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g Saturday, October 22nd 2005 - 09:04:07 PM yes, it's one that stays with ya for a while, that movie... the domain? not sure yet. maybe just to put up pictures of construction sites i come across :-)

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C (opyrighteous) Saturday, October 22nd 2005 - 06:59:48 PM --- Nope, haven't seen that one. Sounds good to me though. What's your new domain gonna be about? ---

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g Saturday, October 22nd 2005 - 06:18:44 PM http://www.cafedescargot.com/ Maybe he got lost in the cybermaze or decided it was not for him :-) Has anyone of you seen the Japanese movie Dare Mo Shiranai, "Nobody Knows", about 4 children who live in an apartment building, their mom leaving them in the care of the eldest 12-year old son Akira...? It was on tv last night, worth losing sleep over...

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C Saturday, October 22nd 2005 - 03:25:29 PM --- A couple of months ago I got this email from a guy who'd recently moved up to Stockholm, from somewhere down south (of Sweden). He said he one morning was on his way to work when he saw this car with the bumbersticker "steelydangallary.se". He was totally blown off because Steely Dan was his favourites. So, I answered his mail, told him about the outtakes over at Metzgers, the differences between the Blue and the Yellow guestbook, well, I "linked him up" to the Steely Dan Internet Community. Haven't heard from him since. ---

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It used to be a good place for raising turkeys... Saturday, October 22nd 2005 - 12:55:44 PM ...honk honk... Yes, those were the days. As J Browne says in the "Going Home" DVD: -I can't believe those days are gone, the way we lived, the way we played. It went so fast.

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G Saturday, October 22nd 2005 - 12:27:08 PM Yes, a good song. It was something of a magical secret handshake thang when the bartenders in Take Five, (the old jazzlounge i used to frequent when a lot younger) played this song and the record... secret handshakes... so was the music of Steely Dan, Rickie Lee Jones, Miles Davis, Pat Metheny, John Martyn, Bob Berg, Manhattan Transfer and a lot of others... even Thomas Dolby. And Tania Maria. Alphonse Mouzon... a lot of fusion back then. And legendary Eddie Harris (Eddy who?) who was a friend of the owners... At the risk of sounding corny... but those were the days...

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C Friday, October 21st 2005 - 03:52:20 PM "...paint OFF the car" damn it! Goin' back home To the Village of the Sun Out in back of Palmdale Where the turkey farmers run, I done Made up my mind And I know I'm gonna go to Sun Village, good God I hope the Wind don't blow It take the paint off your car And wreck your windshield too, I don't know how the people stand it, But I guess they do Cause they're all still there, Even Johnny Franklin too In the Village of the Sun Village of the Sun Village of the Sun, son (Sun Village to you) Has anyone heard that song, Zappa? It's a Hit. It's on the live Roxy and Elsewhere album. If you all were here I could sing it for you.

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C Friday, October 21st 2005 - 10:58:39 AM Got your txt message yesterday Gee. No money in da cell, couldn't answer. Now, heading for the Village of the sun, son - Sun Village to you... where the cold wind blo-ows, it takes the paint of the car, it takes the windshield too, don't know how the people stand it but I guess they do...

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Daddy G. Friday, October 21st 2005 - 12:09:07 AM http://www.jewsrock.org A poster named "templeman" pointed out on the blue that the current headline piece at jewsrock.org is Dan-gential, a Rabbi's rumination on the meaning of "Any Major Dude" and its relevance to coping with sadness, loss, personal demons, whatever has troubled man (and woman) through the ages.

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g Thursday, October 20th 2005 - 07:38:14 PM ...enough to wake me up from autumn daze while @work... Sun Mountain & Coral Egan... ß, spill those Montreal Beans, new album? when? what?how?where? with whom?

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Sun Mountain (Deux) Thursday, October 20th 2005 - 07:06:33 PM Date: Thursday, April 26, 19101 at 10:45:34 Comments: Sun Mountain This bright familiar sun Rescues a dreary Sunday On Sunday morning Smoky Sunday Like a Sunday in TJ Drive west on Sunset Powered by the sun Watch the sun go brown Colors from their sunny island Where no sun is shining Where the sailor shuts out the sunrise In that sunny room she soothes me Her skin, like milk, It's like she's never seen the sun Wake up Darling, they're knocking, the Colonel's standing in the sun They're speeding towards our sun on a party run I'll rise when the sun goes down, cover every game in town In the last light of the triple sun Late line 'til the sun comes through the skylight Now I step into the sun Under the sun That noon sun is blinding Join in the search for sun and sand I've got to have some time in the sun To watch the sun rise in the dopest part Then the sunshower breaks I'm thinking of a major Jane Street sunrise From the sunny day I met you Our salad days.... beneath the autumn sun Not too far from the earth or too close to the sun A world become one Of salads and sun

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ange(l) Thursday, October 20th 2005 - 06:58:28 PM B: Don't tell my boss about those Hemp By Products! :-) Funny thing about that list, I had it up for several years and then we moved and it ended up in a box and then a file and I just recently found the old wrinkled thing. So, I photocopied it and put it up on the door. It looks much cleaner now. :-) You going to see Coral, my friend?

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my waterloo kebek Thursday, October 20th 2005 - 06:13:29 PM

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okay corak Thursday, October 20th 2005 - 06:11:54 PM ... le jazz (Magnify, la chanson-titre de son prochain album), les trucs bluesy-soul (Talking To The Animals)... ... ...

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k-mart punkitude Thursday, October 20th 2005 - 05:19:37 PM Dutch boys, rip open your denims at the knee and dirty your leather vest some. A little bleeding helps. Sound street cred advice.

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beau django belle da beige Thursday, October 20th 2005 - 05:15:09 PM And in the dark I found Sun Mountain Well, I might well have been high at the time... So lady, know your doors are partially made of hemp by-products. And Yahoo. And hats off to Matt Groening for a cool gimmick that spans and transcends generations, albeit in an often gratuitously violent manner, right? But it does follow the sunday football doubleheaders and is accepted as family entertainment. I second that emotion of yours on the quality of the writing. And maybe I'm amazed. It did make me laugh.

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ps Thursday, October 20th 2005 - 10:34:30 AM http://www.kitwalker.com/HafizEditMovie.mov On another note, Kit Walker added videoclips on his website...

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g Thursday, October 20th 2005 - 09:20:08 AM thanks, angel. good morning! had some interesting news in my mail... a legendary dutch punk band, named de Heideroosjes (they toured in the USA last year) will perform in a local belgian youth facility as de Ramroosjes... they're gonna pay tribute to the Ramones :-)

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angel (living in the Boondocks) Thursday, October 20th 2005 - 02:00:01 AM http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/2005/10/19/ Your morning read, Gina. Definitely not an "old style" comic strip. I love Aaron McGruder, he's raw, he's honest, he's in your face and sometimes you need that in a world gone mad. Current subject has been Katrina.

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g Thursday, October 20th 2005 - 12:29:43 AM http://www.djangostation.com/article.php3?id_article=336 Last call, for the... The link above is in French, but it has a very good review of Lollo Meier's new album Hondarribia, so worth to browse for sure...and you get to hear some of his music too! I don't know diddly about any other boondocks than a song, or was that boardwalk...? past midnite so me says goodnight!

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angel Wednesday, October 19th 2005 - 10:25:41 PM YGK: LOL! I like your Boondocks better then mine. :-)

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ygk Wednesday, October 19th 2005 - 10:06:52 PM Angel: good to see you around, as always..... My favorite Boondocks is when the younger kid, peering into the fridge, shouts, "there's NO SODA!!! we DON'T HAVE ANY SODA!!!!! All we got is JUICE". Then his older brother pops into frame, saying, "Why not drink some water, it's like giving your insides a shower." 3rd panel, younger boy thinks silently. 4th: (boy drinking 2-liter soda bottle, thinking) "I'll keep MY insides FUNKY - thankyouverymuch." peace ygk

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For those who have never seen "Life in Hell" Wednesday, October 19th 2005 - 08:41:24 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_in_Hell

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angel Wednesday, October 19th 2005 - 08:37:56 PM http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000BC8SW4/qid=1129744172/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-1288183-9708055?v=glance&s=dvd One of those serendipity moments. My brother emailed me this information last night and I thought I would put it out there for general consumption. Back in June, when Nigey and I were first conversing privately, she mentioned that she had visited my workplace back in 1974, when Frank Zappa was taping this video (see link above). At that time in June, it was not available to purchase. Then a few weeks later I traveled to NY and while visiting, my brother mentioned the same Frank Zappa program and asked if I knew about it. I told him about my conversation with Nigey and that I hadn't known we ever had Frank on the lot, though other staff did remember him and shared their memories with Nigey and I. I find it incrediably funny that after spending a quarter century in the same location, I find out something, not once but twice in a 3 week period. Serendipity indeed. -- Regarding Nigey's current Matt Groening article, I have on the back of my door here at work, a "Life in Hell" comic from last December. It shows the 2 "Fez" wearing characters doing their typical jumping and dancing totally naked (the reason I have it on the back side of my door) :-) They are singing "Oh Come all ye Faithful" and at the end of the song, one of them sings "Scoobli-Dee, Scoobli-doo, Dee-Doodly-Dee-Doo-Diddly Dee-Wha!" and the other says, "Please don't tamper with the classics". (I feel that they are channeling the Rajah of Erase and Frank Sinatra (on the Blue) in that comic and I couldn't resist putting it up along with my Steely Dan stuff). :-) Other things that grace the back side of my door, Babylon Sisters done by Clas, Sherbourne Ange from Blaise, Sun Mountain list of Sun references in Steely Dan songs from the Yellow (posted, I believe by Gina), The LA Weekly Cover from last year with the picture of the car driving on Sunset Blvd and the audio coming out of the car is "Drive West On Sunset, To the Sea" and finally a Boondocks comic In panel one you have Michael Powell leaving the FCC saying "Hell Yeah, *#@% I'm Free, I'm Michael Powell, B#@#&, I'm Retired!" and in the 2nd panel, one little kid says to the other, "No I don't think that's what Michael Powell's doing right now."

