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Damn! Custer (a distant relative) just keeps getting razzed. One fatal error and it seems the end of his career eternally! Still . . . he was more ethical than record companies. . . .

I'll probably pick it up next year.

yeah. . . but the hard ting bout these movies. . . who's going to be able to pull off playing JB? :?

"Captain America against Batroc the Leaper and the Red Skull" Starring Brad Pitt, William Shatner and Arnold Swartzenegger "P'Gell the Femme Fatale," the first full length Spirit movie Starring Angelina Jolie and George Clooney "Thor and Loki's Evil Brigade" Starring Matt Daemon and Gary Oldman (and Tara Reid as "The Enchantress" with a special appearance by Ben Afleck as The Executioner) "Dr. Strange: Dormammu's Return" Starring Hugo Weaving and Danny DeVito (Special appearance by Charlton Heston as Eternity) "Green Lantern vs. Sinestro" Starring Matthew Fox and Kevin Spacey SURELY THERE ARE MORE?

Jim, I've considered it a fair price for clones of Buddy DeFranco Japanese Verve cds that sound better than the lp to cdr discs I have of the lps, clones of Japanese Alice Coltrane cds, clones of Japanese Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp cds, etc. The diminishment of quality is not prohibitive to my enjoyment, and the price is just on the top edge of okay.

In typical douchebag Bergian doubletalk I can hardly make sense of what you're trying to say besides the typical insulting anyone who disagrees with you. Get a new act and grow up. I have a great sounding system, listening to it right now, and it sounds good with MP3s too. Get your head out in the air and enjoy the music son. And I'll just ignore your CHILDISH crack about my mom. Pathetic.

A Christmas "album" (2006) by two of my friends, Dave Laczko and Mel Winters, piano and "bass."

"The Pelopenessian War" by Donald Kajan (not his four volume history, but his less scholarly centric single volume work.) Fascinating. Democracies against facism.

Well, new ten dollar cds with bonus tracks and historical liner notes (especially the latter, of any value) are getting harder to find, they're not putting them out with frequency. At least ones I'm interested in. And I do get cover images with most of the MP3s I buy, and can have a little fun designing covers, back covers etc. I DO find that fun. It's part of the appeal. And I tell you. . . I find very few liner notes "compelling reading" any longer. I used to pore over liners. Now I skim. Sometimes ignore completely! So. . . . The 10 dollar downloads I've bought sound good enough that I don't think about "compressed files." I just enjoy the music. I fought the idea a long while, but . . . this is going to be a part of what's ahead of us. . . I bought in.

Does "Horace Silver at the Village Gate" count? Sounds festive!

I heard somewhere that someday the lion will lie down with it. (Not that I'm saying you should have a side dish of lion...) Ah, this just tickled my funny bone really vigorously! Good one Bruce! Glad the dinner was a SUCCESS! We just had a simple but delicious dinner I threw together of ham, baked Yukon gold potatoes, and brocoli spears. Now. . .what's for dessert?

Own lots of dvds now. . . not one Criterion. My man Shawn raves about them though, and he knows whereof he raveth cinematically speaking. Qualiyt. . . costs.

Listened to this one this morning. Was a pleasure! Teef. . . Zawinul. . . ah.

The Hipo-Select singles two cd set. . . . Damn, hard to believe he's gone.

Legacy dying, if that is so, is sad news. Especially with their hands in the RCA catalog now. Is Uptown dead? That would be sad news.

My grandmother used to send me money when I was in college in Chicago. Each of us needed the money, I kept sending the checks back to her, and I meant well but I think I angered her. She meant me to have the money! I didn't mean to anger her. I understand now looking back because I think I'm a lot like her tempermentally and intellectually. I really miss her! You're doing the right thing. . . .

Sorry "J". . . I thought that was Jimmy for some reason. . . my brain misfiring. Brian is not a misfire. Though he'd rather go by Clementine for some reason.

Brian I'm not being defensive. But you have the habit of coming across as the most arrogant "fuck everyone who doesn't agree with me" attitude and I'm just padding the armor in advance for this BS. Obviously you have a lot of fun slinging insults, but I don't want to receive them. I've ignored more posts of yours than answered for just such reasons. Respecting elders goes both ways. (And if that crack wasn't more than just your usual bs: Are you really that aging a hipster doofus? OVER 51?) Jimmy, I've heard thin and harsh MP3s and thin and harsh cds. . . neither had to be that way!

Hey, sure I'll take the best I can get but the MP3 I do have I can listen to and enjoy. And at eMusic prices, and for free for audience Dead downloads etc. it's fast and easy and you can be on the move. I have found the more dollars I've thrown at my stereo (and I've thrown too many) the better everything sounds. . . . My system is very flexible now and I can make SACDs and MP3s sound musical and just. . . enjoy. Enjoying music is what makes me go through the daily grind, and the recent hells. And I can enjoy MP3 Brian.

Some nice cds you got!

Surprise, I'm going to disagree with Big Burg Berg a bit. Well. . . I used to wrinkle my nose at and toss in the hamper MP3. . . .But I find that I don't hear as much a difference as I intellectually thought I would between quality MP3 and many cds. I also don't hear that much difference in many cases between FLAC and MP3. Apple's AC files that Verve offers sound perfectly fine to me on my best system. I'm no longer a snob. I've tossed my former arrogance towards compressed files out the window. "It's about the music" I tell myself and enjoy the aforementioned. Nothing digital sounds as good as analog. That's just the way it is.

I got a new wedding band from my wife, not expensive but nice, I had outgrown my first one. My dad sent me a big check, and my father in law an even BIGGER check, but I have to bank those. This last year was the most expensive year I've ever had due to health and travel expenses, and my wife's income is seriously diminished. . . I need that money in the bank! A friend gave me the Armstrong All Stars dvd in the Jazz Icons series, and I'm really enjoying it! For myself I bought the Ellington Mosaic that was released this month. . . it's awesome.

Yes, the Verve Vault offers out of print cds, and Impulse and Verve etc. downloads of cds formerly available in Japan. (It's a great deal. . .10 bucks or less for a clone of a cd that was 25 dollars or so when available at US retail stores!) Yes, I download MP3s all the time MG and burn them onto an audio cd. iTunes lets me choose to burn an audio or an MP3 cd. . . .

Today: Louis Armstrong "Christmas through the Years" "An Uptown Christmas" "Crescent City Christmas Card" Wynton Marsalis/LCJO a collection of Christmas songs performed by three friends of mine on piano, synth bass and drums, recorded in 1989 (I transferred it to cdr for them last Christmas)