RainyDay

That's gotta be Renee Rosnes. She's married to Billy Drummond. She is an amazing pianist. Her recent album with the Danish Radio Big Band is the shiznit. Yup. That's her. Thanks.

Teri Lynn Carrington. This lady is the stuff. Also, Shirley Horn. Jean Carn Dee Dee Bridgewater Regina Carter Is there a woman pianist named Rene something or other? I saw a woman a year or two ago at Yoshi's and I can't remember who she was with. She came back and did her own set, which I didn't get to see. I think she's married to a jazz musician. Spanish or Portuguese last name? Anyway, she was great! Does this sound familiar to anyone? Suffering from middle-aged memory syndrome, RainyDay

You all are too twisted for color TV. B)

DONE!! After the boss reviews them, I will make whatever revisions are necessary and zap them out of here. On to the next crisis. Thanks for the moral support. What a week...

Hmmm...

Can the adminstrator delete the other threads? Why waste the bandwidth...

I settled for diet vanilla coke. Help desk helped me out and hopefully the problems on our end are fixed. I'm 2/3 of the way through this project. Hope I can finish by today.

Nice site. Thanks.

Ah...I had one 15 or 16 years ago. That was nothing compared to the removal of my first wisdom tooth. The idiot twisted it when he pulled it so it took me a week of pain killers to recover. The second wisdom tooth went so smoth I went to a singing class the next day, no problem. And then there was the time we thought I had a tumor in my leg. it wasn't. Only an Aneurysm that created a cyst. At least they saved my leg. Now THAT SUCKED All this happened a while ago. The root canal is a bit of a wakeup call, I've been so depressed for the past 7 months over my business, my elderly parents health that my muse kind of stopped for a while. So cheer up, it could be worse. As for the Wild Turkey moment, sometimes it works (try a good vodka, less of a hangover ). Sh*t. At least the ball is in their court. You are so right. When you have your health, you can face just about anything. Been there with elderly grand parents who lived in another state. That is so hard to deal with. I still feel guilty for putting them in private care facilities.

Maren: Neither discipline you mentioned but I work for a public agency. Our industry is in utter chaos right now from the federal level on down to the local level. I guess that's true for anyone programmed for public funding at any level. Oy is right. I even wrote that in my last post but deleted it.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. Root canal. Ouch. Good luck

I remember smiling...

So after toiling away on one project's funding, I tried to save it and I got a surf control message. This is a continuation of the pop up hell I have experienced since last week. Another e-mail to the help desk. This was our biggest project. A zillion fund sources over 15 years and I have to start over. I wonder if anyone would care if I set a bottle of Wild Turkey on my desk to get me through this? I don't even drink Wild Turkey. I don't even know what it is but this feels like a Wild Turkey moment. I sorta feel like a Wild Turkey right about now. Gobble fucking gobble.

I've been struggling with a new web based program that is the latest disastrous brain child of a major funding agency. There are so many bugs I've been asked to keep a list. At the same time, my computer was going crazy and I couldn't tell if it was them or me, so to speak. Now that we know it is them, they are all apologetic. Tomorrow is the deadline and I've already told them they won't get it until next week. Last night I stayed late and I couldn't save my work because they had taken the program offline for maintenance. Today, I couldn't save because it timed out on me. So I went to Macys and am now the proud owner of a foot massager that I'm hoping will also fit my head.

This is so outrageously stupid on so many levels, I barely know where to start, so I won't. But I did enjoy this: Spoon Bender - (sung to the music of "Dream Weaver"--also a dorky oldie)

There should be a separate thread for Elvis songs, there really should. You're in a whole 'nother world with him (the Elvis Zone, as it were.) He did some of the worst and best pop songs of all time----but with some of his worst songs, the kitsch doubles back on itself, and the song becomes a masterpiece. So bad it's great, sort of. "Viva Las Vegas" is an example. Yet even many of his best songs have an element of kitsch to them. He was an enigma (wrapped in a cheeseburger...) I love Jail House Rock. If that song or anything by James Brown comes on while I'm driving, I resist the urge to pull over, get out of the car, and do the funky chicken. Not a pretty sight, I might add. Elvis' song about the child in the ghetto prompts dry heaves every time I hear it. It was a cynical attempt to produce a song "relevant" to the times. Yeeeeechh.