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g Wednesday, October 19th 2005 - 09:40:08 AM http://www.volkskrant.nl/ to say 'good morning' would be an overstatement, somehow. If summer had been whirling in colorful extensions lately, today the grey skies hover with rain and a thick heavy layer of reality. So it seems. Within ten minutes the trial of Saddam Hussein in Bagdad can be followed live on tv and even internetbroadcasting via newspapers. A death penalty is to be expected, although some would rather keep him alive so he is to face a number of trials for his crimes and cruelty. Death seems to be no punishment. If you checked in the Mizar5, you will have seen or read Nigey's With A Gun in which she, at my request, elaborates on her Los Angeles years and in particular her time spent at the L.A. Reader. Her experiences and observations so perfectly portray the ways of and in our society, and maybe in this case more precisely, American society. I read this WAG with a sense of horror and empathy and somehow it confirmed the idea of the early 80s to be a weird artificial even plastic era, leaving glossy marks and obscure signatures transforming into the 90s as if they hadn't existed. What also strikes me about stories like these, is how important it is to stay level-headed about everything and how our human nature will always find ways, even in the tiniest nano-seconds, to marry off the absurd with the weird and intrinsic values of humor.

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g Monday, October 17th 2005 - 10:48:36 PM ph, when's your birthday.......... yep ygk, i was in the midst of re-grouping stuff anyway and thinking about the options and such, so it did come in handy in a way :-)

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ph Monday, October 17th 2005 - 10:08:34 PM hey give me a break, i was going to turn it into an internet radio station. anyway, glad you picked the domain up.

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ygk Monday, October 17th 2005 - 08:24:59 PM so you have it now, eh? it's always good to have backups/options, etc.

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ps II Monday, October 17th 2005 - 06:22:46 PM http://www.cafedescargot.com Oh what the heck... ygk, you just made me buy this pet's name :-) if only to keep it save from yeah, ahem, what i wonder lol!

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ps Monday, October 17th 2005 - 06:05:13 PM and as someone mentioned to me, it's not d'escargot but l'escargot to begin with apparently... it's no wonder the domain/name is still up for grabs :-) but we stick to the Sign In Stranger lyrics :-) and call it the Cafe D'Escargot

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g Monday, October 17th 2005 - 06:00:03 PM hey ygk! thanks, just checked in here, haven't been around the Blue... well.......... it's indeed an idea :-)

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ygk Monday, October 17th 2005 - 04:21:52 PM Hey, G: this was posted on the Blue..... "Date: Mon, October 17, 2005, 08:15:31 ET Posted by: ph, collecting turkish union dues can you believe it? nobody owns cafedescargot.com!! somebody please buy it before I do, because I have nothing to put on it." FYI ygk

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morninG2 Sunday, October 16th 2005 - 12:11:53 PM http://www.about-django.com/accueil/accueil.php while reading your pardonned French, Lollo and his musical compadres were playing Lentement Mademoiselle (Django Reinhardt), for as you might understand the events of yesterday have not yet ceased to be still. thanks for this tasteful cadence in your cadenza! rhythm. the word itself has been a mystery ever since i first laid eyes on it. since this isn't our native language to begin with, every word gets the microscope treatment, right, at least, that's one way of approaching it. that's what i used to do. rhythm. you nailed the essence in only a paragraph, as the gypsy guitarist urged a mademoiselle to take it slow :-)

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morning! Sunday, October 16th 2005 - 11:57:16 AM "A wave surges towards the dock, hits, surmounts, squirts, tumbles, sweeps the other bridge. Scum carries, foams, brews, whirls between us all the garbage..." Using verbal enumerations is a musical device here too. And it suggests this movement to the reader, the impression that you're litterally drowning in a violent shit storm. Pardon my French. The rhythm of the three dots, which is pretty much all he works with in the end, suggests a freight train by this feel of a frantic drive onward. One train with the driver on cocaine, and the reader taken along for the ride, yes. This feeling of an hurried exile, this need to run anywhere fast. With that, the style also expresses, mirrors, the perceived acceleration of modern life to its current pace. It anticipates the contemporary beat of culture, all zapped up, clipped ever faster futures without an afterthought. There's no will to follow up on stories in the media nowadays. So one is lead from one drama to another at this schizoid pace. All things stop mattering as much with time, as the mind is so educated to consider and then forget issues on the fly, in this whirlwind of information. And consequently with time, educated through repeated exposure of this phenomenon, is left to feel as if nothing has any real weight anymore. That everything is cheap and that life itself is of little consequence.

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C Saturday, October 15th 2005 - 11:32:00 PM --- It's not my dots he's talking about. It's more like... counterpoints in his writing language, as I understand it. --- What? Did these guys play at the mall or what?

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g Saturday, October 15th 2005 - 10:39:49 PM http://www.lollomeier.nl every since you started this DOT DOT DOT thing, years ago, i'm a devoted 3dotter, Clas :-) hm. but to stay in the mizar5 context, i made it 5 in here... am soooo flabbergasted by this day when i went to get us some bread & sugar... always loved the clarinet, makes me think of the old american movies and the filmscores, the Benny Goodman days and such... am listening to the CD Lollo's wife Susanne gave to me, it's titled "Hondarribia" and it has 14 real wonderful and brilliant tunes on it... starting with "Just One Of those Things" from Cole Porter... work from Django Reinhardt ofcourse, and a brilliant rendition of Astor Piazolla's "Libertango", the song that once was DisGraced Jones :-)... compositions by Lollo Meier himself... Really, these people can P L A Y. And the weirdest part is, i found a nice 2 CD compilation of Compay Segundo (Buena Vista Social Club) yesterday so we had Cuba around the house, in the midst of these October summerdays, when at the same time autumn leaves are falling, strange synergy of two seasons entwined... anyway, when we were listening to Segundo, Nino said it was about time to have some Django Reinhardt music on disc... so it was like this 'double serendipity' hit today :-)

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C Saturday, October 15th 2005 - 03:10:44 PM He says: "And the dots, always these three dots." The Nerve Rail Magic. That's the dot's task, to mediate "the Nerve Rail Magic". "Mes trois points sont indispensables..." - "métro-tout-nerf-rails-magiques-á-travers-ses-trois-points". This in the chapter "The Author and the Publisher".

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C Saturday, October 15th 2005 - 06:23:24 AM --- And back in France they had seven cats, or was it seven dogs? He liked animals more than he liked human beings.

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Canada, eh? Friday, October 14th 2005 - 08:15:49 PM The dog, it is very happy, it goes, it is given...

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angel Friday, October 14th 2005 - 08:13:14 PM http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=213&subcategory=214&product=12720 Here's that MP3 player I am talking about. I will be attempting to download the instruction book from their website. I read somewhere that it is more detailed then the one that came with the product. Hmmmm.... -- Daddy G reported in to me from someone else's computer. After 8 days of rain, I think that Ark is definitely looking like a good option, though he says they are currently still fine in his little corner of America.

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G. Friday, October 14th 2005 - 02:03:11 PM http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/17/news/trial.php As seen on tv last night, they usually stream the programs the day after, but not this one alas, or else you could see it as well. Interesting documentary. You can click the image for more on Ahmed Shah Massoud. Why was the Afghan Resistance leader murdered? The tragedy of September 11 eclipsed the assassination of an important leader Be a witness to this never-before seen film of Massoud’s last few hours and sequences of events after the explosion. The film traces the footsteps of the two young Islamic fundamentalist students who complete their suicide mission to kill Commander Massoud. 2 years of investigation, shot on 3 continents with exclusive testimonies. A ground-breaking documentary about Massoud’s assassination. Written by Laurent Thibierge & Bernard de la Villardiere. Directed by Didier Martiny Produced by La Generale de Production & Ligne de Front for France 3.

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C Friday, October 14th 2005 - 10:48:55 AM --- ß - ok, not complicated. But not the Sven Andersson-to-the south-of-town kind of dude either.

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Gina Thursday, October 13th 2005 - 10:16:43 PM http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_05.25.00/music/xtc.html Sometimes things take their time. Philippe urged us to check out Monkey House and it is indeed earcandy. Googled Don Breithaupt's name ofcourse and found a lot of interesting stuff, among which this one about XTC. Brings back a lot of memories...

