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SEVEN GOTHIC TALES - Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). 1934. I've been toiling at this book for a while now, and just finished it. I enjoyed it but had to work at it too. I've had the book lying around for ages and always felt I ought to read it. The book is enormously witty, quite funny in a sly, satirical way, and sharp and often subversive on the relations between men and women. But the title is rather misleading, for each of the seven tales contains many interior tales, so that often one finds oneself traveling deeper into the labyrinth. I've enjoyed those many interior tales , but it makes for dense reading, with what seem like endless digressions (in fact, they are not) and a growing host of characters. It might have been better to read a tale then come back to the others after reading something else. But I'm glad I have read it now and have developed an admiration for Dinesen's narrative craft.

The Shins Kneebody Jutta Hipp

Chuck Barris Chuck Woolery Chuck E Cheese

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Thanks, I'll fix that typo.

Haven't played it in a while, but I remember it as a good one. Every once in a while I play it, like it, but never feel really moved by it. Best is when Oliver Lake gets on the alto. It's a live recording, and it seems from the hesitant applause, that the audience didn't really know how to respond to it either. That in itself doesn't always mean much, but it reflected my own reaction.

Athena Thanatos Thanos

Quite interesting Thanks. Simpkins reminds me a little bit of Sam Greenlee, author of The Spook Who Sat by the Door. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/31/books/sam-greenlee-author-producer-and-ex-government-agent-dies-at-83.html?_r=0

FOR THE PEOPLE - Jerome Cooper with Oliver Lake - hat Hut LP.

Just picked this one up, but I had seen the cover before and had always lazily assumed that it had to do with A=Altschul, C=Corea and R= uh, well, it doesn't work after all. Turns out, reading Chick's word pyramid on the back cover, that it is a Scientology emblem, and Chick gives Scientology a big plug. Strange reading. There is this nugget, about how we are all seeking understanding, "Event the guy who's beating his wife, in his non-survival way, is just trying to understand." Umm, right. I wonder if that word pyramid got dropped on later issues/CD versions?

Daryll Strawberry Chuck Berry Gordy Berry

Coneheads Conan Konitz Good story. Wrong thread?

Harry Caray Peter Carey Cary Grant

I posted this over in the "Live" thread and forgot there was this one. Hope no one minds terribly if I post it here too. I went to teh Windup Space in Baltimore on May 31st to see the trio. I was too busy this weekend to write up any kind of extended review, but I'll just recount what I can here. The trio played at Windup Space in Baltimore, a club/bar with a nice stage. The evening consisted of two 45 minute (approximately) sets, with a short break in-between. The crowd was quite large, maybe 150 (?). IIRC, Brotzmann started with with the tenor, then moved to the tarogato. In the second set, Brotzmann played alto, then a metal clarinet, something I don't recall seeing him play before. That was very interesting. I think at the end he moved back to the tenor. I don't think I have to tell anybody how Brotzmann sounds or how Drake and Parker play. The latter was like watching human Loc-tite in action. Hamid played the frame drum for part of the sets, and Parker spent some time on the zintir, a stringed wooden instrument, as well as the double bass. Brotzmann was his usual intense self. What always draws me to Brotzmann is the elemental, or primal, power of his music-making. One knows his trademark sound and approach, and yet it always seems powerfully alive when experiencing it. It's not language but the deep well of feeling beneath language that is communicated. In the more plaintive passages, I had the impression of blues merged with German lieder. In the more gale-like parts (and there were still many), I kept thinking if we had to re-score "The Entry of the Gods into Valhalla," this would be the man to do it. And there is, indeed, that Wagnerian quality to Brotzmann's playing. Somehow after a Brotzmann show I always feel as if I have been baptized again into the power and expressiveness of free music. I will see the trio again at the Vision Festival in about 10 days. Maybe I'll write more at that time. I saw Brotzmann at the same venue about 5 years ago when he did a solo show. I recalled that the crowd was shockingly small. At the show this past weekend, after rehearsal/sound check, and before the show started, Brotzmann came over to the bar where I was sitting at the time, and ordered an iced water. We started talking and, quite surprisingly, he seemed to remember me (certainly sketchily) from that previous set 5 years ago, and he absolutely remembered the details of that solo show. Considering how much he tours and performs, that surprised me. He was kind enough to sign my copy of, "We Thought We Could Change the World." It was really a fine evening.

Look what happens when you go to bed early for once! PM on Ab Baars/Meinrad Kneer/Billy Elgart - Give No Quarter

NEW DIRECTIONS - Jack DeJohnette (d, p), John Abercrombie (g, mandolin), Lester Bowie (tp), Eddie Gomez (d). ECM LP. The best album moments are Bowie's. Wonder what Bowie was saying to the other guys in the cover photo?

Have fun!

Joy Harjo Harpo Jim Harbaugh

PM for Flowers for Albert (2 cd Bomba Japan)

PM for Ballads for Bass Clarinet

The Biggest Loser Anita Loos Clare Booth Luce

Sister George Miss Piggy Miss Manners

My wife tells me that I'm the only person in America who did not watch The Brady Bunch. Can this be true? In extenuation, my kids watched when they were small. Anyway, she seemed like a cool lady, RIP.

Good point. I had wanted to comment on the silly sentence that the judge imposed. It seems to me that it works to enable Roy to continue his drug habit, rather than stop it. Too often addicts are enabled to continue their habits by enablers, sometimes those who mean harm, like dealers and fellow-users, and sometimes those who mean well, like family, or in this case, a judge, who want to give "another chance." Unfortunately, it's not that easy. Only an addict can make that decision to stop; it's very, very hard to reach that point. The judge need not have sent Roy to jail but should have at least ordered a drug evaluation, testing, and a course of treatment or counseling. Maybe this was done, I don't know, but if it wasn't, it should have been. Rather than repeat what Steve has said, I'll just say that he is telling like it is.