Dmitry

Are we to congratulate you, or comfort you? A minus is worse than a plus?

Ain't that the truth! That's why I clean my naked stylus after every play.

Finished it. I don't dislike the score. It's very film-noir'ish. Are you sure it's Thomas Newman? Titles had another composer, initials C.B., I think; Colum Bannister or something like that? It did look like an independent film in parts! SPOILER ALERT : Couple of things I didn't care for - nurse telling the old man to hit reset on the heart monitor (like he would know what to do?! that was realy lame), cop left the hospital room where the older son was held (murder suspect) and he was not handcuffed to the bed (standard procedure), which I thought would've been much cooler, writhing, cuffs sliding up and down the bed rail while daddy was holding a pillow over his face. Pillow was a murder weapon once, and accessory to murder twice. Plus the pillows were featured in several sex scenes and on the drug dealer's bed. Pretty good film overall, although I didn't care for the title. Thanks for the rec! Really liked Marisa Tomei!

We still have 30 mins till the ending. I didn’t pay attention to the score. Will report back. So far the most intriguing character is the androgynous drug dealer in a high-rise apartment.

Well, it's a good thing our 15 y.o. decided not to join us at the tv yesterday night. The first few minutes would've been rather uncomfortable for us as a family. We did have a lively debate as to Marisa Tomei's breasts. I thought they were youthful and perky, my wife was insistent that they were fixed. Naturally, we had to roll back those frames for closer scrutiny, but still reached no consensus. What do you think?

Justin, I'm obviously not violated...well, not by the Side Door anyway. I think they may have had a couple of slow seller acts for those two nights, and tried to fill the room by having this contest. I was probably the only one who responded. Still, it's somewhat less than professional of whoever was in charge of that. Teasing, I forgot to mention that we have been watching the dvds of all the seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm in order, pretty much every night for the past couple of weeks. Our library system has so many dvds and it's very easy to order them right from their app. Never heard of that Lumet title...just ordered it from the library. His THE VERDICT is one of favorites, since I was a teenager.

I compare it to the abstract art. Being a student of art history and having absolutely no preconceived prejudices, I am doing a fair amount of reading on the subject and I can't help thinking it has ran its course many decades ago, much like the free jazz and avantgarde music (how long can you call something avantgard, before it becomes a well-established conventional art?! If you can take classes in it at every single art school in the world ...how avantgarde can it be?) . Scam may appear like a very strong accusation, but I think it's spot on.

Thank you very much! I put this in my calendar. Here's the Christie's auction age, the catalogue isn't printed yet. https://www.christies.com/events/charlie-watts-gentleman-collector-rolling-stone/what-is-on

Fixed the rear brakes on my son's bicycle (really my bike that somehow is now his. Squatters rights, I guess.), put up the wire mesh chicken fence around our vegetable garden (plastic fencing turned out to be no match for the rabbits, they chewed neat oversized passageways in several strategic places), saw a FB ad for jazz albums, went out and bought a NJ address 1958 pressing of Cookin' in tremendous visual condition. Haven't played it yet. How about yourself, anything interesting other than the trip to the Side Door?

The Side Door bamboozled me. They were supposed to announce the winner by noon on Friday, and responded to my message more than a day later, on Saturday at 6:30PM, telling me that I had the tickets for the show that would start in a hour. I feel violated and wronged. Only a new set of free tickets and drink vouchers will change my mind. Side-swiped by the Side Door...

Blistering barnacles! The impostor! I keep thinking if the two bass players that haven’t been identified yet; they look old enough to be known.

My man! I bow to your knowledge! At 6:40, the cat at the piano has what looks like rubber bands on all of his fingers. Is this some piano players work-out trick? Never seen that before.

Don't be catty!

I can score a pair of tickets to the Side Door this weekend, if I name the most people in this video. Here's who I go so far: Bobby Watson Christos Rafalides Javon Jackson ? ? Jimmy Greene Nocole Zuraitis Bill Charlap ? Jonathan Barber Ken Peplowski ? ? Maurice Robinson ? ? ? ? Peter Bernstein ? ? Brian Charette

Looks interesting...and inexpensive. Just ordered a copy. Thanks!

Is the Blue Note Discography by Cuscuna and Ruppli still a valid and desirable resource? It was first printed in 1988. I have not seen the book myself, hence the question.

This year’s WFMU RECORD FAIR is October 14-15 at some place called the Knockdown Center in Maspeth. 52-19 Flushing Ave, Queens, NY 11378

Warner Brothers Coltrane, Alice – Transfiguration (2 LP) beautiful copy $25 Is this an original, or a later pressing?

I think Al Bennett was the Alvin part of the "Alvin and the Chipmunks".

$24,000,000 in 1968 translates into over $200,000,000 today, according to this source. https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1968?amount=24000000 Regarding the BN sale to Liberty in 1965…was Wolff the partner or the employee of the label, and Lion was the sole owner? I’ve found this a bit confusing. Would be interesting to read the Purchase and Sale Agreement. I wouldn’t have bought any of these three compilations, just thought it strange that I don’t remember seeing them on record store shelves.

I don't remember seeing these compilations. The logotype in the top right corner tells us these were the Transamerica releases. Well, that, and the date 1969.

I saw neither. We will return. I can't spend more than two uninterrupted hours in a show, otherwise I begin to lose concentration and interest...We just covered the selections from the permanent collection on the 7th floor. https://whitney.org/exhibitions/collection-1900-to-1965 My teenager son was most impressed with the show of Calder's puppets and the accompanying film. I liked seeing Marsden Hartley's pictures. He could do so much on a small canvas!

Good thread! Somehow missed it. Went to the Whitney today. Last weekend went to the Newport Annual Flower Show (that's art too).

Massachusetts man who thought he'd lost winning lottery ticket finally pockets $3M jackpot: Cops say store worker STOLE it - and was only caught when she and 'co-conspirator' started arguing over how to split cash in Lotto HQ lobby https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12255083/Rightful-winner-3-million-Mega-Millions-lottery-ticket-collects-prize-STOLEN.html

Circa 2001 I was on a Melle kick and bought everything of his I could put my eyes on.The Tower on East 8th St corner of Broadway had all of his BN and OJC cds and the two Toshiba-EMI 10" BN represses. I also have a couple of his late 1960s-early 1970s electronic soundtrack LPs. Not a completist, just a fan. He was a brilliant individual, what we would call the Renaissance man.