J Larsen

If you use the same emusic account (e-mail) that you did back in the "unlimited" days, you should be able to re-download everything from before (for free), with the better mp3 quality. I've done that, but my days as an unlimited emusic member were not as productive as I would have liked them to be. I was distracted with my dissertation and only managed to find time to download 200-300 discs off emusic. I agree that the sound isn't too bad, but the consensus around here seems to be that it is lo-fi, hence my disclaimer. I ruined my ears a long time ago and usually can't hear much (often any) difference between various media or remasterings.

Absolutely not. Damn... I opened a second emusic account tonight to at least get some lo-fi tracks to check out... I have most of the Fantasy box sets (Trane Prestige, Miles Prestige, Monk Riverside, etc), but "only" about 100 individual discs, exclusive of the 200 or 300 I downloaded from emusic in the unlimited days. It was always easy putting off the OJC and OBC discs because they were so readily available...

I received the same catalogue. It should be noted that it is a sale catalogue listing CDs for one to four dollars off, with another 10% off if you order via the internet. It's not a complete list of their current ctalogue. Exactly. Everything still seems available at the Concord website so it doesn't look as if anything's been deleted... yet. That's good to hear. Doesn't Concord tend to keep most of their own discs in print? Regardless, I'll probably pick up the rest of those Yusef Lateef and Booker Ervin discs this weekend - I only have three of each from the Fantasy catalog. I can't tell you all how angry I am at myself for not just downloading the whole catalog back in the unlimited days of emusic...

I think it's just an East Coast/West Coast thing. Growing up out west it was always DUI. Out here it's universally DWI.

I'm thinking of ordering Have Gun, Will Travel season 1 off Amazon. I only know the show by reputation; I've never seen an episode. Any votes up or down? If it helps at all, my favorite DVD sets are the two Danger Man "Megasets".

I doubt any outreach program would name themselves after William Carlos Williams. Too obscure. My guess is that this is somewhere between 95% and 100% bs.

The entirity of Morton Feldman's "Patterns in a Chromatic Field" will cost you just one download. 80 minutes of music for about a quarter - not a bad deal. Also, Ipecac, and hence Isis were added today, if you're into that kind of thing (basically metal for people who like to think they've grown out of metal...)

I really like Animal Magnetism by Arnold Dreyblatt. It's worth a listen.

23 Standards by A Brazxton on Leo has been re-added. Also, the Tzadik catalog was added today.

Really? They told me it would e available ##/## for $xx.xx.

Edit: My initial response wasn't quite accurate. Here is what AMG says:

Male sylist. I pay more than most women, but that's what you do when your regular hair makes you look like a mushroom (I must have one of the thickest heads of hair on the planet, at least as far as humans are concerned).

I really like Louis Smith.

No kidding: I saw this guy driving up my block a few weeks ago.

Agreed - as long as its not the transformer I should get it back in better condition than when I bought it. ← Who's fixing it? ← Blackie at Tubesville. The first three people I asked for recommendations all sent me to him.

Agreed - as long as its not the transformer I should get it back in better condition than when I bought it.

Well, that didn't do it. I'm taking it to the doctor tonight. ← Probably just a bad tube then. I'm sure it will be an easy fix. ← Is it normal for a tube to go all at once like that? I was under the impression that they sort of slowly fizzled out.

Well, that didn't do it. I'm taking it to the doctor tonight.

I have two S-500. I love them both. I think there different radius offered. The necks on mine are not huge. Check with these folks. ← Thanks. Do you think it is worth it to track down an older model, or do you think the newer ones are of about the same quality? I'd love to have a handmade strat (legacy) and tele (asat).

I'll try that as soon as I get home... thanks!

Yep. BTW, the hissing/static noise occurs even with nothing plugged into the input jacks. In the past its always been perfectly silent with nothing plugged in.

When I plugged in my early 70's Fender Champ tonight, it made this really awful static/hissing sound, and received no signal from my guitar. After turning it on and off several times and switching back and forth between inputs 1 and 2, I finally got some sound out of it, but it was pretty flat sounding. Up until tonight it has been very reliable and has always sounded great. Any idea as to what could be wrong? I've grown really attached to it and I'll really bummed if it's just dead....

Any opinions on G&L guitars? Someone told me that their quality started declining in the mid-90s - is that true? Are the necks always super-thick? Thanks.

Stranger than Paradise is one of my favorite movies, period. Down by Law is very good, but the style to substance ratio is a bit high, IMO. However, it is a very cool style. IMHO, Mystery Train and Night on Earth are pretty much crap. There are a couple of fun bits in Night on Earth, but he pretty much lost me with these two. Dead Man was okay. Ghost Dog was friggin' embarrassing.

Man, that's rough to think about. Although I did have to do that myself, once. A friend had caught a mouse in a glue trap in her apartment. It was trapped, but it wasn't dead. I figured the most human thing to do was drop the trap (w/ mouse attached) in a bag and hit it full force with a cat iron skillet. Still felt wierd about it, though. If my cat gets a mouse, it seems like the natural order of things. But if I kill it with my own two hands, I feel a little guilty. That's probably silly, but it is what it is.