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I've listened to this courtesy of a blog. Um. . . .Totally forgettable in my opinion. Doesn't do much for me at all. But. . .if it floats any boats, let them sail!

Many many happy returns CA!

I picked up a copy of Humpty at that price too. . .not great that it's already discounted. Interesting novel. Bits used later in SF novels.

I love the non SF novels Dick poured so much of himself into in the fifties, and this is one of the best-written of those. It is bleak and in ways depressing. This to me is a testament to his writing skills, because the situations and characters are not hapy and not going to happy places.

I believe that the redbook layer of the SACD is a new remastering for that release. I'm one of those who enjoys the RVG series, and I like that one. The SACD is also very nice. The K2 is very good as well, I play it less, I'm less fond of the K2s as others seem to be. I don't think you would be unhappy with any of these unless you're an RVG edition "hater."

Went halfway through the Chandler works this summer. Need to get to the other half. One of my alltime favorite things is to be in the middle of one of his novels.

Also, bass solos were removed for the cd version (?) Sigh. Ah well.

Yeah . . .but the cd doesn't have the stuff restored back into these lps! :unsure:

Dave, You are a funny man. I'm almost completely caught up, but saving on shipping is cool.

Again, I say there was a great possibility of great music here. Trane may have envisioned Wes playing a rhythmic role such as a second bassist might, or the way that Benson did briefly in Miles Davis recordings. And I think you could be surprised at how Wes would rise to the occasion to solo or contribute to heads on the material this group was working with. I can imagine it as exciting and working. Love to hear it one day.

I don't think the Family has access to this tape.

Soon we get to see Ridley Scott reinventing. . . Robin Hood.

I think I'm just watching it for the "Lee Harvey Oswald" character Yves Adele Harlow (Zuleikha Robinson)

I can. He was more than you seem to give him credit for. He would have been up to the challenge, Trane I am certain thought so, and I bet he delivered.

Remember enjoying this series, if my memory stands correctly , they got canned real fast, how many shows does the series have and how many were broadcasted. The disc set has little information about the series. Has twelve episodes that I think were all broadcast. Here's the wikipedia entry: The Lone Gunmen, a spin-off of the popular series The X-Files, was a television show that aired on FOX, featuring the characters of the same name. The show first aired in March 2001 and, despite good reviews, was canceled due to a drop in ratings.[1] The last episode aired in June 2001. The debut of the show in March 2001, began with Byers' father faking his death to uncover a conspiracy to hijack an airliner. The Lone Gunmen try to get to the truth of his supposed death and uncover the conspiracy. One retrospectively interesting aspect of this pilot episode is that the airliner has been hijacked (via remote control of the plane's autopilot) and, by the end, both Byers and his father have boarded the plane to try to stop the hijacking. Through the aid of the other Gunmen, they are able to regain control of the plane and just miss crashing into the World Trade Center with the airliner. This, of course, was before the actual 9/11 attack against the World Trade Center later that year. Astonishingly similar to the actual arguments made about 9/11 by "conspiracy theorists", the episode's plot indicates that the hijacking was committed as an act of voracity by a greedy American arms manufacturer to ultimately increase its weapons sales by invoking U.S. retaliation against a scapegoated anti-American extremist dictator.[2] Their spin-off series involved investigating mostly corporate crime, aided (and sometimes hindered) by a mysterious thief named Yves Adele Harlow (Zuleikha Robinson). Despite fan loyalty, the show was ultimately canceled after 12 episodes. They return to The X-Files in the episode "Jump the Shark" in the show's ninth season where they were then killed off. They briefly reappeared in the series finale of The X-Files, as Mulder spoke to their ghosts.

Happy Birthday, Nate!

I have a feeling Wes hung in there quite well for those shows! Maybe we'll find out one day.

I'll certainly give Cameron mad props. He trusted his idea and instinct and he made a film that reached across age and genre preferences and pulled in millions of watchers and offered them something new and pioneering technically. Of course the story had to be one easy to digest, that resonated with past stories, that touched primal buttons, that was necessary to be grasped and followed by so many. He couldn't afford to craft a plot that would only appeal to the uber-hip. He had spent so much dough! This is going to be big on disc as well. I overheard two different people in the theaters say "I think this movie is the one that is going to make me buy a Blu-Ray player," and one said he will finally upgrade his tv! And on another board I've seen some writing to the effect that this film may be the spearhead for a new home playback 3D technology. . . .

One of the highlights for me was seeing WD-41 perform. (WD-41 is a duo of Willie Oterri guitar and Dave Laczko trumpet). The other highlight was Sonny Rollins. Wow.

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I've read several of his books. I agree there's a brilliance there, but ultimately the subject matter just drives me away, I have had enough! Right now