J Larsen

Actually, you'd reduce world electricity consumption by about 15% if you replaced every incadescent bulb with a fluorescent bulb. It is not trivial.

The piece GOM posted is just about the best/most poignant Bangs I've ever read. Honestly, his other stuff didn't really inspire me to even try to find out what the "cult" was about. But that was a very, very good piece on Lennon.

It isn't small to the coach who was fired, the program that was dismantled, or especially the three young men who had their entire lives turned upside down. But it should be "small" to the rest of us. Chuck is right. Guy No, that's a silly argument. One might just as well say that the wars and genocide going on now are "small stuff" too compared to what might result, long-term, from global warming or the eventual explosion of the sun. There are always "bigger things" to worry about, but that doesn't mean we should ignore the lesser issues. I agree. As somebody who has been involved in criminal defenses, it scares me how easily an innocent person can have their life turned upside down due to the ambitions of a prosecutor looking to further his career. Really. My top issue is global warming, by far, but this is one of many smaller issues that deserves attention IMO.

Glad you are ok... that's the kind of thing that will really get you thinking about life.

I don't think that is the point of the graph at all. The point of the graph is "if I (as a society) am going to try to reduce carbon emissions, where do I get the biggest bang for my buck?"

I have to run off to a meeting, so I don't have time to do a review of last night's show, but suffice to say that overall it was very good with a few bumps in the road. The new William Parker composition "Sunrise Over Jupiter" is definitely something to check out if/when it is recorded. Spiritual Unity were about as on as I've ever seen them, and on reflection were really the highlight of the night. The Cooper-Moore set was overall pretty cool, but there were some painful moments. The other band was booorrrr-ing. Tonight it's back for night 2: Wednesday June 20 – Bill Dixon Lifetime Recognition Poet/Host Barry Wallenstein 7:00 Barry Wallenstein and Friends Barry Wallenstein vocals, poetry / Daniel Carter reeds, trumpet / special guests TBA 7:30 Bill Dixon with the Sound Vision Orchestra – World Premiere Bill Dixon trumpet, compositions Graham Haynes trumpet / Stephen Haynes trumpet / Taylor Ho Bynum cornet Dick Griffin trombone / Steve Swell trombone / Joe Daley tuba Andrew Raffo Dewar soprano saxophone / Michel Cote reeds / J.D. Parran reeds Will Connell, Jr. reeds / John Hagen reeds / Karen Borca bassoon / Glynis Lomon cello / Andrew Lafkas double bass Warren Smith vibraphone, percussion / Jackson Krall percussion 9:30 Co-Pilots: Henry Grimes with Marilyn Crispell and Rashied Ali Henry Grimes bass / Marilyn Crispell piano / Rashied Ali drums 10:30 Survival Unit III Joe McPhee reeds, flügelhorn / Fred Lonberg-Holm cello Michael Zerang drums

LED lights are much nicer than any variation on fluorescent bulbs that I've ever seen, and also very low power. The downside is that they are still pretty expensive.

But I can guarantee that FAR more than 200,000 are MBV fans.

I mostly agree that the opinions expressed in Guy's link are ridiculous, but I have to say I have always HATED (and I mean HATED HATED HATED) that Stone Roses album. I've tried in vain to understand what people liked about that record.

When I was in HS going over to 24th St to hit Streetlight and Aquarius was a weekly ritual. I found some very, very, very cool 7" records in Streetlight over the years.

So the guy in '68 was hte double for the double?

I've seen them three or four times before, but not in several months. Honestly, it is my favorite Ribot project. It really captures the spirit of the music, while retaining the individual voices of the group's members. That album on Pi left me very cold though... the shows are where it is at. I'm really excited about the William Parker set!

Actually, the last couple Mosaic boxes I've gotten (both direct from Mosaic) have been mashed up. Nothing worth asking for a replacement over, though.

