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Not calling for an announcement - just for speculation. LSU's toughest remaining game may be this Sat. against Ole Miss. Of the three once-beatens, I think OSU is the most likely to end up with two losses, LSU next most likely, and USC is most likely to survive with one loss (though Oregon State and UCLA will not be gimmes). In that case USC would be the obvious choice. If more than one team has one loss though, it'll be open season on the BCS just like a couple years ago when Oregon was denied.

I'll say OKLAHOMA vs. LSU. (Full disclosure: I am a severely and hoplessly biased LSU fan.) My reasoning: OK is an obvious choice. LSU is my choice among the once-beatens based on their very convincing victories against tough SEC opponents and the fact that an SEC schedule is always the toughest in the nation. Among the others, OSU has looked shaky all season, squeaking by on too many occasions. And you just can't convince me that a PAC-10 schedule is a legitimate test of a football team (re:USC). A side question: what should be done with the BCS?

I second the rec on the Sound in Action Trio: Design in Time (Delmark) - KV, Mulvenna (D), and Barry (D). Excellent! Also, very interested in the whole concept of Free Jazz Classics. Have V. 2 and like it very much.

Die Like a Dog trio: Peter Brotzmann, William Parker, and Hamid Drake especially on "Never too late, always too early" (Eremite, ded. to P. Kowald)

I have a seven-month-old who enjoys the music from the Baby Mozart and Beethoven discs. I'm also trying to work some jazz into his listening and thus far he has exhibited a distinct taste for trad, especially early Armstrong. He also seems to like country (must be my wife's genes). Anyone else with young'uns who like the music? If so, what seems to appeal to them? And if Mozart makes him smarter, what will jazz do for him?

He should just contact Ed Gillespie and the GOP. They'll get the whole dictionary shut down right quick.

Yes, "it's all an illusion": Diane's illusion, Betty's illusions, Lynch's illusions, and ultimately ours. Where all of these begin, end, and overlap is an open question but I think the point is a reflection on who controls these illusions and why we are all so suceptible to them.

One jazz footnote to this film: It features an appearance by the late Conti Candoli of Thundering Herd, Shelley Manne, and Tonight Show Band fame. He plays trumpet briefly in the theater scene. Must have been one of his last performances on screen or otherwise before his December 2001 death. I even think there's some meaning in his casting, BTW.

Don't even get me (or any other fan of this film) started. The theories and interpretations are legion and all can easily be found on the web. Try looking it up at imdb.com to start. There's even a comedy short at one site about trying to understand the movie. The basic theory (and the one I subscribe to): The first segment of the movie focusing on Betty (Naomi Watts) and Rita (Laura Harring) is a fevered dream of the character Diane (also played by Watts) after she has had the lover who spurned her killed (Camilla, also played by Harring). Complicating the puzzle is the fact that the second segment, focusing on the "real" Diane, is a series of non-sequential flashbacks that can only be put in proper temporal order by studying props, costumes, etc. These peculiar devices serve to create in the viewer a sense of Diane's loss as well as the disorientation of dream memory. This is just the tip of the iceberg as there all sorts of things going on in this movie, e.g., the relationship is a metaphor for how Hollywood destroys people, especially women or e.g., the power of film/illusion and its makers to control our thoughts and feelings... Like I said, don't get me started. I recommend multiple viewings with a notebook

What's brown and sticky? ........a stick!

Growing up in New Orleans, there was jazz around all the time as a kid - at restaurant brunches, parties, Mardi Gras, etc. But at around age 15 a bunch of guys in the high school band turned me on to a lot of fusion. They basically admired anyone who was techincally proficient. So there was lots of Stanley Clarke, Al Dimeola, Billy Cobham, Steve Morse, Jaco, etc. At the same time (1982), I got interested in Wynton because he was a local prodigy getting a lot of national attention. From there, I just started exploring genres. Now I take in every thing from ODJB to the Brotzmann Tentet.

Manual. In the shower. With a brush and Colgate Shaving Soap. A bar costs 70 cents and lasts three or four months.

He will be missed. Was also here in N.O. in the spring with Bang. Seemed to be struggling with the illness then. Fair obit in the Times today http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/23/arts/23LOWE.html

Obviously, none of the users of this board have a problem with writing about music. Dancing about architecture seems like it would be cool, too.

Anyone remember the 3rd edition? The crowns were not printed in the text so they printed a lavender bifold insert that listed all the crowned recordings. Kinda weird but also kinda intresting. That was the beginning of my crown fetish.

Yeah, and I realize my Gould thread was "stupid" or at least was characterized as such by The Fist but is that a reason to shut it down? We all know you can take your ball and go home but that won't exactly keep the discussion going around here. Who are you, anyway, Bill O'Reilly? I guess this won't last too long either.

I agree this issue merits discussion. It could also use some humor. The options I chose, except for the first few, are ones that explode conventional notions of race. As a mixture of Sicilian, Irish, Native American, German, French, and Welsh, I check "white" on the census form, but if there was a "mongrel" box I would check that.

Whoa! No intent to offend here. The only choice in the poll that could even be considered offensive is Cajun, at least where I'm from. I just thought the question raised on the other thread was interesting and amusing. How do you tell someone's race? Even by looking at them? Can you tell on the phone? On the internet? What are the clues? Brings to mind the recent study that showed resumes with "black" names (e.g. Keisha) were less likely to be selected for job interviews than those with "white" names (e.g. Megan) when everything else was equal. To reiterate: just for fun. I have no problem with you, Dan, even if you might be a WASP

Any post guessing the exact mix of cultural and genetic heritage contained in Dan Gould wins a free CDR of Jemeel Moondoc's "Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys."

They ask Dan Gould.

I tried to get a Sex Mob thread going a couple of times on the old bnbb but got no bites. Suprising, because I find them very interesting. Especially like the Bond album? Any idea where they might resurface on the web. Not that I mind the "Big Naturals"...

Try smoking some marijuana before the film starts.

Sex Mob Does Bond

beating the bishop waxing the carrot

Good Bye Pork Pie Hat w/ Booker Ervin (and Shafi Hadi) on Ah Um (1959)