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Rumpus Thursday, October 13th 2005 - 02:16:41 PM http://ruthlessreviews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9462 Dear ß, thank you so much for your advice and support, I now feel a whole lot better after having experienced the boot. Due to my newly appointed task as a Sand Dweller in Fata Morgana, instead of being the Bad Breath Neutralizer (advanced) in Twitsville, I hadn't checked the forum for ages until just a day ago. I then uploaded the pre-final chapter of a story which ain't good nor bad, but certainly not proven to have been rubbing the wrong way in the past. Which kind of makes me realize, now, that these individuals who were cancelling out my membership perhaps don't like to be rubbed. At all! -smirk- And just a few hours ago, when I felt I could post my last post as in the final chapter to send that story up or down the tube, some CosmicStartledGoat had ended the thread and erased my latest entry, which kind of was a tasty prelude towards a happy ending! I don't know if you have ever heard jackasses laugh, but trust me, we laugh all the way up to Jupiter and Mars! And no, thank you, Rumpus does have his pride, he may not be intelligent enough for a forum, he does know how to kick his way out of a place :-)

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babelvista and whathaveya Thursday, October 13th 2005 - 12:32:30 PM "Off he goes like that over the evening, along the walls in the fortifications. He calls up a dog from afar, having made sure it's a large one, reassures it with caresses initially, puts it well in confidence... and then it touches the balls... like that gently to him... all... the knob... and then then he polishes it... The dog, it is very happy, it goes, it is given... it draws its tongue out... at the time right when it will glitter... with a firm grip... Then, you know what he does to him?... He tears off the package, like that, wrack!... of a great dry blow!... Eh well you! hold! thus say, devastation! you make me exactly similar with your charades... You make me return my pleasure... You tear off me the testicles..." lol

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once bitten, twice banned Thursday, October 13th 2005 - 12:04:44 PM Well for what it's worth, just get a gmail adress or whatever, if you really need that fix of junior college dropout rants. For the record, I was also banned because I was too darn dumb for the room. I can relate. I may be dumb right now. Clas, what's complicated? The guy lived/wrote and died. Three dots, exclamation point. b

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my gator aid minute and a half Thursday, October 13th 2005 - 11:54:36 AM Shareaza: Fark it! Everything is free!

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Rumpus Thursday, October 13th 2005 - 11:39:05 AM http://ruthlessreviews.com/forum/index.php Speak of diapers... I'm proud to announce that I was banned from the Ruthless forum, apparently because I lacked the intelligence to be part of their community. The entire website (the Ruthless Reviews included) has to digest 6 million hits per day now and although this is an interesting development, to observe their increasing popularity, it also makes you wonder about a lot of things... Well ß, so much for this social study as an inside member :-) And you should know how I feel right now, as a fellow banned poster... Angel, to wonder about civil manners in these internet boards is like stuffing a meatloaf in the oven, watching thru the glass and waiting for it to turn to its other side so it roasts real nice and crispy all over... And as far as mp3 players are concerned, I empathize with you. I once was tempted to get me one of those handy gadgets, but decided not to because it would only cause more alienation of this world's reality than I am suffering as we speak, eh, write. And do I sense a vibe in the air, yes, yes, someone's coming to the rescue... ever since mankind erected and abandoned the disposition of walking on all fours, humanity is in trouble

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ange(l) Wednesday, October 12th 2005 - 06:22:19 PM Yeah Clas, diapers are coming either way you go on the age thing. What ya gonna do? -- I will start this conversation here on the "civil board". Unfortunately, I am not sure how many have Ipods/MP3 type players. Things I really love about my MP3. It is light and portable (about the size of a Bic lighter). It holds a gig of memory (about 200 tunes). Pretty cool. Things I absolutely HATE about my MP3 player. It really ruins concept albums with that shuffle feature and I LOVE concept albums! The audio levels are all over the board and I find myself having to constantly hit the volume control. What a pain in the neck! I bet there are ways of dealing with these problems, but my instruction book basically tells you how to turn the thing on and off. Sigh....

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C Wednesday, October 12th 2005 - 03:59:17 PM --- B - check email, pics of the complicated beast. Isn't Bonnie Raitts "I can't make you love me" one of the most beautiful songs? With Hornsby on fat Rhodes and acoustic piano, spiced with Hammond organs B3. It's so good.

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C Wednesday, October 12th 2005 - 02:04:14 PM --- Sorry Ange, can't go back. Next you see of me will be me in diapers. Da da da...

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Daddy G. Tuesday, October 11th 2005 - 10:58:52 PM Hi Angel and everyone... I'm fine, thanks for asking. Haven't had that much rain in my particular part of the NJ woods. Thankfully those 1000-year storms only come along once every, well, 1000 years or so. The folks in Pennsy on the other side of the Delaware River have gotten more, I think, but nothing too bad for the most part. Been busy with other things and having internet connection problems lately too, so my virtual visits are spotty these days. Besides, things have been "very very quiet" on the Fagen front for too long---just not dredging up much. Ta-Ta...

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angel (sending out an SOS) Tuesday, October 11th 2005 - 06:28:59 PM Daddy G: If you still are out there...you getting flooded again?

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angel Tuesday, October 11th 2005 - 06:27:52 PM Clas, get back up here in age with me. Bad Clas, leaving me all alone. :-)

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luckless pedestrian Tuesday, October 11th 2005 - 04:39:22 PM now clas, stop that...

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Tuesday, October 11th 2005 - 02:48:25 PM Cryptonite.

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sistah Tuesday, October 11th 2005 - 02:28:37 PM Man, I could swear you were like 30 or something. What's your secret?

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C Tuesday, October 11th 2005 - 01:46:51 PM Yes - forty.

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ps Tuesday, October 11th 2005 - 01:10:48 PM forty?

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g Tuesday, October 11th 2005 - 01:09:50 PM hi C, quick one before out the door... yes, there's a lot possible in the melody line, in rhythm and such... the groove and bass is eh, groovy :-) oh and not even friends anymore, that's just life as it happens :-)

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C Tuesday, October 11th 2005 - 12:18:56 PM Oh and, yes... thanx for the happy birthday wishes. With pictures and cakes and everything. I wonder how big this is gonna be next year when I turn forty?

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C Tuesday, October 11th 2005 - 12:12:01 PM --- Sounds good, this far... I wonder if it's possible to "sing a song" over that groove? And for Christs sake, don't call Dinah "Jonas girlfriend", what I know they're not even friends no more :-) ---

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g Monday, October 10th 2005 - 07:50:33 PM http://www.writingaffairs.com/mp3/GreatDanes.mp3 here it is...click the link above for Clas' Great Danes & Poodles in China... It's the 'One' song from the very first Technicolor Motorhome compilation, 1999 was it...? Anyway, Clas decided to brush it up some and i was supposed to write lyrics, you can hear Jonas' girlfriend Dinah on vocals...

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Gina Monday, October 10th 2005 - 08:19:02 AM http://www.bozscaggs.com/discography_butbeautiful.php Hi Randy, how have you been? In an attempt to answer your question about listening pleasures, don't have a list but have been spinning Boz Scaggs' But Beautiful a lot lately (as in several times per day) as well as Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello collaborating brilliantly on Painted From Memory...

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g Sunday, October 9th 2005 - 11:58:55 PM wow, major discovery there master ß. Sad to learn however the photographer passed away earlier this year... these pics have been put online only 2 days ago... (edited in, 10-10-2005) HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CLAS!!!

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Sunday, October 9th 2005 - 06:00:42 PM http://dwellis.smugmug.com/gallery/562581

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Friday, October 7th 2005 - 11:08:32 PM http://songwritershalloffame.org/nominees/

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Randy Friday, October 7th 2005 - 08:01:06 PM http://hometown.aol.com/nightfly62/Nightfly.html Steely-folk, So what are ye crazed loons listening to these days? Here's my sampling via link: http://hometown.aol.com/nightfly62/p18.html "...One more expensive kiss off / who do you think I am?" - Steely Dan, 'Gaucho' (1980) Randy 'Music History' Site http://hometown.aol.com/nightfly62/p18.html

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re: me Thursday, October 6th 2005 - 04:35:11 PM http://video.google.com Video Google, it changed, it grew and everybody knew...

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sighting Thursday, October 6th 2005 - 02:52:34 PM Ken Emerson with Donald Fagen, late 04.

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C Wednesday, October 5th 2005 - 11:34:03 AM --- Sure, I give my permission. But that was just a groove and a three part backup voxes, right? ---

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angel Tuesday, October 4th 2005 - 07:02:23 PM Since every year at this time is James Dean year, I share this with you all. My little corner of Suburbia is the place where James Dean had his last meal and the local paper makes sure we know it. I won't mention that the view out my window at work has Griffith Observatory, where Rebel Without a Cause was shot. :-) Newhall Signal (2002) SEPTEMBER 30, 1955 — In real life, he was one messed up cat-daddy. His behavior didn’t cross, but vaulted over being a “Rebel Without A Cause.” He was revered to American sainthood after this date, more famous in death than in life. James Dean, 24, American icon, died on this date. He had his last meal at the old Tip’s restaurant before his fatal crash in his racing Porsche in the neighboring San Joaquin Valley. His last meal? Apple pie and milk, according to the waitress who served him.

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Doctor Mu Tuesday, October 4th 2005 - 06:05:41 PM G: awesome tasty morsels of info re: Levey and Wessel...that Fagen album truly is pumping those salivary glands now - overdubs, Pro-Tools and all! C: get some help, will ya for that paranoia. Seriously.

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not fair Tuesday, October 4th 2005 - 05:09:44 PM http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Donald+Fagen&word2=Walter+Becker There's Walt the dentist, and that german accountant... b

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Visited Re Tuesday, October 4th 2005 - 04:49:22 PM http://www.google.com/talk/ If they have trouble selling this to the public, they could always use this:"We really gotto get into that cheap talk"

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ps Tuesday, October 4th 2005 - 01:06:17 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Myung_Moon and if mr C will give his permission, i'll load up the Great Danes and Poodles song and post a link in here! and in the light of the conversation and link below, to put a (w)hole in your sock (or the other way around?) here's yer Sun and Moon dance :-) Our world is a Merry-Gone-Round...

