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Complete Poems of Robert Duncan. A nice book that has all of Francis Bacon's art works.

Did you ever finish your A-Z thing? Nope. I, for one, really enjoyed that Dan, but I can understand why you stopped.

For me, it's the Complete Verve Johnny Hodges Small Group Sessions . Hodges plays beautifully here, never misses a note, creative playing, and his sidemen are outstanding. It's my all-time favorite Mosaic. The J.J. Johnson is a close second.

Decided to try the Tower Records on-line store to see if their service has improved: Quartet (Dortmund) 1976: Anthony Braxton Quintet (Basel) 1977: Anthony Braxton This was the only place I could find that had these two cds. We'll see what happens.

Does he have Ruth hit, or pitch??? A good lefty starter is hard to find. Perhaps he Dh's the days he doesn't pitch..... Reminds me of the old story that Joe MacCarthy use to tell: The Devil challenged St. Peter to a baseball game, and St. Peter says: "Why? we have all the great players up here, Ruth, Williams, Honus Wagner, Cy Young, all the great players. You don't have a chance!" The Devil replies: "You're right about the players but you forgot: We have all the umps!"

Just a heads-up if someone in the Bay Area is looking for this one: Ameoba Records in Berkeley have a used copy on sale for $119.00. Might want to call to make sure it's still there if you're interested.

One last shopping trip to Berkeley before I leave: Liebman/Eskelin/Marino/Black: Different But The Same Lee Konitz: Thingin Steve Lacy: Morning Joy Max Negal: Big Four Live Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6: Into The Barn Anthony Ortega: Afternoon In Paris Lee Konitz: Motion 3cd version (This was a great buy at $19.00)

Just finished Philip Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch , and maybe it's just me, but I thought it was a very weak novel, and the ideas were a mess. Sorry, but I'm very underwhelmed by the book.

Stern looked terrible during his press conference this morning, just zero life to him. It's obvious that this blindsided him, and has taken a lot out of him. It'll be interesting to see what happens to Stern if this whole thing gets messier than it is now. I can see him resigning if it does. Then again, the NBA really has no one to blame but themselves. Stern made the decision to squeeze out all those veteran officials way-back-when because he thought they had too much personality, and wanted to replace them with these faceless nobodies, who wouldn't "take the focus away from the players," so the new one are the kind who can't get any respect from players. To mix a metaphor: Stern made this bed, now the chickens are sleeping in the roost with him now.

I'm staying at my parents house, and unfortunately, they don't have a cd player, so I'll have to wait for a couple of weeks to get to my home to listen to anything.

Continued my vacation shopping in Berkeley today (great city, ah, student memories). Jimmy Lyons: The Box Set. Had this one before, but lost it (long story), absolutely wonderful music. Paul Motian: Tethered Moon -- Plays Kurt Weill. Paul Motian: On Broadway Vol. 4 Mal Waldron: The Quest David Liebman & Marc Copland Duo: Bookends Wiesendanger/Weber/Ulrich: We Concentrate Berkeley was a wonderful place to be today.

No surprise that he worked game three on the Suns vs. Spurs series, that game was officiated so bad, and it looks worse now that this has come out. Bill Simmons has a nice column on this game. This might go deeper than we realize, like, maybe he reached out to other ref's?

I had this, got rid of it, never missed it.

I see two Texas shows but none in the Northwest. There better be a Seattle show...

In the Bay Area on vacation, so I went to Rasputin's in Concord and bought: Miroslav Vitous -- Universal Syncopations Red Garland -- The Red Garland Trio at the Prelude Tito Puente -- Top Percussion Paul Motian -- Garden of Eden Marc Copland -- Haunted Heart & Other Ballads Joe Newman -- Joe Newman Quintet at Count Basie's All used cds.

Andrea Centazzo - Mitteleuropa Orchestra: Complete Recordings (Ictus Records) The Soul in the Mist: Perry Robinson, Nobu Stowe, Andrea Centazzo (Ictus Records)

Bought the LOA edition of Philip Dick's 1960's novels, and just finished The Man in the High Castle , which turned out to a very interesting book, better then I remembered when I read it almost twentyfive years ago. Looking forward to reading the other three novels. My only caveat about the LOA edition is that it could have printed another novel very easily, it clocks in at 780 pages.

Greg: Got your PM, crap! bad time to be on vacation.

Sent a PM: I'm in line if nothing works out....

Holy crap! I've listened to this fifteen times on YouTube tonight.

La Val's Pizza is a purely sentimental pick because in my six years in Berkeley, I spent so much time in it talking to friends, drinking way too much beer, and basically hiding out from student life. The Northside one is okay, but Southside in a dive (of course that's the one I spent most of my time in ). Ah, memories.

Stolen by Dashboard Confessional. I have to stop watching my Scrubs dvds, the song they use are really, really, really, are getting stuck in my head.

:party: Happy Birthday. :party: (Finally, someone older than me...)

Hold On Hope by Guided By Voices. What a wonderful song, and I.....can't......get.....it.....out.......of.....my.....head.......

The Genesis SACD/DVD-A 'Trick of the Tail' mini-lp box that's due out in a few weeks? http://diskunion.net/search_result.php?typ...amp;all_genre=1 Already have the SACD Genesis box, and I happen to like the sound very much, you'll like the sound on TOTT . If anyone likes small group swing, Jazz at the Pawnshop is an amazing sacd to have; sound is the best I've heard, and the music is very nice also.