M/MilesDavis/DoubleImage_x.html It's fantastic. At times the rhythm section really stretches out into territory reminiscent of Circle and Afternoon of a Georgia Faun.

Man between two women

Rudy Burckhardt Jacob Burckhardt Jacob's Brothers

Kafka and Beckett are full of affirmation. You just need a microscope.

The Mingus Big Band is, IMO, a good example of a repertory band that does a good job of keeping a legacy alive for live performance--but it also has the virtue of continuity from both Sue and some of the participating musicians. I love seeing them, but I don't own any albums, because on disc I'd rather listen to Mingus. Well, there is an exception: I absolutely love both volumes of this gig:

Here's Peter Losin's inventory of Miles on video. http://www.plosin.com/MilesAhead/Tapes.aspx?c=video

Martin Sheen Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Mr. Clean (leaves a sheen where you clean)

Dog the Bounty Hunter Catfish Hunter Hunter S. Thompson

FAT32 is a drive format system that works with both PC and Mac. For PC, I think NTSF is more efficient, but it's not Mac-compatible. I don't know what the file system for Mac is called, but I'm pretty sure you can buy a FAT32 drive and then reformat it when it's connected to your Mac. I've reformatted FAT32 to NTSF on a PC. But, of course, you don't want to reformat it if you need to move between operating systems. Here's a page on how to convert wma (Windows) to m4a (Mac) http://www.ehow.com/how_5118571_convert-wma-ma.html Keep all your digital files on two different external drives so you'll always have a backup if one drive fails. If possible, use drives dedicated to just those files. I'd recommend using a portable USB-powered drive as one of the backups. I have mine on a portable as well as an AC-powered one. The portable goes into a Western Digital WD-TV media player hooked into my stereo system and TV. I think Western Digital has a portable at 1.5 TB, the max available in that architecture. Portables are almost twice as expensive as AC-powered ones, though.

If Chango's busy, Ellegua can take you and your files to the crossroads.

I think there are some tribute albums that work nicely, even entire album reinventions, but generally when a different approach is taken, or different instrumentation. The slavish recreations of things like Kind of Blue (I once saw a show that had Wallace Roney, Ravi, Vincent Herring, Jimmy Cobb, Geri Allen and I forget the bassist) are silly and boring, but I really like the Nels Cline/Greg Bendian take on Interstellar Space. How about a V.S.O.P. tribute band?

As much as I love some of these musicians, as much as I love the original album, I find this just plain ridiculous: * Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone Donny McCaslin – tenor saxophone Sabir Mateen – alto saxophone Vincent Herring – alto saxophone Jeremy Pelt – trumpet Josh Roseman – trombone James Weidman – piano Ben Allison – bass Billy Drummond – drums Matt Wilson – drums In a reprise of Jazz Standard’s hugely successful Impulse! Records 50th Anniversary celebration earlier this year, an all–star tentet led by tenor giant Joe Lovano will assume the weighty mantle of reinterpreting Ascension, “the single re­cording that placed John Coltrane firmly into the avant–garde,” wrote Sam Samuelson at AllMusic.com. The original band (including Archie Shepp, Marion Brown, Freddie Hubbard, and McCoy Tyner) played Trane’s 40–minute epic in a manner “both relentless and soulful simultaneously…With a patient ear and an appreciation for the finer things in life, the reward is a greater understanding of the personal path that the artist was on at that particular time in his development.” Every member of this group is a leader in his own right, and together they’re sure to make this evening one of the highlights of the jazz year.

It's a good program, fairly priced, and I used to use it, but Audacity does pretty much everything it does for free, so I haven't repurchased it when I upgraded my hardware.

That one is very tempting, but luckily it's tomorrow only and I can't make it. Luckily because I'm glad I won't be paying a $65 cover for one set of music.