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eGgshocked Tuesday, October 4th 2005 - 01:03:23 PM http://www.unification.net/ws/theme145.htm hey, i hears ya :-) the role of the media, the media is a pit of snakes curling their tails without ends and still they rattle the cattle beyond oblivious, aarggh. just kidding in some way now, sorry. But Jesus, even beyond what they consider Christianity, he did have interesting things to say. And rumor has it that the role of Mary Magdalene in those days, right after he was crucified, was bigger than we assume. But because she was a woman, the other followers or disciples decided to ignore her testimonies. Anyway, this just in the light of gathering all info possible from historical perspectives... didn't find the time to dive into it yet :-) Bin Laden is also just a Phantom of the Opera, perhaps the Soap Opera directed by well, you know who :-) I agree with that as well, what you say ß. But in some countries BL would be a martyr, seen as the symbol of well, we all know that as well... but maybe he's also just the wealthiest of his family and the other Laden folk would like to say 'good riddens', so they can collect whatever's to collect in earthly possessions and goods, money. And what i like most, about what Jesus said.. to turn the other cheek? if so, someone else will slap you a tongue-in-cheek and i find that very funny.

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this is your brain an eggshell Tuesday, October 4th 2005 - 12:15:07 PM Because, as Rumsfeld once put it, the media may be used as a weapon in the war on terror. The governement of the free world feels it has license to do this now, and likely does. Post-nine eleven, your brains are fair game, so they said. And so it appears prudent to exercise caution, be it minimally. And to remain on alert for anything suspicious. "Labelled", exactly.

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whoa Tuesday, October 4th 2005 - 11:44:24 AM Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god, Wandering, wandering in hopeless night. Out here in the perimeter there are no stars, Out here we is stoned Immaculate.

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btw Tuesday, October 4th 2005 - 11:35:45 AM poodles in china thing, that's in a squeeze song, right? Labeled With Love, it was. aww yes...

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it's a wondie whacky world Tuesday, October 4th 2005 - 11:25:18 AM what? you got both looks and brains here, how can you go wrong? That's the recipe. In terms of style and functionality, this the best thing around. You know that. You don't need to be told. You rock. Look, he said so. I doubt everything all along, for sure. bin Laden may well have been all that was claimed but you only get to see the evil doctor nowadays on the good doctor's monthly podcasts. Video killed the bin laden anyway, likely from a lithium battery shortage "in the Pakistani border region". I pronounce him dead. and you heard it here first. Your source for news. pfft How many marines per year does it take to comb that area clean anyway? This has already become a joke. You are fucking with me. All this to opine that you gotta follow a strict cartesian method when it comes to the media. Not casting doubt on the truth of what they report per se, which is echoed all over (and thus one could argue is therefore "substantiated"), but more on the editorial motivations behind the choice of topics, what's deemed important to fret about and for how long. Take the Anthrax attacks of late 01, stunts that if properly performed could have killed millions of us guys. Well, forget it now. It's vapor. Case closed, no fear of a repeat... nothing, just wind, lots of wind now. The slightest innuendo has people jumping, in line at the gas pumps or whatever. And that's the true power of the media, messing with people's heads. "Now it's okay to think this over and forget that", after a fashion. And if you don't, you may end up sounding very stupid and/or really square. aww, wtf, let it be me.

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G. Tuesday, October 4th 2005 - 10:54:33 AM morning! Hi C... when cleaning up i found the cd of Great Danes & Poodles in China, still so LOVE the tune! and you're right about BL becoming a martyr then, mankind seems to have a soft spot for the idea of idolizing, like last week James Dean was all over the news, tv and such... He was a fine actor in the few movies he made, but if it weren't for his accident, he'd never become such an icon... what's it with myth, right? Jesus, now he really had interesting stuff to tell. Erase the catholic protestant anglican reformed whatever there is to hate about religion in general. If you strictly listen and think about his ideas, they do make sense. And are a challenge for our human nature, with all its tendencies to give in to the dark and disturbed :-)

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C Tuesday, October 4th 2005 - 08:36:45 AM --- No, what I meant is; he'd become a martyr. Like Jesus did.

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almost there Monday, October 3rd 2005 - 10:45:50 PM mm, changed it back.

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aGain2 Monday, October 3rd 2005 - 10:20:05 PM hi ange(l), the word 'eclectic' comes to mind in reference to the new Df album. the more we learn, the less we know, eh? could do with some feedback, am changing fonts in Mizar5... got Geneva going now, can any of you see that, like loud & clear...? or should i return to Lucida Grande... am signing off now, back manana!

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ange(l) Monday, October 3rd 2005 - 06:30:55 PM What excites me about the Howard Levy comments are the final one regarding the 2nd tune and how he worked around the horns. I can't wait to hear it! "The second tune was particularly poignant, and Donald wrote some truly beautiful horn section parts. I wove in and out, really got into the feeling."

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aGain Monday, October 3rd 2005 - 05:30:54 PM http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec03/articles/richcostey.htm Above an interesting link, providing some info on Rich Costey... Yes, to find these bits and pieces, whether by chance or a little extra work/effort, it's safe to assume mr Fagen's new album must shine in new dimensional colors given the musicians & technical staff he employs...

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that's Monday, October 3rd 2005 - 05:01:09 PM "steal your heat away", and not "it", "him". From memory, you know how that goes... "undaunted", sure. Clas, you are implying that keeping those guys around and performing periodically in little film productions for all the world to see is serving a purpose of bonding together the christiano-patriotics. Why I had my doubts all along. I kept my doubts, as silly as they would appear in a special drawer in my head, just like that. And I take them out willy-nilly and nolens volens. Are these guys even for real, for one... you know in the age of the skeevy video... And the anthax mailer who never was... you best keep a doubting, methodically. b

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oh coral don't let it take yer heart away Monday, October 3rd 2005 - 04:29:04 PM bop bop bopbop bop... Well, she's currently producing this new local act and playing dates with Michel Donato, a notable jazz bassist, and friends. Record is rumored to be released shortly after the Fagen opus is itself tentatively set to enter the collective realm. So showing proper prudence, exercising the sense of caution that only experience could provide, it is safe to assume with relative certainty that 2006, the year in music, if only for those two anticipated items, promises to be... well, cooler, perhaps, yes.

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assessina Monday, October 3rd 2005 - 04:09:09 PM If ya asked me yesterday, I would have been able to give ya at least one paragraph about this new DF album, seen in the perspective of what we know so far. But I got caught in the whirl of looking for at least two other names that passed our divided interest these months... Can anyone drop those names in here please, wasn't it FACW who found something about bassist F. Washington, and I remember having seen something about a guitarplayer too... Bali. Yes. Awful.

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friggin' video crack whore Monday, October 3rd 2005 - 03:55:34 PM http://www.euronews.net/create_html.php?page=accueil_info&lng=1 Aww... that's where it was. A tourist caught a suicide bomber's last seconds on film. Scroll down to Bali. Or not...

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rich costly dude audio track sheet Monday, October 3rd 2005 - 03:38:22 PM Franz Ferdinand, Nine Inch Nails, Weezer, New Order, Supergrass, Audioslave, Rage Against The Machine, Blue Man Group, Dave Navarro, System Of A Down and Wu Tang Clan, Fiona Apple, Cheap Trick, Philip Glass/Brian Eno/David Bowie, Ice Cube, Muse... And a Bow Wow Wow to go.

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G. Sunday, October 2nd 2005 - 09:46:51 PM http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_track_sheet_12/ Donald Fagen nailed vocal overdubs with engineer Brian Montgomery and producer/mixer Rich Costey nothing wrong with a little repetitive construction...

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g Sunday, October 2nd 2005 - 02:26:22 PM hi Steviedan, email's on its way and noo, don't hate ya. we're running 'late' with everything for Mizar5 right now, so we kind of reset the timetables for the interviews... so you can still participate in the Kitty Margolis and Warren Bernhard thang :-) And i thank ß for digging up that newsbit for us about the harmonica man... particularly like the idea of HL and DF roaming the same area, something they probably didn't realize until just recently.. always nice, stuff like that :-)

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steviedan Sunday, October 2nd 2005 - 10:25:28 AM g, thanx for coming in with that fresh banyan breeze. please blast me your e-dress. i lost it the last time the family decided to fry up some bytes. i've been so busy this summer, but just re-started dropping in on the yellow. only to be hated on. alas ! i still owe you some content, although by now, i'm sure it's probably pointless. steviedan sucks. go ahead, you can hate on me too and you'd have every right... but obviously, that's not the g-way... the howard levy comments are the best thing the gb's seen in months for what i can tell. thanx for them... g-rocks !

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C Saturday, October 1st 2005 - 05:05:17 PM --- Bin Laden? They can't kill him. If, we'll have a Jesus problem. ---

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sistah Thursday, September 29th 2005 - 03:49:19 PM http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/23/60minutes/main881268.shtml You're right. We watch, witness, puke all over or dismiss. It's the same when scientists warn us, with loads of proof, facts, figures to back their pessimistic views about the South Pole. The ice is melting. As a result of GLOBAL WARMING, GLOBAL DIMMING, pollution and mankind's irreversible nasty habits of using resources without considering consequences and effect affecting the future of this planet. It freaked me out when I saw this on tv yesterday. They showed maps of how it was like 3 decades ago, how it is NOW and how it will be in 10 or 20 years. What about the polar bears and other animals?

