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I love going to the theater. I'm looking forward to Burn After Reading.

I'd like to see and hear 'em!

In a lot of real and cyber places I frequent, you're an audiophile if you use stuff that doesn't come from a department store or chain store.

I've been listening to the Oscar Peterson Trio set.

For me, with the Pres, there's no problem with alternates, and that set was exciting in that there were NEW alternates of material circulated for more than half a century! As for the OP Trio set, there are about four previously unreleased alternates. Here's the discography info: http://www.mosaicrecords.com/discography.a...;copies=7%20CDs

The set has very good sound. I have had this set since Tuesday and played half of the discs several times now. The original vinyl of these sounded really good, and so do these transfers and the mastering by Addey. As for more of the same. . . no, I don't think so. I find this material to be recorded and performed differently than the later recordings. There is a deliberate Nat King Cole Trio feel to much of it (especially, but not limited to the vocal sides) and I think the swing is more traditionally delivered than in the MPS and Pablo sides. (Or rather the Pablo I've heard, I haven't heard too many, I think I've heard all the MPS). It is in a sense "a lot of the same" though. . . there are some quartet sides (i.e. with a drummer added) but there's disc after disc of the piano-bass-guitar trio format so popular in the forites and early fifties. . . I like it, others may have a different tolerance level.

Happy birthday Paul!

I confess I really enjoy watching seasons of tv dramas on dvd, more than watching them on tv. They sure look better. I am now watching the second season of Heroes on Blu-Ray. (Man it looks good.) And I just noticed that the NBC show "Life" that debuted last season hit dvd and ordered a copy from half.com

Bruce, In general I thought both season 1 and 2 of the Wolfe were over the top. . . a bit. I didn't imagine them this way (I've read all the Wolfe, and nearly all of Rex Stout.) But still, I really enjoy the series because. . . it's Wolfe and Goodwin! Besides, my best lady friend thinks I'm Archie! (Come to think of it, I was born in Canton, drink milk the way he does, have to have my eight hours, and a few other coincidences!)

Kaya has one of my favorites on it too. . . Is this love Is this love Is this love that I'm feeling. . . . I love the phrasing and the riddim. My other big favorite is Redemption Songs from Uprising. I once was a BIG Marley listener. (Those were the kaya years. . . .)

Mike what you are using many might consider audiophile!

I saw this last weekend. Okay, if you're "politically correct" you may not have a great time. I thought it was pretty damned funny, almost Zoolander funny.

Another one on my "to read" shelf...though it's been there almost as long as Ulysses now... Heart of Darkness. . . wow I should reread that sometime soon. Conrad was something!

You're the best!!! :tup The best what? My girlfriend says I'm the best lover. . . but I credit her.

Here is a nice website run by his daughter about his work: http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/ He had an interesting life. Here's a quote from his (Paul Linebarger's) "Psychological Warfare" In other terms, it is tough to be modern; the difficulty of being modern makes it easy for individuals to be restless and anxious; restlessness and anxiety lead to fear; fear converts freely into hate; hate very easily takes on political form; political hate assists in the creation of real threats such as the atomic bomb and guided missiles, which are not imaginary threats at all; the reality of the threats seems to confirm the reality of the hate which led to it, thus perpetuating a cycle of insecurity, fear, hate, armament, insecurity, fear, and on around the circle again and again. It is possible, but by no means probable, that the rapid development of psychological and related sciences in the Western world may provide whole new answers to the threats which surround modern Americans, including the supreme answer of peace as an alternative to war or the secondary answer of victory in the event of war.... Too specific a concentration on the problem of winning a war may cause a leader or his expert consultants to concentrate on solutions derived from past experience, therewith leading him to miss new and different solutions which might be offered by his own time. Here: http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/psychological-warfare.htm

I've never read anything by Cordwainer Smith. I found a copy of Space Lords in a used paperback shop the other day to give him a try; it's the first book of his I've found. I don't know if I'm just unlucky, or his stuff is just hard to find. Norstrilia is in print now in a handsome new edition (I don't have it though, I have two copies of seventies paperbacks) and there is a fantastic hardcover of all his short fiction called "The Rediscovery of Man" in print, well worth seeking out. (A shorter paperback collection of short stories, "The Best of Cordwainter Smith" has been out of print for some time but I have seen it often in used bookstores). It's been a long time since I saw my copy of Space Lords, it has to have some of the "Instrumentality of Mankind" stories in it. (There were two other early paperbacks on Pyramid I think, The Planet Buyer and The Underpeople, that were standalone volumes of the full novel Norstrilia). That makes all his work in print except for three or four mainstream novels written under another nom-de-plume (Cordwainer Smith is, you guessed it, also a pseudonym). I've never read those. . . I'd like to but I don't want to pay 50 plus each for the ones that can be found. . . . Edited to clear up a mistake I made about The Space Lords.

I guess I would be considered one. Mainly I became this way because. . . I love tube amplification and after being raised with a custom built Dynaco system given to my father, I just could not get into the usual solid state systems I could buy myself. And I found a small company hand-building tube equipment and wonderful speakers, and have stuck with them throughout a decade plus. And very very happy with my system.

Thanks for sharing this Clifford!

Yes. . . haven't read him in a long time. . . but yes.

I've never heard this one either, though I think I have nearly everything else. I agree, after all these years Bud's playing still can be . . . "incroyable" as the French say.

I've only heard the Farrell and the Jeffrey. . . and I like them both. . . the Farrell may win out for ME by a hair. . . a think hair.

Many many more happy happy returns!

"Norstrillia," Cordwainer Smith (for maybe the fourth time?)

Probably the Japenese version of Sonny's own release? http://www.sonnyrollins.com/