J Larsen

I thought it would take hours. Last year I bought a different MP3 player. It is 20 gigs and it takes a good 4 hours to upload 20 gigs. It is a piece of crap. I was working for the company, Olympus, and got a good discount, so I went with it. Not worth it. Olympus got out of the digital music busniess. Updating the iPod is very fast - uploading 20 cds takes about a minute and a half. Too bad they dumped firewire - it's been a while since I used my old FireWire iPod, but I remember it being even faster.

I have an 80 gig. The actual capacity is 74.3 GB (what the hell do they put in the OS that it takes up 5.7 GB???). I have 2,895 songs (mostly from Mosaic sets), and 59.7 GB still available. Hope that helps.

Yeah, no way that's audiophile grade. Probably damn near totally nullifying the benefit of the hi-fi outlet covers.

Agreed. For that matter, I haven't heard a good-sounding Soft Machine CD. Hopefully whoever it is that has the rights will do 1 and 2 someday. I personally don't have any use for anything after 4, but a lot of people seem to like the later stuff. I prefer Wyatt's solo albums to the later Soft Machine.

I'll be generic but honest and say Out to Lunch.

Dude, is that a space heater you have right in the middle of your record collection??

Jim, I actually don't care for turkey at all and had stewed leg of lamb for Thanksgiving. A friend came over to cook it; I'll ask exactly what she did, but it looked like she just threw it in a dutch oven with some potatoes and it took care of itself. Lamb chops are my favorite, but they are deceptively difficult to cook. That's one I leave for the restaurants.

I've never knowingly heard him. He sat directly next to me during a very good Roy Haynes set and talked very loudly until (thankfully) deciding to leave 20 minutes into the set. I'm pre-disposed to thinking poorly of him if for no other reason than that.

I got blitzed at work, too.

How about those Mo Wax Headz compilations from the 90s? I still play those every now and then.

I'm not hugely knowledgable in this area, but Squarepusher and Mouse on Mars have their moments.

I've been into Autechre for a long time. LP5 is my favorite - it's more fractured - like they'd been listening to a lot of Markus Popp (Oval/Microstoria/etc).

Yes - I'm pretty sure that was aired in the states.

I like the first half of season two a lot. I'll concede that the second half got a little wanky (the final Lynch episode aside) and may have been the inspiration for every bad episode of the X Files.

It is truly bizarre that the pilot was not included with the first season box. As a result, the first season box really isn't self contained at all; all the action is in motion at the start of the first episode included. There is a very poor quality Region 0 disc of the pilot. Not sure if it is the "regular cut" or how the "regular cut" difers from the "irregular cut." Not sure about that final episode, either - you're not referring to "Fire Walk with Me," are you?

Somehow this thread title sounds like it could be the name of an indie rock album.

You know, I wasn't much of an NE fan back in the day. But I was pretty young back then. Maybe I should pick up the DVD set and give it another try.

Seriously. I went to J&R's DVD store a couple weeks ago and was astonished at some of the shows that are out of DVD. Who is buying ALF - The Complete First and Second Season? You may as well put Small Wonder out on DVD.

It's playing at IFC, which is within walking distance of me... I have a deadline on Friday, so maybe I'll go check it out Friday night.

Someone at work told me that she heard that Season 2 of Twin Peaks is finally going to be released on DVD in the US next year. Has anyone else heard this? Is there a reliable source? Thanks.

Well, I doubt you'd get many responses to a "desert island christmas songs" thread.

I was starting to think I was the only one! Seriously, that song drove me crazy even at three years old.

I decided to skip the computer speakers altogether annd bought the Tivoli iPod/Radio thingamajig for my office. It sounds good enough for its purpose, although I'm not sure I would recommend it to others at $300.

That one about someone banging on their drum ra-pump-a-dum-dum. I've had a grudge against whoever wrote that song since I was about three.

Well, say that 'The Real McCoy' were to show up here five times, which could understandably happen. It's a real nice album. Now say someone were to come on here and say that 'The Real McCoy' is the greatest album that's ever been released. That would certainly overrate the case for it, even if it, very possibly deservedly, were picked on 5-6 lists here. And that is exactly my problem with the "overrating" concept - it is a judgment call about someone else's taste. If someone thinkgs that The Real McCoy is the best album ever, then it is - TO THEM! Look, I'm a physicist with an egghead number crunching job, and even I don't understand why people feel a need to superimpose some quasi-objective ranking framework on art. It is a matter of personal taste. Someone out there CAN legitimately feel that The Real McCoy is the best record of all time. Now, if you want to talk about jazz records popular amongst connoisseurs that I don't personally get in to, I've got a long list, but I'm not going to claim that any of them are overrated.