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you know... Thursday, September 29th 2005 - 12:50:18 PM I still don't quite get it how one of the world's most wanted fugitive, bin Laden's right hand man, can be interviewed by tv... And we just let it fly like a family of bin Ladens on the day after. It's all very strange, still. And it has be to be pointed out. Somebody somewhere has to mention this crying oddity. How the interviewer is not tortured or even taken in for questioning, say, for one. The media entreprise responsible for airing the tapes does not seem to be bothered, carries on aundaunted.(?) I dunno...

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G. Monday, September 26th 2005 - 04:16:18 PM Hi C, yes, Astrid's Lindgren's book. Been years since i saw it and it was very funny. Most of the parents who took their kids to see it saw it themselves as a kid, it were mostly the parents laughing and such :-)

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AH! Monday, September 26th 2005 - 12:02:56 PM --- Karlsson på Taket! Karlsson on the Roof! One of my favourites when I was a kid. It's Astrid Lindgren? ---

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G Monday, September 26th 2005 - 10:19:10 AM Hi! I got it by email, it was sent to me by an American :-) Got something else you might like, we took a friend and her little girl to the movies yesterday... Karlsson! Took some shots...

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I mean... Monday, September 26th 2005 - 09:42:02 AM "With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs filling up, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the "Axis of Countries That Aren't the Worst But Certainly Won't Be Asked to Host the Olympics". It's hilarious. //C

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C Monday, September 26th 2005 - 09:31:05 AM --- Gee - hilarious. Where did you find it? ---

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C @ the country house Sunday, September 25th 2005 - 05:03:40 PM Can you believe this shit? A cow climbed over the fences and came on in the garden. It took us half an hour to chase it around 'til she finally gave up and jumped (!) back to her land of pasture. That's what I get for all those cows I've been occupied with lately.

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G. Thursday, September 22nd 2005 - 04:10:25 PM http://www.marcjordan.com Dizzy. ß, i'm prowling your country again, musicwise spoken that is. Rosanne Agasee's cd launch will take place October 25th in Hugh's Room, Toronto. Marc Jordan will perform there as well in december. His album "Make Believe Ballroom" was nominated for a Juno this year, and that takes me right back to miss Coral Egan. Sigh. Her second album must be absolute bliss, maybe mucho Stevie Wonder influences? Anyway, i still feel she's Canada's best kept secret so far :-) Martin Block, i found him through Marc Jordan's album title "Make Believe Ballroom"... and there's a movie as well, must have seen that as a kid, lots of music in it.. Nat King Cole, Gene Krupa... and before you know it, you're visiting websites of Big Bands and well, dizzy now. Off to have some cake at my mom's birthday :-)

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Stolen Dan revisited Wednesday, September 21st 2005 - 03:43:33 PM http://www.newroadmusic.nl/newroad/bandsartiesten/stolendan.html Funny. How did ya do that...

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sorry can't help you there Wednesday, September 21st 2005 - 02:43:35 PM lol b

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G. Wednesday, September 21st 2005 - 11:36:09 AM Hi DS, infringement, eh? It's a thin line sometimes, but when others make money without giving credit or some of the benefits to the rightful owners, it's a different google game then. The Blue picked up on the Be-Bop Daddys thread, nice to be diving in some SD trivia/history. It has a very nice ring to it, Be Bop Daddy. And i liked the shirt. Usually don't really focus on anything exterior such as how do they look and such, but DF really looked relaxed in this Detroit show, with the clothes and hairdo, very casual and 'loose', yes. Howard Levy agreed to fill us in on how he met up with Donald Fagen, but i already explained to him i don't wanna know any details about the songs, like the titles or anything, nope, don't wanna know about that yet. But so have to get back to the grind now, so off me goes...

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Dimension Skipper Wednesday, September 21st 2005 - 04:48:57 AM http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-09-20-google-authors_x.htm Above link refers to an article about Google being sued for copyright infringement re their new Print tool for searching books. Just thought I'd post the link since this is where I first found out about the new Google tool. I thought "Andy" must refer to one Mr. Metzger, but I don't know. Just a guess.

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Babs & Clean Willy Tuesday, September 20th 2005 - 10:28:38 PM Hi LP... who's Andy? Here's Walter singing Haitian Divorce. Sigh. I like the way he sings. A lot.

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lp Tuesday, September 20th 2005 - 06:10:30 PM hey, does andy know about this? lol

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G Monday, September 19th 2005 - 11:16:01 PM http://www.bebopdaddys.com/news/celebnews.html was cleaning up and re-arranging furniture and such when i suddenly remembered the two DVD's of a Detroit concert... DF is wearing a be-bop daddys t-shirt, ofcourse they caught up on that one (see link)...

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angel Monday, September 19th 2005 - 05:53:26 PM Hit potential? If Britney is singing back up, I'm out of here. :-) -- I was downloading songs via Real Player last night and I went to load in Royal Scam. Real player comes up with cutsie "fun facts" about the band in question including the fact that the band is named after a marital aid. Can you imagine kids possibly downloading something they thought was interesting and seeing that. Now, obviously, I know it and it is definitely not a secret, but really.... a bit over the top if you ask me. -- Songs of Steely Dan that would have played well on the Jazz Telethon on Saturday Night. Deason Blues Green Earrings FM (Sax Version) and the not so appropriate, but my sentimental favorite Pearl on the Quarter

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which may well mean Monday, September 19th 2005 - 01:08:25 PM It is safe to assume the Fagen recording was at the late stages as of August. It is suggested as well that the sessions now involve a hot producer, Rich Costey. And we have to assume that is because there is hit potential there, reason enough to justify the "investment". Also, still tentatively speaking, there are at least two tracks on there that would feature harmonica, suggesting perhaps that a blues flavor has been retained for at least parts of the work. And your mouth is watering there, some of youse anyway... PS. Google Talk is not just chat, skimmers, it's also free internet telephony, a first. Well it was interesting, that. b

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G Sunday, September 18th 2005 - 08:16:49 PM Hi Angel, saw you in Yellow. Nice names in that Telethon... Yes, we need ß around here for sure to find us little sparks for the fire, right, so it can keep on burning, with autumn and winter on the lookout that's so highly recommended... Enjoy your mp3 player :-)

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angel Sunday, September 18th 2005 - 06:20:18 PM I thought that was Blaise in action. You haven't lost your touch B Man. ;-) Just got an MP3 player type thing. The size of a cigarette lighter and an FM radio to boot. Technology....

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g Sunday, September 18th 2005 - 11:34:14 AM Hey FACW, thanks for wandering in. And ßomeone almost immediately came to your 'command', some news about the new Donald Fagen album... Nailing down vocals is the exact description for they serve as appetizer, main course and dessert, very essential in how a song's being received... and Howard Levy... we're gonna pursue this for Mizar5, so who knows we'll learn more about Howard Levy's collaboration with Donald Fagen...

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Sunday, September 18th 2005 - 11:29:35 AM http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_track_sheet_12/index.html

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Sunday, September 18th 2005 - 11:20:43 AM http://www.levyland.com/projects.php

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Fagen Audio Crack Whore Sunday, September 18th 2005 - 02:30:23 AM Long time...just wandering in. Any new news about Dr. Fagen's upcoming album? Incredible, bizarre pics Daddy G. G: The damage to Mississippi has been devastating as well. Another poor state with a high African American pop. I have a brother who's a Navy Doc and they were Medic'ing the town of Pascagoula this week. Will pass on any pics

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Corpsy V Thursday, September 15th 2005 - 09:41:55 PM Blaise and Clas, about time the both of you leave some footprints in here! Clas, why don't you give the man a (bathroom) break.....

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g Thursday, September 15th 2005 - 02:36:01 PM http://www.concertzender.nl/cgi/rod.php?theme=5 Can really recommend the link above, it's JAZZ ACTUA 6 september, a radioshow in honor of pianist Glenn Corneille... lots of recordings with the Corneille/Roelofs Trio...

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ps Thursday, September 15th 2005 - 11:03:24 AM uh, and i don't know what's with the color, i had it pegged as 'chocolate' and it seemed orangy, then i noticed the 'e' was gone and it is kind of greyish. well, not when you sign in the cafe book that is... that is still chocolate orangy :-) ok. off now, work totally rules me.

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g Thursday, September 15th 2005 - 10:57:23 AM noooo time to 'play'. but met with two Americans last Tuesday, they were here for the second time. A daughter and her husband visiting the site where her dad crashed with his B-17 during WWII, November 1944. He survived. Those woods are nearby where i live, very near. This young tail gunner didn't want to talk about his war experiences, until his daughter and son-in-law convinced him to go in a room and record it on tape, with no-one in the room to listen... And so he did. He was 21 years young at the time it all happened, his daughter a baby-girl of 9 months. I read the transcript of the story, her father's voice and testimony was made into a radioplay and broadcasted. I even believe more victims of war were using the same method to tell their story in private, tape it so their children or anyone else can listen to it whenever he/she decides convenient. Her dad passed away in 2002. She didn't visit the crash site until 2004. Thanks to the internet, meeting someone from a village nearby who knew all about the WWII in this area.

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angel Wednesday, September 14th 2005 - 06:22:21 PM Hey Nigey! That's always what runs through my mind, when I take the "A" train from Penn Station to Kennedy Airport. Caption for that picture -- Call me Deacon Blues.

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where's Savoy Sy when you need him? Wednesday, September 14th 2005 - 01:59:42 AM Wonder if passers-by ever drop a few Euros into the bell of the horn and request "Take the A Train"? :) --N.

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G. Tuesday, September 13th 2005 - 04:02:02 PM Hi N! Have another picture, but took up too much space in one post, so... Gotto commit to the grind now alas!

