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I'm a little less impressed by the film, but it was probably the very best Batman film (I really don't have high expectations for Batman films!) I could have done without Katie Holmes entirely. But I did like the Al Ghoul and Scarecrow appearances. Tell me, learned experts, does this redefining the myth align itself with the Year One comic version (i. e. was the League of Shadows part of it, was Al Ghoul the trainer, was Rachel a character?) I've never read the comic version. I quit reading Batman when Giordano was inking it and I read the first Dark Knight graphic novel and that was it.

As the prophet has said, "Grant Green selleth more."

I fall sort of in between Mark and Alexander in my comic book fandom and desire to see the movie-ization of a comic. When I was seven or so in 1962 or so the Marvels started to take off: FF and Spidey and my real favorites: Journey into Mystery and Strange Tales. My father forbade me to read this stuff which was a mistake because I managed to find a lot of them and hide them in my room, Finally a few years later my dad told me I could collect some if I wanted and he came in the next day to my room and saw a two foot stack! And then moving to Africa in 1966 I was afraid I would not find the comics I was addicted to, but in Addis Ababa there was one English book store, Giannopolis and eventually the comics would appear from Europe or occasionally from the US. In Swaziland there was a store I could get them all. It was really weird to read some of these very Amerian cultural pieces in the middle of a multiracial and multinational dorm room in M'Babane. I do feel that the comic book experience at heart is very noncinematic, it's all your personal imagination at play along with the framework offered on the newsprint pages (I quit comics when they got all slick and such, not because of that but because I was in my early twenties and had to learn how to spend time in reality!) To my way of thinking the first movies along the comic book line were juste laughingly bad. Superman, etc. Sheesh. I hated that. But technology came along and the movies got better, and directors came along that really wanted to do comic book movies because they loved the material, and that didn't hurt. The best ones really communicated the love of the material and came up with interesting comic book movies. I never felt they were in fact MY versions. For the most part only a few actually were rooted in the comics that I read and enjoyed. But I could view them as someone's version that they wanted to share, and that was fun. So Xmen, Spidey, Hulk, Daredevil, Elektra--I enjoy these. I'm eager to see Batman Begins and Fantastic Four! I'll probably skip Ghost Rider with Nicholas Cage. . .

It comes from a Spanish company . . . it's not an authorized release from the Roulette vaults. Turns out it's two Roulette lps on one cd, good deal, good music, not really legit (but I'm living in a glass house and not throwing stones). Went to Dusty and ordered the new Ed Motta cd and the cd of Elis Regina at the Montreux Jazz Festival that always seemed to be out of stock when I wanted to order it before!

Those BASTARDS! (The Lone Hill PIRATE BASTARDS I mean!) Guess this has the King and the Roulette lps on it. . . .

Jim, I'm still lactose tolerant, but in a successful try at lowering my cholesterol so that I didn't have to start taking pills to that end, I eliminated my massive milk habit . . . . And I found I actually really enjoy soy milk, especially with cereals (I can use unflavored freely with the cereals as they flavor the "milk"). I hated it at first, but after a rough month, I LOVE it now.

Five cd complete solo Satie pieces from yourmusic.com

The "Impressions" two disc version is not free of announcer. . . .

Previous discussion: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...t+the+half+note

I haven't heard this new one. I'm less and less a fan of Wayne the deconstructionist. I've made my way through about twelve discs of the recent tour (boots) several times and it's tough work. . . . I think one person's deconstructing IS another's noodling. . . . I like the group with Hancock and Holland better than the group with Perez. . . .I probably agree in spirit with Jack

Red rice (not the New Orleans variety, though I dig that too!) As for breakfast cereals, there's a bulk item at Central Market I really like, a granola known as "Super Nutty," and when I feel like spending more, there's a Familia box I grab called "Low Fat Granola" . . . . I used to buy Familia "Jungle Crunch" but it's not carried any longer, darnit! Good stuff! For a long time I was a Grape Nuts person, but I'd get these barley burps in the mid morning that were not fun. And then I tried to be a Skinner Raison Bran man. . . but the granola got me.

I don't believe it is possible. The monthly item seems to need to be a single disc. (If you don't have one in your cue, they'll charge you for a single disc). You can instantly send them to your cart and purchase them; I wish you couldn't. I did that this morning on a box set of Satie. . . .

It's a silkscreening error in the plant. I've a few like that. One is one of the Cellar Door cds; the Miles info is inked over a Mariah Carey label!

I'll probably have mine tonight or tomorrow. Yeah, that live stuff I have already heard; it's fantastic!

Hmmmm. . . he was one of the draws for me for the session, so I may not have the same reaction! -_-

Don't read! It only encourages them! -_-

Yes, I hope they keep mining the Vortex vein as this and the Byard Lancaster are great to have on cd, and they're practically the best they can be from Water.

Well, I think that the fact that Blue Note is willing to licence problem (their assessment probably) titles to Water is a great thing. Water is in fact doing a better job than the Connoisseur series in my opinion in presenting these reissues (they sound better, they have beautiful booklets). I love the RVG series, but these sort of titles will likely never be considered for that series. I'm happy to get them from Water; keep 'em coming!

I think they're cool too, but I'm forbidden to even think so by my wife, so you didn't hear that from ME, you made it up, right?

Amen!

I haven't myself gotten the Frog Djangos. Those and the two newest are I believe the Frogs I don't have! You are right sir: Ted Kendall on the first Django JSP set. Thanks for the correction.

First set was remasterd by Mr. Davies. Second set. . . I don't have it. . .I've been told it is uncredited and sounds fine. Third set was remastered by Ted Kendall (Davies' protege so to speak).

Chevy Chase?

Thanks for weighing in. I'm going to see it this weekend. Been looking forward to this and it seemed promising; glad that the promise seems realized.