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Because that stuff is not yet "public domain". . . .

Whoo hooo many more happy ones!

No. Wish it were. Will be interesting to hear.

The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great, by Andrew Chugg. A beautiful book. My fourth book about Alexander in a row.

You have my condolences. I went through something similar with my cat Spot about five years ago. It's among the really tough things in life.

There are those who want to string him up. . . . Not me! I like this score. Haven't seen the movie. Maybe someday. REAL Burroughs is so weird I haven't gone for movie Burroughs.

Fer has it right. Some stereo RVG for Savoy. . . and interesting sounding too (thinking of the Coltrane Harden, and the Fuller sessions. . . man the horn sound is HUGE!)

NOW WAIT A MINUTE I HAVE SEEN COSEY WITH A BEAT BOX --- I"VE SEEN IT!

I agree that Blake has talent, and imagination. . . . But I just get this vibe off him. . . I don't "like" him at all. Both he and Melinda have this cultivated persona. . . I just happen to like Melinda! And I love Jordin! She's got charisma in spades.

Man, the music was pretty sucky this week. . . Bon Jovi, yeah right. Melinda did the best. I fear for Jordin since two are going home tonight. I don't want her to leave! If I were casting people off the island it would be Chris and Phil. But. . . I would doubt they both go.

I have to be in the very very very right mood for this. . . I don't play it often. But it's quite intense and stygian.

iTunes is about to introduce higher quality files. . .for 1.29.

HG, thanks for joining us. Hill's death has colored my week as well. . . .And judgment was also the release that made me really notice Hill and explore his work. Hill's work keeps giving back to me!

Hmmm. . . .I find it very good myself. . . I'd welcome an RVG. . . . Don't expect to see one soon however.

I've done some looking around and it appears that this bit about the DACs is incorrect, or perhaps better said incorrect, and seems to be coming from a review and retail advertisement copy but not from the manufacturer. I've removed that from my post above. THANKS. Here's a note from the manufacturer/distributor: Pickering, ONTARIO – NOVEMBER 11, 2005 – Monitor Audio, the UK’s leading specialty loudspeaker manufacturer, today released a statement correcting the details relating to its i-deck’s digital amplifier input. The i-deck personal stereo companion for iPods, does not, in fact, take a digital signal from the iPod; instead it uses the analog signal and then via high quality ADC’s and DAC’s it performs the amplification digitally. “We are deeply disappointed by what appears to have been an isolated series of disconnects between our engineers and the manufacturer,” said Simon Spears, vice president of operations for Monitor Audio USA. “That notwithstanding, the i-deck bears the pedigree of the Monitor Audio brand and the thirty years of innovative design that support it. We are extremely confident that consumers who try the product will feel and hear the difference for themselves.” SO. . .it's true that the Monitor iDeck takes its signal from the analog output (possibly before the headphone amp section) and then converts it using ADCs and then amplifies the signal digitally. . . nice digital amplifier on this unit. Sound is great.

I don't know the ins and outs of the DAC thing, I'm just saying what they say. It sounds . . . so good I could believe it's true.

Perfect for me and my mood today and honoring Duke. . . . Recommended, I've enjoyed this since its release.

I downloaded all the Camel Caravan BG shows, and the Pee Wee Russell with Alex Walsh. They've added Rickie Lee Jones' "The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard." I really like this one. . . I have the limited edition SACD/DVD edition.

1} The irony of Chewy ragging on anyone's enthusiasm doesn't escape. Believe me there's a lot to be excited about being able to carry hundreds of hours of music in your pocket and play back music when and where you want it in surprisingly good sound. To titter about it just makes someone seem out of touch. 2} It's not an either or situation. "Music in Bulk" still has a pride of place. . . I don't see that not being the case here.

CBS "Sunday" just did a nice two minute tribute to Duke. . . . One complaint: very interestingly they showed Duke accepting the medal of freedom from Tricky Dicky, and interestingly they showed him outlining the "four freedoms". . . but they didn't mention that those were STRAYHORN's (or were they?). Strays gets "shadowed out" again.

Cool. I like to have the detached/separated speakers, I put one on each end of my desk and it's more like a home stereo to me. I think the Monitor I have trounces the Bose system. I've heard that aplenty in a friend's office. Clem, if you packed a lunch and went to an office every day (maybe you do, maybe you don't) the iPod and a system to support it is a wondrous thing. It's not surrendering to consumerism, it's taking advantage of a great technology for music lovers.* You can take hours and hours of music with you and have a great experience working with your music, filtering out the aural world of gossip and brownnosization and getting a blanket of comfort to use as a backdrop for your work. I'm lucky, I can do this, it goes a long way to making my commute and my work hours bearable.I finally have an office to make this worthwhile, I have a blownup page of Lester Young demonstrating how to create his distinctive porkpie in front of my desk to look at, a Japanese RVG poster to my right, a Bechet Savoy EP on the wall to my left (all gifts from board members!), it's a haven in a hostile zone. And honestly, it's decent sound, whether you believe that or not. *You just sound like an old fart with their head stuck in . . . the sand . . . when you rail against it.

Mirror mirror on the wall? Who's the most fourteenyearoldgirl of us all?

Many more happy happy returns!

Many many more happy ones!

Yes. . . I should have asked her to dance! You see, for about a year I went out at least once a week with two women I worked with to clubs featuring blues bands and danced away with them. . . . I was beginning to play in a band and I wanted to get some blues dancing experience in and Lou Ann Barton, and Angela Strehli were bands I was seeing two or three times a month each. I'd be dancing with either of my two friends up in front of the stage and I know Angela knew me as a dancing fool and one night I was at the Flying Circus waiting for one or the other or both of my friends to arrive, and they hadn't. So I was leaning against the wall watching the band do a few numbers without Angela, pretty close to George Rains the excellent drummer, and Angela came up and leaned against the same wall right next to me and said Hi. I said hi. . .and then just sort of stiffened up. I kept thinking "maybe I should ask her to dance?" but was not sure that was the right thing to do. So after about three minutes she sort of did a little twist of a dance in front of me, then walked over to front the band and they started up a tune. My friend Tracy (oh how I miss that mixed up girl who left us too soon!) had actually walked in and watched the little tableau and came up to me and said "Angela so wanted you to ask her to dance!" I've kicked myself so hard mentally about that over the years. And oddly it was the very last time I saw Angela and that band in that decade; she moved to San Francisco weeks after that. She is one cool lady. And that band with Denny and George was the bomb!