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from Dinant to Birdland Tuesday, September 13th 2005 - 01:37:18 PM G. -- Great shots of A. Sax's birthplace...the house is very hip looking somehow, with the purple trim and the cursive "Adolphe Sax" sign on the storefront. Not to mention the statue of M. Sax lounging on the park bench! Now wouldn't it be interesting if Fagen were to include a song on his new CD about Sax learning to work the saxophone? :) --N.

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Daddy G. Sunday, September 11th 2005 - 05:58:10 PM I used this Anne Murray song as the opening track on a little 9/11-themed compilation I did a few years ago and which I listen to every year on this date. Unfortunately it's still just as relevant to the world in general as it was back in 1983. Just felt like posting the lyric today. Peace... A Little Good News I rolled out this morning, kids had the mornin' news show on Bryant Gumbel was talkin' 'bout the fighting in Lebanon Some senator was squawkin' 'bout the bad economy It's gonna get worse you see, we need a change in policy There's a local paper rolled up in a rubber band One more sad story's one more than I can stand Just once how I'd like to see the headline say "Not much to print today, can't find nothin' bad to say" Because... Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town Nobody OD'ed, nobody burned a single building down Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain We sure could use a little good news today I'll come home this evenin', I'll bet that the news will be the same Somebody takes a hostage, somebody steals a plane How I wanna hear the anchorman talk about a county fair And how we cleaned up the air, how everybody learned to care Oh, tell me... Nobody was assassinated in the whole Third World today And in the streets of Ireland, all the children had to do was play And everybody loves everybody in the good old USA We sure could use a little good news today Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town Nobody OD'ed, nobody burned a single building down Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain We sure could use a little good news today...

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toenz Saturday, September 10th 2005 - 11:29:05 PM Hey there G! Actually, I like the color ok, now that the shock has worn off. :-O! -> :-)

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ps Wednesday, September 7th 2005 - 09:00:56 PM oh, and there are even more where that Iggy came from :-) T, if ya wonder about the color and such, don't you agree it's nice to have a picknick kind of feel for a while.......

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g @work Wednesday, September 7th 2005 - 08:58:22 PM ugh. that's what rolled off my tongue :-) (hi Tonesy)

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lp @ coffee Wednesday, September 7th 2005 - 08:19:35 PM http://www.stern.de/unterhaltung/fotografie/544485.html?backref=%2Funterhaltung%2Ffotografie%2F544392.html&nv=fs&cp=9 wow, huh?

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nope... Wednesday, September 7th 2005 - 03:37:13 AM ... the color's still the same... Header at the top of the page seems right. Guess everything's just "peachy". Sorry to be so scarce lately (or, "you're welcome" ;-), but I just wanted to say hello, and hope everyone is well. I'll be back later when I can "hang out"... peace tonez

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whoa... Wednesday, September 7th 2005 - 03:32:35 AM ... I think something's wrong with my monitor...!

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imaGes of Hawaii Tuesday, September 6th 2005 - 01:53:37 PM http://www.yhchang.com Yep, tough job, eh? On another SAX note, a friend sent me a link to a great website from two web-artists based in South-Korea, Seoul. Young-Hae Chang and an American named Marc Voge. I like the way they use jazzmusic to support their text/stories that are displayed on your screen in just a singular type of font. I like this "minimal art" and the message it beholds. Also, the stories are often humorful and thought-provoking, like the Perfect Victoria one... Happens so, the other day i stopped to stare at a CNN World item about North Korea, their Asian correspondent Mike Chinoy had traveled into North Korea and was allowed to film... I've seen more documentaries on North-Korea (click link and then video right of the page and then smallband for an evaluation of the Dutch filmmaker Pieter Fleury with the Korean people he filmed. Most is in Korean, with Dutch subtitles, but what they comment on is that there's more to life & work (for women) than is showed in the documentary... and that their real life is way better than what the film shows...) before and find it a fascinating country, especially because of its background, system and (social) structures. I'm well aware of the problems, like poverty, hunger and such (we don't need to find this exceptional since what's going on in New Orleans pretty much teaches us there's a lot of hidden poverty around in a so called civil democratic and free world), still, the more i learn about countries like North-Korea (and notice the GOOD things), the more i question our so called western sense of democracy, and that of the USA in particular. Hasn't it by now, turned into something beyond "the people's voice" as in something not so just, and not so right... Got nothing to do with freedom of any kind, does it... And besides freedom, which is often merely just a hollow phrase, maybe it's the idea of an ideology attracting rather than the outcome of reality we live in on a daily basis? This world wasn't as complex and polluted when i was clueless in my happy toddler crawling days, was it? I'm curious about North-Korea as a nation, a nation of people who have their own way of life. THAT i am curious about. They also prefer to be called the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea... Anyway, in that Perfect Victoria "performance", you get similar pondering about North-Korea, seeing from a neighbour's point of view... wondering about the simplicity of life once having viewed smiling young girls playing their accordeons or guitars... It's simple and yet, there's nothing simple about it if you think about the amount of work put in to get everyone in synchronization... And strictly seen from visual perspectives, the beauty of such a demonstration... Like in the former USSR... I dunno, how come i see the beauty in all of that and feel fatigued about our western society? These days democracy is nothing but a broken tool of capitalism and i seriously have to consider returning to my adolescent roots and euphoria when learning about anarchism during history class :-) And in Mike Chinoy's North Korean Journey, the camera was recording a group of people/women buying and eating ice-cream. The interpreter tried to stop the camera from rolling... He explained that a) they hadn't been asked for their permission to film them and b) they don't like to be filmed when eating. Common courtesy in my book, right... even respecting another individual's right on privacy and yet again that sense of "freedom" we used to rant on about... Ah well... therefore, it was interesting to see the "conflict" in a moment... Here's an excerpt from a book on Hawaii, by Leonard Lueras (1984)... It's mostly images of Hawaii and some narration, but i wanted to show you this, since Mark Twain's totally up Nigey's alley: "No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me, but that one; no other land could so longlingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of the surfbeat in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floathing above the cloud rack; I can feel the spirit of its woodland solitudes, I can hear the plash of its brooks; in my nostril still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago..." ~Mark Twain, reminiscing in 1889 about his first and only visit to Hawaii

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Daddy G. Monday, September 5th 2005 - 05:00:41 PM Yes, by all means, g, definitely take some pics because I, for one, always enjoy good visual aids with my sax education. :-) (Hey, somebody had to say it!)

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g Monday, September 5th 2005 - 08:47:20 AM http://www.saxgourmet.com/adolph-sax.html morning! some musical news again... we're off down south next week(end) since we like to roam the Namur-Dinant area, been there before, along the river Meuse, beautiful scenery and -small- villages with names such as Annevoie-Rouillon, Anhée, Houffalize, Bouillon, Florennes, Philippeville... Medieval castles, woods, water, good food and peace & quiet, even with tourists strollin' about. We're gonna stay in a Louis XIV style mansion/castle in a small village named Rosée which is not far from the small town Dinant. And this is where 'taking for granted' steps in, because one great inventor was born there and he created an instrument we learned to love, dislike or even hate: the saxophone. Adolphe Sax (1814-1894). Although we're on a brief escape from the grind and so on, i don't think i can ignore this fact for Mizar5 and will have to write some about it, right? And take some pictures....

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Daddy G. Friday, September 2nd 2005 - 11:27:02 PM That's OK, Nigey. I probably should have mentioned the "last year" part just a little bit sooner in the post to make it clearer. For my own curiosity just to see if there was anything still available about the 2004 NJ storm online anywhere I just Googled on "thousand year storm" & "nj" and came up with these Red Cross links about the flooding if anyone cares to take a look... Red Cross article Red Cross photos As I said before, I only mention it by way of saying that until you've seen some such damage first hand, it's hard to comprehend the forces involved or the speed with which events unfold. In our local case, once one dam failed all that water goes rushing out and down to the next dam in line, etc. The storm and the resultant flooding was indeed BIG national news at the time. I seem to recall that Peter Jennings even anchored the ABC World News Tonight from one of the flooded areas about 5 miles from my house one night. And yet that storm was small potatoes compared to Katrina! So it's still hard for me to really comprehend some of the pictures I'm seeing coming out of N.O. Of course, it doesn't really matter the scale of the disaster, if you lose your home and all possessions (as many did) it's a tragedy nonetheless. Anyway, among my main points was simply that the Red Cross and The Salvation Army were heavily involved in the relief efforts then and seem to be very reliable and caring organizations. Probably no organization is perfect, but they generally do good work where it's needed.

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took the words right outta my mouf Friday, September 2nd 2005 - 07:19:06 PM http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=183 I didn't say it, he did. :) --N.

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g Friday, September 2nd 2005 - 04:03:05 PM http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09.html#076026 Either way, about the New Jersey storm, whether last or this year, it's the thought and message that counts, -N :-) Very often only nature can make mankind feel 'humble' again and to see a certain twit for a prez handle the situation as badly as he did in his official announcement(s), well, no wonder NYB's screaming bloody murder again in Yellow, complaining about foreign countries not coming to help the USA... Makes you really wonder about the news sources some people make use of, right? Ah well, also hated the fact it were mostly colored citizens in the footage, colored people around the New Orleans prison trying to keep their heads (literally) above water and colored people raiding the shops and stores to try and get some food, clothes and essentials to survive on. You can guess what that looks like... people jumping to all kinds of conclusions... how come they didn't get away in time etc etc... So a lot of work is cut out for your nation again, i hope it won't divide but bring together instead :-) Ha, yes, well, been absent as absent can be, 42 imaginary candles were lit to celebrate some, count the blessings and whisper hope for everyone out there less fortunate than we are... this one of those days you remember, when a child and learning about the world, wondering how come not everyone out there has a house, clothes and food or why children and people starve to death... how one can find a balance in not being (called) selfish when pursuing one's own happiness instead of feeling blue or sad about the ways in the world... besides Mother Nature there's also human nature in its full features, both positive and negative.

