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Agreed...Thora Birch, Steve Buscemi, all amazing. I also often think about the philosophical point of the movie, that many live in a "ghost world" where they don't really understand the motivations and goals followed by most of society. I love the scene where Thora is being offered a scholarship to art school, and she asks "does that mean I'll have to study and stuff?" She just truly doesn't get it. But the Skip James track spoke instantly to her. It was also wonderful to see the Thora and Scarlett characters sharing a worldview at the beginning of the movie but (spoiler alert) during the course of the movie Scarlett somehow moves to the other side. It was shocking and revelatory to see the divide between them. This movie articulates a vision I haven't seen in another movie.

While perusing Amazon, I found some new releases coming up. Some have already been discussed on the board, others not. Most are not jazz, but I've listed them in the interest of completeness: Bill Withers - Complete Sussex and Columbia Johnny Cash - Complete Columbia Blue Oyster Cult - Complete Columbia Bessie Smith - Complete Columbia Charlie Christian - Genius of the Electric Guitar (rerelease) Brecker Brothers - Complete Arista Sarah Vaughan - Complete Columbia Duke Ellington - Complete Columbia Studio 1951-58 John Denver - RCA Albums Taj Mahal - Complete Columbia Louis Armstrong - Complete Columbia/Okeh & RCA Victor Recordings 1925-1933

Ghost World is an amazing movie.

Many of us will accumulate vast libraries of digital books and music over the course of our lifetimes. But when we die, our collections of words and music may expire with us. Someone who owned 10,000 hardcover books and the same number of vinyl records could bequeath them to descendants, but legal experts say passing on iTunes and Kindle libraries would be much more complicated. And one’s heirs stand to lose huge sums of money. “I find it hard to imagine a situation where a family would be OK with losing a collection of 10,000 books and songs,” says Evan Carroll, co-author of “Your Digital Afterlife.” “Legally dividing one account among several heirs would also be extremely difficult.” Part of the problem is that with digital content, one doesn’t have the same rights as with print books and CDs. Customers own a license to use the digital files—but they don’t actually own them. More here: WSJ

When I was a teen, I had a summer job near there, and used to stop in from time to time. I couldn't understand why people would pay full list price for unwrapped LPs. I did find some good albums in the $1.99 stacks there: John McLaughlin's Devotion on Douglas stands out in my mind. It was only when I was older did I understand the role the store played in the Broadway community.

The song is over. Times Square record Mecca, Colony Music, a favorite attraction for performing icons such as Elvis, Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson, will close after 64 years next month because of rapidly rising rents. Founded in 1948, the store has a stockpile of more than 1 million vinyl records and also sells sheet music from virtually every Broadway show and film ever made. “I’m devastated,” said co-owner Michael Grossbardt, whose father, Harold S. “Nappy” Grossbardt, started the store with partner Sidney Turk back when big-band impresario Benny Goodman was a customer. More here: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/colony_closing_brakes_records_ulAC4IBEJZ4ogG2D9yKdCM

True. J&R seems to have all these @ $5.99.

Thanks, Sonnymax. In honor of the recently departed, I downloaded Willis Jackson and Von Freeman - Lockin' Horns.

My first thought when I read the thread title was that it was the dj. Same here although I remember when he worked at WABC/770 in New York. What do I know? He did the 10 AM - 2 PM slot in the '60's on WMCA, when I was in my formative years. His show was very much geared towards housewives - his daily giveaway was a dozen roses.

I always liked "We Want Miles" - the last flicker of genius before his tedious '80's.

OK, so this was the SF writer, and not the WMCA DJ.

I saw the first album when it came out (was it on a Buddah label?), but never heard it and it sank without a trace soon after. There were tons of ignorable albums released in those days. I'm amazed at what gets reissued on CD...hard to believe anyone heard them when they first came out.

There was a child in Deconstructing Harry.

Sigh. WOR-AM came into my life in the early-90's. I was really sick of FM rock radio, felt I had long outgrown it, but needed a radio station to wake up to. I couldn't listen to jazz because the stations generally played instrumentals and the DJ's were too laid back, so it wouldn't wake me up. I discovered the morning show on WOR-AM, a team called Fitzsimmons and Rosenberg. Fitzsimmons was the garrulous, genial Irishman, and Rosenberg was the humorous Jew (sound like a different thread here?). They played Sinatra, Dino, and Tony, and were great to wake up to. RIP, WOR. PS: I think WOR was one of the first, if not the first, radio station in the country. And, of course, it wasn't the same John Gambling on all those 85 years, rather him, then his son, then grandson.

I agree with all of this.

I never owned a Zerostat gun, but I heard if you aim it at a cat, it makes the cat's hair stand on end!

This is easily the most dangerous thread on this BB.

She's orally fixated, but it's limited to food, wood, rawhides, cheese wrappers and chew toys. My wife gave a new chew toy to her today, and she ripped its head off within 30 seconds.

I had on some Sun Ra from the Art Yard box recently, and my dog looked very worried and concerned throughout the performance - she kept looking from the speakers, to me, and back to the speakers.

I just finished listening to this, and really enjoyed it. Garbarek has a great sound, and the band really jells. It's nice to hear the tunes from Nude Ants in a different context - here, Oasis flows seamlessly into Chant Of The Soil.

Happy birthday, Lon! Although I don't know you, I've always enjoyed your postings here.

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