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Though I've read about 100 Simenon novels of one type or another, I don't think I've read this one before, found it in my "archive." Mine has the same cover with the exception that mine says 25 cents on the cover!

Yes, I like Sparkle as well. I ordered the new set. Guess I'll have some Aretha cds to get rid of.

Sorry - no .... but the reissue engieners probably made the best of it. I never liked RVGs sound on the CTI LPs - too much noise reduction, still a lot of hiss, very artificial instrument balance, drums too low in the mix, unpersonal bass pickup sound, uniform piano sound, hardly any natural room ambiance, you name it - for my ears, a low point in jazz audio engineering. You can hardly hear Cobham's cymbals - they probably mixed them down to avoid the high level of hiss on these tapes. The playing is very good, but the recording is ruined, IMO. Maybe the bad sound is the reason they left off this one from the first batch of CTI reissues many years ago? Huh. Sounded fine to me. Not that crazy about a few of the selections. Some great piano playing though.

Many more happy happy ones FFA!

I actually was trying to avoid the picture.

I had an old Magnavox bought from a thrift store that was fun to play with, warm and fuzzy sound, not at all accurate but forgiving. I always had a better stereo and have a stereo now light years better, and for a while the console was used as furniture. Now it's just serving as a base to stack a lot of things on in the middle bedroom. A friend's dad had a great one in the 'seventies, really nice sound for the time. My dad uses a specially built cabinet with full range Electro Voice drivers that has had Dynaco and then Pioneer and now Onkyo components housed in it. The build of the cabinet and the drivers really make for a nice room-filling sound. I always enjoy it whenever I go home to Ohio.

I wish there had been more episodes that season! Pretty hilarious moments, and of course I loved the Chandler references.

Sorry you didn't enjoy it more. Now watching "Morning Glory." Really funny. Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton were great.

Just my opinion. It was the funniest episode start to finish for me of the last six months.

Many many happy returns jazzjet!

Actually the novel was written about the time PKD decided to stop trying to market mainstream fiction and it and The Man in the High Castle seem a new type of novel for him, one that was less overtly science fiction. I really like this one, though I like them all so factor that in. David, I don't remember the short story and I know I've read it as I've read all the volumes of the collected stories. Four of us are going out to see the movie tonight. I expect it to be a good movie.

Last night's SNL was one of the best in months and months.

I've ordered the Miles and Coltrane from worldsrecords.com. They'll probably ship next week.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._W._Jeter Kevin Wayne Jeter (born 1950) is an American science fiction and horror author known for his literary writing style, dark themes, and paranoid, unsympathetic characters. He has written novels set in the Star Trek and Star Wars universe, and has written three (to date) sequels to Blade Runner. Jeter attended college at California State University, Fullerton where he became friends with James P. Blaylock and Tim Powers, and through them, Philip K. Dick. Jeter was actually the inspiration for the character named Kevin in Dick's novel, Valis.[1] Many of Jeter's books focus on the subjective nature of reality in a way that is reminiscent of the works by Dick. Jeter wrote an early Cyberpunk novel, Dr. Adder, which was enthusiastically recommended by Philip K. Dick. Due to its violent and sexually-provocative content, it took Jeter approximately ten years to find a publisher for it. Jeter is also the first to coin the term "Steampunk,"[2] in a letter to Locus magazine in April 1987, to describe the retro-technology, alternate-history works that he published along with his friends, Blaylock and Powers. Jeter's Steampunk novels were Morlock Night and Infernal Devices. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife, Geri. As well as his own original novels, K. W. Jeter has written a number of authorized novel sequels to the critically acclaimed 1982 motion picture Blade Runner, which was adapted from Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

Well, Blade Runner is in ways a loose adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, there are key plot elements of the book completely absent from the film, and the tone in my opinion of the movie is very different from the novel. I think it's perfectly acceptable as Jeter has done to base a novel or film on the MOVIE. I would have gone a very different route with the material than Jeter did, and I suspect that these new developers will as well.

Ubik is once again planned. My dream film is a version of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

Well, Jeter wrote three sequels to Blade Runner (the movie) that were at least okay. . . . I think it would be very interesting to see both a sequel and a prequel, they don't have to be tied to Do Androids Believe in Electric Sheep in any tighter a fashion than the original movie was as I really think the novel and movie are so different as to be hard to compare and contrast. I hope these come to fruition. I like Blade Runner a lot, but I don't think it's "untouchable" etc.

Many many happy democratic returns!

There's something wrong with this idea. That film should be left alone - no sequel or prequel, especially 30 yrs after the fact. Nah, I welcome a prequel and sequel. That's just me I guess, but I bet there are others.

"Harry's Law," wherein albinos make Tommy Jefferson nauseous.

Happy Birthday and many happy returns Garth!

Many many happy returns Al!

Miles Davis, "Bitches Brew" John Coltrane, "Crescent" Jimi Hendrix, "Band of Gypsies"

Have one for each isolation transformer, so on one Duet I have my SCD-XA5400ES (fantastic player), BDP-S2000ES, DVR. and Decware ZDAC-1 (plus my Sony Bravia tv, I use an Audioquest splitter that allows one power cord to feed two others, so DVR and TV share one outlet on that Duet), the other Duet powers my Decware Torii MK III and my Decware CSP2.

I have a P300 which died on me years go, didn't have any issues with it before that. Haven't sought to repair it. I replaced it with two isolation transformers (one for digital source components, one for non-digital) and each feeds a PS Audio Duet. Works quite well.