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My Bad Friday, September 2nd 2005 - 02:35:50 PM Oops, just re-read your post, Daddy G, and realized you were speaking about last year. OK, ignore my previous post about random occurrences. :) Except for the part about your birthday, G.! --N. (duuh)

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Random Universe Friday, September 2nd 2005 - 02:30:10 PM Daddy G -- Incredible! Weather patterns are bizarre...it's hard to believe you got such a torrential downpour there. Here on Long Island we got about an inch and a half of rain from that same storm; people have been going around griping about the "drought," in fact. I'm glad you and your family escaped unhurt! G. -- Happy belated birthday, Ms. Serendipity! Hope you had a randomly good time... ;) --N.

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angel Thursday, September 1st 2005 - 11:03:19 PM Nice shots, Daddy G. Thankfully, you were not in the worst of it. -- Getting information today about a possible "Network" disaster relief type concert, for next Tuesday, in Prime Time. I hear we are asking for a waiver (to be able to fundraise for another organization), so we might be involved.

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Daddy G. Thursday, September 1st 2005 - 06:46:50 PM As usual, the Red Cross and the Salvation Army are two of the best and most reputable disaster relief organizations... Red Cross Salvation Army, USA Salvation Army, International The links for Salvation Army donations don't appear to be working for me at the moment. Here's another page with links to five different servers for Salvation Army Donations. They say that due to the overwhelming response, the servers may be busy at times and they certainly seem to be---which is good.

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Daddy G. Thursday, September 1st 2005 - 06:11:46 PM As prelude, I just want to say that I do not mean to imply that the following is in any way comparable to Katrina's wrath in Louisiana/Mississippi or the Asian tsunami aftermath. It ain't even close (or even close to close). However, my only intent is to illustrate what is now my own personal point of reference when it comes to truly understanding the force of floodwaters. The pictures which follow are the result of a hard rain and many small dams bursting to let forth the contents of relatively small ponds and lakes. The pictures and stories coming out of the southland right now are at least 1000x worse in severity and scale... _______________ On July 12, 2004, we had a freak storm in my part of NJ. It was not a hurricane (no high winds) or anything like that, but simply a very hard concentrated rain. Most storms run their course as they pass overhead in a natural flow. For some reason, though, this one just absolutely stalled in one spot and kept dumping more and more rain---13" in less than 12 hours. The local papers took to calling it the "thousand-year storm" (Ed. note: links in this post added later) because they said statistically the conditions which led to this only occur about that often around these parts. The rain (and some flooding) was predicted, but no one really had any clue of exactly how it would unfold. The rain itself still would not have been that much of a problem if it wasn't for the fact that many lakes and ponds in the area had old dams that were not well maintained. Some were/are privately owned, others state owned. Some were not even known to actually exist---until they failed. All that water had to go somewhere and certain nearby towns suffered serious flooding. Some dams remain unfixed and their associated lakebeds dry still today. The good news is that despite concentrated property damage, there were no fatalities. In the days following the storm, I was driving by this house and noticed the vehicle "parked" in the back. I took this shot from the edge of the road. There's a creek to the right of the house. I assumed that the van belonged to someone at the house, but found out later in local news articles that it belonged to someone who'd been driving by when the surging water hit. The person ended up spending time on the roof of the garage, eventually being rescued by boat... A close-up... I scanned this shot from my local rinky-dink paper because it shows the same vehicle actually in the flood waters at the time... Here are two different angles showing where one of the better maintained dams used to be. This was a dam between two lakes which had a paved road across it... These next two shots were among some I pulled from the coverage at the time on the Philly Inquirer website. Note the working traffic light. This was main street of one of the three most affected towns... This canoe is still there wrapped around the tree... The Red Cross does great work, even in "small" disasters. There were three or four FEMA disaster relief centers set up, at least one for each of the most affected towns. This truck's crew was, I assume, making rounds to assess what sort of help folks might need... Finally, just down the road from my house, there's another road which had chunks washed out when a nearby pond overran it's banks and the tiny wood dam/spillway that had been in place for years and years. It's not a clear shot of him, but here's my Dad checking out the road damage where the floodwaters flowed. It's normally just a tiny creek... Oh, and btw, the Daddy G. household was never in any danger as we don't live too near any creeks, ponds, or lakes. Sure, the back yard itself looked like a lake at the time and there was more basement seepage than usual (some seepage is "normal" during extended periods of steady rain), but nothing that caused any real damage. Anyway, like I said, this just gives folks an idea of my own personal measuring stick when it comes to floods. Until last year I really had no comprehension of such things despite seeing occasional news coverage of such.

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... Thursday, September 1st 2005 - 02:37:02 PM http://www.nola.com/ New Orleans...........

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grin Wednesday, August 31st 2005 - 09:45:39 PM http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104348/ yes, i didn't want to mention Glengarry Glen Ross as well, too much of a good thing it seemed and you are so right, eerie how things somehow bounce back to eh, eh, what were their names again...

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angel Wednesday, August 31st 2005 - 09:29:00 PM Gina: Did you see that the "Gil" character is modeled after the Jack Lemmon character in Glengarry Glen Ross? The cool thing about Glengarry Glen Ross is the soundtrack of the movie includes Donald Fagen's Song "Blue Lou". Amazing how we bring things right back around to the Steely side....

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g Tuesday, August 30th 2005 - 09:30:18 PM http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/simpsons/episodeguide/season9/page9.shtml I know Clas is in Blue, but where is Red Blazer... The Simpsons episode of today (in Belgium that is), Marge has a job at Red Blazer Realty and selling a murder house to Ned Flanders... ofcourse Homer messes it all up... Oh yes, and a certain Gil is introduced in this "Real(i)ty Bites as well :-)

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G Tuesday, August 30th 2005 - 08:48:21 AM Hi Ange... thanks for that, sounds great. Footage never shown before, 1961-1966... We watched Taxi Driver yesterday, The Making Of was a wonderful documentary included, not the usual "actors singing unbelievable praise about actors and director etc" that bothers me on most DVD's... De Niro, Scorsese, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster and others shared some of their memories about making the movie and talked about the perspective, given the time it was filmed, in the 70's. Great movie, great cinema. Wonderful score by Bernard Hermann, who died right after having finished recording the score... And something Jodie said, about movies made in the 70s, she's right. There's something about that era in time that's special. Gotto go, laters.

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angel Monday, August 29th 2005 - 10:16:28 PM http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/14104231/102-8040377-6163345 Supposedly, the stupid song referenced in "Doctor Wu", is "Visions of Johanna", by Bob Dylan. I don't know how true that is, but there is a new Film Documentary by Martin Scorsese, about the life of Bob Dylan, that references that song, among others. It looks like it would be an interesting show to watch. Click the link, for more.

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solace Monday, August 29th 2005 - 01:01:14 PM Hey there LP...who knows we might swing by Maine after all next year... Today's Glenn's funeral and it took me until last Saturday to get things settled in somehow... to find peace with it... very weird because I never actually knew him that well, but when one does have a sense of somebody's personality and is a witness to his craft and talent, even when watching or following from a distance can bring sadness and a sense of loss. Nigey said something wise, about music always bringing solace in times like these... It was saturday morning, very early, a restless mood reigned. So Nino and I kind of went on a little 'shopping spree', the movies and music department of some huge mediastore is like a candyshop, it's still overwhelming to realize this is the current way of life nowadays... We had Scorcese's Taxi Driver on our list, a Classic edition with some postcards and a framed piece of celluloid, a genuine collector's box. I was just pacing the isles where they had stacks of cheap cd's and kind of just glanced at them, in the meantime they had Paul McCartney playing, ebony and ivory and all his greatest and not so great hits... i found myself humming along which kind of helped regain consciousness in that huge building of modern consumerism, a place i don't feel comfortable in when entering... and then i saw it, Judy Garland on a cover and the magical words: American Songbook. My hand just reached for it and a quick scan of the back made me cherish this find in an instant... this is so unbelievable in a way, a 5CD box with 70 songs from the American Songbook, all the classics such as Billie Holiday's Lover Man, Doris Day's Sentimental Journey, Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzerald, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Washington, Anita O'Day etc etc... for only €4,99 (about the same in dollars). At home and spinning those 5 discs, I can only say they're GRAND and the sound is even better, some songs make you believe the singer is actually standing in your living-room... Whoever compiled this box (Cheapolata productions, worth a grin), did a very fine job in seeking some fine renditions, with the best of orchestration as well. Some recordings are live, most are done with big bands and the arrangements and musicality are priceless. So, quite a find and treasure in that modern non-sophisticated buy-it-all media dome. Listening to those 70 songs brought solace for sure and a renewed sense of how to turn something bad into something good. Music. Music always brings solace. Yes indeed!