See my Joe Zawinul story. I don't say more than "hello nice set" if I say anything at all, let alone ask for an autograph. B)

Spike Lee got creamed in reviews of Bamboozled but I applauded the spirit of the film. An awful lot of black entertainment being produced by black folks is of minstrel quality, black face. It's degrading, disgusting, and ignorant. If white people were flooding the market with this trash, the NAACP would have an entire movement around the issue. An awful lot of Hip Hop/Rap exploits women and makes men look like completely backward, ignorant asses. I never thought I would live to see the day that black people would cheer on images of blacks as buffoons. The most perverse excuse put out there is that it's employment opportunity for black youth. It used to be that education was what would set you free. Now it's shaking your ass and boobs in front of a camera or digging in your crotch like a five-year-old. You can't have it both ways. How can you expect anyone to treat you with respect if you don't even respect yourself?

I was surprised at how badly they all did with the Estafan material. I'm not a fan of Estafan's singing at all (I guess that's heresy to say so) but all of the contenders were struggling with it. Although I thought Latoya's stage presence was red hot, her vocal work was weaker than usual. IMHO. I'm glad young Jon is gone. Every time they rerun the shot of his pained face when Jennifer was voted off, I genuinely feel sorry for him.

Listen, Jack. This isn't a negative response to you. Seriously.... I just wanted to say that (1) I agree that dudes like Nelly present awful images of women as sexual objects but, more importantly, (2) women "fighting back" against this sort of image portrayal isn't exactly late-breaking news. It just so happens that someone at the AP chose to write a story about it this time. Queen Latifah's "U.N.I.T.Y." came out eleven years ago. First verse: "Instinct leads me to another flow Everytime I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho Trying to make a sister feel low You know all of that gots to go Now everybody knows there's exceptions to this rule Now don't be getting mad, when we playing, it's cool But don't you be calling out my name I bring wrath to those who disrespect me like a dame That's why I'm talking, one day I was walking down the block I had my cutoff shorts on right cause it was crazy hot I walked past these dudes when they passed me One of 'em felt my booty, he was nasty I turned around red, somebody was catching the wrath Then the little one said (Yeah me bitch) and laughed Since he was with his boys he tried to break fly Huh, I punched him dead in his eye and said "Who you calling a bitch?" Yeah, but then next day Latifa's just playing ball with other artists who do all the same things she complains about. Which is why this thing at Spellman seems so different. --eric I beg to differ about Latifa. She made this song at a time when Dr. Dre, the impressario everybody just drools over, pounded the crap out of a female DJ less than five feet tall for not giving his latest work a glowing review. He really hurt that young lady and to this day, he isn't even man enough to take responsibility for what he did and continues to brush the incident off as nothing. So I think Latifa making a song like that when she did is quite significant.

Well, I am sitting here wiping away the tears. I usually go to see him at Yoshi's but I just couldn't bear it this year. I'm glad I didn't go. I would have been a mess. Here's to Elvin, just hanging in there for the duration. My co-worker saw him and he said one guy sitting with them had to leave. My friend's wife lost it after the set ended. What an amazing human being and artist. He apparently has more strength to handle this than we do.

As lame as that song was. Sugar,Sugar not only comes close but it passes it .One of my candidates for the jukebox in hell. "Sugar Sugar" is dorky pop. "Sugar Shack" is evil. There is no comparison.

Imagine circus music accompanying these magical words:

"Sugar Shack." I've read the entire thread and it's "Sugar Shack." Nothing mentioned even comes close. 'Nuff said.

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