Vision Festival Night One: Host Lewis Barnes 7:00 Opening Invocation Patricia Nicholson / William Parker / Hamid Drake 7:30 William Parker – “Double Sunrise Over Neptune” – World Premiere Lewis Barnes trumpet / Rob Brown alto saxophone / Sabir Mateen reeds Dave Sewelson baritonesax / Bill Cole double reeds / Joe Morris guitar, banjo Jason Kao Hwang violin / Mazz Swift violin / Jessica Pavone viola Shiau-Shu Yu cello / Brahim Frigbane oud / William Parker bass Shayna Dulberger bass / Hamid Drake drums / Gerald Cleaver drums Sangeeta Banerjee - vocal 8:30 Fieldwork Steve Lehman saxophones, compositions / Vijay Iyer piano, compositions Tyshawn Sorey drums, compositions 9:30 The Keyboard Project: Cooper-Moore Project with Marlies Yearby Darius Jones alto saxophone / Cooper-Moore keyboards Nioka Workman cello / Chad Taylor drums / Marlies Yearby dance Willie Applewhite - trombone 10:30 Spiritual Unity featuring Marc Ribot (with special guest Henry Grimes) Roy Campbell trumpet / Marc Ribot guitar Henry Grimes bass / Chad Taylor drums

Vision Fest is tonight for me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoKrMW8giGg

Fair point - I was born in the 70s and don't really have that context. The albums are really frustrating.

Yes, absolutely. It is really uncanny how much greater the whole was than the sum of the parts. And while I agree that the post-Beatles work of all four is of widely varying quality, I think there is a clustering of points at the "low" end of the scale, and really not too much at the high end.

Meanwhile, I've also heard that the "victims" (the three lacrosse players) have amassed $5 million in legal bills. (That sounds wildly excessive, I know, but what if it was "only" $100,000?) It doesn't sound excessive to me. That is in line with the market value of a top-notch criminal defense.

What do you mean? Guy No more running around with various women, no more getting in the news for getting kicked out of nightclubs for stealing maxi pads from the ladys' room and wearing them on his head, becoming a father (and I don't mean having a kid, I mean being a dad), etc.

Yes, but also the fact that he at least appeared to clean up his act in his final years. Whether it was misinterpreted or not, I think McCartney's reaction to Lennon's murder ("it's a drag") turned a lot of fans off Paul and put them in Lennon's camp.

Is that a genuine smilie?

EDIT: There was a silly mistake in my stata code. The correct answer is 15 correct for 5% significance. At 12 you are at the 25% significance level. There are enough people getting scores higher than 10 that I think it is pretty clear that a joint test turn out statistically significant.

Actually, the amonia stopped working and the fucker came back and almost gnawed hisway through my window frame. So I worked out another way to keep him off my window sill, which I won't divulge for fear of being accused of animal cruelty; I'll simply refer to it as The Plan of Last Resort (TPLR). One thing I may not have mentioned earlier is that even prior to implenting TPLR, he had also been trying to gnaw his way into my upstairs neighbor's apartment. The upstairs neighbor was not an individual, but rather the world headquarters of a rainforest defense organization, so they were not particularly receptive to my plan to repel the wildlife, and scoffed at TPLR. Once I implented TPLR, the fucker was having NO PART of my windowsill anymore, and focused all of his energy on the upstairs neighbor's window - I knew this from A) the absence of the fucker on my windowsill and B) the wood raining down on my windowsill from upstairs. Within a few days of implementing TPLR, I heard screaming from above, which quickly became screaming traveling down the staircase! The squirrel made its way into the upstairs apartment, freaked out the nonprofit workers who bolted down the stairs, and the squirrel followed them down the stairs and out into the street! After he finally made it outside, he never returned. But the nonprofit upstairs is still stuck with a hole chewed straight through the window (the landlord never fixes anything regardless of severity or urgency). I have since moved to a place two blocks away with storm windows and 24 hour maintenance.

Fine. If you guys are just going to fool around, I'll keep the tragically comic ending to this story to myself.