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lp Friday, August 26th 2005 - 10:35:02 PM hey wow thanks, angel/gina - that's the edge of me with Gabriel, lol - those were fron the top of Cadillac Mountain - first point to see the sun in the US! onto Seawall for a dinner picnic with our visitors

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angel Friday, August 26th 2005 - 06:27:10 PM No internet yesterday. Damn those ISP's..... :-) Seen on a High School Student this morning, while dropping off the kidlet. Long Island, New Jersey! I laughed so hard, my husband wondered what the big deal was. I assume I know where she vacationed this past summer.... Chips Jr. That's great stuff there, bud. I love how the rocks on the Maine Coast are just above the water line and you can walk on them. Almost like tree roots growing out into the water. I have never seen anything like that anywhere else in the country. Very beautiful and speaking of beautiful, so are your children. Growing like weeds and looking very happy, nurtured and loved. Good work LP. :-)

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Island Serenity Thursday, August 25th 2005 - 11:42:04 AM Here they are, LP's pics from Maine, our supervisor/tourguide Chips jr. making sure everything is going exactly the way he planned it...

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g Thursday, August 25th 2005 - 09:33:51 AM morning, LP. yes, the word's spreading here in town, everyone has memories of their own, musicians reminisce the sessions and gigs, when certain clubs and cafes were still open for business and all that jazz... something like this always triggers a lot, nostalgia, a sense for times that have been... even feuds seem to come to a halt for a moment... i have to wrap up some work and then upload the Maine visuals... we could do with a change of scenery in here :-)

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lp Wednesday, August 24th 2005 - 11:46:10 PM i'm sorry about your news gina -

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g Wednesday, August 24th 2005 - 09:37:27 PM thanks, Ange! forgot to say i like these hot dogs/sandwich links and tips (grin)... could act like a real ignorant European and think all you got is hamburgers and diet coke :-)

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angel (on lunch) Wednesday, August 24th 2005 - 09:33:05 PM http://www.wqed.org/tv/pghist/sebak.shtml Here is Rick's Bio. Check out his 10 things you must do in Pittsburg, especially the one about going to "The Point". It makes me want to go there!

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G Wednesday, August 24th 2005 - 09:31:04 PM hey Ange... he was a friend and colleague of friends, i never really knew him personally, only saw him perform and around in the social places when he was still in town...we talked maybe once or twice, and via his girlfriend i collected a lot of their books and such when they were moving away to the national music heart of this country, yes, the bookstand/fleemarket days :-) It has always been obvious he was a major talent and would fit right in our national mecca of entertainment and television. Happens so, i talked about this with the drummer from his jazz trio, Geert Roelofs, not so long ago on that wedding party. About music, jazz, fame and the choices one makes as a musician. Everybody into music knew Glenn or had performed with him and he had definitely chosen a path of his own the last years, one of success. Therefore it's most sad, because he was an inspiration to many, a musician's musician too. Also an example of how to do well in this rather small country, being a musician or an artist. Ah well, I shouldn't dwell too long on these matters. It's devastating for his family and friends in the first place. Today also happens to be the birthday of my brother, he would have turned 41 if he would still have been around. One of the first times I saw Glenn, he reminded me of my brother, the way they sat behind the piano was somewhat similar... (Also, these are natural things occurring, when having lost someone, right...the process of dealing with it, catharsis) I was working in a media cafe then and Glenn had just graduated with honors and was performing around town...Like my brother was a conservatory student too... So that triggers memories and thoughts...Sometimes one has these notions about people, something in their way, their vibe is reminiscent...I don't have that with every music student or pianist btw :-) Here's a flower from the garden, they surprised me, i thought they would only last one year, but somehow they're around again :-) And so the cycle of life continues...

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angel Wednesday, August 24th 2005 - 06:44:52 PM Gina: Sorry to hear about your acquaintance. Especially so that he is so young. -- Daddy G: Rick Sebak does the most wonderful things. A Hot Dog Program, Shore Things, An Ice Cream Show, A Program about Unusual Buildings, Great Old Amusement Parks. They all have this flavor of America appeal and we have aired them for almost a decade. They just don't go bad. Glad you enjoyed it. Gina, you especially would love these things. That look at Americana, from the city to the country. Since Hot dogs are on the current agenda, here is the description of A Hot Dog Program. "How about a hot dog for lunch? A HOT DOG PROGRAM is an All-American celebration of those fabulous and phenomenally popular little sausages in their soft little buns. From a Fourth of July hot-dog eating contest at Coney Island to a gourmet reindeer-dog vendor at the start of the Iditarod dog-sled race, we visit some of the country's coolest hot dog places. During the one-hour documentary we find out what makes a Chicago-style dog, go inside a giant hot-dog shaped building, stop at some crazy late-night stands and see how hot dogs are made."

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duh Wednesday, August 24th 2005 - 05:52:03 PM http://froogle.google.com/ they already have that! :-)

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ps Wednesday, August 24th 2005 - 05:48:56 PM google & chat... what will be next... google & shopping?

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g Wednesday, August 24th 2005 - 05:41:49 PM http://tejoverstappen.web-log.nl/log/3386694 hey LP.. got the pics... it's ok to upload them in here, right? will do so manana.. lots of work to do, am behind... sometimes sad news takes all the energy you got... A very fine and brilliant young Dutch musician/pianist got killed in a car accident last night, Glenn Corneille, only 35 years young... He is from my region here, lived in Maastricht for years and many musicians or friends here know him, or worked with him... you'd see him move from jazz to the television and semi-celeb status, into more 'popular' stuff, still, his jazzprojects never ceased to exist, like with drummer Geert Roelofs and bassist Werner Lauscher... I sent their first CD, the Corneille/Roelofs Trio to Chicago based pianist John Erickson, who has a great version of "Third World Man' on his "And So On" album... It's the same breed of pianists.. they're pure and lyrical... Always hate when news like this suddenly hits ya, when checking a national newspaper for any kind of news but this...he's been on stage for over 24 years...has a nice family, young kids...

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chat, anyone? Wednesday, August 24th 2005 - 05:10:45 PM http://www.google.com/talk/

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luckless pedestrian Wednesday, August 24th 2005 - 04:26:45 PM hey, on vacation at home - family vvisiting - will post some pics to gina - had to google this place since it's not on my home computer - hence why i am scarce -

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Daddy G. Wednesday, August 24th 2005 - 04:59:53 AM That reminds me, angel... Quite a while ago now my Dad and I saw A Hot Dog Program (from Pittsburgh's WQED on PBS!) about hot dog eateries across the U.S. We like a good dog now and then and it was quite an interesting show. Amazing to see the regional variations on the traditional dog, not to mention some of the characters that sell or eat'em. I don't know if they'll be airing it again anytime soon, but I see it's available on DVD for $19.95 through shoppbs.org. We later saw Sandwiches That You Will Like (again from WQED/PBS) which is also listed on the same shoppbs.org page (for $22.95) with the Hot Dog Program. The sandwich show was good too, but for some reason we seemed to like the hot dog one a little better.

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angel Tuesday, August 23rd 2005 - 08:28:13 PM http://www.wienerschnitzel.com/ In case you can't see what my "Hotdog Dude" was selling, here is their website. When I got to my car, there had to be at least 10 free hot dogs and ice cream coupons under my windshield wiper. Hey, thanks Hotdog Dude. :-)

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HS Tuesday, August 23rd 2005 - 07:44:41 PM A guy took his girlfriend to her first football game. They had great seats right behind their team's bench. After the game, he asked her how she liked the experience. "Oh, I really liked it," she replied, "especially the tight pants and all the big muscles, but I just couldn't understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents." Dumbfounded, her date asked, "What do you mean?" "Well, they flipped a coin, one team got it and then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was: 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!' I'm like..Helloooooo? It's only 25 cents!!!!

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Due with Buzz Tuesday, August 23rd 2005 - 05:51:50 PM http://www.nigeylennon.com Howdy friends, folks, and fellow fiends -- Some of you may remember (fondly or otherwise) the radio program John Tabacco and I co-hosted on WUSB prior to John's departure for Maui last August. After a year's hiatus, it has returned to the airwaves and is also available for listening on WUSB's website. Here are the details: WHAT: The Non-Objective Reality Show WHEN: Thursdays, 10 A.M. - Noon (U.S. Eastern Time) WHERE: WUSB, Stony Brook, New York 90.1 FM Netcast at http://www.wusb.fm The show is broadcast/netcast in "real" time, then is archived for one week (until the next show) on the WUSB website. To listen to the archived version, go to the WUSB home page, then click on the program grid. Go to the programming for Thursday, find The Non-Objective Reality Show, then click on the ear symbols to the right of the grid to listen. The top ear gives you the first hour of the show, the second ear is the second hour. (I didn't know that until John pointed it out to me!) Our guest this week is Eric Nichols, who'll be joining us by phone from North Pole, Alaska to discuss his new book "Plasma Dreams", current research into the ionosphere, Alaskan folkways, vacuum tubes, mini-carrot ranching, and/or the aurora borealis. It's sure to be a lively conversation! If you'd like to contact us about the radio show, or have any recording studio-related questions, e-mail us here: presidentstreetstudios(AT)yahoo(DOT)com You can always find sorta new news and semi-frequent updates at http://www.nigeylennon.com P.S. If you'd prefer not to hear anything further about this @#$%& radio program, just say the word and we'll promptly remove your name from the announcement list. (edit DWB: or scroll on by) Thanks for listening! --Nigey and John

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Daddy G. Tuesday, August 23rd 2005 - 04:49:13 PM Nice pics, Angel. Gotta love a guy in a hot dog suit! Great to see some left coast shots around here.

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angel Tuesday, August 23rd 2005 - 03:26:34 PM Thanks so much, Gina. I think that no matter what, if you come our way, you will probably be drawn over to the coast. It is our best feature. :-)

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